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	son_n	soul_n	7,964	5	5.0256	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30534	A message proclaimed. By divine authority from the chosen assembly of the redeemed people in England, to the Pope (chief bishop) of Rome, and to his cardinals, Jesuits, and priests, and all other the officers of the Romish Church, where it shall meet with them through the world: that they may appear, and come forth to triall, and shew if they have the same faith, power, spirit, and authoritie, and government, as had the Apostles and true churches, before the apostacie: and this is a full invitation and challenge to the whole Church of Rome, and the beginning of controversie with her, for the perfect manifestation of the long hidden truth; betwixt them that are in the truth it self, and such as have the form, but not the power; that all things may be brought to light and true judgement. Written by an embassador for the true and living God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6013A; ESTC R203576	16,877	25

A Message Proclaimed BY DIVINE AUTHORITY From the chosen Assembly of the redeemed people in England To the Pope chief Bishop of Rome and to his Cardinals Jesuits and Priests and all other the Officers of the Romish Church where it shall meet with them through the world That they may appear and come forth to triall and shew if they have the same Faith Power Spirit and Authoritie and Government as had the Apostles and true Churches before the Apostacie And this is a full Invitation and Challenge to the whole Church of Rome and the beginning of controversie with her for the perfect manifestation of the long hidden Truth betwixt them that are in the Truth it self and such as have the form but not the power that all things may be brought to light and true judgement Written by an Embassador for the true and living God E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate This to be delivered to the Chief Bishop of Rome or to his Secretary From the Elect and gathered Assembly of the chosen people in the Nation of England called in derision and known amongst all false Sects by the name of QUAKERS and by a Servant of the great God of Heaven and Earth and a Member of that people this is written To the Pope Chief Bishop and his Cardidals at Rome and to his Bishops Iesuits and Priests there and else-where thorough the Dominions of the Romish Church scattered abread in the Nations WHereas we a poor despised and rejected people among the Nations of the earth yet dreadful and mightie because the Majestie and Presence of the Lord God is with us who hath called us and chosen us and gathered us and redeemed us from among men out of kindreds and multitudes and peoples into one body and one spirit out of all the Sects upon the earth and we are of one mind and one soul having fellowship with the Son and with the Father being come through great tribulations and many fierie trials and are refined and purified and made clean and white in the bloud of the Lamb being fully recovered out of the great deluge of darknesse and Apostacie which hath overflown and drowned the whole world and all nations since the daies of the true Churches and holy Apostles And know ye that we are none of all the many Sects nor of the divers waies and formal worshippers that are but in the imitations fained of what the Saints of old spoke and performed in the Power and Spirit of God which hath been spoken and practised by all the divers Sects and false Churches without the Spirit Power and Life that was in the Apostles so that all Religion hath been and the profession and practise thereof for many Ages but as the floating of a broken vessel upon the waters driven with the several winds wanting Anchor and skilful Mariners which hath not carried to perfect Rest the hope of Eternal life But know ye that now at last through our long and wearied travels and after all our tedious seekings and our zealous practises and profession in Christianitie performed by us while darkness covered us and the earth hath the Lord set us safe upon the Rock Christ Jesus upon whom the Church of Christ firmly standeth and the gates of hell cannot prevail against and he hath made our habitation sure upon the Mountain of his house which is established upon the top of all mountains whereunto we now are gathered and rest in a certain hope and tried confidence and doth view the whole world and the state of all mankind and measureth the times and seasons thoroughout Generations and the state of the Church we perfectly know by the inspiration of the Almightie her estate before the Apostles daies and in the Apostles daies and since the Apostles daies and her increase and decrease and estate since the beginning of the world till now and at this present time to us is certainlie known by the Spirit of Jesus and the light of the Lamb which now is risen upon our Mountain and shines in our habitations And first we certifie you as for the many false Sects and Churches so called and many of the divers worshippers and separated forms of Churches risen up since the Apostles daies from the least of them to the greatest we have searched and examined and are not fully satisfied but rather the contrarie that they are perfectly sound in the Faith but rather degenerated from the Power Spirit and Life that was in the Apostles and among the true Churches before the Apostacie and we have sought out their first original and root and we find they fall short of the true Church and the Apostles first in respect of time many Generations and also in respect of life and power and puritie and they want the spirit and dominion and government that the true Churches and Apostles possessed and we certainly believe they are many of them come up and risen in a dark night long since the daies of the Apostles while the Sun was yet unrisen and while the mountains of ignorance blindnesse and wickedness covered the face of the earth and the clouds of darknesse remained upon the face of the whole heavens and while yet the man-child remains in God being caught up to him and the woman lodged in the desolate wildernesse being thither fled because of the great red Dragon And we believe not that any of them are the Lambs Wife lawfully joyned to him neither are they the Virgin in which there is no spot nor the Spouse truly in election to Christ the Bridegroom for we have had controversie with them this divers years and weighed them and measured them in the ballance of equitie and they appear to us not to be of a true descent from that Vine into which the true Church was planted but their original may be of a latter race And to say no more of them we certainly know they are foully spotted and hath not the favour nor parts nor garments of a Virgin and Christ the Bridegroom they have deeply wronged for many false Sects have risen out of the great Whore the mother of Harlots who hath been in open and secret fornication every since the daies of the Apostles and such are her off-spring and not of the true Seed elect which is heir by right of the inheritance of life eternal the Kingdom which hath no end And for as much as the Church of Rome hath openly pleaded as we have heard and some of your Members also to our faces that she is indeed the true Church and she alone and none besides and that you can fetch your original by line truly from the Apostles and Church of the Saints and are not degenerated in any particular of Faith Doctrine nor Practise from the Life and Power and Government and Spirit which was among the true Church and in the Apostles These things with others the like have we heard of you and concerning you