Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	spirit_n	6,139	5	5.3448	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34991	An epistle of tender love and brotherly advice to all the churches of Christ throughout the world who are gathered into the one living faith, and walk in the light, and therein have their fellowship one with another. From a friend and brother in the same fellowship, who hath long travailed, and still travails for Zion's prosperity, and for the gathering Zion's children out of Egypt and darkness, that they may walk and dwell in the light of Zion's Saviour, which is Christ the Lord; whose outward name is Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing C6929; ESTC R215184	11,866	17

AN EPISTLE OF TENDER LOVE AND Brotherly Advice To all the Churches of Christ Throughout the World Who are gathered into the one Living Faith and walk in the Light and therein have their Fellowship one with another = From a Friend and Brother in the same Fellowship who hath long Travailed and still Travails for Zion's Prosperity and for the gathering Zion's Children out of Egypt and Darkness that they may walk and dwell in the Light of Zion's Saviour which is Christ the Lord Whose outward Name is Stephen Crisp Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1690. An Epistle of Tender Love and Brotherly Advice to all the Churches of Christ throughout the World c. DEarly beloved Friends and Brethren gathered out of the World by the Eternal Arm and Power of the mighty God to bear his holy Name in your Generation my Love and Life in the fellowship of the Universal Spirit salutes you all and my Prayer to God is you may be kept stedfast and unmoveable in the Grace of God and in the Communion of his holy Spirit that ye may bring forth Fruit in abundance according to the abundant Mercy and Grace bestowed upon you to the Glory of God and to your mutual Joy Comfort and Edification And that you may so do let your Eye be kept daily to the Lord and behold and take notice of the wondrous Works that he hath wrought in you and for you since the Day ye were first quickened by his immortal Word and stirred up to seek after him and to wait upon him how good and gracious he hath been to you in bringing you from the barren Mountains where your Souls-languished for the heavenly nourishment where you knew not the Lord nor one another but were without a Comforter or any to sympathize with you in your Mournings Oh how hath he pittied your Groanings and had Compassion on your Sighings and brought you into acquaintance with those that were in the like Exercises and then he taught you to believe on him that was able to help you And those that were thus taught of the Father and felt his drawing Cords of Love prevailing upon them these came to Christ their Saviour and in him began to feel a Unity one with another in the Faith you had received in him whereby you believed he would give you of his Spirit to teach and guide you in the way of Truth Righteousness and Peace and thus was the Foundation of your Holy Communion laid and a lively hope raised in each particular Soul that he that had begun this blessed Work would carry it on and this Hope made you that ye were not ashamed to make a publick profession of his Name before the World but cheerfully to take up his Cross and deny your selves of your former Pleasures Friendships and Delights of this world this Hope hath been your support in many sharp Tryals and bitter Combates you have had with the Enemy of your Soul's peace within and with the Enemies of God's holy Way and Truth without and in all your Conflicts you have found him nigh at hand to put forth his Power on your behalf as you have depended upon him for his assistance and by these Experiences of his goodness your Faith hath been strengthened and by the same Word of Life that quickened you many more have been reached unto so that you have seen a daily addition of strength in the perticular and also an addition to your number to your great Comfort and Incouragement and many have come to wait upon the Lord among you and many are daily Inquiring after the Way to Zion with their Faces thitherward These things are worth your Remembrance and serious Considerations that you may look upon these great Mercies as obligations upon your Souls to walk humbly before the Lord and to be devout and fervent in your Testimony for that God that hath done thus great things for you And Friends consider of the great Works that this mighty Arm of the Lord hath brought to pass in the general as well as in the particular how many Contrivances have been framed and Laws and Decrees made to lay you waste and to make you cease to be a People and how have the Wicked rejoyced thereat for a season crying Ah ha thus would we have it they are all now given up to Banishments to Imprisonments to Spoils and Ruins now let us see if that Invisible Arm they trust in can deliver them Oh Friends how hath your God been your support in the midst of all these Exercises and when he hath pleased how hath he quieted the sharpest Storms and turned back the greatest Floods and Torrents of Persecution that ever you met and how hath he confounded his and your Enemies and brought Confusion upon the Heads of them that sought your hurt Was not these things wrought by the Power of God Did your Number your Policy your Interest or any thing that might be called your own contribute any thing to these your great Preservations and Deliverances If not then let God have the Glory and Acknowledge to his praise These have been the Lord's doings and are marvellous in our Eyes Again Dear Friends consider how the Wicked One hath wrought in a Mystery among your selves to scatter you and to lay you waste from being a People as at this Day how many several ways hath he tryed raising up men of perverse minds to subvert and to turn you from the Faith and from the Simplicity that is in Christ Jesus our Lord and to separate you from that Invisible Power that hath been your strength and to seperate you one from another and by subtile Wiles to lead into a false Liberty above the Cross of Christ and sometimes by sowing Seeds of Heresie and Seditions indeavouring to corrupt the minds of whom they could with pernicious Principles but Oh how have their designs been frustrated and the Author 's thereof confounded and brought to nought and how have you been preserved as a Flock under the hand of a careful Shepherd even unto this day which ministers great cause of Thanksgiving unto all the Faithful who have witnessed the working of this preserving Power in their own particulars Also My Friends it is worth your Considerations to behold how that by this Invisible Power so many faithful Watch-men are raised up upon the Walls of your Zion that in most of your Meetings there be Men and Women upon whom God hath laid a concern to be taking care for the good of the whole and to take the oversight upon them to see all things kept in good and decent Order and to make due Provision for the Comforting and Relieving the Necessities of the Needy and Distressed that nothing be lacking to make your way comfortable and these have not been nor are brought under this charge by any act of yours but God hath raised up Pastors and Teachers Elders and Deacons of his own Election