Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	grace_n	holy_a	lord_n	14,167	5	3.6878	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95899	Speculum scripturale schismaticorum or, A scripture looking--glasse, most exactly characterizing all sorts of schismaticks: wherein, as, in a looking-glass, face answers face; so, scriptures paint seducers root and race: And, that they are the seedmen of all evil; and, must be shun'd, as serpents, or the Devil.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing V329; Thomason 669.f.14[65]; ESTC R211250	8,268	1

godly custom of the Saints society unto gluttony and excesse Vaporous clouds without rain and such indeed are almost all Sectaries fluttering and flashing up and down without any moisture or solidity Fruitlesse trees which also have neither life nor sap like withered trees in Autumn unfit to bring forth any good fruit of holinesse in themselves or edification to others yea trees twice dead by apostatizing and falling off from the life of grace to sin and death and as it were pluck'd up by the roots even cut off from spiritual union with Christ Raging waves and foaming seas even unsetled and proud spirits belching out abominable Doctrines and blasphemous Opinions Murmurers and complainers men of contentious and impatient spirits Admirers also of mens persons and parts for advantage and to gain by them for their base and false flattering of them Mockers and abusers of other men far better than themselves in all respects and O how daily and sadly do we see this practised especially in printed Pamphlets and that with authority wherein our most pious and painfull learned and religious Ministers are called no less than Baals priests Sons of Belial Sir Jack Presbyters and such like most base and ignominious names by the mercenary Sectarian Pamphleters of these times but to go on and conclude Separating themselves from their Brethren as sensuall and carnal self-seeking men who have not the Spirit wilfully cutting themselves off from the true spiritual Communion of Gods Church and are thereby deprived of the life grace and holy Spirit of the Prince of Peace and Union the Lord Jesus Christ John 15. 6. Wo unto the world because of offences it must needs be that Offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh For whosoever shall offend one of those little ones which beleeve on me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the Scan Matth. 18. 7. 8. Such are false Apostles deceitfull workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ and no marvell for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of righteousnesse whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they fall away to renew them again to repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame The just shall live by faith but if any man draw back or fall away my soul shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 6. 4. and 10. 38. Consult then O all ye backsliding and apostatizing Independents Sectaries and Schismaticks this fair and faithfull Scripture Looking-Glass and see how neer ye come to the sin against the holy Ghost and fear and tremble Qui cum Jesu itis non itis cum Jesuitis vel Romanis vel Schismaticis that is Who-ere to walk with Jesus Christ delights Shun Romish and Sectarian Jesuites JOHN VICARS The Schismatical WOLF Sented MATTH 7. 15. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves yee shal know them by their Fruits The Heretical FOX Hunted CANT 2 15. Take us the Foxes the little Foxes that spoil the Vines for our Vines have very tender Grapes FINIS London Printed for T. M. 1649.

accursed and blasphemous Opinions even many of them denying the Lord Jesus Christ either by a totall apostacie or through want of sincere obedience both in his Deity and in his incarnation yea denying the three glorious Persons in the Trinity and the sacred Scriptures or written Word to be the foundation of our faith to omit many other And do we not see how many are drawn away by them to follow their pernicious wayes that is their pestilent doctrines and by reason of whom and their perverse pathes the wayes of truth are exceedingly evill spoken of and the blessed work of Covenant-Reformation is most slanderously termed by them Persecution and Tyranny and Christs Government is by them called and counted a bloudy arbitrary and Antichristian slavery and how thus they most exactly cry out with wicked Athalia Treason treason Persecution persecution whereas they are the most cruel and crafty traitors and persecutors themselves witness that true Saint indeed Mr. Caughton imprisoned by the Saints of these times a strange paradox in piety The Scripture Looking-Glass VII And the same Apostle goes on and tels us that through covetousnesse they shall with fained words make merchandize of their Disciples and Proselites whose judgment lingereth not and whose damnation slumbreth not but chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse who despise Government and presumptuously speak evill of Dignities and like brute-beasts speak evill of the things which they understand not and shall therefore perish utterly in their own corruption and shall receive the reward of unrighteousnesse Spots they are and blemishes spotting themselves with their own deceivings and seducing others while they feast with you Having eyes full of adultery and that cease not from sin Beguiling unstable souls their hearts being exercised with covetous practices Cursed children Wels without water clouds carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever Speaking great swelling words of vanity and promising liberty to others whenas themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2. 