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	heart_n	holy_a	18,272	5	5.1644	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85140	The heart opened by Christ; or, The conditions of a troubled soul that could find no true rest, peace, comfort, nor satisfaction in any thing below the divine power and glory of God, breaking forth and appearing in several operations and manifestations, by the blessed spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of the soul, God manifesting himself in flesh, that he may glorified in spirit. With, a word to those that are for the approbation of ministers; and something to those that scruple about the receiving or not receiving that which they call a sacrament and communion of saints, at Easter, Penticost, Christmas, so called, and other festival and set daies, or any other time when it is to be administered by those priests that profess themselves to be ministers of Christ. Written in the year 1654. in the third moneth, commonly called May, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F485; Thomason E745_7; ESTC R207062	17,335	24

Temples for the holy Ghost to dwell in as God hath said 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Then was I convinced by the light of Christ in my conscience that the Priests were very formal in that which they called prayer and that they kept in a form of words and knew before hand what to speak Mat. 6.7 Mar. 6.5 1 Cor. 14 15. Rom. 8.26.27 Zac. 8.21 Mar. 26.41 Act. 12.5 Rom. 12.12 Jude 20. Jam. 5.15 16. when to begin and when to end any natural man might do so that had but a quick wit and memory and I could have done that my self till I was convinced that either to get prayers out of a book or to pray by a book was carnal and formal and not by the spirit and this was a second error that I lived in till the Lord did convince me of it by his spirit and I had received that by tradition from the Priests and as the light of God did arise in me I could not be satisfied with such carnality and so likewise their Preaching became but as the telling of a Tale or a boy that saith over his weeks work at the School what he hath learned all the week he saith over at once or one time and so did the Priests they studied out of books and writ down in papers and knew where to begin and where to end and any natural man might do so but the natural man knoweth not the things of God for they are spiritually discerned And this is another error that I did live in till I was convinced of it by the pure light of God in my conscience Isa 9.16 Isa 3 12. Hos 4 9. for the Priests neither Preached nor prayed by the Spirit and so there was little or no reformation at all wrought by it for people that had been proud did continue so and the Priests led them on in it and made them covers for it and so on in covetousness sports or pleasures and the like for looking at the Priest for an example Eph. 5.4.4 5 6 1 Cor. 12 12 13 Rom. 6.3.4 5. Gal. 3.27 and seeing him given to pride covetousness and the like the people say in their hearts that if it were not right he would not do it and if he do it they may do it for he knoweth more then they do and so they follow him for their example and become light and vain and that Scripture is fulfilled by them The Leaders of the people cause them to err And a fourth error that was discovered to me that the Priests led into was sprinkling infants calling it Baptism and entring them into ovenant with Christ and Christ never sprinkling any infant nor the Apostles never sprinkled any for that is carnal and they have no Scripture-rule for it for by one spirit did and were they baptized into one body in the Church of Christ and made to drink into one spirit But the Priests of England walk clear contrary to the Saints rule and order in the true Church and they observed foolish heathenish customs in the Steeplehouses in Yorkshire at the sprinkling of infants they were to have Godfathers and Godmothers for the child and God hath neither father nor mother and all that are born of water and the spirit and baptized with the holy Ghost do deny those Popish Ceremonies and a foolish thing was there upheld at the sprinkling of infants If a young man did not kiss the young woman there openly he was to forfeit a pair of gloves and the Priest did suffer such things as these unreproved and I was convinced of the error of them and made to testifie against them and could not sing Davids conditions in Rime and Meeter with them because I could not experience those conditions in my self to be fulfilled Ro. 12.2 Eph. 5.6 to the 19 verse and what I could not witness was not mine then was I hated and reproached and called Independent Brownist Seperate and the like and was content to bear their reproaches for the testimony of the truth in what I knew 1 Pet. 4.14 For in reading the Scriptures I did see that there never was any such things practized amongst Christians 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20 21. Acts 1.5.6 Mat. 3. and that all that were baptized with water which was the figure were such as did bring forth fruits of amendment of life as in Luke 3. and were believers and not infants and though Christ did say Suffer little children to come and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of God Mark 9.33 to the end Mark 10. chap. 13 14 15 16. Yet he did not baptize them for he baptized none himself but his Disciples John 4.2 they did not baptize any but believers yes say they the Goaler and his houshold and others and their houshold and then consequently say they there must be infants in an houshold Now that was their carnal reason and consequence that led them out into the imaginations of their own hearts for no infant is mentioned and they might be such places as their children were grown up to believe in Christ for the word was preached to them before they were baptized and when the Goaler asked what should be done that salvation might follow it was answered Believe and be baptized but had there been infants they had not been capable of faith and the preaching of the word by the holy Ghost which gave power with the thing done to make it effectual Acts 16.32 33 34. Acts 18.7 8 9 10 11. And secondly as for infants being in those Families there is not any mention of them and there might as well be no child at all for in several Families in Yorkshire and for instance that where I then lived they never had child and if all the Family had been in the faith there and baptized there would not have been one infant And Christs suffering little children to come unto him was to bless them and heal them of their diseases which was the work he was about at that time and not baptizing with water for he baptized none but with the holy Ghost Mat. 3.11 And herein the error of the Priests was discovered that they did not act by the spirit of the Lord but followed the imagination of their own hearts and lead people into error and delusion and do things without warrant from the Spirit of the living God and so are ignorant of the Gospel for the Ministers of the Gospel are the Ministers of the spirit Eph. 3.2 3 to the 13. 2 Cor. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6. 2 Cor. 4. to the 14 verse Gal. 1.11 12. Col. 1 25. to the end Another thing the Priests led me to observe and that they called a Sacrament and Communion of Saints and told me it was a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God for the purging out of sin and assuring the soul of Gods love and favour and a sealing soul-saving Ordinance and the like And one came to the house where