Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abase_v	proud_a	tend_v	40	3	10.1397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

persons when they know most and see Truth with the most spiritual Eye then they have always the greatest abhorrency of themselves in the truest sence of their own vileness so it will be with the who●e Church of Christ when God shall in the latter days discover his Glory which Isaiah and others have had some Glympses of most clearly and most perspicuously as he will then reveal it as Isa 35. 2. Jer. 31. 14. Isa 40. 5. and many other places shew Then when his whole Sion shall be filled with the discoveries of the Goodness the Grace the Kindness the pardoning Mercies of the Lord When all their Iniquities are pardoned and all that dwell in Sion shall be forgiven their Iniquity Then shall they be most humble and most abhorring themselves for their own vileness as Ezek. 16. 62 63. And I will establish my Covenant with thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that thou mayst remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord God And the like Ezek. 36. 31. where the Lord having declared what great things he would do for them it is said Then shall ye remember your own Evil Ways and your Doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your Iniquities and for your Abominations But those persons are far from abho●●ing themselves in the sence of their vileness and from taking shame and confusion of faces to themselves that are greatly netled and offended at any reproof of another that judgeth he seeth some Evil in a man that he oug●t to reprove him for What doth this argue but that such a person is puffed up and hath a high esteem of himself as if he could not erre and would not have any to think he doth erre nor to have any mean thought of him because he hath no mean thoughts of himself What doth this argue but Pride and thinking more highly of himself then he ought to think that ought to be poor and needy mean and unworthy in his ow● esteem continually But for a person to ●●et and ●ume to be offended and highly displeased and to gather up all the Fig-Leaves that possibly he can to cover his shame and not ingeniously to acknowledge it to the very utmost circumstance of it as f●r as he is guilty doth discover a very proud and unworthy spirit And of this sin very many of the Lords People are too guilty But I cannot charge 〈◊〉 upon any one Distinction or Understanding of them more then upon others some of each being very sadly guilty of it But for an humble Soul that 's truly humble indeed no Reproofs for Evil can offend it whether they be justly or unjustly administ●ed to him for he will say Let the Righteous smite me and it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me and it shall be an excellent Oyl which shall not break my Head And will Psa 141. 5 say to such Blessed be you of the Lord for your faithfulness to me and though it may be I do not see this Evil in my self so clearly as you do yet it may be you may see what I do not and I desire to search my hea●● throughly in this matter for it is apt to deceive me and I know I am a poor vile Worm and I desire to be more sensible of my own vileness and unworthiness then you can be and I desire from my Soul to be cleansed from this evil and I desire your Prayers that I may be so and may be fully convinced of it and may repent in Dust and Ashes and blessed be God that hath given this blessed Precept to his People to reprove for Sin They that hate their Brother in Lev. 19. ●● their Heart will not do this kind Office But this is an Act of Love to my Soul and I highly prize it for the Love of this kind is better then other Love that Prov. 27. 5. 1 Cor. 11. 31 32. may be in the Heart but cometh not forth into Act therefore open Rebuke is better then secret Love And I desire always to be thus dealt with that I may judge my self and condemn my self that I may not be condemed with the World Thus the humble Soul will be so far from being offended at Reproof as it will with thankfulness receive the sharpest Reproof you can administer unto him But when a person cannot bear Reproof whether it be justly or unjustly administred to him let him conclude that any unkindly bearing of Reproof springs from Pride not that a man ought not at any time to endeavour to clear himself when he is not at all guilty of an Evil if upon a mistake or mis-apprehension he be charged with it for if a man be wholly guiltless of that evil that he is charged with yet if first he cannot with all meekness and sweetness return an answer to his Brother or Sister that reproves him but storms and is offended he is proud and cannot endure that any should have mean thoughts of him and though he may be guiltless in this yet in some other respects it may be he is ten times worse then they charge him with Or secondly if he do make a soft answer yet if he have a secret grudge in his heart against that Brother and heart-rising thoughts and cannot as truly and tenderly respect him as ever he did and as one that hath done him a very kind and friendly office he is proud for nothing but a haughty spirit will move him to disrespect him for speaking that to him that may tend any way to his abasing for a truly humble Soulde●●res always to be abased in its own Eyes and is not troubled if it be abased in the Eyes of others as knowing it cannot be more abased then it deserves to be But that too many of them that are called the House of Jacob and Israel and that profess to be nearer to God then others have been de●ply guilty of this sort of proud spirit hath been too evident and apparent Their proud spirits and high stomachs that must come down and their haughtiness that must be humbled being visible to many when the●e have been Reproofs administred to them and of this both Presbyterians Quakers Baptised and Independants some of them all are to be charged Another thing wherein some of them all have also been guilty of Pride is their being lifted up because of Gods holy Mountain and each of them despising and undervaluing others because they thought they in particular were Gods holy Mountain As the Baptised Churches have many Members of them if not most of them been ready to censure and judge all others as being none of Christs but those that were in their way and they onely were Sion they onely were the Israel of God and those that come in to them they come to Sion they *