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	truth_n	15,566	5	5.7471	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91895	Endoxa, or, Some probable inquiries into truth, both divine and humane: together with a stone to the altar: or, short disquisitions on a few difficult places of Scripture; as also, a calm ventilation of Pseudo-doxia epidemica. / By John Robinson, Dr. of Physick. Translated and augmented by the author.; Endoxa. English	Robinson, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1700; Thomason E1821_1; ESTC R203377	61,732	159

converted by the word translated which besides the various readings of the Originals is not wholly intrinsecally undoubtedly and meerly true I shall point at a few reasons 1. God in writing his holy Will would not give us bare husks of words but by them the solid kernel of his intended minde Neh. 8. 8. doth teach that what by right reason can be concluded from authority of Scripture is Scripture though no text we being endued with reason as well as the Beroeaus who for examining the truth in its self authentick were honoured with the Title of Nobility 2. The Holy Ghost frequently varieth the Text in quoting the Septuagint only keeping to the meaning of the Spirit 3. If private meetings be satisfactory then are all admonitions censures c. frustrated Mat. 24. 26. 4. Every first day of the week when ye are met together lay aside for the poor The objection which the Antisynusians make that this precept was but transient to last but for a while Christ meeteth withall Iohn 12. 8. That the poor therefore Deacons will be perpetuated 5. We may not withdraw from publick assemblies Heb. 10. 25. 6. Faith cometh by hearing By Hearing is meant any way of attaining knowledge and so is Reading Object If by hearing here be understood reading Answ I marvel what construction they will make of the subsequent words they must be sent and how this sending is competent unto books I cannot understand Reading I grant is an informing and perfecting of the understanding but that the will and affections the main wheels in faith are thereby as well as by a lively voice drawn into consent I utterly deny And because the clock of our love by the weight of our terrestrialls runneth down from God continually we need every day by the cords of our affections a new winding up of former truths Against these premised things there is a Object great and general Objection That the externall form of words in preaching praying the dayes and places instituted for fasting and thanksgiving with other circumstances are not distinctly set down in holy Scripture but may in a prudentiall way according to the exigence of occasions or persons be changed In the Worship of God two things are to Answ be considered The Substance and the necessary intervening Adjuncts That the word of God must be preached the Sacraments administred in time of danger Gods help must be implored after deliverances praises must be returned is an institution of God and so a law unalterable The intermixed adjuncts crowding into all our actions are naturall and no part of Gods worship The manner of expression the time is no more then the place nor the publick either time or place more than a private whiles I am with God in my closet-approaches or Family-duties they being such Circumstances without which nothing can be done A naturall necessity of adjuncts will follow without the spurre of a command nor need any curb of restraint If there be any holiness in them it is for the works sake and so but Relative The difference is worth observing when the work is done for the dayes sake or the day is used for the works sake If the Circumstance be determined by God it becommeth ☜ a necessary part of his worship which no man can extort out of his hand it being a Prerogative Royall belonging only to him to make any time place or person holy Besides because these circumstances are fortuitous they do overturn and interrupt the Celebration of anniversary-dayes many times to our long-prefixed humiliation a suddain victory will run counter and unexpected calamities will quench the feudejoy of a long-fore-set gratulation But these accidents being various we must from a general rule draw forth the particulars All God's dispensations are books of his appointment which we may and must read though in them there be many hard lessons But to erect and keep any thing for a holy use upon the authority of our own complacency is to build too near the banks of Superstition Neither do I mean by holinesse a sanctified use as many cavil for so is meat and drink but separated unto an holy end The Sabbath is excepted which give leave to a small digression being first instituted in relation to Christ Psal 118. 22 23 24. was an ordinance of grace and not of nature nor competent to Adam in innocency and is Geo. Walker of the Sabbath holy for it self sake though no body in the world should keep it Let it be no hinderance to the truth of these words that but little mention was made of it before the Law written in stones either in Marah or Alush No more there is of other long-lived Laws as that a man should marry his Brothers widdow or that whoredome should be punished with death and the like which easily might be proved to be in force before I speak of a civil Law under which rank these fore-mentioned do march not of the moral Law engraven in the heart of all mankinde They object further Many things are adiaphorous Object and indifferent the choice whereof is within the command of our will By what is said may be concluded that in Answ Gods worship there is nothing indifferent In natural things most actions do contemn the voice of our command To speak with the Schools I adde more presly Though in actu signato there may be yet that there is no indifferency in actu exercito I remember to have read with full satisfaction But to close more near Besides the Vniversall Church dispersed here on earth God hath appointed some particular Congregations to joyn into bodies for their mutuall edification which challenge right to all the ordinances left by Christ and his Apostles as is the receiving in building up casting out which actions not being competent to the Universall do justly descend to the Ministeriall Universalibus non competunt personalia or Oeconomicall Churches whose duty it is to see their inheritance not to lay waste The Antisynagogians do object that there Object is no crime in the Church which the Christian Magistrate is not to take notice of This title I understand in division not in a Answ conjunction Nor a Christian Physician or Mathemematician to prescribe pious rules of Health or Angels Morality not faith is requisite in a Prince Caesar was as essentiall and integrall an Emperour as was Joshua But what if he fall into scandalous errors or practises by what meanes shall he be moved or removed not as a Magistrate but as a commensall and fellow-commoner with the faithfull what if he neglect his duty shall all run to wrack Were there not in the Apostles and latter times Churches for their piety and purity as famous as ever But power being granted abilities for discerning heresies accomplishments for publick and private duties are neither allotted nor required in a civil power quà talis That sentence which goeth cheek by jowle