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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	glory_n	let_v	6,078	5	4.5887	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47188	The true copy of a paper given in to the yearly meeting of the people called Quakers at their meeting-place in Grace-Church-street, Lonon, 15 day of the 3d. month 1695. By George Keith, which was read by him in the said meeting, by their allowance. With a brief narrative of the most material passages of discourse betwixt George White-head, Charles Marshal, and George Keith, the said day, and the day following, betwixt George White-head, William Penn, and Francis Canfield on the one side, and George Keith on the other; ... Together with a short list of some of the vile and gross errors of George Whitehead, John Whitehead, William Penn, their chief ministers, and now having the greatest sway among them (being of the same sort and nature with the gross errors charged on some in Pensilvania) most apparently opposite to the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion ... And a proposition to VVilliam Penn, to prove his charge, that G.K. is an apostate.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing K220; ESTC R220379	30,855	34

us is to them but History and to believe in him without us is but History and an Historical Faith But if these Men were not extreamly dark and blind they could see and own that as Christ within is a Mistery and a great Mistery and if John Faldo did deny it I shall be far from Justifying or excusing him so Christ without us is not only a Mistery but a greater Mistery or rather as Christ both without us and within us is but one Christ so one exceeding great and glorious Mistery but if we may distinguish this one great Mistery as it were in two parts as we commonly distinguish a two fold appearance of Christ one without us in the Flesh another within us by his Spirit and yet but one Christ so we ought to own and confess if we have any Spiritual Sight and knowledg of Christ that Christ without us as he is both God and Man God manifest in the Flesh in whom dwelleth all fulness of Grace and Truth is a far greater part of the Mistery than Christ within us for the fulness dwelt and still dwelleth in the Man Christ without us but the best of the Saints that ever lived have but their respective Measures and the Mistery of Christ his being both God and Man his miraculous conception and Birth his being that Universal Offering for our Sins his Death Resurrection and Ascension and continual intercession for us in Heaven and his continually giving forth and sending down to his Saints on Earth new and fresh influences of Life Light and Grace yea and by what he conveyeth into mens Hearts of his Power and Virtue both to begin and carry on the work of Regeneration in men what a complex of Misteries is here who can sufficiently declare them or who that is not grosly ignorant of the inward work of Regeneration can prefer the inward work of Regeneration tho a great and glorious mistery to Christ as he is both God and man without us who hath the Spirit given him without measure Is not this to prefer the measure to the fulness the stream to the Fountain the Effect to the Cause the Gift to the Giver and the Life in the Hands and Feet and other Members to the Life in the Head and the Sap and Vertue that is in the branches to that which is in the Tree and Root And seeing the work of Regeneration and Sanctification in the Saints is a great mistery must we not own him who is the Author and great Cause of it to be greater Unless VV. Penn will say that it is not Christ without us but only Christ within us that is the Author and Cause of Regeneration Indeed if he can prove that only Christ within men is the cause of Regeneration he hath gained his Point but this he will never be able to do and he may expect as soon to perswade men of understanding that the Sun is no cause of the Generation of Herbs and Plants in the Earth being without them as that Christ without men is not the Cause of the work of Regeneration within for if we ascribe the work of Regeneration within men to Christ or to his Spirit Light and Life within as the measure that measure within comes from the fulness in the Man Christ without them yea and from the Man Christ in whom the fulness dwelleth and the measure acteth in the Saints by the Power and Strength of the Fulness thereof for and VV. P. or G. VV. to suppose the Mistery of Regeneration can either be experienced witnessed or understood without the Mistery of Christ without us argueth as great ignorance in them as if one should think he can demonstrate the Generation of Herbs and Plants Springing out of the Earth without the Sun But it is a further instance of VV. Penn his great Ignorance in the Mistery of Christ that by his words above named he maketh Christ without but the introduction to the Mistery viz. Christ within as to say The Life in the Head is but an introduction to the Life in the Members and thus the Members shall be more valuable than the Head And lastly It is a most ranting strain in him to say That what Christ did and suffered without Men which he calleth Transactions to be so many facile Representations of what was to be accomplished in Man Thus Christ without is made but a Type Figure and Shell and the inward is made the Kernel and Antitipe But was there not more in Christ of the inward incomparably than in all men For what of the Kernel or Substance any or all the Saints have they have it out of him and by and through him even the Man Christ without them And whereas it is plainly evident from VV. Penn his words abovementioned That he will not have the Manifestation of God in the Flesh of Christ to be the true Mistery of Godliness but Christ manifested in his Children the hope of Glory he sets things in opposition which ought not to be opposed but joyned together and he perverts most grosly these words of the Apostle Paul even as some of his late Brethren have done 1 Tim. 3. 16. without controversy great is the mistery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh Justified in the Spirit c. Jumbling two places of Scripture together and confounding their sense as if because that place Colos 1. 29. mentioneth Christ in you the hope of Glory that therefore by God manifest in the Flesh c. Of which Paul saith without controversy great is the mistery of Godliness is to be understood Christ in the Saints and not Christ without us as he was both God and Man whereas it is most evident That place is to be understood of the Man Christ in whom was and is the most Glorious Manifestation of God that ever was and no otherwise of Christ in the Saints but by way of concomitancy or consequence because whatever Manifestation of the Life Virtue or Measure of the Spirit of Christ any of the Saints have they have it out of the fulness of the Spirit and of Grace and Truth that dwelleth in the Glorified Man Christ Jesus and out of his fulness it floweth into their is water in the cteeks floweth into them out of the Ocean or fulness or Water that is in the Sea and as the outward Light we have on Earth daily floweth from the Fountain and Fulness of Light that is in the outward Sun and this the last clause of that Verse 1 Tim. 3. 16. plainly proveth viz. Received up into Glory manifestly pointing at Christ's Ascention into Heaven and the Glory he is stated into And let W. P. plainly Answer me whether he Judgeth that the manifestation of God in the man W. P. or in the man G. W. or any other man whatsoever is greater or a greater mistery than the manifestation of God in the man Christ Jesus as his words plainly import at least by a natural and necessary consequence