Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	fulfil_v	law_n	6,597	5	5.9828	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34918	A short, but a strict account taken of Babylons merchants vvho are now forcing the sale of their old, rusty, cankered ware upon the people of these nations : and a stretching them out by their line (which as they say) is the Scriptures in the New Testament, ad they call themselves Christian ministers : also a comparing them with those that spake them forth as their examples that all people may see with whom they run paralel [sic] / by one that hath fed upon the whores flesh these many years handed to him by these merchants and their brethren, but now witnesseth it in him consumed by fire, Richard Crane.	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1660 (1660)	Wing C6815; ESTC R29281	15,800	24

had as much to say in it as most of you all whatsoever we are comanded to call no man Master for One is our Master even One that you know not for if you did you would dread and fear him and we do ordinarily call men by those names as they call themselves in their writings if it be truth and if you run not paralel with the above mentioned in Scripture being found in the same life and practice let that which is Just of God in you Judge for I have laid you to your direct line Read Mat. 23. the chapter through And the Scriptures of truth maketh mention of such as were Blind guids and that if the blind lead the blind they shall both fall into the Ditch now perhaps you will say you run not paralel with the blind guides there spoken of but I shall make it appear know you wherefore they were called blind they had eyes as well as you and yet they were so because they could not see him who was come in the figure or flesh to fulfill and put an end to all that they did profess and practice in their worship and Religion according to the Cerimonies of the Law and because they had been worshipping in the types shaddows and cerimonies which held forth Christ till he came in the figure or flesh and when he was come and all these things in him fulfilled and ended yet these that took upon them to be Teachers Instructors guides of the people could not see him but continued still in those things which in him was fulfilled and ended now were not these blind guides justly so called and were not they that were led by them blind also answer me and did not the blind lead the blind and was not the Pit the end of their journey and did not these blind guides seduce people from the Doctrine and faith of Christ which said which of the Rulers have believed on him was not this blind seducing but perhaps you will say we cannot paralel with them for we are Christian Ministers we believe he is come and hath fulfilled what is here mentioned but I deny you are either Christs Ministers or yet believers for if you were his Ministers you would feed his flock and not destroy them not Lord it over them as you do if you believed in him you would do his works but doing neither you are neither Christian Ministers nor believers The Scripture of truth maketh mention of seducers Johns Epistle 1 2.26 27. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you but the anointing of the Father which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lye and even as it hath taught ye you shall abide in him now you that are Ministers of Confusion I aske you is this Scripture true or is it false if it be true as I think you dare not be so impudent as say the contrary then your ministry is at an end and utterly to be denyed of all that have received the anointing for they have received that which is truth and no lye you deny the Light of Christ within which is the anointing of the Father therefore your preaching is a lye seducing and Antichrist and utterly to be denyed for as the blind guides saw not Christ when he came in the flesh to end and fulfill all their worships which stood in the Cerimonies of the Law so you blind guides in this generation see not Christ come in spirit to lead and guide and instruct his people by the pure measure of his light manifested in this age generation and all that hath received this they have no need of your teaching and therefore let all flesh be silent before the Lord. And as the blind guides did of old so do you now for they persecuted Christ in the flesh and you persecute him in spirit where ever he appears either in Male or Famale and the blind guides would go on in their way that was in their Temple worship and observing dayes and offering Sacrifices though their house were left unto them desolate and so do you go on in your way though the witness of God rise in you to condemne you for so doing yet I put a vast difference between the Jews worship and yours for it was true as it was once comanded of God and it was a type of Christs coming in the flesh but yours was never comanded of God therefore a lye but invented of them that were enemies to the appearance of Christ every way and I desire to know of you one thing that is what your worship is a type of being you are enemies to the coming of Christ in spirit and cannot indure him where ever he appears and what it is that must fulfill it but this is a Doctrine you cannot endure to hear of it is as the pangs of Death to you what to speak of having your Doctrine to come to an end how will those sayings be fulfilled then 〈◊〉 allwaies learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth For this will please you better that you may be ever teaching though betwixt the Womb and the Tomb people be never the better but much the worse and them that hangs on your Doctrine to the end they are undone for ever Now Read your selves paralel with the blind guids And as to all your trinketts and inventions not worth nameing and even as it were numberless hath God chosen or required this at your hands to be his worship if he have then without doubt he hath chosen you to be Ministers of it but I am sure he hath neither chosen this for his worship neither you for his Ministers for this is the worship God hath chosen even spirit and not art and invention and so likewise his Ministers that he hath chosen are poor weak dispised Ones which is to the confounding of you and your Doctrine The Scripture maketh mention of one Simon which used sorcery and witch-crafts read Acts 8 9. In some things you paralel him for he used sorcery and bewitched people But he believed and continued a season and he profferd money for the gift of the Holy spirit that he might do as the Apostles did but he was cursed with his money because he would purchas the gift of God with it which is not to be done now had it been possible that the gift of God could have been bought with money however Simon had bought the truth and it is no doubt but he would have made sale of it again he would have sold the truth though his end was cursed because it was for gain now you are found not to be of Simons mind for you are far from buying the truth for you buy lyes sell them again and hath them and sells them again many times over now Simons Condition was