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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	comprehend_v	darkness_n	shine_v	1,783	5	9.0750	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89843	Love to the lost: and a hand held forth to the helpless, to lead out of the dark. Wherein is plainly held out divers perticular things, as they are learned of Christ; and are most needfull to be known of all who profess godliness. Set forth chiefly for the directing the simple into the living way of truth, as it is in Christ Jesus, the Righteous, that therein they may come to the life and power of that which the world hath in words; which being received, satisfies the weary soul, and makes the creature wel-pleasing to his maker. Wherein also there is some reproofs to the dark world. / By one that seeks the redemption of Sions seed, and a lover of the creation of God, who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N294; Thomason E866_2; ESTC R207630	74,213	79

the hidden man of the heart must you look to find it which is not Corruptible Concerning Light and Life GOd is the life of every Creature though few there be that know it for the darknesse sees him not nor his life though the Children of Darknesse have got words in the Scripture which were given forth from the light to talk of yet God such know not present for the first beginning of God in the world is lighr God said let there he light and it was so And this light God saw that it was good This is that which was in the beginning with God the Word by which all things were made and seen and without this was nothing made that was made nor any thing seen to be good and darknesse was over the face of all the waters till the light which from the Word came who is the Life which life is the light of men So none can see the life but with the light which from the life comes which to the life leads all that follow it So this that was in the beginning is given to keep in order all the Creation That is good but the darknesse comprehends it not though it shine in it so all that abide in the darknesse are destroyed not discerning the life to order and govern the Creation in the light So all that go out of the light go into the darknesse and there the life and Image of God is lost and there is the Fall and all who there abide are reserved in Chaines of darknesse not knowing the life which breaks the Bonds and Chains of Iniquity and opens the Grave and Prison door And here the Soul being in death breathing after the Life but Darknesse got above In the darknesse is the Creature led into Sects Opinions and Errours after the Imaginations to seek life but further it runs here to the sensuall Wisdome further into Death and Darknesse till the Creature be so blinded in the understanding that he thinks and imagins he doth God service when he is acting against the life of God both in himself and others so comes the Creature of God and his Life wherewith God did furnish him to do his Will wholly to be lost and the Gospel hid that should recover him again the God of this World having so blinded the mind and thereby so farre alienated him from the life of God that he neither hath power and life to do the will of God nor light to know where to have it yet in this condition of death and darknesse and without the life of God shall the Creature never be without profession or some conceit or other to keep in a vain hope of salvation And here is the sole ground and cause why we have so many sorts of formes and opinions and wayes of worship but none that doth good nor lives in what they say because all have lost the life of God which onely is able to bri●g forth the righteousnesse of God And selfe having got the form into the Imagination above the life cannot receive the light that l●es under that condemns it So all the world lies in darkensse yea thick darknesse is upon all the seas and great depths is covered with grosse darknesse and from thence is the Imagination spread over all so that none can witnesse the work of God neither knows the beginning nor end thereof And this is the cause of condemnation and it rests upon all who are out of the life of God And no other way there is appointed of the Father to come out of this condition but Christ Jesus the light and life of men who is the light that is in the world though the world know him not which light shines in darknesse but cannot therewith be comprehended which light is the revealer of darknesse and manifests the deeds thereof and the first appearance of this in the Creature shews the darknesse and captivity that is in the darknesse till which the Creature never comes to see the wretched condition that man is in who is without God the life nor till then will the Creature be willing to stand still to see Gods salvation but is full with vain hopes conceits and Imaginations and the vaile is over the heart and what God hath there written is not seen and so being whole needs not the physitian And with this blind heart the creature reads the Scriptures and steals the promises that the Children of light spoke of who had the life whereby the seed was raised out of the grave to which the promise is but neither knowes law nor Gospel neither came so far as Moses yet boasting of Christ But when the light is minded the Creature comes to see death raigning and self alive without the law with that light which was given to keep out of the pollution and defilements and so to keep the life clear and unspotted With that light that is seen and judged which hath passed over the life and defiled it and that which hath gendered to bondage is seen and the hardnesse of heart comes to be felt and the cause seen even the great transgression of the pure law so comes the fear of the God to take hold of the man that hath lived out of the life of God and taketh pleasure in unrighteousnesse and the Creature then finds trouble within even where the strong man did keep the house in peace and abiding in the light the cause and end of it is seen and d welling in the fear Wisdom is received from above to depart from the iniquity and in departing from the iniquity there is a coming nearer to God so the light growes and springs as there is a comming nearer of the just paths of life And as the light ariseth the Creation is seene and how the enmity hath spread over and how the lust hath defiled it and how that which was planted as a vineyard is become as a wildernesse for barrenness growne over with thornes and bryars sturdy Oaks and tall Cedars for want of the Vinedresser and where the Lilly should grow it s growne over with Weeds Thistles and Nettles so that God walks not there because of the great abomination and that is the cause of all your woe even his absence And when you see this the lamentation begins in the house of laughter even after him from whom you have fallen and as you follow the light and come nearer to the Lord from whence it comes you will see that it is onely your own wills and wayes that hath separated you from the holy one And with the light you will come to see how often you have beene moved by the spirit of light from your evill wayes and that the cause why you have beene thus long in the Fall hath beene in selfe-will and worldly pleasures whereby the life hath suffered never till then comes any to see him whom you have peirced nor to lament over him nor to see what it is that oppresseth the just

