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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	grace_n	life_n	live_v	7,716	5	5.9850	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30524	A generall epistle, and greeting of the Fathers love, to all the saints called and chosen to faithfulness in Christ Iesus ... : and this is to all such as are found worthy to suffer, and is an exhortation to the strengthning of their faith ... : and this is a true testimony of the Father and of the Son ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6004; ESTC R14763	15,401	16

Generall Epistle AND Greeting of the Fathers Love TO ALL THE SAINTS Called and chosen to faithfulness in Christ Iesus the light of the World in which they believing and their faith standing in his power many suffers for his names sake And this is to all such as are found worthy to suffer and is an Exhortation to the strengthning of their faith whereby they may continue boldly witnessing to the end And this is a true testimony of the Father and of the Son Witnessed by us who are called of God in whom his power is made manifest London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. To the Reader FOrasmuch as many who are partakers of the Fathers Love manifested in his Son in measure in whom these Epistles hath found greeting With the same Love in the upright hearted to which it is a sure Testimony of love from Life it self to the quickning strengthning confirm●ng and arming of all such as have in the Love Life and Power heard and received and believed the Truth as it hath been declared and is in Jesus in whom our Faith is standing which Faith worketh by the Love shed abroad in our hearts wherein we are reaching after each other in the sameness of Love which is the bond of our unity wherein we are called together to be joyned in the purity power and life of one Faith and Love therein to bear Testimony as we have in our measures recieved to and of the everlasting Truth wherein finding these Epistles of such manifold service to the whole Body both for instruction exhortation strengthening and forewarning whereby there is or may be a safe arming against all decee●t and decivable spirits hence it is from the earnest love and desire stirred up in many here among us that are faithful whereby this they put in print that thereby the service may reach unto all who are worthy thereof in these Nations for to them is it sent who are called of God therefore in the fear of the Lord let every one of vs to whom this comes walk worthy of the Fathers love grace mercy and peace whereinto we are called in one body of which Christ is Head Sent from London the 2. of the 3. month 1657. A.D. AN EPISTLE To all the SAINTS whom God hath called TO all the Children of Light every where who feareth and loveth the Lord who are begotten of God and unto whom he is known in the spirit and in the truth this is a testimony of the Fathers love unto you Grace Mercy and Peace from him that lives for ever the God of Light and Life be multiplyed in you all that you may daylie be renewed in strength and girded with truth and armed with the whole Armour of God and may be kept by his Power until the day of Salvation to walk in the Government and subjection to Jesus Christ witnessing the power and presence of God in you and amongst you giving you power to fulfil his will in all things and that in all righteousness and out of all evil you may be led and preserved unto the end and in the end to shew forth the praises of God in this generation as a people called of him and redeemed by him for his glories sake even so Amen and Amen Dearly beloved be not ignorant but this know This is the Message which came unto you which is true and faithful and everlasting That the true God is light and in him is no darkness at all and this is the Message of Peace and Reconciliation and of glad tydings unto all that have sought the Lord which we received of him and you have heard and there is not another to be declared and all that have received it are gathered up to God and are in Covenant with him and one with another and are in that which reconcileth and joyneth unto Christ Jesus the Husband and second Adam who is the Lord from Heaven the Prince of Peace the Saviour and the deliverer who is made manifest in Power and condemneth the Transgressor and slayeth the Enmity and raiseth the life out of death and this is he who kills and makes alive even the God who is light who brings down one and sets up another who makes war against the mighty and gives Peace to the poor and besides him there is none he searcheth mans heart and tryeth the reins and knows the thoughts and every creature is manifest in his sight who gives to every one according to his doings and this is he who standeth in the Congregation of the righteous even in the midst of us sitteth Judge among the gods unto him must all the gods of the earth bow and the Inhabitants of the earth must tremble before him and unto him every Tongue shall confess and the light in every man shall answer when he ariseth to judgement who is a swift witness to condemn or justifie all the children of men upon the face of the earth This is the God of truth whom we worship and who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth who is the God of Abraham and his seed for ever and with him there is no change nor shadow of turning and he hath made known his Name and his Power and his wonderful works in this his day and hath caused his voice to be heard in the earth and the dead hath heard and now liveth And his Name is exalted on high amongst all that fear him and obey his voice and he hath given his Son a Covenant of Light who lighteth every man that cometh into the world with the true Light of Life or Condemnation that all who receive him may come to the knowledge of the Father whom to know is life eternal And this is the Christ the Saviour in which we have believed and which we preach who is the Way the Truth and the Life the Foundation of God which cannot be moved the Word of God is his Name and there is no other Name given for salvation This is he that was dead and is alive and lives for evermore and there is no other to be looked for if any preach any other let him be accursed and if any bring any other Message let them not be received And all you who have believed in this Christ Jesus who is the Light of the world and who have received the knowledge of this God who is light himself and that searcheth your hearts I exhort you and warn you all in his presence that lives for ever to wait upon him and to fear before him and to walk with him for ever in uprightness of heart which is of great price in his sight and forget not his righteous Judgements which he hath made known least you wax fat through mercies and rebel against him and become disobedient and gainsaying and so be destroyed from being a people but be stayed upon the Lord and let your hearts be established with grace and be not tossed nor shaken with

