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	paul_n	7,516	5	6.4255	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52181	Sions enemy discovered, or the worker of iniquity rebuked and innocency cleared in a reply to seven sheets of paper published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln, and by him entituled, The Quaker quashed, and his quarrel queld, &c.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing M933A; ESTC R221792	10,986	8

light shines in darknesse though darknesse comprehends it not The true light was within them though not a Saviour to them because they believed not in it nor was obedient to it It was a condemning voice to them as it is to thee and so before they believed in it they were without God in the World and so art thou Be not angry if I tell thee Jonathan that Gods faithful witness now suffers within thee thy works of iniquity wound the righteous soul within thee with them he is pressed as a cart with sheavs he is a man of sorrows and suffers within thee the just for the unjust he is in the grave and not risen in thee did he not suffer for thee and within thee thou shouldest soon seel that consuming fire which is not to be quenched And as for my charging thee 〈…〉 thou said I killed the scriptures I tell thee Jonathan thou usedst these words to me what light according to the word of God is in thee to crucifie the Son of God again and kill his preaching Answer me plainly Jonathan dost thou not own the scriptures to be Christs preaching then wherein have I wronged thee and now let him who is found with a lye in his mouth wash and be clean 2 Ki. 5.13 Whether thou didst call the scriptures dead letter or no I shall leave the sober minded reader to judge when I come to answer the 37 and 38 pages till then I spare thee in the mean time I see thou wouldest fain shuffle off the words which I delivered concerning thee in relation to those called Dippers peruse thy paper and try if those be not the words thou writst unto me viz. thou art forced to run for shelter and defence to those thou accounts thy enemies those who knows no other burial with Christ but burial in water and with them tells me of sprinkling with water but I tell thee these chief Princes of Meshech Tuball will be all found together to band themselves against the peaceable habitation and dwelling of the Saints these are thy own words Jonathan though in thy foolish cover thy wisdome is confounded which would have the world believe that these words of thine were applyed to me and my geneneration but tell me and let the voice of truth answer me dost thou believe I account my own generation to be my enemies I know they are the generation of the just which I do own who know a better burial with Christ then burial in outward water so I appeal with boldnesse to the witnesse of God in thy own conscience whether I had not good cause to conclude as I did concerning thee in this particular and let the honest hearted reader who reads with an impartial eye judge if thou hast not sinned against thy own soul in this foul and foolish shufling In my reply to the sixt position I used these words which thou very dceitsully hast wrested Is thy sprinkling with water the baptism of Christ Jesus yea or nay And did the Lord command that to his disciples yea or nay And does the Lord require it of his people to this day Now in thy letter thou saist I bid thee prove whether Christ commanded baptisme to his disciples yea or nay And did the Lord require it of his people to this day I say whether thy dealing thus deceitfully with my words be not a lye and whether this deciptfull lye be not abominable and whether nonsence be not lapt up in this lye or no let the discreet reader judge between us And what though I told thee that I did never read nor know of one that pretends to more piety then thou dost that ever excelled or equalled thee in the devilish art of lying Lying is his worke who abode not in the truth and in that work thou art found then what wrong have I done thee I also told thee that a Notable servant thou wert to thy master but I did not call thee Noble for then I had wronged thee And as for my words That I would peruse those places thy Father sent thee with to fight for his Kingdome I still own them and thy works of iniquity makes it manyfest thou art not doing the will or worke of the living God and therefore he is none of thy father while the innocent ones thou slandrest t is the lying God thou servest and he for his own ends makes use of scripture to war against that spirit of truth which gave forth scripture and this the scriptures testifie Mat. 4.6 Thou spends three or four sides pleading for outward water I shall not follow thee in all thy crooked windings but this I say still not thou nor all thy generation can by clear scripture prove convince me that Christ gave an expresse command to any of his disciples to baptize with outward water So that though they in their christian liberty did use it wherein I do not judge them yet do I not justifie thee thy generation in your sprinkling I told thee some used circumcision in the flesh as well as baptising with outward water and I asked thee if their authority were not of an equal parity though the printer mistakeing put an U for an A but what if I had said purity both by permission not by precept and let mee aske thee and thy generation this question whether the commission which Christ gave to his disciples in Mat. 28. 19 20. be not the same which paul received of him or was his commission short or contrary unto theirs answer plainly for Paul tells us plainly he was not sent to baptize but to preach the Gosple Paul told the people in him that is in his flesh dwelt no good thing doth he not explain his own words when we were in the flesh saith he the motions of sin did worke in our members to bring forth fruit unto death observe this He was not a christian when such fruites were brought forth and are not such fruits still brought forth in thee Paul then spake of a time past but now saith he The letter killeth we are delivered from the Law that we should serve in newnesse of spirit not in the oldnesse of the letter loe he calls scriptures the letter and are they not so they that are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8.8 9. but ye are not in the flesh yet they were alive upon earth but in the spirit and I tell thee Paul was filled with the holy Ghost and he spake wisdome amongst them that were perfect and what I sent thee as to perfection does stand over thee But why dost thou tell me 76 Ps 4. that I strive to get shut of the scriptures and that their witness does torment me these two lyes lye near one an other and know thou O man the scriptures testimony is for me and not against the truth which I hold-forth viz. That the light of Christ in the conscience is more glorious and excellent then the letter