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spirit_n	father_n	jesus_n	son_n	14,487	5	5.3429	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49835	The exercise of the spirit in spiritual things and the many good and peaceable fruits of righteousness experimentally witnessed ...	Laythes, Thomas, d. 1701.	1686 (1686)	Wing L751; ESTC R24001	4,532	8

Hundred Years since Jo. 4. which is in the Spirit and in the Truth and to come out from their Teachers unto that Teacher that cannot be removed into a Corner Isa 30.20 And know the Lord to be your Teacher which was and is the Teacher of his People in all Ages and Generations Gen. 15.1 Isa 54.13 Jer. 31.33 34. Heb. 8.10 11. And so come out of the Forms Fashions Customs and Fellowships of the World into the Saints Fellowship which the Apostle declares of 1 Jo. 1.3 5. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ And as we hearkened unto this Holy Call and obeyed the Spirits Motions we came to know the right way and walking therein Then we which had long doubted in Religion and Worship came to be fully satisfyed and resolved Having often livingly enjoyed Gods Heavenly power and divine Presence in our blessed Assemblies and Meetings to our great Comfort Souls Satisfaction and Refreshment and thus we came to discern between the pretious and the vile both in our selves and others and those that had the form of Godliness from them that had the power and turning away from them that had the form only being made witnesses of the power and then coming out from the Worlds fellowship both of Professors and Profane and into the true Unity and fellowship in the Holy Spirit and waiting low therein our peace did spring and increase like good David who said Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them And then we witnessed the saying of Christ fulfilled in our hearts My peace I give unto you not as the world gives peace the worlds peace often arising from the increase and injoyment of worldly things like that rich man spoken of by Christ Luke 12.19 Which had goods laid up for many Years said Soul take thy ease but that peace Christ gives unto his is divine and spiritual arising from a living sense and feeling of the love and favour of God through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Reconciliation unto him thereby 7. Another good and peaceable fruit hath followed a holy War made in truth and Righteousness against those great and grand Enemies of our Souls the Devil the world and the flesh and all that doth spring up and arise from these evil grounds and would make a Separation between our Souls and the Lord and grieve and offend his holy Spirit against these our Spiritual Enemies and no other daily do we make war And our weapons are not Carnal but Spiritual yea mighty and powerful for the subduing and overcoming of the man of sin And as for carnal weapons we have laid them down long since and can no more take them up again having made them useless and unfit for that service according to that Antient Prophesie of old and now in a good measure fulfill'd in many in this our day Isa 2.4 They shall beat their Swords into Plowshares and their Spears into pruning Hooks and learn war no more And blessed be the God of Heaven that hath redeemed our minds out of Wars and fighting and brought us to live and dwell ●n love and peace with all Men according to Christs Doctrine Mat. ●… 44 where he saith Love your Enemies bless them them that curse ●ou and do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you and herein we have found much Peace and Comfort to our Souls praises to the God of peace 8. Another good and peaceable fruit hath been Experienced that tho sorrow and sadness did continue upon us for a time yet joy and gladness followed yea that joy that did exceed the joy of Harvest being of that heavenly quality to ascend upwards with high praises to the God of Heaven singing and making Melody in our hearts unto the Lord. And according to David that Man of G●d who in his experience saith Light is sowen for the Righteous and joy for the upright in Heart and how did Christ comfort and encourage his before his departure from them John 16. telling them they shall be sorrowful but saith he Your sorrow shall be turned into Joy and I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no Man taketh from you as he had said unto them before It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you Oh the great love and tender care of Christ over his little Flock and many ●re made witnesses hereof in this our day praises to our God for ever 9. Another good and peaceable fruit hath been witnessed a ●oly growth and blessed increase unto God in that great work of Re●eneration and Sanctification for nothing doth more make for ●his our inward and spiritual growth in the things of God then this ●ur spiritual Exercise this is not like that outward and bodily ex●●●se the Apostle speaks of that profiteth little but here is true Godness which is profitable unto all things having the promise of the ●●fe that now is and that which is to come Lastly Another good and peaceable fruit hath been brought forth 〈◊〉 many whose hearts and minds souls and spirits are come to be ●●tled and established upon that sure Rock against all the temptati●ns and assaults of the Enemies of their souls peace both inwardly ●nd outwardly and these are the grown members of the true Church of Christ against which the gates of Hell do not prevail Glory glory to our God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ both ●ow and for evermore Amen ●rom Dailehead near ●eswick 〈…〉 Tho s Laythes Given forth from that experience God hath given me of 〈…〉