Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	spirit_n	word_n	write_a	2,319	5	11.0747	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45469	To the right honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and his councell of warre the humble addresse of Henry Hammond.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing H606; ESTC R200396	14,448	20

To the Right Honourable THE LORD FAIRFAX AND His COUNCELL OF VVARRE THE HVMBLE ADDRESSE OF HENRY HAMMOND LONDON Printed for Richard Royston in Ivie-lane 1649. My Lord and Gentlemen HAving by the Weekly occurrences of your proceedings not onely taken notice of the weighty matters which you have of late chosen to be the subject of your Debates such as never any Councell in this Kingdome are known to have taken into their cognizance or consideration but withall discern'd the cheerfull and hospitable reception of one meane Persons advice which pretended to have received some counsell from God to communicate to you And having also as sincere a desire and zeale to your good testified by my daily prayers to God that he will incline your hearts to thoughts of true Christian meeknesse and charity and consequently as deep an interest in the due management of your Affaires as any others and as great an assurance that what I shall say to you proceeds from a peaceable and an humble spirit and which tends more immediately to your welfare and honour both before God and man than any thing which is knowne of late to have been represented to you And lastly having among you some of the neerest of my bloud whose eternall weale must needs be very deare and pretious to me I am in the feare of God and the prosecution and discharge of my duty and conscience desirous to make this short addresse to you to desire you in the name and in the bowels of Jesus Christ and by all the obligations of Christian duty and Charity to review some of the principles by which you seem to be acted and whereon to ground the high enterprises which you have now in hand And 1. whereas you seem to believe that God by his Spirit hath put it into your hearts to do what hitherto you have done and what now you professe to deliberate to doe further against His Majesty and all others who are now fallen into your hands I beseech you to consider in the presence of that God to whose directions and Spirit you pretend what safe ground you have for so doing For I shall suppose that the plaine words of Scripture are not that voice of the Spirit which is your onely guide in this matter or if it be I desire that Charity from you for my selfe and others that you will point us out those Scriptures and I must professe to believe you bound in duty to God and man and to your selves to satisfie this desire to produce that voice of the Spirit in the received Scriptures of God which may say that to other Christians also which it appeares to doe to you But if Gods Spirit be by you conceived to have spoken to you any other way than in or by some part of the written Word then my second request is that you will declare to others the ground of this your perswasion that you have received any such Revelation from God that so that pretended Spirit may according to the rules prescribed by God in his acknowledged Word be tried and examined regularly whether it be of God or no before the subject-matter of such Revelation be believed infallible or accordingly built upon by you as your warrant or principle of acting any thing For there are evill Spirits that come into the world and which many times are by God permitted to seduce men and that they may doe so the better they constantly pretend to come from God and assume divine Authority to recommend and authorize their delusions a thing so ordinary in all Ages that the Poet that would expresse the Imbroyling of a Kingdome thinks he cannot doe it better then by bringing in Alecto a Fury with a Message from Heaven to avenge such or such an injury And of these our Saviour forewarns us and tells us that we shall know them by their fruits and so directs us to judge of the truth of their pretensions by the goodnesse and commendablenesse at least justifiablenesse of their actions and not to judge of their actions by their pretences And besides these evill spirits from without there is also an evill spirit within a great deale of disguised wickednesse in the heart of man which when it remaines unmortified in those who believe themselves to be Gods chosen Saints and taught by him is very apt to be mistaken for an inclination of Gods Spirit and a flame of zeale when it is really the most contrary to it and because there is so much danger that what is not fetcht from the acknowledged Word of God may thus flow from one of these contrary principles my next request is that it be considered whether when an Angel from Heaven in case he should teach any other Doctrine than what had been by Saint Paul preached to his Galathians were-to be anathematized and when the judgments are so fearfull which are pronounced against them which shall adde to the Words of that Prophesie which we now reteine under the title of the Apocalyps or Revelation which being the last Writing which is knowne to be dictated by the Spirit may very probably conteine a severe denuntiation against all those who pretend to any Revelation or Prophesie after that concerning the Christian Church whether I say it be not a matter of fear and just apprehension to all those who shall affix or impose upon the Spirit of God or pretend to be revealed to them from that any matter of Doctrine or Practice which acknowledges not the Spirit of God speaking in the Scripture for its onely warrant or foundation Or lastly if from the Scriptures you conceive it may be proved that any part of the Vnction mentioned there so farre belongs to you that it shall surely lead you into all truth then first I beseech you to consider whether you doe not oblige your selves by the same or some other Scripture to prove to others and not onely your selves to be perswaded that you are those speciall Saints of God to whom that priviledge peculiarly belongs and as clearly to demonstrate that all others who conceive that that Unction teaches them directly the contrary to that which you professe to be taught by it are impious Persons possest with that deluding Spirit which I now desire you to beware of And secondly to examine whether this differencing of your selves from others this bearing witnesse to your selves and judging others beside that it will looke like an act of most Pharisaicall presumption and the very thing which from Simon Magus downward hath been observed in all Hereticks calling themselves the Spirituall and all others Animal carnall Men will not be also a great injustice at this time toward them who pretend not to learne any thing from this Unction but what they receive from the Doctrine of the Gospel in those Books which have in effect and in the last result the testimony of God from Heaven that they are his true infallible Word and dictate of his Spirit and which desire to