Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	confess_v	flesh_n	jesus_n	7,758	5	7.1789	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75770	The sword of the Lord dravvn, and furbished against the man of sin: or Something in answer to a paper set forth by three of the chief priests of London, whose names are Thomas Goodwine, and one Nye, and Sydrach Sympson, which they have put forth to the propagating of the Gospel, signed by him that is the clerk of the Parl. whose name is Henry Scobell, with their deceits and deceitfull actings laid open and cleared from Scripture, that they have no example in Scripture for their practice. Therefore I was moved by the Lord God of life to lay open their deceit by the spirit of truth, as it was made manifest in me from the Lord, that the simple might not be deceived by them, but might have the knowledge of the truth, from that which is for ever, and shall not change nor fade away. / By one whose name in the flesh is, Christopher Atkinson, who am one that the world doth scornfully call a Quaker.	Atkinson, Christopher.	1654 (1654)	Wing A4129; Thomason E818_4; ESTC R207391	5,812	8

foundation your compasse and your end is made manifest unto the children of light who would divide God from his children whom he hath begotten unto himself through the word of faith in which we live and abide for ever and here I challenge you before the Lord to produce one Scripture which speakes of God being distinct from them that are begotten by him and if you cannot prove your words by plain Scripture let shame cover your faces and stop your mouthes for ever And for your fourth thing that God is three persons or substances this is also another of your lies never such a word is declared of in Scripture and thus have you made your folly manifest to all men and have cleared your selves from the Scriptures God is a mystery in whom the foundation of all things stands and he is but one in all though ten thousand times ten thousand Woe unto yee you perverters of the truth who blinds the eyes of the simple making them believe your immaginations and conceivings instead of truth and this you run to the powers of the earth to propagate yee men of sin did ever the Prophets declare of such Gospel as this or did ever the Apostles preach any such Doctrine as this which yee would compel people to believe and would have the powers of the earth to propagate here I challenge you again to prove your example by Scripture and where ever the holy men of God did divide him into three substances and if yee refuse to prove the same I proclaim as in the presence of the Lord that yee are perverters of the Scripture and of the right way of the Lord and your propagating the Gospel and your principles are accursed from God having no example in Scripture Fifth Principle The fift is That Christ is the Mediator between God and Man without the knowledge of whom there is no salvation Answ Him we witnesse made manifest in us who is the Mediator but what have you to doe to speak of his Name or to professe his words who are found in the steps of the Scribes and Pharisees that put him to death who are called of Men Master have uppermost roomes at Feasts stand praying in the Synagogues as they did that Christ cried woe against Math. 23. Thus you are separated from Christ who are not found in his Doctrine and are found among the Heathen whom the condemnation of God is upon and the Scripture bare testimony against you that you are not in the Doctrine of Christ but are found to be lyars 1 John 2.22 and the acts of your father you are found acting And in the sixth you say that Christ is the true God here you be witnesses against your selves that you divide the Father from the Son who you say is three distinct substances but the Lord will make you manifest ye that blindfold the simple by your subtilty and witchcraft making them believe lies instead of Truth and would divide that in which there is no division for he that hath th● So●●●th the Father also This Man Christ Jesus who was made with an Oath the everlasting Covenant the Oath of God is not divided from him in whom the foundations stands for without this man Jesus was nothing made and as he was so he is he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and here sottish mindes your imagined God beyond the starres and your carnall Christ which you would make appear th●ough your heathenish Philosophy is utterly denyed and testified against by the Light which comes from Christ which ye resist as your foref●thers have done And in your seventh Principle ye are laid open 1 John 4.2 Hereby know we the Spirit of God every Spirit that confesseth Christ come in the flesh is of God and this is he that is one with the Father even Jesus Christ the Man of God who was given for a Covenant but him ye are enemies unto And whereas you say in the eighth that this Christ the man of God is God and Man in one Person it is a lye he is not divided from what he was before the foundations of the hi●s were laid but him ye knew not but as ye do imagine and the Heathens do and here you are shut forth from the Scriptures and from Christ and the new Man which is witnessed in the Sons of God therefore stop your mouths for ever who would make people believe that believing in those words which are decl●red from the Life without the same Spirit as they had that spoke them forth will bring them to the same knowledge of God And thus in your ninth you have also shewed forth your Ignorance and telling people that Christ hath payed a ransome for sin this is witnessed by the children of Light but what have you to do to take these words into your mouths that never yet came to repentance for sin and if ever you witnese him a Redeemer you must witnesse the vengeance of God which is upon the Man of Sin but you Men of sin who live in your filthinesse shall receive your recompence from the hand of the Lord and this ye shall eternally witnesse whether you will hear or forbear And as for the eleventh that Christ being the onely God and Man in one Person remains for ever a dictinct person from all Saints and Angels notwithstanding their union and communion with him your words are utterly denied and detested and your distinctions are abominable I challenge you from the Lord to prove such a thing in Scripture or else stop your mouthes for ever for Christ Jesus is but one in all and not distinct and you that would divide him and them that are begotten by him are enemies unto him As for the the twelfth That all men by nature are dead in trespasses and sins this is fulfilled in you and ye shall receive the wages of it the Men of sin whose ungodly practices are laid open and discovered to the children of Light who have obtained the victory and I tell you plainly that vengeance of God hangs over your heads and the recompence of God shall be doubled upon you that live in your sins except ye repent ye all likewise perish and whereof ye say ye are justified and saved by Grace ye are they that have turned the grace of God into wantonenesse and holds the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of Persons as is made manifest by you dayly And in your last you say That to continue in any known sin under what pretence soever is damnable here be you witnesses against your selves that ye are proud and that ye live in the practice of the world which is sin and seek for your gain from your Quarters which is sin and the Lord sent his Prophets to declare against such and the same wo from God is upon you that act the same things Isaiah 56.11 And here your practice and Example is found among the false Prophets of Israel which the Lord sent his true Prophets to declare against which received his Word from his own mouth for which they were both persecuted and stoned by your Generation which professed that in Words which they persecuted in the Saints who witnessed the life and power of what they spoke Thus have ye brought shame upon your selves ye deceitfull workers who are professing that cutwardly in words which ye are enemies to the Life of so from the Scriptures ye are razed out and your bottom and foundation is made manifest to the children of Light and your deceits are made manifest by them that walk in the Light at which you are stumbling as your forefathers did though you professe the words declared from the Light Thus have I returned an answer to your confused Paper lest you should boast your selves in your folly and blinde the eyes of the simple by your heathenish inventions as ye have formerly done and have laid your shame open unto the simple minded that they may discover and see your confusion And now a word unto you from whom this Paper was put forth Your Spirits and your actings are contrary to the Spirit of Christ as having no example from him nor his Apostles for it Be ye ashamed and stop your mouthes from professing godlinesse who are found in the pride and in the wickednesse of this world out of which the Ministers of Christ were redeemed Now can ye but deny the Truth when as ye act those things which the Ministers of Truth were sent to declare against Therefore let shame cover you and let your mouths be stopped in the dust for ever professing Christ or his Gospel who are found enemies to it And now ye covetous Priests who seek for your gain from your Quarters ye may be ashamed of your profession How often have ye declared against the covetous practice of the world in words outwardly yet your selvs are found acting in them in covetous●esse and extortion as is dayly made manifest by you and is contrary to the practice of the Apostles For shame ye covetous Priests give over your wicked practices and your beastly actings lest the Lord rip off your coverings and lay you naked to all men Thus have I cleared my conscience to you and to all the world in the presence of the Lord whether you will hear or forbear One who is called by the world a Quaker whose name in the flesh is CHRISTOPHER ATKINSON FINIS