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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	faith_n	jesus_n	justify_v	17,800	5	8.9787	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89840	This coming to my hand, and reading it over, savouring it to come from a pure fountain, ...; How sin is strengthened, and how it is overcome.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; S. B.	1657 (1657)	Wing N285; Thomason E927_2; ESTC R207592	10,384	8

striving in thy own strength only from a sight of sin by the Law for by the works of the Law thou canst not be justified but by the working of saith in Christ Jesus that spirit and as thou feel his working in thee and thou one with him therein in his work thou art justified and by beholding of him in this faith thou wilt be changed into his likenesse and power by his mighty working in thee even by that spirit to which thou art turned and as he grows in thee and thou in him thou wilt feel that power arising which will make thee able to answer a good conscience and give lasting peace and so by his resurrection shall be saved from condemnation from which thy own works will not save thee and this work will go on with joy if thy heart be honest for seeing him that is holy set before thee condemning sin and his holiness and beauty in all his motions doth so delight the honest heart to see such a glory and beauty near thee that it makes the way easie after him for the joy that is set before thee for in all thy tribulations tryals and temptations this faith will present him before thee and this made the Saints of old endure the cross and despise the shame and bear the reproach after him joyfully following the Lamb in all his leadings So thou that loves holiness it is neare thee power over sin and Satan is near thee salvation is at hand go not forth to seek that abroad which thou hast lost in thy own House he is thy salvation that condemns sin in thy bosom he that reproves the wicked is with thee he that is pure is thy peace he that never consented to sin but stands a witnesse against it if thou have such a spirit in thee thou hast the spirit of Christ the Saviour So take heed unto him to believe him and to mind his leading and to follow him if thou part not from him he will be thy everlasting peace and over-ruling power to subdue thy sins and by him shalt thou tread down strength with ease and delight and shalt be able to say with such as was come to the same spirit Greater is he that is in thee then he that is in the world and onely that faith that sees him hath power to overcome the world for he that beholds his glory treads the worlds glory under his feet for whatsoever is seen in him doth so far exceed all other things that it takes the mind out of all other delights and leaves them empty so that things in Heaven and things in Earth Principalities nor Powers are able to seperate from the love of him how much more wilt thou leave thy delight in sin when thou comes to delight in him his love will constrain thee who loves purely and hath found it for this is joy indeed and love unspeakable when the soul finds that treasure in his own House freely given which he hath long been seeking abroad and could never purchase neither with life nor estate And the more thou beholdest him the more will his glory and love appear for as thou in the light beholdest the pure motion of this Holy One thou wilt come to see what thou art without him and what thy wants is without which thou canst not be happy and that thou canst not have a lasting peace till with his vertue thou be filled and with his glory covered and with his power armed against every temptation all which he wil make thee heir of with him as thou minds to be faithful and hearken to his movings to obey them in all things who thereby wil lead thee his way by which he obtained all this glory power this inheritance from the Father in which way thou wilt find a cross to all thy own wayes and to the worlds spirit in all things which will be easie if thou keep thy eye single to him who is set before thee therein his glory and the gaining thereof but if thou look back into the world thou lookest into temptation without him and there the spirit of the world presents thee with loss and not with gain setting before thee what thou must forgo with all the hard ships and impossibilities that may be but no power to bear it but keeping thy eye to him thou hast alwayes power and peace before thee in thy way the hope thereof will be as an Anchor and the faith a shield and the love will give thee life to undergo all the tryals for his sake bearing his cross daylie which must part thee and thy sins and crucifie the worldly spirit with the lust thereof and kill all that wars against thy soul and keeps thee from thy inheritance wherefore it is called The great power of God unto salvation And as thou becomes faithful thereto thou wilt feel the fruit of that Holy One springing in thee moving to be brought forth in thee towards God and man thy faith will grow and prayers with strong cryes to the Father as the spirit sees thy wants thy love will spring and move in thee and bring forth towards God and man upon all occasions which if thou willingly serve in its smallest motion it will encrease but if thou quench it in its movings and refuse to bring it forth it will wither and dry in the not being exercised And it is the like of gentleness meekness patience and all other vertues which are of a springing and spreading nature where they are not quenched but suffered to come forth to his praise in his will and time who is the begetter thereof and to the comfort of his own seed and cross to the world And if thou be faithful daylie to offer up the body as a sacrifice to bring forth his Image Name and Power before his Enemies then what he moves thee to bring forth shall be thy inheritance and will daylie encrease with using but if thou wilt not give up for his Name sake but would hold the treasure and escape the reproach then will it be taken from thee and given to him who will yeeld the Lord of the Vinyard his fruit in due season for that which the Father freely begets he will have freely brought forth that the shining thereof in the dark world may praise him what a glory it is to see peace shine in the midst of war love in the midst of hatred meekness in the midst of strife righteous judgement in the midst of wickedness innocency in the midst of violence and oppression as a Lilly amongst thorns so is that of God amongst the men of the world and therein doth his nature and beauty appear in his Temple to which all must confess and praise him therein This is the glorious day which many have talked on and those onely are the children of it in whom the brightness shines forth that which God begets in thee is his Son confess him in the midst of his Enemies and thereby is

