Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	holy_a	scripture_n	6,970	5	5.7262	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

will cloath you all with rich and soft cloathing for all his Family is arrayed with soft Rayment Oh every one that will be a Daughter of this King Jehovah Tzebaot the Lord of Hoast shall be all glorious within and shall be brought into the Palace of the King and the King shall greatly delight in her beauty for he is the Lord her God and she must worship him and that in Spirit and in truth I say my Friends God shall cloath and has in a measure cloathed all his children with soft and fine Rayment Are not they that wear soft Rayment in Kings houses yea my Friends they are Now this soft Rayment I declare of is the inward righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus which is the righteousnesse of all Gods Saints this is the cloathing of our house from heaven that every Saint groans for according to the measure of working here 's the putting on the Lord Jesus in Spirit power and truth and this is that righteousnesse that justifies the soul to God and is made acceptable to God and to the Lamb. Friends this Rayment I say is soft Rayment its meek still and quiet 't is all in the Spirit which Rayment in the sight of God is of great price of great value of great esteem Oh Friends There be many that have a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord. They have I say a covering something in imitation of this I declare of but it s too narrow then that the soul can wrap its self in it so that its nakednesse is seen by a spiritual discerning And therefore Friends all take heed lest you cover with such a covering insomuch that your shame appears I know there are some such abroad but they must stand or fall to their own Master for every mans works must be tryed and that by fire viz. the fire of the pure living God and if his works have not been wrought in God and sprung up from the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets whose foundation was Christ Jesus the chief Corner stone that bore up all their building and from which they restified that their works was wrought in God and had it not it must suffer losse Some think to shrow'd themselves under such a form and such a form and such an observation outwardly but it s not the form or observation outwardly that can hide any poor soul from the wrath of God and of the Lamb the which every soul is exposed to let them be shrowded where they will it s nothing but this covering to wit the inward righteousnesse of God and Christ investing the soul that hides from the wrath of the Lamb. This soft Rayment I declare unto you is that Rayment with which the Bride the Lambs wife makes her self ready withall and is so dressed therewith as a Bride is for her husband in the choice embraces of everlasting kindness and this Rayment every foul must have on to come to the Marriage-supper withall else it s an unwelcome guest though such as have it not on them may present themselves amongst the sons and daughters of God yet when the searcher of hearts the everlasting God shall make inquisition then they shall be discovered to be but intruders and though they held the form they did not hold the head by which all the members by joints and bands are knit together c. And though they had the semblance the vizard the shew of holinesse yet they denied the power the inward life of purity and righteousnesse and built on their form The Lord sayes to such what hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed for he that nameth the Name of the Lord must depart from iniquity in vain is it that thou namest the Name of the Lord in vain is the multitude of thy services the Lord will say and does now say Who hath required this at your hands in vain is your solemn Assemblies your Sabbaths your Fastings Thanksgivings Preaching Praying Supper Baptisme Alms Conference with a multitude more they are all an abomination to the Lord in the outward observation because thou hast not on this wedding garment this inward pure righteousnesse of the Lamb and therefore they are an abomination oh soul because performed and externally carried on out of the life acted and carry'd on by the same spirit that thou sinnest with sure this is a loathing to the pure holy God of life who rejoyces in truth in the inward parts from whence all without must spring and not to take up an imitation from the Apostles practice and to do such works as thou gatherest from the Scriptures the writings of those holy men out of that life that moved them to it and many things else which oh soul thou art ready to despise but do thou wait upon the Lord for the more clearer breaking in of his light and movings of his life in thy own soul and abide in his counsel and abide his reproof in thy soul and be still look not forth but mind thy watch within least the enemy of thy soul get an advantage against thee and cleave to his power which thou shalt feel spring up whereby thou shalt be able to overcome sin hell death wrath self condemnation the world and all evil and thou shalt mount up in the life of God and here shalt thou be cleathed with his righte ousnesse and hear his voyce and obey his Commandments in thy own particular whose Commands are not grievous to the Spirit but joyous so thou shalt have the light of life in thy own heart as the Apostles and servants of God had before the Apostasie which was by them spoke of 2 Thess 2. the which came upon the world in some few years after the Apostles but now in these latter dayes the light is dawned and the Lord has visited some with his tender mercies the day-spring from on high hath visited some and God is a renewing of that defaced image that Adam had in innocercy and that the Apostles had by which they acted and was led and guided into the wayes of purity and righteousnesse doing what they did without as they had a command from this innocent life in themselves with singlenesse of heart and great joy blessing praysing magnifying the Lord God of power and purity and this is that life that my soul in a measure feels and has communion with And my soul breaths to the everlasting pure life that thou maist have the same holy pure and innocent life that the Apostles and Servants of God had and now some in a measure have in which life thou shalt learn what is the living sense of the Scriptures and Writings of holy men and of those Ordinances that the Apostles in their days was by the life commanded to do the which thou maist also do or forbear as the same life commands thee though this the carnal and fleshly reason cannot bear but I may not speak to please

