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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88248	The resurrection of John Lilburne, now a prisoner in Dover-Castle, declared and manifested in these following lines penned by himself, and now at his desire published in print in these following words.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing L2176; Thomason E880_5; ESTC R206594	27,124	25

and 1 Cor. 15.22 and 2 Cor. 5.14 Col. 1.20 and 1 Tim. 2.4.6 and 4.10 Tit. 2.11 12. and 1 Ioh. 2.2 all and infallibly leads all into the light of life that 〈◊〉 the light within them love it obey it and perseveringly abide in it and condemnation it is to all and every one of those that reject and despise it And that he hath indowed my soul with an understanding flowing from a fountain of light life and power able to make out to the least grain of mustard-seed or measure of spiritual understanding those things which I have already attained to the Copy of the first of which two letters take in these following words Dover-Castle the 18th day of the 3d. Moneth 1656. For his beloved Friend Elizabeth Hunniwood Wife to Edward Hunniwood at her House at Eventon in the Parish of Elmstead in Kent these deliver Beloved Friend Elizabeth Hunniwood THe late friendly visit of me by thy Husband in thy Fathers Name and thy own hath to me demonstrated a continuation of a measure of that former greatness of friendly and indeared familiarity that hath been betwixt thy Father Iohn Maynard thy self and me and having the conveniency of this Bearer Martha Gardner the Wife of Robert Gardner thy neighbour and Sister to my Civil-Marshal or now Goaler VVilliam Spicer I have freedom in my own spirit by her to visit thee thus with a few of my lines and in them to inclose two of my late printed books in which there are some few Printers errors one of which is for thy self the other for thy Husband in the serious reading of which thou wilt meet with the clear declarations of the Lords gracious and refreshing shinings in by his divine light of late into my soul That ripeness and greatness of wit that is in thee may it may be lead thee out to judge them foolishness but let me in the wisdom of God to which all mans excellentest of wisdom is meer a a 1 Cor. 1.20 25 27. chap. 2.6 7 8 9 10 to the end and 12.3 15.50 Rom. 8.7 8 9 10. Gal. 4.3 6. Jam. 4.4 1 Joh. 2.15 16 17. foolishness truly tell thee there is no other way given under heaven to know the will d d Joh. 1.12 or to have revealed to the soul the minde of the Eather but by hearing heeding obeying loving and following the light of Christ shining in the soul which light of Christ in its measure is that grace favour or love of God that bringeth sheweth or discovereth salvation that hath appeared to all b b Tit. 2.11 12. see Rom. 15.18 1 Cor. 15.22 2 Cor. 15.14 15. Eph. 1.23 4.6 io Col. 1.20 3.11 1 Tim. 2.4 6. 4.10 1 Joh. 2.2 men teaching them or us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Yea Christ is that true light that inlightneth every man in a measure that cometh into the world which divine and heavenly light shineth in the dark hearts of faln man although the darkness is not able to fathome or comprehend c c Joh. 1.5.9 5.40 it but to as many as receive it and perseveringly follow and abide in it it leads them step by step up into a living power to become the sons of God yea to be freed from darkness and heart-blindness to walk in the light of life where there is no occasion of stumbling but where the light is as clear as the bright shining of a candle yea as the light that is in God himself in whom is no darkness at e e Joh. 8.12 11.9 12.36 46. 2 Cor. 4.6 Eph. 5.8 12. 1 Joh. 1.5 6 7. Luk. 11.36 see Joh. 14.15 16 17 26. 16.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 25. Matt. 11.27 Luk. 10.22 Act. 4.12 10.43 13.38 39. all Whether thou canst receive any thing of this yea or nay it will not add much to me nor diminish nothing at all from me but know thou my old beloved friend that all thy present greatness in the world and all thy excellencie and quickness of wit and meer outside greatness of religious notional profession are but all as a blast of empty uncomprehended wind that certainly and swiftly passeth away but the light of 〈…〉 indures for ever and makes infallibly compleatly happy that soul that minds and loves it and patiently and abidingly f f Joh. 6.40 4● 46 47 51 54 56 57 60 63 66. 7.17 8.12 30 31. 12.26 36. 13.35 14.15 21 23 24. 15.1 2 5 6 7 8 10 12 4 16 Acts 5.42 Heb. 3.14 5.9 1 Joh. 2.6 10 14 17 24 27 28. 3.6 14 24. 2 Joh. 9. follows it Yea and on the contrary hand is the eternal sure and certain condemnation of all those that despise reject and contemn it according to that faithful and true saying of the Spirit of g g Joh. 3.19 God And this is condemnation that sight is come into the world the hearts of falne men infidels or unbelievers and men loved darkness rather then light because their deeds were evil and therefore there h h Vers 36. it is further said he that believeth on the Son the true light and eternal and everlasting word of i i Joh. 1.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. God hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son the true and infallible light of God in the soul of every man shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him And further saith the light himself that lighteth every man that cometh into the k k Joh. 1.9 world to the wicked and hard-hearted unbelieving Jews ye will not come to me that ye might have l l Joh. 5 40. life although he plainly told them the true and real way for them to be the children of light and life was by their believing in the m m Joh. 12.36 46. light and therefore he requires and commands them to take heed that the light in them be not n n Luk. 11.34 35. see Matt. 6.22 23. Joh. 9.5 11.9 10. 12 35.36 see Rom. 2.19 2 Cor. 4.4 Eph. 5.8 11. Col. 1.13 1 Thes 5.4 5. darkness which it soon becomes to be when the light which leads up to purity holiness and righteousness is rejected contemned and despised and the voice or motions of the Serpent in the heart is minded hearkned to and followed which voice or motions of the serpent in the heart leads out into slaying the motions of the just within yea even into the spiritual death and rebellion against God by which the creature in time comes to be heart-blinded and so by degrees to be given over to a reprobate sense and to have the conscience of tender part of it seared with a hot iron so that it becomes past feeling so that the soul thereby comes yea even