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	receive_v	6,371	5	5.4895	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77498	The drinking of the bitter cup: or, The hardest lesson in Christ's school, learned and taught by himself, passive obedience. Wherein, besides divers doctrinall truths of great importance, many practicall directions are held forth, for the teaching of Christians how to submit to their heavenly father in suffering his will, both in life and death, patiently, obediently, willingly. / As it was lately presented to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4713; Thomason E1838_1; ESTC R210133	201,893	311

31.9 and is to all within the pale of the visible Church but by Adoption that he hath by a speciall grace adopted us into the dignity of his children Which we may be assured of when once we have received that Spirit of Adoption which the Apostle speaketh of Rom. 8.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy Spirit of God regenerating of us and working effectually in us working in us a childe-like disposition filiall affections towards this our heavenly Father a filial fear a filial love a filial affiance causing us to fear him as a Father to love him as a Father to trust in him and depend upon him as a Father Finding such a disposition such affections in our hearts now may we be assured that God is our Father And being our Father let us now call him so Vse 3 Call God our Father This is that which the Lord saith of his servant David Psal 89.26 He shall cry unto me thou art my Father And it is that which he requireth from his people the Jewes Jer. 3.4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My Father viz. from the time that he had admonished them of their duty and corrected them for their sins And so again vers 19. of the same Chapter I said thou shalt call me My Father that is so own and acknowledge me And this let all the Lords people do This is the language which the Spirit of Adoption teacheth all Gods children to call God their Father Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father saith Paul to his Romans Rom. 8.15 And the like to his Galathians Gal. 4.6 Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father And this do we call God our Father and that not only with our tongues but our hearts so looking upon him so owning and acknowledging of him Which do we at all times in all estates and conditions God to be looked upon by his Children as a Father in Adversity as well as Prosperity in whatever God doth to us or we to him still look upon him under the notion of a Father 1. As first in receiving of mercies and blessings from him In receiving of mercies take them as from the hand of a Father as pledges and tokens of his love therein acknowledging his Fatherly affection 2. So also in confessing of sins and begging pardon for them In confessing of sins come unto God as unto a Father So doth the Prodigall Son in the Parable Luk. 15.18 I will arise saith he and go to my Father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee 3. So again in deploring of wants spirituall or temporall In deploring of Wants and making suit for a supply of them come unto God as a Father So our Saviour teacheth us to do in that Pattern and Form of Prayer which he hath left us When ye pray say Our Father which art in heaven Luk. 11.6 directing Christians to make all their addresses unto God under that notion as a Father When thou pray st pray to thy Father Math. 6.6 4. And so again in Deprecations of evils feared when God seemeth to be coming against us In deprecating of evils feared yet call him Father So did David his Father-in-law King Saul when he was coming out against him hunting his soul to take it as he speaks yet even then he calls out to him My Father 1 Sam. 24.11 And the like do we to our heavenly Father Though he come against us as an enemy yet still call him Father So doth our blessed Saviour when he saw this bitter Cup coming towards him apprehended his Passion at hand He fell on his face saith the Text and prayed saying O my Father if it be possible let this Cup passe from me Matth. 26.39 5. And the like also in Evils felt When the hand of God lyeth heavy upon us In present sufferings pressing us sore yet still call him Father So doth the Church in those Texts forecited when God hid himself from her dealt most severely with her yet still she challengeth her Relation calling him her Father Doubtlesse thou art our Father Isa 63.16 But now O Lord thou art our Father Cap. 64.7 And so doth our blessed Saviour in the Paroxisme of his Passion hanging upon the Crosse still he retains his former language calling God his Father Father forgive them Luk. 23.34 And when the pangs of death were upon him he breatheth out his soul with those words Father into thy hand I commend my Spirit vers 46. of that Chap. And the like do we stirring up our hearts to a holy imitation of this our heavenly Pattern In all our afflictions and sufferings of what knide soever