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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	nature_n	soul_n	16,493	5	5.5392	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31171	Quæries propounded to George Fox and his ministers to answer from a paper wrote by George Fox, intituled An epistle from the people called Quakers to all people to read over ... / by a lover of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Ghost for the Christ and mans saviour, as that promised seed that God to Adam said should break the Serpents head.	R. C.	1669 (1669)	Wing C113; ESTC R29621	14,021	22

that Christ shed for cleansing from all sin or by Faith see the merit of the blood shed upon the Cross to the receiving the promise to wit the Spirit that cleanseth the conscience from all sin Whether Christ is the true light as he is the Son of God personally come in flesh without man or the light in the conscience be the true light and Saviour that is in Man explain Whether since we are to wait upon Christ for the receiving of his Spirit is Man to wait upon the light in his conscience as his Christ and giver of the Spirit or upon Christ who is without him as the Christ and sender of the true Spirit explain Whether Peters witness in his conscience who confessed to Christ to be the Son of God who had the words of Eternal Life was not as much God and Christ as the witness in you explain Whether Peter trusted in the witness in his conscience for his Saviour or expected Salvation by it and not in Christ that said unto him when thou art converted strengthen the b●ethren explain Whether Cornelius that feared God and walked righteously before him in Prayers Fastings and giving of Alms from an awakened conscience that stood in subjection to God had Salvation from the light in his conscience or from Christ the Son of God whom Peter preached to him for Saviour without him explain Whether Cornelius did believe the witness in his conscience to be God and Christ and to this witness as God or Christ Fasted Prayed and gave Alms that by his works his witness as God or Christ should save him or did he believe on God who hath made the Heavens and the Earth whose dwelling is in that high and lofty place of Eternity explain And being said Zacheus this day is Salvation come to thy house whether it was Christ that brought Salvation who that day came to him he being the Saviour that gives Salvation or Zacheus light in his conscience that that day brought Salvation unto h● explain Whether the witness or light in Pauls conscience that lead h● to persecute the church of Christ from his zeal he had to Go● being instructed in Moses Law was God Christ or Saviour Christ even Jesus of Nazareth who spoke to him in a bright shini● light out of Heaven Saul Saul why persecutest thou me explain Since it is said Christ in you the hope of Glory whether Chri●● be in Man before he is revealed by God in Man explain For is written that the Spirit of Christ the World cannot receiv● because said he they do not believe on me And Christ being revealed in Man whether it means himself i● person or his Spirit who give the knowledge of God in the Fac● of Christ by bringing in the light of Christ in which he is gloryf●ed into tho heart that fills the heart with exceeding joy in believing explain Since that Paul saith While in the body absent fre●● the Lord and thence desires to go hence to be present with the Lord. And in that the body must be put off for that it hinders the inward Man in its being with the Lord Quaery what is this inward man Is it a creature or is it God Is it the Spirit of Man that God said he would not always contend with for if he should i● would fail before him and the Soul that God hath made or is it Christ explain And the inward man of the heart being absent from Christ the Lord whilst it is in this body whether Christ as he is in his own being be not distinct and apart of himself without and separate from his creatures and the Man in heart distinct and apart as a creature and own self subsistence explain Whether the ownness of Christ and his Saints be such an incorporated unity that from their conjunction with him they are o● Christ without seperability or whether the Union of the Saints 〈◊〉 God and Christ be the heavenly injoyment wherein the is fel●wship with God and Christ in the light explain Since in divine writ it is said of God I the Lord create the darkness 〈◊〉 form the light whether the light that God formed is not natural 〈◊〉 since it is also said if the light in you be darkness how great is that ●dness which light in man being his sight is it of any other quality 〈◊〉 the light of nature which God hath formed explain And the light in man being but a formed light that God hath created ●hether this light be Christ the son of God as the word that was ●od that with the creature is become the Christ and mans Saviour ●●plain And since of man it is written that he is the Image of God whether he 〈◊〉 the Image of God as God is God in his Deity or is the Image of ●od in a creatural form from Gods principles of nature explain And if man be the Image of God in his Deity as God is God who out and beyond all nature and creature how is it possible otherwise be but so many men so many Gods explain and if this could in ●y possibility be admitted then is not the omnipotency in the crea●re as a God and if so how is it possible for him to be condemned And since the light and darkness is the creation of god and but his ●eation it is manifest the creation is not he himself and the creature ●ing a substance created out of nature having in him darkness and ●ght whether the creature in his creat be as a creature any thing more ●t a creature consisting of a natural make explain And since the Body returns to dust and the Spirit to God that gave 〈◊〉 what is the nature of that body and its properties and what is the ●ature of the Spirit and the properties of it in that it goeth to God ●at gave it at the breaking of the body since it never dyeth but abideth ●ever explain And since you say that the soul of Man is not a creature and that th● soul is saved or damned and that the soul is of an Eternal subsistency whether if the soul is no creature is it God and if God doth he sav● part of himself in some men and part of himself in others damn explain For the rest of your Paper I pass it over acknowledging that thes● principles for yours have been published to the World before now to wit 1. That the light of or in conscience a measure whereof every man hath that comes into the world is Christ the Justifier th● advocate the mediator the Redeemer and the Saviour 2 That th● sufferings death resurrection and ascention of Christ and his blood i● but the professors stuff 3. That Christ was not Christ in his person but that which was Christ was something that was in his person 4. That Christ dyed not for satisfaction but for example 5. Tha● the mercy of God without any satisfaction by Christ made to God fo● man doth save the creature as

