Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	great_a	lord_n	soul_n	7,263	5	4.7717	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61363	A salutation to the little flock, who do chuse Christ to be their rock	Samm, John, d. 1664.	1633 (1633)	Wing S533A; ESTC R19562	8,153	11

A Salutation to the litle flock Who doe choose Christ to be their Rock Lift up your heads in the light of Christ for the day of your redemption draws near With a message from the Lord alone For the healing of the sicke and wounded one And an exhortation unto all to give up unto the death that they may be crown'd with life DEar and tender Babes Lambs and Children whome my heavenly Father hath begotten unto himself by the immortal seed of the word of life which lives and abides for ever Unto you doe I send greeting in the overflowings of my heavenly Fathers love which he hath caused to stream forth in me towards you Dear hearts you are so near and dear unto me that I have been and am overcome with love as I have felt many of you in the bosome of the Father which is open to receive you as you sink down out of your selves for that is the Babes state unto which the Kingdome belongs which is not in word but in power whereby ye are preserved Oh! dear Lambs in the perfect love of my God feel me for in that am I drawn forth to salute and kisse you one by one even with the pure sincere undefiled lips of the love of God Oh! let me have a place in your hearts in that which never changeth that we may not love in word or in shew but indeed and in truth that we may be Epistles written in one anothers hearts that all may know that wee are true disciples in deed because wee love one another for love is the fulfilling of the Law and they that dwell in love dwell in God and God dwelleth in them the Lord hath filled my cup with his loving kindness Oh! drink a full draught with me for I am as if I were sick with love Oh! the weight of the glorious love of my God with me feel that it may presse through your vessels that your tongues may be touched and your lips may be opened that living songs and Hallelujahs may arise unto the living God for praises becomes his house it s a comely thing to sing praises unto the Lord in the Spirit and with understanding also Oh! let the high praises of the Lord be in your mouths and then the two edged sword will be in your hands for they are inseperable for the Lord our God is fearfull in his praises by them are the righteous ladded and the wicked astonished and tormented for when the righteous seed sings for joy of heart the wicked shall weep and howl for vexation of Spirit and so the Spirit of truth which is to lead you into all truth and so into the joy of the Master the which shall be the condemnation and torment of the wicked and the day of their destruction drawes near for the Lord will pleade with all flesh by his sword and by fire and a consumption is determined by the Lord upon all flesh and he will terribly shake the Earth that all may be overturned and removed that may be shaken that he may be the All in the rising of his glorious day which is at hand Oh! be not daunted or dismayed although the Sea may swell the Lion like nature roar and the Devil may rage yet they shall never prevail against the least Babes as they abide in the faith but the least shall be as David and the litle one as a strong Nation although the troubles and trials of the righteous seed be many so that sorrow may endure for a night yet joy will come in the morning that those which suffer with Christ shall reign with him over all the powers of Hell and darkness both within and without Litle Children wait to see and feel him to arise in your own perticulers who is to set our foot upon the Egiptian Sea of darkness from whence the boisterous waves of all strife and contention arise about outward things and outward formes of worship wherein the true power of God hath been wanting that there may be no more appearance of Sea as to disturbe your peace but his foot you may feel to keep it under until the tongue of that Egiptian Sea be dried up that there may be no Mountains of drie Land in your way but that one foot may stand on the Earth also that the Mountain of his holyness may be established on the top of the Mountains that the Sea of glas mingled with fire a River as cleer as Christ all flowing from the Throne of God ye may see and feel where the Antient of dayes sits who will judge the whore the false Prophet and the Beast which is all that may be numbred up which is on the mans part that man may cease from his labour and sore travel that peace may be upon Earth and all the glory may be to God on high that the good will may be to men that no root of bitterness may ever more arise that sendeth forth bitter springs which occasioneth the meek to fall as they drink thereof therefore dear Children drink ye alwayes of the pure fresh pleasant springs that arise from the pure Fountain of all vertue go not forth but in the light dwell and then shall you be salted seasoned and swadled with the love of God that the banner of his love may be over you and then the noise of war will be no more heard amongst the Camp of God on mans part for the battel is the Lords and he will fight it therefore fear not but stand still and see the salvation of God for the Lord will bring to passe his work his great work his Act his strange Act for the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ yea he shall rule amongst the Children of men for the Kingdom is his the power glory honour victory triumph and pure refreshings are his Oh! feel his comforts delighting your Souls that your joy may be full that your glorying and whole delight may be in the Lord alone that we may not be our own in any thing because the Lord hath purchased us with his own blood Oh! therefore let us give up wholy unto him that he may glorify himself in our bodies in our spirits and souls which are the Lords that he may make a quick work on the Earthly and cut it short in his righteousness that Sion may be his glory Ierusalem the praise of the whole Earth Oh! dearly beloved of the Lord how great is the work of the Lord which he hath begun to work in you for Oh! you dear ones who have received a measure of his spirit as an earnest of your inheritance whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Dear Lambs in the spirit wait and dwell that it be nor grieved or quenched that over all it may arise cover you in this day of battel that the knowledge of the Lord may be Armour of proof on the right hand and on the left

