Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	worship_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	4,806	4	12.4611	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89850	Satans design discovered: vvho under a pretence of worshipping Christs person in heaven, would exclude God and Christ, the spirit and light, out of the world: and that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done, till Doomsday, that so he might rule in the hearts of men and women, unrevealed, while the world endures, onely under the name of God and Christ, talked of at a distance, that he may rule in the creation, exalted above God. Clearly laid open in an answer to Thomas Moor, who calls his book an Antidote against the spreading infections, &c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head, and reproach the truth with lies, that by any means he might make people believe that a lying spirit is among the Quakers, but is found within him. With 48. lies, taken out from three times as many, and sent back to be proved by the founder of them, T.M. Also some particulars, what the Quakers holds ... / By a servant to truth, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N313; Thomason E857_6; ESTC R202989	34,304	48

of Christ with that he would be brought to deny you all who are out of his way and have not his Word abiding in you To the Eleventh Query which asketh What that way in the Wilderness is which is called the way of Holiness and whether any may expect to finde it in these dayes To this thou saist Christ Jesus is the way the Truth and the Rom. 8. 10. Life and none can come to the Father but by him I say that these are true words but thou that makest it thy work to preach him out of the World till Doomes-day and confine him in the Heavens alone hast excluded him for being away to those now in the world to lead them out of the World which cannot ascend up into Heaven there to walk in him as a way so thou hast shut up the Kingdome against men as thy Fathers ever did And an Answer to the latter part of the Query which thou hast left unanswered must needs follow that none can expect to find such a way in these dayes nor till after they be dead where the Serpent perswades all his Hearers of their Righteousness And so of their Way also and so keeps his Way in the World In answer to the 12 Querie What that manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall and whether there be any profiting but by it To the first part of this Querie thou saist it is that one Spirit which is in that one person of the Son of God and this person thou hast limited from the earth till domes day and doth not confesse to the Spirit manifest within the creature but tells of a distinct understanding of that Spirit and his testimony concerning Christ which is no more from thee but an imagination as all that knowes the Spirit may judge for there is no manifestation of the Spirit of God upon earth but what is within and those that it witnessed it manifested witnessed it dwelling in them but thy testimony is as far different as the Heavens is from the earth And for the two latter parts of the Querie whether it be not of it selfe an infallible guide and whether there be any profiting but by it least they should fal on thy head having named them thou tellest a lie and therewith makest an escape saying they are sufficiently answered before 1 Cor. 6. 19. To the 13 Querie what and where that worship of God in Spirit is and whether any can worship in Spirit but those that are borne of the Spirit and whether they so borne need any other guide in his spirituall worship but that Spirit of which they are borne and whether such worshippers have not been are now different from all other worshippers in the world And to the forepart of this thou addest some words as touching the Samaritans worship and Jews worship not to the purpose but as concerning whether any can worship in Spirit but such as are borne in Spirit and whether they need any other guide but that Spirit and all the rest of the Querie which is the most materiall to shew thy deceipts from these thou stealest away without any answer at all as though the naming them over againe was sufficient Art thou not ashamed to call these answers dost thinke all are as blind as thy selfe and those thy companions whom thou hast blinded This day is the Lord through the pride of thy heart covering thee with thy own shame and is discovering the skirts of the whore and her nakednesse appeares and shall more appeare that the fire may be kindled wherein to burne her and all her Merchants that have beene made rich through the abundance of her delicacy begin to bewaile and stand aftre of for feare of her torments crying for helpe yet shall the Nations which have beene deceived see her lewdnesse and be set free from her witchcrafts then shall the Lord be knowne present and praised To the 14 Querie which is about the light thou confessest it to be Jesus Christ which lighteth every man which cometh into the world but perceiving it against thy selfe doctrine and trading in the conclusion thou would bind it only to the enlightening of them who are beleivers and would deny the light to be the condemnation of the unbelievers saying it is not the coming Job 3. 15 of the light to them is the condemnation when Christ saith this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse rather then light and If I had not come they had not had sin But thy testimony is contrary so they that beleive thee 2 Cor. 4. 6. make Christ a liar and they that beleives Christ makes thee a liar and thou would'st limit this light to be personall which all the Children of the light have know ne shining in their hearts which is the condemnation of them that know it not nor can the Children of darknesse judge of the light what it is who puts it afarre off yet thou that hates it hast it against thee though thou have it not with thee not being guided by it To the 15 Querie what the law of the Spirit of life is which made Paul free from the law of sin and death c. And instead of answering this thou fallest a wrangling with it and thou would make people believe that Pauls freedom he speaks of Rom. 8. 2. from the law of sin and death was not from that law that led him into captivity to sin which he complaines on and so thy first thing is to prove the Apostle a lyar who saies the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law oi sin and death for what the law could not do in that it was weake thorough the flesh the Son of God condemning the sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in the creature by Christ Another thing where thou would prove him a liar is in that he saith he is made free from the law of sin and death and this thou also wholly denies as though thou knew his condition better then he did himselfe And thou callest the body of sin a law and the law of sin another law and such mangled stuffe not worth mentioning and for which thou hast no proof but thy blind Imaginations who would have 3 or 4 Lawes but not one of them in the Heart onely the Law of sinne and thou concludest that the Proposer of the Queries cannot make out what God hath revealed to him and thy ground is because he hath propounded these Queries as much as to say He that asked Questions of the Scribes and Pharisees could not make out his Revelations and this is thy reasoning whereby thou wouldst shew another mans folly Indeed to the blind guides he could never make out his Revelations nor can he now where he is but who wants abilities to make out any thing of the spirit of God and thinkes to

