Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	death_n	dissolution_n	4,857	5	11.3460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11378	Holy discoveries and flames. By John Saltmarshe, Mr. of Arts of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and rector of West-Ileslerton in York-shire	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.; W. F., fl. 1640, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 21637; ESTC S116513	54,761	236

holy discoveries of himselfe to the soule When hee was come out immediately there met him there should bee a meeting on our parts then as well as Christs a holy preparation and endeavour is a rising up a stepping forward a making towards Christ a meeting him There met him and where did hee meet him but when hee was come out of the Ship it is good taking Christ at his first landing with you at his first comming upon your borders or coasts when you heare him preached or when your heart and affections are touched with him and a little affected with his Gospel then hee is landed on your shore your senses and affections are the coasts and borders of your soule and there take him and meet him Immediately there met him The Daughter dead Mark 5. 35. Thy Daughter is dead Why troublest thou the Master any further Discovery I Discover how soon a carnall hope would give over how soon it despaires Thy Daughter is dead and why troublest thou any further as though all were at an end with the Daughter all life and spirit and expectation and importunity such faint spirits must ever have some principle some pulse or motion in a businesse to encourage them on if shee bee dead once they die too such looke not at Christ at his power at his life and word but at the Daughter that is dead they consider not how Christ is alive and how soon he may blow a spirit into her arteries and a soule into her body and a sparke into her ashes but the coldnesse in the body and emptinesse in the artery and incineration in the ashes every sleep is to them a death every obstruction a destruction every decay a ruine irreparable every dissolution an annihilation prayers and holy importunities are vaine troubles and hopelesse endeavours and redresse of impossibilities Why troublest thou the Master any further how soone a weake suggestion stops all the wheels and retards the businesse and amazes the proceeding how soon they are taken off with any period or clause Why troublest thou any further not any further probability or likelyhood not any further trouble or endeavour with them how easily is a carnall reason convinced how strong an Argument can nature make how soon is her word taken thy Daughter is dead Thy sword into his place Matth. 26. 52. Then said Jesus Put up againe thy sword into his place The Flame O my God even a Disciple to thy Jesus may draw his weapon in as much hast as another his passions may bee as soone unsheathed in defence of his Master hee is but cold that hath not so much heat as to be angry in Jesus cause nor so much courage as to weare a sword in his behalf that is hath something of power and authority about him yet Jesus bids Put up againe thy sword none of his shall have a sword drawn against the sword of authority if that be out his Disciple shall have command to put up againe a private weapon must not clash against a publick neither be drawne or at least appeare Put up thy sword that is let there be even no shew of resistance and Put it up into his place not into theirs not into the place of the Magistrate or Authority sheath it not there that is not his place but theirs the Kings the Princes and Governors it is to bee feared if the Disciples have their swords out they doe not heare when Christ calls to Peter in the name of the rest Put up thy sword againe into his place Pray yonder Matth. 26. 36 37. And saith unto the Disciples Sit yee here while I goe and pray yonder And he taketh with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee Discovery I Discover that Jesus teaches a decorum to his Disciples at Prayer Sit yee here hee places them and orderly Sit yee here doe not leane here or use any irreverent gesture but Sit yee here and not while I pray here neither but while I pray yonder thus he wisely distinguishes his duty and theirs if they sit here he will pray yonder they must keep a decent distance while he officiates they must bee here and he yonder not both here or both yonder but as though here he had appointed seats for them and yonder a pew for himselfe and sit yee while I goe that is quiet settle compose your thoughts passions stay them from wandering and straying Sit yee that is put your selves in a firme posture use your preparation while I use mine Sit yee while I goe that is my spirit my soule hath a journey to take yet beyond yours as far as a prayer Sit ye while I go and pray and sit yee while I goe as though here should bee the Congregation and yonder the Minister Sit ye while I goe while I move in the services while I I your Master and Minister and Bishop of your soules while I goe And hee goes not alone neither hee will have his holy assistants and co-adjutors as a grace and honour to the prayer and service though they do little and they shall not goe after him to this holy businesse neither but with him as it were beside him at the holy imployment And hee taketh with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee The Place Matth. 28. 6. Come see the place where the Lord lay The Flame O My God the very place where Jesus hath beene is good and gracefull to look at Come see the place the very place hath so much worth in it as will deserve a Come and see Come it is a good motion and setting forward to Religion to come where Christ hath been to see the place of him where he was either preach'd or taught or died or buried Christ hath more places then one every soule that hath had Christ a day or a night or a moneth or a yeere that hath had a forme of godlinesse and Christianity hath for that time been the place or tombe where the Lord lay where hee so journed and come and see how empty the place is without him how unfurnish'd now hee is gone and in Apostacies or fallings away you may see the place where the Lord lay for such soules are but his tombes for the time places where hee dies where his graces and vertue and power perish and these were places where the Lord lay for he never stood here never sate here in these soules their godlinesse was never in so firm and stout a posture but he lay the posture hee was in was a faint a feeble a declining a disable posture Jesus met them Matth. 28. 9. And as they went to tell his Disciples Jesus met them Discovery I Discover they that go upon Jesus businesse shall bee sure of his company sooner or later if not at their setting forward yet ere they come to their journies end as they went Jesus met them them that were seekers and followers of him them that had a longing and desire after him he met