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	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26198	The schoolmaster disciplin'd, or, A reply to a lying paper, entitull'd, The gadding tribe reproved, put foeth [sic] under the name of George Willington ... also, An answer to a scandalous paper, put forth by William Prynne, entitulled The Quakers unmasked ... : whereunto is added A reply to an additional paper, put forth by William Prynne, in his lying, inlarged edition of his scandalous paper aforementioned ... / by John Audland.	Audland, John, 1630-1664.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4197; ESTC R23357	14,236	15

God and the Holy Ghost spoke to them no voice of that is heard in thy mediate cal or mans ministry therefore denied by them who are guided by the Spirit o● the Lord who receives not the ministry of man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ and that 's not mans ministry The third is that we are to salute no man Reply This is thy own and in thy confutation thou answerest thy self for the Saints Salvation we own and honors all men in the Lord which is more than the heathen do but we have learned not to fashion our selves according to the world and to deny the customs of the heathen and their flattering titles and vain fashions which is without the fear of God who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage and respects mens persons and commits sin and a difference do we put betwixt the Saints salvation and the vain fashions and customs of the heathen which Israel was not to observe The fourth is that the Scripture ought not to be expounded and that expounding of Scripture is an adding to Scripture and if we add then God wil add to us all the plagues that are written therein and in thy confutation saith Christ expounded Scriptures Reply He that adds the plagues is to be added to him as it is written but thy other words is false and thy own it is your own imagination of the Scripture which we deny wresting it as thou hast done and adding with thy Envious spirit against the truth but that Christ expounded the Scriptures was neuer denied by us and that he opened their understandings to understand the Scriptures we own and witness and the Spirit of Christ is one in all his Saints and for the ly let it return upon thy own head Thy Fift is that it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and in thy confutation thou saith Christ was called Master and where it is said Be ye not called Master for one is your Master even Christ thou sayest the meaning is not that it is unlawful to be called Master Reply thou shews thy self to be none of Christs servant who pleads against his command and saith he bad them avoid a thing which was not unlawful if it be not unlawful its lawful thou hast forgotten now to make Scripture thy rule as for Christ being called Master he was and is so and whom hee made Ministers he made them not Masters for they had one Master and him we own to be master and in this thou art a Lyar and of the Devill who saith we say it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and we likewise say and exhort thereto that servants should be obedient to their owne Masters not as men-pleasers with eye-service but serving the Lord Thy sixt is that Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of Christ and therefore of no use in the Church of God and thou saith an express command thou grants is not to be found but thou saith infants were circumcised and Baptism is ordained in the room of that Reply VVe deny it to be an Ordinance of Christ or that it came in the room of Circumcision the Scripture speaks of no such thing as infant-Baptism and til thou prove it came in the room of Circumcision thy saying proves nothing the male-children were circumcised in room of what came in your female children to be sprinkled thou speaks thou knows not what he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Baptism is by the spirit and circumcision is that of the heart he that is in Christ is a new creature born again of water and not of the spirit such are partakers of the Ordinance and are members of the Church and that which is no Ordinance of Christ is of no use in the Church of God but is by the children of light denyed Thy seventh head is That we say that the Lords supper is of no use in the Church of God since the resurrection of Christ Reply This is an absolute lie never spoken or owned by us I charge thee to prove it either by our words or writings or let shame cover thy lips lyer for the lake and own thy condemnation for thy slandring lying and false accusing Thou saith it was not thy purpose to have writ a treatise of this subject till of late finding that none answered the book before mentioned Reply Thy treatise is lyes and rayling language against the servants of God but the book is yet unanswered thy filthy silly lying paper is not taken for an answer to that book and of late thou beginnest to vent out thy mischief and thy ignorance old rotten dul stuff it is like the evil treasure it proceeded from and they who reads thy paper whose understanding is opened will discern thy ignorance and malice and deny thy unclean spirit for among the children of light thy unfruitful works of darkness is denyed and cast out and thy formed weapon cannot prosper but the Lord will wound the head of the wicked he will bruise thee as with a rod of Iron and dash thee in pieces like a potters vessel this is answered not because it was particularly against me but for the truths sake that the lies which he had raised against it may return upon his own head I. A. An answer to a Scandalous Paper Entitu●ed The quakers unmasked Put sorth by William Prynne wherein his slanders are made to appear and he is found with a lye in his mouth I Meeting with a Paper Entituled The quakers unmasked and clearly Detected Put sorth by VVilliam Prynne wherein he slanders and falsly accuseth those people scornfully called quakers and saith they are sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy headded English Nation his ground being an information he saith taken upon oath in the City of Bristol which he sets down as followeth The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Iron-monger taken the two and twentieth day of Ianuary 1654. who informeth upon his oath that in the Month of September last this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one he calls Mr. Coppinger an Irish man formerly a School-fellow of his that came thither purposely for his passage into Ireland who told this Informant that he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years and had taken upon him the order of a Fryer of the Franciscan Company and he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some months and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and meetings publike and private that he could hear of and that none came so neer him as the quakers and being at a meeting of the quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan order and company that were now become chiefe Speakers amongst the quakers and he himself had spoken amongst the quakers in London about thirty times and was wel approved of