have bowed down to the god of this World and his begettings are in all houses and assemblies and the name of the Lord you have polluted before all the world yet will you lean upon the Lord and say The righteousnesse of Christ the righteousnesse of Christ so that you have more dishonoured his Righteousnesse then all that ever were before you and the name of a Christian is become a reproach in all the world because of your unfaithfulnesse to his righteousnesse For this will he plead with you and will take from you the Covering that you may appear and he will bring forth his Righteousnesse to your Confusion and his own shall witnesse him in the Gate and his work shall praise him openly so shall sinners be afraid and fearfulnesse surprize the Hypocrite when God shall own his own righteousnesse and judge the wicked after the works of their hands Concerning the Word THe Word is that which was in the beginning and was the beginning of all visible things and that by which all things were made but it self is invisible which though it be the Upholder of all visible things yet can no visible thing reveal it yet doth it reveal the ground and use and end of all visibles And as without it was nothing made that was made so without it is nothing soen as it was made nor any thing can be guided nor used in its pure place but what ever man medles with not having the Word in him to guide order and sanctifie the same he defiles and it is polluted as to him Nor can this Word be comprehended in Heaven or Earth without this Word can no Scripture be read with profit for it opens the Scriptures and the Scriptures declare of it yet cannot the Scriptures nor all the Writings of the World comprehend it nor declare the depth and extent of it which is beyond all Generations yet is it the Teacher and Guide of his own in all Generations and in all Generations of Saints hath been known in measure more or lesse immediatly though it hath no place in the worlds profession So hearing of a Word but not knowing it they say The Letter is it But who hath the Word hath that which comprehends Death and Hell and the Grave that which binds and chains Satan overcomes the World gives the issues of Life and Light whereby the new Creation is known wherein dwels Righteousnesse and this every one hath so far as he hath the Word abiding in him but so hath not every one that hath the Letter Nor can any mans will change the Word for it is contrary to all mens Wills nor can any mans Wit open or expound this Word which confounds the Wisdome of the Wise and brings the understanding of the Prudent to nought that hides from the Wise and Prudent and reveals to Babes and the Word grows and increases within the Babes but so doth not the Letter and as it grows it sanctifies all that have it but so doth not the Letter and it s as a Fire and a Hammer to all that have it but so is not the Letter It is quick and powerful to the dividing asunder the Joynts and Marrow the Soul and Spirit where ever it is so is not the Letter And the Word is a Reproach to every Carnal Mind even to them especially who profess the Letter Whosoever have the Word with it are washed and cleansed and translated from the World and conformed to God so far as they have it and it reconciles to God all that have it but many have the Letter who know not God but are in the unclean Customes and Fashions and wayes of the World not changed nor reconciled None can keep the Word and his sins both but the Letter without he may for where ever the Word is known the new Creature is witnessed who is created to walk in Righteousnesse and who hath the Word sees all who say they know the Word and walk not in Righteousnesse to be Lyars and do not the Truth and with the Word of Truth are such cast out and judged to be those who dishonour the Word as though it were a polluted thing or could dwell with pollution which is a Fire to burn up all uncleannesse where ever it is and where sinne stands the Word is not known But such reading of the word which came to the Saints in obedience to which they were washed and purified and in which they were begotten again they finding that the Saints had this word but not knowing it they say the Letter is it which doth but declare of it and so their word hath not power in them to overcome the Devil break the bonds of wickedness whereas the word of God is not bound but free sets free all that have it abiding in them which breaks down the seat of sin and raises up and quickens the seed of God which lives in the life of God which through sin death hath passed over and so quickens the mortall body to newness of life So that the old life and the word cannot stand together in one body nor doth the old man who lives in that life know any word but the letter and the life of that he knows not but in the Imaginations searches with the fallen wisdome for that which God hath in his wisdome hid from it and in this is all the darknesse to this the Scriptures are spoken as a Parable and Mystery which in that disobedient wisdome cannot be found out so is the Simplicity deceived with Meanings Addings and Wrestings which are all in that man that cannot enter in whom the Word dwells not nor can any thing such do be accepted because it is not from the Word for all that comes not from the Word by the Word is condemned not to be the Work of God for all that God made he made it by the Word and it was seen in the light to be good which was made with the Word and here all stood in the reconciliation to God but when man went out from the Word then he went out from the good and so with the Light was seen to be in the evil and so was accursed from the same Word against which he had sinned and so long as out of that Word he acts all is accursed being Self and not God that works it And so man being gone out into the world the light of the Gospel is preached to turne man again to know the word that coming to the knowledge thereof in his heart and having his mind stayed thereto in the light he may come to see the power of the word working in Spirit working out the unclean nature and the rebellious will and working in the pure nature in the Cross slaying the carnall man with all his affections and so through death thereof raising up the new man making a new Creation in Christ Jesus with power unto Good works from the eternall word and this God owns when he is