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	quicken_v	5,491	5	10.4511	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52722	To the life of God in all	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing N321; ESTC R31710	8,394	10

day of my redemption from under it all and this quieted my soul in my greatest tribulation Thus was I led out from amongst the Children of Light and into the World to be a sign where I was chased as a wandering Bird gone from her rest so was my soul daily and my body from one prison to another til at length I was brought in their own way before a back-sliding power to be judged who had lost their first love as I had done so they sentenced me but could not see their sign a sign to the Nation a sign to the world of the dreadful day of the Just God who is come and coming to avenge for that pure life where it is transgressed and to plead the cause of that pretious Seed where ever it is oppressed and suffers under the fleshly lusts of this present World and the Cup is deep and very dreadful that is seen and filling and it hath begun at Gods House but many must drink it except there be speedy repentance And in this time of my darknesse and night of great temptation which darknesse I had let up over my head and my judgement being much lost there got up many wilde Spirits Ranters and such like acting many evil things against the Life of Truth and Name of Christ his Light and People that walk therein on purpose to bring reproach thereon and set themselves to break and disquiet the Meetings of the People of God and made use of my name therein and others rejoyced thereat and cryed Thus would we have it they are divided among themselves this is that we looked for c. Others came to me in that time in true pitty and in sorrow of heart suffered with me for all that was befallen me and that pretious Truth I had walked in Thus became I an occasion to make sad the innocent and harmelesse people whose hearts was tender and to make glad the man that delights in mischief and such as rejoyce in iniquity and to gratifie many unclean Spirits which things the pure God hates and my soul hates and all that name that God had formerly given me in his house and that power the wicked one made use on against the Lord and his Lambs and his Truth wherein I had received that name and power thus I abused my power and knew not by comming under him who seeks to pervert the right wayes of God and his Truth to turn into a lye where ever he gets above whom the Lord had once troden under my feet and all his instruments and over the head of all this was I kept by his power while singly I stood in his pure councell and humbly walked in his daily fear the lose whereof was of my selfe and this to his eternall Glory I confess for ever So to that precious life of Christ Jesus I confess openly which I have openly sinned against which Life is the light of the World and all the good that is in man is from the vertue thereof which whosoever goes from to feed elsewhere forsakes their own mercies and to this must return and confess again if ever they come to true peace in God for this is the peace-maker and the Christ of God and the Lamb that takes away sin and reconciles to the Father of Spirits and that Spirit that quickens the dead of whom I testifie for ever and him I confess in the night and in the day before God and before men who under all hath been my help and Saviour Immortall praises for ever And he that hath this precious life hath the Son of the eternall God and eternall life and with all that receive him as King and leader with such the Father is well pleased because he alone it is that leads in all holy wayes and out of all shew of lust and uncleanness and teaches to avoid every apperance of evil within and without therefore the pure God loves him above all in Heaven and Earth and hath placed his fulness in Him from whom the living of all ages are to be fed and what ever good gift any Creature receives from God the Father it is in this pure life and for the sake of this unspotted seed and that he alone that Spirit may be exalted in all and above all not flesh which is grass whose glory turnes into dust if this life withdraw its vertue and all his wisdom into shame and folly who goes out from this light and councell for this life is he which being disobeyed is mans fall and his Spirit being grieved is Gods wrath upon every Creature but in his favour is length of dayes and eternall glory and both these I have learned in the day and in the night so I give all glory to the life for ever more and to him it is due and all the evil hath been from self This life is the Root and off-spring of all Heavenly fruit upon Earth and in whom this is planted and as it growes it will bring forth Truth and Righteousness towards God and man and the vertue that rises with it will fill the Creature with springs of Eternall Life and Heavenly Power It will cover thee with health of Salvation and stay thee with Immortall strength He will guide thee with councell of Life and open thy mouth in that Wisdom which none shall confound yea all the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge are in Him and the Richest excellency that ever appeared in flesh in him is sealed for all generations that receive Him in their faith and obedience and as he rises in his temples he gives forth of his riches gifts to adorn his Habitation and to cover it with his Light and Glory But this is the evil in his sight and that which provoks his pure Spirit that vain man in whom he thus delights should be exalted in himselfe because of the gifts and glory in his strength and Wisdom and so grow wanton against the life from whence he hath it and so through feeding on the gifts ceases to walke humbly with the giver in his own vessell here man forgets his God and so withers at the Root And be the tree never so great it will fall in the end and great will be the fall thereof And this is that God against whom I have sinned and my offence I confesse to the Root that bore me who raiseth up the meek and lowly and casteth down him that boasteth above the root who doth what he will in the Heavens and ruleth in the Kingdoms of men the Lord of Hosts is his Name and he is worthy yea and will be feared even so be it for ever more And what ever of that worship or honour hath any way by any Creature been given or received to my person which belongs to that Eternall Spirit for ever by me it is denied and condemned as Idolatry And what ever Creature I have at any time gone out to from this pure Spirit and let in to my affections or