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	life_n	reap_v	6,710	5	11.2413	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

thou wilt not return thou must be destroyed both thou and thy King wherefore consider your wayes and doings O ye priests professors and people do ye think a profession of his words who is the life will save you from wrath to come who are enemies to his light and life and will not have him to rule and raign in you and over you who is the way to the Father and to his knowledge whom to know is life eternal and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent And do ye think ever to come to the knowledge of him O ye priests professors and people who are talking and professing of serving God in his own way and that such as will have Christ must have him in his own way and on his own terms and it will not own him the way even the way of his own appointment the light Doth not the Scriptures ye professors declare it or doth it say it self is it or is there another way then what it declareth of or another name given whereby the sons of men can be saved what mean ye that ye thus oppose the Lord and his way are ye stronger then he hath he not said he 'l no longer be served and worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and will ye still be serving him contrary to his mind hands and will and yet profess to serve and worship him in his own way hath he not said that he dwelleth not in temples made with hands and will ye be still seeking of him there notwithstanding all this Hath he not invited and called upon all to come unto him that they might have life and will ye be seekign life in the Scriptures for all this hath he not said the Kingdome of heaven cometh not with outward observances and will ye remain still seeking of it in those things and yet be telling the people and professing that God must be served and worshipped in his own way and yet seek to keep people in your own wayes are ye not deceitful and deceivers of the people who do thus ye are observing daies and moneths and times and years are ye not still carnal ye eat and drink but are ye not still empty and a thirst ye pray-and fast but receive not for ye ask amisse to spend it on your lusts ye observe daies and divers watchings and carnal Ordinances but are the comers thereunto made perfect as pertaining to the conscience ye cry out The Temples of the Lord the Ordinances of the Lord the Church of Christ the Ordinances of Christ but which of you is come to witnesse your bodies to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost or that you are made fit Temples for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell in or him come to wash you and cleanse you in his own blood and so to present you without spot to ●od even his Father or which of you is come to witnesse the Church of the First born which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Pillar and ground of truth but on the contrarie ye profess teach and say none can or must or shall be set free from sin here and so endeavour to preserve your bodies temples for the devil and not Christ whilest here for Christs Temple is holie and ye say none must or can be set free from sin and so seek to keep people unholie and their bodies Temples of sin this Doctrine pleases the devil well and he loves you for it and will let you professe to serve God in Gods way and profess Christs Church say you are Christs Ministers so he may but keep you to be his Temples and Church and Ministers still and thrust Christ out of rule and dominion for he that commits sin is of the devil and his servants ye are to whom ye yield your members servants to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life O foolish and exceedinglie blinded and besotted men that will not see this and yet profess the Scriptures and where he is thus come and witnessed who changeth Ordinances and Laws and watchings and observations of daies and times and moneths and years and Sabbaths and dippings and sprinklings do ye not all rise up against him with one accord away with him he is not worthie to live to prison with him we have a Law Consider seriouslie is it not so with you as with them of the same generation of old to the light in all your consciences I speak Do ye think a profession of these things and a boasting of these things will serve your turns any more then it did your Forefathers of old from whom God was departed and removed who became persecutors of the life of his Son in his Saints are ye not found in the steps of those evil husbandmen who say behold the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours and are ye so blind and bewitched by the god of this vvorld to think that ye shall escape their punishment will ye still preach and profess their words vvho vvitnessed Christ vvithin the end of the Lavv the carnal Ordinances the observations the Sabbaths and beggarly rudiments of the world and cause the Cross of Christ to cease through your traditions vvill ye still be found thus fighters against God in his Saints vvho novv vvitness forth the same and cannot submit unto those things vvhich he hath redeemed and purchased them out of even vvith his ovvn precious blood and are made to vvitness against them and your idol Worshipps and crie you have a Lavv will your Lavv think you excuse you in his sight vvho seeth you your vvaies and actions against him and his nay nay deceive not your selves God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap if ye sow to the flesh think ye shall ye not of the flesh reap corruption but if ye sow to the spirit of the spirit reap life everlasting Seriouslie sit down and weigh and consider is pride vanitie lust of the flesh idleness fulness of bread lying swearing drunkenness covetousness deceipt back-biting emulation strife quarrelling fighting reviling slandering evil speaking whispering halling out of Synagogues or Steeple-houses mocking stocking imprisoning cruel and evil entreating fruits of the Spirit or did ever such as witnessed the Spirit of God bring forth such fruits nay nay who witnessed the Spirit of Christ never were found in such practises search and see in the Scriptures in which ye think to find eternal life where ever any of the Saints of Christ who were possessors and not professors brought forth such fruits and can ye think or are ye so far blinded by the devil to believe ye shall be saved by professing their words and enemies to their life and led and guided by another spirit then that which they witnessed to be guided and led by or dare ye say that the Spirit of Christ is changed now from what it was then as some of ye do if not all that Revelation is

