Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	see_v	6,240	4	4.0122	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85807	A brief discovery of that which is called the popish religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of injustice and cruelty, and also a word to them who are in bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts worship. And a word to the Pope who calls himself a bishop and is not, his throne of deceit is discovered, by the Spirit of the eternall God. / Given forth by me who am called of the world. A. Gargill.	Gargill, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing G258; Thomason E887_2; ESTC R202273	29,419	34

design but to exalt your selves and to be exalted and live like Kings it is but usurpt authoritie by the Devill are you led a deceiver from the beginning was he a subtill Serpent and his seed are you who seek the fleece and starve the flock and call your serves sheapheards Christ Jesu● is the true Shepheard he giveth his life for his sheep he is a redeemer and saveth his people from their sin How do you think to be saved By a carnall bit of Bread that you call the Bodie of Christ Impudent blasphemers who make an Idoll to your selves and eat it and say that it is Christs flesh and the wine that you drink in Bowls is his Bloud he that eateth my flesh saith Christ shall live for ever and you dye and your God with you and this is an end of your dumb Idoll vvhich cannot save you God is a Saviour of his people from sin they that feed on that Spirit which leadeth out of carnall things to be carnall minded is death to be spirituall minded is life and peace no peace to the wicked they shall dye vvithout mercy and judgement shall fall upon them that forget God God is judge of all he is judged of none nor none can know his judgements but by that Spirit which is pure you make your selves Judges and Rulers by an usurpt authoritie you have received from the Devill the Father of lyes and by a lye are you upheld in your inchantments and Conjuration airy minded men by that Climate are you guided airy substance Clouds without water broken Cisterns that cannot hold water exalted Jezabel painting your faces with colours Dives like you be sitting at your table feeding on dainty dishes fitting your selves to the slaughter through your abhomination which is exalted above all that is called God God is pressed under your abhomination the righteous groaneth for redemption but you hear not the Cry of the poor the poor in Spirit shall see God and live for ever and the rich shall be sent emptie away avvay with all your vain bables your im●ges and likenesses of wood and stone and crosses Learn to knovv the Cross of Christ it will teach you to know God desire to know Christ crucified in the flesh your sins subdued by him that suffereth in you The Lamb of life leads to Innocency out of all inventions of man out of all carnall things it will you lead if it you mind which discovers sin it will dissolve your enemies by the brightness of his coming if you desire to know God mind his witness it will lead you out of visible things and your carnall desires shall be dissolved If you mind this witness which leads to truth the lyars mouth shall be stopt the issue of iniquity shall be dryed up by the brightness o● the Sun shall the fountains of the earth be dryed up and the Spring shall be stopped wherein iniquity doth ab●und Abundance of iniquities hath the world gathered into her self yea the men of the world calleth her mother through the abundance of her delicates she hath deceived the Nations and Kingdoms throughout the Earth the mysterie of iniquitie hath been exalted exalted bubbles have borne the sway upon the earth and the innocent hath been forgotten God hath not been known to them they have forgot his ways followed the fruits of darkness and darkness hath possest the heart of man man hath been led from the light of Jesus by the grand enemy of his soul the Devil who from the beginning hath misled man through lust and desire of the flesh which cannot ever be satisfied from one invention to another an invention of the Devill is this which you call your Religion a humane invention mixed with lust filth and deceit is not this deceit to weary the people with your bables and your inventions of Beads Crucifixes and other inchantments which your airy minds have gathered in even plain Sodomites do you shew your selves studying iniquity against the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name that is unknown by you he is a good Israelite indeed in him there is no guile and they that are guided by that Spirit are like unto him kept in innocency and in that house there is no guile where innocency dwels righteousness doth flourish and plenteous redemption to those that fear the Lord redeemed are they from the earth that mind the light of Jesus by it to be guided it leadeth from all manner of evill to serve the living God of life light and power powerfull is he that redeemeth from death to life This redemption is not of corruptible things that corrupt and die of themselves he cleanseth the body and washeth from dead works to everlasting life world without end An end shall be put to all your bables and inventions made by the works of your hands your Crucifixes say you puts you in mind of Christs death remember he is slain in you in spirituall Sodom and Egypt are the two witnesses flain their Blood shall be required of the children of disobedience disobedient are you that forget God as a blossom shall you wither and all your glory which you have received from the Author the Devill The ground of iniquity is highly exalted among you who know not God neither regard ye his wayes nor bring your deeds to the light your acting is in the dark where light is not seen the fruits of darkness doth appear in all your practises is not the living God known to be your guide he leadeth out of all unrighteousness up to know God in that Heavenly City where God dwels there is no unrighteousness nor no unclean thing can there enter as clear as the Sun at Noon Day is the Lord in his glory his glory exceedeth all flesh it shall wither before the Lord and be cut down even as grass like stubble shall the fire of the Lord consume his enemies and all that is exalted above the innocent own the Lamb of life the life of the righteous is death to the man of sin therefore turn to the Lord that your wickedness may be forgiven and fear him that cleanseth the heart and maketh glad the mind and reneweth the life and turneth from darkness to light to serve the living God the living praise the Lord yea the living praise his name for ever never can you praise God in that nature you stand in Turn to the light of Christ it will lead you to another Kingdom which you know not to know God is life eternall and this life is the light of the world Every man hath a talent given him it is the light of Jesus that discovers good from evill it shews you when you do amiss it is the check of your conscience that tells you you should not lye nor swear nor deal fa●sly bring all your deeds to this it doth not flatter it is your friend it leads to eternall happiness and that is durable riches which the world

