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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	life_n	sin_n	23,565	5	4.8832	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52179	A loving invitation, and a faithful vvarning to all people, who believe they must give an account to the righteous God for the deeds done by them in the flesh that they speedily seek to make their peace with the living God, who made them, before the stroak of his justice come upon them, which is the breathing of my life, even to all who resort unto, or be separated from the House of Rimmon, but are not yet truly come to own the seed of life, the light of Christ in their consciences, to be their teacher, and so to believe in it, as they may be saved by it / by Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M931; ESTC R15731	8,619	15

A Loving Invitation And A FAITHFUL VVARNING TO ALL PEOPLE Who believe they must give an Account to the Righteous GOD for the Deeds done by them in the Flesh That they speedily seek to make their Peace with the Living GOD who made them before the Stroak of his Justice come upon them Which is the Breathing of my Life even to All who Resort unto or be Separated from the House of RIMMON But are not yet truly come to own the Seed of Life the LIGHT of CHRIST in their Consciences to be their Teacher And so to believe in it as they may be saved by it By MARTIN MASON LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand A Loving Invitation And A FAITHFUL VVARNING TO ALL PEOPLE My Friends ALthough you have not yet put on the Wedding-Garment yet can I freely give this friendly Title to you for I have nothing but bowels of Love and unfeigned Affections in my bosom for you that in Gods appointed time his Light may be the Leader of you and a Saviour to you from all your sins 'T is Satans design to keep the Soul in sin while it is in the body and that he may uphold his devilish kingdom for term of life he feeds man with a man hope of a Heaven after Death though he dye in sin and this is the Devis Master-piece to deceive the Simple with that Fools Paradice But know this No unclean thing can enter into Gols Kingdom And as the Tree falls so it lyes You cannot dye in sin and be crown'd Saints In the Grave there is no Repentance nor Redemption out of the Pit the Papists Purgatory cannot purifie you 't is a meer Imagination a cursed Invention of the Devil 's finding out that sinks many thousands into endless perdition Be no longer deceived God will not be mocked you cannot live the life of the Wicked and dye the death or have the Reward of the Righteous Mortifie therefore your members which are on the Earth all Uncleannesse inordinate Affections Lusts and Covetousnesse which is Idolatry You have but one thing in your which is your friend and that is the Righteous Seed which hath ever suffered by you and been suppressed in you but doth not resist you only as an innocent Lamb it bears its Testimony against you that your deeds are evil and that 's the reason why it is not regarded by you Is not he a Friend that in love and meekness layes your infirmities before you and not only so but sweetly gives good counsel to you Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you This is Gods living Witness which he hath placed in you to be a Light to shine within you a Guide and Leader of you out of the Pride Pollutions Pleasures and Vanities of the World a Staff to stay and strengthen you It is the Power of God unto Salvation to all that believe in it and are faithful and obedient to it It is the Armour of God wherewith the Followers of the Lamb make war against the Dragon By this the Saints overcome sin resist the Devil and batter down his kingdom Make tryal of it come put it on and wear it and be cloathed with it I have made proof of it and gives this Testimony for it I find it the only weapon which wounds the head of the wicked in me and overcomes him for me Glory glory unto Sions King for ever who is so good and gracious to me that hath given the Enemy of my Soul such a mortal wound within me that he is not able to overcome me for Michael my Prince is with me and fights valiantly for me day and night I feel his Presence with me the riches of his Mercies he daily showres upon me which all the sons of Adam are not able to take from me This is my joy this my comfort The Eternal God is within me I fell not his frowns no he smiles upon me and maketh my Prison as pleasant as a Palace to me And if I never speak or write word more this is my Testimony for the Light of Christ all your Consciences It is the tender love of the living God unto you I speak what I know to subdue and conquer sin which is the Devils kingdom for you and within you if in your hearts you love the Light believe in it be obedient to it and are willing to be guided by it There is no other Antidote against the poison of Sin but this Holy Seed there is no other Physician can cure you of this Leprofie but Israels Light This Balm of Gilead is the Soveraign Cure for a Wounded Conscience there 's none can heal you but he that smites you You that in any measure have got victory over some of your sins Consider seriously how you came by it Did you not receive strength zeal and power from a principle within you Felt you not a war in your hearts Was not your peace broken That which brake your peace began the war That which began the war against your wickedness was Michael my Prince Was it not he that wounded the Uncircumcised One within you who sought to lord it over you and to keep Lust alive in you Felt you not the sting of sin to arise from within you Had not sin its root or rise from the fleshly part or principle within you even in your hearts and was there not something that there wounded you and made your sin a heavie burden to you Walk'd you not heavily under its stroak for the sins which were committed by you And then did you not feel a loathing of sin begotten in you And was not Iniquity then a Burden to you Was there not a secret Power which rebuk'd the Tempter in you and was not this Power then sweet and precious to you that did thus in your distress master sin and overcome it for you Was not this an inward work and was not he your friend who did this for you and was he not within you Surely Satan would not weaken his own kingdom It was the Spirit of the Lord within you who did that good for you Let him not be forgotten but ever loved and honoured by you Look no longer out nor gaze no more about you but be assured God's Kingdom is within you and is Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost as the Scriptures plainly testifie unto you And shall God be kept any longer out of his Kingdom by you God is Light All Sin is Darkness and arises out of the heart of man and that 's within you So is the Light which shines in Darkness and for your sins is a Reprover of you and so must be till sin be subdued in you when that by him is done Christ is a Saviour to you but till then you must find him a Condemner of you And 't is not your flying to the Scriptures that can save you from the fire of his Wrath

