Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	corruption_n	flesh_n	reap_v	5,289	5	10.9811	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84597	The scorned Quakers true and honest account, both why and what he should have spoken (as to the sum and substance thereof) by commission from God, but that he had not permission from men, in the Painted Chamber on the 17th. day of the 7th. month 1656. before the Protector and the Parliament then, and there met together, with many more of no mean account, who were not of them, yet were then crowded in among them.	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1057; Thomason E889_10; ESTC R202114	32,531	40

Lord with fear and trembling ye serve him every one of you in your own persons and obey him by putting a way the filth of your own Spirits sweeping every one of you your own houses first even your own hearts that they may be fit Temples to receive the King of Glory that he may come into them and ye be made holy habitations for God through the Spirit and cast the beams out of your own eyes else thou hypocrite how wilt thou see to meddle to mend others that are blind thou being blind also if the blind lead the blind and the blind go about to order the blind they will all fall into the ditch be ye therefore personally reformed as Men from all your own vanities of heart and pride of Life else the counsel of all those that put press you on to the serving of him as Magistrates by making national reformations and Reformations in the Church as they call it who know not yet the true Church which is in God and needs none of that arme of flesh and magistraticall help which the false false Church calls for and in its Government Ministry and maintenance and by helping of Christ against his enemies and Hereticks whom yet I plead not for and such like will be turned as Achitophells into foolishness and the Reformations will be but Deformations at the best and both you and your Church and Ministry whose lips you mainly take Counsell at and not at the Lord himself and his Spirit shall be at your wits ends even you that they call to for help and they that call to you for help shall both fail together and none shall help either of you and those that have misguided you into by-wayes even blind and bloody ways of suppressing Saints as Hereticks by your Civil sword you shall at last be forc't to leave and look to your selves and run in holes of the earth to hide you from the face of the Lamb and from his wrath and they shall be even smitten with shame and madness to see all their ways turn'd as they have turned the ways of God upside down and esteemed as the Potters Clay therefore kiss the Son turn to him seek his face see him and submit to him in his own Light walk with him in his own way lest he be angry and you perish for ever from the way of your own eternall peace yea not as one reading it in the Letter onely and out of that amplyfying it to you or as one having it by hear-say onely from those that felt it and so wrote of it for so many a one can tell you much of the terribleness of Gods wrath and that talk may be a bug-bear too to terrify your hearts a while howbeit that terrour will wear out after a while but as one that hath witnessed it and been made in some measure to know the power of his wrath and feel the weight of his hand in my own conscience opening its black Jaws upon me of late to the affrightment of me for all my old sins and bringing me to judgement for them for judgement now begins though the wicked among whom it is to end see it not at the House of God therefore no marvail if there be so much trembling in the true Church as now there is and so much paleness on Jacobs face for it is the day of his trouble and travel out of which yet ere long he will be saved and Esau and his seed come into it in his stead yea as knowing by a sense thereof the terrour of the Lord I perswade you all people to take heed to your ways by the Light of the Lord least he tear you as a moth or as a Lion and lest his wrath be let forth in the full vials of it upon you which if it be kindled but a little blessed then indeed are all they and all they that do so well know it also even all they that trust in him moreover all ye people and you that are the Representatives of the people think not your fast is done when the Sun is down and your service done when your Sermon is done as many do who look for one day towards Heaven and then after live as if hell it self were broken loose again upon them but know that your business is now to begin after you have humbled your selves and are got up from the ground where you lay before the Lord now are you to live over all that good that hath been yet but talkt on many good and excellent things though some also that might not unjustly be excepted against have been spoken among you and prest upon you I acknowledge for far be it from me not to give every one his due by the men that have preached before you this day in my hearing yet much more in the words which mans wisdome teacheth than in the words which the holy Spirit teacheth who giveth utterance to them he sends yea both what and how to speake even in that hour they are to speake in nor are they so sollicitous if they be called before Kings and Governours to give testimony to the truth so as before hand to take thought for it much less by way of preparation to pen it down and so to preach it out of notes as is the usual course of your national men and a course used before you at this day I say many good things you have heard and good words and fair speeches which Paul saith they may use who serve not God but their own bellys whereby to deceive the hearts of the simple now see that they be turned by you into good works and let it not suffice that a sound of words hath passed from their mouths and pierced your ears as if there were an end of the matter or at least as if when as private men you are come home to your own houses or as Parliament men into your place of sitting and have according to the common custome and their expectation sent them the great thanks of the House for their great pains then you are quit of what is required be not deceived God is not so mocked nor will he be put off with such slender shews and complemental services which mens Religion mostly lyes in while they lye in the dead and fleshly night of mans day and till they come to be in the Spirit on the Lords Day in this hour wherein his own day is approaching but know that for all this if ye go on again to sow to the flesh when you are ripe in corruption you shall reape condemnation and if the ground of your hearts still brings forth Briars and Thorns it is nigh unto cursing and its end is to be burned and if this be all the fruits of your fastings to continue the same men you were or rather to waxe worse and worse as such ever do that grow not better by such services and oh how often is it so seen at this day in