Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	7,461	5	5.0564	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

of the truth of what they do speak for Saint John saith The testimony of Jesus Rev. 19.10 is the spirit of prophecie They are not to teach by letter or by another mans lines nor by transmission of other authors for that is as theft which the Lord by his prophets complains of and also they are not to teach the visions the divinations the falsities vanities Jer. 14.14.15 and deceitfulnesse of their own hearts but cleerly and exactly what is within themselves of the truth of God and of the power and life of the Spirit of God Wherefore let all the Teachers that are at this day who have took upon them to teach examine and try themselves whether they are of the same Spirit that their Lord Christ was of when he taught upon the mount Matth. 5. after he had foiled the Tempter he pronounceth happinesse and blessednesse to divers As to the poore to the mourner to the meek to the hungry to the mercifull to the pure to the peace-makers and to them that are persecuted proove your selves yee teachers of men whether the same minde be in you as was in Christ Jesus he was according to all these severall sorts of people he giveth them comfort whom comfort belongeth unto and blessednesse to them that are pure c. Is it so with you do you do the like then are you the Light of the world and the Salt of the earth It is to be feared that the worlds preachers are not so to be found but rather in stead of being poor in spirit they are rich like the Laodiceans Revel 3. in stead of mourning for the abominations that are in the land as spirituall whoredoms they are blinde to it and think themselves to be the very Spouse of Christ and rejoyce in the fleshly service of God which is not accepted in stead of being meek they are filled full of envie breaking out into revilings persecutings in stead of being hungry they are full they have need of nothing Luke 2● when they are poor blinde and naked in stead of being mercifull they are cruell Incendiaries to authority against the innocent in stead of being pure in heart they are pure in tongue they prophesie in the name of God but God may say unto them I know you not I have had no inward acquaintance with you in stead of being peace-makers I would it could not be said that they are the greatest peace-breakers dividing rending railing fomenting and dissenting with those that they suppose are risen up to justle them out of their livings Are the teachers of the world contrary to Christ Surely then they are not to be heard Take heed how you hear saith our Saviour Come learn of me saith he also Those that have the holy Spirit of God in them have the gift of discerning 1 Joh. 3. and they are guided to hear nothing but what the Spirit speaks he that hath ears to hear hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches They were all faulty and would our Churches now were not so It is the scattered people in Babylon the despised remnant that deserteth the worlds fashions that are persecuted by the Churches that are now gathering together by the hands of the Almighty which will be the people that will grow up to an invincible mountain which shall for e●er stand Can the Teachers of the world say that they are the light of the world Job 18.6.21.17 and live in blindnesse and darknesse and have not the true light shining in them can they give light to others that have no light They may have a certain kinde of light in dark and obscure places like that rotten wood that is called Dadock which shineth untill the true light comes and when It comes no light at all appears in it Can they say they are the salt of the earth Salt is of that quality that it doth as it were give life to that which is dead it preserveth from putrefaction it is medicinall and of a healing quality Sal sapit omnia It is an embleme of love would this were so that the teachers of the world were as salt that they could introduce into their dead hearers the living and eternall Gospel of God that it might be to them as life and that their exhortations instructions rebukes and comforts were medicinall and healing to the diseases and wounds of their peoples souls and spirits as salt is to the body and that there were pure love and a godly jealousie in them as was in Saint Paul 2 Cor. 11.2 that had prepared the Corinthians for one husband to present them as pure virgins to Christ but feared they were beguiled as Eve was by the Serpent and their mindes might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ None should be teachers of others but those that are Beleevers for the simple and plain Beleever is the best speaker David said I did beleeve therefore I spake Psal 116.10 intimating had he not truly beleeved he had not been capable of speaking a true Beleever may be a right Expositour and a right Interpreter But pity it is that where the Teacher is defective there is joyned the traditions of men with the pure Word with Christs commands carnall paganish Philosophy with the anointing of the Spirit the orders and degrees of Schools rudiments of the world with the ministery of Christ which is from Heaven These things cannot stand together and therefore there is a great rent made and will still divide and rend untill all be made new for new wine must be put into new bottles the old bottles of the flesh cannot hold the wine of the spirit of God the new Covenant requires another manner of obedience then the old did Prov. 4.18 and the Gospel ministration is for the perfecting of the Saints the way of the righteous is light that shineth more and more to the perfect day to build them up into the unity of faith and to lead them from faith to faith into the perfect knowledge of the Son of God to be a perfect man into the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ When will the time come that there shall be no more complaint against unsavoury salt blinde guides divine Merchants Surely the time is now coming it is begun that the Lord will expell and drive out from his Church all those that are pernicious unnecessary unprofitable teachers and guides who by the will of man are educated and brought to learning and humane art fitted as to the eyes of men for to teach and instruct and no way as by the election of God inwardly posited and habituated by the Lord but rather suffered and continued for the sins and transgressions of the people who do collect matter together out of Authours keeping it in memory to deliver it not fixed by the Spirit in themselves but are as a channell or pipe that conveyeth to the outward certain