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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60625	An epistle from the spirit of love and peace, unto all the upright Israelites, who are born of the seed that is blessed for evermore with some things opened concerning the two seeds : to be read amongst Friends, when in the fear of God they are met together in the same spirit, that thereby the whole body may be edified, and comforted, and all in one life, perfectly established for ever : this is only to goe amongst Friends, and not otherwise / W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4296; ESTC R16573	8,735	13

AN EPISTLE From the SPIRIT of Love and Peace Unto all the upright Israelites who are born of the SEED that is blessed for evermore With some things opened concerning the two Seeds To be read amongst Friends when in the fear of God they are met together in the same Spirit that thereby the whole body may be edified and comforted and all in one life perfectly established for ever This is only to goe amongst Friends and not otherwise W. S. Printed in the year 1663. An Epistle YEe Lambs of God pertakers of the heavenly calling who have tasted and doe taste of the endlesse life in which ye feel the love wherewith God loves you in the same love I am present with you all where I behold you and feell you as the blessed of the Lord and in his love I am moved in true tenderness to manifest unto you what in his life is fresh upon me and though there be many of you amongst whom my travel in body hath not been yet my travel in Spirit is daily on your behalf even breathing in the Spirit for the good and welfare of you all for you being brought before me as one body and beholding you as the gathered of the Lord his love did open plentifully in me to you wards and as a fresh and living stream doth reach you in your habitations that yee thereby may be edified and comforted for what is our travel and labour of love but to inform one another and edifie one another in the truth of God and to build up one another as dear children born of one life in which life we are comforted together and have comfort one in another you it is that from the beginning have seen the mighty Acts of God and are sensible of the power that hath preserved you unto this present time you can read the former mercies and you can read the present mercies and there is not any benefit slips out of your mindes but the true sence of all mercies remains with you and you can read them to your souls comfort it need not be repeated what God hath done for you because you are kept in the fresh sence of what he is doing and thereby feel him to be the same to day as yesterday Yea and much more abundant for your hearts and minds being single unto God so doth the Seed of God shed abroad the fresh streams rivers of life in which ye having taken root and feeling the nourishment of the same and springing up through the nourishment which ye receive ye are the true Israelites indeed not after the flesh but after the Spirit in which Spirit yee receive life according to measure and in the drawings and leadings of the Spirit goes on from one degree of godliness to another and so growes into a larger measure of the life and of the glory and still presses forward to the marke for many may run but it is one onely that obtains the prize for the Spirit is but one and it is by the Spirit that life is obtained and they that run in the Spirit they onely obtain the prize and having obtained it they know there is nothing beyond it and that all things below it have there period in it for the life is the one and the only true good there is no higher dispensation to be expected neither is there any thing besides it true now ye that are come to the endless life ye are come to the onely true spirit of love and peace and ye have your satisfaction and consolation in the vertue that proceeds from it for in it self it is the fulnesse of everlasting blessednesse and whatsoever would point you unto any thing beyond it as some more excellent and glorious administration do not yeild your selves to answer it for that will run you into apprehensions conceptions and comprehensions and so draw your minds from the measure of Gods spirit wherein the love and life and grace of God is freely dispensed and whilest you are so drawn to expect what may be you will loose the favour of life that is present and so run into divers apprehensions and conceptions whielst you seemingly may be waiting upon the life but the mind being singly stayed in the measure of the spirit received Every one comes to see and feel their own attainment in the love life grace and mercy of God not by any apprehension but by an Infallible seal in the Spirits demonstration whereby they feel their own place and standing to be sure in the spirit and so hold unity in the spirit in every degree of the spirit and they are truly contented with their own attainments and where any are behind them and travelling in the same spirit they labour in love to bring such forward in the drawings of the spirit and so into the place unto which they have attained before them and then goes forward in the movings of the spirit to attain what they have not yet attained but for any to hould forth a higher dispensation generally as if none had already attained and to look at their place and standing to be higher then those that have attained this is to set up Prophesies before the birth of the Son and therefore it is safe for every one to consider their own place and standing and unto what they have attained to walk by the same rule and to mind the same thing still pressing forward in the Spirit to attain what is set before them and to gather such as are behind them to come unto them for none can gather into any higher place or degree in the spirit then the same place into which they have attained and in which they stand wherein they being contented and eying the leadings of the spirit they look to the mark before them and they look at those that are following after them in the same spirit and so the love hath a free cour●e throughout the whole body and draw the weak and feeble which are yet following on in singleness of heart and cherishes them in the true tenderness that they may come up into the same place unto which any is attained in a higher degree for though many experiences may be declared which in themselves may be really true yet at the highest they are but effects wrought by the spirit and that which worketh is greater then that which is wrought and is worthy of more honour and it is not tyed or limited unto experiences but worketh according to the good pleasure of its own will and they that have passed through any experiences in the leadings of the Spirit they are to inform the minds of all unto the Spirit and leave the effect to it 's own pleasure which may work the same Experience or another Experience by the operation of it's own power and though Experiences may not fully be the same in every place yet there may be a true growth witnessed in the Spirit and a going forward into the liberty of