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	lead_v	truth_n	7,417	5	5.9440	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88247	The resurrection of John Lilburne, now a prisoner in Dover-Castle, declared and manifested in these following lines penned by himself, and now at his desire published in print in these words.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing L2175; Thomason E880_2; ESTC R501	16,915	16

THE RESURRECTION OF JOHN LILBURNE Now a Prisoner in Dover-Castle DECLARED And manifested in these following Lines penned by himself and now at his earnest desire published in print in these words London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1656. THE RESURRECTION OF John Lilburne c. HAving many and strong compulsions from the measure of the light of the Lord now shining clearly within me and raised up now to a good degree of life and power in my soul to make a publike declaration in print of my reall owning and now living in in my present attained to measure the life and power of those divine and heavenly principles professed by those spirituallized people called Quakers at my owning of which all my old and familliar friends in a manner are so much troubled and offended with me for and my great adversaries so jealous of the reall intentions of my heart within me at my so doing and by that measure of the Light of JESUS thining in my soul I am now directed and guided to intitle it as aforesaid and here at this place as an introduction before I come to the main thing of that which through the strength of God I have now to say to insert here the copies of the very two first Letters that ever I writ of note after the great and glorious power of God had seized upon my soul to let in the real beginnings of convincement into my soul of my spiritual blindness deadness and emptiness and by which I came to see a clear glimps of that spiritual fulness that was and really is in the divine and heavenly declared principles of the aforesaid precious people The first Letter being to my wife take in these following words Dover-Castle the fourth day of the tenth moneth 1655. For my deer and loving wife Elizabeth Lilburn at her friend George Wades house a Cook at the Sign of the Sun neer Guild-Hall and Lawrence Lanes end in London these with speed deliver My dear heart WHat in a great measure my temper of spirit was before thy coming to me I in its measure communicated unto thee by the copy of my letter to Luke Howard which I have here inclosed thee at thy leisure to peruse And what distemperedness my earthly spirit was in at and towards thee at thy and my last meeting upon Saturday the tenth of November last I need not to repeat unto thee being I beleeve it is fresh enough in thy own memory And the frame of my heart after thy reconciliation and mine so far as God hath given me the spirit of discerning and searching it I in no small proportion in reallity discovered to thee And since my departue upon VVednesday the 21. of November last setting my self seriously to a deep and weighty consideration of that work that my soul longed for a new to be a travelling in And giving fulness of scope to that divine and heavenly voice of God speaking plainly in my heart unto which I am truly able to se● my seal ●o that it is that spirit or power of the Holy Ghost or true Comforter spoken of Joh. 16. 7 8. that convinceth or reproveth the world or the carnal or first or fallen nature in me of sin and of righteousness and of judgement and is that eternal and everlasting spirit of truth that imbraced and closed with leads my soul by its divine and strong power or attractive drawings step by step in its measure and degree into truth and in my heavenly fathers good time I doubt not but it will establish and build me up in truth Ioh. 16.13 and mould me into a real conformity in life and power in real and substantial injoyment to the wayes of truth of light and life be they never so difficult to the fl●sh carnal man or fallen or first nature in me or never so full of the cross or self-denyall or giving up my own reason understanding will wisdom and affections to be crossed and crucified by the Will and Wisdom of JESUS the annoynted above measure of the Father and to be guided or led on by him the living life light or power in all the sons of men that have the greatest degree or least of sparks of divine or heavenly light shining within their dark in their small degree or measure or inlightned inlivened souls in their larger degree or measure I have since I see thee read extraordinary much of those two volumes which I shewed thee containing both almost seventeen hundred pages of the writings of those preciousest though most contemptible people called quakers the-truly beloved objects of my soul And this at present because I rather now heartily desire to live in the possession power or life of truth in my soul then in the bare profession notion or talk of it I shall and can in sincerity say to thee that my soul hath been amazed and even confounded by them not as Herod by Iohn Baptist preachings was for fear of eternal wrath or loss of his Tetrarch-ship by or for his sins which to avoid made him reform and amend many things Mark 6.20 but of real breakings or shame of soul that so glorious a Talent as my Lord and Master by the clear lively and powerfull breakings in of his divine and heavenly light into my heart long and many yeers ago bestowed upon me should by me or my first and carnal wisdom be most ungratefully and unfaithfully like a lighted candle put under a bushel or hid or buried in the earth in me in obscurity and darkness Or that my soul should by the will and wisdom of the first nature ambitiously Adam-like eat a new upon the tree of Knowledge of good and evill and thereby covet to be esteemed something amongst the sons of men more then the Divine Wisdom would have me with that measure or degree I had attained to and therewith be with it like the unbelieving Jews the type in the flesh or the first or mean in its degree or measure to what I ought to have thirsted after out-goings of the divine and heavenly teaching and instructing spirit or voice of God in or unto my soul willing and content to sit down in the wilderness or journeying way to Canaan and not with precious Ieshua and Caleb the spiritual anti-types in that particular or in another particular the outward types of the spiritual travelling anti-types the seed of God under the Gospel into Gods spiritual rest in himself be willing longing and desirous by faith in the strength of God resting as the old Israelites after the flesh ought to have done in his faithfull and powerfull promise of carrying me on through all difficulties self-denyals crosses and hardships whatsoever to travell into the spiritual Kingdom or heavenly Land of Rest that God in the naked injoyment of himself hath prepared for and at this very day I beleeve hath experimentally and really bestowed the clear injoyment of upon many of his