Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	eternal_a	soul_n	5,677	5	5.1772	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

is manifest in them and Paul says That the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal and the free Grace of God saith he Mark that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that we denying ungodliness and worldly lusts should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And the Saints they witnessed their reconciliation and were born again they felt and knew that in themselves of which they were born again even Christ in them the Seed incorruptible 1 Pet. 1. 23 24 25. the Word of God which lives and abides for ever by which they were begotten again unto God and quickened by the Word of life even they who were once as dead stones were raised up as living Children unto Abraham and so they came to taste that the Lord was good and gracious to taste and handle of the Word of Life and to 1 Cor. 12. 13. feed upon the Bread of Life and to drink of the Cup of Blessing and so by one Spirit were baptised into one body and were made to drink into one Spirit wherein they worshipped and served the Lord God and had Unity with the Lord in and through the Eternal Spirit and Unity one with another which united their Souls unto each other and unto the Lord God over all blessed for ever Ah dear people you in whose hearts there is true desires and secret thirstings after the living God where-ever ye are scattered among the many Sects and people towards you doth my soul doth my tender soul yearn and stream with love and good-will and for your sakes dear people doth my Soul travel in the womb of Supplication that you might come to enjoy that which you are seeking after and come to possess that you are thirsting for and for your sakes mostly is this written in tender bowells of unfeigned love and pitty to your souls And dear people you that have true desires in you after the Lord and hath been seeking of him where you cannot find him and hath been running from Mountain to Hill and from Hill to Mountain from one broken Cistern to another from one dead Form to another but still are unsatisfied and are sensible that you still notwithstanding your long profession and confession of God and Christ in words and notwithstanding your practicing somethings that you read of which the Saints once performed in obedience of the Spirit of Truth which led them thereunto want the feeling enjoyment of the Love and sweet Peace of God and go groaning daily under the burden of the bondage of sin and corruption and desires to be set free therefrom Oh dear people retire retire with your minds inward you who hath been seeking a God a far off and hunting after the Lord without retire to within and wait to know the Lord God near you to know his pure Truth in your inward parts his pure Spirit in you to lead and guide you teach and instruct you for God is a Spirit and his teachings are spiritual he must be known in Spirit worshipped in Spirit Joh. 4. 21 22 23 24. and in Truth not at the Mountain neither at Jerusalem not in this set Form nor the other Form As lo here and lo there but in the Spirit is the Lord God known and worshipped aright by them who are born of the Spirit And so the Spiritualized people who are born of the Spirit and lives in the Spirit and are taught and led by the Spirit of Truth these are the peculiar people who Worship the God of Truth who is a Spirit in the Spirit and in the Truth and these are acceptable Worshippers with the Lord who own no Worship but his own which he teacheth his people by his Spirit and they that is ignorant of the Spirit of God they are ignorant of the true Worship of God which is in the Spirit and although such may seem to Worship God yet their Worship is not of God nor accepted with God It is the purified Sons of Levy who hath passed through the fire that are purged even as gold is purged and tryed Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. and as silver is tryed by him the Light of Israel who is as a Refiners Fire and like Fullers Sope that can offer unto God an Offering in Righteousness and their offerings is pleasant unto the Lord but the polluted Sacrifices the halt the blind and Isa 10 17. the lame is abomination unto the pure God of purity who is Blessed Blessed for evermore And dear People who have desires in your after the Lord towards you doth my bowels yearn whereever you are scattered among the many Sects and heaps this is a tender invitation unto you that hath been spending your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which hath not yet satisfied your Souls but still you are a thirsty for want of drink and an hungry for want of food Oh dear people retire inward retire inward hunt no longer abroad run no longer from one broken Cistern to another wait no longer at the Wells that men have digged draw no longer at them for still you thirst again But oh retire to within turn your minds inward and wait to find and feel that in you which you so carefully with sorrow hath been seeking without you even to know Jacobs Well in you which hath been dammed up with Earth by the uncircumcised whilest you have been hunting abroad therefore turn your minds inward to feel the gift that Christ gives the Water that he gives saith Christ to the Woman of Samaria The water which I will give thee shall Mark be in the John 4. 14. a Well of water springing up unto Eternal life So the Water that Christ gives it 's within therefore turn inward to his pure Gift in your own Hearts to his pure Light in your own Consciences for that comes from him and leads unto him them that doth it love follow and obey the Fountain of living Water who satisfy the thirst of the thirsty and feedeth the hungry with good things Therefore retire inward in your minds and come unto him and learn of him who is meek and low in the heart to wit Christ in you except ye be Ma● 11. 28. 29 30. Isa 55. 2 3. Reprobates hearken diligently unto him and eat ye that which is good no longer feed upon the husks and let your souls delight themselves in fatness come unto him encline your ear hear and your Soul shall live and enter into Covenant with him who will be your God and you shall be his people And so dear people it is not enough for any to have a profession and a talk of God and Christ in words without the enjoyment and possession of him It is not enough to confess and believe that Christ died at Jerusalem for sinners and he hath done all for you c. for the drunkard and the swearer will say as much as this

