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
A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

vail that is upon you that you might come forth from darknesse and walk more in the light of life A word to the Weak to establish and direct them that they faint nat at the sight of the outward Adversary in their Meetings AND Friends There is a desire risen in me that every one of you in particular may come so to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages that you may not be so soon shaken away many of you from the confidence that you seem to have for God and Truth as you are perswaded I speak not this to reproach you but in the power of God to establish you Friends your 〈◊〉 going forth out of the power of God into the flesh is it that makes you faint in the day of adversity and in the face of your enemy Therefore Friends if you would be valiant for the truth mind the life of God in your souls reside and dwell in it and give up all unto it fix your mind steddy upon it and stay thereon and as thou comes to this O soul thou shalt be kept in peace and quiet off from the trouble and disquiet that the flesh raises up for God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid upon him Friends it ill becomes those that fears the Lord to be of such a fearful frightful spirit as I have observed there is sometimes in your Meetings though it be but of suspition of an invasion by the enemy without Friends the desire in my soul is that you would mind the life the spirit in you and be still and quiet in the patience of the life and Lamb of God according to the measure in you and as you mind this and dwell in this your fears and terrors of the flesh will abate and your courage advance for the life of the pure God crucifies the flesh which leads to death The Spirit of God is a Spirit of love and of a sound mind it casts out such fear and it is not a Spirit of slavish fear so that my Friends if you be the sons and daughters of God why then you are led by the Spirit and not by the flesh which is fearful sinful c. And if you have the Spirit and live in the Spirit why then it has mortified the deeds of the flesh which are evil c. See Rom. 8.5 to the 17. verse They which are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh and they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit Slavish fear and cowardise for truth is of the flesh and to be fleshly and carnally minded is death to the soul but to be spiritually minded is life Oh Friends it has been a trouble to my spirit sometimes to see the distraction perturbation and trouble that many have entered into in their Meetings at a shallow c. Oh Friends labor to crucifie this old man with his fleshly meanbers and branches that springs forth into the visible life and what you have in the invisible life watch to have it strengthned and live in the measure you have attained of this invisible or inward life in your own particulars And if any further of the coming in of the visible enemy be into your Meetings in the discharging what you are perswaded to be your duty which is too probable and likely be still and quiet in your selves sweetly composed with your mind fixed upon God enjoying communion in the life and Spirit of God according to your particular measure keeping steddy in the beholdings of the life and be in the serious pursuit of it and do not suffer your thoughts and your minds to straggle in the least no not for a moment though the enemy provoke you be diligent in the watch that the enemy of your soul the invisible enemy break not in to overthrow your peace and communion with God and destroy your pursuit in the life and so your peace being lost your watch down and the enemy broke in then you enter into the flesh in the troubles fears tempests and disquiets which the life is freed from c. and so will be ready to say any thing do any thing so that you might be acquitted of the enemy without and released of a Prison and banishment for thy body which affrights many poor hearts who considers not the Prison the banishment and darknesse and trouble that their souls is in in the want of the light life Spirit peace and communion with God Oh Friends I say unto you all watch watch the life and go not from upon any terms be surely built on the sure foundation and you shall be able to say in the same life according to thy measure as David I am fixed I am fixed O God I am fixed O happy state here is the only safety And now unto the Lord once more I commit you that every one of you may so come to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages and build so upon the power and life of God that Prisons Fines Persecutions the gates of hell even death it self may not prevail against you non affright you Amen Some further discovery of Gods house or habitation through the Spirit And according to my measure declaring of the spiritual Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony the Truth Life and Substance of the Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony under the Legal dispensation to be read in the light which manifesls the things that are of God FRiends The house and habitation of God is called the Temple or Tabernacle of God where God dwells walks moves c. and this was shewed by the Temple under the Law in which Temple or Tabernacle God was graciously present with his people in that day but now dwells no longer in Temples made with hands but in his people and children who are the Temple and hat itation of God through the Spirit Though my Friends some do imagine that the Legal Temple or Tabernacle is a figure holding forth to us the outward Ordinances viz. Preaching Praying Supper Water Baptism c. And some calls this a new Iemple state and 't is to be feared there do abide and look no further or very little higher than just to draw from it the outward observation but God hath revealed it otherwise to me and a necessity is laid upon me being called to it not to deny it In order to your understanding of this Consider I. That in the Legal Temple was the Ark of the Testament and this was the Ark of his presence Now this Ark figured forth the Lord Jesus in the Spirit which dwells in his people or particularly in a Saint this is the Ark of the New Testament Isa 42.6 Mal. 3.1 which also is called the New Covenant That Ark was Legal this is a Gospel-Ark that was an outward Ark this an inward Ark that was an Ark in a form this an Ark in the power that

