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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	person_n	spirit_n	union_n	3,047	5	9.7455	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90263	The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O715; Thomason E618_2; ESTC R203084	26,947	47

and suitable deliverance They may call every spring of their Refreshment Beer la●ai-roi 2. To see that the Son of Violence draw not nigh unto it and if he do to require it at his hands to make him eat his own flesh and drink his own blood that he may learn to devour no more Observe then 1. Whence it is that this House which seems so often to be nigh to destruction is yet preserved from ruine Ofttimes it is brought into a condition that all that look on say Now it is gone for ever but still it recovers and gets up again The Lord Christ he looks on all the while He knowes how far things may proceed for tryall When it comes to that passe that if pressures and troubles should continue the House would be over born indeed then he puts in rebukes the windes and waves and makes all things still again Like a Father who looks upon his Childe in a difficult and dangerous businesse knowes that he can relieve him when he pleases but would willingly see him try his strength and cunning lets him alone untill perhaps the Childe thinks himself quite lost and wonders his Father doth not help him but when the Condition comes to be such that without help he will be lost indeed instantly the Father puts in his hand and saves him So deales the Lord Iesus with his House lets it oftentimes strive and wrestle with great Oppositions to draw out and exercise all the Graces thereof but yet all this while He looketh on and when danger is nigh indeed He is not far off 2. Let all the Enemies of the Church know that there is one who hath an Eye overthem in all their Counsels and under-takings Whilst they are digging deep He looks on and laughs them to scorn How perplexed was the King of Syria when he found that the Prophet was acquainted with all his designes and made them known to the King of Israel It cannot but be a matter of perplexity to the Enemies of this House when they shall finde that the great Friend and Protector thereof is continually present in all their Advisoes Let them not wonder at their birthlesse under-takings the Eye of Christ is still uupon them 3. Let the Saints see their priviledge who ever they are in what condition soever the Eye of Christ is upon them He watches over them for good and knowes their soules in Adversity When no Eye sees them he looks on them they cannot be cast out of his care nor hid from his sight There are many poor souls who goe heavily all the day long that mourn in their spirits unknown unregarded unpitted The Eye of Christ is on them for good continually they cannot be thrown out of his watchfull care 4. Christ is the In dweller of this House He hath not built it and framed it for no use It is for an Habitation for himself He hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for ●●s Habitation this is my rest saith he here will I dwell Psal. 132. 13 14. This House i●built up to be an Habitation unto him Ephes. 2. 22. He is the King of Saints and this House is his Court It is true for his human Nature the Hevens must receive him untill the time of the Restitution of all things Acts. 4. 27. but yet he dwelleth in this House three ways 1. By his Spirit Christ dwels in this House and every stone of it by his Spirit Know you not that Christ is in you except you be reprobates 2 Cor 13. 5 Christ in you that is the Spirit of Christ Christ by his Spirit So the Holy Ghost expounds it Rom. 8. 9. If the Spirit of God dwell in you which v 10. is if Christ be in you Christ and his Spirit as to Indwelling are all one for he dwels in us by his Spirit The love of God is shed in abroad in our Hearts by the Holy Ghost that is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. There is not only the love of God a grace of the Spirit shed abroad in us but there is also the Holy Spirit giuen unto us This is fully asserted Rom. 8. 11. The Spirit of him that raysed up Jesus dwels in you as also 2 Tim. 1. 14. keep the good thing committed to thee by the Holy Ghost that dwelleth in us Hence the Saints are said to be Temples of the Holy Ghost Jesus Christ doth not build Temples merely for Graces created Graces He dwels in them himself He dwels in them by his Spirit And this is a glorious Priviledge of this House that Jesus Christ in a Misticall and wounderfull manner should dwell in it and every stone of it Hereby all beleivers become to be not one personall but one Misticall Christ 1 C●r 12. 6. However we are distanced in respect of his human Nature yet Mistically we are one one body one Mistical Christ because we have one Spirit dweling in us and him If a man were never so tall so that his Head should reach the sterres and his freet stand upon the Ground yet having but one soul he is but one man still Though Christ in his human Nature be exceedingly distanced from us yet there being one and the same Spirit in him and us wee are one Mysticall Christ Yet abserve 1. Though Christ be united unto the persons of the Saints by the Indwelling of the Spirit yet the Saints have not that which is called Personal Vnion with him nor with the Spirit Personal Vnion is by a person of the Deity assuming the nature of man into one personallty with it self that having of it sown no personall subsistance Things are here clean otherwise Christ doth not assume the Saints into a personall subsistance with himself but dwels in their persons by his Spirit 2. That the Operations of the Indwelling Spirit of Christ and all his manifestations are Voluntary He worketh as he will revealeth what he wil 〈◊〉 where he dwells He doth not work in us Naturally but Voluntarily unto what proportion he pleaseth therefore though he dwel equally in all Saints in respect of Truth and reality yet he doth not in respect of working and Eficacy 2. By his graces Christ dwelleth in this House and in all the stones thereof by his Graces He dwells in our hearts by faith Ephes. 3. 17. He dwells in us by his word in all wisdome Col. 3. 16. All the graces we are made partakers of we receive from his fulnesse and by them he Inhabits in us They are indeed the ornaments of the living stones of this House to make them meet and fit for such an Indweller as the Lord Christ Christ will not dwell in a soule whose mind is darknesse His will stubbornesse and His Affections carnall and sensuall He puts Light and life and love upon the soule that it may be meet for him to dwell in Christ dwels in all the world by his power and Presence but he dwels only in his Saints by his Spirit and