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	receive_v	5,822	5	5.5335	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40900	Art thou a ruler in Israel and knowest not these things? Viz. The great errour in that which is called the Apostles creed And the reall truth of Jesus Christ his glorious conquering personall reigne on Earth, over the Devill, sin and death for one thousand yeares. With mans salvation by the free grace and favour of God and Jesus Christ. Laid open by him who heartily desires the manifestation of all the truths of God, and of Jesus Christ. And the utter excirpation of all the errours of men. William Farmer, Gent.	Farmer, William.	1648 (1648)	Wing F445A; ESTC R222651	20,610	26

from God whose Kingdome habitation and dwelling from whence the soule came is boundlesse endlesse and limitlesse and therefore a place of liberty because it is without any restraint and every soul while it is in the mortall body of clay is confined and bounded with its mortall wall of earth the body and chained in by the naturall corruptions of the sinful flesh And so every soule while it is in the body is in prison because it is by the body restrained from its former liberty it had in heaven from whence it came into the mortal body wch former liberty was boundless and limitless Therfore it was those soules that were in the mortal bodies of those wicked men of the old world that lived in the days of Noah before the flood that Peter speaks of that were the spirits in prison preached unto by that quickning spirit or lively spirit of God the holy Ghost by wch the dead body or flesh of Jesus Christ was quickned or raised the 3d day again to life from the dead It was that same Spirit or holy Ghost sent by Jesus Christ into Noah that did preach in Noah to the spirits or soules of those wicked men that lived in the days of Noah before the flood wch were in prison then imprisoned in their mortall bodies by their finfull flesh whose sins were so provoking of the Almighty that the Lord said It repented him that he had made man on the Earth and it grieved him at the heart These mens soules or spirits were so imprisoned in their bodies and so chained in by their corruptions of the flesh that they could not hear the Spirit of God preaching unto them in Noah for repentance amendment of life but were like the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eare against the Charmer charm he never so well Peter saith that God did suffer their disobedience long and with patience waited for the repentance amendmēt of life all that while time Noah was preparing of the Arke And thus is this Text to be interpreted and understood to the glory of God because it sets forth his truth and therefore that clause in the Apostles Creed ought to be razed and for ever put out and no longer suffered for Catholicall as from an Apostolicall Author being it was from a Papisticall Antichristian Diabolicall Jesuiticall Author the Devils chiefe erroneous instruments on earth That Jesus Christ shall reign one thousand yeares on Earth SAith the Apostle Peter No prophesie of the Scripture is any private interpretation neither came it by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost The Scripture is not the word of men but it is the word of God And saith the Text the Prophesie of John is The revelation of Jesus Christ to shew unto his servants things that must shortly come to passe Therefore Christ sent and signified the same by his Angel to his servant John One and the same holy Ghost delivered the whole word of God though by divers Instruments amongst whom John was one and the last who saith I saw an Angell come downe from heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chaine in his hand And hee laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devill and Sathan and bound him a thousand yeares and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seale upon him That he should deceive the Nations no more untill the thousand yeares should be fulfilled Iohn doth not prophesie of any thing to come but what was answerable agreeable to former prophesies and promises Therefore let men in these dayes try the prophesies of Iohn with other Scriptures as the noble Bereans in the Apostles dayes tryed the Apostles doctrine and then the very truth of God will appear according to the promise of Jesus Christ Whatsoever you shall aske the Father in my name he will give it unto you Therefore ask and you shall receive Aske by prayer for heavenly wisedome in faith and you shall receive a good understanding Seeke and you shall finde Seeke by searching of the Scriptures for the truth and you shall find eternall life Knock and it shall be opened unto you Knocke at heaven gates by a fervency in heart for the spirit of God and the gates of heaven shall be opened the holy Ghost shall come in unto you and he shall reveal all things unto you that be written whether past present or to come God in the beginning created the whole works and creatures that be mortall within the first fixe evenings and mornings And loe all things were very good But when that old Serpent the Devill and Sathan that enemie of man by his subtilty had beguiled Eve and by her Adam and so in them all man-kinde by sowing tares of disobedience in the whole mortality of God The Lord said the whole earth and creatures were so corrupted through the deceit of the Devill that it repented God that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at the heart And still even so long as the Devil shall have power over the whole mortality of God he will deceive the Nations but Iesus Christ by his servant Iohn hath promised the whole mortality a whole deliverance from the power of the Devil for a thousand years by sending an Angel with power from heaven downe into this world to lay hold on and arrest the Devill at the suite of Iesus Christ with an action from God Almighty out of the Court of Gods glorious justice without bail or main prize to cast him into the bottomlesse pit and to shut him up and to set a seale upon him because he by his instruments shut up the body of Iesus Christ in the grave with a great stone and sealed him up with the signet of the Scribes Pharisees that he should not rise again according to the Scriptures for the redemption of his redeemed ones And for the Devils deceiving of the Nations from the creation unto that time shall he be kept in shut up for one compleat 1000. years during which thousand yeares all the mortall creatures on the earth at that time shall be so freed from the Devils evill power according to former prophesie and the promises of God by the Prophet Isaiah That the devouring Lyon shall eate grasse as an Oxe and all creatures shall be atpeace even at the same peace they had in the day of the creation before man sinned by reason whereof the Devil had a power to work in all creatures the evil of malice and death this 1000. years of the Devils confined and restrained power from his working and acting of evill in any wise either by tempting to evill or dying for evill or by evill There shall be no death neither shall there be any children gotten or borne for getting of children is an act of sinne because it