and a pushing one at the other for that 's of the flesh but a submitting the shoulder to bear each others burthen they lay out for each others good of what the eternal God has laid into their hearts and all this according to his working in them who works freely that all might be strengthned and comforted so that here 's not among the children of God Superiority one over another but all equally alike the children of God and Brethren one of another And certain I am that according to the measure of Gods indwelling in the pure light of life in the soul so the haughtinesse of man is crucified and laid low for haughtinesse and lordlinesse of spirit is from the flesh and beneath But as the soul receives of the Spirit of light and life and obeyes its teachings and drawings it shall find it drawing him from this spirit of haughtinesse and lordlinesse into a humble and low frame that it can standing in the power of such drawings condescend to wash his Brethrens feet as Christ did and become in the power of this so little and low that a little Child may lead him to wit Christ the Babe of righteousnesse the holy One of God for Friends the more the soul is anointed with the consecrating oyle i. e. the Spirit of God the more humble that soul is and willing to instruct his poor and weak Brother what God has done for his soul in order for his weak Brothers perseverance in the truth such a soul under the anointing of God is far from a Lordly and Majestical spirit This is that which God destroyes in the day of his power and glorious appearings of his life in a soul In that day the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the hanghtinesse of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exaleed AND now my dear Friends Turn in and see what you can experience in your own particulars that your rejoycing may be in your selves and not in another and think not this strange that you are pressed through such a weak instrument as I am to turn in and to see if these things are wrought by the eternal Spirit and that you have your teachings from the Spirit within Consider Friends the soul that is to be saved is within and Christ the light is within he sayes I am meek and low in heart And Christ in you the hope of glory And know you not that Christ is in you c. And the Law of the Spirit of life by which every particular is taught though every particular does not learn holinesse righteousnesse and the true fear of the Lord c. is said to be within I 'le put my Law in your minds and write it in your hearts c. And God himself is within as the Apostle declaved I will dwell in you and walk in you and you shall be my people and I will be your God Now if all this is within then turn in and examine your selves what of the teachings what of the life of the power and Spirit what of the flowings forth of the living vertues of the eternal Fountain of righteousnesse do I feel spring up in me that I and thou oh soul may rejoyce in our own portion and not in anothers and each of us come to sit down under our own Vine in particular and eat of the sweet fruit hereof none making afraid sayes my soul This Vine to be Christ and the Father to be the Husbandman that we may rejoyce together as the children of one Father all drinking into that one Rock and baptized into one Spirit and bound up together in the bundle of one life and that our union and communion may stand in the life Spirit and power and not in forms and outward observances saith my soul A brief discovery of the entrance into this house and habitation of God AND Friends There is no entring into this house of God but by great travel and pains Thou must travel out of Egypt through the loathsom Wilderneste to enter into Canaan Thou must oh soul experience the bond of thy iniquities to be broken Thou must know a day of trouble of misery a day of burning before thou canst advance this Church that is in God I say Thou must know the terrors of the Lord as my soul has known by reason of sin a day of shaking the foundations of the earth and making it to tremble a feeling the Arrows of the Almighty God stick in thy soul and great disquietnesse within thy borders because sin is in thy Tabernacle thou must feel his indignation as my soul hath according to thy measure and 't is good to bear it because of sin untill he raise thee up and comfort thy soul as sin is purged out Wait upon the Lord and suffer the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against thy unrighteousnesse and in due time thou shalt feel a power-springing up from that light which first discover'd to thee thy sin whereby thou shalt have sin cast out but not all at once but as thou waitest here and obevest so thou shalt feel thy sin and thy old nature and all self destroyed and crucifyed so thou shalt experience a crucifying with Christ that thou maist live with him a pure innocent and spotlesse life and as thy sin and old nature c. is destroyed and dies so shall Christ the light of life live in thee and so as thou obeyest this light of life which is risen to destroy thy death thou shalt come to live in the pure life and have it in your selves and so as he who is this light of life to wit Christ Jesus lives in you you shall live also in him and so come to experience what it is to dwell in the house of God and to be a member of the true Church that is in God and to experience all and much more as already declared And now Friends unto the Lord I commit you and give up to be taught governed and guided by his pure Law of righteou snesse the Law of the Spirit of life which is the Law written in the heart which Law is pure and consents not to sin but reproves it and manifests it and holds out a power to mortifie it the which every soul that waits on the Lord and stands in his counsel shall feel spring up to cast out the son of the bond-woman for it shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman i. e. with Christ the life and seed of God And that you might be cloathed with the garment of light and salvation and with zeal and holy courage for the Lord as with a Cloak and that you might come to praise and adore the living God of endlesse life and that you might be fed upon the Mountain of Gods holinesse with the Feast that God has prepared a Feast of fat things of Wines well refined and that he might destroy by the appearance of his life the