Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	truth_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,370	5	12.3554	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40134	Christ's light the only antidote to overcome and expel the poison of Satans greatest temptations also a measuring rule concerning liberty and persecution, and who have been the persecutors and who have been the sufferers from the beginning.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1761; ESTC R30468	8,437	14

I will not obey the Kings command I will obey the Law of Moses which our fore-fathers obeyed And Daniel disobeyed Darius his command which was that Daniel should not pray and he prayed did not obey his command And the Apostles disobeyed the High Priests and Counsels command when they charged them that they should speak no more in that Name Yet in the thing that is good just and righteous the righteous alwayes have been and are ever subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake to such as were for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well that they might live a godly and peaceable life Mark a peaceable life for this cause they both prayed and paid tribute not that they should bring them into an ungodly life and an unpeaceable life but that they should punish the evil-doers that went into an ungodly life and unpeaceable for to that end were the higher Powers ordained over the ungodly that went into the ungodly and unpeaceable life for the ungodly are unpeaceable and this is for the praise of them that do well for the Law was made for transgressors not for the righteous So they that be in the higher power are to distinguish the precious from the vile for not doing so the Prophet often cried against them and when they turned against the righteous peaceable and godly then is the saying known which the Scripture speaks of What shall separate us from the love of God Shall Principalities or Powers or Thrones or Dominions Shewing that there are Principalities and Powers that would separate from the Love of God which they had in Christ Jesus and that is from a godly and peaceable Life and so there is a distinction to be subject to that which punisheth the Evil and there is a suffering by that which would separate from the love of God Now that which would separate turns the Sword backwards against the righteous and Persecutors were alwaies blind and could never see but run upon their friends in stead of their foes And therefore these things consider and distinguish God let Adam have liberty in the earth into which he was driven when he disobeyed his command and God let Cain have liberty in the earth after he had killed his Brother about Religion and God let wild Ishmael have liberty in the wilderness after he was put out of Abrahams Family the Father of the faithful and the Serpent he had his Liberty to feed upon the dust of the earth Now I say consider who are they who would not have Christ the just to live upon the earth were not they them that Christ called Serpents the Jews the great professors It was not God's mind that people should be put out of the earth God let Adam and Eve have liberty in the earth after they had transgressed though they were not to have liberty in the Garden And Ishmael though he had not liberty in Abrahams family yet he had liberty in the wilderness And Cain though he had not liberty in the presence of God yet he had liberty to be a wanderer in the land of Nod. Therefore consider what mind that is that would not let men have liberty in the Earth though he be not of your assembly yet he should have liberty in the Earth Therefore consider whether that be the mind of God or against it yea or nay though the just comes over all these things and are redeemed from the earth And if we must not meet together how must we stir up one another and edifie one another and provoke one another unto love and to good works if we must not meet together to speak one to another Consider this with understanding The world saith Kiss the Book The Book saith Kiss the Son lest he be angry And the Son saith Swear not at all but keep to yea and nay in all your communications for whatsoever is more than this comes of evil The world saith Lay your hand on the Book the Book saith Handle the Word and the Word saith Handle not the traditions inventions nor the rudiments of the world and this is my beloved Son hear ye him saith God who is the Life and the Truth and the Light and the way to God who saith Swear not at all Therefore cumber not the ground you adulterers cumber not the earth you drunkards cumber not the ground you swearers cumber not the ground you proud vain persons cumber not the earth you earthworms covetous persons cumber not the ground you oppressors and exactors and grinders of the poor cumber not the ground thou persecutor of the children of the Most High cumber not the ground ye rich gluttons cumber not the earth you idle persons that live in fulness of pleasure and abundance of idleness as the stalled Ox so as he lieth in the mire and dirt and as the full-fed horse that must be breathed with pleasures and sports and your games of all sorts and call it recreation for your idleness out of the service of the Lord for thou who art so full thou needest not work thy self down by pleasures nor go to pleasures to get thee a stomack if thou wilt work it down with labour work and chastity keeps all sweet and labouring in the fear of the Lord. Cain the first birth a persecutor the first birth a false worshipper and Cain the first birth that false worshipper turned and turneth against Abel and Cain the first birth out of his stock came up the false worshipper who was the inventer of Harps Organs Nimrods stock false worshippers and out of Ham's stock he came whose spirit was not covered with truth but with that which was from the truth and so that spirit which runs from the truth is not like Shem nor Japhet and such worship not God in the spirit And they of the old world that went from the spirit of the Lord and grieved his spirit they could not worship God in the spirit And the Philistines grieved the spirit of the Lord and they were the persecutors and they turned against the just And the Sodomites were the persecutors of the just and the Sodomites were such as lived in abundance of idleness and fulness and those that were idle and full persecuted the righteous and the just and the true worshippers and they that did and do so are the false worshippers And Ishmael and his stock the first birth who scoffed at the just and turneth against the just a persecutor and so are all wild men now And Esau the first birth the prophane person a false worshipper a persecutor of Jacob as many Esaus now persecute them whom God loveth who hate the first birth being persecutors prophane false worshippers whom God loveth not And the Aegyptians were and are persecutors and of the first birth And Balaam was a persecutor of the just and Balaam loved the wages of unrighteousness and such Balaams are now the lovers of the wages of unrighteousness and the persecutors And the Jews that professed the Law the words of God and did live out of the life of the Law of God such did and do persecute the just and such professors were alwaies and now are persecutors And alwaies such as preached for hire and devined for money and taught for filty lucre and such Shepherds Bishops and Priests that taught for the fleece and the wool and for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread and were covetous such were and are persecutors and false worshippers and persecutors of the just and the true worshippers of God in the spirit and they that did so grieved it And the Scribes Pharisees and chief Priests that had the Prophets and the Saints words and were not in the life of the Law and the Prophets and Saints and yet did profess their words such did and do persecute the just them that be in the life of the Saints And also likewise all Christians that do profess the Prophets and Christ and the Apostles and Moses and the Saints words and be out of their life spirit are the false worshippers and are the persecutors of the just and that is the end of all the profession without the Life and the Spirit of God that the Saints dwell and walk in who are the true worshippers of God in the Spirit and Truth and such as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God and the false worshippers are such as grieve the Spirit of God and yet will get the Saints words and the sheeps cloathing and not live in their life The first birth liveth in the kingdom of the world in strife a Persecutor The first birth is a birth of strife the second birth is heir of the Kingdom of the Lord and the fruits of this birth is love c. Therefore come out of the first birth to the second Cain Ham Nimrod Ishmael Esau Balaam Sadomites Philistines Pharisees chief Priests Babylon were not these envious wild prophane idle covetous oppressors persecutors false worshippers and so you that be of the same nature and of the same birth was it not and is it not the first birth If it be so know your own Kindred and come out of this Kindred Scoffers Scorners Mockers Reproachers Revilers Brawlers Railers envious Men Do you profess God and Christ These be all evil weeds and cumbers God's ground The Babylonites were and are persecutors of the Just and the true Worshippers of God and the Babylonites build up and throw down who be out of the standing Power Life and Spirit of God which the Apostles and we are in and so are not upon the Rock Christ Jesus upon which we are that changeth not GEO. FOX THE END