Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	heart_n	lord_n	7,515	5	3.6414	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40350	A visition [sic] of love unto all people (in whose hearts there are any true, honest tender desires begotten towards God and his righteousness) in what sect or opinion or profession soever theybe [sic] in which is not in the light ... / by a labourer in the power of truth (which doth make free) for the deliverance and freedom of the righteous seed, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2017; ESTC R29859	10,993	14

satisfaction now the manifestation of the spirit doth shew unto you your runings and willings and actings and strivings that ye have been in whereby ye could never obtain satisfaction unto that in you which breathes to do the will of God now you must mind that which makes manifest these things unto you and as you take notice of that which is the light and waite in it you will come to feel it drawing you into stilness and coolness and quietness of spirit and then with the light you will come to discern the subtilty and the motions thereof which hath oft beguiled you by drawing you from quietness and stilness into the Airy imaginations whereby he hath tossed and unsetled your minds and as you waite in that which doth make manifest which is the light and believe in it you will come to feel something arising in you in power to judge and condemn the subtilty as that stirs in you to draw you from waiting upon God and then you will come to know and seel the spirit of Judgement and burning placed in you to purge you and as you waite in the judgement in patience and stilness you will come to hear the still voice that is spoken of in the Scriptures saying This is the way and shewing it unto you and when you see the way as you waite in that which shewes it unto you then you will come to hear the command in power saying unto you walk in it and then you will come to know your Teacher which cannot be removed into a corner and so here the path of the just ye will all come to know and witness in your selves which is the shining light which shineth more and more until the perfect day for as you all waite in that which calls for stilness and silence to the flesh and the motions thereof ye will come then to see more light and so ye will come to witness what David spoke to be true who said to God in thy light shall we see light and then the just which hath been long oppressed and burthened in you will begin to spring and as you believe and waite in the light your minds being staid in it you will come to seel Gods living power working and opperating in you condemning and removing that in you which hath oppressed and burthened the just and so by Gods pure power as you waite and continue in it you will come to feel and witness the just holy seed raised up in you from under that which did oppress and burthen it and here you will feel the captive come out of captivity by the Gospel which is the power of God and the prison door set open and the prisoners set as liberty and then as you waite in the light you will come to feel Gods pure powerful presence and life and virtue running through you which will refresh the seed which is tender and give satisfaction unto it and so as you all waite low in the fear of God watching in the light that nothing may get up in you to boast and glory which is not of God you will then feel your love exceedingly encreased towards the pare living truth of God and your whole delight will be to walk in the truth in righteousness and holiness without wch no man shall see the living God as you all walk in the light obeying it you wil come into the pure fellowship and Communion and unity of the Saints and then you will feel the life which is the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing you purging and purifying you from all sin and so as every one of you abide in the faith feeling it standing in the power of God that will purifie your hearts and give you victory over the world and then you will come to receive a particular satisfaction from Christ the power which is the Author and ground of the Saints faith and you will feels Gods spirit and power and lifevas you dwell in it drawing and leading you into whatsoever he requireth you to do and as you all waite and are still in that which doth discern the thoughts and the intents of your hearts and makes them manifest unto you you will clearly come to discern the subtilty and the motions thereof which would draw you to act such things as the Lord doth not require you to act So all take heed to that which discerns the thoughts and intents of your hearts for this is a measure of the word of life which is quick and powerful and as you all waite in is you will feel it to be so for you will feel it dividing the precious in you from the vile and this is the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls So this is not written to feed the carnal mind in any but it is written for your fakes who are truely breathing and thirsting after Gods righteousness and cannot be satisfied without it that so you may all come into the true light wherewith you are enlightened and that you with it may come to see how you have been tossed and tumbled up and down by the subtiltie of the Serpent in those things which could never give you true peace nor satisfaction