Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	faith_n	life_n	live_v	5,824	5	7.1409	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60355	The souls return to its God, in life, and at death A funeral sermon, preached upon occasion of the death of Mr. John Kent, late of Crouched Friars, who departed this life Decem. 16. 1689. By Samuel Slater, minister of the Gospel.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1690 (1690)	Wing S3976; ESTC R217893	35,053	36

his Soul which is lifted up is not upright in him but the just shall live by his faith And this must be at all times and in all conditions not only when it is with us as it was then when Caldeans mighty and cruel Enemies are in the Land but when they are not when we have Enemies under our feet and fulness in our hands 2 Cor. 5. 7. We saith the Apostle walk by faith and net by sight faith leads faith expects faith supports faith comforts Thus it is with all the Saints therefore he speaks in the plural number we meaning both himself and all the followers of the Lamb and of himself he particularly tells us Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Christ lived in him all his life came from Christ he was the Author and Principle of it he both breathed and maintains it he it is that quickens me acts me moves me how and whither he pleaseth and whatever that life be which I shall live hereafter that life which I now live in this world in this mortal body and state I live it by the faith of Christ in whom I have both righteousness and life and strength for he is and he is to me all in all And so it is with all the sense more by hope than by having and yet this present and imperfect life is an exceeding excellent and noble life It is as much above the life of the most rational man in the world who is a stranger to the grace of faith as the life of such a man is above the life of a brute it brings in to him far more sweetness and pleasure Hence it is that in the Scripture you read of peace in believing and of the joys of faith with which those which the sensualist doth enjoy are not worthy to be compared for his peace is but the product of a delusion his joy as the crackling of thorns under a pot but this is peace which passeth all understanding Phil. 4. 7. and this joy such as ●…s unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. It is too big for words it hath ●…n it something of the heavenly glory It is such a joy as doth ravish the Soul it sometimes puts it into an e●…stasie it fills it up to the height so that there was one cried out like a man opprest under the weight of it Stay thy ●…and Lord stay thy hand for I can hold no more Now if there be such abounding delights brought in by the hand of faith what beams of light and glory will the eye of sight let in to the glorified Soul If there be such consolations springing such holy raptures caused from and by that good ●…ews that faith brings from that far Countrey when it hath but a Pisgah ●…ght and that in a Wilderness and can but peep within the Veil what will ●…he blessed fruits of a clear Vision and compleat Fruition be when once the ●…oly Soul is after a long and tedious Journey happily arrived there and hath ●…ee liberty to walk up and down in the length and breadth of that good ●…and and to take its fill continually of all that it affords But once more Fourthly and lastly Here Gods communications and lettings out of him●…f to his People are correspondent with and managed in such a way and ●…nner as shall be pursuant of his purpose and design of keeping them as in 〈◊〉 well-liking and thriving state so in a longing frame as to preserve their ●…irits and promote their growth so to maintain their desires in strength ●…d vigour and also to whet and raise them up to an higher and higher ●…itch The perfection which our heavenly Father doth intend the dearest ●…f his Children while they are here consisteth more in the sincerity of ●…eir hearts and in the fervency of their earnest and industrious desires ●…an in their actual attainments Come Christians what report can you ●…ake what account can you give of your selves do not you find that this 〈◊〉 the language and these the breathings of your Souls O that I might ●…ow God more and come to all the riches of the full assurance of understand●…g to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of ●…rist Col. 2. 2. Oh that I might love him more that this lukewarm ●…ld frozen Icy heart might burn within me and be all on a flame Oh ●…at I might fear him more not with a base servile and slavish fear but a ●…l and godly one pay him such a reverence as is his due he receives ●…om the glorious Seraphims above and the spirits of just men there made ●…rfect Oh that I could resemble him more and more and find the in●…rd man renewed day by day and my Soul changed into his Image from God and shewing forth the virtues of my Saviour shining with his beams treading in his steps and being in the world even as he was in the world O that I could see and enjoy him more Oh that I could converse and walk with him more And when he is pleased to open his hand most liberally they will be reaching out theirs for more and still crying Give give When they have in a Duty or at an Ordinance fed most heartily and received the greatest refreshing they rise with an appetite and go away with desires If you have tasted that the Lord is gracious you must desire After-draughts in the Banquetting-house the Spouse called for flaggons I say God in his infinite wisdom doth so order it that his Children shall be dieted here that so they may be always hungry Not saith Paul that 〈◊〉 have already attained or am already perfect Now you may safely from hence draw this Inference That if God be so liberal to his Children here where yet his purpose and good pleasure is to keep them in the state of expectants and both to raise and preserve their desires and longings in streng●… and vigour that must needs be great goodness which he hath laid up fo●… them in Heaven What is there behind What is yet to come What i●… that which will be given out to them in the other world where it is in hi●… heart to compleat their state and so to order out concerning them that thei●… transcendent and inconceivable delights shall swallow up all their desires and their painful longings shall at their first entrance into those gloriou●… Mansions be immediately converted into a fulness of joy We have now finished the doctrinal parts it remains that we apply our selves to the practical improvement of them which is to be the work of every one tha●… reads these few leaves for his own Soul Only I shall help you a little b●… speaking to three things in a way of Exhortation Use