they be yet still call God Father so look we upon him so apprehend and acknowledge him A good sign of a gracious spirit so to doe To call God Father when he frowns a sign of a gracious spirit I scarce know a better then to call God Father when he frowns upon us is angry with us hath a rod in his hand when he is correcting us An easie matter it is so to do whilest he is smiling upon us whilest we receive or expect blessings and favours from him Blesse me my Father saith Esau to Isaac Gen. 27.34 But when he hath as I said a rod in his hand and we feel the smart of it when his hand lyeth heavy upon us when he writeth bitter things against us when he is turned to be our enemy fighting against us by his Judgements then to call him Father so to look upon him so to apprehend and acknowledge him surely this is no other but a fruit of that Spirit the Spirit of Adoption And this let all Gods children stir up their hearts to doe To look upon God as a Father of great use in Afflictions thus to look upon God in all their afflictions A thing which will be of great use to us for the quieting and comforting and supporting our spirits under whatever sufferings So long as a man looketh upon God as an Enemy to him or as a severe Judge coming against him he can have no comfort being conscious to himself of his own demerits but when once he cometh to look upon him as a Father this sweetneth the bitterest Cup making a man drink it the more willingly whilest it giveth him a comfortable hope and assurance of a wise and mercifull moderation of his Affliction a gracious support under it and a seasonable issue out of it all which it doth Q. How this may be attained But how shall we attain to this thus to look upon God in our suffering condition A. Learn to live by faith For this learn to live by Faith So lives the Righteous person as the Prophet Habakuk tells us Hab. 2.4 The just shall live by his Faith Live by it in all estates and

Cups Metophoricall Cups so called by way of Allusion and Resemblance Of these we meet with two kindes in Scripture A sweet Cup and a Bitter Cup. 1. A sweet Cup a Cup of Prosperity an happy and prosperous state and condition in the world A sweet Cup. when men abound with temporall comforts and contentments Of this Cup speaks David Psal 23.5 My Cup runneth over God had given him a large portion as of spirituall so of temporall mercies so as he had not only for necessity and conveniency but even for superfluity But this is not the Cup which here we meet with in the Text. Surely had such a Cup been presented unto Christ Peter who was so ready to bid him favour himself and consult his own security which he doth Math. 16.22 and had so many thoughts about a Temporall Kingdome that his Master and his Followers should enjoy upon earth would not have been so forward in putting it from him 2. Besides this there is also a Bitter Cup. A Cup of Wormwood and Gall A Bitter Cup. a Cup of Affliction and Suffering This in phrase of Scripture we oft times finde set forth under the name of a Cup and that both in the Old Testament and New Of this speaketh the Psalmist Psal 75.8 In the hand of the Lord there is a Cup that is a Cup of wrath and vengeance Such was the Cup which the Prophet Jeremiah received at the hand of the Lord to carry it to all the Nations Jer. 25.15 viz. a Cup of fury as it is there expressed And such a Cup it is which the Spirit threatneth that all those who have received the mark of the Beast shall drink of Rev. 14.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Cup of wrath The Cup of Gods indignation And such a Cup it is that our Saviour speaketh of once and again As Matth. 20. vers 22. where he puts this Question to the sons of Zebedee Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shall drink of So again Cap. 26. vers 39. If it be possible let this Cup passe from me And so here again in the Text The Cup which my Father hath given me meaning a Cup of suffering that Bitter Cup of his Passion the bitterest that ever was drunk upon earth Of this Cup our Saviour had already tasted in that bitter Agony of his in the Garden Hoc loce nihil est unde certe coll●gas sudori huic sanguinem suisse p●rmistum Nom non dictum est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vide Theophilac Euthym. ad loc Sudor vix solet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grot. ibid. where conflicting with the apprehension of what he was ere long to undergoe it put him into a strange bodily distemper an unheard of sweat insomuch as he sweat either drops of blood as it is generally received or rather as it were drops of blood so the Originall hath it Luk. 22.44 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a thick sweat as it were clottered and congealed blood And made him to break forth into that thrice-repeated Deprecation Father if it be thy will let this Cup passe from me And this Cup he was now to drink to drink it off to wring out even the dregs thereof which he did in that painfull shameful accursed