Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	day_n	good_a	lord_n	6,259	5	3.9699	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54071	To such as are not satisfied with a profession without the true life and power but have sincere desires in their hearts after the Lord himself, and a willingness to be acquainted with his pure living truth, and with the souls true guide and leader, this experience is in my heart to express unto you, which we have all-along witnessed in our travels out of the dark corrupt land, into the land of life and purity.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1212; ESTC R31104	8,425	12

To such as are not satisfied with a Profession without the true Life and Power but have sincere desires in their hearts after the Lord himself and a willingness to be acquainted with his pure living Truth and with the Souls true Guide and Leader This Experience is in my heart to express unto you which we have all-along witnessed in our travels out of the dark corrupt Land into the Land of Life and Purity WE have still found the willer the runner the self-striver the wise comprehending part c. left behind and the Grace of God alone able to lead towards him and the birth which is of and by grace still to obtain the mercy And Christ is our life and in the union with his Spirit lies all our ability and strength and that knowledge of Christ which we witness to be life eternal we did not meet with whilest we thought to have it in the Scriptures but it hath been all along revealed to us by Gods Spirit so that we can truly say flesh and blood did not reveal the Son to us but the Father Yet that which the Scriptures testify concerning Christ is exactly true according as is there related and is so acknowledged and really owned by us though we obtained not our knowledge of Christ by the letter but by receiving a Principle of Life from God and coming into union with his Spirit we came to the true knowledg and owning of the letter which as it came from the life so can only be rightly read and understood in the life from which it came So that he that is out of that cannot but err concerning the letter and misjudge concerning the things of God whereas he that is guided by lives in Gods Spirit receiving his knowledge there cannot err concerning the Spirit or concerning the Letter but hath that within him which gives to him and preserves him in the true sense and understanding of both Now friends this is an excellent thing indeed To come to and be acquainted with and receive that which the Scriptues testifie of to wit to receive Christ to feel union with him in his Spirit to enter into the new and holy Agreement with God into the everlasting Covenant of Life and Peace to feel the partition-wall broken down and the wall of salvation reared up and the defence which is thereby To find the Law of God the Law of his Life the Law of the New Creation written in the heart the pure fear planted there by God which keepeth the mind and spirit from departing from him to have his Spirit put within causing to walk in his Wayes and to keep his Statutes and Judgements and do them and so to have union and fellowship with the Lord in that which is pure and living of him in Christ the new and living way which was before the fall and leads the obedient out of the fall even beyond Adams state into himself who never fell in whom is no sin nor erring no not for the waifaring man though a fool who often erred and wandered before he came thither but there the Fathers hand even the hand of the eternal power is felt which none can pluck out of O that ye knew the infallible Leader and were turned from darkness to the Light and did believe therein and from the power of Satan unto God that ye through his Spirit might undeniably witness the mysteries of his Kingdom and partake of and enjoy that with his Love Grace and Mercy plentifully distributes among his Children that wait upon him in his own way under the holy ordering of his Spirit which was long harped at and longed after by many of us but we could never meet with it till the Lord in his Mercy caused the Light of his day to shine into our hearts which chased away the Darkness of the night and made the things of the day manifest Are ye of the house of Jacob are ye of the right Seed are ye of the true breathers after Gods holiness after the Life and Righteousness of his Son O then come ye know acknowledg receive and wait to walk in the Light of the Lord and do not joyn to that in you which is separated from and knoweth not the Light of the Lord but opposeth it And friends I beseech you take heed in this point for he that denieth refuseth opposeth speaketh evill or thinketh hardly of any thing that is indeed of Christ doth it to Christ himself in Christs account that is Christ looketh upon it as if he had denied him refused him opposed him spoke evill of him c. and it will be so laid to his charge in the day of the Lord and indeed such is my love to you and such my desire after your eternal good and welfare that I would not have you stumble at the Light and Power of Life which the Lord hath revealed and stretched out in this day of his Mercy to gather and save with but feel the gathering by it from all that scattereth from the Lord with the preservation which is thereby and the effecting of that in your spirits which it is able to effect as it comes to manifest it self unto you and to put forth its strength in you So wait for the gathering unto the Light the Light of the everlasting Day of God and into the Power which is able to redeem and defend the Soul from all that is contrary to God And when ye are there be diligent and faithful to the Lord and feel O daily wait to feel from him the unclothing of your spirits from all their own unrighteousness yea from all their own righteousness also which are but as filthy rags before the Lord even of the same nature with the unrighteousness that ye may be clothed upon with the new and living Garment wherein there is neither spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing For they that are of Christ and in Christ do as really put on the Nature the Spirit the Garment of the second Adam as ever they did put off the old garment nature and spirit This is from one who uprightly and singly desireth your union with the Lord in his pure Truth and holy Anointing and your disunion from all that is contrary to him Isaac Penington A Query added with its Answer Query WHat is the true Confession of Christ even that Confession which ariseth from the knowledge which is Life Eternal Answ Friends I witness it to be this A Confession of his Nature a Confession of his Spirit a Confession of his Life a Confession of his Power To confess the present living appearance of Christ that is to confess Christ Behold saith he I stand at the door and knock He that heareth his voice acknowledgeth him letteth him in subjecteth to his Truth and holy Spirit he confesseth him But though a man should acknowledge and confess all that is recorded in the Scriptures concerning him yet if he know not his knocks so as to let