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	place_n	5,553	5	4.7190	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

the holy Angels justifie and the Church of God It may be you will call this rebellion and so it is against the Prince of darkness from whence you have received your Authority Manifesting thereby their complying with those whose design is to overthrow the Order est●blished in Church and State every such person upon conviction before the said Court of Assistance in manner as abovesaid shall be committed to close prison for one Month and then unless they chuse voluntarily to depart this Jurisdiction shall give Bond for their good behaviour and appear at the next Court where continuing obstinate and refusing to retract and reform the foresaid Opinions shall be sentenced to banishment upon pain of death and any one Magistrate upon information given him of any such person shall cause him to be apprehended and shall commit any such person to prison according to his discretion until he come to tryal as abovesaid And here is an end of their wicked Law which must come to an end You that build up a Nation with iniquity and a Church so called with blood who layes traps for the feet of the innocent and makes Laws to destroy mens Estates and to banish men from the Earth which is the Lords and the fulness of it and furthermore makes Laws to destroy mens lives and shed blood Wo and Misery is to your Church and State and the righteous God of Heaven and Earth will plead the cause of the innocent and needy and overthrow that which you have established and if they will not recant as you call it which is to deny Christ before men then banishment and prisonment and their Estate wasted and they destroyed then you think you are secure your Laws is cursed your Religion cursed and your Enterprises cursed What is not your Gospel able to defend it self but you must take up the Beasts Weapons Cain's Weapons the murderer the Devil's Weapons to defend your Church and State carnal Weapons hellish Weapons the Dragons Weapons Hath your deceitful Merchants the hireling Priests made you believe that this is an Orthodox received Opinion They received this out of the bottomless pit and the Weapons with all that handle them shall go down thither again and the Lamb shall reign over the Beast and his followers though you have established wickedness by a Law and think your selves secure yet God will provoke you that the rottenness of your hearts may be brought forth and that all your deceit may be made manifest that all that fear the Lord may come out from amongst you for wo and misery shall compass your Tabernacle and the dread of God is against you And the next thing whereby the Devil and his Ministers fortifies themselves is certain Articles exhibited by them like the Popes Inquisition although they are full of ignorance and blasphemy and these they intend to impose upon any ●an and if they answer not according to their blind understandings then they say they are convicted as Hereticks and must be sent to prison and if they do not retract banished and whipped in the mean time and his Estate made havock on and then banished not to return upon pain of death and if he do return to be put to death and this is the fruit of their Orthodox received Principles and of the laudable custom of New-England And now I come to the Articles 1. If a●y person or persons besides their refusing to come to the publike Assembly of Divine Worship shall either deny the blessed Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Ans. And is this one of your Orthodox received Articles Then the Pope is as Orthodox as you And what is there to be found or can be expected in your publike Assemblies amongst a company of envious men whose hearts are filled with envy whose hands are defiled with blood Divine Worship say you like Wolsey Bonner and that bloody crew Divine Service said they But you might more truly have said Humane invention and vain tradition And Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Where learned you this Article from the Pope from the Mass Book Yet the Father Son and Spirit is owned and these three are one and the Father Word and Spirit and these are one but I challenge all you Orthodox Professors to shew me from Scripture where the Holy Ghost or Spirit is called a Person be ashamed of your ignorance ye illiterate men 2. Or shall den● the person of Christ to be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost or shall deny the Person of Christ to be distinct from every believer Ans. Do but mark the madness and confusion of these mighty Rabbies before there must be three persons in one Essence and now Christ must be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost before in God and now distinct from God this is damnable Doctrine which hath been brought in since the Apostacy for the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself then how was he distinct from the Father when the Father was in him And I am in the