Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	adoption_n	cry_v	father_n	9,732	5	5.0154	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29681	An arke for all Gods Noahs in a gloomy stormy day, or, The best wine reserved till last, or, The transcendent excellency of a believers portion above all earthly portions whatsoever discovered in several sermons ... / by Thomas Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4929; ESTC R6208	184,660	523

faith of assurance to a blush as he will put the faith of expectance to a blush Psal 22.26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise the Lord that seek him your heart shall live for ever First or last such as seek him shall have such an answer of their prayers as shall turn their prayers into praises and their petitions into thanksgivings Psal 84.11 The Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk uprightly God will be an universal all-sufficient and satisfactory good to them that walk uprightly the Lord is as full of goodness as the Sun is full of light and he will as freely and as fully and as impartially communicate his goodnesse to them that walk uprightly Matth. 5.45 as the Sun doth her light both to the just and the unjust As under the name of no good thing will he with-hold all temporal good things are to be understood so under the name of grace all spiritual good things are to be understood and under the name of glory all eternal good things are to be understood And now if God will give all spiritual and all eternal good things to his people how can he then but sooner or later give a cleer and satisfactory evidence into his peoples bosomes that he is their portion And not onely express promises but also the graces of the Spirit and the testimony of the Spirit confirms the same thing the language of every saving grace is this The Lord is thy portion O thou believing soul and the language and testimony of the Spirit is the same Rom. 8.15 Ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Vers 16. The Spirit it self beareth witnesse with our spirits that we are the children of God Shall an instinct in nature teach young ones to know their Damms and shall not the Spirit of God by a divine instinct teach the Saints to know God to be their God and to be their portion also Surely yes though this or that particular Christian may go to his grave without a satisfactory evidence in his own bosome that God is his portion yet in an ordinary course at first or last God doth give his people some assurance that he is their portion yea rather than they shall always live or die without assurance of their salvation and that he is their portion he will work a miracle to assure them of his love I have both heard and read of a rare story of Mrs. Honywood a famous professor of the Gospel and one that for many years together lay under the burthen of a wounded spirit and was much troubled in mind for want of assurance that God was her portion and that she should be saved from wrath to come at length there came a godly Minister to her who indeavoured to settle her faith and hope in Christ and pressing many Gospel-promises upon her she took it with a kinde of indignation and anger that he should offer to present any promises to her to whom as she thought they did not belong and having a Venice-glasse in her hand she held it up and said Speak no more to me of salvation for I shall as surely be damn'd as this poor brittle glasse shall be broke against the wall throwing it with all her force to break it but it so pleased God that by a miraculous providence the glasse was preserved whole the Minister beholding the miracle took up the glasse and said unto her Behold God must work a miracle for you before you will believe and for ever after that day she had very strong assurance of her salvation and that God was her portion and so lived and died in a sweet and comfortable sense of the love and favour of God Now to provoke you to labour with all your might to attain to a clear personal satisfactory evidence in your own bosomes that God is your portion do but seriously consider and lay to heart the rare and singular advantages that will redound to your souls by this meanes I shall onely touch upon some by which your selves may guesse at others First By this means your hearts will come to be fixed setled and established A mans soul never comes to be fixed and setled by knowing in the general that God is the Saints portion but by a personal evidence and certainty of knowledge that he is his particular portions whil'st a mans particular propriety is unsetled all is unsetled in his soul but when a mans particular propriety is setled when he can say Psa 57.7 Ps 108 1. Psal 112.7 this God is my God and the Lord is my portion then all is setled then all is at peace in the soul A man that hath God for his portion if he do not know it will still be like a Ship at sea in the midst of a storm tost here and there and now rowling on one side and then on the other and never quiet never lying still but a man that hath God for his portion and knows it he is like a Ship in a good Harbour that lies quiet and still yea he is like Mount Zion that cannot be removed But Secondly A clear personal evidence that God is a mans portion will rid his soul of all sinful doubts O Christians Luke 24.14 15. now your hearts are as full of doubts as hell is full of darknesse one day you doubt whether your graces are true and another day you doubt whether your comforts are true now you doubt of your Saintship and anon of your Sonship and then of your Heirship sometimes you doubt of your communion with God sometimes you doubt of your acquaintance with God and sometimes you doubt of your acceptance with God one hour you doubt of the favour of God and the next hour you doubt of your accesse to God And as it is thus with you so it will be thus with you till you come to have some clear satisfaction in your own spirits that God is your portion O Christians had you but once a personal evidence in your own bosomes that God is your portion all those doubts that are bred and fed by ignorance and unbelief and that rob the soul of all joy comfort and content and that render men Babes in Christianity and that cast reproach upon God Christ and the Promises c. and that do most gratifie and advantage Satan to tempt and try your souls would vanish and disperse as the Clouds do before the Sun when it shines in its brightnesse till a Christians eyes be opened to see God to be his portion his heart will be full of doubts and perplexities John 20.13 14 15 16. Though Mary Magdalen was very neer to Christ yet she stands sighing mourning and complaining That they had stollen away her Lord. A Christian may have God for his portion yet till he comes to see God to be his portion he will spend his dayes in sighing