Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	sin_n	soul_n	work_n	7,280	5	5.6981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34997	A plain path-vvay opened to the simple-hearted for the answering all doubts & objections which do arise in them against the light and truth in the inward parts, by which many are kept from obedience and so from peace to their panting souls / by Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1688 (1688)	Wing C6938; ESTC R29744	13,460	16

A plain Path-VVay opened To the Simple-Hearted For the Answering all Doubts Objections Which do arise in them against the Light and Truth in the Inward Parts by which many are kept from Obedience and so from Peace to their Panting Souls By Stephen Crisp Friends and People I Have had a deep exercise upon my spirit concerning many who are come to feel something stirring and moving in their Hearts that is good to bring them into a serious consideration of their course of life and the inward state of their Immortal Souls and when you have sometimes begun to turn your minds to this good thing that stirred in you then have many Doubts and Objections arisen in you lest you should be Mis-led Deceived or Deluded and lest this thing that inwardly strives with you should lead you into the Erronious Way of the Quakers as the world's Teachers call it for they speak and write of and bear a constant Testimony to something that is in man that calls upon him to Repent and to turn to the Lord and under this very Notion that ye have heard Evil and thought evil of that People by the same Rule you are apt to think evil of that which works in your own bosom to lead you out of Sin and Iniquity and so ye are tempted to slight it and to get some slighty name for it to call it by which Antichrist's Ministers have many to afford you as to call it A Natural Light A Common Gift of the Spirit but not a Saving Gift Conviction of a Natural Conscience A Legal Work yea and many calls it The Devils work to disturb the Soul of its Peace and some A Diabolical Light c. And thus when thou art brought to slight that good Principle that strives with thee under some such Name thou gettest ease again for a little while and takest liberty to act against it and to do and say that which this Principle doth in secret condemn and then it riseth again and breaks thy peace and brings trouble and Anguish upon thy Soul and then up comes many Doubts on the one hand and Doubts on the other hand and thy poor Soul is beset and encompassed with doubts and fears and jealousies sometimes thou fearest thou withstandest the Truth to thy own Destruction and sometimes fearest again its a Delusion and thou shalt be deceived and besides thou findst many Learned men and worldly-wise men that tell thee that there is nothing good in thee and here thou art in a great strait and labourest under many sorrowful thoughts and many doubtful disputations arise in thy mind the Flesh now strongly warreth against that which comes to disturb it and the Spirit strongly warreth against that which resists rebels against it and these two are contrary and these contrary things are both in thee and thou poor Creature must feel the strugling of them both and by reason of thy darkness and doubts and fears thou scarce knows or at least with certainty which is right Now in this state and condition how acceptable would a Messenger be one of a thousand to shew unto such a one that which might deliver his Soul from going down into the pit and save his life from the Destroyer Job 33.23 And truly very many are in this straitned state in these dayes for whose sakes I am drawn into a deep exercise many times by day and by night and my cry to God is that his glorious power may more and more arise to open these doors that are shut and folded upon many such and to bring forth the imprisoned spirits out of the Prison-house and out of the Bondage of this Spiritual Aegypt where our Lord was and is crucified Spiritually and that he may expel the clouds of darkness in which the fears and doubts and qeustionings arise and that he may make a clear way in all such for his Light to break forth out of obscurity in which the answer to those Doubts and Questions do arise And by that same Spirit that labours with you am I moved to send this forth unto you all as a word of Exhortation and Counsel in the Name and fear of the Lord God by which as many as do rightly receive it and make a true use and proof of it shall find help and benefit and shall know the mouth of the Questioner stopped and the Answer of Peace witnessed to their Immortal Souls in the Lords due time And therefore consider this That every good and perfect Gift cometh from above from the Father of Lights Spirits who would not the Death of a Sinner but rather that he should turn and live and therefore hath he out of his infinite Love and tender Mercies to the Sons of Men prepared a way to draw nigh unto them even while they are in their Sins which he doth not but thorow Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New-Covenant whom he hath freely given to be a Light unto the dark World and that he should Enlighten every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 of which Number thou art one whoever thou art and art enlightned by Christ though thou be yet Darkness in thy self as the Ephesians once were yet the Light shineth in thy Darkness or else there would not be two contrary Natures and Seeds found working in thee as there is and this Light wherewith thou art enlightned is the Life of Jesus John 1.4 which he hath given a Ransom for man and that was not Natural as some foolishly imagine for if it were Natural it could not be a Ransom for man out of Sin for the Sin to be Natural and that which reproves it Natural is contrary to the Apostle who said they two that warred in the Creature were contrary and called the one Flesh or Natural and the other Spirit or Spiritual and Christ Jesus called that which should Reprove the World of Sin The Spirit of Truth and Antichrist and his Ministers call it A Natural Insufficient Light c. But know this thou that art enquiring That that in thee which doth make manifest things to thee that are reproveable that 's the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned thee withal as the Apostle of Christ said in his Epistle to the Ephesians chap. 5. v. 13 14. and that Principle which leads thee to do or say such things as thou art secretly reproved for in thine own Conscience that is the Darkness and the Enemy of thy Souls Peace which who walks in doth not know whether he goeth for this doth minister a Peace and Pleasure to thee and a delight to thy carnal Mind for a season yet the other to wit the Light the Reprover hath power to take away peace from thee again and to judge thee and to make that which was sweet to thee to become hitter and the Darkness nor Lust nor Vanity of thy mind cannot deliver thee from this stroke Now that thou mightst be resolved in such a state what to do consider thou