Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41575	An antidote against the common plague of the world, or, An answer to a small treatise (as in water, face answereth to face) intituled Saltmarsh returned from the dead and by transplacing the letters of his name, this is Smartlash : ascend into the throne of equity, for the arraignment of false interpretours of the word of God : summoned out of all ages to appear, under the penalty of death, challenging the consent, or forbidding to gainsay the common approved priesthood of this age.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1305; ESTC R24349	253,337	351

and affairs which themselves are freed from so that they only may be drawn out in prayer as a continned act office trade or calling belonging only in that point unto them as their peculiar calling and office this is a false pretence and meer colour and deceitful gloss set upon prayer to beguile the world when men ingross the holy and free spirit of supplication monopolizing it unto themselves by denying the rest of the Saints of God to injoy it in like extent and by as just and good right in the exercise of it continually and as not being of like concernment in every one of the godly as it is or ever was in any one or as thongh others of the Saints stood not so near unto God therein nor came into the holy of holyest by virtue of office as themselves do This is a meer pharisaical and hippocritical deceit concerning praying to delude the world namely to draw out prayer as a continned act and exercise and to be of more concernment in some mens calling then in others of the people of God for the spirit of intercession is of like virtue extent and concernment when and in whomsoever it doth appear otherwise the bloud of sprinkling should not be of like virtue to speak the same good thing in one of the Saints of God as it doth in another for it is the same eternal spirit by which he offereth up himself without spot unto God Hebr. 12. 24 Hebr. 9. 14 in all as one and in one as all And by this pharisaical and hypocritical deceit is the widows house devoured for whosoever he be that sets himself by office nearer to God then the rest of his brethren that man must of necessity exclude and shut them out of that holy place of Gods habitation and dwelling which is that state and faith of the Lord Jesus that habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes 2. 22. and so defrauds the desolate of that plentiful supply which God hath appointed for all such as come unto him by enterposing himself between God and them for he that sets one Saint of God nearer unto God then another he devours and spoils the habitation of God that is he corrupts the state of the Lord Jesus in which holy habitation God is only a father to the fatherless and a Judge of the widow For therein and not elsewhere is he become their head and only Lordship there is he their protection and defence there is he their provision and bountiful supply there is he their only instruction and instructour and there and not elsewhere is he that happy multiplication and multiplier of himself in all those fruits of righteousness which are of God by Jesus Christ Rom. 7. 4. Philip. 1. 11. Therefore Christ saith in opposing these false interpreters to all true disciples be not ye called Rabbi for one is your master even Christ or yet have one mastership even that unction which teacheth you all things John 2. 20. Hebr. 8. 11. and ye are all brethren or ye are all one brotherhood that is equal in any point of dignity and call no man father on the earth for one is your father in heaven You are not the off-spring of any earthly progenitour but are the royal seed of heaven and have alike fatherly authority in your selves to produce a like posterity therefore he saith he that is greatest among you shall be your servant that is the greatest dignity in any of the Saints is to be a servant unto all the Saints therefore did the Lord of all wash the disciples feet and wiped them with the towel wherewith he had girded himself to give them an example of performing the like service John 13. So Christ saith to the disciples Whether is greater he that fitteth at meat or he that serveth is not he that ●itteth at meat but I am among you as he that serveth Luke 2● 27. 1. He then whosoever he be that in pretence of being exalted by the word of God into place and office above any of the servants of God that is such servants as are the Lords freemen 1 Cor. 7. 22. that man is a false interpreter of the word of God yea an hypocritical scribe and pharisee it is he that loves the uppermost seat in the synagogue for it is not the sitting in any seat but the love of a high seat that he may appear as the nearest to God in all acts of worship and to come more immediately from God in all his commands and exortations then any of his brethren Matth. 23. 6. These are they that devour the widows houses by setting themselves nearer to God then others and thereby shut the desolate out of the place of Gods holy habitation where only the Lord is the present and full supply of them Psalme 68. 5. 2. These are they who loved the uppermost roomes at feasts as being the proper cause of all festivity they being the only instruments of peace the procurers of plenty and chief cause of the joyful condition of the people and so interpose themselves between God and such as are in plenty also that the praise may redound unto them and so deprive God of his glory in their deceiving of the people Matth. 23. 6. 3. These are they that love greeting in the market place and to be called of men Rabbi Rabbi Matth. 23. 7. they love to be honoured as masters and lords of the market that is of all commerce and trade not only between man and man but also between God and man and so in the feasts also for who must be an instrument to feast th● soul but only they and who must rejoyce and sing when they see cause of mourning this point is not only practised amongst them who are raised b● the help and addition of school-divinity to their natural spirit for it is evident amongst these Indians the Barbarians amongst whom we live for if any of the superiours mourn if there be found any of the inferiours rejoycing if he escape with his life it is much if it be not taken away by one means or other But these must be masters and lords of the market also in that they appoint the place the time the manner of commerce for weights measures kinds of coyn with the value of it keepers of the peace quieters and stillers of the people and he that keeps not time comes to the place holding weight and measure acknowledging the rates and valuation set by elders of church or state that man is a sinner culpable of punishment what are they then who love to be called lord ●ord but such as are nearer God then others stand in the place of God which the rest of their brethren do not these devour the habitation of the widow by shutting the desolate out of Gods holy habitation where he hath related himself alike unto all in that judgement which he pass th upon all of them whose first husband the law of the carnal