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	speak_v	6,346	5	5.2623	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89846	The railer rebuked, in a reply to a paper subscribed Ellis Bradshaw, who calls it The Quakers whitest devil unvailed: but hath discovered a dark devil in himself, as in his paper appears, / replied by him who is called James Nailer.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N306; Thomason E830_4; ESTC R203039	7,510	8

rages and saies in them where he is exalted that we would destroy Mgistracy but is a Liar and hath so been proved in all ages for that spirit which denies to honour men in their pride preserves Magistracy even from such as will bow and flatter to the face but would destroy in secret and that seed was manifest in Mordecai who saved the Kings life and yet would not obey his commands to Bow to Hamans pride also in Christ and many of the dear servants of God who never went about to destroy Magistracy but preserved it who said give Cesar his due and God his due and yet was accused to be an enemy to Cesar by those who were enemies both to Cesar and God and yet had a large profession as thou hast who art found in the same accusation and so the devil hath been in all ages who cannot have that seed to bow to him in proud man in whom he is exalted above all that is called God for that seed is taught of God what to honour and to honour that which God honours and this is no spirit of delusion incivility or like brute beasts as thou callest it for that is the Beast which worships the Beast and his Image where it is and thou art the false prophet that pleads for it and this we judge not before the time as thou accusest us for the Son of God is come to whom all judgement belongs and hath given us an understanding in all these things and the spirit of judgement is powred out and the prince of this world is judged and condemned and the Dragon and the hireling and the deceiver and the proud and the carnall thor speakest on which thou would have spared under a pretence of charity and sayes the spirit of God teacheth so which the spirit of God hath ever condemned such but this is the spirit of the devil who under pretence of charity would keep his own workes from judgement the proud the carnall the hireling and the deceiver and demonstrated this is though the blind cannot see it and thy charity I deny who loves these things would hold them up And he that is risen to overturn these his work shall praise him in the gate flatterers shall run to the mountains to cover them and thou saies I bely your doctrine because I deny that faith which cannot believe salvation from sin to the ut●ermost or that saies they have Christ and have not power To which I answer they that say none can be free from committing sin while they live as your teachers do hold forth that faith which I deny And for Christ having impowred any to do the will of God thou thy felf opposes in this paper and here I have not belied your doctrine but the lie is thy own though thou say the spirit teacheth to speak truth in love and meekness and this doctrine is quite contrary to the word and promise of God who said he should save his people from their sins and present holy without spot or wrinckle or any such thing and this we know and are one with him but thou who hast not propriety in his perfection art ignorant of it and therefore thinkes us to be so too And thou chargest us for denying that faith to be in Christ whose righteousness is not perfect because the righteousness of Christ is perfect To which I affirm that because the righteousnesse of Christ is perfect therefore that faith I deny to be in Christ which layes hold upon an imperfect righteousness And thou sayest the righteousness of Christ is not properly ours but onely through frith and here thou denies faith to be proper or the gift of God by faith received to be properly ours then God hath given an improper thing which is not theirs for believers to be saved by and this is thy doctrine and conjured stuff from the letter imagined by a spirit of direct opposition as thou sayest thou hast against us and rather then thou wilt be silent thou wilt speak thou knowst not what And thou takest offence that we should witness the life of Christ or that he that hath this hope purifieth himself as he is pure and when thou hast done thou saist thou endeavourest to purifie thy self even as he is pure and here thou discoverest thy wolfish inside thou tells on who accusest us for witnessing the Scripture in that which thou thy self endeavours after and divers other things thy mischievous mind murmurs at and in thy paper wonldst cast a mist before the truth but dare not deny them and here thy whited devil is seen and bound And thou sayest thou hast learned not to account thy self already perfect I answer what perfection canst thou have who deniest the perfection of Christ to be thine unless thou be perfect in iniquity and the least child of light shall thee judge who art setting the old Covenant above the new to be judge and tryer of it which old the Apostle denies to establish this new for the old Covenant made nothing perfect and there thou art who denyes the perfection of the new to be thine and here thy spirit is tryed with that which is before the old Covenant was to be that delusion of Satan thou tellest on who would try the Covenant of life with that which can give no life and by such a tryall did the Jews put Christ to death for a blasphemer by the letter of their Law who was the life of the Law which life is the end of all laws without yet herein is not laws without denied but fulfilled in Christ for whom they were written and thou saist thou ownes that faith which purifies the heart and produceth holiness within and without and yet thou denyest the perfection of Christ to be tbine or to be impowered by him to do the will of God and this purity and holiness which is not thine in Christ and in his power I deny and the ground of it I judge with that which is perfect that this thy holiness is the silthy raggs And thou talkst of many things without thee as a law without a light without a word without and many such words thou utterest but with that eye which is single which is before the visible was art thou seen comprehended and thy faith that stands in visible things which shall perish for what is seen is temporall but so is not the law and light and word which endureth for ever though thou wouldst prove the letter to be the word which was never given forth to be called by the name of God or Christ who are called the word nor to withstand the appearance of God or his word as you would use them as some of your rabbies have lately affirmed that God hath spoken his last for the Scriptures say they is his last will and no more Revelations since the book of Revelations was written and thus Idolizes a visible thing and gives it the name of God and sets

