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	lord_n	soul_n	13,241	5	4.8848	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78367	A general epistle to all Friends who are convinced of the truth. With a word of exhortation to Friends, to be diligent in keeping their mens & womens meetings, for the service of truth; with a testimony to the same. : Also, an invitation to all that come to our meetings to hear the truth declared, no to rest in hearing, but to come into obedience thereunto, that so their souls may be saved. / By Samuel Cater.	Cater, Samuel, d. 1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1484; ESTC R171110	9,626	15

A General Epistle TO ALL FRIENDS Who are Convinced of the TRUTH With a Word of Exhortation to Friends To be diligent in keeping their Mens Womens Meetings for the Service of Truth With a Testimony to the same Also an Invitation to all that come to our Meetings to hear the Truth declared not to rest in hearing but to come into Obedience thereunto that so their Souls may be saved By Samuel Cater LONDON Printed by Andrew Sowle and are sold at his Shop in Devonshire New-buildings near Bishops-Gate 1680. A General Epistle TO ALL FRIENDS WHO ARE Convinced of the Truth MY Dear and Well-beloved Friends every where who are the Called and Chosen of the Lord to confess his Truth amongst men and to bear his Name in Righteousness in the midst of this Crooked and Perverse Generation amongst whom the Lord hath planted us who know not the Lord neither are they acquainted with the Operation of his Hand neither can they perceive what the Lord is now a doing who hath begun a great Work in the Earth which none can know whilst they hate the Light and live in Darkness and rebel against God's good Spirit from such the Vision is shut and unto them the Book is sealed and the Sun is set and Night and Darkness is upon them But unto you that fear the Name of the Lord on you the Son of Righteousness is arisen according to the Promise blessed be the Name of the Lord our God by which you come to see the Way of the Lord which the Wayfaring man Travels to the Kingdom of God by which Light and holy Spirit of Truth the Lord is revealing his secrets to them that fear him and making known the great Mystery of Life and Salvation to all them that are turned unto him and in their Hearts and Souls more desire the encrease of the Knowledge of the Lord than any thing this World can or doth afford And to obtain this their Desire they are made freely willing to forsake Father and Mother Wife and Children House and Land and all that is near and dear to them in this World that they may obtain Peace with God through Jesus Christ while in this World and in the World to come Life Everlasting Oh! blessed of the Lord are you and shall you be forever who continue in this Mind who see a shortness and an Emptiness in all things without the Enjoyment of his Fulness who feeds the Hungry Soul with Bread from Heaven and gives of the Water of Life to them that thirst for it through which the Lord refreshes the weary Soul and strengthens the weak in their Journey who are Travelling Heaven-wards Oh! my dear Friends and Fellow-Travellers in this holy Way of the Lord which God through the Riches of his abundant Grace and Goodness hath made known unto our Hearts and Souls unto you it is upon me in the Name of the Lord to write to you all in the tender Love of my God and your God whose powerful and pure Springs of divine Virtue at this time overcomes my Heart and refreshes my Soul by which my Heart is tendred before the Lord and my Soul refreshed in my Bonds in him and in his pure Life which even at this time moves upon my Heart to write unto you in the tender Life and Love of our God in which I have cause to believe it will be received by all that are in the same in which I dearly salute you all from the least stirrings of this pure Life to the greatest Growth therein for in this Life and Love of God is our Unity forever which was before Death was and shall be the Fortion of a Remnant when Death and Darkness shall be no more And now unto you my Dear and Elder Brethren who have kept your Habitations in this pure Life and grow up in it as Trees of Righteousness whose Fruits are holy and Leaves healing and whose Life is in the pure Love of God in which you have been made serviceable unto the Nations and a Blessing in the Hand of the Lord unto the People for by you many have been turned unto the Lord and into the Right Way that were travelling in a Wrong Way and the Weak and Feeble by you have been strengthened in the Way of God who hath made you as Pillars in his House and Overseers over his Flock who do it Freely of a Willing Mind for which you are worthy of double Honour for your Work 's sake which is not the Honour of Men by any Flattery or outward Applause but the Honour which cometh from God alone in the pure Order of Life in Honour preferring you before who are so in the Truth who have been as Ensamples to the rest and your Admonitions and Counsels have been Grave Sound and Weighty unto the Younger in the Truth and are of a good Savour and blessed Service to all that keep their Habitations in the Truth and retain the Savour of Life and bow to the Law of God which is pure and Spiritual But as for them that have cast off their first Love and have lost Charity which is the Bond of Peace it is not to be heeded what they say who are gone from the Simplicity of the Gospel of Christ Jesus into Craft and Subtilty they are gone from the Root and although they may make a flourish for a time yet a Withering will come upon them and they shall be made to know that Gods Love is unto you that have and do keep your Habitation in the Truth and also must acknowledge it if ever they return unto him from whom they have fallen And now all dear Friends Brethren and Sisters every where who are turned to the true Light of Jesus Christ and believe therein in it wait upon the Lord continually that by it you may always see your way in which you ought to walk and feel God's Power to preserve you inoffensively before the Lord and that you may be Harmless towards all men for in this pure Light Wisdom's Posts come to be known whereby all are to wait for Counsel and Instruction that attend daily upon God and come to receive the Wisdom that is above the Wisdom of the World which is needful for every one to know which Wisdom causeth the Face to shine and the Hearts of them that receive it to rejoyce in the Lord who is the Fountain from whence it comes for by it the Lord directs and guides in his own Way that is Well-pleasing unto him and in which our Hearts and Souls receive and enjoy true Peace with God which none can take away from us blessed be his holy Name Also in this the Lord prepares and enables all that receive it and depend thereupon and are guided thereby to bear a faithful Testimony for the Lord in Times of Tryals Exercises and Sufferings for although the Lord suffers his Children to be tryed through manifold Tryals and Exercises which attend us for his Name and