Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	knowledge_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	151	3	9.9883	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30559	Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6052; ESTC R6045	15,871	24

lives not in the Power of what it ministers forth in words nor is not what it declares but is in the outward shews in the hypocrisie and feignedness and reacheth not the Life of God but vails and covers it and that spirit is not of the Father but is to be denied and judged and not received nor believed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is at liberty in the flesh and makes the Offence of the Cross to cease which is exalted out of the Fear of the Lord in the liberty of the earthly which crucifies the Life and darkens the eye and that spirit will boast of Joy and Peace and experience and knowledge and speak high words in the airy mind and that would lead you out of your conditions to glory above the Cross till you be past feeling of the Life and that spirit begets into feignedness and hypocrisie and into the love of the world which passes away and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is hasty and forward and rash for that goeth out of God's Counsel and betrayes the Just and strives to be greatest and to be above the weak and despiseth him and would be Master and not a servant and would rule and not be ruled in the meek and lowly Government of Christ and that spirit will judge out of thoughts rashly and unsavourily and condemn another in secret in what it self is guilty of beware of that spirit for it is not of God but to be judged with the Life of God Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which seeks it self to have praise of men and to be accounted and would beget into divisions and would have parties to it self and respects persons and glories in gifts and knowledge and parts more than in the Giver and admires men more than He that gives the encrease and feeds of the knowledge in that nature which is to be famished and glorieth in what hath been done by it as though it had not received power from the Lord and is exalted as though it bare the root not knowing that it is born of the root and that spirit spends its treasure which it received in the Father's house amongst harlots and despiseth the poor and seeks occasion to glory over the weak that it may be renowned beware of that spirit I charge you all for it is not of the Father nor to be followed but to be condemned and resisted unto death Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which preacheth not from the measure of God received and to be manifest to it in you and approved by it only but speaks above the measure and reaches not to the measure of the Grace of God that spirit leads after words and outward shews and cryes Peace to the Rich and Judgment to the Poor and the Word of God is not divided aright but heals up falsly and daubs with untempered mortar and cryes Peace where God speaks War and cryes War where God speaks Peace and that spirit is a deceiver and a betrayer and feeds but the ear and not the Life and darkens the Counsel of God by words without knowledge and is not of the Father but of the world and to be denyed and condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is not subject to rule and order and is not meek and diligent and long-suffering but heady high and untoward seeking occasions against the Just and watcheth for evil that spirit will not bear reproof but is idle sloathful and careless surmising evil and backbiting and conforms in appearance making a fair shew but it is not unto God as appearing unto man and that would go and is not called and will not go when it is called and seeks for the praise of men more than God and that is fruitless ground and brings forth bryars and thorns in secret which choaks the Seed of God beware of that spirit it is a lover of this world have no fellowship with it for it is not of the Father but a deceiver and is to be denyed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is tossed and unsetled and is given to change and is not established with Grace that is an Adulterer and hunts for the precious life and seeks by flattery to beguile the Innocent that spirit is zealous for a moment but is soon overcome and is stony ground and brings not forth fruit to perfection but withers and its latter end is worse than the beginning That spirit is exalted into presumption and in peace and cast into desperation and trouble and the double-mind lodgeth in it and it is unstable in all its wayes and is a ground for the seed of Satan and to it there is no peace from God and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is more zealous than knowing whose zeal is without true knowledge and stands in that which is corrupted that flourisheth for a moment but cannot endure for ever it hath no root in it self but is furious and passionate and not long-suffering that spirit knows not it self but would devour its adversary with bitterness and not gain'd by long-suffering that is not the Spirit of the Father but must be denied in all Again Believe not that spirit which draws back into the world into its lusts liberty and fashions which passe away that spirit forgets God and draws back for his soul hath no pleasure in it but is vexed with it where the Cross is made of none effect and the false liberty is walked in which murders the Life that spirit is of the Devil and is to be condemned And now all Friends of God every-where who know him and are known of him whom he hath gathered out of this untoward Generation be diligent in your Callings and keep your Meetings in faithfulness waiting upon the Lord that you all may receive of his Fulness to be filled with it and may be nourished up unto himself as Trees of Righteousness the planting of his own right-hand to spread forth his Name and Glory as a People saved by him and unto whom there is none like besides And this know and understand that spirit is not of the Father which confesseth not the Son to be come in the flesh who destroyes the works of the Devil and takes away sin and that Spirit believe and follow which condemns sin and destroyes it and takes it away and so gives Peace with God in your own Consciences and leads you into all Truth and keeps you from all Evil and you that witness this the Son you know and the Father you know to dwell with you and in you and this is the first and the last believe in him and follow him and look not for any other and in this the Father of Life and Glory whose Dominion is without beginning and end stablish you and preserve you Amen and Amen I a beloved Brother and a Companion unto all the Saints in suffering and in rejoycing who have received this Testimony from the Father do with it in this Epistle salute the whole Church in the Love of the Father as moved of Him by his Eternal Spirit who beareth witness to me that we are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness and that all that are of God heareth us And this Testimony I give of the Father and of the Son and of the Truth and of the Salvation of which I am made a Witness and against all that ever shall deny it or turn from it And this is thus far the words of my Testimony by the Spirit of the Father not knowing when the time comes it may be finished and the night may come when no man can work Edward Burrough THE END POST-SCRIPT FOrasmuch as many who are partakers of the Father's Love manifested in his Son in measure in whom these Epistles have found greeting With the same Love in the upright-hearted to which it is a sure Testimony of Love from Life it self to the quickning strengthning confirming and arming of all such as have in the Love Life and Power heard received and believed the Truth as it hath been declared and is in Iesus in whom our Faith is standing which Faith worketh by the Love shed abroad in our hearts wherein we are reaching after each other in the sameness of Love which is the bond of our Unity wherein we are called together to be joyned in the purity power and life of one Faith and Love therein to bear Testimony as we have in our measures received to and of the Everlasting Truth wherein finding these Epistles of such manifold service to the whole Body both for instruction exhortation strengthning and forewarning whereby there is or may be a safe arming against all deceit and deceivable spirits Hence it is from the earnest love and desire stirred up in many here among us that are faithful whereby this they put in print that thereby the service may reach unto all who are worthy thereof in these Nations for to them is it sent who are called of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord let every one of us to whom this comes walk worthy of the Fathers Love Grace Mercy and Peace whereinto we are called in one Body of which Christ is Head A. D.