it in his place and saies there is no other way to know God all which the letter denyes and declares God to be the word and exhorts to hear his voice and know it and saith there is not nor can be any knowledge of God but by Revelation from Jesus Christ which is before the letter was which the letter declares but this is the spirit of Satan that would stop the mouth of God never to speak more nor that any should wait for it but he that hath heard the voice of the living God doth bear witness in his presence against that spirit to be a lying spirit and an enemy to Abrahams seed and his Faith who stands opposing between God and the creatures to make people believe that they shall not have the same fellowship with God as the saints have ever had but would set up the letter in his stead spoken forth by them who heard his voice and declared for that end his word to wait for and his teachings to witness by him to be guided in all things which such as thou would deny to set up the hirelings who never heard his voice but were ever denyed by them who had the word as the letter declares and proves all you Lyars who puts the Lord farre from you in these later dayes which saith in the latter dayes he will pour out his spirit more abundantly and that the knowledge of God shall cover the earth which is witnessed by hundreds who from the mouthes of the wolves and lyars are set free which whilst we were under them we could not believe and we know whom we worship and his power and all the lyars in the world cannot make us deny him nor his work in us who is blessed for ever And thy doubtfull queries are answered and with the spirit we are taught this faith to hold forth and with meekness they are shewed and in that wisdome that is foolishness to the world and ever was and his vertues who hath called us out of darkness into light and this faith worketh by love to all the creatures of God and by it we are constrained to call all to this love for which we suffer in you Streets Markets and Synagogues in a spirit of meekness and this we have learned of him which is more then thou knowest as thou sayest for if thou knew thou would not have a hand in which thou art deeply ingaged as thou sayes And it is utterly in vain to write or speak against this faith for therein thou shewes but thy folly and what generation thou art of who calls this perverted which the saints practised and thou that doubts art damned in thy own conscience and being deluded to believe lies thou art rejected and steadfastly resisted in the faith who art under the power of Satan bringing forth his works who saith we in works deny God and that we know not what the resurrection of the dead means and then sayes thou w●lt not absolutely determine nor judge of us and here thou hast told three lyes together and its easie to determine who is that vassal thou speaks on led captive at his will And the word of God we have and his law written in our hearts which condemnes all such practises And the fruits of love such could never discerne nor the end of the Commandement but under pretence of charity would be flattered in their sins And we know Christ to be in us without thy comparisons and by his spirit are we led which if thou was so thou durst not lie and slander as thou doest nor have rested my words in printing them false in thy paper saying I deny all those laws without as though I denied the laws of the Nation when my words is I deny all whose law is without and morall intending your popish notions with which you set up the letter to oppose the new Covenant yet herein do I deny no Laws in Books which are according to this Covenant but owne them in their place but not to try the law of life which is in Christ by as thou wouldst make it and here thy crooked wayes are seen subtill lying slandering and perverting my words and the whited Devil thou tells on is discovered in thy self not in the Quakers as thou scornfully callest us and thou hast the seared conscience thou tells on else ashamed thou would bee and to thee I have written and all thy generation but not for your help but to help thee to see thy folly which to that of God in thy Conscience if thou be obedient it will stop thy mouth and let thee see thy envy and a busie mind speaking evill of that thou knowes not that thou may appear to be some body but thy work is seen and thy reward also And now seeing these things thou chiefly opposest yet dare not plainly deny them I shall return the sum of them by way of Querie to which in plainess that thou answer the Yea or the Nay that thy mist may be cleared is the demand of him who is called James Nayler First Whether that Faith which layes hold of an Imperfect Righteousnesse be Faith in Christ or self righteousness Whether God can own an Imperfect Righteousness for salvation or is any perfect but that of Christ Whether God have given Christ with his righteousnesse and perfection freely to all that receive him Whether Christ so given and by faith received be properly ours with all he hath in the measure so received Whether any one can be born of God and not have the life of Christ in him and abiding in him whether he commit sin or no Whether the Law of the new Covenant be written in the heart And whether the Apostle denied the Old to Establish the New and whether of them is the believers rule and freedome Whether the hope of Christ purifies the heart and is not that the hope of thee hippocrite that hopes to be saved but lives in sin and worldly pleasures and whether that be the life of Christ yea or nay Whether every one that hath received Christ hath received power to resist the devil and to do the wills of God in his measure and if such commit sin whether it be want of power or denying the power seing the greater is in us then in the world Whether they that are called of men Masters love greeting in Markets Chief place in Assemblies sue for tithes or set wages bear rule by their means Imprison the Innocent be those labourers Christ hath thrust out into his vineyard Or do these fruits prove them so seing Christ saith by their fruits you shall know them Whether the end of Christs coming be to redeem his people from their sins in this life or are they believers that deny it Whether the spirit of God teacheth to call Christ ours and his righteonsnesse ours but to deny his perfection to be ours Whether the letter be that word and light of John Christ and the Apostles bear witness on yea or nay Whether plain dealing be pure love seing thou pretendest Charity to spare the wicked FINIS