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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	cry_v	father_n	heart_n	7,756	5	4.9582	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43072	The designe of God in the saints, or, The spirit transporting the minde of a Christian from the humane nature into the divine in the carrying on of which designe, the saint is a meere passive / by George Hassal.	Hassal, George.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1133; ESTC R25419	10,671	26

ordinances as the Apostle saith in Colossians the 2. d and the 20.th and in Galathians the 4.th he saith to them But now after ye have known God or rather are known of God how turne yee againe to the weak and beggerly elements whereunto ye desire againe to be in bondage As if he should say in that Chapter as long as ye were under that low dispensation of ordinances ye were but as servants under Tutors and Governours but now is the appointed time of the Father come to make you free and therefore he hath sent forth his Spirit of Adoption into your hearts whereby you crie Abba Father and now that you are no more servants but sonnes why doe you not keep you so Why doe you look back upon those worldly elements as if you had a desire to be againe in bondage to them The Apostle in the same Chapter confesseth that his first coming unto them and preaching of the Gospel was through infirmitie of the flesh being then under a low fleshly dispensation and yet they despised him not but received him as if he had been Christ himselfe but now that he comes to preach unto them in a ministration above Ordinances a dispensation of the Spirit by which they should bee made free poore man he is become their enemie as he there complaines But why Paul art thou become their enemy now that not long since wast so great in their books because I endeavour to draw them off from fleshly ordinances and the Elements of the world that by nature are no Gods by preaching unto them the mysterie of godlinesse Christ manifest in the flesh not only Christ which is dead but rather Christ which is risen in us the hope of glory but they are so fast glewed to their formes that they cannot endure sound doctrine and therefore they look upon me as their enemie Thus is Paul lookt upon as an enemy by those that formerly would have pluckt out their eyes and have given them unto him to doe him good because he tells them the truth and came not unto them in the same ministration that he formerly came to them in but in a higher and more spirituall and yet saith Paul sweetly to them in the 19. and 20. verses My little children of whom I travaile againe in birth untill Christ be formed in you I desire to be present with you now and to change my voyce for I stand in doubt of you See now this blessed Apostle after that Christ was formed in him and that he was brought up to live in the third Heaven in Spirit how earnest and desirous is he to have all those that formerly he had society with and had preacht the Gospell through infirmity unto to have the like spirituall injoyment in them and to be brought up to the same perfection and unity of the Spirit with himselfe Now that Paul was made a partaker of the divine naturre he could as well comprehend the Sea in the hollow of his hand as conceale it the divine nature is love God is love and here you might see this nature in Paul for after he knew the onenesse and unity of the Saints with the Father he must make it knowne unto them and yet they keep close to their old formes and will not heare him because they thinke he is fa●●er from his first principles and is led away from his former profession with the errours of the wicked thinking it strange that whilst they are in this veile of flesh they should be so translated into the Image of God as to worship him in such a spirituall manner above Ordinances but here was the difference between them and Paul Christ being formed in him and manifested unto him as the substance of all these shadowes he did by what he apprehended of him see the vanity of the one and the glory and excellency of the other comparing spirituall things with his spiricualized understanding and therefore he saith My little children of whom Itravell in birth againe untill Christ be formed in you And know yee not that except Christ be in you yee are Reprobates And in other place Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage But as the Jewes thought that Christ spake of the Temple at Jerusalem that Solomon built when he spake of his body and as Nicodemus thought that Christ had spoken of a naturall birth when he spake of a spirituall so did these men unto whom Paul writ comparing spirituall things to their naturall and carnall understandings thinke that he spake of a naturall man when he spake of the spirituall they thought that he had spoken of naturall freedome when indeed he spoke of a spirituall freedome such as he enjoyed when he was in the stocks the enjoyment thereof being then so gladsome so joyous and sweet unto him that it made him sing for joy of heart as God saith in the last of Isaiah but one when he was in bonds he was yet free and so shall all the Saints of God whose lot and portion it is or shall be to be persecuted for the testimony of Christ their head Whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed the Father will uphold them with the right hand of his Righteousnesse It is now the weaknesse of many in our dayes to thinke that because they doe not apprehend God in themselves therefore he is not in them and because that they are not able to comprehend the Father that therefore he is not able to comprehend himselfe in them thinking that he dispences himselfe unto his Saints while they are here only by shadowes and not in substance by these outward meanes as they call it hearing and reading and preaching and Bread and Wine and not in Spirit when for my own part I finde it nothing so as I must needs say and if you shall ask me what comfort I had or supportance when I was under those Administrations truly I must needs confesse I then thought that my greatest comfort in this world was in those ordinances whereas I now finde as Jacob said that of a truth it was God within me that supported and conforted me and I knew it not because I did not then apprehend him the appointed time of the Father was not come to make me free and while I was a servant it was not meet that I should know what my Lord did but now blessed for ever be his name I have heard his sweet still voice within me saying Henceforth call I thee no more a servant but my friend the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth but all that I have heard of the Father will I declare unto thee It is now my work in thee to dispell those clouds of fleshly lusts that have a long time harboured in thee and been the veile that hath all this time hindred thee from beholding my glory in spirit I am the new Adam the second Adam I