Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	act_n	believe_v	faith_n	5,216	5	5.8503	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86525	The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2645; Thomason E171_3; ESTC R1512	16,119	33

First by daily renewing thy faith in Christ especially that act of faith by which thy soule knits or tyes it selfe on Christ for salvation cause thy soule every day in solemne manner to act that part put forth this primitive act of faith in the whole part of thy soule The daily exercise of this will increase and strengthen the divine habit of faith in the soule and make the soule sensible of every act of it By frequent beleeving thou shalt feele at thy very heart root that thou doest beleeve so shalt thou have witnesse in thy self that thou art in Christ 1 Ioh. 5.16 Secondly by examining thy heart on what grounds thou takest Christ to be thine as first are thy grounds of taking Christ a sight and sense of thy sinnes of the guilt power and punishment of them and of thy misery by them Mat. 19.13 Secondly are thy grounds of taking Christ the want of Christ seene and felt at thy very heart to justifie sanctifie redeeme and save thee else thou art utterly undone for ever and lost everlastingly Luk. 9.10 Thirdly is thy ground of taking Christ Gods free mercy generall offer of him to any that will take him by faith Ioh. 3.16 Manifold promises to this purpose the ground of all these offers donations of Christ being free grace rich mercy undeserved love Eph. 2.4 7. Titus 3.4 5 6 7. Fifthly is thy ground of taking Christ his sweet and gracious invitation of such to come to him as are weary and heavy laden Mat. 11.28 Buy of him as have no money Isa 55.1 No worthinesse at all or desert in our selves Fifthly are thy grounds of taking Christ thus that as sinfull wretches as thou art have been sought of Christ and found of him 1 Cor. 9.10 Then why may not you the more cleare thou desirest Christ the more cleare will be thy title to him 3. In what manner thou desirest Christ to be thine 1. Whether thou doest renounce wholly all opinion and conceit of thy owne righteousnesse and desert Phil. 3.7 8 9 10. So that thou commest to Christ empty of thy selfe very vile yea nothing in thy owne eyes unworthy to receive him 2. Whether thou layest hold on Christ alone with the empty hand of faith joyning nothing at all with Christ in matters of salvation 3. Whether thou finde God the Father drawing thy heart after him Ioh. 6.44 By hungring and panting desires which will never be satisfied without him so that the streames both of thy judgement 3 Phil. 18. also of thy affections 1 Cor. 2.2 Gal. 6.14 4. If thou takest as a Lord to rule thee as well as a Iesus to save thee Col. 2.6 one which is all to thee thy wisedome thy righteousnesse thy salvation thy redemption 1 Cor. 1.3 thy speciall food Ioh. 5.6 thy rayment Rom. 13.14 thy strength Phil. 4.13 Gal. 2.20 5. Whether thou seeke and wait for Christ out of the sense of thy spirituall want and penury in every ordinance publicke and private Word Sacraments Prayer Meditation Conference not as ones own works of sanctification but as they are Gods Ordinances appointed of very purpose for the manifestation and communication of Christ to the soule The third part of the rule of the new Creature 4. Labour to draw and derive from Christ by the pulling attractive force of faith speciall ability sufficient for the day First to performe all duties secondly to exercise all grace in the day thirdly to resist and overcome all temptations and corruptions which shall befall thee in the day make thy provision of grace and strength from Christ every morning fetch so much as you shall have occasion to use all the day long yea and in all occasions that shall fall out on the day Goe to Christ still for the wisedome that must direct thee for the holinesse which must carry thee and characterise thee for the shoulder that must beare thee If they be crosses for the strength that must sustaine them If they be temptations performe them If they be duties act thy faith daily on the promises of grace and strength as Iohn 1.16 Ezek. 36.27 Isa 44.3 Zach. 10.12 These are securities given thee from God that thou shal● receive grace through the Ordinancer which are the conduit-pipes or instruments of conveying the same into the soule from Christ This is to doe all in the strength of Christ and to take forth a great deale of Christ into the soule every day that not thou but Christ may be in thee Gal. 2.20 The fourth part of the new Creature performe daily duties both in family and in closet especially prayer meditation conference reading with intention of affection with diligence and delight Ier. 48.10 Mal. 1.4 1 Cor. 21.24 To this end watch to these duties keep thy heart in a good frame for them Eph. 6.18 undefiled with sinne● untainted with the world 2. Take fit time for the performance of all when tho art dull and sluggish begin the day with the thoughts of God 3. Be substantiall with God in all these duties endeavour to feele every duty at the very heart enlarging and inflaming thy affections These be duties of very great consequence which bring the greatest comfort to thy soule because they aime at they soules good The fifth rule of the new Creature First fortifie thy selfe very morning against those speciall insts to which by nature thou art most prone and often tempted as pride passion inordinate affections covetousnesse by argumenting and reasoning within thy selfe drawne from the sad effects of it as disprofit discomfort disgrace c. Labour to see the unreasonablenesse of thy sinnes discovered unto thee and make thy soule ashamed of them for examine and ponder with thy selfe shall I be proud then I am sure to have a fall for pride goes before a fall and God accounts me as his enemy for he resists the proud Shall I be angry If I let passion in I shall not keep Satan our Eph. 4.26 I shall grieve the holy Spirit of God Eph. 4.30 Shall I be covetous I cannot but be very sinfull for the love of money is the root of all evill 1. Tim. 6.10 2. By pondring in thy mind the precepts in Gods book threatnings against thy sinnes and judgments of God upon others as on Herod for pride Dives for voluptuousnesse Nabal for churlishnesse 3. By applying promises of mortification to thy heart as a plaister to thy soule for subduing of thy corruptions daily as Micah 9.10 Rom. 6.14 4. By drawing vertue from Christs death to thy soule which hath in it a killing force of sin Phil. 3.10 Num. 6.5 The sixth part of the rule of the new Creature Let thy heart be strongly fixed on God by trusting on him Ps 112.7 submitting thy selfe to him 2 Sam. 15.26 1 Sam. 3.8 against thy feares cares tryals troubles afflictions of every day for sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat. 6.31 to the end 1. To foresee prudently thy personall trials and troubles