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	jesus_n	lord_n	17,123	5	3.7490	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45617	Noah's dove, or, An epistle of peace directed to his intirely affected brethren, the Presbiterians and Independants as a probable means for their agreement and vnion / from Sir Iames Harington, Knight.	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.	1645 (1645)	Wing H815; ESTC R31528	5,826	14

NOAH'S DOVE OR AN EPISTLE OF PEACE DIRECTED To his intirely affected Brethren The Presbiterians and Independants As a probable means for their Agreement and Vnion From Sir IAMES HARINGTON Knight Imprimat JOSEPH CARILL LONDON Printed by T. W. for ED. HUSBAND Printer for the Honourable House of Commons 1645. Noahs Dove or an Epistle of Peace directed to his intirely affected Brethren the Presbiterians and Independants As a probable means for their agreement and union Sincerely Beloved I Read of two Children contending in the wombe of their Mother the one beloved the other hated but ye are both Jacobs both the Israel of God O farre be it from such Brethren to rend and lacerate their Mothers bowels or to fall out in the way Are we not one Body and have we not all one spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all I beseech you by the mercies of God by the excellent effects of Charity by the Fruits of the spirit by the examples and command of the Lord Jesus and the character of his Disciples bee meeke and lowly and love one another so shall the plots of Rome and Hell be prevented and all Malignants shut their mouthes Why should it be spoken to our shame that there is not a wise man amongst us No not one that is able to judge between his Brethren but Brother asperces and declaimes against Brother and that before the Antichristians Now therefore there is utterly a fault amongst you know yee not that Revilers shall not inherit the kingdome of God But some will answer that they have received a new light O be cautious that noveltie eclipse not truth since the last dayes foretold and fore-warnd of by our Saviour are at hand wherein iniquity abounds and the love of many waxes cold hence Father against sonne and sonne against Father betraying one another and hating one another Hence the judgements of Famine and Pestilence Nation rising up against Nation So that the whole world seemes to be on fire before its time These dayes not I but the Lord Jesus the great Prophet of his Church dictates and points out to be the time when many false Christs and Prophets or teachers of Christianity shall arise who by their applause excellencie of parts and externall holinesse by which they shall shew forth as it were signes and wonders and gather a multitude of Disciples declaring that in such a meeting be it in woods or deserts or in secret chambers the true way of Christ is to be found deceiving if it were possible the very elect Our Lord teaching us from hence how neere a similitude these new Doctrines shall have to truth and true holinesse But be they as Paul or Cephas in the Church or as Angels from heaven believe them not for as the lightning comes out of the East and shines even to the West so shall also the glorious comming of the Son of man be that is as I humbly conceive that his Gospell which at first broke out like lightning in the East shall in this last age upon the ruins and through the clouds of spirituall Babilon dart it selfe and shine gloriously in our Westerne Churches even to the Indies that th' other paralell prophesie may be fulfill'd by the subjecting and uniting the Kingdomes of the Earth unto the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ Let us not then be carried about with every wind of Doctrine but hold fast the Gospell delivered to us by Christ and his Apostles in the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace since other foundation can no man lay it being a sinne so much as to doubt much more to defend that the fundamentalls of our Religion some of which are mentioned by the Author to the * Hebrews and received by the Church in all ages are not to bind as de futuro as having a possibilitie upon new notions to be nuld or chang'd which is to make God a lyer to undermine his Church and to pull downe the Pillers thereof For if the foundations bee destroyed what shall * Nay what can the righteous doe Wherefore my humble suit unto our master Builders is to keepe the Foundation unmoveable not permitting a resurrection to ancient heretiques before their time that so whatsoever men build thereon whether it be gold or stubble may be brought to the Test in this Fiery triall Stand fast therefore Brethren in that libertie wherein Christ hath made us free not making your libertie a cloake for malitiousnesse not for an occasion to the Flesh but by love serve one another judging thus of one another that he that loves his Brother abides in the light but * he that hates his Brother whatsoever he may boast of new discoveries walkes in darknesse and knowes not whither he goes because that darknesse hath blinded his eyes and that whosoever seemes to be religious and yet bridles not his tongue he deceives his owne heart and his Religion is vain * But that I may not only perswade but offer my Mite I shall in all humilitie propose a medium which if found agreeable to the word of God may through the blessing of the Almighty make up the Breach and reconcile your greatest difference I conceive you both agree in these particulars That all that shall be Members and have right to Vote in your Churches from which Votes Women are excepted shall not only be free from just scandall that is Prophannesse and the impenitent practise of any knowne sinne but be indued with a sufficiencie of knowledge to which end since you accord in the Principles of Religion I hope there will speedily be set forth and establisht one short Catechisme for information and examination Next in condiscention to the Independants I heare it is mutually resolved that the government of their respective Members reconciling of Inferiour differences and ordering their conversations even as farre as Ordination and the censure of Excommunication respect being had in Appeals to the advice and results of the Classes and Provinciall Synods and saving to the Presbyterians their right be ordered by their paricular Congregations Thus farre we are knit together in one spirituall building and temple of God The great difference if I understand it is in the Tegument and covering which is indeed the ornament coupling and strength of the whole Aedifice As where shall rest as to us under the same Scepter the determinative and concluding power the end of Appeals the regulation of that unlimited Plea and over-much extended libertie of conscience that so we may be one as Christ and his Father are one this some of you fixe in a generall Assemblie others limit to a particular Congregation The first pleads not only Scripture analogically but prudence for preserving union and preventing of Tumults as also Antiquitie from