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	temple_n	7,031	5	7.9574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40256	Something in answer to a book called Fiat lux being a discourse between a papist and a Protestant &c. who writes at the bottom of the title page, J.V.C. : also something in answer to the papists queries.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1910; ESTC R25206	11,959	18

is able to bring him down again for he is of the Image part Iron part Clay which I would have him to expound What good doth your Confession do where there is not amendment For what People under the Sun are more Envious Proud Drink Swear Curse and many unclean Actions found in and amongst as yours be And whereas thou sayest Page 232. The Confession nor any beginning thereof cannot be found out Answ Therefore you go upon a foundation which had 〈◊〉 bottom for in the beginning in the Primitive times the Apostles did not set up any Confessors therefore you are shut out of their Practice And whereas thou speakest Of inflicting penalties of Scourging or Death upon Delinquents though they be never so sorry for their Offence Answ In this is much Ignorance because that you and others have persecuted one another to Death because you would not conform to one anothers Religion which shews you are like Nebuchadnezzar and worse then the Jewes in some respect for did they Persecute any of the Heathen to death because they would not joyn to their Religion Though in one respect you are like unto the Jewes who said Come let us kill the Heir and the Inheritance shall be ours And were not they called Murderers And have not you crucified Christ afresh and put him to an open shame As instance the Pope Eugenius who caused the King of Poland to break his Oath and League with the Turk upon which he lost a great part of Christendom who seldom got any thing by fighting or plotting with his Carnal weapon But if the Papists had been true Christians they would have loved one another and have loved Enemies But there is no mercy from you although a man be never so sorry for his Offence but Death and Scourging but thy thoughts and mind are not the Lords who desireth not the death of a sinner but would have him repent and live And therefore What hast thou to do to take the Name of the Lord into thy mouth and hatest to be reformed And as for the Apostle Paul's words which he spake as in the person of Christ what is that to your practice who speak in the spirit of Satan as ye may look over your words and actions in Fox's Acts and Monuments and the Council of Trent and other Books who shewed another spirit and life than Christ and the Apostles for Christ came to save mens lives not to destroy them as ye have done who do not know what spirit ye are off And whereas thou speakest Of some places where the People are on their knees at Prayer all the week long and our Churches are not so in England Answ Ye were not at your Prayers all the week long when ye had power in England and were burning the Martyrs to ashes up and down at Stakes The Wolf is seen though he hath the Sheeps cloathing on his back thou canst not be hid but the wise and prudent see and comprehend thee and the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. For hath it not been a Fist of wickedness that ye have lifted up these many hundred years Doth not and hath not your actions declared and spoken them abroad in the ears of sober People Where is the House of Prayer thou speakest of Is it the Temple at Jerusalem which thou art wandring to That 's down according to Christ's Prophesie And the Apostles say Our Bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost and in the Holy Ghost we are to pray And is not that the Temple set above all houses made with hands and so the Apostle saith we must pray in the Spirit and so we must pray in the Temple but this I doubt thou canst not read with thy Spectacles on And whereas thou sayest Ye have kept your Mass and Bible in an unknown Tongue and yet you call your selves Catholick Answ This is not Catholick from the Apostle for he was against them that spake in an unknown tongue that was not to edification and he reproves it so ye are come under the reproof of the Apostle And the Apostle sent Epistles to be read to the Churches in their age and now you that have put the Bible in an unknown Tongue and kept your people under teaching ever since Boniface the third are not your People capable yet to have the Scriptures read to them in their own Tongue This manifests your Popish Teachers bad and your Peoples ignorance and your own deceit and fear of your selves if the people should have them in their own Tongue they would see you And whereas you make a distinction of Lay people and Spiritual and yet all Believers if they were so indeed they would be all born of God And the Apostles in the Primitive time made no such distinction as Lay people and Spiritual among Believers c. as ye do But ye have been in the dark and your works are all in the dark and so ye keep the Scripture from the people in their own Tongue whereby they might come to know the Truth And the holy Scriptures are a better Book than any ye can make which stands over you and your Mass Book As for all your perverting Scriptures thereby thinking to bend them to your Traditions and Images they that have a single eye fees it 's to no purpose And as for calling upon Saints Angels and Martyrs to pray for you to have mercy upon you for which you have neither Scripture nor Example from the Apostles And wheras thou ignorantly and pervertingly bringest Davids words and Daniels for the praying to Angels c. and the Sun and Moon David nor none of the Saints nor Martyrs of old did call to the Sun Moon Angels or Saints but they called for all things to praise the Lord for whilst they were living the Saints prayed one for another but to pray to Saints departed is like Sauls going to the Witch of Endor to ask counsel of the Dead which was forbidden by the Law of God So in this you are ignorant both of Law and Gospel Many other frivolous things thou hast in thy Book not worth reading or answering But one thing further whereas thou saiest The Church of Rome is the Mother Church Was not the Church of Jerusalem before the Church of Rome was Read the Scriptures And was not the Church at Constantinople preferred before the Church of Rome Read over the Histories again And for the Church of Rome being either Mother Church Holy Church or Church of God her actions and deeds testifie against her she 's none of the Church of Christ though she pretend for Christ yet she is against Christ his Faith Spirit and Life and so Antichrist her deeds and works have spoken it which all that be in the Light Spirit and Life of Christ have seen and heard And how can ignorant people but smile at you as thou saiest who make Bread and Wine God which will sowre and corrupt Some Scriptures follow here