Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	cast_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	19	3	8.5573	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30524	A generall epistle, and greeting of the Fathers love, to all the saints called and chosen to faithfulness in Christ Iesus ... : and this is to all such as are found worthy to suffer, and is an exhortation to the strengthning of their faith ... : and this is a true testimony of the Father and of the Son ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6004; ESTC R14763	15,401	16

that spirit neither follow it which Ministers to others that which it hath not learned of the Father but hath the words without the Power and lives not in the Power of what it Ministers forth in words nor is not what it declares but is in the outward shews in the hypocrisie and feignedness and reacheth not the life of God but vails and covers it and that spirit is not of the Father but is to be denyed and judged and not received nor believed Again believe not that spirit neither follow it which is at liberty in the flesh and makes the offence of the cross to cease which is exalted out of the fear of the Lord in the liberty of the earthly which crucifies the life and darkens the eye and that spirit will boast of joy and peace and experience and knowledge and speak high words in the airy mind and that would lead you out of your conditions to glory above the cross till you be past feeling of the life and that spirit begets into feignedness and hypocrisie and into the love of the world which passes away and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is hasty and forward and rash for that goeth out of Gods counsel and betrayes the Just and strives to be greatest and to be above the weak and despises him and would be Master and not a servant and would rule and not be ruled in the meek lowly government of Christ and that spirit will judge out of thoughts rashly and unfavourily and condemn another in secret in what it self is guilty of beware of that spirit for it is not of God but to be judged with the life of God Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which seeks it self to have praise of men and to be accounted and would beget into divisions and would have parties to it self and respects persons and glories in gifts and knowledge and parts more then in the Giver and admires men more then he that gives the encrease and feeds of the knowledge in that nature which is to be famished and glories in what hath been done by it as though it had not received power from the Lord and is exalted as though it bare the root not knowing that it is born of the root and that spirit spends its Treasure which it received in the Fathers house amongst Harlots and despises the poor and seeks occasion to glory over the weak that it may be renowned beware of that spirit I charge you all for it is not of the Father nor to be followed but to be condemned and resisted unto death Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which preaches not from the measure of God received and to be manifest to it in you and approved by it only but speaks above the measure and reaches not to the measure of the grace of God that spirit leads after words and outward shews and cryes peace to the rich and judgement to the poor the word of God is not divided aright but heals up falsly and daubs with untempered morter and cryes peace where Gods speaks war and cryes war where God speaks peace and that spirit is a deceiver and a betrayer and feeds but the ear and not the life and darkens the counsel of God by words without knowledge and is not of the Father but of the world to be denyed and condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is not subject to rule and order and is not meek and diligent and long suffering but heady and high and untoward seeking occasions against the Just and watches for evil that spirit will not bear reproof but is idle sloathful and careless and surmising evil and backbiting and conforms in appearance making a fair shew but is not unto God as appearing unto man and that would go and is not called and will not go when it is called and seeks for the praise of men more then God and that is fruitless ground and brings forth bryars and thorns in secret which choaks the seed of God beware of that spirit it is a lover of this world have no fellowship with it for it is not of the Father but a deceiver and is to be denyed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is tossed and unsetled and is given to change and is not established with grace that is an Adulterer and hunts for the precious life and seeks by flattery to beguile the innocent that spirit is zealous for a moment but is soon overcome and is stony ground and brings not forth fruit to perfection but withers and its later end is worse then the beginning That spirit is exalted into presumption and in peace and cast into desparation and trouble and the double mind lodgeth in it and it is unstable in all its wayes is a ground for the seed of Satan and to it there is no peace from God and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is more zealous then knowing whose zeal is without true knowledge and stands in that which is corrupted that flourisheth for a moment but cannot endure for ever it hath no root in it self but is furious and passionate and not long-suffering that spirit knows not it self but would devour its adversary with bitterness and not gain'd by long suffering that is not the Spirit of the Father but must be denyed in all Again Believe not that spirit which draws back into the world into its lusts and liberty and fashions which passeth away that spirit forgets God and draws back for his soul hath no pleasure in it but is vexed with it where the cross is made of non-effect and the false Liberty is walked in which murders the life that spirit is of the Devil and is to be condemned And now all friends of God every where who knows him and are known of him whom he hath gathered out of this untoward generation be diligent in your Callings and keep your meetings in faithfulness waiting upon the Lord that you all may receive of his fulness to be filled with it and may be nourished up unto himself as Trees of righteousness the planting of his own right hand to spread forth his name and glory as a people saved by him and to whom there is none like besides And this know and understand that spirit is not of the Father which confesseth not the Son to be come in the flesh who destroys the works of the Devil and takes away sin and that spirit it believe and follow which condemns sin and destroys it and takes it away and so gives peace with God in your own consciences and leads you into all truth and keeps you from all evil you that witness this the Son you know and the Father you know to dwell with