Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	law_n	righteousness_n	sin_n	6,923	5	5.3573	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86650	The inheritance of Jacob discovered. After his return out of Ægypt: and the leading of the Lord to the land of promise, declared, and some information of the way thither. Or a word of exhortation to all professors in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all the world where this shall come, wherein the common salvation is declared, in which the saints believed; and deceit discovered and made manifest. Published in love to all the honest hearted in the nations, in love and bowels of compassion to your soules. Also a few words of exhortation to the rulers of England, and Ireland. / By a servant of Jesus Christ who delighteth in his masters worke. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3168; Thomason E869_3; ESTC R208464	31,316	40

added because of transgression to cut down and the unjust destroyed in you and the rebellious nature yoaked which hath had its liberty in the earthly where the Beasts of the field dwells and so it will come to decay and the Law works wrath upon the deceit in you which hath had preheminence and so you will see the thunder as the Seale is opened and the earthquakes and lightning insomuch as you cannot behold and live But the transgressor and the transgression which is contrary to the Law is cut down and when there is a time of great sorrow and great trouble and tryall and temptation wait in patience in the judgement and let the Lords work have its perfect operation in you and so as you turn unto him that hath smitten and wounded you he will bind up and heale and give up all to the great slaughter of the Lord unto the Crosse all that which is discovered by the pure Law of God and as the earth comes to be plowed up the seed which is sown comes up and the Rocks broken the water gusheth out and so you will see some promises will arise in you to the seed which is coming up out of the grave and so the love of God will appear in you and you will be stayed and see hope in the midst of calamity Then take heed that the Serpent get not that which is to the Babe and so the carnall come to be exalted but as you wait you will see the subtilty of the Enemy and sin and death rules till Moses who was a faithfull servant in his house and brings to the Law of God revealed in you then sin comes to be crucucified and to loose its dominion over you and in you and so you will see one brought forth under the Law who fullfilled the Law and now fullfills it in all those who walk after him in the spirit and fullfills not the desires of the flesh and wait and you will see some Prophecies opened in you and the day-star in your hearts which leads to where Christ is and openings of the inheritance which is to be received and the promise is to the seed And all wait in the light and keep in your minds to it and you will see Johns Ministry the water which washeth and he is the preparer of the way and turns to God lest he smite the earth with a curse and his Ministry breaks down the mountaines and removes them and makes a plaine way and your minds being turned to the Lord and as you own the gift of Christ given you repentance you will see unto life and then you will see something arising and shine in you opening your hearts and there will be a breathing after the Lord and his righteousnesse and standing in obedience in the Crosse the vayle you will see rent and you will see him that hath turned you from sin by his free gift made manifest in you and he which is the gift saves you from sin and so the seales will be opened by the Angel of the Covenant and the Lamb So all in patience wait and keep in the living principle of life and things will open in you even the dark sayings of old and that which spake Parables to the Serpents seed will open the Parables to his own seed then you will see him whom you have pierced even the Lamb who hath been slain since the foundation of the world and your hearts will be boken and water will gush out of the Rock and so love will encrease in you who abide faithfull in your measure and the good and perfect gift of God will be made manifest in you and the hope upon which the soule comes to be anchored will come to be witnessed which hope purifies the heart and as you stand in the perfect Law of liberty revealed in you revealed by the Spirit which cuts down the oppressor and gives liberty to his seed unto which the Covenant is and the promises for ever and this seed Christ took and takes upon him to redeem even the seed of Abraham unto whom the promise was made and so wait that the pure Law of righteousnesse which is life to the righteous and so the seed may be set up and you will see all chained under and this binds and fetters the unclean spirits and shuts up them into utter darknesse for ever And as you come to be redeemed from under the bondage of sin and come above the bonds of death the pure principle lives in you there will be a delight in you to doe the will of the father who hath redeemed you from sin and its Law unto righteousnesse and its Law And all who hunger and thirst after righteousnesse wait in that which thirsteth that the gift you may receive which perfects for ever them that receive it and believe in it and cleanseth and purgeth you from unrighteousnesse and this being revealed in you as you obey it it leads to true peace and will reveal in you the immortall seed which came not by the will of man but is contrary and revealed out of mans will which all must witnesse to be born of that inherits the Kingdome of God and this is he who is begotten of the incorruptible seed which the promise is unto and are in him fullfilled Yea and Amen come out of time before all time the Son of God which leads out of time and this is he whom the father revealed in Paul and this is he of whom I am a witnesse in whom I have redemption by the blood of the Crosse and he is my Sanctification Justification and Wisedome who is the Son of God who came to doe his fathers will and now doth where he is witnessed who by his eternall word of life hath begotten me and made me a partaker of his eternall inheritance which never fades away Glory unto him for evermore who is life and translateth all that believeth and follow him in the work of Regeneration unto his Kingdome So silence all you Diviners and Sorcerers for ever who believe with a faith and teach a faith that none can be ever cleansed from sin while they are here you and your faith is denyed for it is not the same which was once delivered to the Saints which gave them victory over the world and by which they overcame Paul a Minister of Christ by the will of God said the Colossions were translated into the kingdome of God where nothing that is imperfect can come or enter your preaching is vaine your hope and faith is vaine and all your hearing is vaine while the perfect gift of God is not witnessed nor the everlasting offring which perfects for ever them that are sanctified by him even by his word of life and his will which sanctifies and makes perfect the commers thereunto and presents all that believe and receive him without spot And therefore all you that love the Lord and wait for the coming of the kingdome of

