Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	great_a	sin_n	soul_n	6,254	5	5.0642	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

its doing to commend it but God's love and bounty in Christ the Light to receive it and yet Holiness is its delight and he can no more live out of it than the fish upon the dry land We believe that this Faith keeps the mind pure and the heart clean through the sprinkling of the heart from an evil conscience by the Blood of Jesus which remits the Sin and justifies the Soul through the vertue of this Blood received into the heart by this living Faith which receives all its power and vertue from Christ in whom it abides as its root and object whereby Justification is witnessed from Sin not in Sin Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from Sin and become servants unto God you have your fruits unto Holiness and the end Everlasting Life We believe that Justification and Sanctification are distinguished but not divided for as he that sanctifieth and justifieth is one so do these go together and when the Soul hath the greatest sence of Justification upon it through the vertue of the Blood of Jesus by the living Faith then is it most in love with Holiness and at the greatest distance from Sin and Evil and whenever there is a failing in Sanctification there is also some eclipse of Justification in the eye of the Soul until Faith hath recovered its strength again which it lost by Sin 's prevailing For as the furthest and clearest sight is in the brightest day so is it with the Soul when it is most in the brightness and beauty of Holiness its Justification appears most glorious and its Union and Communion most sweet and lasting and so like two twins as they are much of an age so they are like one to the other and what God hath joyned together let no man put assunder We also by this Light believe that acceptance with the Father is only in Christ and by his Righteousness made ours or imputed unto us not by the creaturely skil but by the applicatory act of God's gift of Grace whereby the soul feels the difference between self-applying by its own Faith and God applying by his Spirit and so making Christ unto the Soul Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption So that we believe and are sure that there is a great difference between Imputation as it is the act of man's spirit and as it is the act of free Grace without man's forcing And so we distinguish between Imagination and Imputation between reckoning or imputing that is real and reckoning or imputation that is not real but a fiction and imagination in the creaturely will and power And because we are against the latter we are clamoured upon as if we denied the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness when it is only unto those that are not made righteous by it to walk as he also walked For as the Scripture saith Is it not he that saith he is righteous by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness but he that doth Righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. he that believes otherwise is deceived And yet it is not Acts of Righteousness as done by us nor as inherent in us as acts by which we are accepted of God and justified before him but by Christ the Author and Worker of those acts in us and for us whereby we know that we are in him and he in us and we hold him as our Head into whom all things are gathered together in one even in him We further believe that God is only to be worshipped and not any likeness that man makes unto himself of God from any view sight or knowledge that he hath had of him but in every act and service man is to know what substantially as well as whom speculatively or notionally he worshippeth as it is written Joh. 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews And he that thus worships the Father honours the Son by the same Spirit which is one with the Father and the Son in which Spirit only God is worshipped according to the form of its own choosing and manifesting of it self in and by according unto the good pleasure of the Father who is a Spirit and limits man unto the Spirit 's form but allows not man to limit the Spirit unto his form though it be not of his inventing originally but of the Father yet man must no more limit God unto it than he could command God to appear in it at first For as he chose it himself so he hath reserved liberty to leave it at his pleasure who works all things after the counsel of his own Will which he hath purposed in himself that the gift of the knowledge of the Mystery of his Will might for ever be acknowledged to be of his Grace and from the Riches of the Glory thereof according to Ephes 1. and man be bound but God free man bound to wait in the Light for God's Movings but God free to move in whom to what and when he pleaseth then man is to go when he saith go and come when he saith come and such Servants do serve him and then there is no more curse as in the dayes of will-worship and voluntary humility but the Throne of God and of the Lamb Col. 2. 18 23. Rev. 22. 3 4. and they shall see his Face and his Name shall be on their foreheads We believe also that this Worship is spiritual and not carnal in all its Parts and Ordinances and not to be imposed by any outward force but performed by the inward leadings of God's Spirit according as the holy men of God were led and guided in the dayes past who gave forth the Scriptures all impositions of Worship outward being only enjoyned under the first Covenant that made nothing perfect until the time of Reformation spoken of Heb. 9. 10. But Christ being come there is an end as well of such Impositions as of the Meats and Drinks and divers Baptisms and carnal Ordinances they being all but temporary and in order unto an end but all to vail to Christ the sum and substance of all the first pointed at by all and the last ending of all the Amen And he that thus worships God in Christ his Ordinances are spiritual and not carnal and his Faith carries him beyond his Works with righteous Abel and preserves him that he is not drowned in the form like Cain neither falls he short of the Glory of God nor of his assurance of Acceptance with him We believe there is one Baptism necessary unto Salvation Ephes 4. 5. One Lord one Faith one Baptism And this Baptism is Spiritual of which John's Water was but a figure Joh. 1. 31. That he should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with Water saith John and 1 Pet. 3. 21. The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good