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	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85310	Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel.	Man of their councel.	1649 (1649)	Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075	23,108	31

at hand Summer is neer even at the door for the Fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the Vines with the tender Grapes give a good smell every creature hath a sweet smell of God in it God is written in lively characters upon every creature in heaven and earth There is in all these more or less a giving and resigning up to the sweet and gracious dispose of the Lord As the Lord passes before them so are they ashamed and confounded in themselves for when he appeareth who can ●…an●… By which you may know the Day of the Lord draws neer therefore say not it is afar off for it is neer and shall overtake you even ere you are aware and your souls shall be made like the charets of Aminadah A Second WORD TO THE CHURCHES YOu have a name that you live you have the image and representation of God amongst you you assume to your selves the name of the Churches of God Churches of the Gospel of clear light and yet live in the darkness and cloudiness of your own spirits You have made flesh and forms your habitation you have offered upon every mountain and sacrificed under every green tree and bowed to graven images You have in truth so hug'd and embraced the outmost and lowermost dispensations of God as you will not nor durst not leave them for the enjoyment of a pure and naked God You have known Christ after the flesh and have eat and drunk with him in this fleshly way you have seen the miracles that he hath wrought and the wonders he hath done among men and you by him have repented and turned from your own works of righteousness to the righteousness of God as thus held forth unto you And you have had much sweetness and comfort under all these for the Lord hath lived in them Now saith the Lord unto you Behold I go to my Father I withdraw from the creature and ascend into my own glory into my pure self I leave the earth I will abide no more in the Temple I will forsake my dwelling place Note the word God doth sometimes leave his dwelling place I have made my abode and dwelt in Water Bread and Wine in the observation of days in praying fasting reading writing preaching hearing I will now leave them all O then sorrow fills your hearts and you begin to weep and lament seeing the flesh of Christ crucified before you hung between two theeves but his Holy One cannot dye nor see corruption but his flesh is abased shamed disgraced the Lord gives up those garments and vestures wherewith he was clothed to the moth to devour to the enemy to make a prey of and the worldly Christian parts his garments and casts lots for them and rejoyces in the spoil and embalms the body of the Lord with sweet spices though the soul and life is departed from it yea though it be but a meer carcass the spirit of Christ leaving it yet this poor man loves it as much as ever delights and pleases himself in it and Christ being dead and buried you go to his Sepulchre wherein he is layd seeking for him and Mary-like ask the Angels where your Lord is they answer He is not here he is risen why seek ye the living among the dead You go to fasting and prayer and enquire saying Did you see the Lord No say they He is not here He was here for three days but he is risen and gone Then you go from one Church to another from society to society and enquire but he is not here say they he is risen Then you go to the rudiments of the world to elementary things and they give you the same answer saying He was here but he is risen behold the linnen clothes and the napkin in which he lay you may see his grave-clothes his outward garments his several and sundry appearances but he is gone he hath left them all Then you begin to be afraid you know not what to do now you have lost your Lord and there is nothing now remaining to take pleasure in and to enjoy but a few grave-clothes some old cast-off garments no place now to live in but a desolate and forsaken house a habitation for Dragons and a Court for Owls a place which the wilde beasts of the field have made their rest Object But you may object and say We are a Church formed according to the pattern in the Mount according to the Scriptures prescribed by Christ and the Apostles and in obedience to these we walk and abide Answ You are much below even all the visible Churches on earth that pure and primitive order in the Apostles days you have not that pure infallible doctrine to deliver as they had nor that clearness of the Spirit poured down upon you the Holy Ghost not falling upon you in cloven tongues as upon them nor that oneness of minde as to sell all and lay it down at the Apostles or Churches feet you have not so learned Christ you cannot do greater works then ever Christ himself did when he was upon earth and that because Christ is ascended Yours at the best is but an earthly weak erring imperfect Ministry a worldly Sanctuary a Baptism of Water not of the Spirit that which as John said decreases not increases a doctrine which because of the weakness of it cannot go beyond Repentance Faith Hope Baptisms Resurrection of the dead and eternal Judgment with laying on of hands All which are but milk for babes yet you are always contenting and satisfying your selves with such a baby-condition not going in your selves nor suffering without offence those that would nay you will not move a step beyond these but asperse as erroneous and blasphemous all such that pass through hope and faith to sight and enjoyment through the Flesh into the Spirit and it is unseemly to name the word perfection as attainable among you But further were you as perfect and compleat in all things as the Apostles were yet must you with such a Ministry and Church cease and give in for behold a greater then the Apostles and Prophets is here here is one standing among you whom you know and see not as yet that will not own Paul Peter and John in this Apostleship there being no manner of co-parnership in it and that it may appear that the Apostolical Ministry and Doctrine was but to continue its time and age doth Christ himself when upon earth manifest as much to us Matth. 28.20 Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and behold I am with you alway or every day even to the consumption of this age So the Greek reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the singular number not in the plural number as in other places where it is used for ever the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Peter bears witness hereto 2 Pet. 3.12 13. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the

