Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	life_n	power_n	13,082	5	5.0974	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60647	The nevv-creation brought forth, in the holy order of life wherein the immortal birth is revealed, and the precious pearl, out of the mixture extracted ... / from ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4320; ESTC R2552	40,012	52

the Eternal Word in the Wisdom make Man in his own Image and breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul and the Lord God filled him with Wisdom and Understanding and gave him Dominion over all the Works of his Hands and Man in the Wisdom of God ruled over them all he stood in the Wisdom and received Counsel and had his Way in the Holy Life he walked in the Paradise of Pleasure and fed upon the Tree of Life he lived in still communion with his God and his living Soul stood in his living Virtue and the Breath of Life was alwayes reaching to it he was in the pure Oneness with God that made him and the Image of the Holy Life was upon him and he was in the Power Wisdom and Strength of God and bare the Image in Righteousness and true Holiness without any mixture and all things stood clear in the Separation as they were created and there was no mixture to defile Then did the Wisdom behold his Work and lo it was very good in his sight and he had great pleasure and delight therein and his Mercy Love Goodness and Tenderness was to it and his Blessings and Peace was upon it and Man enjoyed the living Presence of his Maker and did partake of his Love Mercy Blessing and Peace he had a free course unto the Well-spring of Life and there was nothing stood in his way to let him so the Breath of Life was breathed and in it the Soul lived and was in perfect unity with it and this came into Man through the Wisdom of the Creator according to his own pleasure and as it seemed good in his own sight it was not a thing from without but the pure operation of the Power and Wisdom within after he had formed an earthly Body and brought forth a visible Creation that he might fill it with his heavenly Treasure and with his Holy Life which in his Wisdom he breathed into it and brought forth the Man in his own Image and there was no mixture in his Life and Being which is the earthly bodies Nature and it is a Compounded Vessel yet so prepared and formed in the Wisdom as to be a Vessel for the Incorruptible Image of Life which had its course through it and filled it with its heavenly Being and there was no mixture of the Earthly in it And this was the Man that was made after God in Righteousness and true Holiness and bare his Image in perfect Glory and the Body was prepared to be a Vessel fit for his own use who made it that he might fill it with his Pure Holy Life which he breathed into it in his Wisdom whereby Man became a living Soul and bare the Heavenly Image and here Man stood in obedience to the Father of Spirits who had made him a spiritual holy righteous Man and fed him with spiritual holy Food and Man had no will nor desire after any Creature but stood in the Eternal Will and ruled over all the Creatures and his desire was to enjoy the Holy Life in which he was generated and brought forth and what he desired to partake of in the Life it was ministred unto him according to the good Pleasure of the Creator in whom he had his Life and Breath and lived in the pure Enjoyment of the Eternal Being in which he was daily comforted and continually satisfied and in this state no Sin or Evil was committed by him nor no Curse reached him nor no Death was upon him nor no Grave did hold him nor no Wrath went forth against him but in the Mercy he liued and Mercy was his portion and his delight was in his Maker and with him he walked day and night and he had Liberty in Paradise without Restraint and the Tree of Life he had free course unto and the Cherubims and flaming Sword were not set to fence it So was Man created in Righteousness and served God in Righteousness and lived in the Life of Righteousness and he was not in the mixture of any Unrighteous thing but was created in the Wisdom of God and bare the Image of God which drew its Breath and Life from the holy Fountain of its Generation and stood in the Eternal Essence of the Divine Nature and so did the Everlasting God of Wisdom Power and Strength bring forth his own Work in which his own Name was glorified and then he rested from ill the Works that he had made CHAP. II. The state of Man in the Degeneration and also the Serpents Working VVHen the Pure Creation was finished in the Eternal Power and Wisdom it rested in the Holy Order of Life and was in the Pure Harmony and Oneness with the Creator and there should have rested in the Holy Order and not have moved ●●t in the Power and Wisdom of Life but there was a part which did not keep its station but moved out of the Wisdom and wake the Order and did aspire towards the Equallity of the Holy Essence for which cause it was cast down by the Power and driven into the lowest parts of the Creation and was there to have its place and habitation at the furthest distance from God and his Anger kindled against it and he drove it down in his Anger and his Wrath abides upon it and it is sealed down in the Anger and Wrath without recovery and this is the place of that part which kept not in the holy Order of the pure Creation but aspired to have been equal with the Power and his name is Serpent the Devil and his place is Hell the bottomless Pit where the Almighty God exerciseth his Wrath without ceasing because through the Aspiring the Creation went out of its holy Order in which it was created good and in which it should have rested with God and have had its Order in his Power and Wisdom and when this Aspiring Part was cast down into the Lowest Part it became beastly carthly sensual and devilish and was more subtil than any Beast of the Field and having now lost his place in the Pure Creation and cast down in the Separation where the Almighties Wrath was exercised upon him without ceasing and he was alwayes in the Torment of the Anger and Wrath which sealed him down without recovery then did he labour with his Subtilty to draw out of order that which yet did keep its station and order and to beget a motion out of the moving of the Power and the Lord God having given a Command unto Man in the day that he put him into Paradise and charged him Not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye saith the Lord God which the Serpent knowing and having in his fall seen through the Creation he attempted the Woman because she was nearest unto Man being given as one meet to be an help unto him and being also the weaker part of the Creation

