Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	receive_v	son_n	4,380	5	5.7638	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60628	The everlasting truth exalted being a plain testimony unto the manifestations, growth and prosperity of truth : also some dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving truth, or having received it, departing from it : also a short testimony unto gospel meetings and fellowship ... / William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4299; ESTC R3823	20,906	26

THE Everlasting Truth EXALTED BEING A plain Testimony unto the Manifestation Growth and Prosperity of TRUTH ALSO Some Dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving Truth or having received it departing from it ALSO A short Testimony unto Gospel Meetings and Fellowship with a tender Invitation unto all that are afar off to come and unto all that are departed and gone away to return William Smith Printed in the Year 1669. The Everlasting Truth Exalted c. AFter the long Night of Apostacy had overspread the Earth and the gross Darkness of it covered and remained upon the people and that none could be found among the Sons of men to lead and deliver out of it then did the Lord manifest himself from Heaven and the Light began to spring as the morning and to give light to such as sat in darkness and under the shadow of death and though many travelled in pain as being soarly opprdssed by the power of darknes yet when the Lord did manifest his Light and his Love in it there were not many could believe that it was he and so they received him not though he came unto them for their good But to as many as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believed in his Name which were born not of Flesh nor of Blood nor of the will of man but of God and so the Love of God is manifested in sending his only begotten Son into the World to be a Light unto the World that all in him might believe and receive Life but that which is born of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man doth not believe that the Light is he whom God sendeth and therefore receives him not in his Light when he makes himself manifest for that nature expecteth some higher or greater appearance of Christ then in his Light but as John bare witness of Christ to be the true Light so his appearance is not to be expected after any other manner or in any other thing for whatsoever is contrary to that which is true is false and there is but one thing true or Truth it self and that John testifies to be the Light with which Christ enlighteneth every one that comes into the World and as the Light is true or Truth it self so the expectation is to be drawn off from all other things as being false and the mind is to turn to the Light as being only true and though it seem as a low or little thing in its manifestation yet there is nothing which in it self is true besides it and therefore most worthy of all things to be loved and obeyed in the least appearance of it for who dispises the day of small things cannot come to the day of glory where the Son ruleth and here many have suffered loss as to the benefit which in the Light they might have received and enjoyed for not loving and obeying the appearance or breaking forth of the Light in a small measure it doth not go on in such unto a perfect day but being despised as a small thing or a thing of no value it draweth into it self again the manifestation and then none can see the way unto God nor walk in the Path of Life for the Light being dispised and so withdrawing it self there is nothing but darkness remains to be the Guide and such as walks in darkness knows not whither they go because darkness hath blinded their minds and this hath been an occasion of stumbling unto many who have not loved the Light but despised it for in darkness they stumble and many times fall but in the Light which is the plain Path there is no stumbling and they that do not walk in that Path but dispises it and stumbles at it they walk in the broad way and in that way they cannot have peace for they that despise the day of small things they dispise that by which Peace cometh and none can have peace whilst they despise that by which it comes for they that would have peace with God must receive and entertain the Light and not dispise it and though it may appear but as a little thing yet peace is found in the least appearance of it as it is loved and obeyed but the high and softy cannot bow unto it the birth of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man expects some higher and greater thing and when the Light manifests it self by reproof in the Conscience there is not submission but rather dispising for the broad way is more delightfull to that birth then the narrow and therefore it is that the broad way is filled with many walkers and so many may see the Morning and not come to see the perfect day for if the Light in its manifestation be not loved and obeyed there is not a going forward in the Truth nor any growth and increase witnessed and so the Light hath manifest it self in many and they have seen the darkness by the manifestation but not loving and obeying the Light that it might become their Teacher and Leader they still abide in darkness and are not redeemed and delivered and that is the thraldom and bondage where many yet remains who have been visited with the day-spring from on high they do not love nor obey the Light when it springs and manifests it self unto them and so they keep themselves in their own sorrow and misery by loving and obeying darkness for if the Light be followed in love as being only true there is not an abiding in darkness but a coming to the Light of Life and so Christ said I am the Light of the World he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness which thing is true in him and in all those that follow him for in the appearance of his Light the darkness passeth away and the power of it groweth weaker and then comes redemption and deliverance out of Darkness unto those that love and obey the Light and so they come out of the pollutions and defilements into that which is pure and holy and righteous and these are only the people which are found to the praise and glory of God for who have been visited and do not obey the Lord they are not found to his praise and glory but are sound in that by which God is dishonoured and who have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come and have seen many great and wonderfull things and afterwards go from the Light and lose their stedfastness they are not found to the praise and glory of God but dishonoureth his Name and Truth and People for they that sometimes did own the Light to be true or Truth it self and for a season rejoyced in it and as Disciples took up the Cross to follow it and now are grown weary of walking in the narrow way and so are gone back and follows no further they cannot be found to the praise and glory

