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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51412	The spirit of man, or, Some meditations (by way of essay) on the sense of that scripture, 1 Thes. 1:23 ... by Charles Morton ...	Morton, Charles, 1627-1698.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2825; ESTC R31044	42,571	116

and notablest Instruments he can find to make use of in the world But if Sanctified Then none so Serviceable to God or Man Such Spirits will make men willing to do Service as Exo. 35. 21. They came every one whose Heart stirred him up and every one whose Spirit made him willing and they brought the Lords Offering to the work of the Tabernacle 'T is not said whom Gods Spirit made willing Tho' that is most true as to the First Cause But whose Spirit made him willing whose heart stirred him up That is his own Spirit being Sanctified by the Spirit of God Here the Second Cause is noted being stirred up by the First And indeed God often Warms and Raises up mens Spirits for any noble Designs in which he intends to use them So in those Ezra 1. 1. The Lord stirred up the Spirit of Cyrus and then Cyrus communicates of his warmth to stir up the Spirit of the poor Dispirited Jews v. 3. Who is there among you of all the People What Have you never a Brave Man among you to undertake this Great Worthy affair Upon this Giving●Fire their Spirits were Enflamed Then rose up the chief of the Fathers the Priests and the Levites with all them whose Spirit God had Raised to go up v. 5. Not All the People but some Chief men men its likely that were of Large Souls active and Gallant Spirits in themselves fitted for Noble designs but alas they were so shrunk and sunk by their long Captivity that neither In nate briskness nor the Encouragement which Cyrus gave them was sufficient to Chi●p them up till God Sanctifyed their Spirits and raised them above themselves to this Pious and Noble undertaking Two of them are mentioned by Name besides others Hag. 1. 14. The Lord stirred up the Spirit of Zerubbabel the Governour Joshua the High Priest and the Spirit of all the Remnant of the People and they came and did work in the house Now was it the Souls of these men Or the men themselves Methinks t is more Genuine The Spirits of those men in the sense we now propose This Active Spirit uses to discover and express it self as is befere noted in a strong Inclination vigorous Motion Elihu speaks of a Spirit in man Iob 32 8. which I suppose is the same to which he hath Reference v. 18. I am full of matter or words and the Spirit within me or of my Belly constraineth me v. 20. I will speak that I may be refreshed Now Elihu was the youngest of Iobs Friends as he himself intimates v. 6 7. and upon that account in part he is more earnest and copious then the rest the Ardour and Activity of his Spirit caused an eager desire in him to express his mind which he calls the Constraining of his Spirit But because there was somewhat of anger in the case besides his Youthful Warmth we shall have occasion to reflect upon this instance again and then shew more of this vigorous Motion and strong Inclination under the Head of Zeal to which we shall referr it 3. This Hotter Spirit is a Spirit of Courage Boldness to address Difficultys and meet with Evil. This shews it self divers ways 1. Sometimes in a wrath for War which God Stirs up or Abates as is agreeable to his own holy purposes Thus to Impoverish take and lead Captive the Idolatrous Israelites 1 Chron. 5. 26. The God of Israel stirred up the Spirit of Pull King of Assyria and Tilgath Pilneser King of Assyria and he carried them away The former took their Goods 2 King 15. 19. Menahem gave Pull a Thousand Talents of Silver that is an Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand One Hundred pounds And he turned back and staid not in the Land This was a Vast Sum But the other came and swept all both Goods and Persons too On the other hand He Abates also Mens Courage and takes down their Spirits He shall cut off the Spirit of Princes He is terrible to the Kings of the Earth psal 76. 12. Thus Moses Prophecy of the Dukes of Edom and Inhabitants of Canaan Exod. 15. 16. Fear and Dread shall ●all upon them by the greatness of thine Arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy People pass over O Lord. And to the same effect is that Promise Ex. 11 7. But against any of the Children of Israel shall not a Dog move his Tongue The Genius and Spirit of a Dog is you know to Bark at Strangers This is an effect of Heat and Boldness in that Animal where it is but a little afraid but i● it be greatly Terrifyed it will then Run and hide it self in silence So some Men that would in their wicked Inclinations both Bite and Devour may be yet so far over awed by Gods Providence that they dare not so much as Bark at his People 2. Sometimes in a stout Resolvedness of Mind that will take no discouragement this is to have a Heart like that of a Lyon 2. Sam. 17. 10. Now a Lyon when a multitude of Sh●pheards is called forth against him will not be afraid of their voice nor a●ase himself for the noise of them Isay 31. 4 The contrary hereunto is a Spirit failing Isa. 19. 3. The Spirit of Aegypt shall fail or be emptied in the midst thereof t is said in the Precedent v 2 I will set Aegyptians against Aegyptians they shall fight They shall spend their Spirits or Courage among themselves but shall have no Spi●its left to defend their Country So t is said of the Amorites and Canaanites that heard of the drying up of Iordan which they accounted as their Moate and Fence against Israel Their heart melted neither wa● there Spirit in them any more Iosh. 5● 1 So that you see both ways in the Abundance and in the Defect Spirit Signifies Courage and Resolution Now if this Spirit be Unsanctifyed t is a stoutness in evil that will be ready to say with Pharoah Who is the Lord T is Obstinacy and Hardning Sihon King of Heshbon would not let us pass for the Lord had hardned his Spirit and made his Heart Obstinate Deut. ● 30. This may be also the meaning of the perverse Spirit mingled among the Egyptians Isa. 19. 14. that is a quarrelsome and contentious Spirit among themselves whereby their Councils were Divided and their Affairs Unsetled as a Drunken Man staggereth in his Vomit They had Spirit or Animosity enough against one the other but for Publik defence Aegypt shall be like unto Women they shall be afraid and fear v 16 And this Discovers one fault more in this Unsanctifi●● Spirit That it is Unstable Stout and Su●ly were it should be Humble and Meek Mean and Poor where it should be Brave and Resolute Such were the Rebellious Israelites Ps. 78. 8. a stubbor● and rebellious Generation that set not their hearts aright whose Spirit was not Stedfast with God It follows v. 9. that how Sturdy soever