Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	2,581	5	9.6972	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64240	Impostor magnus, or The legerdemain of Richard Delamain now preacher in the city of Hereford. Being a narrative of his life and doctrine since his first coming into that county. Faithfully collected and published by one that will assert the truth of each particular. Yay.	Taylor, Silas, 1624-1678.	1654 (1654)	Wing T553A; ESTC R219169	24,689	35

licentiousness and prophanness for if we were not bound to keep close to a known rule but left at liberty to follow the dictates of our own carnal appetites to live and practise accordingly if religion be some thing at large not bounded or bonded if it were only in this or that mans particular liberty and in pretence to become all things to all men and this liberty to be explained by the respective owners and pretenders then sarewell to the very genuine sense of the word Religion and to all civil society to oppose them in their wicked wils is an infringement of their liberty and what can be else expected but a meer confusion in Government and propriety which is his longed for expectation knowing the best fishing is in the muddiest waters But that I may not long detain you from a Sermon which I know you expect from our profound Doctor though as yet no Minister for Crab-like he crawled backwards into these degrees first a Preacher and afterwards as he saith ordained I shall here present you with the Sceleron of one of his Sermons which your imagination may help out because having such rich conceits and far fetched novelties for the bare-heads you may easily believe the covering was not much different he believes not the litteral meaning of the Scripture and therefore allegorizeth the three first verses of the third Chapter of Matthew whence he would have us note that the voice of John the Baptist crying in the wilderness was the incomes of God into the wilderness of men That those Incomes of God 1. Do make the ascension of Christ within us for Christ is dead and buried in the Soul till these Incomes come 2. Are an exceeding weight of glory 3. Are a Soul-saving glory 4. Do set a Christian on the shoulders of Christ and then he may see compleatly 5. Do bless the Soul 6. Do deliver the Soul 7. Do deaden all things to the Soul beside God so that nothing but the Lord shall live there Then makes some shift I know not how to fall aboard with heaven and tells you if you can understand him for I confess I cannot That Heaven is an estate of God nothing to be seen but God and when thus I see God then Heaven is manifested It contents a carnal Christian to have Heaven without and Christ without c. but a spiritual Christian looks for God within and heaven within That there is no heaven but in the hearts of the Godly Hogs-wash nor hell but in the Hearts of the wicked so that a man converted is hell changed into heaven That Hell fire is nothing but the Spirits consuming and burning up of Lusts c. Now I hope for my repetition I shall be excused from my Exposition and how would you have me expound that which I do not understand I confess my ignorance and will leave it to that generation whom he imagines have a more glorious dispensation above Scriptures and Ordinances or else to some that understand him for he knew no other death burial or ascention of Christ nor heaven nor hell but in the Soul and how can you expect other from him At other times that he might shake and overturn the basis and foundations of the Faith once delivered to his Disciples it was his use in his familiar and private converse to low the seed of the Doctrine of the Seekers from that place of Scripture If ye are risen with Christ Col. 3.1 seek the things that are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of his Father making the whole intention and scope of the holy Spirit a notional Allegory and holding out from thence that in matters of Doctrine and Tenents there was nothing certain especially what was at any distance from his way and that indeed was his practise with his Neophytes or Novices to preach to them of shakings of Mount Slon and Sinai and what is written by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews yet once more and I shake not only the earth but the Heavens you may easily interpret it his way considering his design of beating Christians off from duties and his imagination of the locallity of heaven and earth to be the souls and hearts of people by this he endeavored to shake men from off their confidence in Scripture-rule or way then putting them upon a seeking way and to whom should such as were thus in their foundations shaken have recourse but to such as were able to shake them and so as it was said of the Pharisees of old may be said of our new one Math. 23. that they compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when he is made they make him twofold more the childe of hell then themselves When he had tempered them to this pass they were sit subjects to receive any impression and then he makes known to them that there are nor either three or two persons in the God-Head and was much offended at the word Trinity not understanding that it signified a Three but it is the practise of Impostors to speak evil of those things which they know not Jude not minding what the Scripture saith that there are three which bare record in Heaven the Father the Word and the holy-Holy-Ghost 1 Joh. 5.7 and these three are one here is Trinity in Unity but it is no marvel that he that spake so slightly of the God Head should deny the holy Trinity he that dare contrary to the plain words of the Scripture which saith God is light and in him is no darkness at all belch out this blasphemy That God is darkness and prosecute his horrid positions with pretended reason and with telling his reprovers they wanted understanding can you imagine he would stick at any eeror yet favor him a little further and he will tell you Christ is Faith and Christ is Repentance That the world sees Christ till the Spirit comes and then the light of the Spirit puts out the eye of the world That external administrations shall be shortly abolished That the body shall not rise again and that the humane nature of Christ did not rise again he may as well say so as deny the history contrary to those places of Scripture which affirm Christs resurrection and plainly say that Christ is now risen from the dead and become the first fruits of those that slept and those many undenyable arguments wherewith the Apostle Paul doth syllogize the Corinthians into an understanding and belief of the resurrection 1 Cor. 15. in the fifteenth Chapter of his first Epistle He commends to their readings the inexplicable Treatises of Chimital Divinity written by the German Doctor Behmen therein admiring what neither Writer Reader or Hearer could understand or make sense of much applauding his Tincture his Ignis fatuus and Turba magna Reader these were all as simple as they stand here terms of Divinity there was another such-piece of extasied non-sense written by a