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	see_v	5,205	5	3.8267	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54153	Innocency with her open face presented by way of apology for the book entituled The sandy foundation shaken, to all serious and enquiring persons, particularly the inhabitants of the city of London / by W.P., j.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1304; ESTC R18823	9,223	40

of Scripture therefore he was not made nor is he upheld by any other power then his own and consequently is truly God In short this conclusive Argument for the proof of Christ the Saviours being God should certainly perswade all sober persons of my Innocency and my Adversaries Malice He that is the Everlasting Wisdom the Divine Power the true Light the onely Saviour the creating Word of all things whether visible or invisible and their Upholder by his own Power is without contradiction God but all these qualifications and divine properties are by the concurrant testimonies of Scripture ascribed to the Lord Jesus Christ therefore without a scruple I call and believe him really to be the Mighty God And for a more ample satisfaction let but the 28th page of my Reply to J. Clapham be perused in which Christ's Divinity and Eternity is very fully asserted Judge then impartial Readers to whom I appeal in this concern whether my Christian Reputation hath not been unworthily traduc'd and that those several Persons who have been posting out their Books against me whilst a close Prisoner have not been beating the Air and fighting with their own Shadows in supposing what I never thought much less writ of to be the intendment of my Book and then as furiously have fastned on their own conceits expecting I should feel the smart of every blow who thus far am no ways interressed in their heat As for my being a Socinian I must confess I have read of one Socinus of that they call a noble Family in Sene in Italy who about the year 1574 being a young man voluntarily did abandon the glories pleasures and honours of the great Duke of Tuskany's Court at Florence that noted place for all wordly delicacies and became a perpetual Exile for his Conscience whose parts wisdom gravity and just behaviour made him the most famous with the Polonian and Transilvanian Churches but I was never baptized into his name and therefore deny that reproachfull Epithite and if in any thing I acknowledge the verity of his Doctrine it is for the Truth 's sake of which in many things he had a clearer prospect then most of his Contempories but not therefore a Socinian any more then a Son of the English-Church whilst esteemed a Quaker because I justifie many of her Principles since the Reformation against the Roman Church II. As for the business of satisfaction I am prevented by a Person whose reputation is generally great amongst the Protestants of these Nations for since the Doctrine against which I mostly levelled my Arguments was the impossibility of Gods forgiving sin upon repentance without Christ's paying his Justice by suffering Infinite Vengeance and Eternal Death for Sins past present and to come he plainly in his late Discourse about Christs Sufferings against Crellius acknowledges me no less by granting upon a new state of the controversie both the possibility of Gods pardoning sins as debts without such a rigid satisfaction and the impossibility of Christs so suffering for the World reflecting closely upon those persons as giving so just an occasion to the Churches Adversaries to think they triumph over her Faith whilst it is only over their Mistakes who argue with more zeal then judgment Nay one of the main ends which first induced me to that Discourse I find thus deliver'd by him namely If they did believe Christ came into the World to reform it That the Wrath of God is now revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness that his Love which is shown to the World is to deliver them from the hand of their Enemies that they might serve him in righteousness and holiness all the dayes of their lives they could never imagine that Salvation is entailed by the Gospel upon a mighty confidence or vehement perswasion of what Christ hath done and suffered for them thus doth he confess upon my Hipothesis or Proposition what I mainly contend for and however positively I may reject or deny my Adversaries unscriptural and imaginary Satisfaction let all know this that I pretend to know no other name by which Remission Attonement and Salvation can be obtained but Jesus Christ the Saviour who is the Power and Wisdom of God what apprehensions soever people may have entertained concerning me III. As for Justification by an imputed righteousness I still say that whosoever believes in Christ shall have Remission and Justification but then it must be such a Faith as can no more live without Works then a Body without a Spirit wherefore I conclude that true Faith comprehends Evangelical Obedience and here the same Dr Stillingflees comes into my relief though it s not wanting by a plain Assertion of the necessity of obedience viz. such who make no other condition of the Gospel but believing ought to have a great care to keep their hearts sounder then their heads thereby intimating the grand imperfection and danger of such a notion and therefore God Almighty bears me record my design was nothing less or more then to wrest those beloved and sin-pleasing Principles out of the hands heads and hearts of people that by the fond perswasion of being justified from the personal righteousness of another without relation to their own obedience they might not sin on upon trust till the Arrest of Eternal Vengeance should irrecoverably overtake them that all might be induced to an earnest persuit after holiness by a circumspect observance to Gods holy Spirit As without which none shall ever see the Lord. And to shut up my Apology for religious matters that all may see the simplicity Scripture Doctrine and phraise of my Faith in the most important matters of Eternal Life I shall here subjoyn a short Confession I sincerely own and unfeignedly believe by vertue of the sound knowledge and experience received from the gift of that holy Unction and divine Grace inspired from on high in one holy just mercifull almighty and eternal God who is the Father of all things that appeared to the holy Patriarchs and Prophets of old at sundry times and in divers manners And in ONE Lord Jesus Christ the everlasting Wisdom divine Power true Light only Saviour and preserver of all the same one holy just mercifull almighty and eternal God who in the fulness of time took and was manifested in the Flesh at which time he preached and his Disciples after him the Everlasting Gospel of Repentance and Promise of Remission of Sins and Eternal Life to all that heard and obeyed who said he that is with you in the Flesh shall be in you by the Spirit and though he left them as to the Flesh yet not comfortless for he would come to them again in the Spirit for a little while and they should not see him as to the Flesh again a little while and they should see him in the Spirit for the Lord Jesus Christ is that Spirit a Manifestation whereof is given to