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body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63783	Truth will out a sermon preached on the 20th of June, 1683, upon the discovery of the new plot / by a presbyter of the Church of England.	Presbyter of the Church of England.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3167; ESTC R29563	25,780	36

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Suppose thou canst not be satisfied in their godliness yet the gifts of the Spirit of God that are in them should cause some kind of closing common gifts are of a middle nature between nature and grace as the spirits of men are neither of the same nature with the soul nor of the body but between both and serve to unite the soul and body together which otherwise are of natures very different The common gifts that men who are not yet sanctified have may and should cause some union between the godly and them while they live in this world so far as to be useful one to another in what God hath given them The second joyning Consideration Let us consider how far we can agree WE differ thus and thus but what do we agree in do we not agree in things enough wherein we may all the dayes of our lives spend all the strength we have in glorifying God together Many men are of such spirits as they love to be altogether busied about their brethrens differences their discourse their pens and all their wayes are about these and that not to heal them but rather to widen them You shall 〈◊〉 hear them speak of or meddle with their agreements their ●●●ength is not bent to heighten and strengthen them if at 〈◊〉 time they do take notice of their agreements it is to ●●ke advantage of them to render their disagreements the ●ore odious or to strengthen themselves in what they ●●ffer from them they desire to get in men and to get from ●●em only to serve their own turns upon them this is an ●vil spirit No marvel therefore though some be so loth to ●iscover to them how near they can come to them Pliny tells us of Apelles that drawing the face of Antiochus the King who had but one eye that he might hide this deformity he devised to paint him turning his visage a little away so he shewed but the one side of his face and from him says Pliny came the invention first of concealing the defects and blemishes of the Visage But the Painters of our time are quite in another way if there be any deformity or defect on any side they will be sure to paint that side in all the lineaments of it that must be set forth fully to the View of all men yea if it may be made to look more ugly and monstrous then it is all the skill they have shall be improved to do it But my Beloved this ought not to be God doth not so with us he takes notice of the good of his Children but conceals their evil There was but one good word in Sarahs speech to Abraham Gen. 18.12 she called him Lord the speech otherwise was a speech of unbelief yet the Holy Ghost speaking afterwards of her in reference to that speech 1. Pet. 3.6 conceals all the evil and mentions only that reverend title s●● gave to her Husband commending her for it Thus should we do had we peacable hearts thus we would do All the good of our Brethren we would improve to the uttermost and what is evil so far as with a good Concience we might and no farther we would conceal When I shall see this temper in mens Spirits I shall hope there will be peace The third joyning Consideration Let us consider of mans Temper Spirits Temptations Education Years Gifts THere must be a due consideration of all these and we must indulge something to them all This would allay much strife as we read Numb 31.23 Every thing that may abide the fire ye shall make go thorough the fire and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go thorough the water We must deal with every man according to his temper Some men are by their complexions of a more harsh and rugged temper then others Consider what is the best way of dealing with such in the main they are faithful and useful they will joyn with you there and spend their lives for you if the harshness of their natures cause some excrescencies unpleasing carriages consider their tempers though no evil in them is to be justified yet deal tenderly with them indulge them what lawfully you may Some mens spirits though upright to God and you yet they have a fervor in them that is not qualified with that wisdom meekness humility as they ought do not presently take these advantages against them that they in their heat may perhaps give you do not fly upon them as if those unjustifiable expressions that come from them came from a spirit of malignity You know the man and the manner of his communication pass by weaknesses accept of uprightness Some mens temptations are very strong it may be their hearts are pressed with disappointments it may be they are pricked with the want of many comforts you have they have family-temptations and personal temptations that you are free from you do not know what you might do if you were under the like temptations Bless God that you are delivered from them but do not add to your brethrens affliction by taking advantages against them but according to the rule of the Apostle Gal. 6.1 If a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Consider their education some all their days have lived in wicked families they never were acquainted with the society of the Saints with that way of Godliness that have the most strictness and power in it You must not deal with them for all things you see amiss in them in the same way you would deal with such who have had godly education who have had acquaintance with the most strict and powerful wayes of godliness but now manifest a spirit against them Consider mens years old age looks for respect and justly especially such as have gone thorough the brunt and suffered much for your good though some infirmities should break forth that are incident to old age we must cover and pass by what we can not forgetting that reverent respect that is due to the heary head found in the way of godliness Consider mens gifts it may be they are not able to rise to your height to understand what you do thank God for your strength but be not angry with your brother because he is weaker This was one of the arguments for peace that Constantine in that forementioned Letter of his to Alexander and Arius used we are not in all things like minded neither have we all the same nature and gift ingrafted in us The fourth joyning Consideration What we get by contention will never quit cost A Merchant thinks it an ill venture if when he casts up his accounts he finds the charge of his voyage rises to more then his incomes If thou hast so much command of thy spirit if thou canst so far overcome thy passions