Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	awake_v	people_n	zion_n	23	3	9.1035	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66869	A warning and testimony from the Lord who lives and abides forever that all that have known the Lord get into the name of the Lord therein only to have their confidence ... / by Humphry Woolrick.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3306; ESTC R26392	18,663	26

Sprinkles the Conscience from the dead Works which have no fellowship with the living God And Cain offered in that Mind and the Jews prayed in that Mind and Spirit but the Lord regarded them not as he did Righteous Abel and the Cry of the Innocent therefore read James 4.2 3. Ye lust and have not ye envy and desire immoderately and cannot obtain ye fight and war and yet get nothing because ye ask amiss ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your Lusts or that you might lay the same out upon your Pleasures So I do desire you that have known the Lord and his holy Counsel to stand therein for to such I speak in Tenderness of Heart that ye may not make it void and of none effect by letting your Minds reach out to an easier and wider Way than what the Cross that mortifies self admits of for a true Word it is and stedfast forever to the Children of men no Cross no Abolishing Death no Crown of Life no Crown of Glory will Wisdom deliver to thee for thou art no Child of Wisdom that dost not justifie Wisdom in all her Wayes thou that canst own her in some but not in all her Wayes art not Free-born from above thou art a Bastard and not a Son of the Free-Woman And Friends that Man or Woman that is not willing to stand in the holy Will and Counsel when it is once known will hearken to the Witch for Counsel as Saul did And whoever forsakes the Lord the Fountain of living Waters they will be hewing to themselves broken Cisterns as saith the Prophet Cursed be the man that trusteth in Man or makes Flesh his Arm whose Heart hath departed from the living God O foolish Galatians saith Paul who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the Truth Have you begun in the Spirit and what do you think to be made Perfect in the Flesh Were not they given up to believe a Lying Spirit who liked not to retain the Knowledge of the true Spirit Oh! how many have desired to bend the Lord in his Counsel to serve themselves like as Balaam did who although he once knew that the Lord was pleased only to Bless Israel his People and not to Curse them yet for his Promotion sake and Lusts sake he would fain have done it he went into Error when he went to ask Counsel of God again about that matter whose Madness and Folly and his Way which was perverse before the Lord the dumb Ass reproved So such as be Convinced of the Lord 's holy Way who love it so as to walk in it without any reservation be Obedient till the Death and then will the good Spirit never be grieved nor with drawn from you for saith the Lord Wo be to you when I depart from you for about the Throne of God and the Lamb which is for true Judgment be many Spirits even now as in the dayes of Ahab and they have now as then Commissions given them to wait on them that wait not on the Lord with a pure simple Mind and to be their Counsellors who like not to retain God his Counsel when he is once known and this Spirit will become their King and their God which they shall Curse one day and look upward as did the Rich and Full Man who when in his Torment would fain have been comforted with a little of that which the Poor man in Abraham's Bosom did enjoy but it could not be given him and this is a Ministration of Justice from the Just God and the Lamb upon such that have known the Lord but have not liked to retain him in their Knowledge and so have been given up to Unrighteousness until their Temple and House which was once in part swept and garnished came again to be filled with Darkness and here it has happened with them according to the true Proverb The Dog is returned to his Vomit again and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the Mire And therefore its good that we all take heed to him who is that most sure and living Word of all the Prophets so as to abide in it then will it keep us in the hour of Temptation and Tryal for some which Peter spake of and the Author of that Epistle to the Hebrews spake of who had tasted of the good Word of God and of the Power of the World to come and was clean escaped the Polutions of the World through the true Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour these were again intangled and overcome with Sin to the seperating of their Souls from God and so their Last End was worse than their Beginning for better had it been for us if we had not known the Way of the Lord if after we have known it we turn from the holy Commandment for now is God putting a difference between Cattel and Cattel and between the Sheep and the Goats and Wo to them that dig deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord whose work is in the Dark saying No Eye may see them So consider ye that be for a wide and easie Way that do the Work overly and slightly at home so must you needs do it abroad they that pity not the good in themselves but can live at ease in the Flesh above the Cross of Christ which would mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh such be apt to pity and take