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	reap_v	sow_v	6,631	5	10.6553	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60628	The everlasting truth exalted being a plain testimony unto the manifestations, growth and prosperity of truth : also some dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving truth, or having received it, departing from it : also a short testimony unto gospel meetings and fellowship ... / William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4299; ESTC R3823	20,906	26

of God but are found to dishonour him by departing from him and taking liberty to satisfie the flesh with the affections and lusts and that is the birth of flesh and blood and of the will of man whatsoever may be pretended of the Birth of God or of retaining a measure of Light and Truth to wait upon God in their own particulars that spirit which so draweth back and causeth any to depart from the Way of Truth and from the holy Commandment given of God it is a false spirit and so an enemy to the true Spirit and those that follow it and live in it and though some may say That to withdraw and depart from that which they have sometimes observed in outward practice is not to withdraw or depart from the Truth but rather a growth and a going forward in it but that will not hold to be true if tried by the Truth it self and for want of such a trial many have wronged themselves for if there had been a true trial before there had been such a close joyning the matter would have appeared otherwise and the deceiveableness would have been seen under the covering and all that walked in the Light did see it and were preserved for Truth is unchangeable in all its wayes though in degrees it appears more glorious and being an immutable unalterable power it alwayes justifies its own work and order from one degree to another and they that really go forward in the Truth and retain it in their particulars to wait upon God they cannot possibly disesteem or dispise any practise which in the Truth is observed and in and by which they have often been refreshed for mark Where the carkass is thither will the Eagles resort and this in the beginning did draw to meet together with a willing mind for as the Word of Life was ministred by such as God appointed so the vertue of it caused resort unto it and the same thing being yet preserved and continued and also much increased according to the power and wisdom in which it did begin how can any lay a sufficient ground for their withdrawing or departing from it or how can any truly say that they are gone forward in the Truth or that they retain a measure of it to wait upon God in their own particulars for the Everlasting power of the Lord God doth yet continue amongst those that fear him and the Word of Life floweth and is yet ministred in the Assemblies of the Righteous and all the faithfull meeteth with it in a large and plentiful measure and it yeildeth the same vertue unto refreshment nourishment as in the beginning and keepeth the same judgment upon Transgressors and hereby it is manifest that the Power changes not nor the Word of Life ceaseth not but some are rather willing to cease from obeying the Truth and to depart from the holy Commandment given of God and so it had been better they had never known it unless they repent and return but such things are permitted to happen that they which are reproved may be made manifest and that the Lord may be magnified in stretching forth his Arm for the recovery of such who in their simplicity have been turned aside and though some may think that they are gotten above the Assemblies of the Righteous and the ministration of the power which is the Gospel and that they are now more large and universal in their love yet that power which they dispise as a thing below them will bruise the head of that spirit which hath lift them up and all that abide in that power will live the longer life and the love which is in the Light where the Righteous have their fellowship it will remain when all the pretended universal love is gone for the love which is universal is in God and that love is pure and cannot joyn to any impure thing to have unity or fellowship with it for if it were so then there is no distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness but there is a distinction for as much as righteousness is always justified and unrighteousness alwayes condemned and so it is as possible to joyn the East and West together as to joyn righteousness and unrighteousness in unity and fellowship and who walks in the Light in which is the universal Love of God they cannot have fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness but is made to reprove them and so the Light is the same now as in the Apostles dayes and they that live in it are of the same mind as they were and they could not have fellowship with unfruitfull works of darkness but reproved them and the Apostles were in the universal Love of God and God never loved Esau therefore all such had need consider what they are gone from and what they are joyned unto lest they so long withstand the Lord until the day of visitation pass over for it is certain that all such as have forsaken the Assemblies of the Righteous and disesteemes or rather dispises the ministration of the Gospel that they have filled themselves with high imaginations surfets with their own fulness and so they Ioath the Life and Vertue which is sweeter then the hony comb and with their own fulness they grow wanton and makes themselves merry above the Witness and so with the flesh are committing whoredom and uncleanness but that which is begotten in an unlawfull bed must not inherit the Kingdom of God that birth is not the Heir of Life nor cannot have an inheritance with the Saints in Light mark it is the Saints in Light which inherits it is their lot only which falleth into that ground and there is none can pertake of their goodly heritage but who are born of the same Life for those that are full and wonton and in their fulness and wontonness joyns to a harlot they have no part in the Kingdom of God and of Christ but as they sow to the flesh so of the flesh they must reap corruption and this is a grief unto the righteous that any who had a beginning in the Light and Spirit should go back again into the flesh and in that state to think they are perfect and that their perfection is of a higher degree then those who keeps in the Light and Spirit where they did begin for that measure of Light and Spirit which was first manifest from God to spread abroad his Truth in this day it was and is perfect it was and is his good and perfect gift it came from him as from the Father of Light with whom is no variableness or shaddow of turning then that which is variable and turning is not the gift of God and they that are varied and turned from the Assemblies of the righteous and from the Ministration of the Gospel they are gone from the gift of God that is perfect and the highest degree of their perfection is perfect surmisings and perfect prejudice and perfect enmity and