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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	comprehend_v	light_n	shine_v	2,130	5	9.2464	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	Crooked pathes made straight: or, The wayes of God made knowne to lost sinners, or bewildered saints Wherein is represented the severall conditions of a Christian in the spirit, as hee growes up out of weaknesse into strength, through death into life eternall. By Anne Yemans.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

idolize it but the excellence of man is but flesh even the best of it as all outward gifts without the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 13.1 2 3. Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brasse or a tinckling cymbal And though I had the gift of prophesie and knew all secrets and all knowledge yea and if I had all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love I were nothing And though I feed the poore with all my goods and though I give my bodye that I be burned and ho●● not love it profiteth me nothing All this without love which is the Spirit For God and th● Spirit is one 1 John 5.7 God is love 1 Joh ● 8 All these excellent things without the Spiri● profieth me nothing Why because our happinesse consists alone in God and not in excellent cutward gifts without him Paul ha● a great many before his conversion yet h● looked upon them as the workes of the flesh for he had not then the Spirit of God Fo● we are the Circumcision which worship Go● in the spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus an● have no confidence in the flesh Though I al● might have confidence in the flesh If any ma● thinketh that hee hath whereof he might t●● in the flesh much more I Circumcised th● eighth day of the kindred of Israel of the tr●● of Benjamin an Hebrew of the Hebrews by th● Law a Pharisee Concerning zeal I perse●ted the Church touching the righteousn●●● which is in the Law I was unrebukeable B● things that were vantage to me the sam● counted losse for Christs sake Yea doubtle● I think all but losse for the excellent knowled● sake of Christ Jesus my Lord. For wh●● I have counted all things losse and dee 〈◊〉 them to be dung that I might winne Christ and might be found in him that is not having mine owne righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ even the righteousnesse which is of God through faith Phil. 3.3 to the 9. All flesh is as grasse and all the glory of man is as the flowr of grasse The grasse withereth and the flowre falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever 1 Pet 1.24 25. This glory of the flesh which is compared to the flower of the grasse is the righteousnesse of man the most excellent of man without the Spirit of God as Paul had Yet this must all fall away it cannot stand before the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ but the word of God endureth for ever This word is Christ and he and his righteousnesse endureth for ever and when he and his righteousness appeareth in us and to us It will appeare so glorious and shine with such a burning heat that it will wither the flowre of our righteousnesse and cause it to fall away and be brought to nothing It will appeare so odious and filthy in our fight that we shall be ashamed of it as Paul was and count it as dung and drosse the filchiest things as is and so we shall be desirous to have this righteousnesse of ours destroyed by the glorious comming of Jesus Christ by g DESC = missing EXTENT = 1 span Spirit into us So none of the best of the excellencies of man can bring us to know any thi● of God in the mystery it is alone the work 〈◊〉 the Spirit of God without any thing of us T●● things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit 〈◊〉 God 1 Cor. 2.11 And this Spirit searcheth 〈◊〉 things yea the deepe things of God vers 10. 1. It is the Spirit alone that sees the thing of God 2. It is the Spirit that heares the things 〈◊〉 God 3. It is the Spirit alone that understand● the things of God 4. It is the Spirit alone that can doe th● works of God 5. It is the Spirit alone that makes us accepted with God For the first It is the Spirit of God alo●● that seeth the things of God Mat. 6.22 Th● light of the body is the eye If therefore thine eye 〈◊〉 single thy whole body shal be ful of light Lu. 11 3●● This single eye is the Spirit of God and it se●● the things of God for it cannot be the eye 〈◊〉 man Matth. 6.23 But if thy eye be evill th● whole body shall be full of darknesse If therefo●● the light that is in thee be darkenesse how great 〈◊〉 that darknesse The eye is that whereby we see the eye 〈◊〉 man cannot see any thing but that which i●● man and all the things of man even the best of them are but evill and the eye of man that seeth the things of man is one and the same with man And therefore it must needs follow that the eye of man is evill for it sees nothing done but that which is evill And if thy eye be evill thy whole bodie shall be full of darkenesse What is darkenesse but want of light and the light is Jesus Christ This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather than light John 3.19 And the light shined in darkenesse and the darkenesse comprehended it not John 1.5 And that was the true light which lighteth every man that commeth into the world Hee was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not John 1.9 10. So as wee are men wee cannot know God nor any thing of God For if that light that is in us be darkenesse how great is that darknesse If those most excellent performances of man as man without the Spirit of God as Paul did performe before his conversion which is most likest light be darknesse how great is that darkenesse that man is in Man as man cannot comprehend the light of Jesus Christ none can doe it but that which is one and the same with him which is the Spirit of God and he ●s that single eye that sees all the things of God and Christ for they are one and Christ 〈◊〉 promised to send his Spirit unto us But Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the they will send in my Name he shall teach y●● things and bring all things to your remember whatsoever I have said unto you John 14. ● When the Comforter is come whom I will send 〈◊〉 you from the father even the spirit of truth o● proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie o● Joh 15.26 The spirit of truth whom the world 〈◊〉 not receive because is seeth him not neither kno●● him but ye know him for he dwelleth with and shall be in you and he shall abide with for ever John 14.16 17. These words Christ spake to his Disci●● when he was present with them in the sha● man when he was to depart from the● that bodily shape they were unwilling 〈◊〉 he should goe away but he tels them that expedient that he should goe away For if 〈◊〉