Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	gift_n	holy_a	21,083	5	5.7385	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30523	A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6002; ESTC R36302	11,877	16

if they had not that yet did they not cast men into prison and spoyle their goods that would not give it them as this generation of Teachers do and the Lord God is risen to confound this Worship and this Ministry which is Idolatry and this Church which is but a false feigned imitation and he will establish his true Worship that is in spirit and in truth and his true Ministry that is by the gift of the Holy Ghost and his true Church and this shall be brought to pass in his day But again there is another practise which you have which the Church of Rome and the Prelates had your predecessors if any come in the Name of the Lord to declare against you and against your abominations to cry against your sin and cry repentance among you that you may be converted to God this you account a great Transgression and persecutes them that doth it by imprisoning and whipping and stocking and by imposing great fines upon them and causing them to suffer cruel things and this did the Papists and Prelates in like manner as you do if any was moved to cry against them they indeed rewarded them even as you do at this day the same thing you do against such as are moved of the Lord to come among you and herein you succeed them and brings forth the same persecution in your Churches as they did in their Churches and this is the defence of your Church and of your Ministry Carnal Weapons Imprisonment and Whipping and Stocking and causing the bodyes of people to suffer through cruelty and injustice and by this means is your Church Ministry defended preserved or otherwise it would presently fall as not being able to continue nor resist nor gain-say the spirit power of God which now is risen to oppose them if they had not carnal Laws and Earthly Powers and Gaols and Houses of Correction to defend themselves by And is this the Church of Christ And is this Christs Ministry that have need of such weapons as these The Apostles nor true Churches never did thus neither sent people to prison that opposed them nor had such cruelty to execute upon the bodyes of people though many did oppose them out of wickednesse but the Spirit and Authority of the Lord did defend them from all their Enemies But your Church and Ministry is manifest to be another then that was and to be defended by another means even by the same means that the Papists and Prelates of old were of a long time defended by but when the measure of these things are fulfilled they will come to an end as the measure of that generations iniquity was fulfilled which went before you so in the Lords season will your measure be fulfilled and the Lords people shall be free and all bonds of iniquity broken And thus it is manifest that this Church and Ministry succeeds the Church of Rome and her Ministers far more then the Church of Christ and its true Ministers to that it is not equal in any thing but to the Church of Rome it is comparable in many things so that it is manifest that this Church and Ministry are not quite another then the Church and Ministry of Rome but such as hath dissented from them and are truly sprung out of that root and is the same still in substance though differing in some practises having cast out some old inventions and brought in some new but as I have said remains still the same in nature and substance though dissented in some particulars yet succeedeth in many particulars as I may shew more fully hereafter And though you bare the Name and stile your selves The reformed Churches you mean reformed from the Church of Rome but how are you reformed but by some visible appearances and not in the ground having put off but some of her garments and remains the same body for substance in nature and matter though differing onely in appearances For the Church which is the true Church of Christ is not thus reformed onely changed in part and altered in degrees but the true Church denies the Church of Rome in her very being and ground and in all her practises whatsoever for though many Sects have risen one from another yet all the same for substance onely differing in particulars But as for you to whom this particular is written that worship God in Steeplehouses you are not so much differing from the Church of Rome as many others are which are not true Churches neither but the Lord God is now gathering his people wherefore come out of your Idol-worship and Idol-Temples for God dwells not in them nor is not worshipped there but he dwells and walks in his Saints and is worshipped in spirit and in truth and his day is dawned and his glory is risen and he will confound this Church and Ministry which bears the marks of the Romish Whore hath her symptoms and characters remaining upon them unto this day as it is manifest And though some may object and say That God commanded a Temple to be builded for the worship of his Name and Ordinances to be practised in the time of the old Covenant To which I do say Yea it was so a Temple was builded by Solomon for the seed of the Iews to worship in and to come to sacrifice to the Lord in and there was an outward worship and ordinances But it is many hundred years since this Temple was destroyed and worship and ordinances thrown down which God once commanded and his people once practised and Christ the life the power and wisdom of God was the substance thereof and unto whom he was made manifest and in whom he was revealed in the spirit they utterly renounced and denyed the Temple and the Worship therein though God once had commanded it and the Saints after the manifesting of Christ to them in spirit and after that the Holy Ghost was given we do not find through all the Churches of the Saints that they worshipped in the Temple of the Iews but witnessed against it and said that God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped in Temples made with hands but in the spirit and in the truth their worship consisted therefore were persecuted but they bare witnesse against the Temple the worship those Ordinances which God once had commanded which once his people practised though it was to the peril of their lives but as for these Temples and these Ordinances and this worship which are now on foot they were never brought forth by any Ordination or Commandment of God but the foundation of them was the inventions of men and mens traditions taught them and not the spirit of the Lord and therefore against those things those Temples and those Ordinances and VVorships much reason have we to cry against them all as being neither sign nor substance of good but wholly inventions of men The Jews Temple