Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	know_v	lord_n	9,421	5	3.7725	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34916	A hue and cry after bloodshed, or, A short relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody tragedy acted upon the innocent people of God called Quakers at their meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31 and the 6th month, 1662, by some of the trained bands of the city of London	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1662 (1662)	Wing C6813; ESTC R27283	4,420	1

by that means and in that way by spilling of innocent blood Oh what shall I say if these be some of the fruits of your Religion that you would have us conform to I must and do call it a bloodie Religion we are not ignorant what true Religion pure and undefiled before God is viz. to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions c. which Religion we own love and are in and for which we suffer this day and I do aver in Gods fear to this Religion there is no Law either secular or military for it wholly consists of love and charity which never was is or shall be forced or compelled nor ever did it mix it self with any coercive power since the world began but hath remained a pure chaste virgin from eternitie and will remain to eternitie but what shall I say this is a mysterie to you learned ones and if at any time it be told you ye call it canting or Chymical Divinitie but that matters little what you call it I aver it to be so and the Spirit of the eternal God which hath instructed and guided me therein hath sealed it unto me And further know you that presume to set your posts by the posts of the Lords house your Religion and not only yours but the Religion of the whole world from head to tail not being instituted by the Spirit of the eternal God and founded upon love which is free from force I tell you it is all a lye and a juggle and indeed the great cheat of the world for the eternal Being is neither to be limited to time place as when and where or by quantitie measured so much and no more so little and no less I say and do aver God eternal knoweth no such service as to be limited or comprehended Oh vain man what art thou doing wilt thou that comes forth of time and ends in time go about to comprehend eternitie in thy vain imaginations thou pot-sheard thou heap of dust thou Attome of dust not seen but in the Suns ray for littleness hast thou not read that the Nations of the earth are as grashoppers about his Throne how darest thou then go about to limit and set bounds to his holy Spirit in any appearance whatsoever in his People Now consider these things in the pure fear of God for they are wonderful weighty and if you can stop those bloody incursions and inroads that are daily made upon Gods innocent people in their Meetings it may be well for you but if you persist and persevere in these Tragical works know this and be it known unto you from the Lord God that as you thirst after blood blood shall be given you to drink with which you shall be choaked and you shall be spewed out of every mind as nautious unsavoury indigested meat is cast out of the stomack when it is burdened with it This is Gods Eternal Truth to you which will stand on your heads for ever And as for us who are the only objects of your cruelty many and great have been the provokations wherewith we have been provoked not only from you but from the Powers gone also though our provokations from you are much more vehement and cruel and I may say more barbarous and inhuman many degrees and though it hath been your intents both of you to make us break forth into rebellion that you might have but one stroke at us and no more and so cut us off from the face of the earth from being a People I know in Gods fear this is and hath been your ends but the Lord hath prevented you and doth prevent you even to this day for the Lord God hath brought us forth in his Lamb like spirit And know you this we have not the envy that is said to be in a worm which being trod upon will turn again and the Lord hath cloathed us with his patience which was before your cruelty or any cruelty in the world was and I do aver will also out-live your fury be it as hot as Hell fire and so in the strength of God which is the patient suffering Seed in us we bid all cruelty and fury of men defiance for we well know the Power that gives you power and we further know he can restrain the wrath and fury of man when he pleaseth and can turn it to his praise and in his due time he wil also accomplish what he hath determined concerning the enemies of his holy Seed not only in this Nation but throughout the whole world which this day groans for deliverance from under that horrid and cruel oppression of Conscience in matters of Religion Therefore be awakened all you Magistrates of both Orders and People of all sorts lest you dip and plunge your selves into the blood of the innocent as some did not many Generations since the stench of which remains upon the face of earth to this day and is yet not wiped away therefore what they left undone do not you finish lest you bear the burden of their wickedness upon your shoulders and so go out of your generation with a stench as they did and what hard measure we have received from you if it be the will of the Lord that ye may both high and low and every soul who hath contributed to our troubles be forgiven Rich. Crane Printed in the Year 1662.