and your Christ and with it denied and your Faith which doth not purifie for whilst I was under the leading and conduct of it I came not to the knowledge of God by it and so not to eternal life which is witnessed through faith in him and in his blood which purifies my heart and gives me dominion over the world and that Christ I know own and witnesse which saves from sin all that come unto him but your Christ is denied which you say you believe will not set you free from sin here and so is not the Christ of God which is the true Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is manifest to take away sin and to destroy the works of the Devil and in him is no sin And this Christ I own and bear witnesse of who is the true Light the Ordinance of the Father whom ye hate and destroy and make void through your traditions and denie your Mock-Christ which you say will not save you from sin here but leaves you in the Devils work which is sin by your own confession and so your Christ is but transform'd in you like unto an Angel of Light O ye Professors and People and your Ministers like unto Ministers of Righteousnesse and so being not the same Christ but like him cannot save ye from sin and so not from condemnation but keepes you in it whilest ye are here and perswades you that ye cannot be set free and this Christ ye believe in And here 's the mysterie of iniquitie hid and discovered even the spiritual wickednesse got into high places unto all who have an eye to see and an ear to hear and an heart to understand and will not wilfullie blind themselves by hating knowledge and instruction And this mysterie of iniquitie works not onelie at Rome and Italy and Spain and France but in England also and in every particular Member of that Church which is not in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the pillar and ground of Truth whom to know is life eternal which none comes to know but such who comes down to know and own the light within them which is pure of God which convinceth of sin and iniquitie and shews evil deeds that 's the Light which lets ye see when ye tell a lie when ye swear or be drunk or commit anie other sin that ye are serving the devil and not God when ye are fulfilling the lust of the flesh the lust of the eie and the pride of life that this is not of the Father but of the World and the World passeth awaie and the lusts thereof but he that doth the Will of God the same abideth for ever and this being obeyed which convinceth and sin denied it leads unto Christ from whence the light comes who leads to the Father of Light with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing who of his own good will hath he begotten us by the Word of his Povver unto a livelie hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead that we should be as the first fruits unto him having slain the enmitie on the Cross and broken down the Partition-wall and hath brought in everlasting Righteousness even by washing and purging of us in his own blood and his flesh we know which is meat indeed and his blood which is drink indeed and his covering we know But the wo from him is unto all such as are found covered and covering themselves with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord for the Lord our God is come and coming in the Clouds of Heaven with the voice of the Arch Angel and the shout of a great Trump to call all vvho are in the Graves to arise and stand up to judgement they that have done vvell to the resurrection of life but they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation and the daie dravvs nigh a pace vvherein the Book of conscience must be opened and every one come to be judged out of the book of his ovvn conscience for all that ever hath been done in the bodie vvhether it be good or evil and he that hath done good shall go into life everlasting but he that hath done evil into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his Angels vvhere shall be vveeping and hovvling and gnashing of teeth vvhere the vvorm never dieth nor the fire is not quenched vvhich is the second death out of vvhich there 's no Redemption but blessed and holie is he that hath his part in the first Resurrection over such the second death shall have no povver but they shall reign Kings and Priests to God even for ever and ever even so Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Written to you from the Lord God vvho is Judge of quick and dead by a lover of all your souls that so vvith the Light of Christ Jesus vvithin you might come to a true sight and discoverie of your estates and conditions that so coming to be sensible of them you might return to the Lord in your life time before you be sealed up in the pit of everlasting darkness for the day of sealing is come and the Bride the Lambs Wife hath made her self readie and is entred into the Bed-Chamber And I John saw the Angel flying through the midst of Heaven having the Key of the bottomless Pit in his hand to seal and shut up all such who are found bearing the mark of the Beast in their fore-heads and in their right hand that they may be shut up and sealed for ever and ever And this in love is vvritten to go abroad as a vvarning from the Lord to all people professors and priests every vvhere but in particular to them in Hartford and Ware that so if possible some of them may come to repentance and to an acknowledgment of the truth in their life time as it is in Jesus before it be hid from their eyes and may serve also for the use of any vvho have an eye to see and an ear to hear From a lover of all souls knovvn to the vvorld by the name of IOHN GOULD But hath a nevv Name and a vvhite Stone vvhich none knovvs but he that hath it THE END