death upon the Cross And this bitter Passion it is which our Saviour here calleth a Cup 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cup. Q. And why so called A. Christs Passion why called a Cup. The expression as I told you is Metaphorical and borrowed Reasons and grounds of the Metaphor held forth by Expositors are divers Dicendo autem poculum insinuat mortem dulcem desid●rabilem in salutem h●minu● Theophyl ad loc To let passe that of Theophylact who conceives our Saviour here to call his Passion a Cup to intimate how acceptable and welcome the work of Mans Redemption was unto him and in order unto that his Passion even as gratefull as desireable as a cup of drink is to a thirsty man In which sense some understand that word of his upon the Cross Joh. 19.28 I thirst viz. after the Redemption and Salvation of lost Mankinde As also that other of a later Expositor Id●ò calicem nominat ut estendat ●●am g●avissimas affūctiones in hoc mundo nihil esse ut uà dicam ●isi unum hauslum statim ●●im cessahunt Ferus in loc who conceives in and by this word to be insinuated the momentaninesse the short continuance of all afflictions and sufferings upon earth which be they never so bitter and grievous yet they are but as it were one draught a cup soon swallowed down soon put over according to that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light Affliction which is but for a moment c. To let passe these with some other which I look upon as more witty then weighty With more probability the Metaphor may be conceived to be borrowed from one of these three Heads A threefold ground of the Metaphor all taken notice of by Aretius writing upon this Text. 1. Some fetch it from a custome among some of the Heathen From a deadly Cup given to Malefactors Formula petita â ritu Gentium quo noxios poticnibus missis in corcerem to●libant è medio Atet Com. in loc who were wont sometimes to put malefactors to death by giving them a deadly cup a Cup of Poyson to drink So Historians tell us of Socrates that famous Moralist that being condemned to dye a poysonous potion a Cup of the juice of Hemlock was sent him to drink which having done he ended his dayes To this custom some conceive that forenamed passage to allude Jer. 25.16 where the Prophet is sent to the Nations with a cup to cause them to drink it Vid. New Annot Engl. in Mat. 20. vers 22. And so they look upon the word here in the text And it must be acknowledged the allusion is very proper and fit Christ having taken upon him the sins of the World he was now by Imputation a grand Malefactor a great sinner the greatest that ever was having the sins of the World charged upon his account Hereupon God the Father as a just and impartial Judge for the satisfying of his Justice giveth him this deadly cup this poysonous potion of an accursed death to drink to undergoe But I shall not insist upon this though a truth and an usefull one Applic. Usefull as to other ends Sin continued in will be biternesse in the la●ter end so to deter all presumptuous sinners from daring to go on in any known evill which if they shall dare to do let them know that it will be bitterness in the latter end As Abner once said to Joab concerning his over-eagre pursuit of his Brethren 2 Sam. 2.26 Knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end So may I say to all wicked and ungodly men who are so eager in the

thing no other then what others of their Brethren had felt of So it is Brethren in the flesh Brethren in the spirit all Brethren in affliction companions in tribulation Not the greatest not the best exempted from drinking of this Cup. And shall we then faint at the drinking of it We see or hear how those of the weaker Sex undergoe their pangs and throwes in Childe-bearing Though one of the bitterest Cups upon earth yet how contentedly do they pledge their great Grandmother Eve in it to whom it was first given to drink which they do upon the account of that Law which hath made it common to all of that Sex In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children Gen. 3.16 And so may we look upon all other Cups which God giveth us to drink they are no other but common Cups though not common to all individuals all particular persons as that is yet to all sorts all ranks and conditions of persons good and bad high and low rich and poor Prince and Peasant Which may serve somewhat to alleviate our burdens and mitigate our sorrowes Were it so that our case were singular that we could truely say what the Church in her Captivity maketh a Question of Lam. 1.12 that there were no sorrow like our sorrow no Cup like our Cup that we had no partners in our sufferings which was the case of our blessed Saviour here his Cup was as he here calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cup such a Cup as was never given to any other of the sons of men his sufferings peculiar to himself being more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a humane tentation wherein he had none to bear him company