Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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spirit_n	adam_n	son_n	zion_n	28	3	8.9475	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34689	A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; R. D. (Roger Drake), 1608-1669.; Scott, Chr. (Christopher), fl. 1655.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6452; ESTC R5113	587,691	443

of it if your souls desire it in good earnest God accepts of it as done so for your Families if you instruct them and strive to build them up you say it is in vain no truly God will be your reward So it may be a stay to Ministers that desire by all means to convert some and yet finde no fruit of their labours yet thou shalt have thy reward with thy God for if false Prophets that go about to seduce though they seduce not yet God accounts them seducers so God accepts of thy good will and endeavour as much as if thou hadst effected it Obj. Then we may easily flatter our selves and say I desire that my soul and all mine might do well A. If a man have a willing minde to a thing it will much comfort him if he do it and grieve him if he cannot performe it thou sayest thou wouldst have thy selfe and all thine do well is it thy greatest grief that thou canst not effect this and would it be thy greatest comfort if thou couldst then God accepts thy desire but if a man have only some lazie desires if it go well well and good if not he is not much troubled there was no right desire 1 JOHN 2.27 But the annoynting which yee have received of him abideth in you c. Doct. EVery Child of God even the least and the meanest have received the Vnction of the Spirit of this we heard vers 20. But something is to be considered in the varying of the words vers 20. he said they had it here he saith they have received it of him Doct. The Children of God receive this Vnction of the Spirit from God from the Father and from Christ John 14.16 17. John 16.13 Gods sending and our receiving are relata 2 Cor. 1.21 22. Gods giving and our taking mutually agree one to another and sometimes God the Father is said to send the Spirit and sometimes God the Son it is God that sends it but Christ that hath prayed that he would send it John 14.16 17. and by his Death and Ascension hath he purchased and procured the Spirit for us Acts 2.32.33 The Reasons why we must receive this Unction from God and from Christ Reas 1. Because of our selves what we have by Nature is a spirit of errour and falshood and corruption and therefore because we have no Unction from the first Adam no spirit that heales us and softens us and chears us we have no spirit that doth annoynt us but rather besmear us and daub us with base lusts therefore if we have any Spirit of Grace it is needfull that we should receive it from the second Adam 2 We receive it from the Father because by Christ we are made Sons and therefore have need of the spirit of Sons Gal. 4.4 5 6. all of us like Christ his eldest Son Gods Spirit is the mark whereby he owns us it is the earnest penny that we have Rom. 8.14 that we might be comforted therefore called the comforter John 16.13 the earnest penny and first fruits of eternal glory an earnest penny is part of the payment of the same nature with the whole this Spirit is part of the payment which we shall then receive in abundance now in a small measure we have now little love and faith c. but he will make perfect love perfect knowledge perfect strength 3 That Christ should give it is from his death whereby he purchased it Gal. 3.13 14. and by his Ascension he shed abroad his Spirit in our hearts as when Elias was ascending into Heaven he spread abroad his Mantle upon Elisha whereby he was cloathed with a double Spirit so when Christ ascended into Heaven he spread abroad his Mantle as it were his Spirit which every Christian taking is cloathed with the Spirit of Christ with the Spirit of gladnesse and holinesse Vse 1. Shews the wonderfull love of God even to the least and meanest of his Servants that not only gives us his Son to be our Redeemer but his Spirit to be our Sanctifier so large is God in his bounty no wonder then if he give us health and peace and friends and means and maintenance for he that gives us his Son and his Spirit will he deny us lesser things so that this is not only an expression of his love but an argument of our faith and consolation he that gives us his Son and his Spirit will give us all things Luke 12.32 Fear not little flock c. and no wonder for he hath given us the earnest here Vse 2. To teach Gods Children not to be proud of any Spiritual gift that God gives us 1 Cor. 4.7 if all we have we have received what have we to boast And let us not insult over others for they may receive the Spirit of Unction as well as we as Paul did though he were a persecutor so much lesse should we despise weaker