Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	heart_n	vein_n	9,504	5	10.0908	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44932	The spirit of prophecy a treatise to prove, by the wayes formerly in use among the Jews, in the tryal of pretenders to a prophetic spirit, that Christ and his Apostles were prophets : together with the divine authority of christian religion and the Holy Scriptures, the insufficiency of human reason, and the reasonableness of the christian faith, hope, and practice, deduced therefrom, and asserted against Mr. Hobbs, and the Treatise of Hvmane Reason / by W.H.	Hughes, William, b. 1624 or 5.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3346; ESTC R19799	183,906	298

flesh only it teacheth us to distinguish between the affections and the frailty of them which if we do in the case now before us we ●hall find it not impossible to conceive how Compassion remains with him in Glory for as to the nature and essence of it it is we know little or nothing e●se but a motion of the appetite following the apprehension of anothers evil as for that grief and sorrow which in this life do sometimes follow it it is no way essential to it for they who are most generous and have the greatest spirits so that they fear not any evil to themselves and hold themselves above the power of fortune are not exempted from Compassion when they s●e the infirmity of other men and hear their complaints for it is a part of Generosity to bear good will to every man but the sadness of this Pity is not bitter And if not bitter then surely not grievous and if so then grief is not essential to compassion yea it seems so f●r may it be from being grievous as that it may be rather joyous for we take a delight to feel pass●ons excited in us and this delight is an intellectual joy which may spring as well from sadness as all the rest of the passions Why then should it seem strange to any one that the Heart of Christ in Glory should be touched with a feeling of our infirmities It is true indeed such frailty of affections as is a distu●bance to the joy of his Soul or an impediment to either of the beati●ick qualifications of his body is not to be thought to remain with him yet since our Faith assur●s us that our Blessed Saviour now ●itteth at the right hand of God in that very same Body which was Crucified at Jerusalem our Reason tells us that it hath true humane blood running in its veins and arteries as formerly it had and this blood and spirits by their motion may affect his Heart with Pity and Compassion on us and that without any the least diminution of his joy and glory or Impair to his Body by weakning themselves for his body being now a Spiritual body it lives not in Glory as formerly it did and ours do here on earth viz. by Meat and Drink produced out of corruptible elements but by the immediate ●us●entation of the Spirit so that the support of his life and joy being altered the same Affection of Pity and Compassion may be in him still which was in him heretofore yet without causing the least degree of grief in his Soul or of obstruction to the vital motion of the Heart in his Body as it formerly did in him and still doth in us here on Earth We may conceive that thus it may be and forasmuch as it is plainly revealed that notwithstanding his Exaltation above us he doth still sympathize with us it is at least probable that thus it is but whether it be or no is not material our Curiosity should give way to our Faith and let it so triumph over all its objections as that since it is revealed we should firmly believe that in that Christ hath suffered being tempted he is able i. e. out of Pity and Compassion disposed or of his own Will inclined to succour them that are tempted i. e. to afford them Grace and Mercy to help in time of need hereby then it appears that he is able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him had he only conqu●red the Devil and made atonement to God for us and so left us to work out our Salvation with only our own strength we should certainly have relapsed into the state of Nature after the Fall but since he hath not only conquered the Devil and made atonement to God but also ever liveth to make Interc●ssion for us to afford Succour and assistance to us it is evident that he hath most compleatly Redeemed us Nothing now is wanting to our Deliverance and Salvation but our own acceptance of what He hath done for us and submission to the directions which He by his Commands is Pleased to give us And hereunto we are undoubtedly obliged by what He hath done for us for an Obligation according to the definition that Civilians give of it is little or nothing else but a Bond of the Law whereby one is bound to pay what he owes Which definition if it be not restrained to the Laws of Men but extended to the Laws of God and Nature may be commodious enough for the Explication of those things which appertain to the Internal Court of Conscience as well as of those that belong to the Courts of Church or State and forasmuch as all Obligation as appears by the very definition of it takes its Original from some Law and there is a twofold Law the one Divine and Natural the other Civil and Humane there must also be a twofold Obligation the one Natural which by force of the Law of Nature i. e. of Gods Law obligeth in the Court of Conscience the other Civil which by force of Mens Laws bind Externally in Ecclesiastical Courts or Courts of Civil Jurisdiction At present I have nothing to do with the latter but only with the former viz. the Obligation that ariseth on Men from the Laws of God or of Nature and this again seemeth to be twofold the one we may call an Obligation of Authority the other of Goodness the First ariseth from the Sovereignty or Dominion of God the Second from his Beneficence or Goodness They both make it our duty to keep his Commandments the one because of his most Just Authority and Dominion over us the other because of his great Goodness Bounty and Beneficence towards us Now both these Obligations are layed upon us by the Redemption which our Blessed Lord Jesus hath wrought out for us for Christ as we have seen Redeemed us by force He conquered the Devil cancelled his claim to us and hath so far taken us out of his hand into his own Custody as that he cannot approach to hurt us but by his Permission so that we may be saved if we will in despite of the Devil and all his works it is not in his power to hinder it he cannot take us out of Christs hand but by our own voluntary revolts and backslidings to him the Captain of our Salvation h●th rescued us out of the power of Satan and if we do not run away from him by Infidelity or Disobedience he will keep us through Faith unto Salvation and the Devil and the World yea a whole World of Devils shall not be able to help it Taken therefore it is certain we are and kept also by the force of Arms or in War from the Devil and since as we have already observed out of Grotius all that are so taken by the Laws of Nations are Servants to them that so took them it follows that we are so to Him By his Redempti●n therefore