beauty is given them for ashes and the oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and are become Trees of Righteousness the Lords own planting bringing forth fruit to his glory and praise who hath thus set them free from their sorrow and trouble These can say Good it is to wait upon the Lord God ●1 26. 8 23 9. in the way of his Judgments Lo this is the Lord whom we have waited for this is our God we have waited for him come let us rejoyce in his Salvation wherewith he hath saved us he hath redeemed us out of the horrible Pit out of the miry clay hath he brought us and set our feet upon a Rock and doth establish our goings who filleth our Souls with the fatness of his house and causeth us to drink of the River of his Pleasure and to suck and be satisfied with the Consolation of the Brest and to milk out and be delighted in the abundance of the sweetness of its vertue Oh what what shall we render unto the Lord unto the Lord our God for his benefits oh what shall we render unto him for his Mercies what shall we render unto him for his loving kindness Oh! let us take the Cup of his Salvation and drink thereof abundantly and in the strength of the vigour of its vertue let us in the meekness of our hearts and and in the lowliness and contriteness of our Souls praise praise the Name of the Lord our God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever and for evermore A few words more unto you dear people who desire more after the love and peace of God then the glory and pleasures of the world Dear people take heed unto that which discover unto you what are your thoughts whither they be good or evil for that is it which must redeem your minds unto God and wait to come to know it to be a stay to your minds and a stop to your thoughts and a bridle to your tongues and to cause a watch before your mouth and to raise a holy fear in your hearts of offending the Righteous God of Righteousness in thought in word in deed And dear people you have so much depended and relyed upon man for teaching retire with your minds inward to the manifestation of the Spirit of God in your own hearts and wait in it to come to know the Lord God to be your Teacher that if you should be separated from those that hath been your Teachers and put into a Hole a Dungeon or Cave of the earth for your Consciences towards God and so be separated from all teaching outward you may then feel find and witness the Lord to teach you to instruct you counsel and direct you comfort and refresh you even by his pure Eternal Spirit in you for all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and established in Righteousness and great shall be their peace in the God of their Salvation unto whom unto whom be glory glory honour and praise for ever and evermore for he is worthy he is worthy worthy saith my soul unto whom be glory in the highest Amen So dear people for your sakes mostly was these foregoing lines written in obedience to the tender spirit of love in my heart which drew me thereunto and in tender unfeigned love and pure good-will to your souls who have had and still have true desires in your hearts after the Lord and hath been and still are thirsting and hungering after the way of Truth and Righteousness and hath been and still are seeking and hunting among the husks shells and shadows for to find the substance but still fail of your expectation and cannot find true and perfect satisfaction but secretly in your hearts are panting and thirsting after the living water and are weary of feeding upon the husks and begin to say within your selves to each other Come we have been long wandering abroad hunting after the Lord afar of seeking of him in this Form and the other Form running from Mountain to Hill from one Man to another to enquire for him whom our Souls long for but we still want the true enjoyment of him And although man hath told us we should find him there in this Way and in the other Way in this Form and in the other Form in this Ordinance and the other Ordinance wherein we have been tossed about and turned from one broken Cistern to another but still we want true satisfaction for our souls for we want the true enjoyment of the assurance of the Love and Peace of God wherefore come let us no longer hunt abroad nor run any longer from one man to another But oh come let us retire our minds inward and in stillness and quietness in sollidness and seriousness let us wait upon the Lord and he himself will teach us of his wayes and lead us into the path of Righteousness where we shall meet him whom our souls hath long panted after even as the Hart panteth after the water Brooks wherefore let us wait upon the Lord for the Lord is good to the man Lam. 3. 2 that waiteth for him to the Soul that seeketh him Therefore come let us both hope and quietly without hunting any more abroad wait to finde and feel in our selves the salvation of the Lord that so we may in truth come to find and to say He is come he is come and made manifest in us whom our souls longed after and behold his reward is with him even joy comfort peace rest and satisfaction to our souls Lo this is the Lord we have waited for him Lo this is our God whom we have waited for now let us rejoyce and be glad in his salvation and praise his Eternal Name I say dear people towards you is the opening and yearning of my bowels in the casting of this my Mite amongst you in the meekness and humility of my soul and the God of Heaven for his own Seed sake make it a service of good to you And then will the onely end of my soul herein be answered thereby who am your friend and one who desires that you of the barren mountains may be gathered and brought down into the low valley into the fresh pastures of life where you may feed with Gods Babes and Lambs and lie down in the fold of rest and peace that you might finde bread in your own houses and water in your cisterns the oyl in the Cruse that will not fail but will satisfie your souls in drought and make fat your bones that you might become like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not Take this as a Salutation of the love good will of my soul to you who am a friend to all people one that owns and desires to tender nourish and strengthen the least appearance of God in any A lover of honesty and uprightness in whomsoever I finde it