be to the righteous and terror to the wicked How would we have separated between the precious and the vi●e And this have the people long expected from your hands but behold oppression ernesty and revenge slaying the innocent and righteous ones whom God would have kept alive You have discovered the covering of Judah and treacherously slain your friend and brethren and given up Judah to the sword and Israel to captivity And in that day did the Lord of hoasts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine giving gifts and taking rewards and thus your are feasted with the blood of the righteous and drunk with their blood until you fall and never rise again Behold Tythes the great oppression of the Nation with its treble damages recoverable of the People if refused though you rule and your own consciences with others are against it yet will you have it so Who would have thought that you would have maintained such a company of Priests whom God as you know and say hath spued cut of his mouth and yet that you should support their Diana and nourish those dark places of the Land called and reputed of many the two eyes of the Land the fountain and seed-plots of all good learning and become Doctors Masters and Fellows in Babels arts and sciences bringing stone timber and morter to the building that City and Tower whose top may reach to Heaven But this is a fruit of the blood of the Saints which you have shed and a return of praise to the Holy One who in his descension upon men was crucified by you Nay how can you suffer faithful members to be excluded the House for professing and asserting the pure Divinity of God no way mixt or compounded That God is not three but one and not many gods as you in your imaginations think That there is no such thing in God though to men as Father Son and Spirit but all one in God though not in man and is thereby onely distinct to men and that to the darkness of men not to the light of God within them which reads God under another notion for that Soul beholds him all love excellency and goodness and this in all his ways to all in all upon all and that this God neither is or can be divided not admitting a seam in his garment Nay what enmity is there in your spirits or at least in your actions to Papists not suffering them or men in gross darkness viz. the Prelates who being in the dark and under cloudy dispensations of God should therefore have the going forth of the morning among them that they might be brought out of darkness into light and won by that love and meekness that is or should be in you to them yea I say not admitting them into the liberty and freedom with your selves I know your hearts you could many of you tolerate Papists and Prelates among you but that the Nation look upon them under such a gross notion that you to please men dare not do it thinking hereby your repute and credit among men will fall to the ground and be esteemed by many such your selves And therefore to retain and keep up your glory among men will you break the rules of love mercy and goodness and make shipwrack of your own and others consciences Yea you can command the People to fast and restrain the Nation from working on those days annexing penalties as formerly to the breach thereof thereby bringing in those legal and Mosaical Fastings Jewish and National which Christ by a more pure and glorious ministration hath abolished Nay let me discover what I know of you viz. That many if not the most of you are wholy dead in your selves to fastings of that nature your souls loathing it but onely that the Nation may judg you to be religious and zealous to make every one your proselite and not deem you to be for such an universal toleration of all sects and sorts of men in their religion until the day and pure glory of God break forth causing all darkness to sly before it yea turning the Sun into darkness and the Moon into blood not admitting any thing save this pure light then to be and converse among men I say for this cause do you thus dissemble with the Nation and seem as if you accounted the peoples fastings a sacrifice that God accepts Object But you may peradventure say through the hardness and obduracy of your hearts This is sedition and a stirring up and enraging the people against you Answ Though I might or could by means procure it I would not lift up or have a sword lifted up against you nor a hand in wrath and indignation The worst mischief I would do you were it in my power would be to create a heart of love and peace among you to engrave upon all your hearts and upon the hearts of the whole Nation an entire perfect union and agreement in God and a beating of your swords into plow shares and your spears into pruning hooks and to learn war no more I am for peace but you are for war and in times of peace shed blood therefore hath the Lord prepared you a cup to drink and you shall drink deep of it Death shall swallow you up alive and the grave shall open for you and hell shall be your portion because they that have killed with the sword shall be killed by the sword and they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity This is a sweet word wait for the fulfilling of it The Lord will destroy you all the Lord will give you blood to drink you shall drink and be drunken with your own blood It is a mystery and you it may be understand it not and therefore admire it Remember you not the voyce of the Church of old In the way of thy judgments have we waited for thee O Lord Great is the mystery of godliness thus it is You have shed the blood of thousands thousands you have have wasted Cities Countries c God hath provided a double portion for you and both of judgment and destruction The one is to destroy your flesh to give it up to the sword A second to cut off two parts of you out of the land of the living First The Lord will destroy your flesh and make a great slaughter among you even of your reason wisdom judgment credit glory repute all that is flesh in you to lay your glory in the dust to turn your wisdom into folly to burn up your righteousness holiness to give you a new heart to destroy that warlike envious and bloody spirit that is in you to create peace in all your dwellings and love in all your hearts not suffering any thing of the earth to have a being among you in no wise admitting flesh and blood entrance into