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	life_n	lord_n	6,459	5	3.7393	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43731	The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.	Hide, Edmund.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1931A; ESTC R224204	13,185	16

naked and bare for a sign to shew that all their secret evil doings shall be brought into publike view before men and Angels as they are now visible in the sight of God he hath stript me and brought me to have no will of mine own I live not but the Lord he hath instructed me and doth all his works in me and for me therefore O ye men that cry out shame shame for making my body bare know ye that I am neither better nor worse for that this proceeds from the work of God within me he hath taken away the vail and covering of all deceipt in me and take ye the shame unto your selves for none belong unto me because I die to all unrighteousness the Lord hath sent me forth with fire and Sword to proclaim that the day of the wrath of the Lamb is neer at hand wrath to all unrighteous and disobedient actions and my two-edged sword glistering with gold with flaming fire thereon which I received from the Lord do embleme that God will appear in the hearts and minds of men like flaming fire and with the bright spirit of burning will he out and divide us with a two-edged Svvord all that do oppose the righteousness and life of Christ Jesus the day of the Lord is come his harvest is begun he will now separate the tares from the wheat and the precious from the vile therefore O all ye people my will yea the Lords will is that ye cease from wrath and let go displeasure leave off from evil and learne to do well and as ye would that others should do unto you so do ye unto them the Lord hath strengthened my weak hands for this work and bound about my feeble knees with bright glistering gold he hath guarded me with strength even to bring confusion on the rich and mighty which say they have of their own and as the Lord hath bound and guarded me above the brest with a golden girdle so hath he bound my heart from doing violence to any for that spirit which raised me up from the dead is a loving spirit for in love to the truth will he cut off and destroy all proud evil doers from his holy rest but in love and vvith love vvhich is himself will he exalt and strengthen the humble the meek the chast and broken hearted Now to you my Brethren that are thus made by God and are become partakers of the godly nature do I direct this copy of my own hand writing and sure it is that my heart and hand is guided by a power above what the world doth call meum tuum otherwise I should say my house my lands my goods which are proper unto me by the Laws of men and I should be like the world having a wife and relations but now I am as if I had none and use them as I do the world which is as if I used it not the Lord is now come to prove you whether you be dead unto the world with its wayes and fashions traditions and customes for doubtless I am the house of God where judgment is begun and although I have had many tribulations afflictions and fierce trials yet I expect many more before I enter into the Lords rest I dare not judg any man for keeping a competent maintenance considering the worlds cruelty but an Heir of heaven that is a chosen out of the world dareth not claim the priviledg of mans Law to withhold any thing that should relieve his brothers necessity I write not this unto you to shame you or boastingly as if I as a man were better or freer then other men because I give so liberally but I tell you as I told you before the Lord is the giver and taker it is not my will nor goods nor my gift as I am a man neither ought any to receive it as man willing his own will but when the will of God is done in man and mans will is no more then the creature is new and his old covetous self-seeking heart being done away he will receive nothing but for his necessities and that he ought freely to have given him and as the Lord hath freely given me a new heart so let it be freely manifested that the Sower and the Reaper may rejoyce together and how can it be otherwayes God being in us of a truth but you my friends that have made your vaunts and brags and boasted of your freedome in and to God and that if he would require and call for your lives and estates you would be free to sacrifice whatsoever he would call for Consider hath the Lord spared yours and you from the hardship that others are put upon if I speak after the manner of men it is my own condition terrible things so as to flesh and blood are required and imposed upon me by the Lord he hath snatched my life and livelihood from me and stripped me stark naked not suffering one friend to succour me for the present but hath exposed my naked body to the devouring teeth of wilde savage beasts in a barren wildernesse neverthelesse the Spirit of the Lord doth compel me to part with all and obey as aforesaid Now that I might not write of the judgment of others but also write to you what is done in me by the Lord which is in love to all in general NOw my deer friends and people I will write to you in some few lines the work of God which have been upon my spirit in my earth I have had fallen upon me the pure water distilled out of the Rock of God which came down to cleanse the mind and to water my earth so that it might be replenished to bring forth with increase that pure seed of God which he hath sown upon the well-husbandred land for in the new earth doth God plant his Paradise and therein soweth the seed of his blessed Spirit and himself is the Husbandman thereof So that whom he hath made the earth ready which is man he will poure in his love his life his spirit and true righteousness and showeth to me the pure Law and the Gospel fellowship enjuring no man but looketh for encrease Truly friends I am to write to you what I am made by God and no more and what he is made to me is this in the Husbandry of his own work he is this he follows me with peace to all men and makes me to know that a brother is as my self in short to express what I am is to express God or that power in me or that powerful power of God to express it self when Christ who is your life shall appear then shall I appear with him or that Son born in me which is the very express image of God born in man which can declare the Father and accordingly he is love in truth and that is the seed which God hath sown in my earth and when the time of the harvest is it will