when once it 's kindled in you nor in your heaviness take the burden from you nor overcome the least corruption for you No verily nothing then but a Christ within you can give the least dram of comfort to you Had you ten thousand Bibles with you in the time of your distress they would be nothing worth unto you if the Presence and Comfort of a Christ be taken from you I appeal to your very Consciences if this be not true which is here declared to you Come then O come with boldness unto God's faithful Witness within you and bear with patience the sentence which that shall passe upon you It must and will first or last be a Condemner of you but it will only reprove that which is for Condemnation in you You may believe me it will not flatter you nor indeed render your condition worse than it is with you but speak the mind of God in plainness to you and that 's the reason why it is now so little regarded by you bear I say in patience its gentle Reproofs within you it will but purifie and not destroy you Christ must first be known a Judge within you a Condemner of every idle thought word and deed before he be a Saviour to you let him be your Law-giver what he commands you in your Consciences that submit and be obedient to and he gives power if it be to part with your dearest Dalilah your bosom sins stoop unto and live in the Crosse to your crooked wills and take up the Crown for then he is a Saviour to you Be you but willing to part with that which grieves his righteous Soul and brings a weight upon you so shall you never want his Power to execute his Command to overcome and part with first one sin then another I speak my own experience Let but your crooked wills be subjected to Christs Crosse and then his Yoak is easie and his Burden light then will you run with chearfulness the race of his Commandments If ever man be otherwise justified by his Maker than by believing in Gods Covenant of Light which in the Conscience bears its Testimony against all Iniquity and leads those out of sin who are willing to forsake sin and believe in him and be guided by him then let me be for ever condemned from the presence of the righteous God This is the chief Corner-stone the Rock which every wise man builds upon This is that which the Learned Rabbies of this Ages and all outside peevish Professors stumble at and will not have to reign over them but make war against him and this is that which will grind them to pouder This is that Holy Seed which from righteous Abel to this very day hath ever been persecuted by Cains Brood who can do no better while they live in that persecuting nature This is that innocent Lamb who now suffers by the devouring Lions in most of the Prisons of this Nation in the Persecuted People called Quakers for not bowing to the will of man which speaks contrary to the Law of God Those are they who in all these Overturning times since they were turned to the righteous God who have been cryed up as Jesuitical the Spawn of the Papists Enemies to all Government Plotters Conspirators Rebels Traitors yet none of all this Trash ever was nor ever can be justly proved against them Who more peaceable in the Nation than this People who live in obedience to that just Principle of God within them whose Kingdom is not of this World and therefore with a carnal worldly weapon they neither do nor can sight for it Who does the Rage of the Heathen who know not God sooner reach or fall upon than this Innocent People Who does the young Nurseries of our English Rabbies yea those who should be taught better manners and use more manhood rail revile imprison and in many places of this Nation unreasonably wound abuse and persecute so much as this innocent harmless People who never yet could nor ever shall lift up a hand against their Enemies Tell me now O ye Professors of this Nation is not Innocency now counted for a Crime And what have you got by warring writing or bending your tongues against this People and their Principle Is not the Rod which many of you in the secret of your hearts prepared or desired might be laid upon them very near to come upon your selves Is it not just with the righteous God to let in this Flood upon you even for the secret malignity which lodged in many of your hearts against this People Hast hast I say into the Ark of God Else verily I see this Deluge will overtake you sink and drown you They who feared the Lord did gather and assemble themselves together and spake often one to another But this is now counted a Crime for this Innocent People to meet peaceably together in their own hired houses to wait upon the living God and as the Lord giveth utterance to edifie one another And Christ the Son of God said Swear not at and James his Apostle said Above all things my Brethren swear not But now 't is counted worthy of Imprisonment Confiscation of Goods and Banishment for the Children of God to be obedient to God in his fear to assemble together and wait upon him and not to Swear at all Is it not a sad thing that obedience to the living God should by the sons of men who would be counted Christians be thus taken for such a heinous Crime little lesse than Treason and so severely punished What think you of this Is Caesars Proclamation grounded upon Christs Religion or were they Christs friends who advised Caesar to take this course It is not a high breach of the Priviledges of Gods People Whom shall we obey herein God or man judge ye O ye wise in heart Behold and see all you that passe by Did ever any People suffer more innocently than we do at this day Because a handfull of rash inconsiderate men rise up against Caesar shall therefore the Sons of Innocency be numbred amongst Transgressors and thus undeservedly be proclaimed for Plotters O the hastiness of men and unadvisedness of such Counsellors verily they are Enemies to God and to his Kingdom the Lord forgive them O that they may see their Error and be ashamed If we now assemble together in Gods fear to wait upon him and cannot for Conscience-sake any Oath at all then Bonds to be sure are like to abide us next Confiscation of Goods and Imprisonment at Caesars pleasure if not Banishment to boot And if we submit to man herein we offend God Do you not see the Snare which unreasonable men have laid for the Innocent Do you not see Vice and Vanity abounds abroad and rants it with Impudence and Prophaness hath liberty while the Suns of Innocency God's harmless Flock are shut up in Prisons Were we of the World the World would love us for the World loves