Christians than our selves what if they have received but a little measure of faith and love and patience c. why that little is so much that it seals them up to eternall happinesse they have received so much that they are invested with the garment of Christ therefore let there be no striving or contention or contempt among Brethren seeing all have received this Unction Vse 3. Have you received the Spirit then so walk in him rooted and established in him Col. 2.6 7. why have you received it but that you may pray and preach and buy and sell in this Spirit therefore let every one so walk that he may expresse that he hath received the Spirit of God Gal. 5.25 as yee have received the Spirit so walk in him put forth the life of the Spirit in every employment not your own spirit but shew forth the grace of him which hath called you out of darknesse into his marvellous light Doct. 2. The Spirit which the Children of God have received of him dwells in them for ever John 14.16 17. it is an in-dwelling and abiding Spirit 1 Cor. 3.6 6.29 Ephes 2.20 21 22. the Spirit of God builds a Tabernacle in you and dwels in you Reas 1. Now the Spirit is said to abide in us because having knit us to Jesus Christ we are become of his flesh and bone now it were both a dishonour and unseemly for Christ to have any livelesse dead member therefore that God might make us serviceable unto him he continues his Spirit to us that may inliven us 2 God that gives us this earnest penny would have it continue with us till the payment be compleat 3 The same reason that moves God to give us his Spirit moves him to continue it to us we have as much need to be like God in our whole course as at first and have as much need of assurance of Glory Phil. 1.6 the same God that begins the work will also continue it to us Vse 1. A ground of trial of our estates if we have no spirit

no nor in life it selfe for they are all transitory but intreat God to set your hearts on everlasting things on everlasting life and induring riches and pleasures for from him they flow Psal 16. ult these are an abiding inheritance and will stick close to us this is the vanity of earthly things the fulnesse of them breeds loathsomnesse and fulsomnesse and a man is duld with them they seem full of comfort till we get them and when we have them we are weary of them but grace on the contrary seems hatefull till it be got but when it is once got the more a man hath the more he desireth godly sorrow breeds repentance never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7.10 neither by God nor by them never did christian repent of his repentance or Faith or godlinesse Riches profit not in the day of wrath Prov. 11.4 therefore love not those things which cannot comfort us when we have most need Joh. 6.26 27. Labour not for the meat that perisheth so labour not for the riches or honour or pleasure that perish but labour for that profit and pleasure and honour which endures for ever We come now to the opposition that which is opposed to the transitoriness of these things the World and the lusts thereof viz. He that doth the will of God abideth for ever Doct. Such as doe the will of God are not as the World and lusts of it of a fading transitory condition but they stand in a permanent abiding Estate Q. 1 What is it to abide for ever A. 1 It implies he is not of an unsteady fleeting temper but of a constant and even frame of spirit and life not now in and now out and never of a constant frame but of an even temper as mountaines are not easily shaken or driven to and fro but remaine in their strength and place why so such as trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion that shall not be moved Psal 125.1 and he gives the reason vers 2. without any changing or removing 2 He is said to remain for ever because he doth abide in that Estate for ever there is a difference between constancy and perseverance a man may be said to goe to London though he keeps not even on but goes out and in so such a man as aimes at heaven and goes on as evenly as he can and if he goes out he gets in again such a one perseveres in his way to heaven Q. 2 What is it to doe the will of God A He that doth the will of God stands in opposition to the World and the lusts of it and by this will is not mâ—ant only the will of Gods pleasure but the will of Gods Commandement for all the Creatures doe the will of Gods good pleasure for they all doe things so far as God wills so that if a man doe his own will he sh ll not goe besides Gods will but here he means the will of Gods Commandement Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into Heaven but be that doth the will of my Father Mat. 7.21 tâ—at is the revealed Will of God Joh. 8.51 For the ground of the point why they abide for ever 1 Because they are born of the unchangeable Will of God of his own Will begat he us Jam 