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	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90819	An alarum of vvar given to the army and to their high court of justice (so called) revealed by the will of God in a vision to E. Poole, (sometime a messenger of the Lord to the Generall Councel, concerning the cure of the land and the manner thereof) foretelling the judgements of God ready to fall upon them for disobeying the word of the Lord in taking away the life of the king : also a letter to the congregation, in fellowship with Mr. Kissin, in vindication of E.P. ...	Poole, Elizabeth.	1649 (1649)	Wing P2809; ESTC R203189	14,208	17

to lay down your lives in the field SIRS I Have considered the agreement of the people that is before you and I am very jealous lest you should betray your trust in it in as much as the Kingly Power is faln into your hands in giving it up to the people for thereby you give up the trust committed to you and in so doing you will prove your selves more treacherous then they that went before you they being no wayes able to improve it without you You justly blame the King for betraying his trust and the Parliament for betraying theirs This is the great thing I have to say to you Betray not you your trust I have yet another Message to shew you I know not what acceptance it may finde with you yet I am content here it is let it finde what acceptance it may I leave it with you The Message is as followeth Dear Sirs HAving already found so free admission into your presences it hath given me the greater incouragement though more peculiarly the truth perswading me thereunto to present you with my thoughts in these following lines I am in divine pleasure made sensible of the might of the affaires which lye upon you and the Spirit of sympathie abiding in me constraineth me to groan with you in your pains you may remember I told you the Kingly power is undoubtedly fallen into your hands which power is to punish evil doers and to praise them that doe well Now therefore my cumble advice to you is that you stand as in the awfull presence of the most high Father acting your parts before God and man you stand in the place of interpreters for many hard sayings present themselves to you and will do look for it wherefore see That you give unto men the things that are theirs and unto God the things that are his it is true indeed as unto men I know I appeale by the gift of God upon me the King is your Father and husband which you were and are to obey in the Lord and no other way for when he forgot his Subordination to divine Father-hood headship thinking he had begotten you a generation to his own pleasure and taking you a wife for his own lusts thereby is the yoak taken from your necks I mean the neck of the Spirit and Law which is the bond of your union that the holy life in it might not be prophaned it being free and can not be bound For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed us from the law of sin and of death for the letter of the law which speaketh to the flesh killeth therefore you must suffer of men in the flesh for the Lords sake that so dying to your own bodies that is to all self interest in divine will your might also receive your resurrection for you must dye before you can rise you must loose your lives Interests Liberties and all before you can save them casting your Crowne at the feet of the Lamb who only is worthy yet still pleading for them with men for they are your due with them a share they may not deny you Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works doe follow them From your own labours I wish you rest in the Lord that the fruit of your labours which is the life of your faith may follow you to prison and to death know this that true liberty either is not bound to any thing nor from any thing for it is subject to this or that neither this nor that in divine will neverthelesse as from the Lord you have all that you have and are so to the Lord you owe all that you have and are for his own name sake So from the King in Subordination You have all that you have and are and also in Subordination you owe him all that you have and are and although hee would not bee your father and husband Subordinate but absolute yet know that you are for the Lords sake to honour his person For he is the Father and Husband of your bodyes as unto men and therefore your right cannot bee without him as unto men I know and am very sensible that no small straight lyeth upon you in respect of securing his person for the manifold conceived inconveniences following and necessities of evill event in respect of raising more wars and also other things well known to you which will present themselves unpossible for you to avoid neverthelesse this is my humble and hearty prayer to the everlasting Father which I present to you in words that you may bee edified thereby Remember I said everlasting Father for so we shall best know him for our consolation that it might please him of his infinite eternall life and goodnesse to grant you a sure and certaine knowledge of this that all things which are impossible with men at the utmost extent of impossibillity are possible with him who only saith it and it commeth to passe the Lord of hoasts the God of the whole earth who commandeth all hoasts of men Angels and Devils whose eyes run to and fro throughout the face of the whole earth To shew himselfe strong in the behalf of all those that trust in him wherefore put your swords into his hands for your defence and fear not to act the part of Abigail seing Nabal hath refused it by Appropriating his goods to himself in relieving David and his men in their distresle it was to her praise it shall be to yours fear it not Onely consider that as she lifted not her hand against her husband to take his life no more doe ye against yours For as the Lord revenged his own cause on him he shall do on yours For vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord who made him the Saviour of your body though hee hath profaned his Saviour-ship Stretch not forth the hand against him For know this the Conquest was not without divine pleasure whereby Kings came to reigne though through lust they tyrannized which God excuseth not but judgeth and his judgements are fallen heavy as you see upon Charles your Lord Forget not your pitty towards him for you were given him an helper in the body of the people Which people are they that agreed with him to subject unto the punishment of evill doers and the praise of them that doe well which law is the spirit of your Union And although this bond be broken on his part You never heard that a wife might put away her husband as he is the head of her body but for the Lords sake suffereth his terrour to her flesh though she be free in the spirit to the Lord and he being uncapable to act as her husband she acteth in his stead and having the spirit of Union abiding in her shee considereth him in his temptations as tempted with him And if he will usurpe over her she appealeth to the Fatherhood for

