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
A95905	A salutation of love unto all who have known the call of God and have in measure believed therein so far as to make open confession to his name and truth, and yet sit down short of the heavenly possession, through want of faithfulness thereunto, so come not to witness a being gathered into God's vineyard, to labour therein, which alone obtains the reward, and fits for his heavenly kingdom / by Richard Vickris.	Vickris, Richard, d. 1700.	1697 (1697)	Wing V340; ESTC R43808	5,873	28

A Salutation OF LOVE Unto all who have known the Call of GOD And have in Measure believed therein so far as to make open Confession to his Name and Truth and yet sit down short of the Heavenly Possession through want of Faithfulness thereunto so come not to Witness a being Gathered into God's Vineyard to Labour therein which alone obtains the Reward and fits for his Heavenly Kingdom By Richard Vickris London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street 1697. A Salutation OF LOVE c. Friends AN unusual Concern is fallen upon me in the Motion of Life and Living Sense of the great Work of God in the Souls of Men and Women and what hinders the Progress of it in tender Love and Desire for the Prosperity of that Work in you all to Visit you with these Lines more especially you of the Northern Division of this County of Somerset who are or may be Concerned and who profess your selves to be of the number of God's People belongs to and sometimes comes to their Meetings and sit as they sit hereby signifying to you that my Heart is Sorrowful and my Spirit Afflicted in the Sense and Consideration of the present Unhappy and future Woful State if you Repent not of some of you who through the Love and Cares of this World forget God and decay in your Love to him who first Loved Visited and Called you by his Grace into his Marvellous Light which Love of the World and Worldly things with the Cares of this Life hath so deeply entered into and taken the Possession of many of your Hearts and Minds that it hath Choaked the good Seed and left little or no place for Heavenly things as is too abundantly Manifested by the great Carelesness and Neglect that many of the Professors of the Truth in this our Day and Time are found in not only in declining in a great Measure their Meeting together with the Lord's People to wait upon him and Worship him in Spirit and Truth especially on Week-days concerning which it hath frequently moved upon the Hearts of some of the Lord's Servants to warn you to be diligent in but when you have found leisure from other Business to present your Bodies sometimes at your First-day Meetings It is to be feared you have not presented your Souls and Spirits as a Living Sacrifice unto God so your Bodily Presence hath not profitted you as to the Worship of God being Dead and Unacceptable unto him And the Reason of this is because your Souls are in the Hand and Power of the Enemy of all our Peace and Happiness who holds you in Captivity and will not let you go to serve the Lord in the Land of the Living so long as you give your Strength to him through the Love of Earthly things For where the Treasure is there will the Heart be also Now that which opens upon my Spirit to Communicate to you in much Love is not only to exhort you to Diligence in Frequenting the Meetings of the Lord's People but in waiting upon him therein that you may witness a stronger than your Souls Enemy to come and bind him and cast him forth and destroy his Goods and so deliver your Souls out of this Woful Captivity and Bondage and this is a Spiritual Work and Profitable Labour and Travel which God hath called you unto that you may come in and Work in his Vineyard Therefore sit no longer Idle but come to the Help of the Lord and you shall find strength from him to Resist and Subdue the Enemy for he is both able and willing to do it The Reason why some are so Careless and Negligent of meeting with the Lord's People to wait upon and worship him is because they Experience so little of the true Benefit of that Exercise when they are amongst them which is occasioned for want of coming in a right Mind and pure Intention towards God and also for want of the Preparation of the Heart through an inward diligent waiting upon God whilst there who only can do it Insomuch that when such come to Meeting they fall into dulness and heaviness of Spirit and some into down-right Sleeping others the Enemy prevails over to busie their Minds with confused Musing and Thoughtfulness sometimes about their worldly Concerns and sometimes what they can Pump up of other things with their earthly Minds which cannot serve God aright or bring forth any Fruit or Sacrifice Acceptable unto him or Edifying to themselves so that their time of Meeting being for the most part thus spent in Captivity and Bondage to the Enemy their Meetings instead of being Comfortable and Profitable becomes tedious and burdensom to them and then in time such grow weary and comes but now and then to keep up a Name amongst Men perhaps when they hear of a stranger and Minister that is like to be at the Meeting such may be forward to come and give their Ears to the Sound of their Words and entertain their Minds with the Variety of the Heavenly and Undeniable Truths that may be delivered and be pleased therewith and Speak well of it For it may be to them as a Lovely Song or as one that Plays well upon an Instrument Yea farther perhaps the Power of Truth may so far reach them and touch their Hearts as to bring them into a good Degree of Sense and Tenderness for the time and the Scales begin to fall from their Eyes and they have some sight of their Condition But like the Natural Man that beholds his Natural Face in a Glass goeth away and forgetteth what manner of Man he was So it falls out with these for want of giving their Ears to God's Word in their own Hearts and the Eye of their Minds to the Blessed Light of his Spirit and Truth therein they Hear and See but as the Natural Man And though such may heap up great Treasures of Knowledge here in their Airy Minds and may think themselves Rich and Full it will not avail them in God's Account who look to the Heart and regards Truth in the inward Parts and all that is short of this will but turn in the end to their greater Condemnation Thus whilst Men are held in Bondage and Captivity to their Soul's Enemy through Earthly and Sensual-mindedness Disobedience and Unfaithfulness to God they are void of a right Exercise at Meetings with relation to the true Worship of God and the longer they live and continue in this state the darker and harder they grow until they become unsensible of their Condition then sits down in Driness and Barrenness not knowing when Good comes until at last they become wholly dead to God and this is a Lamentable State and Condition and of this sort some return with the Dog to the Vomit into the Common Enormities and Pollutions of the World But many there are who have not run to