Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	deed_n	flesh_n	mortify_v	5,880	5	10.8136	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60642	A message from the Spirit of Truth unto all the world let all that pant come, and all that thirst come, and all that mourn come, for the Lord waits to shew mercy / by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4316; ESTC R28168	8,418	14

A MESSAGE FROM THE Spirit of Truth UNTO All the World Let all that pant come and all that thirst come and all that mourn come for the Lord waits to shew Mercy By WILLIAM SMITH LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson in the Year 1663. A Message from the Spirit of Truth unto all the World O Ye People who have many Shepherds set over you and many Teachers heaped up amongst you and yet lie scattered up and down as sheep without a shepherd and are driven from mountain to hill where you neither get bread nor water Have you not heard some of them many years and followed them many dayes and yet your souls want satisfaction What is become of all your money that you spent upon them and to what purpose is all your labour in following them are not your burdens yet upon you and do not your sins remain within you and are you not in the Land where famine pinches you and doth your faith perswade you that there is no relief for you Is darkness so thick that nothing can remove it are the chains thereof so strong that they cannot be broken is sin so natural that you cannot forsake it are vain customs so prevalent that you cannot deny them are your eyes so shut that they cannot be opened are your ears so stopped that they cannot be made to hear are your hearts so hardened that they cannot be broken are you so far alienated from God that you cannot be converted are you so much defiled that you cannot be cleansed and healed Is this the faith wherein ye stand then woful will it be in the end thereof for the end of this faith will not be salvation to your souls but wo and eternal misery for with God all things are possible and there is no want of power in Christ to subject all the powers of darkness but there is want of true love in you to his Light and Power within you and therefore it is that your sins remain and your burdens lie heavy upon you that your eyes are not opened nor your ears unstopped nor your hearts converted and healed this is the ground of your misery and the cause of your grief and trouble because you hearken not to the Word of Life nor yeeld your selves to obey its counsel How often hath God tendered his Love unto you and how often hath his Compassion broken towards you but how have you kicked against his Reproof and have not hearkened when he hath spoken and yet you say you want power to overcome corruptions and to get victory over sin and because it is so with you therefore you are perswaded that there is no help for it in this life but so it must be whilst you live upon the Earth Is not this your faith and are you like to get victory over sin and to be eased of your burdens whilst you give way unto darkness that leads you into sin and yet you say you strive as much as you can to keep out of it and feeling something in you that strives against it yet notwithstanding you feel it prevail over you therfore you are perswaded that it can never be otherwise whilst you are in the body and so you say the flesh is weak and subject to failings and haltings and whilst you are in the body sin will be creeping in though you endeavour what you can against it and so it is and therefore you must come to the Spirit of God in your selves that beareth witness against the flesh and testifieth that the deeds thereof are evil for the flesh is weak and in the flesh there dwells no good thing and whilst you live in the flesh you cannot resist the fleshly motions but will be captivated by them and burdened with them but the Spirit of God in strong and able to subdue the lusts of the flesh and to mortifie all your corruptions and to breake down the body of sin and death under which you lye groveling and bowed down in sorrow pain and wo for whilst the flesh liveth and you live in it and walk after it you are under the Spirits condemnation for every motion of the flesh is contrary to the Spirit and by the lustings of the flesh the Spirit is quenched and greived and here you cannot be free from the Spirits reproof nor the Judgment of it for the Spirit condemns the lusts of the flesh and riseth in Judgment against every motion of it for being contrary one to the other there can be no agreement between them and therefore you may know that when you are reproved you are joyned to the flesh and obeying the motions of it and there the Spirit strives with you and checks and reproves you that you might not so swiftly run in the fleshly liberty which increaseth your misery and herein the love of God is commended to you in that he strives with you by his Spirit to stop your way in which you run after the motions of the flesh and by his Spirit he calls unto you in every reproof and is there not that in you that lets you see that you should not sin against God and grieve him Object If you say Yea but we know not how it can be otherwise we strive and endeavour as much as we can but we are subject to failings and though we do see that we should not commit such things as sometimes we do yet we want power to resist and overcome them Answ Now consider Why is it that you want power to resist and overcome Is it not because you joyn not to the Spirit which makes the Evil manifest for when the Spirit lets you see that the motions of the flesh tempt you to evil then you are not to yeeld your selves to the motions of the flesh but to the motion of the Spirit and so not to serve the flesh but the Spirit for unto which you yeeld your selves servants to obey you are a servant to it and by yeelding to the motions of the flesh you are a servant to it and there is your failings and your sin committed for in the flesh dwells no good thing it is the proness to evil and whilst flesh lives and you live in it your thoughts words and deeds are evil continually and though you may feel some strivings against the Evil and many times come under such Judgment that you say I will never do such things again yet not joyning with the Spirit to overcome the evil you want power to pay your vows unto God And is it not a sad thing that when you have sinned and that Judgment overtakes you and in the sence of Judgment you promise never to do the like again and yet do not pay your vows unto God but are found committing the same things again and that with as much greediness as ever do you not here break your Vow and sin against the Spirit that makes you sensible that you should do so no more and so add sin to sin first by