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	know_v	16,529	5	4.2676	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05898	The lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophet made made manifest, who seeks to pervert the right way of the Lord, and openth his mouth against the lord of life, and denies his light within, as appeareth in a book, entituled, The doctrine of the light within ... set forth by ... Henock Hovvet ... Some things therein being here answered in the light of the Lord ... Declared in the movings of the Lord for the truths sake, and that all deceit might be made manifest. / By one who is a lover of all those who love truth in the inward part. W. S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4313; ESTC R184394	12,535	16

Antichristian state Then thou sayest thou wilt endeavor to shew what the enemy which thou sayest is the light within drawes people to which is to take counsel at a corrupt heart and saith It is evident if they look to that which they call the light within two things being in communion a disobedient natural man they are like to see nothing but ayrie notions with spirituall working powers to delude within them Ans Hast thou not made it evident that the spirit of God liveth not in thee and that thy body is not the Temple of the Holy Ghost who knows nothing within thee to take counsel at but a corrupt heart Hast thou been so long looked at to be a teacher of others and now brought to confess that man hath nothing to look at within him but a corrupt heart Hast thou then ministered from any other principle then from a corrupt heart For shame give over deceiving people and tell them plainly what it is thou takes counsell at for some have seen thee and withdrawn from thee because a corrupt heart is thy counsellor which leads thee into all confusion for thou here talks of a disobedient natural man and that he cannot see himself otherwise if he look to the light within and yet thou talks of obedience to Christs commands and ordinances in another place What is thy obedience performed in to Christs commands and ordinances seeing thou sayest that man is naturally disobedient and his heart corrupted and nothing else to be looked at within him Then hath not the Prince of the power of the Aire dominion over thee who ruleth in all the children of disobedience Consider thy own words and see if there be any thing in them besides Airie notions Then thou sayest But if they will say they have no communion with the Devill or Prince of the Aire then thou sayest his design must needs be to bring them to consultation in a heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked and being deceitful it will offer darkness for light and so unavoidably put them in danger of being deceived Ans Thou hast unvailed thy self to all the children of light who reads thee sees what thou art consulting with who denies the light and hates to be reformed by it and despisest the counsell of it though it stand a faithful witness in thy conscience to reprove thee of all thy ungodly deeds which in the darkness is brought forth by thee from thy wicked and deceitful heart which thou art consulting with being alienated from the life in God thy foolish heart being blinded by the Prince of darkness who hath dominion over thee receive thy own words which thou hast layd down and then consider what that is which makes the heart manifest by which thou comes to see the heart to be corrupted and the desperate wickedness of it and the danger of consulting with it and what it offers in that state submit to that of God in thee and own plainness of speech and thou canst not deny but it is the light that makes all things manifest for whatsoever doth make manifest is light Eph. 5.13 so the heart being within people the light which makes it manifest is there also and searcheth the heart thorow all the corruption deceit of it for all things are naked and bare before it and this is so plain that all people may know that there is that in them which stands a witness against all the deceit of their own hearts and never doth consent to sin but reproveth for it in the conscience of every man which is the light that Christ Jesus doth enlighten every man withall therefore be not stiff-necked and rebellious but turn to the Lord God of Life and Power and wait in the light which he hath enlightened thee withall that thou may come to the knowledge of the glory of God and to feel his living Power mortifying sin in thee and creating a clean heart within thee before thou talk of obedience to Christs Commands and the Apostles practice for until thou obey the reproof of the light of Christ within and turn at the reproof of it to be guided by it thou knowest not the first Principle of the pure Religion though thou hast made a profession many years nor hast not set one foot into the way of Christ though thou imagine a long travel in it that thou art come to the end of it So some of thy folly is here fully answered in few words and plainness therefore silence flesh and contend no longer against that in which the love of God is made manifest to sinners and this I am made to testifie in the power of the Lord for the seeds sake and he that can receive it let him Then thou saist If they would yet excuse themselves and say they do not take counsel at their own heart then thou saist it cannot be evaded but if they look to the light within for counsel they must needs look to their own souls Ans If thou wert not altogether in darkness thou mightest here see thy confusion who art endeavouring to forewarn people and knows not of what neither can shew distinctly what it is but saist If it be not a corrupt heart then it is a deceived heart and if not a deceived heart then it is their own soul How blindly art thou led from all light and truth for if thou wert guided by the light of Christ thou mightest have shewed in what a corrupt heart and a deceitful heart differs if any difference be and what the soul is and in what part of man it is placed for if thou knowest not this then art thou wholly ignorant of all that which thou hast been charging a generation of men withall and all thy imaginations is denied and thy confusion and standers is returned again unto thee as dung upon thy face Then thou saist To look to the light within leads men to look at a Judgment here in this life and so takes off mans expectati●n from eternal Judgement and this thou saist gives licence for lust to rule and is an invitation for the world to lye still in wickedness and for the Epicure to sing a delightful song to his soul Soul take thine ease Ans The Saints witnessed the Lord come near to judgement and every transgression and disobedience to receive a just recompence of reward Doth not the Scripture stand a witness against thee Did not David witness the Judgements of the Lord to be true and Moses witnessed all his ways to be judgement and was not this known by them in this life which brought them to fear the Lord and to depart from evil and to stand in awe and not to sin And doth this deny eternal Judgement or give liberty for lust or wickedness to rule Or brings it not those to cease from the evil whom the righteous Judgements of God takes hold upon Therefore wo be unto all the Epicures who put the Judgement of the