He trod the Wine-presse alone and of the people there was none with him saith the Prophet Isa 63. v. 3. which however intended may be as by many most of Expositors it is applyed to the Passion of Christ which was singular and peculiar to him then might we have the more colour for our despondency But loe here is Company Yea and good Company too Good company in suffering a comfort It is not all Company that will ease or comfort a man in his sufferings It is no ease to the damned in Hell that they have so many partners in their sufferings as they have Nor was it any abatement of our Saviours sufferings that he should be crucified as he was betwixt two thieves Such company rather aggravates then abates the sorrow of sufferings But good Company is a comfort And such company have all Gods Saints in their sufferings the same Afflictions are accomplished in their Brethren And therefore let none faint at the drinking of this Cup which is a common one Christ himself began it and all his Saints have or must pledge him in it being conformed to his Image as in other things so in his sufferings In the Fifth and last place look at the Issue Consid 5 The issue and frui●s of sanctified Afflictions the fruit of Afflictions This it is that beareth up the spirit of the Childe-bearing woman in her travell even the fruit of the Womb the Issue which she expecteth and looketh for which when she is delivered of as our Saviour tells his Disciples she no more remembreth the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world Joh. 16.21 And this it was which made our blessed Saviour here so willing to drink this Cup to have his soul made an offering for sin even the assurance which he had of seeing his s●ed of seeing the travail of his soul as the Prophet Isai sets it forth Isa 53.10 11. the blessed fruit and issue of those his sufferings And like use let all the Lords people make of the same consideration for the bearing up of their spirits in their sufferings Being sanctified to them they shall see a blessed Issue of them they shall reap precious fruit from them receive great benefit by them Upon this account it is that a sick person continues his course of Physick taking Cup after Cup Potion after Potion he expects and hopes to receive some good and benefit by them Afflictions may be bitter but being sanctified they are profitable Though they have a rough stalk like the Rose-tree yet they bring forth pleasant fruit To go about to shew you all these fruits would be a long if not an endless work Single out some of the princ●pall Reduced to two heads Which we may reduce to two heads They are either in this life Or in the life to come In this life Afflictions bring forth the fruit of righteousnesse In this life the frut of Righteousnesse So saith the Apostle in that Text before made use of Heb. 12.11 No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous neverthelesse afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse unto them which are exercised thereby This doth Chastisement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such Corrections as wherewith God as a Father is pleased to exercise his Children for their good their amendment which that word properly signifieth being sanctified influenced by the spirit of Grace now it brings forth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This peaceable fruit of righteousnesse even that Righteousnesse which bringeth peace to the soul A blessed Fruit the fruit of righteousnesse Did ever Tree bring forth better fruit then this It was the highest commendation that the Divell could invent to give of that Tree of Knowledge that the fruit of it would make those that eat it like unto God himself they should be as Gods viz. in Knowledge knowing good and evill Gen. 3.5 What he spake falsly of that Tree is true of this of sanctifyed Afflictions they will make men like unto God bringing forth this fruit of righteousnesse and Holynesse which is a part yea a chief part of the Image of God as the Apostle tells us Eph. 4.24 Q. How Affliction bringeth forth this fruit But how doth Affliction bring forth this fruit A. Why this it doth by purging out Corruption and strengthning of Grace Even as it is with Physick it first evacuates and purgeth out those peccant humours which annoy the Body and then by the removall of them it strengthneth the naturall operations of it Even thus doth sanctified Affliction work upon the soul 1. By purging out corruption Purging out Corruption sinfull lusts whatever is contrary to Righteousnesse Hence it is that we finde it compared to Fire and to the Fining-pot Zach. 13. last I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined c. saith the Lord of the remnant of his people The fire the Fining-pot refine the Metall taking away the Drosse from the Silver and Gold Such are Afflictions to Gods people they lose nothing by them but their drosse their corruption By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin saith the Prophet Isai speaking of Gods