are united in one and every one in their measure grows in Grace and Godliness and in that all stands in the beginning and as they wait upon God in that which first convinced them they are preserved out of the Net of the Fowler and from the deceit of the Deceiver and this is marvellous in the eyes of many this day for by the preservation that many have witnessed by cleaving to the Power they certainly know that there is not another thing sufficient for that work and so they keep their faith in it as in the greatest and in the very time when darkness came upon some to draw them back then there was no whither else for them to go but to that which from the beginning had preserved for they were come to assurance that he was the Son of God in whom they believed and they knew that he had the word of Eternal Life and so they could not forsake him and depart from him to go to another but continued in his Love according to his Command which if all had done so there had not been a going away and departing but the Serpent beguiled as he beguiled Eve and though he aimed to deceive the very Elect yet it was not possible because their Foundation was sure and they were faithfull to it and upon the Foundation they yet stand and are not moved and the Truth is precious in their eye and the testimony of it lovely in their hearts and they are not weary of serving the Lord for his power carries them as upon Eagles Wings and such are not born of flesh and blood and of the will of man but of God and as Heirs of God they inherit Life and Immortality and so they rejoyce in their way and in their portion and in this good ground their lot is fallen and they have a goodly heritage yea a heritage above the Earth and the glory of it for in the Seed and Life they have found the heavenly Treasure and the Pearl of great price and as their affections are set upon things above so they do not mind to be in love with things below and abiding in the Light and Truth they have a sure Dwelling and a quiet Habitation and so in that which is immortal they live with the Lord and one another and are refreshed in the Lord and one in another and these are Children which of his own Will he hath begotten by the Word of his Power mark by the Word of his Power these are begotten and they love the Word of his Power which hath begotten them and it is Milk unto them as Babes and Meat as strong Men and they know the vertue and power of it and cannot depart from it and by faith in the power they obtain victory and so they keep the faith and do not make shipwrack of it and by faith they stand and from the beginning they have kept in the way that is good and have not cunningly devised Fables but by the manifestation of Truth have approved themselves unto God and these are they which of his own Will he hath begotten by the Word of his Power who love the Word of his Power that hath begotten them and by the Word of his Power he upholds them it is that they lean upon and cleave unto in all their trials distress and tribulations and it hath been and is their strength from one degree of godliness unto another and from one degree of faith to another and so from degree to degree they have followed the Lord in humbleness of mind and he hath and doth give his Grace unto them and exalts them into honour and they are honourable and beloved in his sight and though some that came out with them be gone from them yet the Truth is the same and they are the same in the Truth for as they have kept in the Truth from the beginning so they have not wavered nor changed but in all things have been found faithfull wherein Truth hath been concerned and many whose dear and precious lives have been given up as a Testimony to it and many whose sufferings and tribulations doth yet remain for the Truth sake and it is no less in such as now depart from the testimony and turns against it then a trampling upon the Blood and Sufferings of the Faithfull and so a trampling under foot the Son of God and doing dispite to the Spirit of Grace and such are gone from the Grace of God in themselves and so runs into the liberty that pleaseth the vain mind which cannot bear the yoke and in that Sea of liberty in vanity the flesh is pleased and from that Sea cometh all the great swelling words of vanity in the likeness of Truth but the Sea is bounded beyond which it cannot pass and in that which bounds the troubled Seas the faithfull are preserved from being swallowed up and they that are fallen into this Ocean they are fallen from the Rock Christ Jesus who is the beginning and ending the first and last and so they are gone from the chief corner stone the Elect and precious upon which the Building is fitly framed and groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord so mark the Building is fitly framed upon the Rock and not upon the Sea and upon the Rock the Building standeth and groweth unto an holy Temple and so the Power of the Rock raiseth the Building which is framed upon it and there is a perfect union between the Foundation and Building and a perfect union in the Building for it is framed and compacted by his hand who is Lord of all so it is united and no where out of order for that which is out of order is not framed and compacted in the Building which stands upon the Rock and though it may appear as framed compacted and builded yet it is not united to the Foundation but the Lord hath pleasure in his own Building as being his own work and it grows to be an holy Temple and he fills it with his Presence and Glory and besides this Foundation which God hath laid there is no man can lay another nor no man can build another Building to be an holy Temple for him therefore all foundations and buildings which man hath layed and builded must come to nought for it is only his own Work that must stand and remain and so he hath been building upon his own Foundation and he hath framed a Building according unto his pleasure and he causeth the Building to grow unto an holy Temple for himself to walk in and so he walks in the Temple and dwells in the Temple which is holy and this is his own Work from the beginning For when the Lord appeared to make known his Truth in this day there was no building framed but all in several Forms and Professions scattered and he beheld it and his eye pitied and then was his Love manifest to the scattered and with his Light he opened their eye