Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	scripture_n	6,364	5	6.0991	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91004	Syneidēsilogia ̇or, The doctrine of conscience, framed according to the points of the catechisme, in the Book of Common-Prayer. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Lord Bishop of Worcester, for the private use of his wife.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; N. Y.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3436; Thomason E1697_2; ESTC R203209	47,433	193

examples the rewards upon the fulfilling thereof and punishments attending the breaking of it The Moralities in Iob David and Solomon the exercise of patience devotions and all manner of wisdome in all cases whatsoever The Prophets beating down the wickedness of the times lead us to Christ whom the Gospels in the N. T. set forth as the Prophet Priest King on which the Church must wholly depend whose planting and progresse is set forth in the Acts of the Apostles doctrine laid down in the Epistles and expectances in the Revelation by a method so connected that none but prating fooles as the wise man termes such may carp at wherein the obscurities of some places are enlightned by the clearnesse of others or set as taskes for the industry of the greatest wits to beat down their pride and presumption that finding themselves over-mastered they may seek unto God by prayer for that they acknowledge themselves to come short of Whereupon the dissentions that arise prove the faults of the wranglers not the insufficiency of the rule no more then the different judgments of Artists doe the disorder-linesse of the coelestiall or terrestrial bodies Upon cansideration of the new covenant fore-told by Jeremy C. III. c. 31.33 and ratified by the Apostle to the Hebrews c. 8.10 wherein a plain promise is made of writing Gods Law so in mens hearts that they shall not need to teach one another because all shall be so gifted may not a weak Conscience be warped to think well of the Swenchfeldists and enthusiasticall Wrigelians of these times to lay aside the letter that the Spirit may act the more freely The old and new Covenant are both alike D. under hand and seal though the tenure be diverse the first was of Workes the other is of Faith for our Justification the one saith Doe this and live the other Believe in him that hath satisfied for thee and thou shalt be saved The spirit indeed is promised to lead us into all truth but not by frantick enthusiasmes but by the Scripture which is written for our learning and many times walketh under the name of the Spirit too God hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son Hebr. 1. Joh. 5.39 Rom. 1.16 which is his Word and which alone ought to be our guide search ye the Scriptures is commanded us which are the conduit of Life and Power of God unto Salvation Thus we are taught of God not to inquire at the Oracles of our Lusts and Phantasies but of his word not to be led by conceipts of our owne framing but by the means of his prescribing the outward preaching of the Word and the inward operation of the Spirit to embrace it It is thought amongst many Learned Godly C. IV. and painfull Ministers that the bare reading of the Word in publick or private is not of power sufficient to beget Faith in the hearers what comfort shall any therefore finde in assemblies by scripture where there is no preaching Minister and how can I esteem of that my Conscience tells me will doe me no good Dilating upon a text of Scripture D. taken at adventure must not be taken for the onely preaching that begets Faith it may set an edge upon some hearers devotion but can adde no efficacy to the Text that is quick and powerfull of it selfe and sharper then any two edged sword to discerne the very thoughts and hearts intentions Heb. 4.12 Beside it is well known that Moses was held to be preached by the Apostle in that he was read in the Synagogue every Sabboth day Act. 15.21 Those that benefit not therefore by hearing the Text read which they may well rely upon will hardly be better edified by the glosse which may be as obscure as that and far more liable to exceptions And should not our Saviours and the Apostles Sermons instruct them better that often heare them reiterated with attention then a set speech of a man of meaner gifts that may be forgotten as soon as it is uttered and ofttimes is more intricate and obscure then the Text it indeavoured to explaine This must be taken not to detract from solid and seasonable preaching but for vindicating of the word read from the abatement and scorne too many put upon it in these evill dayes The Scripture being acknowledged to be the undoubted word of God C. V. conteining that counsel of his which he would have communicated unto all for their Salvation with what Conscience may any portion of it be kept back from being read in the Congregation as the Canticles with divers other parts of the Old Testament and most part of the Revelation in the New The not reading of some passages in Scripture in publick detract nothing from their Authority onely serve to put a difference between milke and stronger meat according to the stomachs that are to receive it I have many things to say unto you saith Christ to his Disciples but ye cannot bear them now What would the Hebrew titles the Higgaions Selahs c. in Davids Psalms benefit the auditory when the Teachers themselves cannot agree what to thinke of them So Genealogies in the Chronicles and the not understood praedictions in the Apocalipse which the Learned make use of the Vulgar may sooner cavill at them then in any sort be bettered by them How may any with a safe conscience endure the reading of the C. VI. Apocrypha in the Church especially when so many Chapters of Canonicall Scripture are laid aside that may supply the yearly course of reading with more sure Doctrine and more evident then from the Apocrypha can be expected In the titles of our Bibles D. the Apocrypha is sufficiently distinguished from the Canonicall Scripture so that the Chapters that are read out of it are not prescribed to set aside the Canonicall it being left to the choice of the Minister to reade such Chapters in their stead as he thinks fit And by reason of the consonancy of that which is read out of them with the Canon the respect by the antient given unto them and the instructiveness of the style some choice passages are read out of them as of ancient and received homilies making for the better explication of the Canon which those that most oppose them cannot deny but they may as well be approved as their comments upon a Text which 't is presumed they would not have to be taken as Canonicall How far may Scripture be conscionably used in exorcises in casting out C. VII or commanding Devills or in charms for curing of diseases or in preservatives in wearing it about us to protect us from severall dangers or inconveniences In such cases it may be used not at all D. otherwise then as the ground of prayer by which we must be supplicants to God that he would preserve and deliver us from all evill Naturall operations are not to be expected from the words of Scripture but morall