Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	holy_a	son_n	teach_v	15,032	5	6.6919	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

him not forgotten who in your wills make a profession and in the same wills contend for it with which you can fight and sue and trade in the world and heap together and what you will you pray and aske for and grudge if you be not satisfied but if you compasse your desires in that will the lust catcheth the gift but you forget the giver so that mercies become a curse to you which to those who in the will of God stands are a blessing which will of God is to keep the heart and eye to the Creator and giver and if such receive not the giver the gift is nothing that satisfies because the vertue and fulnesse is wanting whereby the gift is sanctified Thus is God prized and praised in his own Will a sacrifice for ever accepted Therefore Christ must not be offered up in his own will but in the will of the Father Mat. 26. 39. and in that will he had power to lay down his life and againe to take it up thus he is become our example whom we delight in the same will to follow which you that read this in the Scripture with your own wills cannot therefore to you the crosse is preached which must be taken up ere you can follow the example This is the slumbling Stone and Rock of offence God hath laid to prove you who say you love God and say Thy will be done in earth but loves your owne wills better as your practises witnesse to your face daylie when his will is your sanctification but yours is pollution and to live in uncleannesse against which he hath given testimonie witnesse that in all your consciences which is pure declaring daylie to your faces that he consents not to your sinnes nor takes delight in your destruction and here Gods love is tendered and your love is tried God so loveth the world that he hath given his Son a light into the world that whosoever believes and followes him shall not abide in Death and darknesse but shall have the light of life and this we know who love his appearance and that he hath loved us first and in that love we follow him and call to all to come to it But how doe you answer this love of his who abide in the love of the world where the Fathers love dwels not nor with his light will you be led out of the world where his love dwelleth thereof to be partakers yet you will talk of it where it is not and these vaine words cannot save you God is light and in him is no darknesse at all and if wee walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we fellowship with him and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin But what 's this to you who walk in darkness not cleansed nor can you believe that ever you can be while you live yet would you not be called unbelievers though that faith that purifies the heart you cannot own yes say you we believe we shall be cleansed after we be dead in another world so your faith must worke hereafter but is dead at present such a faith as never was professed by any you read of but that faith we witnesse which overcomes this world and this is present power as the Saints have found it and born witnesse of it that God was faithfull who had given them a measure above which was no temptation but your gift is to come so temptations prevailes for the present and you cannot own them where it doth not thus you put farre from you the good day the Lord and his power which now is present where he is received and believed And by such he is praised who by faith are redeemed above the pollutions of this world the strange land wherein they were captivated into freedome where Sions song is sung which you cannot unredeemed And here see your praises which arise from a vaine minde in your owne wills and imitations but not from a soule redeemed quickned and set free from the power of sin and temptation so your praises are not living praises nor from a living principle of the living God but from that principle where death reigns and the seed of God is in prison so you praise you know not what who are still unredeemed from bondage but where redemption is witnessed there that seed is raised the bonds of death are broken the way of life is found and this being known in the life then with understanding God is praised and with the same spirit which he hath raised which onely with God is accepted without respect of persons and here the works of God praise him and in his Saints he is glorified and admired in all who are raised above the graves who are in him and see his worke and this Church is rightly gathered who out of sin death and darknes is brought into God who is holy with whom dwells no unclean thing Here are the pure praises where the Sons of God sing together having the Psalme given of the Father these praises are pure which from him comes to him returns freely but this is not known to the sons of bondage nor believed by you therefore you sit down in a shaddow empty and form without power nor the presence of God you have not who take your rest in fleshly formes that eye cannot see him nor know him thus in your sins you perish for want of his knowledge who is our life eternall and to you is freely tendered but by your unbeliefe denyed so his love rejected All you that are in the world who lye in wickednes God so loveth you that he hath sent his Son into the world to you a witness against the world and all the deeds of it that they are evill but all that own and follow him into the good work he leads them and out of the evill hee keeps us and that 's his light which in your consciences shines in the midst of darkness which you comprehend not with your dark mindes nor sensuall wisdome yet a faithfull witness is it against your deeds of darkness declaring your end and death upon your life and sorrow and howling upon your laughter condemning your vain pleasures and invention with which you spend your pretious time which should be redeemed and not spent unprofitably which with the light the Saints and redeemed ones are led to to redeeme the time and this is our diligence and delight in but yours is to spend it shewing a contrary nature and leader a contrary delight in a contrary kingdom with whom you joyned and to whom you are fashioned according to the course of this world and the Prince and powers of it which rules in children where disobedience is born and brought forth And thus you are united into that nature which God hath appointed the Devil to be Prince of and wrath and woe the end of and so God is justified herein that you who despise the riches of his light

