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	holy_a	love_n	6,945	5	5.0558	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35839	A general epistle given forth from the spirit of the Lord to be read in his fear in the assemblies of the church of the first-born, gathered in these northern-countries, and in all countries and islands where ever the people of the Lord are scattered over the face of the earth / W.D.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1668 (1668)	Wing D1269; ESTC R37742	5,568	9

in keeping the Faith you will be made more then Conquerors thorow his Love that he will shed abroad in your hearts which will cause you to speak of his goodness and praise his Name for all his mercies And all dear Children of the Lord who do witness in measure that you are truely baptised into his Death and so are made partakers of his Resurrection as is before written which is the Life that worships him according to his own Will and so is truly accepted of him therefore watch and pray that you may be guided in the power of his Spirit in all your wayes And be carefull that not any be hasty to utter words before the Lord neither suffer any sighs or groans or any thing to be heard to pass thorow you but as you have the seal of the Spirit of the Lord that he requires it of you this I am commanded to lay as a charge upon you that so all Flesh may be truly silent before the Lord and not any voice to be heard but the living Spirit of the Lord speaking in his people which you that wait in the fear of the Lord and minds his leadings may truly know as it is written so doth his Children witness He that hath my Word saith the Lord let him speak my Word faithfully Is not my Word like a Fire and a Hammer that breaks the Rocks in pieces Therefore all mind to feel the Word of the Lord speaking in you that the pure burning Life of the Spirit may be tasted and felt in whatsoever you be exercised in that so you might be fully assured it is not your own work as man speaking of God but the Lord alone uttering his own voice in the forcible power of his own Spirit in what you are exercised in whether it be to pray in sighs or groans or in words or to speak in exhortation or praises you are not to quench the Spirit of the Lord in this his day that he is come and doth appear in giving divers gifts unto his people in his spiritual appearance as he did amongst his Disciples who waited at Ierusalem for the pourings forth of his Spirit from on high but they that were strangers to the work of the Spirit could not taste the Life that spake in them but said They were mad and full of new wine c. but the Lord justified them it being the work of his own Spirit and although he gave unto them various gifts yet all in the unity of himself in which they sacrificed in returning to the Lord his own with advantage to the glory of his great Name as his Children doth at this day blessed be his Name for ever that forth of the mouthes of Babes his praise is declared in their measures as it is with those of higher growth in the Lord and so do the faithfull Labourers reap the fruit for which they travel that all the people of the Lord may be filled with his Spirit and in the exercise and leadings thereof become a Body of Living Ministers and a Family of Prophets the strong leading the weak by the hand and in tender love building up one another in their most holy Faith which gives the victory over the World to reign in the Heavenly Dominion which causeth the Children of the Most High in the Authority of the Lord to say to the greatest Persecutors Oh man do what thou hast power the God whom we serve is able to deliver us out of thy hand but if he will not we are resolved in his strength to suffer what he permitteth man to do and this is the holy resolution of all that is born again and cannot hide your heads in the time of Persecution because you are born of the Royal Seed and have overcome the beggerly cowardly earthly spirit thorow the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony and no more to love your lives to death And all dear chosen Vessels of the Lord seeing he hath manifested his grace so largly to you with all diligence be obedient in walking answerably to his Love and Mercy received that as Living Witnesses for God you may shine forth in the beauty of Holiness in all your wayes and be carefull in keeping your meetings at the time appointed every one endeavouring to be the first at the Meeting that so not any give way to a careless spirit as some have done and so come to Meetings when others hath been a considerable time together and so becomes a burden to the diligent and obedient Servants of the Lord and so the Meetings are not so profitable to your comfort as when you meet diligently at the time waiting in the fear of the Lord to feel his sweet presence which will keep you awake in the Life of his own Spirit to the glory of his Name and the comfort of one another which will cause you to prize the opportunities God gives to you not knowing how soon you may be deprived of them c. And be tender one over another and watch over one another with a pure single eye and every one see the Beam cast out of your own eye before you go to spy a Mote in others and if any Brother or Sister offend you that know speak to them privately in all tenderness to restore them and this know Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his ways saves a soul from death and hides a multitude of sins but if they will not hear take two or three more and speak to them again in the spirit of meekness waiting and seeking the Lord for their recovery but if they will not hear but persist in wickedness then acquaint the Church whom the Lord in his Wisdom will order to deal with them for his own glory And in all things you do I dearly beseech you do unto others as you would be done unto your selves that so you may all in your measures stand as saviours upon Mount-Sion to the glory of the Lord in the power of his own Spirit which will cause the Whisperer Backbiter False-accuser and Tale-bearer to be clensed away and cast out of the House of the Lord that so in the good order of the holy Spirit of our God we may all live that he alone in his Dominion may reign in us and amongst us whose Government is upon his shoulders and all the Crowns of the glory of man cast down at his Feet that he may be exalted in ordering every member of the Body in their place and service to his everlasting praise and glory Even so dear Father carry on thy work in all the Churches of the Saints scattered over the face of the Earth that in the Eternal unity they may be established in the Lord being one and his Name one and all the contrary swept away with the Breath of thy Mouth and brightness of thy coming So come Lord Jesus take to thee thy great Power and reign in thy Authority in and amongst thy dear Children to the astonishment of the Nations and all people that are not born again and to the Exaltation of thy own Name and Kingdom over all who is worthy to reign blessed for ever and of whose Dominion there is no end And all you faithful Labourers in the Gospel of Christ who in true innocency travel in his Strength and seeks not any thing for your selves in what you do but to glorifie the Lord in establishing his people in the Living unity in his own Spirit Oh blessed are you amongst the people my soul praises the Lord for you and blesseth his Name that ever he raised up such a spirit in you that in all the greatest riches of the gifts of the Spirit God gives to you yet you remain truly poor in your selves and in deep humilty become Servants to his People for the Lords sake and being poor you make many rich in that which will abide fresh and green in the Winter Storms and will not fade away in the Terrible Blasts which will come for the trial of his People and cause all hearts to fa●l but what is born of his own nature Oh dearly beloved Brethren feel my Bowels of enlarged love which floweth to you in the Love and Life received and enioyed thorow death where there is no variableness nor shaddow of change I remain your Brother in the Word of his Patience to endure the Sufferings according to his determination with all that love the Lord better then their lives William Dewsbury Warwick the 14th of the 10th Moneth 68.