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	lord_n	truth_n	7,728	5	5.3270	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44286	A word of counsel, or, A warning to all young convinced Friends, and others whom it may concern, that are called forth to bear a testimony for the Lord in the case of tythe which may also serve for answer to a late pamphlet, entituled, The lawfulness of tythes, by W.J., as it concerns the Quakers conscience in the case, the allegations thereof for the divine right of tythe being sufficiently confuted in divers treatises not taken notice of in the said pamphlet / Nicholas Homwood.	Homwood, Nicholas, d. 1676.	1675 (1675)	Wing H2579; ESTC R7886	3,800	8

those who suffer for very Conscience and Christ's sake they that Suffer for Christ's sake shall assuredly Reign with him Therefore dear Friends I leave it upon you all who are any wayes concerned in this Matter That there be no Under-hand nor Double-dealing in any measure for that wounds the Life of those whose Testimony stands firm and strengtheneth the Hands of the Enemy and this I have felt in some measure since I have been a Prisoner which constrains me thus to write Therefore be Careful for time to come and ease me of my Burden and bear a Faithful and publick Testimony against that Spirit of Antichrist which rules in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience I say Fall not under any thing which Dishonoureth the Lord God and have a Care of Grieving his People but be Valiant for the Truth upon Earth and Great will be your Reward But happily some may say Mine is to an Impropriator and therefore I cannot see so clearly to the End of it as to the Priest My Friend This was my State and Condition for some time I paid to the Priest and Impropriator and the Priest I could and did Deny some time before I could see clearly to the End of the other by reason of the Vail that then covered my Heart and darkened my Understanding so that I could not see clearly to the End of those things which Christ had put an End unto but as I waited low in the Light of Christ the Son of God the Vail was taken off and then I saw clearly and perfectly The One was to be Denyed as well as the Other and if I paid the Impropriator I might as well pay the Priest for the Ground is One in both it is as really Tythe to the Impropriator as to the Priest and it was Tythe I could not Uphold and great Cause I had for it because in so doing I Denyed the Lord of Life and Christ saith He that Denyeth me before Men him will I Deny before my Father which is in Heaven Therefore I advise all Friends That they stand Clear in this Thing for Such as you sow such must you reap And this is my Testimony for the Lord God They that Uphold any One are guilty of Both. IT is my Faith I do believe That Tythe must wholely down Because the Lord of Life is come who 'l raze them to the Ground Therefore let all stand clear in it For long they cannot stand The Cry of the Oppressed has been such The Time is near at hand The Lord Regard hath to his Seed Whose Breathings are so strong That cry alone to him for Help To ease them of their Wrong So none be Faithless in this Thing For long they can't indure The Time doth spend and waste apace Of which thou may'st be sure That down they must even to the Dust Because their Time is ended The Lord hath put an End to them Let none therefore be offended But as for us who have suffered thus In this we can Rejoyce That of all Families in the Earth Of us the Lord made Choice To stand as Witnesses for him Who is our Lord and King We cannot flee the Cross therein But Praises to him sing Who is our Strength and Stay and all Our Helper he is still And we are freely given up To be Subject to his Will From the Kings-Bench Prison in the 9th Moneth 1675. By One who is a Lover of the Truth and made willing to Suffer for the same and to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Nicholas Homwood