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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
B16717	Advice from a Catholick to his Protestant friend, touching the doctrine of purgatory ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A632; ESTC R7268	153,167	378

body that should have been h●…ly and spotless not suffering any defil●…ment to have come to thy temple 〈…〉 Cage wherein were all manner of u●…clean birds a stie full of nothing 〈…〉 filthy swine spent that portion tho●… gavest me with a Harlots Lord how have I trampled under m●… feet that holy Ordinance of thy Ma●…riage in not being thankfully conte●…ted with what thou out of thine infini●… wisdom createdst for man in the begi●…ning one woman that they twain mig●… be one flesh the which being nothing le●… Gen 2 18. 24. then a figure of that heavenly inten●…ment of thine the Son of thy love Chri●… Jesus one Spouse or beloved But despised and slighted this thy institutio●… choosing rather to follow the voice o●… Satan and my own base lustful heart an●… from thence concluded 't was lawful fo●… me to have more than one Wife an●… not only consented within me to this abomination and violation of this thy law but brought it forth into action taking into my bosome another beside●… my wife nay herein redoubling my iniquity taking even one that was then Wife of another man And not only ●…one all this wickedness in thy sight ●…t called this my detestable abomina●…on righteous and good contending ●…r it before men though it be that ●…hich the very heathens abhor and ●…e very brand and character of those ●…hom thou intendest shall never ●…e thy face thy love thy son Heaven ●…d happiness but for ever be cast ●…th into utter darkness as the Apostle ●…ul said to the Corinthians Know ye 1 Cor. 6. 9. ●…t that the unrighteous shall not in●…rit the kingdom of God be not de●…ved neither fornicators nor Idola●…s nor adulterers c. Shall inherit ●…e Kingdom of God c. Yet O! Lord herein have I sinned a●…nst Heaven and done all this wick●…ess in thy sight notwithstanding I Luke 12. 47. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Jer. 32. 40. ●…ew thy will yet I did it not though ●…as one that thou settest before thee 〈…〉 thy delight to dandle in the lap of 〈…〉 Love from whom thou intendest ●…er to turn thy face even here be●…e thee have I sinned and done all this ●…ckedness in thy sight though I knew ●…u wast a God from whom no thought ●…ch less action could be hid Lord ●…at shall I say my sins are as the sands ●…he ●●a who can number them So vile so wretched am I as I am n●… worthy to be called thy Son n●… worthy any more to sit at thy table yet Lord I will fain be entertained●…gain into thy house though but as o●… of thy hired servants but a door-ke●…per though but as one that must n●… go into thy house to behold and parta●… of thy rich mercies but stand at t●… door for 't is better Lord to be a doo●… Psa 84. 10 keeper in thy house than to dwell 〈…〉 the Tents of wicked Men. But when he was yet a great way 〈…〉 his Father saw him c. I had 〈…〉 gone far in confession and forsaki●… but was hedged up by my iniquitie●… ready to be swallowed up by them eve●… moment so that if I went into 〈…〉 field into the World there presen●… one object or other presented it self my base lustful eye which like thor●… pricked and wounded my heart to b●… hold if I looked into my garden 〈…〉 heart which should have bin filled w●… all precious flowers of divine pleasur●… Pro. 34. 24. behold there was nothing but nett●… nothing but restlesness and unquiet●… stinging and wounding me nay furth●… if I Looked about my heart beho●… the stone-wall was broken down Prayer watchfulness nay all power which formerly I had against sin and corruption whereby in some measure they were subdued and kept under in me was now broken down so that now I was ready to be led away with every lust But even while I was thus far off from my body being the Temple of the Holy Ghost as it was become the Temple of Idols a cage of unclean 1 Cor. 6. 19. birds My father saw me and not only so but had compassion on me was pleased even when my Spirit was ready to fall before him with power to bring that saying to my heart Malachi 3. 6. I am the Lord and I change not therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed appearing indeed a God of truth who said He would not always contend with man lest his spirit should fall before him but delights rather in Gen. 6. 3. shewing mercy even when I was crying out in my own heart from the sight of my being ready every moment to be carried away with one temptation or other My God hath forsaken me bringing that saying with power to my heart Isai 50. from the first to the fourth Thus said the Lord where is the bill of your mothers divorcement whom I have put away or to which of Creditors is it I have sold you Behold for your iniquities have you sold your selves and for your transgressions is your mother put away Wherefore when I came was there no man When I called was there none to answer Is my hand shortned at all that it cannot redeem Or have I no power to deliver Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea I make the rivers a wilderness their fish stinketb for water and dyeth for thirst I cloath the Heavens with darkness and make Sackcloath tbeir covering All which was unfolded before me thus O foolish man why dost thou say God hath forsaken thee hath sold and given thee up to thy own lusts and to Satan divorced thee from being the Spouse and beloved of his Son who saith so where is the Bill which lust nay the devil himself let him if he dare if he can produce the Bili which of my Creditors is it to whom I have sold thee Behold look well about you consider you will find you are mistaken you charge me falsly for your iniquities have you sold your selves you will find all the fault is in you what is done you have done your self you have sold your self the distance that is between us your iniquities have made 't is they have separated between you and your God. Wherefore when I came was there no Man What was the reason think ye that I so often by my word and spirit called to and within you and you made me no answer If I had been the cause of your being gone why then should I call and what was the reason there was none to answer but only your being separated by your iniquities being taken up with them you became regardless of my calls Is my hand shortned at all that I cannot redeem you know I was able to redeem you out of and from your corruptions and what is the matter now have you tryed me and found me unable now to redeem you is my hand shortned Is there any reason why you should not come to me Or have not I power to deliver what