3 10 12 13 14 17 18 19. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face VII And does not the Apostle Peter here also most lively delineate our Sectaries and Independents practices manners and conditions Who indeed through covetousness witnesse their many Lectures and fat collections at their itinerary or rather vagrant preachings by fained and painted words framed to a shew of piety mildnesse and charity craftily endeavour to lay hold on their disciples goods with the ruine of their souls Hastening their own damnation by most seditiously contemning Government and most insolently and presumptuously speaking evil of Dignities Kings Lords and Rulers and therefore are justly left utterly to perish in the corruption of their own minds as foul spots and blemishes of Religion seducing and deceiving those that feast and entertain them Being herein cursed children in that they are as it were empty wels without water barren and fruitlesse in themselves of any true good and without sap or moisture of true soul-saving grace to make others truly gracious and growing Christians yea they are vapouring and vanishing clouds driven to and fro with the fleeting blasts and tempests of their most vain and hereticall mindes for whom the mists and foggs of infernal darknesse is reserved for ever Who use to speak great swelling and swaggering words of vanity and boasting hypocrisie of Saintship and godly partie c. using a lofty and proud flashie stile both in their writing and preaching especially as reverend Mr. Deodate notes most truly in his exposition on this Scripture with high soaring and cloudy notions and speculations to make their hearers admire them though they little or nothing at all understand them and oft times their words being extremely void of truth or of any vertue of Gods holy Spirit to sound edification And thus they also falsly and fallaciously promise liberty to others in suffering and inciting their novice-disciples to commit grosse sins and lustful perpetrations under the vizard of Christian liberty whereas themseles as here the Apostle sayes are most servile slaves and servants of accursed Corruption The Scripture Looking-Glass VIII There are saith the Apostle Jude also certain men crept in unawares who were of old ordained to condemnation ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into lasciviousnesse Filthie Dreamers who despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities Who have gone in the way of Kain and ran greedily after the errour of Balaam for reward and perished in the gain-saying of Corc. Spots they are in your Feasts of Love when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear Clouds they are without water carried about with winds Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead pluck'd up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandering Stars to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration for advantage Mockers who walk after their own ungodly Lusts These are they who separate themselves sensuall and not having the Spirit Jude ver 4 8 12 13 16 18 19. The Schismaticall Reflection or Face answering Face VIII See here again impartial unprejudiced Reader how most remarkably the Apostle Jude describes the Independents Anabaptists and all other Schismaticks Sectaries of our times to be Corner-creepers sly stealers into mens houses hearts branding them also with the black mark of ungodly men turning the grace of our God into wantonness and lasciviousness as if Gods word and free grace allowed them in any gross sin under a false wicked pretence of being in Christ as fals-hearted Feak maintains and preachers and therfore the Apostle gives them their doom assuring us that such as these were ordained by Gods eternal decree unto everlasting condemnation And so the Apostle goes on and calls them filthy dreamers or brain-sick men by their new Lights enthusiastick Revelations despising and speaking evil of Government godly Order and obedience to any Authority save onely that which is of their own setting up And truly this is very observable that the Spirit of God sets down this as a principal mark of Seducers Hypocrites in that these Apostles do so often mention their despising Dignities or Dominions Kings Lords Magistrates and Ministers whom they cannot abide because they would keep them within the bounds of godly order and obedience And then the Apostle proceeds to aggravate this sin in them comparing it to the wages of Cain who was the first that wickedly departed from the true Church and of basely covetous Balaam carried into errors by the bait of gain worldly pleasures and imitating Core and his rebellious Companions in rising up against the true Pastors and Governors of the Church of Christ and therefore incurring the like unavoidable perdition that those men justly suffered Yea the Apostle calls them spotted and crafty seducing smel-feasts who abused that