Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	bring_v	fruit_n	tree_n	11,470	5	9.5299	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17321	Conclusions of peace, betweene God and man containing comfortable meditations for the children of God. By W. Burton.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1594 (1594)	STC 4169; ESTC S116868	49,833	152

ioyned his word and his spirit togither by which as by a true tuchstone all false loue is discerned from true loue and all false peace and false ioy is tried from true peace and true ioy and so of the rest and therfore is the word called the sword of the spirite because it doth not try nothing nor worke any thing ordinarily but by the word of God And last of al least Sathan should abuse delude the children of God with the manifold corruptions imperfections and rebellious thoughtes of their heartes and make them conclude thereupon that they haue not the spirit of God They are to know that the spirite of God in the elect is not alwaies felt in themselues nor perceiued in them by others in a like measure but it is in them as the sunne which sometime shineth and sendeth foorth her light dispersing the clouds and somtimes againe is hidden vnder the cloudes It is in them as the ebbing and flowing of the sea It is in them as the waxing and waning of the Moone It is in them as the fire when it is kindled and when it is raked vp in the ashes And it is within them as the sap of the tree is in Winter and Sommer sometime in all the branches and sometime gone to the roote And as the elect are like Trees planted by the waters side which doe bring forth fruite in due season so the same trees haue both a summering and a wintering a spring time and a fall of the leafe when winter come they seeme as though they were dead but in summer they shall waxe fresh and greene againe The fruits of the spirite in the elect children of God are likewise like the fruit of the tree which is first in the sap only then it commeth into buds and then into blossomes whereof some are smitten with blasting some are nipped with frost cold some are eaten with worms but if they escape al these then from blossoms they come to be appls and at the first they are green and louely and many doe lust to eate of them but they are still hard and harshe but in time they come to their full growth And when they are ripe then are they eyther shaken downe with the winde and swine deuour them or beaten downe with cudgels and theeues do steale them or if they be fairely gathered yet are they pluckt from the tree that hath borne them then are they bought and sold whereof some perish and are cast out of dores the fairest and the sweetest is brought either to fire to be rosted or to the boord to be pared and cut in peeces and so to be eaten then the tree is naked and seemeth to be dead but the next spring doth fetch all againe So are the fruites of the spirite in the adopted children of God first in the sap of faith only which is hidden in the heart then it commeth into good thoughtes then into good wordes then into good workes by degrees but many times they are nipped and smitten in the bud or in the blossome that is either in thoughts or wordes that they neuer come into workes The workes likewise of the godly are at the first faire and freshe but yet hard and harsh and when they are come to any perfectiō they are either wind-shaken and deuoured by beasts or smitten with persecution then are they bought and solde and euerie man handleth them as they list In a worde the fairest the pleasantest and the best of our workes must be pared and picked for dainty mouths and queasie stomackes and in the end consumed of all and then are our labours come to their perfection wherher they be of Church or common-wealth and then doe many of Gods children thinke themselues naked and dead but there is no cause why they should for as all that fruit when it is so and so handled doe prooue that sap is in the tree so all the fruites of the elect whether they perishin the bud or in the blossome or in the ripening or howsoeuer they be handled yet they proue that the sap of Gods spirite is in them and the next spring of Gods grace will fetch all againe But then they doubt of themselues because perhappes they haue not so much fruit as they had or so much as others haue but there is no cause why they shold doubt of thēselues for though they haue not so much as they had yet it is as good and sound as that which they had it is not counterfait and fained but it is in trueth that which it seemeth to be and so long they may care but they neede not to feare the want of Gods spirite in them for it is not so materiall how much faith or howe much zeale or how much loue or how much patience a man hath but how good faith howe good zeale how good loue how good patience a man hath whether the faith loue zeale c. be true or counterfeit from the heart or in hypocrisie must be the question That as men say of fruit this is but little but it is good heere be not many of them but those that are of them are verie daintie they are right of such and such a kind So the children of God may say My faith is but little and weake my loue is not so much as I would it were my zeale is but litle and my patience is but small but it is true faith and true loue and true zeale and true patience euen from the verie heart root without dissembling O Lord increase it and strengthen it And thus much for the difference betweene the children of God by creation only and the children of God both by creation and adoption And thus much of the spirit of God both in the one and in the other Now let vs come to the matter in hand We haue heard who be called the sonnes of God how this title is giuen to the Lord Iesus how to Angels and how to men hath been also declared but to imagine that in this place it were spokē to the Lord Iesus were no lesse than blasphemy because he was euer without sinne and to enquire whether it were spoken to the Angels or no were vaine curiositie Now if it be man to whom the Lord saith My son as it is indeede O Lord what is man that thou doost speak so kindly to him or the sonne of man that thou doest so regarde him Againe if it be spoken to man how art thou O Man gotten into such fauour with God which sometimes thou hadst lost How happy and honourable are those men which are the sonnes of God But is it spoken to me in deede what to sinfull and miserable man and are the sonnes of Adam among the sons of God as Saul was amongst the prophets is the prodigall son come home againe is it for him that such costly robes are brought forth and is it he that his father went out to meete