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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	faith_n	great_a	overcome_v	2,679	5	9.0725	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

THis coming to my hand and reading it over savouring it to come from a pure Fountain eternal life springing forth it self in and by that spirit which sets free the Prisoner of Hope and bringeth to reign over all Dominions and Spirits and though the earthen vessel be under bonds yet doth the Spirit of Life flow forth to its own in all and having its witnesse in me finding the same spirit sealing to it a necessity was laid upon me to put it in print that so it might do it service and have unity with its own S. B. How sin is strengthned and how it is overcome THat Sin is in the world and that all are thereby become children of wrath is generally believed and confessed by all but how sin is strengthned in men and women against God and their own souls or how it is overcome few there be that have learned or minde to know yet for their sakes that doth I do here declare somwhat of that which I have received from him who is faithful and true in all his testimony And this I finde that as sin got rooting at first through lust so till this day it hath its strength by the desires going forth to affect or lust after somthing whether spiritual or carnal above before or besides what that eternal spirit by which man was created doth communicate to him or beget in him for the eye of the Lilly being blinded by the god of this world which eye should look unto God for all there is an eye of unbelief open which looks into the visibles and gives occasion for the lust to conceive in the mind affections and desires after something which the spirit of God leads not to for the obtaining whereof all the power and wisdom that is in man is set on work and this becomes sin both in the desires and actions and the more it is followed the stronger it is for what ever is hereby obtained becomes a treasure of wickedness laid up in the habitation of the wicked one whereby the lust is ●●creased and the seed of God burthened and buried whereby the creature becomes daylie more unsensible of the will of God and the movings of that pure spirit which should keep the creature alive to the Creator and draw the mind wholly up to the Father on him alone to wait for a supply in all things both for soul and body And every desire that springs from this root being suffered to go forth defiles the man and brings in that which oppresseth the Just until by continuance man grow into the nature of the enmity and the imaginations of the heart be wholly evil and that which should give the knowledge of God wholly buryed and in many that which should give the knowledge of sin also whereby man becomes past feeling utterly dead in sins and trespasses heaped upon the just against the day of judgement which becomes by custom as natural to commit as to the Ox to drink water yea with greedinesse doth man in this condition hunt after his own destruction having damn'd up the way of life in himself by often transgressing it and is become degenerate from the nature of God having received in and willingly joyned to that nature of Satan which as a leaven hath and doth work into its own nature all that receive it or yeild unto it whom as they grow therein there springs up fruits of the same root and nature which they bring forth in his time and opportunity with liking and delight being furnished with all subtilty to colour them over and plead for them being in covenant and agreement with sin some in one thing and some in another every one pleading the allowance of that sin with God which most sutes their lusts pride profit or pleasure credit or esteem in the world or some self-end and at these they take counsel and not at the spirit of the Lord which is sin and which is no sin but none will believe that they can be set free from all sin by him who testifies against all sin in spirit and in all this the man of sin hath his kingdom by consent for they being willing to keep covenant with him in one evil are guilty of all Now the way to overcome all this and him that hath his power therein is by faith in Christ Jesus the light and life and way to the Father for without believing there can be no victory but in the faithful following of him and patient bearing his crosse and enduring his sufferings comes the enmity to be slain captivity led captive and man set at liberty in the holy seed to serve the Father in spirit and life again And first Christ as he is the light of the world must be believed for so he comes to manifest and reprove the deeds of darknesse and to make a separation between the works of God the works of the devil in the mind spirit of the creature to let them see what spirit doth exercise their minds affections and the fruits of each spirit and the moving working of each spirit severally without which none can rightly know what is to be destroyed and what saved what to joyne to and what to war against for by this light alone comes man to the knowledge of sin in himself in the ground and root of it and every motion threof for though the letter or something without may shew what is sin by its fruits when it is brought forth yet it s the work of the spirit to discover spiritual wickedness in its first motion which is the onely place to kill it ere it become sin and this light must be believed and diligently minded all-along for such is the subtilty of the enemy having got power over the will and sences of man that he will set them to war against the creature and destroy the Creation rather then that of his which defiles the creature and this cannot be avoided any other way but by minding the light of Christ to seperate that which is but to be clensed from that which is to be destroyed this man cannot do without the spirit being a spiritual work though he never so much seeks after it And here is the cause why many are kept at hard labour all their time and never come clear out of sinne and uncleanness even not believing in that which hath the power to seperate and lead out of the evil but without the single eye are at work in the dark and sees not a clear separation in the body And hence it is that some destroy themselves in seeking to destroy sin not minding the light of the Saviour is led by the destroyer fighting against that which Christ comes to save whilest he that comes to destroy lyes hid in the dark But he that believes in that which manifests all things reproves all things and judges all things with that eye shall be led what to war against and what to joyne with