Father and the Father in me and I and my Father are one Nay saith New-England Doctors They are distinct An● the fulness of the God head dwelt in him bodily Now prove you that the Father and the Holy Gbost are distinct from Christ Or how is Christ's Person distinct from every believer when he that is a believer hath him revealed in him and he that is a true believer eats his flesh and drinks his blood how is he then distinct What nearer union can there be exprest Is that distinct from a man that he hath in him But it may be they will say as the rest of the dreamers do he is in believers by his Spirit distinct from his body Then I say Christ is not divided for a person without a Spirit or distinct from the Spirit is not Christ but this blind Doctrine came up since the Apostles dayes and was counted as Orthodox by the Councels at Neece and Latteran a company of Apostates and hath been counted by the Beasts followers a great point of Divinity 3. Or deny the manhood of Christ to be a manhood distinct from the manhood of any other man A. The Man Christ Jesus who was of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh and the Son of God according to the Spirit his flesh is distinct from you who live in envy whose flesh is as the flesh of Horses and as the flesh of Dragons who devours you know not the holy flesh of Christ but the man of God doth who is born of the spirit and the flesh of Christ is his meat and they that believe in him are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh you ignorant dreamers how then is his flesh distinct But do you feed upon ashes as your Father doth the cunning Serpent for Gods Wisdom is hid from you 4. Or shall deny the Scripture or the written Word to be the Rule A. We own the

believe in the light which Christ hath lighted every man withall that people might wait to receive power from on high again which all the sons of Adam hath lost in the transgression that as many as receive the power may come out of the transgression and for this end hath God chosen and seperated many contrary to their own Wills and from whatsoever was dear unto them in the outward to deny it all and to answer the pure motion of Gods spirit whither soever he leadeth and in so doing many have found the power and presence of the Lord going with them and before them and he hath prospered his own Work in their hands and hath brought many out of Sodom and Aegypt and out of Mystery Babylon to Christ the Mysterie and to the Mysterie of Faith which is held in a pure Conscience And we were not ignorant of this what opposition we should receive from Antichrist and his Ministers Satan and his Messengers and how that the whole World lay in Wickedness and how that Nations Kindreds Tongues and People had drunk the Whores Cup and how that all hirelings deceivers false prophets and seducers would withstand Neither were we ignorant that the Beasts power which got up in the Throne of Iniquity and exaltation since the Man-child was caught up unto God the Woman fled into the Wilderness wherein he hath compelled all both small and great to worship him Neither were we ignorant of his strength and of his great Authority that he had in the Nations and how that the Whore the false Church rode upon him and also we knew that the Nations were as Waters nor of the great Waves which would lift up themselves nor of the multitude of Merchants which makes merchandize of souls for dishonest gain who are greedy of filthy lucre nor of the multitude of ships in which they carry their merchandize and deceitful Ware neither was the servants of the Lord who hath thus deeply suffered as I shall hereafter make mention of the Spirit that ruled in the Professors and Teachers of New-England Notwithstanding all this which was seen before we consulted not with flesh and blood but was obedient to the heavenly call and stood given up to the Lord in life or in death to finish the Testimony which God hath put into our hands that so many may be brought to know the living God revealed in themselves that so they with us and we with them may rejoice in him who is becoming the King and Law-giver and the exceeding great reward of all his People To whom be glory for ever and ever Amen And now Reader I shall give thee a plain and true account of the grievous proceedings of the Rulers of New-England and the miserable sufferings of the Servants of the Lord whereby thou mayest see the Divinity of New-England by the fruits and effects it brings forth the Laws by which they rule their Nation not to be according to the Law of God nor according to that which is equal in every mans conscience for that Law takes hold upon the transgressor but not the innocent and because of unrighteous Rulers and Laws many up right-hearted people in that Nation mourns The grievous Suffering of Robert Hodshon by the Governor of the Dutch Plantation in New-England I Robert Hodshon being moved of the Lord to go to New-England to declare the Word of Truth made known by his Spirit was obedient