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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90710	A loving invitation (to repentance, and amendment of life) unto all the inhabitants of the island Barbados Before the Lords sore judgements come upon them, which is seen to be nigh, and which they cannot escape, except fruits meet for repentance, and amendment of life be brought forth. With somthing more particularly to the heads, and owners, of the several plantations. By a friend to the whole creation, called Richard Pinder.	Pinder, Richard, d. 1695.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2263; ESTC R232175	8,167	20

brought forth For the Lord hath spared long and born much for your sins exceeds both in greatness and number the sins of many people even as far as you exceed many people in earthly riches and honour that though you become famous in the worlds eye yet you do not appear so in Gods eye for he loaths your cursed practises and will assuredly punish you for them that though you account it now pleasure to riot in the day time yet your pleasure shall be turned into sorrow and all your laughing and rejoycing into mourning howling that it were good for you to consider betime upon what ground you stand that if peradventure God might grant you repentance to amendment of life so that you might his sore and great punishment escape which no way you can escape but by speedy repentance Therefore take yet a word of advice oh ye great and rich ones in the earth If you intend that God shall bless you then put away far from you all high-mindedness cruelty and hard-heartedness which at this day abounds among you in your severall Plantations And you the Heads and Owners of them are deeply guilty of these things Now to remove these and such like things from your severall Plantations this would be your way Put such men in place to be Overseers of your Servants as fear God and hate drunkenness and swearing and all such things that they may rule over them in moderation and not in Tyranny and hard-heartedness and this will be the way to beget love in your Servants unto you and one to another and so love being begotten in your Servants unto you and one unto another this will stop abundance of cruelty and wickedness which doth abound among you and let not your Overseers I warn you all rule in such Tyranny over your Negroes for if you do you will bring blood upon you and the cry of their blood shall enter into the eares of the Lord of Sabbath for he made them giveth them life and it shall cause his wrath to break forth upon you and if you thus provoke the Lord by letting them who are your Slaves be wrongfully entreated and unmercifully used it is much if the Lord bring them not as a Rod upon you however let the Lord be clear and me clear in his sight in that I warn you of it now while you have time to mend it and take heed you abuse not the long-suffering of God but let it lead you to Repentance amendment of life for if the long-suffering of God comes once to an end that his Spirit leave striving with you know then That your State is miserable for no other way can either high or low rich or poor bond or free come to be reconciled in peace with God and escape his judgements but by giving regard to be led by his Spirit which striveth with them in reproving of them for their sin which separateth them from God Now Mark that which reproves you for sin is of another nature then sin for it is the gift of God which is come upon you and all men to give life unto all that receive it and walk as it leadeth For it leadeth all that believes in it and obeyes it from death and all dead works unto life and so redeemeth from the earth where the bondage is into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God which Liberty is not to the Lusts but to the Soule which the Lusts wars against And from whence comes wars and fightings Are they not from the Lusts and whence comes all pride and arrogancy comes it not from that part which keeps the Soul in death So consider you who are exalted and lifted up in pride and whose life standeth in perishing things your Soules are not quickned unto God for you reject and hate the Light an appearance of the second Adam who is the quickning Spirit who is the bread of God which never decayeth which all that eateth hath life in them and lives for ever and none else have life eternall abiding in them but they who live by this bread For alas they are degenerated from God by transgression they feed and are nourished up in the Lusts of Ignorance which alienates their minds from the life of Christ and keeps them strangers to it in the envious and murderous Spirit And no murderer hath eternall life abiding in them but is condemned with Cain of whose antiquity all murderers and envious men are So read your stock and off-spring you that are offering up Prayers for a Sacrifice and yet have slain the witness of Truth in you that it lies slain in the streets of the spiritual Sodom and Egypt where the Lord of Life was ever Crucified And you that are scoffers and deriders of others Ishmael is the root from whence you spring and your ground is cursed for your hearts are set to do wickedness And you that are scoffers your tongues are set on fire on Hell that so long as they are not bridled your Religion is vain and your prayers not heard with God nor your Sacrifices accepted For they are not by Faith so long as you live in the scoffing nature for you are like a wave of the Sea that is your Figure foaming out of your own shame and sending forth the bitter waters as Envy Wrath Hatred and Malice and these all spring from the corrupt Fountain which corrupts the Earth and defiles the the place where God should dwell to wit the heart and conscience that so the strong man keeps the house in peace and perswades you all is well and that Christ hath taken away your sins and that his Righteousness is imputed to you in the ●ight of God and perswades you that God looks upon you in Christ and not as you are of your selves and thus feeds you with vain hopes when as alas you neither know Christ nor his Righteousness imputed to you but are in that nature which is against his gift which is come upon you to justification of life Mark the gift which justifies life condemns all dead works and all disobedience for which sake the wrath of God comes upon all men to condemnation and through the obedience and Righteousness of Christ the gift it comes upon all men So you that are speaking of the Righteousness of Christ being imputed unto you and you in disobedience to his gift in your consciences you are they that set up another faith then the Apostles did who witnessed the faith of Abraham which was imputed unto him for righteousness by which faith he obeyed the voyce of God but you that are speaking of Christs Righteousness imputed to you and obeys your lusts and vile affections you are them upon whom the Righteousness of God is to be revealed in flames of fire because you hold the truth in unrighteousness That I say that which may be known of God is manifest in you and God hath shewed it unto you that he hath enlightned you and he doth not desire the death of a sinner but rather all should come to his gift which through the obedience of Christ is perfectly come upon them and live for the gift of God is life eternal but the wages of sin is death All those who are in the pleasure of sin they are forth of the Righteousness of faith and so forth of the Imputation of Christs Righteousness for by faith Moses denyed the pleasures of sin and so was counted worthy to suffer affliction among the people of God who ever suffered by such as live in hard-heartedness and in the lusts of Ignorance and according to the will of the flesh For he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the Spirit So all by the light which you are enlightned withall Read your selves and search your own hearts and take warning betime for verily if you live according to the flesh you must die but if you through the Spirit mortifie the deeds of the flesh then you shall live And thus I have set before you Death and Life and the way whereby you may come to repentance and amendment of life and so come to the knowledg of the truth and be saved which is the whole desire of my soul that though you chuse death do live according to your own lusts I shall be clear in the sight of God in that in faithfulness I have written what he requires of me which otherwise I could not be clear of your blood For verily the Lord hath let me see that he will not spare you long except the evill of your doings you turn from So take this as a warning unto you all both high and low rich and poor bond and free though most it was upon me to write unto the Heads and Owners of the several Plantations yet it may serve as a warning unto all the Inhabitants of this Island or a sore judgement nigh at hand if Repentance be not speedily sought Barbados the 10 th day of the 8 th Month 1660. R. P. FINIS