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	nature_n	5,718	5	5.3460	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86665	The immediate call to the ministry of the Gospel, witnessed by the spirit: vvith a true declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne, James Parnell, Ann Blayling, by Will. Pickering, who is Mayor of Cambridge. Also an answer to divers letters and mittimusses, against the said prisoners, answered; by them who are sufferers for the truth, and for the testimony of Jesus, Richard Hubberthorn, James Parnell.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3225; Thomason E812_13; ESTC R207636	16,317	15

hath no profit by him but is in the state of reprobation as the Scripture witnesseth 2 Cor 12. 5 Object 9. That she said they that have the Spirit cannot fall into sicknesse diseases distempers of the body Reply Here again thou art taken with a lie in thy mouth for what she said as concerning this was concerning her own condition since she witnessed the Spirit of the Lord Object 10. That she doth not seek to lead men to the Scripture but from them Reply This is false for they who witnesse the life of the Scripture cannot deny the Scripture for it is their own but thou and such swinish natures as thou must be shut out of the Scripture who takes to talk of or to make a trade of and are ignorant of the life and would destroy the life who have the form but deny the power 2 Tim. 3. 5. such must be shut out of the Scripture for what should swine doe with pearles Mat. 7. 6. whose life is in husks and there thou feeds and all who have the letter and wants the life Object 11. That she said no man ought to swear before a Magistrate and that no Magistrate ordained of God will cause men to swear and thou brings the old Covenant to maintain swearing Gen. 24. 3. Reply Hear every way thou Serpent pleads for thy life which is sin but Christ the new Covenant who is the end of the old Covenant said that it had been said in the old time thoushalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oath Mat. 5 33 34. but I say swear not at all yet the devill in thee runs into the old Covenant to maintain swearing and so would have Scripture to maintain his Kingdome but the day hath made him manifest and those who puts any to swear are still in the old Covenant for in the new Covenant no swearer can come Object 12. That she said men ought not to pray and that I my self ought not to pray Reply Even now thou wast pleading for swearing and now thou art pleading for praying but the prayer of the wicked are abominable Prov. 15. 8. and thou who art a drunkard art wicked and hath nothing to pray but Cains generation murdering the righteous whose Sacrifices the Lord will not accept but he that can witness Christ risen can pray Object 13. That the Scripture doth not trie the Spirit Reply The Spirit was before the letter was and thou hast the letter but canst not trie the Spirit but those who have the Spirit of the Lord have tried thy spirit without the letter and hath found it to be the Spirit of the devill who hath ever reviled and persecuted the truth of God which calleth the doctrine of Christ damnable doctrine And thou sayest thou wilt justifie that all these her sayings are false and will be ready to maintain them by this power Reply I doe testifie and witnesse by the Spirit of the Lord that thou art a naturall carnall man and knowes not the things of God 1 Cor. 2 14. therefore thou Serpent be silent and talk nor meddle not with the things least he come with a bigger power then thine and cut the asunder and cast thee into the lake that burneth then shalt thou know what thou hast done and all who plot and lay their heads together devising how to shed the innocent bloud it were better for them they had never been born Mat. 23 35 for upon that generation shall come all the righteous Abel even untill now and this I witnesse by the Spirit of the Lord who am chosen out of the world to be a faithfull witnesse for the truth of God against all who doe oppose it JAMES PARNELL A Prisoner for the testimony of JESUS at Cambridge