the Devils kingdome and this you doe who search into the things of God with your fallen wisdome So are you kept in labour to no purpose never can get from under the works of condemnation therefore you conclude None can ever come to be wholly free while they live and so make the blood of Christ of none effect which we doe witnesse doth cleanse from all sinne and save to the uttermost all that come unto him the thing which Hagars seed doth most oppose and scoffe at that wherein we triumph above the world and Imagemakers That our God is a Saviour from that which none can be free from who are without him though they make many likenesses of him from the letter the forme without the power t is to no purpose Take notice you severall sorts of Worshippers who worship a God a farre off whom you know not which if you did there would not be so much contention about him what he is and the way of his worship Nor can you know him till he be revealed in you nor can he be known in you but as you come to be cleansed for with him dwells no uncleanesse Thus you that plead for your sinnes plead against your own soules which cannot be satisfied but by his presence who is not seen present where sin is standing And by unbeliefe doe you cut your soules off while you say you can never be cleansed till after you be dead here hath the Devil deceived you and so far prevailed with you to enter into Covenant with him while you live to serve him And being blinded this you know not That you have made Covenant with Hell and Death which by God is cursed and troubled That I know and own that troubles your peace and sets you on seeking but the way you seeke is from another principle which is selfish and shall never obtaine peace for you He that troubles all that 's out of his way guides and gives peace to all in his way the same is a spirit the world knows not blowes where it listeth therefore never found but in his own way and will You who seek him in the will of man there cannot finde him nor can your Ministers made by the will of man tell you of him where he is or the way to him He is not born of that Generation not of that Will nor of that seede is he begotten therefore not knowne to them therefore they themselves with all their seeking not having found him can doe no lesse then tell you that he will never appeare more to his people that which is written is all the word and what others have seene is all the knowledge that any need ever to looke for while the world continues and what others have done that 's all you have to talke on for your righteousnesse And thus the way of Gods walking and working in his people is wholly excluded from the face of the earth And a faith you have devised and set up besides it if not wholly against it so that now to witnesse good works is counted Poperie though all that comes to God are fore-ordained to walke therein and to that end new-created Thus are not men afraid to denie the work of God and his Righteousnesse and yet say you are his workmanship and that you are in God and Christ but out of his works and must be in the works of the Devil yet God is your Father Yet in this confusion none must tell you you are in Babylon for then you say they judge you nor that they that teach you thus are Ministers of Antichrist for that you call railing though to such the Spirit of Christ hath ever used it Thus hath the Devil set up his worke and fenced it with the name of highest Faith in the world and who is under this Faith though they sinne yet they say they can never fall finally nor totally though the whole man be found in the action nor is your sins like others because you say you are believers though both they and you in one action and nature So that Faith which you professe is become a defence for sin But our Faith is that which overcomes sin so to the good work is not reprobate And thus you set up a profession without power But did you mide the light of Christ that never changes by it to be taught in Spirit these deceits would be soon discovered and you could not walk in darknesse With it we see that he that commits sin is of the Devil and is fallen from God whatever be his profession and there can be no greater fall then to fall from that which should keepe him into the Devils power to act according to the Devils movings and to bring forth his begettings and such we know are his children With the Light we see that he that is in the way of God is in holinesse and he that is not is in the way of the Devil and that he that 's in God is out of selfe and there sin is blotted out and forgotten but he that 's in selfe is in sin though he be praying or plowing with it we see the life of Christ is pure and who lives any other life its polluted though never so finely covered with it we see the way of God is perfect and you whose way is not perfect is the way of condemnation With the Light we see him that hath not the word within him to have no more then the Devil hath who knows the letter and can preach it and that he that hath not that faith that overcomes sin in its measure hath no faith but as the Devils and that he that hath not heard his voyce knows him not nor he that hath not seen him hath no fellowship with him and whose heart is filthy can doe neither With the Light we see that who is in the work of God is in the good work and he that is not is in the evill and whatever he doth is abominable and that he that hath not the righteousnesse of God hath his own which is imperfect but who hath that of God hath that which perfectly satisfies both God and man so far as with it the creature is covered With it we see him that hath faith without this work to be as a body without a spirit which can doe nothing and that faith is vaine thats without power And as we see with that which is eternal so we judge and the world receives not our testimony because the carnal minde is enmity and cannot he subject nor can the naturall man receive the things of the Spirit onely those who minds the light of the Spirit discernes and owns our testimony and receives our witness and his power who is true and so become willing to follow that truth that leads to freedome How long have you talked of being a willing people in the day of his power but doth vaine words save you while you are in the power of darknes