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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	spirit_n	world_n	4,721	5	4.7374	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

Salvation which he is making bare before the Isa 52. 10. eyes of the Captives that they may see him and come unto him who is Mighty upon whom help is laid to deliver them and to save to the utmost them that come unto him this as I said is the hand of Gods loving kindness which in mercy is stretched forth towards you who cannot be satisfied with the husks shells and shadows but thirst and desire after him the Substance the living Bread which the living Soul feeds upon and lives and grows up thereby into Eternal life Ah dear People this is the Salvation of God whom I declare of and Salvation is not to be had in another besides him who is the Immortal word Luke 2. 29 30. of Eternal life which abides for ever which was in the beginning before the visibles were by whom all things were made whither visible or invisible Joh. 1. 1. an● so to the 9. 1● and without him was nothing made that was made and in him the Word was life and this life is the light of men and he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and was in the world and the world knew him not He came unto his own and his own received him not but unto them that received him he gave power to become the Sons of God Who had a body prepared him in which he suffered the Will of him that sent him who was born of the Virgin Mary whom King Herod sought to destroy who was Circumcised the eighth day and likewise baptised by John the Baptist who likewise eat the Passeover with his Disciples for he came to fulfil all Righteousness who was betrayed by Judas who was judged to die by Pontius Pilate who was Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem who was laid in a Sepulcher who rose again the third day according to the Scriptures who ascended up into Heaven and sitteth at the Right hand of God who is glorified with the same Glory that he had with the Father before the world began who came again unto his Disciples according to his promise who said unto them I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you I will send you a Comforter that shall Joh. 14. 16 18 26. abide with you for ever even the Spirit of Truth I am the Truth saith Christ whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but you know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be Mark in you yet a little while and the world sees me no more Mark this you who are so much gazing and looking for his coming without but still fail of their expectation that you know not his coming within you to be a Comforter But you see me and because I live you shall live also saith Christ to his Disciples and in that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I Mark in you and he the Spirit of Truth shall lead you into all Truth and shall teach you all things and shall shew you all things to come and bring all things to your remembrance that I have said unto you and shall reprove the world of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgement And his Disciples according to his Luke 24. 29. Acts 2. 4. command waited at Jerusalem until they were indued with power from on high and had received the promise of the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth which caused them to speak the wonderful things of God as the Eternal Spirit of Truth gave them utterance and then they were come to witness his Word fulfilled when he said He dwelleth with you and shall be in you and this is the immortal Word which was in the beginning which Paul who witnessed Christ the Son of God revealed in him and was by him the Gal. 1. 15 16. Eternal Spirit made an able Minister of him Preached to wit Christ within who said None should need to ascend that is to bring Christ down Rom. 10. 6 7 8 from above or to descend that is to bring Christ from beneath c. but the word to wit Christ is nie thee in the heart and in the mouth to be obeyed and done and this is the Word of Faith that Paul preached nigh in the heart Even Christ in them the living hope that was as an Ancor to their Souls sure and stedfast the hope of Glory And Paul exhorted the Corinthians to examine 2 Cor. 13. 5. themselves and to prove themselves whether they were in the Faith whether they knew not Christ to be in them except they were Reprobates And John in his writing to the Saints reminds them of that within which they had heard from the beginning and says to them Let that remain in you to wit The word which was in the beginning which you have heard from the beginning and if it shall remain in you ye shall continue in the Son and in the Father and tells them That they should not need that any man should teach them but as the anoynting which they had received of God abiding in them should teach them which was the Truth to wit Christ the Truth in them the anoynted the anoynting And as he had and did teach them so they were to abide in him so they knew Christ in them The Saints came to witness the Power of God within the Truth within the Word nigh in their hearts the Spirit of God in their inward parts by which they were led and guided taught and instructed For so many as are the Sons of God saith Paul are led by the Spirit of God and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and this gave them an understanding in the things of God even the Spirit of God For no man knows the things of God saith Paul 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12. but by the Spirit of God through which he was made an able Minister of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit which giveth life And he Preached the everlasting Gospel Christ the Power of God the Word nigh in the heart and said If our Gospel be hid it is hid from them that are lost in whom Mark in whom the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air that wicked spirit that worketh in the hearts of the children of disobedience hath blinded their minds lest the light of the glorious Gospel Christ Jesus should shine in and unto them But God who commandeth light to shine out of darkness hath shined Mark in our hearts to give us the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus and we have this treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God and not of us so the Saints Preached up Christ the Word of Life the Light the Truth within and said That which Rom. 1. 19. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Tit. 2. 1● is to be known of God