and his paths of mercy in which he follows poore fallen man and poore backsliding souls are past finding out how narrow are our capacities we judge as men we may think as some did of David that there is no help for such things in God but all things in truth will be found possible with him even where they are altogether past our thoughts and conceptions and become to us impossible I beseech you therefore be perswaded to bow down to him I know you are conscious that all judgement is not committed unto you and therefore it is possible you may not judge right in this thing for truly brethren we may conceive many things even by the letter it self and yet not living in that spirit that writ the Letter we may erre I pray do not mistake me as if I would any way speak slightly of the letter farther than it speaks of it self no I blesse the Father for it and by sweet experience can say that I was never so confirmed in it now the Lord hath drawn me to him out of it even in that spirit that wrought it I am for the conscionable use of it but I would not abuse it I am sure those men that would set it above the spirit can hardly free themselves from that thing I hope therefore you will not count it your excellency to walk in the letter but rather desire the Lord to perfect you in that spirit that writes the letter for then and never but then shall we be able to walk by right and speak of the letter truly I have not yet acquainted my husband with your letter I shall wait upon God what answer to receive from you for truly dear brethren upon serious deliberation I know not how to approve my selfe faithfull in the eies of God to my brethren here if I should deliver it for God having put it into my hand I must also see clearnes from him before I part with it for though blessed be the father we have a sweet hopefull people amongst us that wait upon God and have fellowship one with another yet whether they may digest such things as you write of I really question therefore it would be unfaithfulnes in me if I apprehending an evil to them or any other should not as much as in me lies prevent it and this I shall do by detaining the Letter till further manifestation from God what to do with it do not judge me in this thing I beseech you I have one Judge even the Lord and he that put it into my hand will at length clear my integrity in it I have nothing to doe for my self in it the Lord knows onely How I may approve my selfe faithfull to men in the Lord and for the Lords sake your desire I exceedingly like that we may be kept from errors and the Lord keepe us from all errors but who must shew us what errour is but the God of truth himselfe wee have lived in error and have suckt them in from our cradles and yet who will speake so much against error as wee stating our selves still in the truth my sweet friends the day of truth is but now dawning upon us and how is it opposed yea by those that are children of truth in their measure yet wee have all looked for it and prayed together for it a long time but truly now wee will not own our prayers but turne away our face from our Saviour because hee comes not in such a garb as we imagined he would when we know it s his prerogative to cloath himselfe with what flesh orgarment he pleases bretheren what would you have doe you not know that a glorious day hath beene spoken of ever since the Prophets and the Apostles Though the day was dawned upon them yet they bid their hearts not to be terrified as if that day were neare for saith he there must be a falling away first and that wicked one be revealed notwithstanding Peter tould them that he was a partaker of that glory that should bee afterwards revealed however saith he you have a sure word of Prophesie to which yee doe well to take heed as if he had said brethren wee have beene with the Lord in the mount and have beheld that excellent glory but yet to you that have not so seene Christ there is a more sure word of Prophesie for visions and revelations doe most especially confirme and strengthen those that have them but here is a word that is spoken to all and is as a light shining in a darke place therefore you doe well to take heed to it till the day dawne and the day Star arise in your owne hearts and you be swallowed up with that glory that now you expect and wait for onely know this that no private spirit can understand these Scriptures that speake of that day it must be the spirit of God alone let us cease from our own Spirits therefore for they are selfish and private bound up to this and that and so it would confine God also but his Spirit is as large as himselfe it s without bonds it s neither here nor there distinct but it is individually every where But that which I desire you to consider from these Scriptures is that this day of falling away hath beene and all the world hath wandred after the beast since the Apostles time therefore how neare may we expect our glory wee should not be troubling our selves therefore still with falling a way but now looke for a rising for sure man hath his day and now the Lord will have his day now seeing this day of the Lord must have a dawning and some Disciples may bee taken up into the Mount before other some it should teach us not to judge our brethren that speake of higher injoyments then we have for wee being behind should rather judge our selves seeing we are more in the day of man and acknowledge our selves so to bee still looking for and hastening to the day of God in which wee may act selfe nor selfishly no longer but our God may bring forth his owne righteousnesse in us and truly brethren you may bee satisfied in this that wee are verily industrious to keepe our selves from error but wee know that in his strength wee shall bee perfected and when himselfe comes and speakes then shall we know that it is hee and truly bretheren I would not have you infidels but believing this day hath taken some unawares and though many may have it in notion yet I am sure that some have it in power I have one thing more to you concerning your Letter and truly I cannot but wonder at it that is how you durst so peremptorily to judge the woman that shee brought a delusion for a vision of God I beseech you consider seriously before the Lord whether you are sure that it was so or no before you make it so publike and send it forth with the authority of a Church surely friends you