part with the bad in others and so the Root of Bitterness which bears Gall and Wormwood springs up apace to the defiling of many for their Vine is of the Vine of Sodom and of the Fields of Gomorrah their Grapes are Grapes of Gall and their Clusters are Bitter And this is the Fruit of that Evil Root and Spirit that is risen up in opposition to the Lord and his holy Will and Way this day who be in the Willfulness and Presumption calling those things that be Good Evil and Idols and as Jeroboam's Calf which be nothing else but Effects of that good which is in the Power and such be as the strong Oaks of Bashan whom the Lord with his stormy Wind and Tempest will break to pieces and come upon them as upon Morter and as the Potter when he treadeth Clay and then shall ye know ye have sinned against the Lord in with standing and slandering his Servants as Apostates and so your Wells will be without Water and your Cloudes without Rain from the Lord your Root will be dried up from beneath and your flourishing Branches which be but in the mixture and not truly grafted into the living Vine they shall wither you shall be as when a Hungry man dreameth he eats but when he awakes he is still Hungry and his Soul within him hath still Appetite or as when a Thirsty man dreameth he drinks but when he awakes he is still Thirsty so shall they all be whatever they have known or seen that fight against Mount Sion for Corah

and his Company who cryed Are not all the Lord's People Holy every one of them Wherefore then do ye Moses and Aaron take so much upon you as to lift up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord These were famous men men of Renown in the Congregation and it was themselves that loved to have the Preheminence which they charged upon that Meek man whom God honoured and they were usurping the Priesthood which the Lord had given to Aaron These men I say doubtless had seen great things and were men of Understanding which made them honourable in the Eyes of the People but they being puffed up in the fleshly Mind and having darkned themselves with Belial's Spirit who is a King over all the Children of Pride they said to Moses Wilt thou put out the Eyes of this People and charged him as a Lyar in the face of the Congregation without all fear of God in their Hearts Moreover said they thou hast not brought us into a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey They would fain have been there to satisfie their Lusts with the good things thereof whilst they were unfit to partake of them And as I was considering what would be the End of these men who obey not the Gospel whither will they lead their Followers who have not the Lord to lead them but even into the Pit and Ditch of Darkness and Miery Places out of which the Lord in his manifold Mercies hath plucked our feet for they be not for Justice that they esteem harsh and bitter like Wormwood And these words came fresh into me from the Lord to send amongst you This is a People Robbed and Spoiled they are snared in Holes and shut up in Prison-Houses they are for a Prey and none saith Restore for a Spoile and they themselves do not say Deliver And against such the Testimony of Truth is But as for such who mean well and forbear the doing of things because they see them not and be kept simple in their Minds out of the Emnity the Lord will teach such and guide them in the way he would have them to go and to such God he knows my Heart is tender I judge them not but leave them to the God of Mercy and Judgment And let none be content with Sights or Visions of God only for Judas Saul and Balaam and many others had that whose Hearts and Ears were not Circumcised nor right before the Lord for man may see great things whilst himself is yet afar off from him who is the Root and Giver of all good as Paul saith 1 Cor. 13.1 Though I understood all Mysteries though I have the Gift of Prophecy though I have all Faith so that I could remove Mountains though I spake with the Tongue of men and Angels and have not Charity I am but as a sounding Brass and tinkling Cimbal being out of that more Excellent Way read Ezek. 16. also being not subjected down thereunto in the daily Cross with that that comes there-from Man will soon be puffed up as a Bubble and become as a wandring Star from his own Station and Order for man being not subjected down into the true Love to the Giver he will vaunt himself as if he bore the Root or had something which he had not received and so play the Prodigal until Want and Famine comes upon him And here is the great Idolatry and spiritual Whoredom when People run out with God's Gift to Sacrifice upon the Mountains without the Leadings and Conduct of the great Captain of Salvation whose Leadings are alwayes in the living Path of Self-denyal until down into the Humility Self be humbled and made of no Reputation and so is the Eye kept waking and the living Keeper and Shepherd that never slumbers nor sleeps comes to be seen Eye to Eye and the Eye that sees him is satisfied and its Lise and Clearness of Sight is in his Presence and all that work here and walk here stumble not neither do they labour in vain or spend their Strength for nought for they be Workers together with God and be the Wise Builders as Paul was for the Lord is the Builder of the sure House and City which hath the Everlasting Foundations which John the