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	know_v	soul_n	7,408	5	4.7811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49268	An epistle to all young convinced friends whom the Lord hath reached by His mighty power, and separated from the world, and turned their hearts, so as to forsake father, and mother, wife, and children, for his name sake. By way of exhortation and encouragement, by one whom the Lord hath greatly encouraged, and fulfilled the saying of the prophet Malachi, by by turning the hearts of his parents and dear relations to him.	Love, John, d. 1721.	1696 (1696)	Wing L3190; ESTC R216630	5,220	11

stopped there also and did not proceed in that but in a very little time the Priest of the Parish for not coming to hear him did Excommunicate me which was no small Terror to my Father so that he began to be outragious at me but the Lord did bear me up under it and did give me a very large Encouragement so that I beheld him to be at work in the Heart of my Dear Mother and she was made to take a part and a share of Exercise with me yet thus my Father finding that way to fail made proof of another with me and did in some measure prevail on me which was this he desired me to stay at Home upon a First-day and not go to the Meeting in expectation of my Sister coming to see them who was then a Servant which I did but she came not and I was greatly burthened in my Spirit for giving way in that case and was till I came to another Meeting like a Man shut up in a Dungeon and found very hard work to get to the next Meeting as if my work had been almost to begin again My Father seeing he could not prevail with me again notwithstanding a great deal of Labour he took to perswade me and had got strength too by my yielding to him before he then seemed to be more outragious than usual so that I did expect I should have been severely beaten by him when I came home from the Meeting but when I was gotten clear of him I went like a Man Travelling for his Life and I had no sooner set me down in a Retiredness to the Lord in the Meeting but the Lord although in silence as to words outwardly did set open the Stream of Life in my Soul so that I was taken up above the fears or frowns of any Mortal and felt in my return home that Life and Love to spring in my Heart that I could have laid my self under the Soles of my Fathers Feet but when I came home contrary to my expectation I found my Father very loving to me and the Lord had gotten a belief in me that he would bow my Father and bring him in obedience to the Truth which I did upon occasion tell to my Mother and I did then begin to find my Father to be something condescending and sometimes would be ready to bargain with me that if I would go with him once he would go with me but the Lord preserved me out of that Snare and in a little time I did get my Father and Mother to the Meeting but my Father was ashamed to be seen or met by any coming from the Meeting but my Mother hath continued ever since and my Father would confess to me it was the Truth and the Lord did begin to work on him and to bow him in some measure in obedience to Truth then was his Love to me more than before and he was then glad of Opportunities of Meetings and the Lord was with him and his power did bear him up and this was a joyful time to me to behold the Lord's Visitation to both my Parents and in a little time the Lord brought in my Eldest Sister in Obedience to Truth and then I had Three Companions but the Out-cry of People was I had deceived my Parents but the Lord's Power did work wonderfully and brought my Father still further and further and fitted him more and more so that now he is as an Instrument in the Lord's Hand to bear a publick Testimony in Meetings then a little after the Lord brought my two Brothers into Obedience to his Truth and then my Eldest Brother was under a great Travel and Exercise beyond I think any of us and as for my Youngest Sister within about a Years time after the Lord laid his Hand heavy upon her and made her to come forth as a Monument of his Mercy through the midst of Judgments so that now we could all sit down together at the Lord's Table and drink of the one Cup and we have several times felt the Lord to break the Bread of Life in our Souls and living Praises with one accord as with one Heart to go forth to the Lord from the Arisings of Life in our Hearts by the Lord's Power in which we have been made to sit together in the Enjoyment thereof So dear Friend I being in the Love of God drawn forth to thee after this manner not to set forth the Praise of my Relations nor lay open their weakness nor to glory in any of my own but in the Lord who hath wrought wonderfully so that of a poor little weak one even as a Worm before the Lord I can behold his Hand to be full of Blessings and his Increasing Government to be endless so that thou may'st be Encouraged whoever thou art that be in the like Exercises this I leave to thee as an Encouragement to be true of Heart and faithful to the Lord and to stand in the true patience of the Saints that thou may'st know an overcoming of the Enemy in thy own Heart and so in the Lord's time may be made a Conqueror of those who may oppose thee by having thy Conversation as becometh the Truth then the Lord as thou do'st herein abide and keep'st thy Mind close to the Lord in a true stability thou wilt find him to bear thee up and to make hard things easie to thee and to level the Mountains before thee and make the Rough-ways smooth and so by a retired waiting in a holy Resignation of thy Will in a subjection to the Lord thou wilt feel his Power to keep and preserve thee fresh and green and the Enjoyment of his presence will be to thee as Dew on the tender Grass therefore in all the whole Conduct of thy Life let the dread of the Great Everlasting God be on thee which is only able to keep thee in the Hour of Temptation which will come upon the whole World to try them that dwell therein Oh therefore see that thy Building be on the unmoveable Rock which will endure the fiercest Winds and Storms thou may'st meet with and when any Tryals or Exercises do arise then art thou to come to stilness and quietness in thy Mind thou wilt know an Overcoming of that part in thee which may be subject to Heat or Passion or to Doubts or Distrustings and so in the Morning of the Day that God hath caused to dawn on thee in which thou hast in thy Measure beheld the Bright and Morning Star if thou do'st continue faithful thou wilt come to behold the Sun of Righteousness to arise with healing under his Wings and as thou dost continue faithful the Lord will bring thee to the Meridian of the Day in which thou shalt feel the brightness of his Rays to warm thy Heart and make thee strong so that at the close of the Day thou may'st come to be gathered out of a troublesome World into Everlasting Peace and Joy So having eased my Spirit and cleared my Conscience I shall commit thee with my own Soul to the Grace of God which was sufficient for the Apostle Paul And blessed be the Lord we have in our Measures known the sufficiency of it and shall conclude with my Breathing to the Lord for the preservation of all who have tasted of the good Word of God and of the Powers of the World to come John Love the Younger FINIS