Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	become_v	life_n	spirit_n	4,234	5	5.0760	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76058	A companion for prayer, or, Directions for improvement in grace and practical Godliness in time of extraordinary danger by Richard Alleine, author of Vinditiae Pietatis.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing A984A; ESTC R228577	12,119	45

●●ce intollerably proud or fro●●ard or earthly or a jolly and ●●ainly merry soul what ground ●●ast thou gotten of those very cor●uptions under which thou most ●●groanedst How is it with thee with ●espect to temptation Dost thou ●ear and fly from temptation and ●o what thou canst to keep thy self out of harms way and when th● fallest into temptation when th●● art actually tempted to Pride 〈◊〉 Covetousness when thou art pr●voked to passion or impatience ho●● goes it with thee then how stan●est thou in the day of temptation●● How is it with thee in regard 〈◊〉 thy wonted evils in thy conver●●tion Hast thou sounded a retrea●● from thy eager chase after the grea●● things of the world Thou ha●● been a zealot for increasing thin●● eart●ly Substance art thou now become more moderate Thou wert● once a slothful lazy soul in the matters of God art thou now more diligent and industrious art thou 〈◊〉 servent in spirit serving the Lord 〈◊〉 Thou once livedst a jolly frothy and merry life dost thou now carry it with more seriousness Hast thou left thy lying and deceitful dealing Thou hast been a self-seeker and a flesh pleaser but canst say through the Grace of God I have now betaken my self to a self-denying life ●●d doest thou deny thy self in those ●●ry things wherein thou wert us'd ●●st to seek thy self Put thy self ●●on a close and severe trial here ●●d know that if the strong hold 〈◊〉 not battered and broken if thine 〈◊〉 lusts do still hold their power in ●●ee if the old sore be still issuing 〈◊〉 the old stream be still running 〈◊〉 course if thou canst not say I ●●ave kept me from mine iniquity 〈◊〉 at least am fighting more resol●●edly against it if thou still stickest where thou wert wont to stick whatsoever flush thou seemest to have of good affections whatsoever confidence thou hast of thy good condition 't is a sure sign it is not so well with thee Look to what degree of success thou hast attained in those things wherein thy great difficulty lay to such a degree of soul-prosperity thou hast attained and no more Direct 5. Measure your hopes of the answer of your Prayers for the publick by your experience of their speeding in your own particular cases If thy sin can stand before all thy prayers thine enemies and fears and dangers are not like to fall ever the sooner for such praying what God may do upon the prayers of others thou knowest not but nothing is like to go the better for thee If thou hast run with the foot-men within thee and these have been too hard for thee how wilt thou contend with them that ride upon horses If thon canst not stop the muddy streams of thine own cistern how wilt thou stand before the swelling of Jordan If thy prayers prevail so little to the setting thine own heart or thine own house in order how canst think they will do any thing against the hosts of the uncircumcised God heareth not sinners not only such sinners as are in a state of sin and totally alienated from the life of God but even such also who though for the main they have been once washed in the blood of Christ are again fallen into and wallowing in the mud and mire of any one allowed sin they are all like to be but miserable comforters in the day of distress Remember that Scripture mentioned before Psal 66. 18. If I regard iniquity iu my heart God will not hear my prayer But on the other side if thou dost obtain if thou dost prevail in thine own personal case this hath good hope in it 'T is an argument that thy prayers are accepted with God and if the Lord accept thee when thou prayest for thy self or for thine house thence the greater hope will spring that he will accept thee when thou prayest for his own house and people And if he doth accept thee for them he will either deliver them out of their distress and thou shalt have the honour to be one of those for whose sake deliverance comes or if he should not grant thy request as to the publick yet he will not fail to give thee thine own soul for a prey though he do not give thee the lives of them that sail with thee in the Ship And now you see the best way that is open to you to help at a pinch to save the poor distressed Churches of God in this time of their need such praying as may have its fruit unto holiness in your selves by this you may do much to promote the holiness and happiness of the people if any thing this will do it Wherefore gird up your loyns and set in in good earnest upon this seasonable and mighty duty Go into your closets lift up your hearts draw forth your souls pour out your tears weep in your prayer weep over you own and the peoples sins and fears and bow your selves with your might before the Lord this once try what you can do try the strength of prayer Pray all to rights within you and at home and then seek and cry and wrestle and trust and wait for the Salvation of God to be revealed in due time upon his people Let us at length hear the conclusion of the whole matter what shall be the fruit of all this what will you now do If I should only ask Who among you will join in and pray pray for the peace of Jerusalem the Church of the living God every one would readily answer I will be for one I for another God forbid I should hold my peace I will pray for the peace of Jerusalem Let them prosper that love thee Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces For my brethren and companions sake I will pray Peace be within thee because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek thy good If it be asked further and who will pray for the destruction of Babylon O every one of us that have an heart for the peace of Jerusalem Down with it down with it even to the ground Remember O Lord the Children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem who said Raze it raze it even to the very foundation O Daughter of Babylon that art to be destroyed happy let him be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us But would you that your prayers should be heard Then arise out of your places and fall every man upon a personal Reformation Down with your sin and out with the world list up Christ in your own hearts is you would have Antichrist ●all in the earth let Christ have a name within you above every name and let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity from his own iniquity feek not for corn and for wine or for freedom to sit down every man under his own Vine and under his own fig-tree where none shall make them afraid but seek the Lord that the Lord God may dwell