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	member_n	6,321	5	7.6695	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54042	Many deep considerations have been upon my heart concerning the state of Israel both past, present, and to come, some of which I find drawings to communicate : together with some questions and answers concerning unity.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1178; ESTC R25581	11,417	16

the Lord hath mercy and love in it to answer their states and will give it out in his day and season O let none be offended thereat Let no eye throughout all Israel be evil because the Lord is exceeding good If he please to kill the fatted Calf and set it before his Prodigal Son let none that have walked faithfully with him in any dispensation be offended thereat but rather let all in whom is Life stand ready to shout at the issuings forth of love and mercy in the varieties of the dispensations thereof according to the need and capacity of every sort of Vessels prepared by the Lord to receive it Therefore O thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted thou shalt know and feel this from the Lord that he knoweth how to bring home his consolations to thy soul and to cast thee into the mold of his Life and bring thee forth in the power of his righteousness and that he needeth not to find any worthyness or righteousness in thee for he can create and make room for it in thy heart yea he can begin carry on and perfect his work in thee for his own Names sake And to thee O broken soul I cannot so much say Do this or believe this but rather The Lord will work in thee yea the Lord will quicken Faith in thee and raise up his own Nature from the Seed of his own Life which he himself hath sown in thy inward parts and will not fail to preserve Besides this broken state of thine wherein the vileness and weakness of self is daily felt with the exceeding great need of the Lords preserving power and mercy is a safe state towards which that which alone preserveth is continually issuing forth in the bowels of its tenderness And though thou dost not see the love of the Lord and his tender care over thee and so wantest the comfort of thine own condition yet it is never a whit the less in the heart and spirit of the Lord towards thee and in divers respects I may say it is better for thee at present to want the sight of it I am satisfied in my heart concerning the nature and ways of the Lord and I know there is that Mercy in him which my soul crieth for and that it is not onely treasured up but about to be issued forth towards those for whose sakes the cry is unto him for it The Lord will arise and have mercy upon Sion even upon the mourners and distressed ones in Sion he will say to them who are of a fearful heart and mourn bitterly because of their unbelief finding themselves as unable to Believe now for Righteousness as ever the Jews were to Work for it be strong stand still wait on me your God behold my righteousness is ready to be revealed and I am bringing that faith with me which ye want to give your souls the enterance into my Promises and into my Divine Nature promised Ye are my Lambs and my bosom is for you and thither will I gather you yea ye have already conceived and are with young though ye know it not and I will lead you on gently in a way that ye cannot nor never shall know as ye would know it but shall not want or miss of that knowledge thereof that I see good for you I will beget a deeper Life in you and bring it forth after a deeper way of dispensation than ye have yet been acquainted with or than your understandings can comprehend but in the death which I am bringing upon you and in the travelling pangs which ye shall feel in your hearts shall it spring up in you and be brought forth O dear Lambs mind the quickenings of Life and the savour and sence which the Lord begets in the heart and let the outward knowledge even of what ye have had experience go but as the Lord quickens it and mind not the noises of thoughts and reasonings about things which the soul's enemy will be striving to fill you with and batter you by but sink down from these and wait to feel that which lyes beneath them in the free nature life vertue power and motions whereof alone is your soul's salvation and if ye cannot receive the sence of this direction at present wait on the Lord either for it or for what other manifestation or tender help he shall please to give forth unto you Some Questions and Answers concerning Spiritual Unity Quest 1. VVHat is Spiritual Unity Answ The meeting of the same spiritual nature in divers in one and the same spiritual center or streams of Life When the spirits or souls of creatures are begotten by one Power into one Life and meet in heart there so far as they thus meet there is true Unity among them Quest 2. Wherein doth this Unity consist Answ In the Life in the Nature in the Spirit wherein they are all begotten and of which they are formed and where their meeting is It consists not in any outward or inward thing of an inferiour nature but onely keeps within the limits and bounds of the same Nature The doing the same thing the thinking the same thing the speaking the same thing this doth not unite here in this state in this nature but onely the doing or thinking or speaking of it in the same Life Yea though the doings or thoughts or words be divers yet if they proceed from the same Principle and Nature there is a true Unity felt therein where the Life alone is judge Quest 3. How is this Unity preserved Answ Onely by abiding in the Life onely by keeping to the Power and in the Principle from whence the Unity sprang and in which it stands Here is a knitting of Natures and a fellowship in the same spiritual center Here the divers and different motions of several members in the body thus coming from the Life and Spirit of the Body are known to and owned by the same Life where it is fresh and sensible It is not keeping up an outward knowledge or belief concerning things that unites nor keeping up an outward conformity in actions c. for these may be held and done by another part in man and in another nature but it is by keeping and acting in that which did at first unite In this there is neither matter nor room for division and he that is within these limits cannot but be found in the oneness Quest 4. How is this Unity interrupted Answ By the interposition of any thing of a different nature or spirit from the Life When any thing of the earthly or sensual part comes between the Soul and the Life this interrupts the Soul's unity with the Life it self and it also interrupts its unity with the Life in others and the unity of the Life in others with it Any thing of the man's spirit of the man's wisdom of the man's will not bowed down and brought into subjection and so not coming forth in and under the