cannot give the worlds treasure is but vanity and a lye by a lye are the Kingdoms of the earth upheld in their vain concupiscence long yea long hath the heritage of the Lord laid waste I pitty your souls that lye in darkness you see not the light which doth not change all is changeable under the Sun the Son of righteousness never changes your light changes and burns out your Lamps and Candles in your Synagogues of Satan and you ●ight them again to beautifie and adorn the place of your lust where your life stands what glory is this to the Lord and what doth it advantage you to do these things God never required when did God require any of these things at your hands as for going into Cloysters or Monasteries do you hear any such names in Scripture for Saints to lodge in their habitation was in the Lord and not in earthly Houses their habitaiton is a House without hands a building of God and God is the Author of that practise which the Saints follow no other Author have we but the Lord he is our Lord and Law giver you have Lords many and Laws many and as you make them you break them your selves you say you should not murder nor steal nor commit adultery and you your selves are adulterated from God you have committed fornication with the Scarlet coloured Whore and drunken the Cup of her Abhomination is not this murthering of the just one which is a friend to all and would not the death of any You have no pitty to your own souls you lye in your Blood and do not see the God of the world hath blinded the eye the Eternall eye of God dis●overs all your abhominations which are gathered in by your subtill minds and inventions imitating and practizing by tradition thus hath one generation deceived another Many Authors have you for your traditions all from one Root and the Root is evill As for Augustins Jesuits and Caputians when did the Lord by his Spirit guide you to these names there is but one name to be saved by and that name leadeth out of all names the Lord giveth a new name and a white stone to his people and none knows it but they that have it you change your names from one name to another but where is the life that leadeth to salvation that you know not you cannot witness a change by the power of God from your evill wayes and what doth it advantage for you to change your names How vain is this how naked is your conditions before the Lord you cannot be hidden any longer Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill now will the Lord appear in the children of light to discover all your abhominations and your deeds to be evill Evill minded men you are who deny the Lord to be the Author and finisher of your faith he that hath faith as a grain of mustard seed removeth mountains mountains of sin I mean which hath been exalted above the Lord and his anointed you annoint your Priests with Oyl to imitate Aaron where is the fruits of this anointing the anointed of the Lord is pure purity and peace becometh his House for ever where is this House witnessed by you Are not your minds corrupted with dumb Idols And self-inventions and your Gods is like unto your dead and dumb Idols is your hearts addicted too you mind not the living God that quickneth and raiseth from death to life from the power of Satan to serve the living God your prayers and inventions is all in the fall it is Cains sacrifice all your worship is abhomination unto the Lord you act it in the old nature which is enmity against God out of the light of Jesus do you busie your minds praying to Mary and making of Images and likenesses you are not you worship the works of your hands by vain tradition have you been led from one generation to another have you lived in Idleness and sloath not knowing the Cross of Christ that Crucifies sin your Crosses of wood and stone cannot save you nor redeem you from your vain conversation you bow to your Cross and rise again as wicked and carnall as ever the Cross of Jesus is not so it teaches to deny self selfly minded men cannot please God neither can they in all their imitation performe the minde of God in that which standeth in the old nature all must be destroyed all your inventions come down to the light of Jesus which shines in a dark place dark is the heart of man a light hath God placed therein bring your deeds to it there your fruits may be made manifest whether they are wrought in God yea or nay did God ever require or when did you hear his voice that you say you are guided by his Spirit and you say the true Church cannot erre This is true the Church of Christ cannot erre who are guided by his eternall Spirit his Spirit you never knew to guide your minds and to lead you to these practices as worshipping Images you deny the resurrection of Jesus you serve your lusts and your Popes Invention by his Articles you are guided to deprive Kings of their authority and sit in the seat of Justice as you call it If you were spirituall there things need not concern you you are usurpers in all your practices you say that which you call your Church is above the Law it is above the Law indeed you neither fear God nor man you are Lawless livers to make your Churches as you call them a preservation for murd●rers he that sheds mans Blood by man shall his Blood be shed All manner of evill do you uphold for money murderers and adulterers and say you can for give them did you ever read in the Scriptures that ever pardons were sold for money where is your example for these things why do you hide the Scripture from the people or by what authoritie were they not given forth by the Spirit of God for generations to come God excludes none all that will come may and drink of the water of life freely free is that Spirit that leads to righteousness it straitens none that will believe and turn to the Lord. Come all ye that are heavy laden saith the Lord and I will give you ease he burdneth none his yoke is easie and his burden light unto all them that desire to live with him he is a cherisher of the innocent and a destroyer of deceit deceit hath gathered into your hearts swift destruction to your souls if you repent not repent and turn to the Lord that your evill deeds may be forgiven come near unto the Lord by the light of Jesus which shines in darkness the heart of man is dark it comprehendeth not the light but the light of Jesus comprehends you all and discovers your deeds to be evill and all your practices abhomination to the Lord repent and turn in