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	sin_n	word_n	8,197	5	4.1049	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64774	The Roman Catholick converted, or, A testimony against the imagined purgatory with an exhortation to them of the Church of Rome to break off from their idols and images, and to believe in the light of Christ Jesus, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world / by one, who though formerly of them, is now made able through believing in the light of Christ to give testimony against their purgatory, idols, images, and all their dark inventions, John Vaughton.	Vaughton, John, 1644-1712.	1676 (1676)	Wing V159; ESTC R32918	7,344	12

them they have not known the Word of the Lord as a Fire in them to burn up and to consume their Sins and their Iniquities and so being out of the Faith that purifies the Heart on this side the Grave have imagined a Purgatory after Death notwithstanding the Spirit of the Lord through his Faithful Servants in dayes past hath given this Testimony as it s left upon Record in the Holy Scriptures of Truth that As the Tree falls so it lies and there 's no Repentance in the Grave So that it is evident if man dyes in his Sins where Christ is thither he cannot come So the Gulf is fixed so that no unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God and the Wicked and all those who forget God or neglect to answer God in the Day of their Visitation but sin out the Day of their Visitation shall be turned into Hell and the Lyar shall have his Portion in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone Oh the Redemption of the Soul its very precious but it s not your Bowings to your Altars nor Praying to Saints or Angels that can redeem the Soul that has been in Death or add any thing thereunto if you should offer a Thousand Rams or Ten Thousand Rivers of Oyl nay if any of you should give the Fruit of your Bodies for the Sin of your Souls it will not avail But the New Creature it avails the Life of Christ it will avail and the Life of Christ is the Light of men and the Light appears and shines in all men to discover and to make manifest unto all those things that are reproved and that is the Spirit of Truth in thy own Heart and in thy own Conscience O Man and O Woman which convinces thee of Sin and reproves thee for doing the thing that is Evil Oh! turn ye at his Reproofs why will ye Dye his Spirit will not alwayes strive with Man but it strives at one time or another with every man that every man might be left without Excuse And this Cry has run often through me O Man cease from thy own Inventions and from thy own Imaginations and let the Word of Truth have a Place in thee that thou mayst be sanctified by it and cleansed from Sin by it before thou go hence and see man no more that is the Desire of my Soul for you all that have not sinned out your Day for there is no Repentance in the Grave and if no Repentance in the Grave then there is no Change nor no cleansing from Sin So away with your Imaginations of a Purgatory after Death for the Lord is risen and has manifested and is manifesting his Ancient Power which redeems the Soul out of all Evil on this side the Grave And the Church is come and coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon the Breast of her Beloved and she cryes Draw me and I will run after thee and the Day hastens in which her Glory shall be more and more seen and none shall be able to ecclipse her Glory but it shall dazle the Eyes of many Nations and many of the Sons and Daughters of men whose Region is now in the Darkness and under the Shadow of Death shall behold his Glory and shall fear before him who is our Strength our Rock and our Refuge and the Stay of our Minds and our sure Hiding place in the Time of Storms to whose Power belongs the Glory forever and for evermore and not to the Beast and False Prophet for their Portion is the Lake that burns forever and they that give their Strength to the Beast and False Prophet and receive his Mark in their Right-hand or Forehead shall be punished together with them And you Papists I must deal plainly with you and I must tell you That you are the People that are departed from the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints giving heed unto seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie whereby many of your Consciences come to be seared as with a Hot Iron And you are forbidding Marriage which was God's Ordinance in Paradise before man fell and the Priests of God under the Law were Married and the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ were many of them Married and the Apostle Paul allowed of Marriage and said Let a Bishop be the Husband of one Wife and its better to Marry then to Burn And do not many of your Priests burn with Lust Let God's Witness in your Consciences arise and answer And they tell you You must Abstain from Meats on such dayes as they in their own Wills have appointed for Fasting Dayes and the next day after give Liberty to Excess of Eating and Drinking and spending much of the Creatures out of the Fear of God and give Liberty to Sports and Playes whereby Youth comes to be Corrupted and the Name of the Lord Blasphemed and call those dayes Holy Dayes and keep them as they say in Commemoration of the Saints whose Life they crucifie for they that live in Pleasures crucifie the Justs And do not your Sins exceed the Sins of Sodom which God overthrew And notwithstanding these things you would be counted the Church of Christ but you are seen to be of the Whore the False Church and not the Lamb's Wife your Fruits have made you manifest And these things were upon me and in the Love of God sprung in my Soul to you wards and I could not be clear till I was made willing to give them forth unto you And if for my Testimony ye Envy me or seek my Life be it known unto you I am not afraid of you for my Life is in the Hand of the Lord who is able to preserve me all whose Confidence is in him alone to the giving up of their Outward Lives unto the Outward Death and our Inward Life is out of the Reach of all your Envy and Malice it s hid with God in Christ Jesus who said Love your Enemies and if you were his Disciples you would obey his Commands and then you would kill no man about Religion but your Inquisitions would fall and that Murdering spirit in you that set them up From him who is a Lover of all your Souls but a Hater of all your Deceit who by many in Scorn is called a Quaker John Vaughton London written in the 2d Moneth 1676. 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