thereto who after a prosperous Voyage arrived at Long-Island where our own Countrey people did inhabit under the Dutch Jurisdiction finding drawings and two more with me we left the ship and passed to a place called Gravesend wher● our Testimony was received From thence we passed to a Town called Semico where we were received with gladness so we passed to another Town called Hampstead where we were received also so I being left in the Town at a Friends House the other two being passed away the next day being the first day I passing to another Friends House and some Friends following me into an Orchard where we had thoughts to have met together I being walking alone there came a man from the Magistrate and laid hold of me and haled me to the Magistrate and kept me a prisoner in his own house while he himself went to his Worship many staid and heard the Truth the fore-part of the day declared After he came home and see so many with me and could not stop my mouth he wrote a ●ittimus and gave another man charge to keep me at his house so the latter part of the day I had many came to me and those that had been mine Enemies after they had heard Truth confest to it So that Magistrate that committed me took his Horse and rode away to the Dutch Governor to make his complaint but the other Magistrate and most part of the Town would not joyne vvith him against me but some few of the ruder sort There was I kept a prisoner till the Governor of the Dutch sent a Guard of twelve Musketiers and the Gaoler and the Sheriff came about twenty miles so I was committed to them and they searched me and took away my Knife Books and Papers and pinioned me vvith Cords the next morning they took two Women one having a young child sucking and committed them also and more if they could have found them and thus they entertain strangers in New-England And then a Warrant vvent forth to bring those people that did receive us and so he fined them and commanded them to pay within six Weeks or else depart the Jurisdiction and one man he committed and laid Irons upon him and fined each of them three pounds So I being pinioned till I came near vvhere the Dutch vvere being tyed vvith a Rope to a Cart-tayle thorough the Woods near 30. miles and then I vvas cast into a Dungeon so odious as I never savv for vvet dirt and nasty stink and the next day I was brought to Examination and an English Captain there to interpret and took in Writing in their ovvn Language committing me again to the Dungeon suffering not any English to come to me The next Court calling me out again reading my Accusation in their Language the Captain interpreted some of my Accusation and thus said before the Court That it is the Generals pleasure seeing I did behave my self thus that I must pay 600. Gilders which is 50. pound or else to serve at a Wheel-barrow lock'd with a Chain I did ask him if I might give an Answer and they answered No but shut me up in a Dungeon So on the second day in the morning they took me forth and lockt me to the Wheel-barrovv amongst the slaves to work I told them I was never used to that work and they took a hard Ship-Rope near four Inches about and commanded a Black-More to beat me with it so he beat me so long till I fell down and the Sheriff commanded him to take me up again and

the Prince of darkness to back fortifie all the wicked enterprises they attempted before Who gave you power to order so to enact to apprehend without Warrant So you have made every man a Magistrate and a Ruler in your Jurisdiction and I believe if they should kill or take away the life of any you would give them an Absolution Is this the example of Christ or any Church-members or any Christian-Magistrate And why do you call them a cursed Sect of the Quakers You have cursed them whom God hath blessed whom no Weapon that is formed against shall prosper And as for your legal Tryal we know your rule your own wicked proud arrogant imperious and envious Wills and this must sit as Judge and Tryer. Well you have now set your selves against the Lord in your strength having the old Dragon for your Leader Will this serve you The Angel of the everlasting Covenant hath a Chain in his hand to bind him and to dissipate your wicked Counsel and confound you in the midst of your devises And being convicted to be of the sect of the quakers shall be sentenced to be banished upon pain of death You who are banished from the presence of God your selves and are in Cain's way Vagabonds driven out into the Earth where the Dragon dwells you would banish them out of the Earth whom God hath shewed his face and presence unto and you are a Sect which hath risen from the great Whore your Mother who hath made all Nations drunk she that did drink the blood of the Saints and you are the fruit of her Womb are like your Mother you have drunk the blood of the Saints whom God hath sanctified washed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and now you are grown so blood-thirsty that nought but banishment and loss