by the love of God which made me come to my self to weigh things in the ballance of Truth searching like the wise Bereans the Scriptures the which before I Acts 17. 11. had laid aside as a dead useless thing imagining I had gotten that unction whereby I knew all things and needed not that any man teach me needed no mans writings 1 Joh. 2. 27. no not the Apostles and Prophets themselves but that I had teaching enough nay was able to teach others c. whether those things were so or no I began to be amazed and confounded in my self to behold what madness folly and vanity I had a long time been carried away with That I was so foolish as to believe I was travelling towards heaven and happiness when my own conscience if I had but suffered it to speak would have told me that the way I went was quite contrary that it was the broad Road-way to destruction and not only my own Conscience but the experience of the Saints in all Ages and above all ●…he Scriptures themselves would most ●…lainly have made it manifest to me ●…aying Can a man gather grapes of ●…horns or figs of thistles Mat. 7. 16. O that I should be so foolish as to ●…hink I could carry coals in my bosom Prov. 6. 27 28. ●…nd not be burnt therewith That I should have nothing but thorns and ●…histles growing in my heart and yet ●…hould expect in summer to gather thereof grapes and figs that I should do no●…hing but evil and yet expect good to Mat. 12. 25. ver 33. ●…ome thereof no saith Christ if a king●…om be divided against it self how can ●…hat kingdom stand either make the tree good and his fruit good or the tree evil ●…nd its fruit evil make both alike When I came to my self I no sooner ●…egan seriously to weigh and consider my condition but I began to cry out for my self wondering the wrath of God had not ere this time swallowed me up O! That I should be so foolish as to run after the shadow leaving the substance behind That I should follow nothing but the foolish imaginations of my own heart and not only so but to call them the motions of the spirit of God. That I should pretend to worship Joh. 4. 24. God in spirit and truth when I wa●… running from God and leaving off hi●… Saints and people turning my back upon all the commands of God. To think with Saul I was zealous fo●… God and his truth doing God good service Joh. 16. 2. when I was persecuting his servant●… Saints backbiting and speaking evil o●… them watching that if possible I migh●… cause any of them to stumble and fall i●… leaving off their obedience to the commands of God rejoycing at their infirmities being glad when I could tak●… any just occasion by reason of any o●… their failings to speak evil of them That I should be so foolish as to thin●… Mat. 22. 11. I was prepared to meet the bride o●… Christ at his second coming when I ha●… no wedding-garment on nay instea●… Mat. 22. 11. thereof was clothed with nothing bu●… filthy rags base lusts my heart running out after nothing but vanity and lies That I should think 't was the way to life and happiness in order to healing to let what abominations would come forth to be obedient to any nay to every lust And not only to act all this at home 1 Cor. 6. 15 16. in my own heart to fill the Temple of God with all these idols but to manifest this my folly to all the World and to contend for them as things fit to be minded I say when I came so to my self as seriously to behold all this finding that I was gotten into a way which was as the wise-man saith Prov. 16. 25. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end or issues thereof are death though it did seem to me right even that which would bring me safe to my expected end glory and happiness yet I find the issues thereof was nothing so and came at last to see the way I was in led to destruction I said with the Prodigal how many hired servants of my Fathers have bread enough and to spare and I perish here with hunger How many are there which as yet know not that they be adopted sons of God as know not their interest in Christ who though they do believe yet they cry Lord help my unbelief to whom Christ hath not given an answer yet such is the fulness of my Father●… house as they have bread enough and to spare have so many secret upholding●… and whisperings of the spirit of life and truth in them as keeps their spirits from fainting and moreover gives them many causes of rejoycing all which at present to consider wounded me the more I perish here for hunger But through mercy having some hope yet left as to know those God loves he loves to the end and that his mercies endure for ever I said I Joh. 13. 1. will arise and go to my Father and confess I have sinned c. I will no longer lie in this bed of filth I will arise I will no longer go after the Ps 105. 8. 111. 9. 119 8. 9. lusts and abominations of my base heart but go to my Father go and be obedient to all the commands of God throwing my self down at the foot of God saying Lord though I perish yet will I trust in thee yea though thou slay me for there is mercy in thee that thou mayest be feared And say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no ●…re worthy to be called thy Son c. I ●…ve sinned against Heaven against the ●…ecious Gospel of Jesus Christ not●…thstanding thou unbosomest that rich ●…e of thine unto me as when I was in 〈…〉 blood cast out to the loathing of my ●…rson and no eye pitied me even then Ezek. 16. 6. 〈…〉 casting the skir● of thy mercy over ●…e hiding thereby all my nakedness and ●…formity against this Heaven all this ●…ercy and love have I sinned 2. Against Heaven against the Saints ●…d people of God in causing the way 〈…〉 truth to be evil spoken of thy Saints ●…braided and contemned and thy ●…me dishonoured and slighted all thy ●…ecious commands and ordinances and ●…rned my back upon them despising ●…d trampling them under my feet ●…gainst Heaven yet more than all this ●…ot thinking it enough that I disobeyed ●…l thy commands despised all thy Saints ●…d people casting contempt on them ●…ut invited as much as in me lay ●…aused others to do the same 3. Against Heaven notwithstanding ●…ou in mercy gavest me many regrets ●…f Conscience by the word and spirit ●…et by all these was not I stopped but ●…earkened to every call and yielded my self up a servant to sin and Satan ma●…ing my