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	understand_v	6,901	5	6.3105	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

profess him yet say ye shall never be set free from sin here Are ye guided by Christ To the light in all your consciences I speak which will let you see who 's your Leader and Guide into sin and imperfection even the man of sin and son of perdition whom Christ is come and made manifest to destroy And do ye profess he 's come and it say sin shall not be destroyed nor none can or shall be set free from it here What a profession is this and what a belief is this it even pitties me to see that men should be thus miserably deceived by Christs Enemy and the Enemy of your souls to be thus deluded and yet if any one be moved of the Lord to declare it unto you in love to your souls cry out one to another Take heed of delusion it 's a spirit of delusion which is gone forth into the world which the Apostles said should come in the last days which privily should bring in damnable errors even denying the Lord that bought them Are ye not there who are led into sin and say you shall not be free And is it not the Devil that tells you this who is afraid his Kingdom should be destroyed which is sin in you What think you is it not so and are we not accounted your Enemies for thus telling you the truth O ye priests professors and people and O all ye Inhabitants of the Earth And do ye not now plainly perceive how he have been thus long deluded by the Devil and his Instruments to denie the light which lets you see this And will you still love to have it so Oh! What will ye do in the end hereof think ye to be saved in your sin seeing ye will not come to him nor own him to be saved by him who sets free Do ye not love your sin better then him and it profess to love him when in words ye denie him and so are unto everie good Work reprobate for such as are come to the good Work are come to him who was before the evil Work was but who are in the evil Work are not and so are not in him who works the good Work but in him who works the evil and yet think to be saved by professing the words of him who worketh all our Works in us and for us for this is he of whom vve are Witnesses even the Righteousness of God by which we are saved and set free from our sin and this not of our selves it is the gift of God not of Works lest any should boast for we are the Workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus unto good Works that we should grow and increase in them And is this your Saviour who profess and say ye shall never be set free from sin here Or are ye not setting up a Saviour of your own making after your own hearts lust which ye love and worship more then Christ which is not of Gods appointment and it talk and profess of worshipping the Lord after his own appointment whilst ye are serving of him by your own confession who is not sufficient to set free from sin here And so the true Christ and God ye are ignorant on who saves his people from sin whom we witness And are ye not fighting among your selves in words almost blood to Knees for your God the manner of his Service and VVorship and yet all join'd together against the true Worshippers who hath not sav'd you from sin nor never will and so not from Wrath to come Who would take part with such a God and fight for such a God or serve such a God and Christ and Gospel if they were not ignorantlie zealous and blind And how can ye be otherwise who denie the true light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient Is it not just with God ye should be blind still who will not own his light wherewith he hath enlightned you but are Enemies to it and haters of it calling it natural and persecutors and opposers of them that witness it and believe in it and are guided by it and account them not worthie to live in the World who are not of the World but such as he hath chosen out of the World And yet will ye not yet see whose steps ye are in Search the Scriptures and see are they not plain enough to the light in you I speak Or will ye still be hireing of a man to give you the meaning Did they who spake and writ that which ye profess speak one thing and mean another Will ye be such blasphemers against the Spirit of Truth the Holie Ghost Know ye not their portion search the Scriptures and see Or will ye still follow their meanings rather then it vvho are saying The Scriptures vvere spoken in other Tongues and none can understand them but such as know and understand the Tongues Hebrew Greek and Latine vvhich the builders of Babel call the original Are not such blasphemers vvho call Letters and Syllables the Original and say none can understand the Scripture but such Are they not ignorant of the Original vvho say so And vvill ye still believe and follovv their meanings and opinions vvho are out of the Original and enemies to the Original Had not the Jews and Pilate their Original And vvere they not persecutors and murtherers of Christ Jesus our Original Search the Scriptures and see And are there none such to be found amongst you O ye Priests Professors and People to the Light in all your consciences I speak If there be Will ye still be follovvers of them Is this to be follovvers of God as dear children or not follovvers of them that do evil from vvhom the Apostle bids turn avvay And can ye be such lovers of the Apostles Words as ye profess vvho vvill not take his advice vvho vvalked in the Grace of God vvhich he had received and it vvas sufficient for him as the other Saints did and vvitnessed they needed not another Teacher to teach them but as the same Anointing vvhich vvas in them taught them vvhich vvas truth and in it vvas no lye Or are ye not rather hypocrites and haters of the Apostles and their vvords too though in shevv ye profess them calling them Blessed S. Paul and Holy St. Peter and the Evangelical Prophet and the Holy and Blessed Evangelists and Blessed St. Stephen that holy Martyr vvhose vvords ye profess but can't abide his Doctrine because he vvitnessed against Temples made vvith hands as by your vvorks ye plainly shevv for the Tree is to be knovvn and judged of by its fruits and that 's according to vvhat ye professe Search and see is it not so VVill their VVords think ye bear ye out any longer to profess vvho hate their VVorks and scoff at their VVorker saying Where was the Light I pray when Paul persecuted the Church of God VVhy even vvhere yours is hid under a Bed or under a