4.18 and he means that Will which is not dependant on the Creature but free Rom. 9.15 There is no cause moving but the only Will of God he will have mercy because he will have mercy therefore when God bestows any mercy on the Creature because he will doe it it puts the Creature on an unexchangeable condition 2 From the vigour and strength of doing the Will of God no man doth the Will of God but the more he shall be inabled and caused to doe it the doing of Gods Will is the ground and strength of a Christian life Joh. 4.34 he means not only he did it chearfully but it was that which refreshed his soul and strengthened his body so that he felt neither hunger nor thirst but it was strength and freedome of spirit to doe his Fathers Will so that though he was thirsty yet his words to the woman did so refresh him that it was his strength and refreshment now if it be so that the more a man doth the Will of God the more strength he hath to doe it nay it conveyes not only strength to the soul but also to the body as a Tree the more fruit it brings forth upwards the deeper rooting it takes downwards so a Christian the more fruit he brings forth to God the deeper he strikes his root in Christ John 14.21 22. if it be thus I say well may he abide for ever 3 From the near union which such have with Christ that doe the Will of his Father Christ came for that end to doe his Fathers Will Joh. 6.38 therefore he that doth the Will of his Father is near to Christ he is Father and Mother and Brother and Sister Mark 3. ult because they are born of the same Father of the same Spirit and they doe the same work if therefore we doe his Will not as Servants but as Children then we are as heirs and remain in the house for ever Joh. 8.35 36. 4 From Gods readinesse ever to hear the prayers of such as doe his Will as the blind man said Joh. 8.34 If any man doe the Will of God him he hears wherein he shews that suitable to our hearing of God God hears us if we hear God in his Commandements he will heare us in our petitions if we take up Gods Word he will take up our prayers that they be not lost if we be sinners God hears not us why because we hear not him God is as ready to doe our wills as we are to doe his Mat. 7 2. with what measure we meet to him he will meet to us if we be careful to attend to his Word and industrious to doe his Will God will certainly doe our wills as we have done his Psal 139. ult he desires to be led in everlasting wayes that is the Will of God for that is only everlasting and a Christian praying to doe Gods Will as the Angels God will fulfil his will and his Will is to abide for ever and so it is Gods Will that he should abide for ever Obj. Doth not David complain I am tossed to and fro as a Grashopper Psal 109.22 Ans He speaks not there of his inward estate which was constant and even but his outward estate which was very unconstant sometimes puld from the Ordinances he hopt from one place to another from Mountains to Woods and Caves from place to place like a Grashopper but his inward frame was constant and even Obj. But was not Davids inward frame s metimes very uneven he that had sometimes shewed much kindnesse to Mephibosheth after took away his Lands he that sometimes was smitten for cutting off Sauls skirt after sticks not to

but the spirit of the old Adam the spirit of pride and malice and covetousnesse truly this is not the Spirit of Christ that makes us like him this is not that Spirit that Christ purchased for us by his Death and Ascension but suppose we had some of the Spirit of God the spirit of Wisdom as Achitophel the spirit of joy as Herod the spirit of Zeal as Jehu the spirit of fear as Felix had yet we have not this Unction of the Spirit unlesse it dwell in us What is it to be wrapt with a spirit of a Balaam or a Saul it was only for a fit and what comfort was it to them it was a shuttle spirit by starts and did not abide in them therefore let us try whether we have received the Spirit if we have received a dwelling spirit it is a true spirit Obj. But some may say Alas what then will become of me it may be now I pray but ere night wholly unabld now inlarged then straightned I have now a spirit of zeal and courage soon after all cold and weak and dead wonderfull was the zeal and courage of Elias in slaying four hundred of Baals Prophets openly 1 Kings 18.40 he went through it with such zeal and speed as if he had been sent from Heaven yet Cap. 19.1 2. when Jezabel sent to him he fled for his life and was so weary of his life that he wished death now his Spirit was cold and discontent aad weary of his life So David Psal 119.24 David said he had made the word his delight yet ver 25. he saith his soul cleaves to the dust and prays to God for quicking A. This Spirit that is so to abide doth not always abide in the same measure nor in the same measure of expression but we