that salvation may be unto you for walls and bulworks for assuredly as ye abide in the spirit which is the name that is given for salvation the gates of hell shall never prevail against you but ye shall be like mount Sion which shall never be removed and ye shall see the mighty God of Jacob will carry on his own work until he hath accomplished it unto his praise which work will be glorious as he brings us into the unity of the Faith into the fulness of the measure stature of Christ unto that perfect man then shall all that is in part be done away and then shall the rest be glorious in the Lord of Sabbaths Ah! travel on travel on in the growth in the life which is eternal that ye may grow from strength to strength until ye appear before him in Sion that Sion's songs may be sounded forth in the living land all that can be said is little to what the Lord God hath prepared and laid up in store for all them that dwell in his fear Blessed are all those that fear the living God all waies they shall read and witnesse it Excellent and as you sink down into the love of God you will feel these lines deep and weighty for truly friends as they did arise in my heart the extent did open so largely in the overcomings of Gods love that my heart was melted and my bowels sof●ned and melted that my eyes were filled with tears that the glory of the Lord should be so largely revealed unto so unworthy a creature as I who was so deeply plunged in sin and iniquity as I was in time past that his love should arise so abundantly as to cover such a multitude of sins as I had committed against him that the Lord God should manifest himself so graciously in Christ reconcileing and not imputing Oh dearly beloved in this wonderful love of our God feel me that in this his great love we may all dwell that we may be all like minded one towards another that there may be no striking at our fellow servāts c. But if any one be overtakē in a fault you that are spiritual restore such an one with the spirit of meekness for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God therefore strive not to overcome evil with evil but strive to overcome evil with good be gentle courteous and merciful as your heavenly Father is and walk in love for it is a most excellent way for love seeketh not her own but the good of all love suffereth all things and endureth all things and it will seek to cover but not uncover the nakedness it is the affectionate part which tosseth the creature either above all or below all as it bares rule therefore dear Lambs in the unchangeable love of God in Christ Iesus all dwell that ye may be rooted grounded and established in the present truth that you may follow the Lamb whethersoever he goeth that the true fellowship may never be broken Amen saith my Soul Oh! you weaklings sick and wounded ones who are ready to cry out in the purity of your spirits that there is none like unto you ye see your selves so beset with temptations that with little David you are ready to cry out that surely you shall one day fall by the Enemi●s hands Oh! read with me the mystery of the Parable in the tenth of Luke the 30th the 16th and the 19th There was a certain man that went from the pure holy seed in his own perticular and then being from the new living way in the perticular which is Christ the seed where the theif cannot enter where he met with the reasoning disp●●ing doubting and questioning part by the which he was robbed and stripped of his faith strength hope and confidence that he was deeply wounded and more then half dead and being in great distresse the enemy in such a case will seek to lead forth to look our for help where none is to befound or else to despair as if no help were to be had perswading poor bruised and wounded Lazarus to go to the rich gluttons gate who glutteth himself by feeding of the tree of knowledge and a profession of what the dear Saints and servants of God enjoy for that was his cloathing and riches wherein there was not one crum of life to refresh poor Lazarus withall but the doggs that fed upon the crums that fell from the rich mans table licked the sores but never reached or refreshed the life then seeing there was no help without Christ the life then did Lazarus die to all perishing food and when there was none found to help or relieve then did the good Samaritan Christ the life appear which is full of heavenly Oyle Balme and sweet odours even the fountain of all vertue and fulness in whom there is healing for every disease therefore hear you diseased of the land you poor helpless ones the cry of my soule hath been greatly unto the Lord on your behalf Oh! fear and hear for this is the answer that I recieved from the Lord on your behalf as I lay upon my bed Look up unto me all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved saith the Lord God of Hostes and as the Serpent was lifted up in the wilderness even so is the Son of man lifted up in this his day that all that are diseased or wounded may be healed by looking upon him therefore dear Friends look not at your weakness or wounds for the looking at them will cause you to be more weak wounded but look up unto the Lord for in him is everlasting strength for I know one that hath passed through the fire and hath endured the flames that he hath cryed out as it were in the belly of Hell who desired water to quench the flames and having it in a glass he dropt it down to lay the heat thereof but his strength failed him and his flesh failed him and his heart hath failed him but the Lord his God never failed him who in that needful time sent his faithful messenger saying unto me in the word of the Lord thou shalt not die 〈◊〉 the Lord will spare thee for the seeds sake so he sent forth his word and healed and recovered me out of the horrible pit and hath set me upon the Rock and hath put a new song into my mouth which causeth me to sound forth the high praise of the living God as with the sound of a trumpet in the firmament of his power who is ascended on high to lead Captivity captive that his liveing peace may be over the earthly and his good will in me is strong towards the afflicted and bruised that they which have been hurt may be recovered Oh! dear friends feel me that the same minde may be in you which is in Christ Jesus for my soul is in travel that no form may abide in you but what is in Christ the light that