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	truth_n	word_n	6,260	5	4.2360	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08671	The sea-mens invitation, with a passengers observation in some particular things which concern them that practice navigation. 1 Their remarkable deliverances; and the use they make of them. 2 Their tempting and provoking of God about the winde, which obeys the Lord. 3 Their abusing themselves and their liberty when they go a shoar, whereby the creature suffers. 4 Something in particular to the captains and masters, and to all their inferiour officers. 5 How little the sea-men (with the souldiers in the fleet) are profited by their chaplains that in the year do get several groats out of their wages. And a more excellent way of teaching shewn then that of their chaplains. / By a servant of the truth, and a lover of righteousnesse, called William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1519; ESTC R171117	10,341	16

Son of God hath enlightned you with all which from thenceforth if you had obeyed it it would have taught you the residue of your life to have lived godlily righteously and soberly in this present evil world it would have taught you to have forsaken drunkennesse pride covetousnesse lying swearing cursed speaking yea in few words it would have taught you the whole dutie of man which is to fear God and keep his commandements And this is that teacher the excellencie of whose teaching excels your Chaplines For they teach you to believe that the Scripture is the light and the word and the power of God but this will teach you to believe that he is the light Joh. 5.39 Rom. 1.16 and the word of whom the Scripture doth testifie and that the Gospel is the power of God according to the Scripture They will teach you by an hour glass it may be two or three hours in the week but this teacher will not be limited to an hour to a time nor yet to a place but is alwayes present with you to teach you the fear of the Lord. 2 Tim. 3. They through their Ministry may keep you alwayes learning and yet not be able to bring you to the knowledge of the truth but they who are taught by this come to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus this teacher will teach you freely without money and without price but your Chaplaines must have a certain sum of money otherwise many of them would lay down their trade of Preaching This will teach you to sing with the spirit and with understanding 1 Cor. 14.15 but they will teach you to sing Davids conditions which he passed through and which many of you undergand not 1 Thes 5.22 This will teach you to pray with the spirit and with understanding but they will teach you to pray formally at set times as if the spirit were limited to a form and the holy one of Israel to a set certain hour This will teach you to shun evil in its appearance to avoid the pollutions of the world and to forsake sin and to abstain from it but they will teach you that you cannot escape the pollutions of the world while in the world Prov. 14.34 but that you must be polluted with them neither that you can be free from that which is a shame or a reproach to any people they will teach you to contend against that which reproveth you for sin and condemneth it in the flesh viz. the light in your conscience But it will teach you to love it to obey it to follow it though it judge you and reprove you it is for your good that you by it might be brought out of the things for which you are judged and reproved into peace with God who teacheth his people by this teacher whose teaching by it is a more excellent way of teaching then mans invention which many in these latter dayes have received by tradition of which sort your Chaplaines are who oppress you in your wages and teacheth for doctrines things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake 1 Tim. 3.3 as in those particulars before mentioned you may see which briefly I have instanced but many more might be alleadged whereby it might be more evidently manifested that the way by which God teacheth in the light doth far excell the teachings of your Chaplains 1 Joh. 2.27 and this teacher whereof I speak is that which teacheth of all things which is truth and no lie which abode in the Saints and abideth in them and as it taught them so were they to abide in him who is light Christ Jesus and then they needed neither Priest nor Chaplain nor any man to teach them and they that come to witness the teachings of this teacher the annointing they need not say one to another know him who hath promised to teach his people himself even him whom the winds and Seas obey for such comes to know him and his teachings even from the least to the greatest Now if you would come to know this excellent way of teaching you must come to the light which sheweth you sin and evil and convinceth you of the same and then you 'l come to know its teachings guidings and leadings love it and you love Christ believe in it and you believe in Christ obey it and then you 'l obey him whom the winds and the sea obey therefore be not rebellious and stiff-necked O ye that sail upon the great deep but turn you unto the Lord at his reproof who secretly oftentimes doth reprove you for your sin and transgression whereby you have been long separated from God who doth not delight in the death of a sinner but rather in shewing of mercy O that you would be wise and learn to fear the Lord then should I with thousands more rejoyce in your Reformation And this I know that there are some among you which is daily burthened with the wickedness that abounds among you and yet scarce dare to reprove you finding so much in themselves that is reproveable but if such do keep to the light whereby that which is reproveable is manifested they will come to feel the opperaperation of the spirit of judgement and of the spirit of burning in themselves whereby they will come to be purified and then they may freely reprove that in another which is judged and condemned in themselves Truly O ye sea-fairing men my soul pitpittieth you Isay 57.20 when I consider that you are like the troubled Seas which casteth up mire and dirt your mirth and you melody your jesting and your folly your laughter and your vanity your pastime and your singing your storming your raging sometime against the wind sometime one against another alas what is it more then the mire and the dirt or the foam of the troubled Sea which is your figure I have also observed that it is hard to find a grave solid sober man in a ship that feareth God and worketh righteousness but upbraiding and provoking one another to naughtiness and folly superfluitie of that is to be found among you as if you should not be called to an account for it but O! let the time past suffice wherein you have done very foolishly and now learn to fear the Lord and let the wind and Sea which you have so much accasion for teach you to obey him who hath more delight in obedience to his voice then in burnt-offerings and sacrifices This is the day of your visitation wherein the hand of the Lords love is stretched out towards you 1 Sam. 15.22 and wherein he is waiting to be gracious unto you therefore now in this the day of the Lords everlasting power seek ye the things which belong to your peace while they may be found least the day come wherein they may be hid from your eyes in love to your souls is this Paper write and sent among you as a token of Gods visitation to you from one who hath viewed your condition and was moved with commiseration and pitty towards you who now hath time but how long you may have it you know not therefore while you have it prize it Amsterdam in Holland the 4. Mon. 1659. W. C. THe mighty day of the Lord is coming and he will teach his people himself who is gathering his people from all false shepherds and Christ Jesus the great Shepherd shall rule over them and teach them who will write his Law in their hearts and put his Law in their minds and he will be their God and they shall be his people Heb. 7. and his annoiting shall be in them and as that doth teach them they shall abide in the Son and in the Father and his spirit in them shall lead them and as that doth lead them they are the Sons of God and it shall lead them into all truth and it shall comfort them and bring all Christs words to their remembrance which he hath spoken forth and that spirit is it that doth reprove the world which is the Saints Comforter therefore to that that doth reprove you all must you come before you know the Comforter THE END