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	worship_v	worshipper_n	7,267	5	12.9330	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37463	A complaint of the false prophets mariners upon the drying up of their hierarchicall Euphrates as it was preached publickly in the Island of Garnezey before a sett order of ministers, expounding in their successive turnes the Revelation of St. John / by John De La March ...	De La March, John, ca. 1589-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing D868; Wing L202; ESTC R9089	90,660	125

mighty and great meaning indeed the King of Ashur as it is expounded in the very next words but alluding to the said Euphrates which did water the land of Assyria so hath this mysticall done to which also the same Spirit of God alludeth speaking of it in this book of the Rev. as it was shewed before so that that which the Lord said then to the said people of Judah may very fitly be applyed to the people of this land That because they had refused both in the time of King Edward the sixt and also of Queene Elizabeth * that pure river of water of life cleare as Chrystall proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lambe I meane the the true Liturgie or worship of God together with the true discipline of Christ or Church government both profered unto them then both by Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr grounded and drawn out of the doctrine of Christ of his holy Apostles as we find it expressely instituted by him saying first concerning the said Liturgie * that it is in vaine to worship him teaching for doctrine mens precepts And that all such doe onely draw neare unto him with their mouth and honour him with their lips but their heart is farre off from him Yea in so doing they do but worship that which they doe not know as he said to the woman of Samaria John 4. 22 23 24. for then was that time come of which he speaketh there when the true worshippers were to worship the father in spirit and truth for then the father did require such to worship him For God being a Spirit they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth And concerning the said Discipline observe onely these few places viz. Mat. 5. 22. and 18. verse 15 16 17 18. and chap. 20. verse 25 26 27 and 28. where is set downe the true patterne thereof I doe but name them because I intend not to speake of this now renewed as it were by him after his Resurrection as S. Luke tells us Acts 1. 3. where he shewes that Christ was seene of his Disciples and heard too as saith Saint John in his first Epistle chap. 1. verse 1. speaking of those things which did concerne the true Government of his Kingdome of Grace and that by the space of fortie dayes as he had beene with * Moses in the mountaine under the Law when he gave him the patterne of the Tabernacle of all the instruments thereof which were then to bee imployed in his holy worship then instituted by him wherin as Moses shewed himselfe very faithfull in all the house of God as the Apostle doth testifie Heb. 3. 5. the same may we say of the Apostles concerning the Govenment of this house of Christ But as the said Iewes I say did then refuse such waters so the said people refusing both the said pure and simple worship of God and true Church Discipline and preferring to it that vaine frothie pompous-humane-will worship or Liturgie of Rome some what refined I confesse but yet the very same in substance therefore did the Lord bring upon them that proud Prelaticall Hierarchicall Church governement by the meanes of it The which hath at length * broken into England especially and hath so overflowed and passed through it that it is come not only to the neck but even to the very top of the cheekes and k eares of some of the best servants of God some of them having had their eares cut with the Knife made as it were of the glasse of that * glassie sea and burnt with the fire thereof yea it had so spread out its wings that it had covered the breadth of the land becomming thereby impassable and like the raging sea that cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt as saith the Prophet Isa. 57. 20. as it proved especially when the said Christian Israel of God was ready to passe over it As the waters of the forementioned Jordan did then overflow and fill all his bankes as soone as the feet of the Priests that bare the Arke were dipped in the brinke of the waters thereof thereby to prepare the may for the said children of Israel to passe over it after the drying thereof even so did then especially that Hierarchicall powerfull tyrannicall sea flowing from that forementioned l head thereof raise to such a height of pride and inhumane cruelty that it did overflow and runne over all power and authority both divine and Humane and became thereby so intollerable that no humane creature was able to withstand restraine or resist it So that in a short time it had easily as another deluge overflowed and destroyed the whole land and by its most deadly waters of Popish and Arminians false doctrines and superstitious ceremonies killed every soule living yet in that tyrannical scalding sea according to the prophesie of Christ therein truely accomplished recited Mat. 24. 22. saying that except those dayes meaning the dayes of the great tribulatiō mentioned described by him in the next preceding words which can bee no other then the thousand two thundred and sixty dayes of this christian Churches pilgrimage through her said deseart so called Revel. 7. 17. except saith he they should be shortned there shall no flesh be saved but for the elects sake those dayes shall bee shortned As it is now manifestly come to passe by the wonderfull mercy of God who being a God * that heareth prayers as the Prophet saith hath at last * looked downe from the highest of his sanct●any and hath from Heaven beheld the earth to heare the groanings of the prisoners and to loose those that were appointed to death and hath regarded the prayer of the destitute not despised their request as it is said in that Propheticall Psalme that was then written for the generation to come and for the people which was to be created a new For he is no idle spectator of the wrongs done unjustly to his servants but rather such a one as doth usually * resist the proud Hamans of the world scattering them in the imagination of their hearts and putting downe the mighty from their seates As the most blessed Virgin Mary doth fing Luke 1. 52. 53. and as we see it already begun by the almighty power of God who hath taken in hand that proud Hierarchicall whore even in the very time when in her over-swelling pride * shee most glorified her selfe saying in her heart I sit a Queene and am no widdow and shall see no sorrow as she is brought boasting of her selfe Revel. 18. 7. 8. Whereupon the Angel denouncing her last sentence of condemnation saith of her in the next words Therefore must her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and shee shall be utterly burnt with the fire of Excommunication for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Who therefore doth now stirre up those that