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	live_v	mortify_v	7,524	5	11.3904	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86010	To the inhabitants of the earth.	Gilman, Anne, d. 1686.	1663 (1663)	Wing G768A; ESTC R177418	5,004	2

unprofitableness your talents must be taked from you and into utter darkness must you be cast and a night of destruction must you feel who refuse to walk as Children of the Day but live in wantonness as if there was no God but if his Mercies will not allure you his Judgments will affright you and then will you call to the Mountains to fall upon you to cover you from the Wrath of Him which now calls unto you for newness of life For the day is far spent and the night cometh wherein no man can work therefore repent repent and cease from the evil of your doings or else you shall surely perish for Judgment is begun at the House of God and if the Righteous scarcely be saved what will become of the Ungodly and where will the sinner appear which turns God's grace into wantonness and casts his Law behind their backs and will have none of his Counsel but harden their hearts and stiffen their necks and walk stubbornly before the Lord Why for such doth my soul mourn and I could even take up a complaint for them before the Lord all the day long for the sake of the Seed of God which lies in bondage under your Egyptian nature and because of these things the Curse of Egypt and the Plagues of Pharoah is to be your portion and the portion of all those who refuse to let the Seed of God go free And be it known unto you all who shall reade these lines That the powerful God of Jacob is arisen in strength as in the dayes of old for the sakes of his Chosen Seed therefore touch not his Anointed do his Prophets no harm ye stiff-necked and rebellious generation a seed of evil-doers for as your fathers did so do ye in whose Courts are found all the righteous blood of the Saints and Martyrs in the dayes of old even from the blood of Abel until now it is all to be required of this Generation And be it known unto you O ye rebellious Children that God's Controversie is with you and with you will he plead in Justice and Righteousness concerning your Destruction which you bring upon your selves for this is the Cry that is gone through the Land Why will you die why will you die you sinners and why will you not come to him who is Life therefore is your destruction of your selves for our God is clear of every man's blood their blood shall be upon their own heads for God in his infinite Wisdom hath chosen us who are as a poor despised people amongst you to walk in a blameless life before you faithfully who as we have received of the Lord so have our Lights shined before you and as we have been kept in our measures so have we cleared our selves concerning this wicked and adultrous generation for long furrows have been plowed on our backs because with your evils we could not joyn but the rod of the wicked shall not alwayes rest upon the backs of the Righteous Therefore you Saints lift up your heads and rejoyce in the Lord who hath chosen you out of this present evil world and hath redeemed you to be a Peculiar People to himself who in time past did run with them into the same excess of riot but now are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb so that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the Law of Sin and Death and here he helpeth our infirmities and doth work all our works in us and for us through the Cross which by us is taken up and followed And here we can leave all behind us and nothing is too dear for us to lay down for the Testimony of a good Conscience and our Faith hath been tryed amongst you concerning these things and this hath been and is the Lord 's large Love to us who hath not left us in our tryals but hath delivered us and hath been with us in six troubles and in seven hath he given us courage and boldness that under his Banner we should be Noble Warriors against all that arises contrary to the Lord against whom you will be made to say it is in vain to strive you Unbelievers who cannot believe our report when to you we have been made to bring glad-tydings of the Gospel of Peace Oh you hard-hearted you unbelievers no marvel if you perish for you wonder at the works of our God and yet you cannot believe in them for the ax is laid to the root of the trees and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is to be hewen down and cast into the fire Therefore consider this all you high and lofty ones and lay it to heart for these Warnings are not come forth in vain Ye generation of Vipers how do you think to escape the Wrath of God who neglect so great Salvation who have itching ears that cannot endure sound Doctrine do you think to flee from the Wrath of God I tell you Nay If ye live after the flesh you shall dye but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace Wo wo unto all you who are found eating and drinking and rising up to play and this is the reason that Play-houses and Bear-baitings are appointed where you daily meet together on heaps to fulfil the lusts of the flesh but those that fear the Lord are kept out of their own hired-houses and are made to stand in your open streets to worship God as they are perswaded in their own consciences Lament lament for these sins for God's Controversie is with all you who are found in this state and as Witnesses do we stand against you For the candle of the wicked is to be put out and then a woful day will be known unto all those who are left in darkness they will not know whither to go then no marvel if they stumble and are offended for Behold in Zion is laid a stumbling-stone and a rock of offence unto all those that walk in darkness on whom this stone will fall and grinde them to powder Let them that have ears to hear hear for the Earth is to be judged and the Light is to shine And so to God's pure Witness in every conscience do I refer my Cause which will seal to the truth of my Lines which are written for no other end but for the sake of the Seed of God which my soul longs yea and travels daily for the deliverance of that it might be brought out of Captivity who am one that is had in derision daily and by the name of Quaker am I known to scorners but to sober people known by the name of A. GILMAN LONDON Printed in the Year 1663.