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spirit_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,129	5	5.5274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40941	The publique worship, or, The worship of God baptisme and sacrament (so called) according to Gods appointment, or as hereafter appeareth : and concerning coming to the church according to Scripture ... / written in year 1664, by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1664 (1664)	Wing F493; ESTC R35559	13,135	20

that are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8.8 But persecutors are in the flesh therefore persecutors cannot pelase God neither have they that are in the flesh any right given from God to persecute them that are in the spirit in whom the righteousnesse of the Law is fulfilled even in them who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit as it is written Rom. 8.1 2 3 4. 1. The true spiritual Christians who are regenerate and born after the spirit they are the true believers in Christ and worshippers of God the Father in spirit who are sought and taught of the Lord according to his word Therefore there is no reason why they should be hated and persecuted neither hath the spirit of the world any right or authority given unto it from God to hate and persecute them that are regenerate and born of God For they that are regenerate and born of God are the houshold and family of God and have access unto him by the spirit through his son as it is written Ephes 2.18.19 2. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus because they have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and do live in the spirit and walk in the spirit and bring forth the fruits of the spirit against which there is no law Gal. 5.22 23 24 25. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made them free from the Law of Sin and Death and the righteousnesse of the law is fulfilled in them Rom 8.1 2. c. And if there be no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who have forsaken the flesh and are entred into the Spirit and life of truth to walk after the spirit and worship the Father therein being dead unto sin and alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 6.7 8 9 10 11. What right reason can any one give for the haring reviling persecuting or banishing of them Who shall lay any thing to the change of Gods Elect seeing it is God that justifieth them Who is he that condemneth seeing it is Christ that dyed who is risen again who is even at the right hand of God an Intercessour who also maketh intercession for us Rom. 8.32 33.34 3. They are the true spiritual Christians and Worshippers of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who being born again of water and the spirit are ingrafted or begotten into Christ the seed and power of God and are therefore declated new Creatures and Children of God Why then should such be hated persecuted excommunicated or banished What right reason can be shewed for the fame for we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not and we know that we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness and we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and life eternal 1 John 5.18 19 20. Lye not one to another seeing you have put of the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him where there is neither Greek nor Jew Barbarian Scythian bond or free but Christ is All and in All Colos 3.9 10 11. As ye therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk yee in him rooted and built up in him and established in the Faith as yee have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving Colos 2.6 7. Therefore if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 18. Behold what manner of love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not 1 John 3.1 Be yee therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour Ephes 5.1 2. And because yee are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father wherfore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heire of God through Christ Gal. 4.6 7 4. They are the true spiritual Christians believers in Christ and the true worshippers of God the Father in spirit and in truth who being regenerate are sanctified through the word and are in Christ Jesus as branches in the Vine And such ought not to be hated and persecuted by them that profess themselves Christians for the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life Tit. 3.4 5 6. John 15. 5. They that are in Christ Jesus as branches in the Vine bearing fruit they are purged that they may bring forth more fruit John 15.1 2. And they that are so in Union with Christ as branches in him and purged or made clean through the word that they may abide in him and he in them they bring forth much fruit unto God by vertue of that union for as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can true Christians and worshippers of God the Father in spirit except they abide in Christ Jesus and grow up in him John 15.3 4 5. And they that are such and do so ought not to be persecuted or banished by them that profess love to the Lord Jesus no just cause by them can be shewed for it and the Heathen who know not God they have no right to do it And by the Law of the Land no man can be banished our of his native Country but either by Authority of Parliament Cook 2. part inst fol. 47. or in case of Abjuration for Felony by the common-Law saith Cook upon Magna Chartafol 47. But it is not Felony to worship the Lord nor it is not enacted and declared by Authority of Parliament that people shall be banished for the service and worship of God therefore Christians ought not to be banished for their love and faithfulness unto Christ Jesus as aforesaid An Epistle to Friends DEar Friends and Bretheren and Sisters begotten and brought forth by the Immortal word who are of the family of the heavenly love which is the houshold of Faith and so of the eternal God and all who are in any measure acquainted with him dwell in the power by which you are brought forth as a people for his praise in these perilous times

which is a trying age in which we are born and brought forth for the Lord to be honored and glorified by us that you may keep in pure innocency and uprightness of heart to appear amongst men for the Lord to bear your testimony in love and faithfulness for God even in the life and power by which you are brought forth and borne up into the Spirit of the Lamb to bear witnesse for him unto his own and against that which is not his generation and Birth or off-spring and that you may appear for God you are to appear in the spiritual life and power of God to go out unto and meet with that which is of God and is desiring after him to be with him and to live upon him live you therefore in the life and power by which you are the Lords that you may reach forth from him unto his own begetting that by and with the same power which ministers and gives in of the heavenly treasure and vertue unto your souls for their refreshing and consolation you may reach forth of that treasure and vertue after a spiritual manner unto the begettings and gatherings of God in others For you know that spirit and life in the out-goings from God as from a Fountain sends forth streams of refreshings by reaching forth conveying and carrying along with them in a spirituall dispensation divine power life vertue and heavenly sweetnesse