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	prayer_n	7,724	5	6.1286	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67845	A snake in the grass, caught and crusht, or, A third and last epistle to a now furious deacon in the Church of England, the Reverend Mr. George Keith with some remarks on my former epistles to him, especially that against plunging in baptism / by Trepidantium Malleus.	Trepidantium Malleus.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing Y87; ESTC R25218	11,121	25

A SNAKE in the GRASS Caught and Crusht OR A Third and Last Epistle to a now furious DEACON in the Church of England The REVEREND Mr. George Keith WITH Some Remarks on my former Epistles to him especially That against Plunging in Baptism 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythagoras By Trepidantium Malleus LONDON Printed for John Marshal at the Sign of the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1700. A Third and Last Epistle to Mr. George Keith Reverend Sir WHEN Men Dethrone their Judgments and Reason and put their Humours and Passions in their Place no wonder if they run as a Coach and Horses that have lost their Guide or Charioteer here and there every where and no where Such cannot only castrate Authors but make Legions for Histories and like Pioneers of Rome call for Fire from Heaven but fetch it from Hell This you will grant some Bapts have lately done vulgarly Anabaptists They have employ'd a Socinian to Argue and a worse to Rave this Fire all the Water in which such are plung'd cannot quench But no wonder when D. Russel was not ashamed to put Blessed Calvin in such a Hue and Dress as if an incatnate Devil and put not only Castellio that rank Arminian that call'd Solomon's Canticles a prophane Book but Servetus himself that call'd the Trinity a Cerberus in such glorious Array as if a terrestrial Angel for this was he burnt not for being an Anabaptist Felix quem faciunt I am charg'd with a Notion never known before That Baptizo signifies not once to Plunge in all the New Testament tho so many Criticks say the contrary 1. These Criticks say with me and others the Word signifies other ways of washing too So Leigh who is instar omnium and cites for me Mat. 3.11 What say you to this Bapts now if you leave them in one thing why not I in another 2. Bernardus non videt omnia They were fallible Men. Rhegius the famous Man of France whose Life Clark in his blundering way hath written found out the right Construction of Ovid. Nam vos mutastis illas Tho so many Generations before mistook it M. Mead discover'd the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be the Doctrine not of Divels as we read but Mediators call'd by Hesiod and others Demons That the Genitive was not of the Efficient but Matter All now yield to this true Discovery tho' New I might name New Discoveries as in Philology Divinity so in Philosophy particularly the Ingenious Esquire Boyl 3. Yet this Discovery was not mine I gave another the Honour of it who since I find had it from other Authors before his time I confess I was the first Man that gave 'em the Name of Bapts which no doubt will continue The Blood of Beasts offer'd in Sacrifice and the Water of Purification was by Pouring or Sprinkling not by Plunging or Dipping John therefore that came in with his Baptism cannot be supposed to have any Baptism but what harmonized with the Jewish ones we find also not only in the Law but the Prophets glorious things mention'd of Gospel Times from this Practice Isa 2.15 So shall he Sprinkle many Nations Ezek. 36.25 Then will I Sprinke clean Water upon you and you shall be clean Look we farther when the Gospel was Planted and all fulfill'd how all is exprest Tim. 3.5 6. They were said to be saved by the washing of Regeneration how shed as Acts 2.17 Pouring of the Spirit proves all I am of his Mind who said Baptizing in Enon was so far from proving Plunging That it disproves it They therefore left Bathabara says he because the Waters were Deep and not so fit for Baptism and came to Enou for the Rivulets there were fit for Baptism but not Plunging Reverend Sir I am much importun'd to Write you a Third Epistle about your Sermons at Turners Hall and G. Church lately Printed but I long refus'd 1. Because I have often appear'd for you but I am Answer'd that matters not This is not ad Idem 2. Because I think I have done it already I find but little you have said about the Liturgy Ceremonies and Episcopacy but what I have Answer'd in my Apology in my Letters to Mr. Lasly and Friendly Epistle to you I pray look on all once again You approved then of what I did How came you so soon chang'd It would be an Abuse clapt on my Readers to deceive them of their Time and Money to transcribe what they know I then wrote 3. Because I think some things in the Sermons are too triflng and unfit for an Answer as your Gloss on these Words He that breaketh one of the least of these Commandments shall be called the least in the Kingdom of God So the Rushing of many Waters and other Places brought for your Confusions in your Liturgy To Cite for Episcopacy Psalm 45.16 Isaiah 60.17 Is such playing with God I dare not do it with Mr. Keith somewhat like the Exposition you gave of that Text. The dead cannot praise thee Those that be dead in Sin in your Loyal Sermon Printed five Years since I was Sir your Herrer in G Church in the Afternoon when I came there I saw the Reader with his Spectacles on his Nose and both with Eyes close to the Book thus reading Prayers to his God No Eyes nor Hands lift up to Heaven in any praying Posture but both as nail'd to the Book for fear of not reading right as if the Poor Man had not lost only the Power of Godliness but the uery Form of it too Many Ignorant Prophane Men in Prayer that never send their Hearts to Heaven send their Eyes and Hands ●twards it Mr. Keath let you and I talk privately for it would not be safe to ask you openly whether you can believe That the great God the Blessed Jesus the Holy Spirit ●ever sent qualify'd Men for their Work for unqualify'd ones run before they are sent to read other Mens Prayers to God Were it not for some Penal Laws yet in force against Dissenters I should go near to say That for such a one to read other Mens Prayers to God is not only as Scandalous but ten times more so than to read other Mens Sermons to the People When the Apostle tells the Church the Gifts God gave Men Tongues Interpretation of Tongues Prophesying Interpretations c. Never mention'd he the poor poor pittiful poor Gift of Reading When the Jewish Church was in its Swadling-Clouts and fed with Milk taught by many Ceremonies God made every one of them himself not they yet then there were no Forms no Liturgies for the Priests to read or People to hear when they came together As weak as they were they were not so weak Who dares now impose under the Gospel-Dispensation when the Church is become a Man and much more as of the Grace so of the Gifts of the Spirit is now poured out You pleading up Conformity unhappily chose this Text the best to caution us against it