The annointing that you have received abideth in you And you need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lie and even as it hath taught you you shall abide in him And this thou shamest not to wrest That they need no man teach them that teacheth otherwise Oh how fain would'st thou keep blind the heart and keep people without The Serpent knowes the blindness of the heart is the sole cause of the Creatures being alienated from the Life of God and so given up to all lasciviousness and uncleanness with greediness Ephes 4. 18 19. And the Light in the Heart is the onely thing that reveales the Gospel and gives the Light of the Knowledg of the Glory of God therefore he labours to keep people for looking for this Treasure in their Earthen Vessels 2 Cor. 4. to the 8. ver And in this work thou stands stoutly to thy Master to whom thou art fallen To the fifth Query What and where the Comforter is Somewhat what he is thou speakest but in the Heart thou dare not confess him least thou should destroy thy own Kingdome though none on Earth ever had him any where else since he ascended and so they gave their Testimony Gal. 4. 6. Ephes 3. 17. which thine is contrary who would limit him above the Clouds whom the Saints had dwelling in their bodies 1 Cor. 6. 19. But this is not known where the Man of Sinne and Son of Perdition sits in the Temple of God exalted above God letting and opposing the appearance of Christ which should reveal him In thy Answer to the sixth Query which asketh whether any of the servants of God may expect his word from his own mouth To this thou an werest No shewing thy self to be one of those who hast thy Word from thy Neighbour and not from the mouth of the Lord And here I know thou speakest thy own Experience but why dost thou bely others whom thou canst not judge as that Timothy had not the Word from the mouth of the Lord who had the gift in him which was given by Prophecie and that was from the mouth of the Lord immediate 1 Tim. 4 14. though first declared of by Paul And whereas thou faist that the Apostles are said to be the last in respect of such immediate furniture and mission I say that is the Liar that speakes thereby for to limit the Lord And I witness against thee who have received the Word from his own Mouth and immediate Calling And whereas thou faist Christ prayes for a blessing on no other immediate Messengers since I say that is another against which I witness who have found his Prayer and blessing upon the immediate Call to the same word As for the slander thou layst upon the Query I leave it to clear it self in the sight of all that read it For the seventh Query in stead of answering thou makest Lyes thereby the better to escape that so instead of answering thou may fall a slandering saying That he that sent the Queries sent them onely to them that deny the alone Teachings and yet makes it one of his Queries Whether they do so or no I say the Queries were not onely sent to them that deny the alone sufficiency of Gods Teaching as the Inscription may manifest neither is the Query Whether they do so or no but whether that Teaching of God alone be sufficient So into the Pit thou hast digged falls thy reproach with thee who hast no way to slander nor evade the Truth but by thy Lies so thy Refuge failes thee after all thy boasting In thy Answer to the eighth Query which askes what and where that word is that People shall hear behind them and where their Teacher is c. And this word thou thrusts out into another World and would thrust in instead thy self with the rest of thy Brethren such like because the word is read Teachers I say all that know this Prophecie of Isaiah and the end of it knows that it fore-tells of this day of the Lord wherein all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord Not is it like that Isaiah was prophesying of such as you who so earnestly Isay 59. 13. declared against such as sought for their gain from their quarters and called them greedy dumb Dogs and cryed down those who spoke a Divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord It 's not like he was prophesying of you who are found in all these things and much worse which he declares against for though you have a way to call your selves Ministers yet shall you never have Testimony from any Scripture as it was given out by Prophet or Apostle so long as you are found in that way of Worship Manner and Meanes which now you are in Not a line in this Scripture will serve you unwrested it comming from a contrary Spirit it no more owns you then you own it in Life and Practice For what thou sayst to the Ninth Query That the Word is not a Principle in men that believe or mind it not I say thou speakest thy own knowledge but some know better then to believe thee who knowes That where there is no Word there is no Life who knows him that upholds all by the Word of his Power which they that have no Word but the Letter knows little of To the Tenth Query What that voyce of Christ is which his sheep knowes And this thou makest to be the written Record so by thy Doctrine all that heares the Scriptures knoweth the voice of Christ but who reads Act. 13. 27. may see thy false Doctrine for wiser than thou had the Record that spoke of Christ but knew not the voices of the Prophers that spoke it but from the Record concluded to put him to death who was the Joh. 19. 7. Word so thou from the Letter art preaching him out of the World and slandring him in the World making people believe that who waits for the voice of Christ in any other way but in the Letter waits but for a delusion So all the Communion thou knowst with Christ is literal and thus thou preachest and all believes thee but who hath fellowship in Spirit with Christ sees thee deluded and thy delusion And for answer to that Clause How the voyce of Christ may be known from all strange voices thou sayst By its own Light the Word of God I say that is true if from Truth from thee it came but dost thou not mean thereby the Letter which all along thou callest the Word which a man may read all his life and therewith come amongst you Parish Masters and never discern the voyce of Christ though he may hear as many voices amongst you and several Imaginations as there are dayes in a Year Rom. 8. 10. but if he mind the Light and Spirit which brings to understand the voice