minds unto is the Life of the Word which is Immortal Eternal Permanent ● 1. 2 3 9 Divine and Immutable and not Natural Thou who ever thou art and whatever by men thou be accounted of that doth make a large profession of God Christ and the Scriptures of Truth in words and doth hate and speak evil of the Light the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world thou art a hater of God and of Christ and art of Antichrist against Christ although thou profess him in words and say thou art saved by him and justified by him c. yet if thou hate his light in thy own Conscience which doth check thee for evil doing and prick thee for thy sins in secret thou art in enmity to him and condemned by the Light and not justified and thy confession of Christ in words will not save thee from his Righteous Condemnation whilst thou hate his pure light in thy Conscience and thy profession is for the fire and unto the Light thou must come before thou canst find true peace with the Lord God Yea what ever thou art who art climbed and a climbing up thy Imaginations and a soaring up aloft with the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air above the light the door into the fold striving to enter into the fold and not by the door to wit the Light thou art the Thief and Rober Joh. 10. ● who run before Christ the Light the Door into the Fold and thou must come down come down to that which appears a small thing in thy eye who art swell'd big in thy fleshly wisdom from which the things of Gods Kingdom is hid even to that which 1 Cor. 1. 2● 29 30 31 19 20 21 thou counts a foolish thing a weak a poor thing not worth the minding or heeding but this is it the foolish thing in the eye that is to confound thy wisdom and turn it into foolishness that so thou becoming a fool may be made wise in it This is the weak thing in thy eye which is to confound thy strength and make thee weak that thou may be strong in it and the poor thing in thy eye which is to rob thee of all thy Riches that thou becoming poor in it may be made Rich so where is the Wise the Rabby the Scribe the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this world for the world by wisdom know not God and so the boaster is excluded that God may have the Glory and all flesh abased and silent before him who of God is made unto his Saints that love his Light and are led by his Spirit Wisdom Strength Power Righteousness Justification and Redemption who have the heavenly Treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever So heed not dear people you who have any desire in you after the Lord what this man or the other saith of the Light but love the Light and take heed ● 3. 20. unto it for that which judge and condemn sin in you which is that which separate you from the Lord and hinders your peace with the Lord and is the cause of your burden and sorrow this you shall not need to fear will delude you That is a spirit of delusion that leads into sin and evil beware of that but that which reproves you for evil in your own hearts and manifest the deeds of darkness take heed unto it for that is the ● 5. 13 14. Light that doth make manifest darkness that which is reprovable is made manifest by the Light for what ever make manifest is Light and that will not onely make manifest the sin and evil but as you come to turn your minds in unto it and love and follow it it will save you from your sins and redeem your minds and souls unto God for who receive his Light his pure Grace in them they receive power through it to become the Sons of God for through his Grace doth he manifest his power in them that believe in the Light to the drawing of their hearts and minds out of the ungodliness and worldly lusts and to the teaching of them to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world and thus the free Grace of God bring Salvation to their Souls And so dear people thus you who come to believe in the Light to love and obey the Light in your own Consciences will come to feel and witness the work of the Lord God in your hearts the working and opperation of the Word of Life to the casting out of the Bondwoman and her son which is not to inherit to the binding of the strong man and casting of him out yea the Old man with his deeds Eph. 4. 20 2● 22 23. is to be put off and you renewed in the spirit of your minds and the new Man is to be put on who after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to put him on and to bring him forth before all men the only begotten Son of God who is full of Grace and Truth Mercy and Love Pitty and Compassion Purity and Holiness and Good-will towards all who love his Enemies and do good to them that hate him c. So coming to the Light Christ Jesus you come to the Substance to him in whom the Figures Types and Shaddows end in and so come to witness him in you who fulfil all Righteousness he who is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake unto them Col. 2. 11 1● that believe in him and to be Circumcised in him with the Circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the Circumcision of Christ which the outward Circumcision was a figure of and to witness the Baptism of Christ which is with the Holy Ghost and with fire which Johns Baptism with water outward was a true figure of and he bore Testimony unto Christ the Light of the world who said I must decrease but he must increase I indeed baptise you with water but he Christ 3. 30. Jesus who was before me shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose fan is in his hand 3 11 12. and he shall throughly purge his floor the Wheat he shall gather into his garner but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire So the outward water was but a type the outward washing a type of the inward washing and inward cleansing and inward purging and purifying by the Water of Life or the Blood of Jesus that cleanseth from all sin which is felt thus to work in them who believe in the Light and walk in the Light and they come to know that begotten in them that feeds upon the flesh of Christ which is the living Bread upon which the living Soul feed and is the Substance which