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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	ground_n	live_a	1,680	5	9.4884	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97234	The messiah found: being a brief and plain declaration where he is to be found, to whom the gatherings of the people shall be, and of whom Moses in the law and prophets did write. Also, a warning to flie from the idol-shepherds. / Written for the use of all that love the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, by R.W.	R. W.	1656 (1656)	Wing W99; Thomason E897_2*	6,223	8

The MESSIAH found Being A brief and plain DECLARATION Where he is to be found To whom The gatherings of the people shall be And of whom Moses in the Law Prophets did write Also A WARNING To flie from The IDOL-SHEPHERDS Written for the use of all that love the appearance of our LORD JESUS CHRIST BY R. W. Isa 11. 12. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the out-cast of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth LONDON Printed by J. C. for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1656. The Banner of God's Love displayed and the Mystery of Christ unvail'd acording as 't is noted in the Scriptures of Truth THat there is a God and that he is good may be known to all that Christ is come in the Flesh and crucified sixteen hundred yeers since at Jerusalem is believed by some of all but that Christ was and is in the World is believed but by a few of all even the Remnant of Jacob who are in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord as the showres upon grass Mic. 5. 7 8. And these are the Church of the living God which is in God the pillar and ground of truth 1 Thes 1. 1. 1 Tim 3. 15. That I may be useful in the hand of the Lord to those that may read my lines I shall as I have laid down proceed And that there is a God the visible things make it appear to wit the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the things that are therein as it is written Psal 19 The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy-work So that the eternal power and Godhead which is invisible may be cleery seen being understood by the things that are made Rom. 1. 20. Now where these things are made there must be a Maker or else the things made makes it self now if any thing could make it self man might he having all things put into his hand for every kinde of Beasts and of Birds and of Serpents and things in the Sea is tamed and hath been tamed of Mankinde Jam. 3. 7. Yet man is so unable to make himself that he cannot add a cubit to his stature So that I conclude as it is written He that made all things is God Gen. 1. 1. Heb. 3. 4. And that the God that made all things is good will appear in that he doth good by sending Rain and fruitful Seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness for the Lord is good to all and his tender mercy is over all his works Psal 145. 9. Now the Lord's goodness and tender mercies is the ground of all mens happiness as will appear if we consider the time of his love secondly if we consider the gift of his love which was his Son as for the time it was when Adam had destroyed himself and we in him for in Adam all died 1 Cor. 15. 22. and so all men and women considered in that nature are children of wrath whether Jew or Gentiles Eph. 2. 3. and are under the power of the Prince of darkness which rules in the children of disobedience for through the subtilty of the Serpent which is Satan man was and is deceived not that he compels them for that he cannot do but he presenting objects inticing and perswading by his lying we consenting come to sinning Gen. 3. 5. and the wages of sin is death Rom. 6. 23. and the devil had power over death Heb. 2. 14. and in these ways and by these means man comes to be in the hands of Satan a captive and alienated from God and without Christ in the world and the whole world lieth in wickedness 1 Joh. 5. 19. and are enemies to God and to their own souls wallowing in their own blood Ezek. 16. 6. and the Lord beholding of it in that state pitied it in his love not as men do use to pity in words without deeds but doth devise means without respect of persons to bring back his banished 2 Sam 14. 14. to wit to give his Son his only Son the Son of his bosom in whom his Soul delights for the world because he loved it as his work his tender mercy being overall his works and therefore sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved Joh. 3. 17. and that they might he lighteth every one that cometh into the world for in him was life and the life was the light of men Joh. 1. 4. and he was in the world and the world knew him not though all things was made by him for the Father by the Son made the worlds Heb. 1. 2. and this is he that was promised to Adam that partook of the feed of the woman which came in the fulness of time forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh blood he himself partook of the same Heb. 2. 14. and was put to death in the flesh but quickned by the Spirit which was the substance of all the types shadows and figures and so was the end of the Law that being the shadows of good things to come but the body is of Christ Col. 2. 17. as it is written a body hast thou prepared me Heb. 10. 5. and this body was the sacrifice that was offered up through the eternal Spirit once for all to put away sin he being made sin for us which knew no sin bore our sins in his own body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. and so put an end to sin he being put to death in the flesh for us that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 15. for though he were crucified through weakness yet he liveth by the power of God 2 Cor. 13. 4. who quickned him by his Spirit and raised his Body which is ascended and whom the heavens must receive until the restitution of all things Act. 3. 21. and hath all power given him for to the Son is all power given Mat. 28. 18. and he is the light of the world and lighteth every one that cometh into the world Now that which is lighted in man is the spirit of man for that is the candle of the Lord and he lighteth it and searcheth the deep things of his belly Prov. 20. 27. and makes manifest the hidden things of dishonesty unto man that so a man may see his fallen state by nature and so come to the light to be judged by the light that so the body of death which is sin might be destroyed in us by him for this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil 1 Joh. 3. 8. and so redeem his people from their sins which cannot be except we