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	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
A89814	Proh tempora! Proh Mores! or an unfained caveat to all true Protestants, not in any case to touch any of these three serpents; viz. Mr Erbery's Babe of glory. The mad-mans plea, and Mr. Christopher Feakes exhortations. Whose language is infectious, and whose stings are mortiferous, therefore of all Gods people to be shunned, as those which intend nothing more then Christian persecution. Written by J.N. a mechanick.; Proh tempora! Proh mores!.	J. N.	1654 (1654)	Wing N23; Thomason E727_11; ESTC R206819	8,436	8

this I say if you take notice this said Apostle in all his Epistles does never conceale his former arrogancy his massacring the Saints and servants of the most high but where ever he did come he was very apt to say I am that Saul the persecutor and did once study earnestly to commit this kind of murder and that with fervent zeal which words were no otherwise spoken but onely that he might adde more splendor to the exceeding love of God in Christ which makes him to cry out with great admiration that I Paul should be received to Mercy that shewed no Mercy this did therefore cause him to give greater diligence this makes him to be more zealous and fervent for Jesus Christ his master and Lord then ever any before him or after him this makes Paul not onely love the brethren but to lust speedily after the conversion of others wherever he sojourned but my friends that stile your selves mad men onely in an upbraiding way to you I say thus much that you are so far from Pauls minde and do so much slight that Scripture in Jam. 5.16 as that you do act clean contrary and speak contrary onely as you say in despight of the Papism and that because the Papists from that Scripture do use so much confession before men and one man to another therefore you do use the less before God and for the most part in your Prayers you talk proudly with God in a fashion more mandatorilike then supplicatory as if so be God was but your equal makes you in your Orisons say Lord thou must do this thing for us and thou must make our State to cause their ships and men and that very suddenly to go and bring away home with them the new Roman King and when that is done they bid the Lord not to suffer the ships to lye by the wals but in the next place to sail up the Straits with the next wind and so to Rome which is mystical Babylon c. Indeed the three things which do chiefly stick in these mens throats are these Learned Ministers Infant-Baptism and singing of Psalms amongst the mixt multitude And first for our Ministers the mad knave calls them Baals Priests idle shepherds Dumb dogs lazy Sir Johns c. all which Titles Mr. Feake that Arch Prophet of our times doth greatly affect and approve of as I shall declare as if so be because learned they were not capable of the Spirit now let me tell such carping momusses that Grace is adorned and beautifyed by Learning and more then this God doth usually send that blessing of blessings even the spirit of Prayer and teaching to accompany that sincere and pious care which many Parents take in the vertuous education of their children which because many of you want do therefore possess strong delusions I ask any of you whether the Spirit of God did teach you to read English I deny not but that some men may have much humane Learning and yet want that Spirit that you so much boast of and does it therefore follow that they are all so 2ly Remember your own congregational baseness and great relapses of your own members who when God hath brought some of them out of your extraordinary and your supernatural liberty it hath rejoyced me to hear them with such vehement detestings of your prophaneness and instability even in all your ways neer upon resting and yet never at rest in your bye judgements I believe that there is a spirit of madness raigning in many men you say you need no Priest because you are all taught of God and you are above common Ordinances as hearing publike Prayers and publike Preaching which last one of your Sect told me that they could all do as well as the Priests nay better for saith he they are fain to study for it and that was a sign they knew not neither were acquainted with the spirit of God for we saith he having God within us are able to preach or rather seduce ex tempore at any time though I fear that there is few of you that have true fellowship with the Father or his Son Jesus Christ this being another reason as I conceive because you are so seated in your most unholy and unstable Faith as that you will not be convinced by Argument these are ill signes that you worship no God but your own fearless and hopeless Creed Ah my friends when any of us come to this pass to have a low esteem of Ministers and the standing Ordinances of Jesus Christ and to make sin of that which is no sin of this sort is that of breaking bread amongst the known and unknown people when as none more vile in the sight of a pure God then themselves these are your time-servers Stand by with the Pharisee for I am holier then thou but the Apostles never used any such needless curiousity and for my part if I may lay down mine opinion in this matter it is thus that when the devil that crafty observer of the overtures in States and Kingdoms did finde that all his labour and pains were in vain whereby he thought to have erected Popery here amongst us in England and seeing that all his Machiavel plots were discovered by some of those that love the Truth and Peace he then according to his ancient Fox-like policy causeth breaches and rents to be made in the Church whereby some false brethren do impede as much as in them lies the standing and permanent Ordinances of our Lord now remaining in all Protestant Churches for if Athanasius want a persecuting Emperour yet without doubt he shall not want a false brother which Arrius by his external writings and plausible Arguments to the then present Government did get into the great mens affections even then when true and faithful Athanasius together with his Nicene Creed were banished exiles into a remote Countrey now I say when the heat of the Tyrants cruelty was in some kinde abated yet the devil was not idle nor weary of his torturing the christians but did work so craftily by that Arrian heresie that Athanasius and the rest of the sincere Christians were never so molested and tossed by the Tyrants then they were by such kinde of schismaticks yet this is the associate of a true christian that for all this he was that persevering Athanasius when his enemies were ashamed at the ignominious downfal of their chieftain Arrius like unto Daniel without worldly comfort and yet Daniel still so I am confident the faithful Ministers of this Land although reproached and emulated and persecuted yet they will be Ministers still in despight of all opponents But the second thing they carp at is Infant-Baptism which an Anabaptist as he calls himself or as I call him an Antibaptist being more proper to their profession did suppose at a meeting in Warwick shire to have quite overthrown that Ordinance and thereupon some of their Synagogue did presently set forth a book