Inheritance it was with Moses and in it he led forth the Inheritance of God out of Egypt it was with David and in it his Horn was exalted it was with Job and in it he was redeemed and knew his Redeemer lived it was with Isaiah and in it he saw a Child born and a Son given it was with Malachy and in it he saw the Separation and the Fewel out of the Mixture it was with John and in it he saw the Lamb of God and did behold the Glory of the only Begotten of the Father And this pure Light of the holy Seed of Life hath had its course through all Generations and hath been made manifest through the several Dispensations and Administrations as it hath pleased the Father of Spirits and they that did believe in it did not abide in darkness nor did not continue satisfying the lustful desire of the fleshly part but were Regenerated through the effectual working of the power whereby they became dead to Sin and alive to God and were born of the holy Seed which made them holy Men and with it they were filled and divinely inspired and then they testified of its Power and it was the same thing unto them all and neither changed its quality nor property though diversly it manifested it self and all the holy Men of God that gave forth the Scriptures they had the Name in the Nature of the holy Seed and were born of it through the Regeneration and this was a work that was wrought before Scriptures were written and was the same work in them that writ the Scriptures and it hath been the same in Generations since the Scriptures were written and it is the work of Christ the holy Seed and it is proper unto him alone to regenerate and make a New Man and no man can add to the work of Regeneration for it is an Inward work wrought by an Invisible Power that no mortal Eye can behold And this work at this day is witnessed amongst a Remnant whom he hath chosen to be his own Peculiar People and as Man turns to the Light of Christ in his own Conscience it will open his own Condition to him and make manifest every secret thing that the Serpent hath begotten and drawn his Life into and it will clearly discover unto a Mans understanding that they are evil and sinful and as he mindeth the Light and obeyeth it it will lead him out of the Evil that it maketh manifest unto him and thus far Man is convinced and also converted Then the Serpent begins to make war and lahours to hold Man in those things which he hath begotten in him but as Man joyns to the Light he will receive strength to stand against him and also to overcome him for after a Man is convinced and also converted and turned to the Light then he enters into a great fight of Afflictions and hath a sore Conflict to passe thorow as he abides faithful before he get the Serpent under his feet and after Conversion the Serpent besets Man sore and laboureth with all his might to stop him in his travel so that Man is sometimes kept by the subtil working of the Serpent and cannot readily get on nor clearly cast off those things which be is turning from in obedience to the Light but is still ●ept by the Serpent who labours to save his head from bru●ing and the way that he hath to do it is to draw Man into the Reasoning and there to consult how it will be with him if he wholly give up and deny those things that he is convinced of and also turning from and what will be the end if he part with them And here have many felt the Dragons war against the Innocent Lamb that hath been travelling for Freedom from under the Corruptible things which have oppressed his Innocent Life and Man hearkning to the Serpent and entering into Reasoning and Consulting the Serpeut keeps the Vail over him and then shews what great losse it will be unto him if he go on to deny all those things that he is convinced of to be evil and is turning from and also perswades him that if he should follow the Light unto the end and part with all for it yet it is not sufficient to save him and under this Vail many stumble at the Light and draw back and follow no further though for a time they have in some things been obedient and this is the Man that loves something more than Christ and cannot part with his own Life for the gain of Life Eternal And thus doth the old Serpent work for the safety of his Kingdom but through his strong holds have many broken and from his bonds they are loosed in the power of the Light which being minded and obeyed it doth convert Mans mind from the thing that is Evil and ariseth in its power to judge it and condemn it and upon the Crosse to crucisie it so that Man dyeth unto it and it dyeth in Man and as a Drunkard mindeth the Light and obeyeth the Light when it doth convince him that Drunkenness is Sin it will lead him out of Drunkenness and destroy that work of darkness and take away Mans Life in it And this is the Work of Christ who is made manifest to destroy the work of the Devil and to burn it up with unquenchable fire that he thereby may set Man free from under the burden of all Corruptible things and whatever it is that the Serpent hath generated in Man since the beginning and drawn Mans heart to lust after the Light which was in the beginning in which is no sin but pure and undefiled it doth appear against it and also every lustful desire that hath its rejoycing in it and it brings it down with a stroak of severe Judgment and as Man in the Light believeth even so doth it work and appear in its power to destroy every Lust in which the Serpent hath dominion over Man and in which he makes war against the Soul and as Man denies himself and takes up the Crosse and follows the Light faithfully he becomes a dying man and the Power separateth between the Precious and the Vile and then He will be felt whose Fan is in his hand and the Fire will be known which burns up the Chaff and as Man abides this Day and keeps in the Righteous Judgment the Old Man will be crucisied and all his Deeds consumed and neither Prophaness nor seeming shew of Godliness shall stand in the Judgment but the Tallest must come down and the Strongest must bow for the Fire will not spare but through the Earth will passe and that which is of the Earth must burn and none can quench and Man abiding this Day and keeping in the Patience Judgement will be brought forth unto Victory and Man will come forth dead to himself and alive in Christ and so will come to know that Christ worketh that Work which no other can do and