Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	7,322	5	6.0283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

verily and certainly we do in the sight of God concerning this our service whether you believe the same or not its even so And again I say we are clear of your guilt and condemnation before the Lord God of Judgement the Judge of all and be it known unto you that he who sent us is true whose witnesses we are Albeit some of you as the same Generation in the daies of old contemptuously and maliciously said to him that he was mad and had a devil and what else yet we have in the Lord held fast our integritie in the Truth in Life and Conversation to confess him before men and bear his reproaches in the fellowship of his Sufferings following his harmless and compleat example as the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation unto which we are called and are his living witnesses and testifie of his undefiled life manifest in us and that he also is arisen from the dead and liveth for ever in the everlasting Light the which is your condemnation and not salvation whatsoever you profess in words whilst you are found setting your selves against his appearance now in this second coming a quickning spirit who is the Lord from Heaven without sin unto salvation in his Friends and Messengers as who hath drawn so near you with his visitation of Salvation in such clouds of witnesses in and with his mighty pure power of holiness yet with them eyes that are Adulterated from his undefiled life and truth which cannot cease from sin with which you see therewith cannot you behold him who is and is to be glorified in his Saints and also admired in all them that believe who will certainly render vengeance as saith the Holy Scripture not onely on them that know not God but also on them that obey not the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Light and Life of men who tasted death for every man and as certain he lighteth every man that cometh into the World to the end that all men in him who is the Light might believe and be saved by the Light who is the Author of Eternal Salvation not onely from sin which worketh guilt and condemnation but also from the wrath to come but wo will be to them that not onely withstand his Appearance his Truth and People who are not according but contrary to the World its Wayes Worships Honours and Glory Traditions and Lusts and herein neither enter your selves but also as much as in them is hinder others who are as it were ready to enter from going in but behold Publicant Harlots are and come to be converted and so to enter the Kingdom whilest men of high degree themselves are shut out And will you bear with me if I ask you saying Have you been at all careful and not forgetful to entertain strangers Or have you not wilfully and despitefully shut the same out of your remembrance And how have you obeyed the perfect Doctrine of the Gospel of God But what hath not Christ in his Friends in his Lambs and Messengers been as Strangers and Pilgrims Yea hath not he been as a Prisoner and Captive despised in and among you but how at all have you visited him or entertained him that beareth the iniquity and liveth for ever He right well knoweth and in the day of God so shall you and it may be well if the same will appear to your justification Poor men my heart pitieth you woe and alass for you but the Scripture not to your justification do we witness fulfilled And what if I say your unchristian-like dealing against us the same turns to us for a Testimony albeit we rejoyce not as your reward will be evil unto your selves but mourn over you and if this we did not witnesse in our integrity sure of all men most miserable should we be and as he saith who is the Resurrection and the Life viz If they have persecuted me they also will persecute you if they had kept my sayings they would keep yours also but these things will they do unto you why because they know not him that sent me saith Jesus John 15. And have ye not read these sayings Now I tell you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass you might believe that I am he Verily verily he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me John 13. But consider have you received him or do you know what is the thing or whom you have rejected and defied in what you have done to them whom he hath assuredly sent whether you can believe the same or not And do you not know that he saith on this wise He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Luke 10.16 And do you think it had not been better your hand had been laid upon your month and to have manifested silence in the fear of the Lord rather then to have proceeded so far as this to your own hurt Woe and alas for you how can you truly say to the contrary in the Day of God and is it not your sins and your iniquities which keeps back good things from you And can you say that the words of our Living Testimony have been at any time against any thing that 's of the nature of God that 's Equitable and Just And what must all your strength and wisdom with what else you have be stirred up to keep up the strong holds of darkness its Works and Fruits even of the man of sin and Satans Kingdom is it not even so Bear with me if I ask you what ye think of such that were to depart from the presence of the King of Eternal life into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels who visited no● Christ though sick and in prison and when he was a stranger and naked took him not in neither cloathed him nor nourished him with either meat or drink when hungry and thirsty cold and naked but bowels of compassion was shut up such took him not in nay there is no room for the Babe of Glory in the Inn but a Manger where the beasts feed over him there the Virgins first born must lie Oh that any of you having ears to hear may hear but what think you will be the portion of such that not onely dease not to do such things to him in his Members but also speak all manner of evil against him and are not content therewith but he must be banished as a Rogue or Vagabond out of their Coasts and Borders whose carriage also must be as it is deemed and termed Ridiculous and capable to bring dishonour to a Nation because his Kingdom Honour and Glory is not of this World as some one saith being possessed with fear even as they were who said of him whom the Nations abhoreth viz. If we let him thus alone