Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abel_n	abraham_n	enoch_n	63	3	10.7013	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40199	Here is declared the manner of the naming of children in the old time without a priest sprinkling them with water which now is, and hath been in these times, yet they have the Scriptures, but shew their contrary walking to Scripture, and also the practice of the holy men of God by Scripture ... / by G.F.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing F1840; ESTC R36515	8,039	8

called Moses Exod. 2. mark she called him Moses no God-fathers or God-mothers And Man●ahs wife she bare a son 〈◊〉 13. according as the Angel spake and she called his name Sampson Here was no priest to sprinkle it nor God-fathers nor God-mothers spoken of 〈◊〉 4. And Ruth bare a son and they called his name Obed the father of Iesse And the Lord visited Hannah and she conceived and bare a son … n. 1. ●●ron 7. and called his name Samuel And Maachah bare a son to Machir and she called his name Peresh and the name of his brother was Sheresh Mark here she called his name And again 1 Chron. 7. Ephraims wife bare him a son and he called his name Beriah And the Lord spake to Isaiah who declared the name of Christ as you may read Matth. 1. And the Angel of the Lord said Thou shalt call his Name Iesus And it doth not say here was a priest to sprinkle with water or any God-fathers or God-mothers And the Angel of the Lord told Zacharias he should have a son and he should call his name Iohn and they called his name Zacharias and they made signs to his father ●●ke 1. and Zacharias called for a writing-table and wrote and said His name is Iohn Now you may see all along where ever they had any priests to sprinkle their children for money or with a little water as the priests now in England or elsewhere doth and God-fathers and God-mothers as they had but sometimes the Lord did direct the people what to call their children and sometimes the fathers named their children and sometimes the mothers named them without God-fathers or God-mothers and without a Priest to sprinkle them and these were not heathen for sometimes the Angel of the Lord came and told them what they should call them and sometimes some that took their children as Pharoah's daughter that took Moses and called him Moses Moses was not a heathen nor Sampson was not a heathen nor Abel nor Abraham nor Seth nor Enoch nor Samuel nor Iacob nor Isaac nor John was not a heathen and the Angel named Christ now these were not heathen Now you that say they are heathen because your priests have not thrown a little water upon their faces and have not God-fathers or God-mothers Are not you blasphemers of God and contrary-walkers to Scriptures Where did any in ages past sprinkle any of their children and they have wages for it and say then it is Christened in the dayes before the Law and in the Law or in the days of the Prophets Christ or the Apostles Where is there any such Scripture as saith Christen or sprinkle Infants And is not your sprinkling of Infants as superstitious as the Papists who dips their faces in the Fonts and spits upon their noses and under both their ears and puts a little salt in their mouths How long is it since your priests hath left crossing of their children when they christened them And do not the Jesuit Priests do the same wherein do you differ from them seeing you have quoted them What Scripture have you for this for crossing your children when you christen them as you call it Is it not popery And was not the Pope the Mother and Father of it And did not you act as servants for him in doing that What priests in all the Scripture had money for burying the dead and a Clark to say Amen and eight or ten shillings for preaching over the dead Where had any of the Prophets Christ or the Apostles an Hour-Glass some preach by the hour have ten shillings or twenty shillings at a time for their preaching are not they them that are given to filthy lucre that buy and sell Are not you like to Simon Magus that would buy the gift of God with money and sell it and set it at a price which thought the gift of God might be bought and sold for money Doth not or may not all people here see you have not the gift of God which are buying and selling it for money which it cannot be Come What Scripture have you for your name Sacrament Doth not these come from the Papists Did ever Christ the Prophets or Apostles preach by the hour or prison any or persecute any that had spoke to them in the hour and the Papists law to uphold to the end of your hour as the worlds Teachers hath in these days Do not you love the wages of unrighteousness that have so much silver for preaching an hour Are not you such Teachers as preach for hire and divine for money Such Hirelings as will flye if you can hear of a bigger Benefice And are you not such shepherds as seeks for your gain from your quarter And take away your gain and you shepherds will flye from your flock And are you not such as bear rule by your means And take away your means and the Priest is gone leaves the people and such as divines for money take away your money and you are gone and leave the people all on heaps to look upon walls And hath there not been such Teachers in Ages past And was not they and the people offended at them that cryed against them in ages past and persecuted them and stock't them and put them in Dungeons And doth not the people now rage against them that cry against such now in this age and put them in prison in Holes and Corners for crying against such as the Prophets cryed against And are not such now to be cryed against in this age Are such to be held up by them that be in the life of God as they were that gave forth the Scripture Here all ye priests are proved to be contrary to the Scripture out of the New Testament and Old Christening is a name which you have had from the Pope Are not you false priests and teachers and ministers and prophets and apostles that will quench the spirit and limit the Holy One and despise prophesying and despise revelation and quench the just Hath not your fruits made you manifest And do not you pretend a gift and set sale of it in every parish and so sell it for Tythes Glebe-lands Easter-reckonings Midsummer-dues stipends or great sums of moneys and sell it by the Hour-glasse giving the people two glasses a day and sometimes but one and when the glass is run then Neighbors the time is spent And do you pray or preach or sing or preach without money and if any speak to you in the time of your glass he is disturbed in his merchandizing and is in confusion in Babylon When such as are moved of the Lord God in the unlimited spirit to witness against such things those you imprison Circumcision nor uncircumcision avails not any thing but a new creature The children was named before circumcision came in which they say the baptism succeeded Abel and Enoch and Enos and Abraham and many which God gave them Wisdom to name