he should see him at the last day whether if Christ be not Christ in person what is become of the Patriarks and Prophets since for salvation on him they put their trust explain Since in his body as the scriptures say he bore our sins and carried our griefs and was smitten for our transgressions through whose stripes we are healed for that God laid on him the iniquity of us all whether he be to be beleived for Christ in this his personal capacity according to the Scriptures or that the light in the conscience a measure of which every man hath that is born into the world be he the Christ of which nothing in the Scriptures explain for that the Scriptures say that by the death of the body upon the cross he reconciled us unto God and that he foretold his death and that he would raise it up from death in three days VVhether Christ as he is King Preist and Prophet whom God hath made higher then the Heavens be the Christ that appeared to his disciples after his resurrection from the dead in that body he bid them handle and see saying it is I myself for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have or the light in your consciences is the Christ that God hath exalted higher then the Heavens as King Priest and Prophet explain And in that Christ was transfigured in his Apostles sight with the appearance of Moses and Elias on the Mount whether was he transfigured as Christ in his person without them or was it the light in his Apostles consciences within them explain Since they said Master it is good that we stay here let us make three Tabernacles one for Thee one for Moses and one for Elias And in that it is said concerning Christs ascention while he was speaking these things he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight and this same Jesus shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into Heaven whom the Heaven must receive until the time of restitution of all things whether he thus ascended be not now Christ the glorified of the Father WITHOUT us as well as he was Christ when he was upon earth WITHOUT them explain And in that he said I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and to your God whether he spoke of himself as the Christ personal in ● body without them or of a Christ you call light within you explain ●or that the faith of his Disciples was on him as Christ without them ●s their Doctrine by the Scriptures at large doth show And if the light that was in his Apostles consciences was not Christ but he their Master who taught them to beleive on him to be 〈◊〉 the Christ that believing they might be saved whether you by affirming that the witness in you is Christ which witness you call light ●e not a Christ of your inventions and ANOTHER CHRIST ●hen what is the Christ of God explain And in that it saith he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his and that none can receive the spirit but he who beleiveth on Christ who is the giver of the spirit whether the spirit you walk by is the spirit of Christ or the power of Magick explain since you deny him to be the Christ that in his p●rson was the offering for sin and the Saviour of the world and instead of him set up the light of nature to be the Christ and its power for your Saviour Whether the revelation that was given to John was given by Christ the glorified of the Father in his person in heaven or from Johns light in his conscience John being on earth explain Whether the Lamb that sits upon the throne of the antient of days who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore be Christ and giver of eternal life to them that believe and follow him in the regeneration or the light in conscience a measure whereof every man hath that cometh into the world be Christ explain for that the light in every mans conscience is the light of creation but the gift of God is the spirit of Christ that brings unto the travelling soul the light of Christ by revelation according to the promise through beleiving on him Whether the blood of Christ that attoned for man with God was blood quatenus blood from and off his humanity or the life of Christ as Christ is God is it without the blood of his humanity the attoner explain and if it be the life in Christ as Christ is God that attones and the blood of Christ as Christ is man not that that doth attone show how the life of God is blood and unto what use it served his shedding of the blood of his man-hood Whether the righteousness of Christ that Christ puts upon his Saints be not the righteousness of Faith by believing on him as justifier from his perfect obedience to God by his fulfilling the requirings of God in the Law explain for that it is written blessed is the ●●rn whose sins are pardoned and whose iniquities are covered again blessed is the man to whom God imputeth not sin Quaeries upon the fifth page WHether since you say that God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son to dye for the World that they ●●at believe on him should not perish but have everlasting Life whether ●hat Son of God be Christ that the Angels told the Shepherds was that ●ay born for a Saviour whom they should find laid in a manger who was wrapt up in swadling cloaths whose name God said should be called Jesus or is the light in conscience that within you he explain Whether he that was conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary as he persona ly walked upon the Earth in substance of a Man be Christ and the only begotten Son of God and Mans Saviour is thus he was without them or is the light in conscience the Christ and the Saviour as it is light in conscience within man explain Whether Christ or the Apostles at any time taught the light in man for the Christ and the Saviour or Christ the man in person without them for the Christ and Saviour explain Whether Christ that came into the VVorld to save the World who while he was in the World was the light of the World being gone out of the World unto his Father be not now the light of the World by the ministration of preaching through the operation of his Spirit as he was the light of the world when in the world by the ministration of preaching of his death sufferings and resurrecition explain Since his being in the world was to work Salvation for the world by his death and being gone out of the world now manifests the Salvation which while being in the world he wrought being risen from the dead Whether the Faith of Gods elect that purifieth the heart and giveth