Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	body_n	head_n	159	3	6.2156	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63830	Iehovah Iireh merito audiens, præco evangelicus An angell from heaven, or, An ambassadour for Christ, descending from God, ascending unto God, lawfully dignified, compleately qualified : heard (vvith religious devotion) reporting his ambassage to the honourable societies of the Inner and Middle Temples, on Sunday the eleventh day of December, 1642 ... / by Edw. Tuke.	Tuke, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing T3224; ESTC R10730	21,383	28

of Gods Divinity then which higher he cannot goe for God is terminus ad quem the most exact indeavour of our conceits infinitely transcending all our ●ast and wisest aymes of mortall perfection every Embassadour apart may augment the Jdea or notion of his Glory according to the predicament of his own abillity But God is above all in Heaven and Earth and the perfect knowledge of him is Essentially Himselfe who being Actu infinitus nonreperitur in ●llo praedicamento as Arist To conclude this Embassador must know God so far as to do him justice by true and seasonable service answerable to his nature which is spiritu et veritate in spirit and truth And the people to whom this Embassadour comes must deale justly with God likewise by receaving his Embassage in purity of heart and spirit Deus est spiritus God is a spirit si Deus est animus sit tibi purâmente Colendus if God be a spirit ye must worship him in spirit yea the Father seeks for such worshippers these are only right Worshipfull a pure spirit is a sacrifice to God an harmelesle life a spotlesse soule optimus animus pulcherrimus Dei cultus a pure mind is the best service to God the most religious worshipping of God is to follow him Amore more ore re and the only true serving and honoring of God in Priest and people is not evill in summe let this Embassadours Justice and the peoples practise towards God meet both in this that it be perfecta pura perpetua perfect that both only love him pure that both wisely feare him perpetuall that both only and firmely beleive in him and rest in him And let the Ambassadour herein be just to himself that he punctually understand the will of his King and the weale of his people In the first wisely and orderly to informe himself In the second soberly and fully to instruct the people his honesty must play the skillfull Organist to touch well and truely according to Art nor may he at all times interweave a discourse of Justice Pharasaicall and legall to the people to whom he comes the Christian only must be his rule and then he is an Embassadour for Christ when he is thus honestly just to Christians I say honestly for herein what health is in the body the same is honestly in the soule Salus animae is honestas corporis And to summe up all the Prophets Basar and the Angells 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good and new joyfull and seasonable Tidings of Christ promised of Christ exhibited must from his mouth dropp like Soveraign oyle of Gladnes to annoint the swelling heart of the miserable wounded man whom the Priest and Levite the Law could not stand to pity or look upon to remedy this oyle thus dropping upon the soule of a Sinner melted and dissolved by sence and sorrowes for sinne to bitter teares will in these liquids appeare uppermost and as the oint ment upon Aarons head will not only supple himself but runne down upon the skirts of his Clothing the meanest of his Auditours Oh the Excellency of such an Ambassadour the measure proportion and Comlinesse of his body is wisdome and spirituall beauty the riches of his spirit are the Gifts of the spirit and his sciences and his Justice to God and man is as that noble Aptnes which disposeth him to all vertues and holines and so much for this Justice from that I have spoken by necessary consequence you may deduce the prime strength of an Ambassadour to depend upon well grounded intelligence and practicall wisedome which Moses such a man of God intimates by his Urim and Thummim so much discipline an ordinary eare might take in from that golden Bell and Pomegranate which surrounded the hem of the Priests robe this is that onely delightfull sound and pleasant tast which through the application of the holy Ghost the voice of the Father the Son is effectuall to preserve the sin-spotted soul dumb sinner unto purity Hallelujahs everlasting I omit the significant illustrations unto this duty which the inseparable and particular ornaments of the Tabernacle might lead me and content my selfe with those rules which Saint Paul applied to Timothy and Titus Hold fast a forme of sound words giving attendance to reading and doctrine exhort and convince be apt and able to teach which doctrine clearly opposeth all unfit quarrelling with words frothy and scummy-jangling language and all peevish theevish treacherous and traiterous documents Thus like the noted Musician I have sate so long upon this Text that I feare I have not kept time I confesse my selfe unprepared for farther prosecution of any part coincident to and with this Text I beseech you suffer my jejune and dry oratory to expresse an application of what hath beene hitherto propounded which through Gods assistance and your patience I shall thus epitomize 1. It instructs the Ambassadour with all meet preparation considerately to undertake his Embassage for they are the savour of life to life or death to death to the people to whom they come and to that office must bee required more then ordinary circumspection the issues whereof are of such extraordinary concernment Hence Moses complaines of his want of utterance and eloquence and S. Paul Who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2. 16. The treasures comprised in the rich Casket of sacred Scripture with which they are by God intrusted to communicate unto the people are for profundity so great and for extent so large that I may resume that of Saint Paul Who is sufficient c. it justly pursues the runners of these times which without mission or commission lay hands on consecrated things whom I lovingly advise to stay at Iericho till their beards be growne for if Deacons must first be tryed and then Minister if they be found faithfull much more should workmen of more eminent faculty not assume unto themselves a calling unlesse some Timothy or Titus duly authorised by a sacred symboll of manuall imposition give them externall appointment to that function Gods holy Spirit must give them primary and private motion their owne consciences evident and certaine justification the Church legall ordination and though at this time there is great question about the forme of ordination yet in all ages and in all well ordered places there have beene certaine constitutions and cannons for admitting of men upon triall into sacred orders and I finde not that ever the setled order of any Church for such purposes hath beene so calumniated and branded as at this time this of ours Hence I shall not feare to conclude that who ever shall prophesie or preach in this Church without examination approbation and faculty by present authority commeth of himselfe and as a false Prophet I take it our duty to beware of him 2. The name of an Ambassadour implies faithfulnesse in the declaration of his Embassage he comes not forth without instructions what he shall say and doe nor