and that now through believing in the truth and obedience of the spirit you may all come to witness a particular satisfaction and that you may come to feel the pure image of the holy God restored in you even his everlasting righteousness his power his wildom his life and glory raised up in you to have Dominion and to rule over all the earth and to subdue it that so the pure God of life and vertue might be glorified in your mortal bodies and that you might all come to feel and witness an everlasting habitation of rest and peace in him who is worthy of all honour and praise and thanksgiving and Dominion for evermore Amen Now some of you who have been ancient Professors will say to us if we should joyn to you we must lay down all then that ever we have professed and what have we been Professors so many years and yet have to begin all again have we known nothing of God all this time this is hard say they To this I answer friends if you come to joyn to the truth you must then lay down and leave and forsake all that which you have held up and practiced in your own wills which you were never led or required to hold up or practice by the spirit of truth but I do know and own that there was a pure living Principle of God oft stiring in you in your Profession by which Principle of God you oft saw that you were wrong and that you did that which was not well pleasing in the sight of God in your Profession for that Principle of God in you the light Judged and condemned you for many of your actions which you acted and sometimes the Lords witness brought you into a tender low condition and then opened things

unto the Seed in you but you not taking heed to the light to be the guide and stay of your minds you continued not long in that condition but you consulted with the subtiltie which drew you from Gods witness what you should do and so waited not in that which brought you into tenderness to receive Gods Councel in that but you took Councel of the Serpent and your own hearts and so ran into things which God never required at your hands and therefore God had no regard unto your worship because it was not in the Spirit and in the Truth you not being guided therein by the Spirit of Truth so unto that which was in the beginning you must all come which is Christ the true light who hath enlightened you and you must learn of him who is the light of life the word and the Power by which all things were made and are upheld and you must be subject unto the measure of him in you and this his measure if you submit to it that will bring you to cease from your own wills and works and to waite in silence and patience to see and feel Christ the Power of God to work all your works in you and for you and if you own the light that will plainly shew unto you how God formerly appeared unto you and how you went from his appearance so the light will own that which God opened unto you at any time but it will deny and condemn your own imaginations which you mixed with that which God opened unto you and so unto this witness of the Lord you must all come and believe and waite in that which will seperate the precious from the vile before that can be satisfied in you which breathes after God So my tender love and compassion is unto that in you which is not yet satisfied but doth truely hunger and thirst after the life and Power of Truth and my soul doth travell for freedom and satisfaction of that seed and I suffer with it and bear many things for its sake for I have true unitie and fellowship with that in you and I know it and am known of it but I cannot have unitie with many of your practices which ye have been in because they have caused the Seed in you with which I have unity exceedingly to suffer you not being guided and led into them by the Spirit of truth and so against all such practices I do bear witness in the spirit of meekness and I labour in the spirit of Love to turn Peoples minds unto the manifestation of the spirit of truth which is given to everie man wherewith to profit so all people feel that and mind that and heaken unto that which oft riseth in your hearts against Lust against covetousnesse against pride against vain and meedlesse words and thoughts and against all evil in its appearance and as you all minde this principle which moves and stirs in you against all evil you will feel it devide your good words from your bad words and good thoughts from bad thoughts and good deeds from bad deeds and that which devides betwixt these and shewes you the difference of them this is the word which Moses and Paul wrote of which is nigh the mouth and in the heart Yea this is the word of reconciliation which reconciles to God this is the ingrafted word which is able to save the Soul Now you being turned to this word even to that which discerns the thoughts and intents of your hearts as ye wait in this let the subtilty appear never so subtilly to draw your hearts after any thing or into any practice which the Lord requireth not of you then this word which is the power it wil make it manifest unto you and it will stop you from entring into any such practices if you will fully resist it not and believing waiting in this word it will not suffer you to speak any hasty unsavourie words or word and then ye will come to be truly sensible of a bridle to the tongue without which the religion is vain and this word