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	lord_n	word_n	8,211	5	4.0056	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42007	A general epistle to the whole flock of God wheresoever scattered upon the face of the earth who are among men called Quakers, whether in prisons or sentenced for transportation or in any other tryals or temptations whatsoever unto you and for your sakes ... / Thomas Green.	Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1843; ESTC R28046	10,984	18

they violently rose up against us or rather against the appearance of the Lord in us and have defied us because of our littleness and because of the Lords work in us they have scorned us doing their utmost to destroy us many times that we might not have a being upon the face of the earth And notwithstanding they have the honour of the world outwardly yet they like proud Haman are troubled and are not satisfied to have a true Jew live in their countrey Surely the Lord hath beheld them and the Almighty hath taken notice and his bowels have yearned for his peoples sake who have been termed desolate and forsaken Oh! us hath he chosen and and hath often filled us with new wine and hath been strength unto us in our greatest weaknesse and a shelter to us and a rescuer for us when the Dragon hath pursued us and the false Prophets and hirelings made a prey of us then hath the Lord brought the hearts of the faithful into such a frame and they have waited till it was so even to suffer the spoiling of their goods with joy having an earnest in themselves of that durable treasure that the moth cannot corrupt nor thieves steal away Therefore ye children of the Lord who are brought to the knowledge of this and are gathered into the everlasting covenant of endless life my love is drawn out to you and I knowing my life is among you I am constrained in my spirit even to write to you even as the dearly beloved of my father and as children brought up with me we having drank together in the one pure spirit of the water which hath flowed from the living fountain according to the determinate counsel of our God which hath been in us as a well of living water springing up to the Lord our God the eternal life And friends thus far hath the Lord brought us and to this day he hath been with us even when our enemies have rose up against us who have encamped about us on every side even as at this day Therefore lift up your heads for now is the Lord opening the everlasting gates that the righteous nation may enter in who keepeth the truth and are born of the royal seed for the Kingdome which cannot be shaken they are the heirs of and they shall enjoy it saith the Lord that lives for ever though unto it they come through great tribulations yet in them they shall learn patience and experience and witness that living hope of which they shall never be ashamed Therefore thou weakling and tender mournful one who sometimes fears thou shalt not hold out to the end thy tryals are so many for thy sake I am enlarged thy mournings thy sighings thy faintings the sence thereof lieth as a weight upon me and I cannot pass by thee as if it was nothing to me to see thee in sorrow and grief saying within thy self didst thou ever see such a weak one undertake such a journey and the true birth in thee saith the Lord knows my heart I would fain run to the end that my God might be glorified who hath regarded my low estate and hath vouchsafed to keep me unto this day but my enemies are so many on every side and I think I shall one day fall my strength is so little that I can cry surely there is none like me and yet I have not wanted supplies from my God till this day Oh! thou child thou tender one who cannot forget the day of thy visitation thy God beholds thee and if he cause thee to do a mans work he will give thee a mans strength and thou shalt know that all power is from him therefore cast thy care upon him and wait that thy mind may be kept out of all visible things in the poverty of spirit joyning to the spirits cry turning thy back upon all questionings so wilt thou have access to the Lord and know thy approaching in the spirits life to the throne of his grace with boldness where thou shalt receive grace for grace and into his arms will the Lord gather thee and give thee of the milk of the word that the little one in thee may grow as the willows by the water brooks and though thy enemies be as the tall Cedar and strong as the mighty oak yet will thy God bring them under and make thee more than a conquerour through his son Jesus that thou shalt say with gladness of heart salvation is come to my house and shalt feel the spirit of the son to rule in thee whereby thou shalt cry Abba Father And whoever thou art who hath begun in the spirit thou knowest thou canst not be made perfect in the flesh therefore wait to be led by the spirit of the Lord so thou mayest come to the knowledge of the sonship and heirship in the everlasting covenant the light So look not at thy weakness for in that will the Lord ordain strength and out of the mouth of the babes will he perfect his praise and for thy sake that 's faithful to him he will cause the mountains to be removed and the hills to melt away and will make a straight path for thy seet and will lead thee in the way everlasting where thy peace shall be extended as a river and his loving kindness to thee as the waves of the sea that instead of mourning thou shalt rejoyce and instead of sighing thou shalt sing and instead of fainting thou shalt be strong and in the strength of thy God thou shalt praise him and in the feeling of his heavenly virtue thou shalt magnifie him and say My lot is fallen in a good ground on which the showers from heaven fall yea even as the former and the latter rain in its season And now thou shalt see thy God hath not forgotten thee neither is the Almighty changed but he keepeth covenant for ever with his people and man cannot disanul it for saith the Lord the holy one of Israel if they could break my Covenant with the day that there should not be night and day in their season then might they break my Covenant with my people Israel and the seed of Jacob my chosen Therefore thou least of the Flock be not cast down but look thou steadfastly to the Lord whose mercies endure for ever and his loving kindness to his own seed from generation to generation So whatever thy tryals temptations or exercises are let thy mind be joyned to the light by which thou maist behold the Antient of dayes as thou dwellest in the pure fear of him so wilt thou be kept out of the tossings whirlings and imaginations in the truth in which is stability in which thou wilt feel the springs of life running to refresh thy soul flowing from the Lord who is fulness it self who doth all things freely yet will he be waited upon by his people Israel and in their waiting upon him he doth and will renew their strength mounting up in