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	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89757	A declaration or testimony given by Captain Robert Norwood under his hand, (the which was by him publickly read at a meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others;) April 21. 1651. Together with several his answers and desires, proposed to them for satisfaction after his excommunication; worthy the most serious consideration of all: now brought to publick view for clearing of truth, discovering of error, and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue aspersions cast upon him.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1651 (1651)	Wing N1381; Thomason E632_1; ESTC R20899	10,098	16

A DECLARATION Or Testimony given by Captain ROBERT NORWOOD Under his hand the which was by him publickly read at a meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others April 21. 1651. Together with several his answers and desires proposed to them for satisfaction after his EXCOMMVNICATION Worthy the most serious consideration of all Now brought to publick view for clearing of truth discovering of error and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue aspersions cast upon him LONDON Printed in the year 1651. A DECLARATION Or Testimony given by Captain ROBERT NORWOOD Under his hand the which was by him publickly read at meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others April 21. 1651. Wherein is laid downe his beliefe concerning God what he is who Christ is and what the Spirit is what the soul is what the body and spirit of man is and also his beliefe concerning the resurrection With certain quere's preposed concerning what the Divell Satan or Serpent is what Antichrist the false prophet or dragon is what the true and very Christ is Now brought to publick view for clearing of truth diseovering of erro and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue Aspersions cast upon him I Do beleeve one God or one infinite eternal being which onely or alone gives a being to all things that are in whom from whom and by whom all things do confist exsist and subsist he to be unchangeable or immutable whose essence and presence is every where yet comprehended no where be onely having life in himselfe and is the alone life of all things whether visible or invisible in him I verily beleeve there is not the least variation or shadow of change for he I or I am That this same infinite eternal one hath given a three-fold declaration or manifestation of himselfe in One. I do farther beleev according to the Scriptures the declaration manifestation or outgoing of this infinit eternal being in or by the word in infinite wisdome and power in creation according to that which is written That by it all things were made and without it was made nothing that was made which is also called Christ or the first borne or onely begotten of the Father or the Anointed or anoining of God in which respect he is said to be the life and light of the world as indeed he is which I stedfastly beleeve and that this light as it 's written shineth in the darknesse though the darknesse comprehend it not and that he was in the world and the world was made by him though the world knew him not that he came to his own though his own received him not the same Christ I stedfastly beleeve to be my onely and alone light and life and salvation and so much and so far as I have attained him or it or rather he or it is risen up or brought forth it or himselfe in me so far I judge my selfe to live or be alive or saved or to have attained salvation and no farther and what ever else is in me I take to be of the flesh the devill or darknesse or sin or hell antichrist or of the false prophet for that which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the spirit is spirit That this Christ Word or Son is One with the Father in the Spirit I also stedfastly beleeve I do farther beleeve concerning the Spirit or Holy Ghost as it s called that it infinitely and eternally proceeded from the Father and the Son and that he is the immediate life and being of all things and is the alone true witnesse bearer to the father and the son John 5 6. and neither Father nor Son yet both Father and Son not three but One One intire simple undivided being in themselves whence in Scripture he is called sometimes the spirit of the father or God and sometimes the spirit of Christ in or by which spirit we have communion with the Father and the Son he in us we in him are by it made perfect in one which also is more or most properly called the spirit of truth or rather the spirit which is truth he onely and alone leading into all truth or the all of all truth which is God himselfe Concerning that we call main Paul distinguishes into three soul body and spirit The soul I take or beleeve to be of the divine essence for it 's said God breathed into him the breath of life and he or it became a living soul for so the Scripture renders the divine principle sometimes he sometimes it and indeed that which is there said to be breathed into man I cannot conceive to be lesse or other then his own essence or spirit there being nothing but himselfe to go forth from and in himself un●ous he in his Son by his Spirit stating himself in us though in weaknesse called elsewhere his Image or Spirit as where it s said My spirit shall not alway strive with man for that he also is flesh It 's called also the spirit of truth or which is truth true holiness or truth in holinesse and righteousnesse which image or life of God in man is confest by all or most if I mistake not neither was nor could be totaly or finaly lost though much defaced as they call it And truly as I conceive there must be and is a perfect truth in every created Creature according to its kind which is the invisible life and being of it the visibility being onely a representation or figure of the invisible life and glory according to that in the Romans That which may be knowne of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them for the invisible things of him that is hiseternal power and God-head are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his workes to the intent they should be without excuse By the God-head must be there meant Trinity in Unity Unity in Trinity yet every thing in its order kinde or end according to what he hath appointed every vessel to hold forth of himself according to that in the Corinths where it is said that there are bodies heavenly and bodies earthly and that the glory of the heavenly is one and theglory of the earthly is another and that one star differeth from another in glory yet all these but one in the union according to that Paul speakes in another place that there are several gifts and administrations yet but one spirit and all by one and the same spirit which perfect and invisible truth cannot be lesse or other then the divine essence Man carrying the beautious transparent splendor of the representation in this earthly creation yet is not God the Creature nor the Creature God for we must hold God and the created by God for could you speak all the invisible glories shadowed or held forth in the whole visible creation you could not speake God for