that spirit neither follow it which Ministers to others that which it hath not learned of the Father but hath the words without the Power and lives not in the Power of what it Ministers forth in words nor is not what it declares but is in the outward shews in the hypocrisie and feignedness and reacheth not the life of God but vails and covers it and that spirit is not of the Father but is to be denyed and judged and not received nor believed Again believe not that spirit neither follow it which is at liberty in the flesh and makes the offence of the cross to cease which is exalted out of the fear of the Lord in the liberty of the earthly which crucifies the life and darkens the eye and that spirit will boast of joy and peace and experience and knowledge and speak high words in the airy mind and that would lead you out of your conditions to glory above the cross till you be past feeling of the life and that spirit begets into feignedness and hypocrisie and into the love of the world which passes away and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is hasty and forward and rash for that goeth out of Gods counsel and betrayes the Just and strives to be greatest and to be above the weak and despises him and would be Master and not a servant and would rule and not be ruled in the meek lowly government of Christ and that spirit will judge out of thoughts rashly and unfavourily and condemn another in secret in what it self is guilty of beware of that spirit for it is not of God but to be judged with the life of God Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which seeks it self to have praise of men and to be accounted and would beget into divisions and would have parties to it self and respects persons and glories in gifts and knowledge and parts more then in the Giver and admires men more then he that gives the encrease and feeds of the knowledge in that nature which is to be famished and glories in what hath been done by it as though it had not received power from the Lord and is exalted as though it bare the root not knowing that it is born of the root and that spirit spends its Treasure which it received in the Fathers house amongst Harlots and despises the poor and seeks occasion to glory over the weak that it may be renowned beware of that spirit I charge you all for it is not of the Father nor to be followed but to be condemned and resisted unto death Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which preaches not from the measure of God received and to be manifest to it in you and approved by it only but speaks above the measure and reaches not to the measure of the grace of God that spirit leads after words and outward shews and cryes peace to the rich and judgement to the poor the word of God is not divided aright but heals up falsly and daubs with untempered morter and cryes peace where Gods speaks war and cryes war where God speaks peace and that spirit is a deceiver and a betrayer and feeds but the ear and not the life and darkens the counsel of God by words without knowledge and is not of the Father but of the world to be denyed and condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is not subject to rule and order and is not meek and diligent and long suffering but heady and high and untoward seeking occasions against the Just and watches for evil that spirit will not bear reproof but is idle sloathful and careless and surmising evil and backbiting and conforms in appearance making a fair shew but is not unto God as appearing unto man and that would go and is not called and will not go when it is called and seeks for the praise of men more then God and that is fruitless ground and brings forth bryars and thorns in secret which choaks the seed of God beware of that spirit it is a lover of this world have no fellowship with it for it is not of the Father but a deceiver and is to be denyed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is tossed and unsetled and is given to change and is not established with grace that is an Adulterer and hunts for the precious life and seeks by flattery to beguile the innocent that spirit is zealous for a moment but is soon overcome and is stony ground and brings not forth fruit to perfection but withers and its later end is worse then the beginning That spirit is exalted into presumption and in peace and cast into desparation and trouble and the double mind lodgeth in it and it is unstable in all its wayes is a ground for the seed of Satan and to it there is no peace from God and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is more zealous then knowing whose zeal is without true knowledge and stands in that which is corrupted that flourisheth for a moment but cannot endure for ever it hath no root in it self but is furious and passionate and not long-suffering that spirit knows not it self but would devour its adversary with bitterness and not gain'd by long suffering that is not the Spirit of the Father but must be denyed in all Again Believe not that spirit which draws back into the world into its lusts and liberty and fashions which passeth away that spirit forgets God and draws back for his soul hath no pleasure in it but is vexed with it where the cross is made of non-effect and the false Liberty is walked in which murders the life that spirit is of the Devil and is to be condemned And now all friends of God every where who knows him and are known of him whom he hath gathered out of this untoward generation be diligent in your Callings and keep your meetings in faithfulness waiting upon the Lord that you all may receive of his fulness to be filled with it and may be nourished up unto himself as Trees of righteousness the planting of his own right hand to spread forth his name and glory as a people saved by him and to whom there is none like besides And this know and understand that spirit is not of the Father which confesseth not the Son to be come in the flesh who destroys the works of the Devil and takes away sin and that spirit it believe and follow which condemns sin and destroys it and takes it away and so gives peace with God in your own consciences and leads you into all truth and keeps you from all evil you that witness this the Son you know and the Father you know to dwell with