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	lord_n	name_n	6,530	5	5.1879	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54253	A bright shining light discovering the pretenders to it : recommended to the people called Quakers / published for throwing down at idols, and all idolatrous worship, in and amongst that people, or in any other whatsoever, by Phil. Ang.	Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1404; ESTC R33343	5,801	10

A BRIGHT SHINING LIGHT Discovering the Pretenders to it Recommended to the People CALLED QUAKERS PUBLISHED For throwing down of Idols and all Idolatrous Worship in and amongst that People or in any other whatsoever By Phil. Ang. His Spirit was stirred in him when he saw the City wholly given to Idolatry And the Lord said I will cast off this City Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I said my Name shall be there LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Francis Smith Bookseller at the Elephant Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1680. A bright shining Light c. THere is nothing to be known of Christ in the Spirit and in the Mystery by all the highest Forms in the whole World For we see many live in them yet never come to enjoy Christ in the Spirit and all is because they make these Forms Duties and Fellowships to be no other but Graven Images wherein they rest and bless themselves in their Idols and say in their hearts These be thy Gods O Israel But be assured for all these thy Graven Images which thou hast so bedecked and that are so sacred that no Man may speak against them but he shall be censured for a Devil a Blasphemer a Son of Belial yet the Lord when He comes with His Light He will discover thy Nakedness thy Witchcrafts thy Sorceries and He will let thee see thou art no Saint as thou wouldst be thought to be but a Devil transformed into an Angel of Light 2. But as sure as the Lord lives before whom I stand this is not the Way but the Way is for Man to be stript made naked that he may be cloathed upon His strength is to sit still to deny himself and his own Life too or else he cannot be Christ's Disciple 3. Nay though thou art in the very Chariot of Religion and highest profession of the Truth and hast chosen to thy self the purest Form and Church-Fellowship or any thing else which can be named In that Day when the Lord will arise they shall be all cut off all utterly overwhelmed like Pharoah and his Chariots in the Sea Let it be what it will wherein thou trustest all these shall be cut off from thine hand Tho M●n may admire them and esteem them the highest the wisest the gravest the strictest of all the Sons of Men yet the LORD sees them to be the worst the wickedest the purest Hypocrites of all others 4. All that Witchcraft which Men have used in the Things of God in setting up Images Forms and Shadows and herein deluded Men making them believe they were the Things themselves and though they have wrought them up never so curiously and made them as near the life as might be yet in that Day they shall come to see they were but Images and dead things which could not help at all though they were made after the best pattern and never so like the Things of God 5. We may safely conclude that All Men without distinction until Christ be revealed in them are joyned in one way of Idolatry and salse Worship And though they may censure and condemn each other yet to God they are all Idolaters Inchanters and are mad after Idols They are still carried out very zealously to outward Observations and carnal things and if any shall in the least touch them in them they are presently offended raging and mad for ye touch their Absalom their very Lives These Pharisees are always very much offended with the neglect of small matters and of things indifferent which either the doing or leaving undone is no sign of Sincerity or Insincerity but they can neglect the weighty matters of the Law themselves and suffer others to do so and never be offended They are more strict in observing the Traditions of their Church and of Men than of the Commandments of God and the weighty matters of the Law They are constant in observing outward Forms of Worship and Times of Prayer and the like but never mind what is in their hearts as evil Thoughts Adulteries Lies Malice Envy Covetousness Pride c. These things they neglect and pass by as small matters They can hate the Truth and bely the Truth and persecute the Professors and Possessors thereof but they cannot endure any should speak a word against their formal and outward Worship They indeed are very strict and careful to follow all their outward Ceremonies and Worships and they glory in these things but for all this they are no other but Dissemblers and Hypocrites being only gilded over with a form of Piety and Religion but within they are rotten and stinking Sepulchres which are full of stench and dead mens bones 6. And in the Day of the LORD they shall be ashamed of their Confidences and of their Idols wherein they trusted and which they have so decked up to make the World believe they are the true Worshippers when-as they have done nothing else but set up their own Inventions and the works of their own hands all savouring of Flesh and of Man and humane things and nothing at all of Christ really but meerly in Words in Names and in Notions 7. These Pharisees are furnished at all times they can preach and pray c. They are fitted at all times they can at an hour command themselves they can pray either in the Chamber in the Temple or in the Closet and keep their set-rules and hours and this is their Holiness And all that do not follow their Modes and Forms they account loose and prophane And they can judge and censure a Brother for a Mote in his Eye but perceive not the Beam in their own Eye These are the Men our LORD so much aimed at and had so much ado to uncase and convince and Him they so much hated because He had such a slight opinion of them and of their Holiness and because He censur'd them for Hypocrites and blind Pharisees nay the worst of all Men yea worse than Whoremongers Thieves and Murderers 8. But the other who worship God in the Spirit and have their help and dependence on the LORD only they see really their own Insufficiency and they receive all by waiting on GOD only they cannot speak nor preach nor pray but when He doth all these in them They will not be unjust to Men because they have an inward principle that conforms them to the mind of Christ In brief the one keep a great deal of stir and are very busy and exact about Outsides Forms Times Places and the like when as the other see the vanity and folly of such things For if any carnal or external thing be set up in the room of Christ this is no less than Witchcraft Sorcery and Delusion 9. We will name one more of their Sorceries and Inchantments and 't is a very great one in that they take upon them whatever they say to the contrary the very office and place of Christ calling