to the taste and feeling of the sences of the Immortal babes for their refreshment and great consolation to the rejoycing raising reviving and gladding their spirits So with the same vertue and heavenly power by which you are refreshed you may be a refreshing and by the same power and spiritual consolation by which you are and often have been inwardly raised revived strengthned and comforted in heart and soul you may be as strength to the weak and for the raising up of that which lies low and for the reviving and comforting of it that so you may go out in the springings up outgoings of life after a spiritual way manner attended with heavenly matter for the refreshing and comforting of that which the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven into your hearts goes out unto for the Refreshing and strengthing of So dear babes and Lambs dwell in the green pasture of life that you may sit down together in a heavenly communion with God in the Covenant of Grace and in all your meetings together as the worshippers of God the Father of spirits you will meet with God in a sweet heavenly communion at the Table of the Lord where his heavenly Body is discerned weh is full of light life glory power and vertue that you may see him showing unto your spirits the glorious light of his heavenly countenance for the rejoycing and gladding your hearts and souls and spirits which is and will be more unto you then all outward riches And minde your continuation and abiding with God even in the principles of God which are heavenly principles full of heavenly light of life power wisdome counsel discerning understanding and utterance for the reaching forth from him of his own light life power wisdome counsel vertue and hidden treasure in his own principles to his own begetings for the planting and watering of them in order to the giveings forth of God unto them an encrease in the increasings of God that grace and peace may be ministred unto you and from the out-goings of the Spirit and life in you to Gods begettings may be abundantly multiplyed through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Dear Frinds know that it is given unto you to know the things conserning the mistery and Kingdome of God but to others in Parables And so it is given to you and all true spiritual believers on Christ in the spirit not onely to believe but also to suffer for his sake And as believing is a gift given from God in the Spirit soalso is suffering for his name sake a gift it s given unto you to suffer Therefore mind the end and intent of God in the gift so will you not be weary of sufferings neither will any forsake the truth of God that are truly begotten into it who are born of it and do contiune and abide therein with God in the spirit If any depart from God for fear of sufferings and fall into love with the spirit way of the world to obtain the favour of the world and to avoid persecution it is either such as have not received the gift from God to fit and furnish them for a suffering condition for Christ and the Gospel or else it is such as denies both the gift and the giver Yet notwithstanding truth is truth still and will stand in the midst of all storms do you therefore continue and abide in the truth in the Life Love and Power thereof So will you continue and abide with the Lord and be sitted and furnished with gifts and graces and Gospel abillitics that you may stand and not start aside when you are tryed Oh feel the power and vertue of the Lord enter into and remain with your spirits to work down burn up and purge out the self-will and the old reasoning fleshly part that the enemy of your souls may be withstood and kept back or crusht down in all his insinuations twistings twineings and subtle devices or cunning misterious appearances and risings that your souls may be kept in the life and power of the spirit of God which treads down Satans devices and knows how to withstand him in all his out-goings And as the risings of divine life and springings up of the heavenly power is felt working in you to put down Satans risings and to cross the out-goings of the enemy within you and cause him to disappear there Then Angels will minister unto you or the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven as a ministering spirit sent from God into your harts will open refresh and fill you with the joy and peace of the Kingdome of heaven Therefore mind the unwearied life of the spirit of Christ in you which is not wearied out with temptations and tryals but knows how to succour your souls in the hour of temptation and to bring forth an inward deliverance for you that you may be freed from the power of the enemie and be at liberty and freedome in spirit to serve and worship the Lord according to his own mind in the way of our God So will you not be weary of sufferings but overcome that which would be weary of a suffering condition and know the Lord to fill you with joy and gladnesse of heart in a prison and to be with you in a suffering condition whose life is known to be an unwearied life and to stand in the end of all sufferings and fill with divine joy and gladnesse of heart all dear friends live in Love with God and one with another and keep your meetings in the name and power of God in which you are gathered that in your meetings you may meet with God in spirit for your refreshment And take heed of giving way to the seducing spirit that would either be perswading to go back again into that way of Worship which God hath called you from or to be out of love and in dislike to that way and Worship which God hath made known himself unto you in for neither of these perswasions cometh of him that hath called you out of the way and Worship of the spirit of the world and into the way and Worship of the spirit of God Therefore as you have begun in the Spirit of God go not from it to enter again into the Spirit of the world for any by end If you love God above all you will love to walk with him and to worship him as God according to his own mind in spirit and in truth which is the publick worship of God And therefore hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering waver not in your minds least you wander from God in your hearts and be terrified or afrighted at sufferings For many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivers out of them all Have you had more troubles then deliverances or have you not had as many deliverances as you have had troubles why then should any be dismayed who have been and still are acquainted with the way and means both of the coming and working of the Spirit and power of our God For blessed and happie arc they that have the Lord for their God and you have the Lord in communion of spirit and in covenant with you who are called and chosen of God Therefore you are blessed of God be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Let the Lord be your strength that you may be kept by his power to his praise and that you may alwayes be found in that of himself wherein you and your services have been and still are accepted of him is the desire of him who desires your spiritual welfare and everlasting happiness whose love is reached forth unto you in a pure remembrance in that spirit wherein we have had many refreshings from God and signal testimonics of his love and Antient acquaintance with God and one with another in the Covenant of light and life and peace Farewell R. F. The End