ye taking it to be your guid it will bring you into savourie sound words seasoned with the grace of God and so as your words and actions and lives come to be ordered by this word Christ the power of God they will reach unto the witnesse of God in every one where ye come and if ye will hear this word and regard it and not resist it it will work true faith in you by which you will feel your hearts purified from sin and ye will feel it giving you victorie over the world within and without and if ye keep in this faith ye will not make haste for ye will feel the eternal light which is the life of the Word calling and drawing you out of the hastie nature into sobernesse stilnesse and quietness and meeknesse of spirit and so ye will feel your strength renewed in the Lord as ye all wait upon him in his light and all beleiving in the Light ye will not come into condemnation and as ye all wait in that which discerns and reveales the thoughts and the intents of your hearts which is the word of power this also will devide between your good thoughts and your bad thoughts and the good motions and the bad motions which you will see stiring in your mindes and if you hold fast the word of truth it will preserve and keep you out of the bad thoughts and motions and it will join you unto the good and ye will come to feel the operation of the spirit and life and power of God in you to shake and overturn and work out that ground which hath been in you from whence the bad words and bad thoughts and bad motions hath arose which hath burthened the oppressed the tender seed in you which you never could witnesse satisfied with all that ever you have performed but as ye all believe and wait in this unchangeable measure of God you will come to feel the burthen taken off the Seed and ye will come to feel and witnesse more true durable peace and satisfaction in one hours vvaiting upon God then ever you felt and vvitnessed in all the vvords that ever you have heard from any man or vvoman in all your lives or in all your practices that ever you have practised before you vvere brought to vvait upon God in his gifts vvhich he hath given you to profit vvith all although in those things vvhich vve have practiced I knovv ye have had a great joy appearing in you for a time but it vvas not durable nor lasting for vvhen Gods true and faithful vvitnesse the light appeared and shevved you hovv that God never required those things at your hands vvhich you had practiced then your joy and peace vvithered and came to an end which you appeared some time to have in those practices and if at any time ye come to feel some little peace and joy and refreshment through what God opened to the seed in you vvhen by his povver ye vvere brought into some tendernesse ye soon lost this also by going from that vvhich brought you into the tendernesse But as you all come into the obedience of the spirit and abide in it this vvill bring you into the seasoned life and then ye will come to feel and witnesse pure peace and joy and refreshment and satisfaction which will last and abide for ever with you if ye abide in the spirit and then ye will be made willing to lay down and denie all that which ye have been acting which ye never were lead and guided to act by Gods pure holie spirit and to denie all such also as would draw you to act that which God requireth not at your hands So take heed of such as daubes with untempered morter and heals deceitfully who will speak peace when there is no true peace but the pure witnesse of God condemns for such with the good words and fair speeches deceives the hearts of the simple keeping them ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and these through covetousnesse and fained words make merchandize of poor people for they have a forme of Godlinesse but they denie and resist the power and therefore from such turn away And all minde that and feel that and be subject unto that which for sin condemnes sin in the flesh and then you will feel the spirit of judgement and burning and righteousnesse through which the seed is redeemed which Seed is heire of the Kingdome of God So all waite in the meek lowlie quiet spirit that ye may come to witnesse this holie Seed which delights to do the will of God by the power and life of God raised up in you and brought forth out of captivity and satisfied And look not nor strive not after great and high things beyond your measures for that puffs up and leads into confusion and darke immaginations but all wait and be still in the measure of Gods Light manifested in you that so ye may come to feel him revealing his secrets and misteries unto the babes which cannot live or be satisfied without him God is making known that and stiring that in the hearts of people throughout the world which doth and shall confound and overturne all the wisdome of this World and the subtilty of the Serpent from whence all the Worlds wisdome arose and therefore the hand of the Lord will be terrible and heavie upon the disobedient who disobeyes and transgresseth that which he hath put into their hearts whereby he is opening a mighty understanding in the people But the everlasting blessing and peace and joy and glory of the Lord over all shall arise and rest upon all these that join to and believe in and obey that word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart THE END