Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	heart_n	word_n	6,159	5	3.9745	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29305	A tender visitation and friendly exhortation to all the children of truth to be valiant in this day of trial	Brend, William, d. 1676.	1664 (1664)	Wing B4362; ESTC R23805	4,937	10

A Tender Visitation And Friendly EXHORTATION To all the children of Truth to be Valiant in this day of Trial. UNto you the chosen and beloved of God born of the Royal seed and brought forth of the womb of eternal love and children of one Father nursed and brought up by the nourishment of the sincere milk of the living eternal Word growing into the stature of Christ and of his fulness receiving strength day by day by which you are begotten unto this lively hope to know the resurrection of the Just and holy off-spring and vertuous life of the only Son of God who is the brightness of the fathers glory and is full of grace and truth O how is my heart affected with the unchangable love and life which dwells with him for ever who is the fountain of living water and from him doth plentifullie flow forth of the same into the hearts of them that he hath freely called and chosen to bear his name in their foreheads and hath received the lively image of his eternal power which worketh mightilie in all that believe and have waited for his salvation which is now revealed in this the day of his might and power O the great and notable day of God that is come to us with his wonderful arme of everlasting strength to prepare us for himself and to arm us with his armour that is invincible that no assault of all the weapons of unrighteousness can prevaile against O now we are warriors in the lambs power and with him do fight the great battail in this the day of God almightie what remains for us but to fill up the measure of his sufferings that if we suffer with him we may raign in the glorious life which riseth in our hearts to give us the victorie over sin death and hell and him that is the Prince of the power of the aire the spirit that now rules in the children of disobedience which are such as disobeys the light by which they are lighted and so persecutes the children of the light and still invents new weapons of deceiveablness of unrighteousness with their wiles and snares if it were possible to draw us into the pit of darkness in which they wallow up and down and are drunk with the spirit of darkness which makes them reel to and fro but God hath made known unto us the stable everlasting truth and only way of salvation that we may be a fixed people not like wandring stars nor blazing Comets to make a great appearance and shew in the time of prosperitie when no persecution is but when the Dragon is up with the strength of his power of darkness and that he appears in the open field like Gog and Magog to incamp the Saints of the most high And so appearing as if he would devoure and swallow up and destroy all before him and when the Captain of the Philistine Band comes forth to defie the God of Israel and to destroy his little Camp then not to hide the head but in the faith of little David to come forth as with a sling and a stone to the wounding of this great Goliah and so to discomfit the whole Hoast of the Philistine Band of carnal Warriors O my friends we do not now Wrestle with flesh and blood but against principalities and against powers and the rulers of the darkness of this World and against spiritual wickedness in high places and therefore had need to be furnished with the spiritual Armour of God and to be filled with his righteous power And that now in this day to put on the whole armour of him not here a little and there a piece but to be like armed souldiers that is going into the open field into a hot battail and in the face of a cruel resolved enemie to kill and lay waste all before him so that in this the day wherein every one having a testimony in their hearts for God may feele him preparing and furnishing them with a full resolution to encounter and give this cruel resolved enemy battail that we may see the Lord fighting for mount Sion and for the hill thereof O my friends and brethren of this camp of God we have a faithful and valiant Captain whose cause it is that we are ingaged in and can there be a more Nobler and Honourable cause then the cause we have undertaken and God hath called us by the sound of his eternal Word that hath awakened our hearts and is a furnishing and arming of his with the spirit that yet was never overcome nor conquered nor never shall be though many of his faithful Warriors have not loved their lives unto death for this cause and so have falne a sleep as to the outward man yet hath been Conquerors in the Lord and life of the Lamb over all the enemies and have had an eternal Crown of life and peace set upon their heads And so it 's not being conquered because of suffering but it 's a Crown and Victory won by being faithful unto death and continuing in the well-doing And therefore this is a Visitation and a brotherlie and friendly Invitation or Exhortation to all to come forth in the true armour of light to ingage in faithfulness in this blessed War and Work of God O let none be intangled with the fears of the loss of this carnal outward life neither let the hearts of any be incumbred with the many things of this World O let all that makes mention of the name of the Lord and of his living truth not be drawn aside from the holding of it forth by any fears of the loosing these outward enjoyments but let all be given up to the Lord and for his living truth that must raign and rule for ever that so none may lose their part and portion in it when it shall have the throne over all O we that are chosen and faithful are the lambs Warriors and must War in faithfulness unto the end of our race we have to run while we have a being in this mortal that mortalitie may be swallowed up of life O every one that is turned to the light of the Lord and from the darkness of this world is concerned in this day of the lambs War and all who have waited for the great day of Gods salvation to be redeemed out of the many things into that World that hath no end O the Kingdom that we War for is glorious and shall endure for ever It is a Kingdom of righteousness and of peace it s a Kingdom of life and love rest and assurance for ever a Kingdom that hath no end It 's a Kingdome that raigns over all the Kingdoms of men and all that are begotten by the Word of this Kingdom and into the measure of this hope to wait to feel the resurrection of the Just one are subjects of this Kingdom and have a part and portion therein and so are concerned in the weightie matters of it O my friends