Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	holy_a	jesus_n	6,908	5	5.5429	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45695	A Scriptural chronicle of Satans incendiaries viz., hard-hearted persecutors and malicious informers with their work, wages, and ends, who were instruments of cruelty against true worshippers / collected by Charles Harriss.	Harriss, Charles.	1670 (1670)	Wing H919; ESTC R336	13,462	20

of these Persecutors Some of them were slain with the Sword others taken Captives and their Eyes put out and they bound with Chains and their Houses burnt with Fire This was the Portion of hard-hearted Persecutors Again Nebuchadnezer the King was a setter up of false worship and he granted forth Order to compel all Nations to be of his Religion and to bow at his Musick and Worship or else they must be cast into a Burning Fiery FURNACE so it s said All the Princes the Governours and Captains and Judges and Treasurers and Councellors and Sherriffs and all the Rulers conformed to the Kings worship But there were three true Worshippers that would not conform it s very like they were called as some are now stubborn Fellows and Rebels against the Kings Laws and Breakers of the Peace and will not be subject to the higher Powers and it s like some Hypocrites would be ready to say You may conform the thing being imposed upon you you shall be clear and the sin shall be charged upon the Imposers or you may kneel down to please the times and to save your selves in a way of Christian prudence and yet have your hearts true to your own Religion c. But these true Worshippers were of a more valiant Spirit and told the King to his face they were not carful to answer him in this matter though in other things as Tribute Custom c. they could but they gave him to understand he should not be King of their souls and consciences in matters of Worship and they knew their God was able to deliver out of his hand however they would not turn to be of his religion and worship let him rage and heat his Furnace as hot as he pleased So ye may see that false worship and persecution still goes together for he caused his Souldiers to cast them into the burning fiery Furnace but what was the Wages of this Persecutor who set up that false worship It is said he was driven from men and did eat Grass as an Oz till his Hair was grown like Eagls Feathers and his Nails like Birds Claws to the end he might know the Most High ruleth in the Kingdoms of men unto whom every soul is to be subject for he is the higher Power and souls Bishop who hath said My Son give me thy Heart and again I will teach my People my self and they shall not depart from me But it might have been well for Nebuchadnezer then and others now to receive Daniels counsel who said O King break off thy Sins by Righteousness and thy Iniquity by shewing Mercy to the Poor if it may be a lengthening to thy Tranquility Again we read of Herod the King how ready he was to be a Persecutor for no sooner the Star appeared and tidings came that our Saviour was born but he was troubled and fearing that Truth should come up to reign he sent forth and slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof from two years old and under so that People may see how busie the Devil hath been in all Ages to make use of wicked Instruments to crush the very appearance of that which is good but as for Herods Wages the Lord soon cut him off and there is little question but he had his Portion among Persecutors and Murderers Again Herod the Tetrach being reproved by John Baptist for all the evil he had done and for taking another mans Wife he turned Persecutor and put the Prophet in prison and after caused his head to be cut off being requested by his own unclean Companions and its like he could say to John as some such do at this day when they are reproved by the Lords Messengers Thou sawcy Fellow meddle with thy own business thou Deceiver and Heretick we will take a course with you shortly what you would have us live without sin and be perfect And so People may see how the Servants of the Lord in all ages have Suffered by proud corrupt men such as were Enemies of Righteousness Again Did not the chief Priests and Elders and Captains prove the greatest Persecutors our Saviour Christ met with it was the Priests then that hunted after him to have him murdered And how many times did they bely him and smite him on the face and stoned him and his Followers and called him Deceiver and Belzebub and said he had a Devil and was it not the Priests then that fawned upon the Heathen Magistrates desiring them to help them to crucifie Jesus and sought out for false Witnesses to prove as if he had spoken Treason a Caesar and was it not the Priests that gave Judas money to be gainst their Informer And it was the Hirelings that gave the Souldiers money and taught them to lye saying Christ was not risen but was stolen away Also people may see that those Rulers viz. Pilate and Herod that joyned with the Priests to put Christ to death they were also false Worshippers so still its evident that Blind Zeal and False Worship and Pride and Whoredom and Covetousness and Prophaneness all joyns together in this work of Persecution but what was the Wages that many received Christ told them their House was lest desolate and the Day of their visitation was over and called them a Generation of Vipers saying How can you escape the Damnation of Hell for ye are of your Father the Devil though you call Abraham your Father for you are found doing the Devils work like your elder Brother Cain and many woes he pronounced against them which was fulfilled upon them and upon their Families and their Generations as is manifest to this very day Stephen also was persecuted by the Priests and false Worshippers and he bore a true Testimony against them saying Ye Stiff-necked and Vncircumcised in Heart and Ears ye do alwayes resist the holy Spirit as your Fathers did which of the Prophets have not your Fathers stoned or persecuted and they have slain them that shewed before-hand of the coming of the Just One of whom ye have now been the Betrayers and Murderers and those wicked men also stoned holy Stephen to death and cast him out of the City terming him a Deceiver or Blasphemer So people may see such Priests and Professors that resist the holy Spirit and follow an unholy Spirit they were and are persecutors of the Righteous Also it was the Priests and the Captain of their Temple and Sadduces that persecuted the Apostles Peter and John for preaching in the Temple and also put them in Prison and threatened them commanding them to speak no more in the Name Jesus Mark the Priests hated him then by the Name Jesus as bad as they now hate him by the Name Light in this day of his spiritual Appearance Again Herod the King made it his business to vex certain of the Church he killed James the brother of John with the Sword and when he saw it pleased the Priests and