beloved Disciple gives a Relation of when he was in the Holy Spirit of Self-denyal on the Lord's Day where Christ was his Root and Offspring his First and his Last who bid him Fear not I am he that was dead and am alive and behold I live for evermore and I have the Keys of Hell and Death And I do desire all that be newly convinced that you keep your living Thirst and Pantings after the living God alive in you and be not satisfied with any other thing besides the flowing-forth of the sincere Milk of the Word and the goings-forth of that River which parteth it self into many Streams from the spiritual Eden of God to the watering of the Souls of the weary Followers and Flock of God this is the ancient River even that ancient River the River of God and the Brook in the Way which Enoch and all the weary Travellers drank of and so lifted up their Heads and their Bow was renewed in their Hand and their Arm was strengthned by the Arm of the Mighty God of Jacob thence is the Shepherd the Stone of Israel and the sure Foundation for the Righteous to build upon throughout all Generations for they be not the Foolish Builders raising their Structure with Hay or Stubble Silver or Gold or any such thing for they hear the Word and keep it they know the Word and do it and so be the Wise Builders and so their holy Building and House the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against So go not forth nor journey not whist the Cloud is upon the Spiritual Tabernacle until you see the Cloud removed and it going before you to find you out a Resting-Place and as Joshua said to Israel of old concerning the Shadow of this Spiritual Ark Joshua 3.4 so may I say to you Let there be a space between you and it that you may know the Way you should go for you have not passed this Way heretofore and so the Fire in Sion and the Furnace of the Lord in Jerusalem ye shall know to your Good and not Hurt who love him above all even to take away the Bad which hath seperated the Soul from the chief Good and when he whets his glittering Sword and causes his holy Hand to take hold on Vengeance and when he layes his Ax to the Root of the Evil Tree to cut it down into this Consuming Fire if thou now be patient and bear the Indignation of the Lord for Sin out of the Furnace will he bring thee as Gold and nothing shall be consumed but that which cannot dwell with the Lord nor ascend into his Holy Hill and here to pass through Death will be thy Life thy Poverty Riches and thy Loss thy exceeding Gain and great Reward for thou shalt fear the Lord and his Goodness and thy Heart shall be enlarged greatly and lifted up in his holy Way because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee the Glory of that goodly Mountain Lebanon even so spiritually wherein dwelt thy Enemy afore-time shall be given to thee with the Excellency of Carmel and Sharon But now run not out with the Flashes that come as Lightning out of the East into the West but keep down in Humility and Simplicity and the Lord will teach the Simple and the living Springs will he guide the Meek in Judgment Oh Friends it is the Humble that give the Glory to the God of Israel for all his Benefits and that render back again to him according as from him they have received and to them will he shew his Wonders in the deep he will beautifie them with Salvation and make them exceeding glad with the Light of his Countenance When David was in the deep Poverty crying unto the Lord then did he hear and help him and shewed him great things to wit How the Angels of the Lord pitched their Tents about the Fearers of the Lord and the Thousands of Angels were his Charriots wherewith he fought and prevails forever against his Enemies who touch and grieve his hidden Ones And how did Jacob see the Host of God's holy Angels and God himself calling and speaking to him out of Heaven in the Day of his great Distress when he wrestled with him and made Supplication to him And when the Prophet's Servant in Dothan had the Eye of his Understanding opened that is shut in the Proud and Haughty then he saw the Mountain full of Horses of Fire and Charriots of Fire round about Elisha And the Apostle who from a good Experience exhorted so much to Self-debasement and a Dying daily he said in that great Danger by Sea that he was in The Angel of the Lord whose he was stood by him to counsel and comfort him And when before Nero he was brought no man stood by him but the Lord only and he strengthned him and he was delivered out of the Mouth of the Lyon And so as thy Ear is open to the living Shepherd's Voice of thy Soul and his Precepts and Statutes with the Judgments by thee being observed and not put away from thee nor slighted thy Eye shall not be dim but it shall be by the Lord held watching and the Commands shall be to thee Life and the Precepts of the Lord will be pure rejoycing thy Heart and opening thy Understanding and him that is true thou shalt see and no Evil shall come nigh thy Dwelling and as Christ said to them that kept his Sayings they should never see Death but they being given up as a whole Burnt-Offering into the holy Will where is the holy Flames of Love that many Waters cannot quench they shall see Life and Immortality brought to light and so come to be clothed upon with their Holy House from Heaven as the Unholy House of the Wicked is broken down and destroyed H. W. THE END