and a pushing one at the other for that 's of the flesh but a submitting the shoulder to bear each others burthen they lay out for each others good of what the eternal God has laid into their hearts and all this according to his working in them who works freely that all might be strengthned and comforted so that here 's not among the children of God Superiority one over another but all equally alike the children of God and Brethren one of another And certain I am that according to the measure of Gods indwelling in the pure light of life in the soul so the haughtinesse of man is crucified and laid low for haughtinesse and lordlinesse of spirit is from the flesh and beneath But as the soul receives of the Spirit of light and life and obeyes its teachings and drawings it shall find it drawing him from this spirit of haughtinesse and lordlinesse into a humble and low frame that it can standing in the power of such drawings condescend to wash his Brethrens feet as Christ did and become in the power of this so little and low that a little Child may lead him to wit Christ the Babe of righteousnesse the holy One of God for Friends the more the soul is anointed with the consecrating oyle i. e. the Spirit of God the more humble that soul is and willing to instruct his poor and weak Brother what God has done for his soul in order for his weak Brothers perseverance in the truth such a soul under the anointing of God is far from a Lordly and Majestical spirit This is that which God destroyes in the day of his power and glorious appearings of his life in a soul In that day the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the hanghtinesse of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exaleed AND now my dear Friends Turn in and see what you can experience in your own particulars that your rejoycing may be in your selves and not in another and think not this strange that you are pressed through such a weak instrument as I am to turn in and to see if these things are wrought by the eternal Spirit and that you have your teachings from the Spirit within Consider Friends the soul that is to be saved is within and Christ the light is within he sayes I am meek and low in heart And Christ in you the hope of glory And know you not that Christ is in you c. And the Law of the Spirit of life by which every particular is taught though every particular does not learn holinesse righteousnesse and the true fear of the Lord c. is said to be within I 'le put my Law in your minds and write it in your hearts c. And God himself is within as the Apostle declaved I will dwell in you and walk in you and you shall be my people and I will be your God Now if all this is within then turn in and examine your selves what of the teachings what of the life of the power and Spirit what of the flowings forth of the living vertues of the eternal Fountain of righteousnesse do I feel spring up in me that I and thou oh soul may rejoyce in our own portion and not in anothers and each of us come to sit down under our own Vine in particular and eat of the sweet fruit hereof none making afraid sayes my soul This Vine to be Christ and the Father to be the Husbandman that we may rejoyce together as the children of one Father all drinking into that one Rock and baptized into one Spirit and bound up together in the bundle of one life and that our union and communion may stand in the life Spirit and power and not in forms and outward observances saith my soul A brief discovery of the entrance into this house and habitation of God AND Friends There is no entring into this house of God but by great travel and pains Thou must travel out of Egypt through the loathsom Wilderneste to enter into Canaan Thou must oh soul experience the bond of thy iniquities to be broken Thou must know a day of trouble of misery a day of burning before thou canst advance this Church that is in God I say Thou must know the terrors of the Lord as my soul has known by reason of sin a day of shaking the foundations of the earth and making it to tremble a feeling the Arrows of the Almighty God stick in thy soul and great disquietnesse within thy borders because sin is in thy Tabernacle thou must feel his indignation as my soul hath according to thy measure and 't is good to bear it because of sin untill he raise thee up and comfort thy soul as sin is purged out Wait upon the Lord and suffer the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against thy unrighteousnesse and in due time thou shalt feel a power-springing up from that light which first discover'd to thee thy sin whereby thou shalt have sin cast out but not all at once but as thou waitest here and obevest so thou shalt feel thy sin and thy old nature and all self destroyed and crucifyed so thou shalt experience a crucifying with Christ that thou maist live with him a pure innocent and spotlesse life and as thy sin and old nature c. is destroyed and dies so shall Christ the light of life live in thee and so as thou obeyest this light of life which is risen to destroy thy death thou shalt come to live in the pure life and have it in your selves and so as he who is this light of life to wit Christ Jesus lives in you you shall live also in him and so come to experience what it is to dwell in the house of God and to be a member of the true Church that is in God and to experience all and much more as already declared And now Friends unto the Lord I commit you and give up to be taught governed and guided by his pure Law of righteou snesse the Law of the Spirit of life which is the Law written in the heart which Law is pure and consents not to sin but reproves it and manifests it and holds out a power to mortifie it the which every soul that waits on the Lord and stands in his counsel shall feel spring up to cast out the son of the bond-woman for it shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman i. e. with Christ the life and seed of God And that you might be cloathed with the garment of light and salvation and with zeal and holy courage for the Lord as with a Cloak and that you might come to praise and adore the living God of endlesse life and that you might be fed upon the Mountain of Gods holinesse with the Feast that God has prepared a Feast of fat things of Wines well refined and that he might destroy by the appearance of his life the