thou wilt not return thou must be destroyed both thou and thy King wherefore consider your wayes and doings O ye priests professors and people do ye think a profession of his words who is the life will save you from wrath to come who are enemies to his light and life and will not have him to rule and raign in you and over you who is the way to the Father and to his knowledge whom to know is life eternal and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent And do ye think ever to come to the knowledge of him O ye priests professors and people who are talking and professing of serving God in his own way and that such as will have Christ must have him in his own way and on his own terms and it will not own him the way even the way of his own appointment the light Doth not the Scriptures ye professors declare it or doth it say it self is it or is there another way then what it declareth of or another name given whereby the sons of men can be saved what mean ye that ye thus oppose the Lord and his way are ye stronger then he hath he not said he 'l no longer be served and worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and will ye still be serving him contrary to his mind hands and will and yet profess to serve and worship him in his own way hath he not said that he dwelleth not in temples made with hands and will ye be still seeking of him there notwithstanding all this Hath he not invited and called upon all to come unto him that they might have life and will ye be seekign life in the Scriptures for all this hath he not said the Kingdome of heaven cometh not with outward observances and will ye remain still seeking of it in those things and yet be telling the people and professing that God must be served and worshipped in his own way and yet seek to keep people in your own wayes are ye not deceitful and deceivers of the people who do thus ye are observing daies and moneths and times and years are ye not still carnal ye eat and drink but are ye not still empty and a thirst ye pray-and fast but receive not for ye ask amisse to spend it on your lusts ye observe daies and divers watchings and carnal Ordinances but are the comers thereunto made perfect as pertaining to the conscience ye cry out The Temples of the Lord the Ordinances of the Lord the Church of Christ the Ordinances of Christ but which of you is come to witnesse your bodies to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost or that you are made fit Temples for the Spirit of the Lord to dwell in or him come to wash you and cleanse you in his own blood and so to present you without spot to ●od even his Father or which of you is come to witnesse the Church of the First born which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Pillar and ground of truth but on the contrarie ye profess teach and say none can or must or shall be set free from sin here and so endeavour to preserve your bodies temples for the devil and not Christ whilest here for Christs Temple is holie and ye say none must or can be set free from sin and so seek to keep people unholie and their bodies Temples of sin this Doctrine pleases the devil well and he loves you for it and will let you professe to serve God in Gods way and profess Christs Church say you are Christs Ministers so he may but keep you to be his Temples and Church and Ministers still and thrust Christ out of rule and dominion for he that commits sin is of the devil and his servants ye are to whom ye yield your members servants to obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life O foolish and exceedinglie blinded and besotted men that will not see this and yet profess the Scriptures and where he is thus come and witnessed who changeth Ordinances and Laws and watchings and observations of daies and times and moneths and years and Sabbaths and dippings and sprinklings do ye not all rise up against him with one accord away with him he is not worthie to live to prison with him we have a Law Consider seriouslie is it not so with you as with them of the same generation of old to the light in all your consciences I speak Do ye think a profession of these things and a boasting of these things will serve your turns any more then it did your Forefathers of old from whom God was departed and removed who became persecutors of the life of his Son in his Saints are ye not found in the steps of those evil husbandmen who say behold the heir let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours and are ye so blind and bewitched by the god of this vvorld to think that ye shall escape their punishment will ye still preach and profess their words vvho vvitnessed Christ vvithin the end of the Lavv the carnal Ordinances the observations the Sabbaths and beggarly rudiments of the world and cause the Cross of Christ to cease through your traditions vvill ye still be found thus fighters against God in his Saints vvho novv vvitness forth the same and cannot submit unto those things vvhich he hath redeemed and purchased them out of even vvith his ovvn precious blood and are made to vvitness against them and your idol Worshipps and crie you have a Lavv will your Lavv think you excuse you in his sight vvho seeth you your vvaies and actions against him and his nay nay deceive not your selves God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap if ye sow to the flesh think ye shall ye not of the flesh reap corruption but if ye sow to the spirit of the spirit reap life everlasting Seriouslie sit down and weigh and consider is pride vanitie lust of the flesh idleness fulness of bread lying swearing drunkenness covetousness deceipt back-biting emulation strife quarrelling fighting reviling slandering evil speaking whispering halling out of Synagogues or Steeple-houses mocking stocking imprisoning cruel and evil entreating fruits of the Spirit or did ever such as witnessed the Spirit of God bring forth such fruits nay nay who witnessed the Spirit of Christ never were found in such practises search and see in the Scriptures in which ye think to find eternal life where ever any of the Saints of Christ who were possessors and not professors brought forth such fruits and can ye think or are ye so far blinded by the devil to believe ye shall be saved by professing their words and enemies to their life and led and guided by another spirit then that which they witnessed to be guided and led by or dare ye say that the Spirit of Christ is changed now from what it was then as some of ye do if not all that Revelation is