Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bear_v	son_n	witness_n	5,359	5	7.9501	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60624	The day-spring from on high visiting the world, or, Gods salvation revealed and the way of redemption declared, and the way opened into the everlasting rest also the two births discovered and their several image, and the enmity that is betwixt them : with the lambs appearance in glory and his power and government exalted / by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4295; ESTC R30147	12,937	17

life reach that the heavy burden might be undone and the oppressed set free which in you is pressed as a cart that is full of sheaves by you in bondage kept for unto the Lord of life are you found enemies and fighting against him and hates to be reformed by him though long he hath striven with you and now is the Lord God holding forth plenteous Redemption and making known his salvation and in his good perfect gift is visiting all people that all may turn unto the light and come out of darkness and depart from evil which is made manifest in the light and so come to feel the Redemption of of God in your selves and the operation of his Spirit which worketh the work of God and bringeth forth fruit unto holiness for as in sin you abide you are not redeemed neither knows Christ nor the working of his power but abides in the unbelief and in darkness and brings forth unfruitful works thereof the imagination of your hearts being alwayes evil and that you love and hates the light which doth reprove and will not come to it which doth as truely work in power as it is believed in as ever it did in ages past and salvation is as truly felt in the leadings of the light as they felt it who declared of it and were called out of darkness into it so it is of concernment unto every one to prove themselves that the pure rejoycing you may have in your selves and not in another for the Lord God is visiting all in the light and hath given a manifestation of the Spirit unto every man to profit withall then the gift of God you are not to neglect in your selves but are to take heed unto it and every motion of it that your minds may be ordered in it and lead by it to the knowledge of the living God whom to know is life eternal and none did ever come to the knowledge of him but as they was turned to the light and heeded the light which shone in their hearts in which the knowledge of his glory is manifest in the face of Christ and do you think to come to the knowledge of God by another way be ye tryed in this ye Priests and Professors and all people if the knowledge of the true God you be come unto whom to know is eternal life are you come to know this or are you not in that knowledge which can never come to know the true God be honest with your selves all of you and see if you become to that in wch the knowledge of his glory hath been revealed from the beginning for now it is the same as ever it was and it changeth not but is witnessed through ages and generations to be always the same without any variableness for that which Abel was guided by and in which he offered up a sacrifice in righteousness the same guided Noah and in it he preached righteousness the same appeared unto Abraham and he believed in it and was guided by it and rejoyced to see it and it was counted unto him for righteousness and in this was secrets revealed unto the Prophets Moses lived in it and by the manifestation of it was the Creation opened to his understanding and he saw to the beginning and so declared in the openings of life and all the holy men of God were inspired by it and gave forth the Scriptures in the motion of it he that hath ears to hear let him hear for this was a perfect guide unto all that believed in it before writings was and all the words that are written do bear witness unto the word which was in the beginning with God and it was God and they had all Redemption by him and salvation in him who believed and this was a guide unto the righteous from the beginning and would you have another guide now you have lost that which guides holy men and righteous men and gives them the knowledge of the living God and you feel that you want a guide to bring you to God but takes not heed to that which is manifest from him which doth reprove you as you are out of the way and would lead you in the way of life would you turn unto it but you hating the reproof of it doth not come to know it and so you follow a guide which leads you in the way of death for that which guided Abel Noah and Abraham and all the holy men in times past when they had no visible thing to be a guide unto them in the way of life it is the same now and as sufficient now as ever it was and they were made holy and righteous in it and were accepted of God And would you be better then they were who were righteous men and holy men redeemed from the earth and saved by the Lord and were accepted of him Consider of this for there is not another Rule besides Christ who is given for a Leader that he may be Salvation unto the ends of the earth therefore all come unto him and in his light believe that you may feel his power to work in the inward parts and purifie your hearts for there is a measure given unto every one of you that doth reprove you in secret as your minds be after evil be ye turned unto it that you may feel the work of it to cast off the weight that lyeth upon you and the sin that so easily besets you that the seed out of bondage may arise and come forth for as the light is believed in so is the power felt to rend the vail and scatter the clouds and makes mountains fall and hills melt and is dreadful to Pharaoh and all the Egyptians he that is wise in heart may read how he is acquainted in his own particular with the operation of Gods Spirit for Redemption is plentifully revealed in this present age as in times past and many bear true witness of it who hath felt his power that worketh in the day who hath made known his Salvation and revealed his glory and brought many sons and daughters unto it where they know the truth that maketh free and are redeemed from the earth and saved by the Lord and their minds are after heavenly things and they worship God day and night in his Temple and gives glory unto him that sits upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever and this is the true birth that is born of God whose Image is heavenly and he works the work of God and all that believe in him are saved by him for the Devils work he doth destroy and the sin he takes away and that is done by him which no other could do and so doth the Redee●●● live and the stone Elect is known that is pretious which all the wise builders set at nought and are bringing forth false births in their own wills which bears the image of the earthly and neither redeems nor saves from sin but