of life will satisfie your rage your Cup shall be filled with the Wine of the Wrath of God which shall be poured forth without mixture and that will be your portion to drink Reader stil take notice All these laws mentioned in this Book and the fierce censures and punishments inflicted upon the servants of the Lord is because they will not complement like flattering Courtiers and Roysters Fidlers and use flattering titles to men who are in unbelief who seek respect honor one of another which is below and because they cannot ●oin with them in their hypocritical Assemblies nor partake of the Table of Devils who destroys mens lives nor drink the Whores Cup which hath drunk the blood of the Saints and this is a Fact worthy of banishment and death in the account of these blood-suckers And now they come to their own Inhabitants and thou shalt hear their judgement concerning them and thou shalt see how they love their Neighbours And that every Inhabitant of this Jurisdiction being convicted to be of the aforesaid Sect either by taking up publishing or defending the horrid Opinions of the quakers or the stirring up Mutiny Sedition or Rebellion against the Goverment or by taking up their absurd and destructive practises viz. Denying civil respect to equals and superiors and withdrawing from our Church-Assemblies and instead ●hereof frequent meetings of their own in opposition to our Church-Order Now all may see how these men loves their Neighbours themselves and here is a great deal of aggravating high boasting words packed up together in this unrighteous and ungodly Act as Sedition Rebellion and Absurd and Destructive Principles and like scolds they make a great noise and clamour but if thou enquire into the Fact is it not putting off the hat and disowning their Assemblies and in their account banishment and death is punishment little enough for this transgression These men would set up their Assembly as Nebucha●nezar's Image and whosoever will not bow must into the Fornace or be banished robbed spoiled and killed or like Jeroboam's Calf at Dan and Bethel and if Israel will not come to Da● or Amos cry against Bethel Amaziah will cry to the King He hath uttered Sedition and Rebellion among the people and he hath conspired against the King and the Land cannot bear his words And is not this the same language They will not come to our Church our Assemblies But they meet of themselves and opposes us and breeds mutinies sedition and rebellion in the Government These Priests of New-England a●d Rulers would have banished all the Apostles and have killed Paul and Stephen who said God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and drew people out of the Temple into private houses and fields and by the sea side and these men would have killed Christ the same generation did in whose foot-steps they are he said neither at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but they that worship the Father worship him in spirit and truth Might the Jews have replyed Was not the Temple builded by the command of God And is it not so agreed upon by the whole Nation of the Jews And wilt thou say that God is not worshipped Thou art mutinous and rebellious And the Samaritans might have said This is the Mount we met in and it is agreed upon by our Rulers and people and it is the laudable Custom of our Country and our Assembly and dost thou teach thy Disciples to seperate from Jerusalem and from this Mount Then thou art seditious and a Mutinier and a stirrer up of Rebellion an Enemy to our Nation and Countrey And wilt thou respect no mans person Nay said the Pharisees tempting We know thou respects no mans person What saist thou of Caesar They might have said What wilt thou not respect thy equals and superiors Then thou art not civil and art against the laudable custom of our Countrey which all our approved Orthodox persons doth allow of thou must be banished and if thou return death Or by adhering to or approving of any known quaker and the tenents and practises of the quakers that are opposite to the Orthodox received Opinions of the godly and endeavouring to disaffect others to civil Government and Church-Orders or condemning the practise and proceedings of this Court against the quakers Now if any like Nicodemus would come but by night who are yet no Quakers if the Rulers and Priests of New-England know of you you must out of the Synagogue and be banished and if return be put to death for this is an Orthodox received Opinion to banish and kill them that comes not to their Assembly and puts not off the hat then the Orthodox received Opinion of the Church-members of New-England is banishment and if return death and he that justifies the practise and proceedings of that Court is not justified of God What Whippers Robbers Spoilers Killers and Destroyers Marrers of the Workmanship of God Wrestlers with flesh blood blood-suckers he that justifies you is condemned of God he that condemns your Court and proceedings and practises will God and all