Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	good_a	holy_a	7,427	5	4.6212	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43751	A Christian salutation and greeting unto all the true Christian people of God (often in scorn called Quakers) who are the true church of Christ, the first-born in England, in this latter age and generation / from a Friend, brother and companion with all the saints and children of light, in their sufferings and tribulations, and also a partaker (through the Grace of God) of the blessed inheritance with all the saints in light, John Higgins.	Higgins, John, 1633-1667.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1952; ESTC R18523	4,298	9

duty ye called and chosen of God and that which is your acceptable obedience with him for evermore That you Fear and Reverence and Worship him who is the Lord God everlasting and him only to serve not to bow down to Antichrist nor any of his carved Images upon any pain or penalties whatsoever for if you should the Lord would not hold you guiltless but he would enter into Judgement with you Now then follow your Leader Christ the Captain of your Salvation and mind the leadings of his Light Power and Spirit in your own hearts and your feet shall not erre from the way of peace but he shall be your safe Conducte● and a sure defence round about you so that when Storms and Tempests Temptations and Tribulations do beset you on every hand yet fear you not but turn in quietly unto him that is your strength and fear his name and grieve not his Spirit by murmuring but repose your whole Faith and Confidence in him for evermore and so he will never leave you nor forsake you but will go before you leading on conquering and to conquer and he will fight your Battels and work all your works in you and for you And thus dearly Beloved we are Witnesses of that great Ingagement of the Lamb and his Followers against Antichrist that man of Sin and his whole Train of Idolaters and behold the Word is gone out from him that is higher then the highest The Lamb and the Saints shall get the Victory And now my dear Brethren and Companions in the Lamb's warfare think it not strange if the man of Sin muster up all his Forces against you for to cause you if it were possible to bow down unto his Image and for to cause you to bow under his Rule and Government he shall use great violence instruments of War and carnal Weapons shall be formed against you but behold those are not the Weapons of your Warfare but you are to make desence in the Name and Power and Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ whose Weapons are not carnal but Spiritual and Mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds c. And behold here is the Faith and Patience of the Saints And in this Faith and Patience Good men Holy men and Prophets of God in former times finished their course and kept the Faith and thereby obtained a good Report amongst the Generations of the Just and are set down in the Kingdom of their Father having overcome through Faith and Patience in the Spirit and Life which is the blood of the Lamb. And now though Antichrist may have so much power as to cast some of you into Prison and exercise great wrath and cruelty towards you yea though it might extend so far as to take the lives of some from the earth yet you are not thereby overcome but therein you are made Conquerors even through death to Reign in the Kingdom of the Father for evermore And now my dear Brethren and Companions in the Faith and Patience in the midst of Tribulations put on Boldness and Confidence in the Name of the Lord and in the Godly Resolution of your upright Hearts follow the Lamb through the loss of all rather than to be insnared to fall and be taken for that will bring sorrow and misery into your Dwellings O ye Dear and Called and Chosen of God he hath long been preparing you for the mighty day of his Conquest of Antichrist that Man of Sin Oh how powerfully hath he Appeared even the Lord our Righteousness to draw and to lead away your hearts from the Pleasure Riches and Vanities of this World that those things might not be as Temptations unto you so as to look back be insnared and taken yea he hath already proved and tryed you and your faithfulness is known unto the Lord and altogether acceptable with our God and he will seal you up for his own and will crown you with the Beauty of his own Image and with Glory Honour and Praise and that in the sight of his Enemies Wherefore blessed are you all that continue Patient in well-doing and saithful Followers of the Lamb unto the end ye shall receive a Crown of immortal Life and Heavenly Blessings in this Life and in that which is to come And so dear Friends and Brethren every where herein the Lord hath Honoured you and Blessed you that have waited upon him in the Light his blessed Presence Power and Life is with us and dwells in us and amongst us who is our Strength and Rock and heavenly Bl●●sedness both in this World and that which is to come And now unto him that is come unto us and hath pitched his Tent in us and that is able to keep unto the utmost is my Soul and Body also with yours freely offered up unto his Heauenly Protection who is worthy to be Feared Reverenced and Obeyed and his pure Holy Name to be Blessed Praised and Magnified over all even from henceforth and for evermore Amen I am your dear Brother and Companion in Tribulations and in the Kingdom and Patience of our Lord Jesu● Christ John Higgins London 24th of the 7th Month 1663. THE END