must know though there be several garments yet the Soul is never naked a man hath not always his Holy-day garments sweetly perfumed but sometimes homely mean garments so Elias when he slew Baals Prophets was cloathed with zeal and Holy-day garments afterwards he remitted of it and yet had he the Spirit of God on him he was not naked though he was not cloathed with the Spirit in such a measure even so sometimes we have even poor ragged homely garments and much of our nakednesse appears and sometimes again may be when God hath greater businesse for us to do cloathes us with better richer garments a greater measure of the Spirit but yet consider though we have not the same measure yet always some garment of the Spirit rests on us be it but the spirit of love to our Brethren or grief for the want of it yet we are not left naked Vse 2 May exhort su if we have this Spirit dwelling in us then let us use him honourably and courteously as an in-dweller he is come from farre even from Heaven sent from our Father and he brings joy and comfort with him therefore let us give him honourable entertainment he is sent to guide us in all our ways to be a pledge of our eternall inheritance therefore let us not entertain him like some guest that we are weary of in two or three days you must know this guest came not for a day but to dwell with us for ever John 14.16 therefore take heed of grieving him Eph. 4.13 he comes for your good and benefit for your redemption When a man keeps a Ward and for keeping him keeps a great estate a Kingdome he would be very carefull so the Spirit is such a Guest that if you keep him you keep Life and Salvation you keep an eternall Kingdom by him therefore take part with Gods Spirit joyne with the Spirit of God quench it not what an heavie complaint made Stephen Acts 7.51 Isa 63.10 the Spirit may be so grieved and vexed by men that he will depart from them Q. How shall we keep our selves from grieving the Spirit A. As God hath given him to guide you so look that you be guided by him if you entertain him kindly he will comfort you if you grieve him he will grieve your spirits 2 Be carefull to nourish him do not strave this Guest neglect not the Word and Ordinances which are the food of the Spirit Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecie 1 Thes 5. as if the despising of Prophecy were the quenching of the Spirit therefore feed the Spirit of God with-draw not food from it prefer not outward things before it it is a wonder how leane our souls will grow if we do not nourish the Spirit 3 Take heed especially of living in any known Sin for that damps and deads the Spirit therefore David wofully camplains Psal 51.8 to 12. Restore c. as if it were quite gone his very bones were broaken that is not of his body but his soul i. e. the strength and staff of his spirit the Spirit is like fire every grosse sin is like water cast on it it quencheth it Vse 3 A ground of much consolation to Gods servants you can never say you dwell alone and want company you cannot want good company if the holy Spirit dwell in you I am not alone saith Christ but the Father is with me so may a Christian say I am never alone the Spirit of God dwells in me he is an in-dwelling and abiding Spirit Doct. 3 The annoynting of the Spirit teacheth us all things of which you heard verse 20. It teacheth all things needfull to salvation needfull to life and godlinesse 2 Pet. 1.3 and not only so but needfull to our places and callings and ages Doct. 4. The anonytment of the Spirit is so plentifull and sufficient that we need not be taught better things nor in a better manner than the Spirit teacheth Jerem. 31.32 not that we need not Magistracy or Ministry but he speaks comparatively you shall not be so helped by any Instuctions without the Spirit as with the Spirit the Spirit shall declare the Truth in Jesus For Explication 1 The Holy Ghost teacheth fully 1 Cor. 3.9 10 11. the spirit of a Christian is inquisitive concerning all things now the Spirit helps him to search even into the deep things of God so that the Spirit is a full teacher 2 The instruction of the Spirit is plain and clear 1 Tim. 4.1 Joh. 16.25 Christ spake in parables but after his ascension the Spirit revealed things clearly Three things go to clear discerning the object must be clear the medium clear and the eye clear and then we may clearly discern now the Holy Ghost plainly reveals the Counsells of God and then opens our judgements to discern it and then cleares all the mediums so that a Christian may plainly discern so that the Tpirit is a clear Instructor no men need be taught more clearly 1 Cor. 2.4 5. 3 The Instruction of the Spirit is a certain Instruction scarce any truth but a Christian can tell it by experience as a woman that is breeding a Child feels such qualmes and

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