for and to contend and strive about one with another and all in your wills while the will of God in you is not hearkned unto but cast behind your backs and so the way of true peace you never come to attaine unto Oh when will you be weary of feeding upon the wind and of husks among swine and upon that which dies of it selfe and when will you enquire after the living God who is power how long have you talked of his power to come many years and you are still as far off if not further than you were before and hath told of the glory of the Lord to be revealed and of his Law being written in the heart and of God teaching his people himselfe and of his Spirit being poured out upon his sons and daughters and you cannot see that you have obtained nothing and you have prayed and what have you obtained nothing for you have asked amisse and one comes hungry and is still complaining and then you that are full feeds them with the old dregs and lees which you are setled upon and the old leaven of aiery notions and conceptions and wine of the sowre grape which sets on edge the childrens teeth and fills them to full that when the living bread is broken they cannot eate nor relish it nor tast and so cannot enter your selves nor suffer others to enter and when these things are witnessed in the life which you have talked on so long you cannot own them that doth declare it and when the power of God is declared unto you what it is and where it is to be waited for you cannot own it this is too low for you and except the Lord will come in your way that you prescribe unto him you will not look upon him but as the Jewes did whose eyes were without and your fallen wisdome cannot receive him nor compasse his eternall wisdome And yet you will say the Jewes did require a signe and were in the adultery and the Greeks sought after wisdome and they stumbled and yet you cannot see your selves in the same state Did ever God reveal himselfe to the fallen wisdome which is learned from that principle which is erred and gone out from God or to the will of man which is at enmity against God Nay nay He never did nor will reveal his counsell but to that which is of himselfe which is the least of all seeds in the world and it is he that is borne of God that heareth Gods word and what is borne of the Spirit is Spirit and is nourished by the Spirit and led by it and so the spirituall God reveals his Law and his Statutes to him and his testimony which is sure How long have you talked of the Spirit and worshipping in Spirit and yet indeed denies its leading and teaching and lives in the oldnesse of the letter and crying up and setting up things that are carnal and visible and Elementary and washing is not known from sin nor cleansing and so you may see what operation your Spirit you have talked on hath when you are still what you were Now the Spirit of God is operative and works a change in the ground and translateth all that follow and hearken unto it into its own nature when all those things you so much strive about were but a shadow for the vvord vvas in the beginning and gave life and is spiritual and vvhen it s knovvn and vvitnessed vvithin in the heart it separates from death and gives life to all that hear it and believe in it What Christ is this you preach and what Gospel is this you preach vvhich saves you not from guilt and condemnation for the vvord of the true Christ vvhere it is ovvned cleanseth and takes avvay sin and condemns it and blots it out and destroys the root from vvhence it flovvs forth and vvorks a nevv creation in righteousnesse and the Lamb of God takes avvay sin in which the Churches of Christ believed and is glad tidings to all that doe receive it now none can witnes gladness of soul where there is guilt which you all affirm is in every Christian while in this world and so you might see that it s not the true Christ nor the everlasting Gospell you preach but this you cannot bear Yet you say he hath taken away your sin How much is sin taken away if you say all how comes the guilt and trouble that is in you for if it be taken away and his justice satisfied this were to make God unjust to charge it upon you againe But I tell you when his witnesse in your conscience convinceth you and manifests unto you that you commit it and reproves for it I say you cannot witnesse his justice satisfied for the light is just which is one with God and when this condemns you there is no God that will justifie you But you use to say It s all done in Christ I ask where if it be not taken away and unlesse you have the witnesse of it in you your faith is vain for he that believes hath the witness in himselfe which none hath who walks contrary unto the light the pure vvitnes of Christ for this convinceth you of sin and bears witness against you Now shew your witnesse within you and your assurance I say unto you while the testimony of Jesus bears testimonie against you it bears not witnesse unto you and so see your confusion But after you have believed in Christ as you say and have received all his Ordinances if any thing after did judge you and bring trouble upon you this you used to call a temptation and so put light for darknesse and darknes for light I say there is no guilt where sin is taken away and crucified but peace and rest in the holy God who is unchangeable and so is his witnesse unchangeable which judgeth and condemnes the changeable But you use to say His love is unchangeable and whom he loves once he loves to the end Yea but it is him who is begotten by the immortall word which was in the beginning and which word leads to the beginning again before the Hatred was the Promise is to this seed not seeds as to many but the seed of the Covenant there he loves from the womb yea the womb that bears the seed of Jacob and the paps that gives them suck and where this is known as to enjoyment Esau is cast out and Ishmael and the seed of Abraham inherits the Promise and Edom and Moab is laid wast and Amaleck is slain by the edge of the sword and the seed of evil doers cut off blessed are they that can witnesse this in truth and till this be known the everlasting love of God is not known which is stronger then death and sin is death and where it is acted conceived love is not witnessed nor its strength but wrath comes upon the Children of disobedience and are you not Children of disobedience while you break