all-along in the work for he alone is the covenant of light and given for a leader which whosoever believes and follows shall not erre in judgement or practice but unbelief therein is the cause why there are so many blinde guides and many people dye in their sins And thus he is the way of God and is to be believed in to wit as he manifests the works of the Devil apart from the works of God condemning the one in the flesh and justifying the other in the spirit and as he manifests every spirit with its workings motions and ends their ground and off-spring whence they come and whither they return that thereby the creature may know who it is that exercises his mind and members and to what spirit he yeelds himself in his obedience and service and so may come to know the use and end of all his works what to chuse and what to refuse what to justifie and what to condem in its first motion before it be brought forth or formed in the womb that judgement may be kept on the head of transgression and liberty proclaimed to the Just and for want of faith and feeling of this way of Christ it is that so many perish in sin and yet seem to strive against sin even because they cannot believe that to be sufficient to save from sin which manifests sin in the ground and condemns it in its first motion which if they did but in faith joyne with him to condemn sin in the ground temptation and motion it would dye and wither and not be able long to live or prevail and if it for a time should prevail in the members yet not to condemnation for I have found a great difference between sin condemned in the creature though not yet wholly dead and sin lived in and pleaded for for if thy life and judgement be in that alone which condemns sin then art thou dead to sin and alive to Christ and it is no more thou that sins but sin that yet remains in thee to which thou art dead to which thou dost not consent like nor approve of nor any way add any strength thereto but thy faith and love delight and strength is in him which condemns it he that truly is in this faith and love by the working thereof shall all his eenmies perish and by that faith and love shall the just live in that creature and he in him condemning and killing sin till it all be done away and the creature of God found alive in him alone who without spot will present him to the Father for this I have found that that which manifests sin in its first motion judges it there and condemns it there hath the onely power to kill sin ere it be committed and so hath onely power to save from condemnation for this you shall find that as Christ doth not live to justification where he is not believed and justified loved followed and confessed so sin doth not live to condemnation where it is hated condemned and denyed for where that spirit of wickedness is seen in the light and separated from and judged apart from the creature the creature joyning in judgement with the just there sin will wither and Satan flee for there he hath no kingdom nor a hiding Habitation for the light being minded and judgement having free passage and consent it searcheth out his hidden things and judgement passeth upon all his deceit root and ground with his fruits so is the strong man spoyled and his stuff by faith in Christ and not by strength of the creature by believing the just and denying the unjust For according to every mans faith so shall he receive from God now he that believes salvation and that cleaves to and lives in some sin and pleads for it and believes he must do so his faith stands in an unclean thing and an unclean thing will live by that faith and be justified by that creature and in his justifying any thing that is unclean therein is the just condemned and the just being condemned which should give dominion over the unclean the wilde Plant hath its liberty to grow until it overspread the Plant of God and cover the man wholly stop the ear and blind the eye and hardens the heart against every motion to good or check for evil and let not this man look for good fruit but after his faith who so believes Also on the contrary He that feels a strife in himself between the clean and the unclean sees the one reprove for sin and the other plead for sin and believes in that which is pure clean and just which condemns the unjust and unclean that faith stands in that which is pure and the mysterie of it is held in a pure conscience and that pure faith being followed will purifie the heart and clense the hands from unjust actions and by that faith the just lives and grows and springs and brings forth and the pure plant spreads and covers the earth with the knowledge of God his holinesse and purity and all grace in the heart which becomes as a workingleaven till it hath wrought out the unclean nature and conformed the whole man to himself And this is a work of the holy faith which none can receive but who believes in holinesse for none can bring clean fruit out of an unclean faith And this further for the incouragement of such as honestly indeed would be rid of their sin set free to serve God in holinesse without deceit thou feeling in thee the moving of that which is holy bearing witnesse against that which is contrary to holinesse condemning it and thee for joyning with it in all thy conversation I say in that believe for that is all thou knows of Christ in thee and believing and following it thou wilt feel it making a separation in thy inward man betwixt that which Christ comes to save and that which he comes to destroy for this is he that comes from above to set before thee life and death divided that thou joyning to the life and believing may be saved from death and as thou art faithful to this spirit which condemns sin in the flesh so thou wilt feel warring against and working out sin daylie to which if thou clearly joyne denying that which it condemns then art thou one spirit with him in his work and art no longer in the flesh nor to be condemned with that sin remaining in the flesh but art one in him that condemns sin and self in sinning till sin become exceeding sinful in thy eyes as it is in the eyes of God and as thou grows in love and liking with that pure spirit its law and leadings so thou wilt become dead to the law of sin and it will lose its power in thee not being minded loved and served thy mind love and fear being exercised in that which condemns it and here that faith that works by love takes the victory and not thy