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	father_n	receive_v	8,589	5	5.7408	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45313	Satans fiery darts quenched, or, Temptations repelled in three decades : for the help, comfort, and preservation of weak Christians in these dangerous times of errour and seduction / by I.H. ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing H410A; ESTC R34452	86,739	386

safe for this though more uncomfortable wait thou upon Gods leisure with all humble submission the event shall be happy when the distemper is once over thou shalt returne to thy true relish of Gods mercy when thine heavenly father shall smile upon thee and take thee up in his armes thou wilt see love in his late stripes when those dead ashes shall be removed and the gleeds of grace stirred up againe in thee thou shalt yeild both light and warmth when the Sun of righteousnesse shall approch to thee and with his comfortable beams draw up the sap into the branches thou shalt blossome and flourish In the meane time feare nothing only believe and thou shalt see the salvation of the Lord Thy soule is in surer hands then thine owne yea then of the greatest Angel in heaven far out of the reach of all the powers of hell For our life is hid with Christ in God Hid not lost not laid open to all eyes but hid hid where Satan cannot touch it cannot find it even with Christ in the heaven of heavens Feare not therefore O thou feeble soule any utter dereliction of thy God Thou art bought with a price God paid too deare for thee and is too deeply ingaged to thee to lose thee willingly and for any force to be offered to the Almighty what can men or Devils do And if that malignant spirit shall challenge any forfeiture plead thou thy full redemption It is true the eternall and inviolable law hath said Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the Law to do them and the soule that sinneth shall die Death and curse is therefore due to thee But thou hast paid both of these in thy blessed redeemer Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Where sin abounded grace did much more abound that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace raigne through righteousnesse unto eternall life by Iesus Christ our Lord It is all one to pay thy debt in thine owne person and by thy surety Thy gracious suerty hath staked it down for thee to the utmost farthing Be confident therefore of thy safe condition thou art no lesse sure then thine adversary is malicious X. TEMPTATION Had God ever given thee any sure testimonies of his love thou might'st perhaps pretend to some reason of comfort and confidence But the truth is God never loved thee he may have cast upon thee some common favours such as he throwes away upon reprobates but for the tokens of any speciall love that he bears to thee thou never didst never shalt receive any from him Repelled THis is language well-befitting the professed make-bate betwixt God and man but know O thou false tempter that I have received sure and infallible testimonies of that speciall love which is proper to his elect First then as I have to do with a bountiful God who where he loves there he inriches so I have received most precious gifts from his hands such as do not import a common and ordinary beneficence w ch he scatters promiscuously amongst the sons of men but such as carry in them a dearnesse and singularity of divine favour even the greatest gifts that either he can give or man receive For first he hath given me his spirit the spirit of Adoption whereby I can call him Father for the assurance whereof The Spirit it selfe beareth witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God Deny if thou canst the invaluablenesse of this heavenly gift and if thy malice cannot detract from the worth but from the propriety yeelding it to be great but denying it to be mine know O thou envious spirit that here is the witnesse of two spirits combined against thine Were the testimonies single surely I had reason to believe my owne spirit rather then thine which is a spirit of errour but now that the spirit of God conjoines his inerrable testimony together with my spirit against thy single suggestion how just cause have I to be confident of my possession of that glorious and blessed gift Neither is that good spirit dead or dumb but vocall and operative it gives mee a tongue to call God Father it teacheth me to pray it helpeth mine infirmities and maketh intercession for me with groanings which cannot be uttered It worketh effectually in me a sensible conversion Even when I was dead in sins and trespasses God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved me hath by this spirit of his quickned me together with Christ and hath raised me up together with him By the blessed effects therefore of this regenerating Spirit happily begun in my soule I find how rich a treasure the Father of mercies hath conveighed into my bosome Besides my life shows what is in my heart it was a gracious word that God spake to his people of old and holds for ever I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes I will also save you from all your uncleannesses The spirit of God can never be severed from obedience If the heart be taken up with the holy Spirit the feet must walke in Gods statutes both heart and life must be freed from all wilfull uncleannesses I feel that God hath wrought all this in me from him it is that I do sincerely desire indevour to make straight steps in all the ways of God and to avoid and abhor all those foule corruptions of my sinfull nature Flesh and bloud hath not would not could not work this in me The Spirit therefore of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwels in me And if this be not a pledge of his dearest love heaven cannot yeeld one Moreover he hath bestowed upon mee another gift more worth then all the world his own son the son of his love the son of his nature by eternall generation Whom he hath not only given for me in a generality with the rest of mankind but hath by a speciall donation conveighed unto me and as it were put into my bosome in that he hath enabled me by a lively faith to bring him home unto my soule and hath thus by a particular application made him mine so as my soule is not more mine then he is my soules And having given me his son he hath with him given me all things If there can be greater tokens of love then these let me want them Besides his gifts his carriage doth abundantly argue his love were there a strangenesse betweene God and my soule I might well feare there were no other then overly respects from him towards me but now when I find he doth so freely and familiarly converse with his servant and so graciously imparts himself to me renuing the daily testimonies of his holy presence in the frequent motions of his good

sooner askt then had Thou hast to do with a God of mercies with whom no time is too late no measure too sleight to be accepted Repelled OF all the blessed Attributes of God whereby he is willing to make himself known unto men there is none by which he more delights to be set forth then that of mercy When therefore he would proclaime his stile to Moses this is the title which he most insists upon The Lord The Lord God mercifull and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin And all his holy Heralds the Prophets have still been carefull to blazon him thus to the world Neither is there any of those divine Attributes that is so much abused by men as this which is most beneficiall to mankind For the wisdome of God every man professes to adore it for the power of God every man magnifies it for the justice of God every man trembles at it but for the mercy and long-sufferance of God how apt are men and devils to wrong it by a sinfull mis-application Wicked tempter how ready art thou to mis-improve Gods patience to the encouragement of my sin and to perswade me therefore to offend him because he is good and to continue in sin because grace abounds Thou bidst me sin still God forbids me upon paine of death to sin at all whether should I listen to God cals me to a speedy repentance thou perswadest me to defer it whether counsell should I hold more safe Surely there cannot be but danger in the delay of it in the speed there can be nothing but a comfortable hope of acceptation It is not possible for me to repent too soone too late I may To repent for my sin when I can sinne no more what would it be other then to be sory that I can no more sin And what thank is it to me that I would and am disabled to offend Thou telst me that mine age and death-bed are meet seasons for my repentance As if time and Grace were in my power to command How know I whether I shall live till age yea till to morrow yea till the next hour Doe not I see how fickle my life is And shall I with the foolish Virgins delay the buying of my oyle till the doores be shut But let me live Have I repentance in a string that I may pull it to me when I list Is it not the great gift of that good Spirit which breatheth when and where it pleaseth It is now offered to me in this time of Grace if I now refuse it perhaps I may seek it with teares in vaine I know the gates of hell stand alwaies wide open to receive all commers not so the gates of heaven they are shut upon the impenitent and never opened but in the seasons of mercy The porches of Bethesda were full of cripples expecting cure those waters were not alwaies sanative if when the Angel descends and moves the water we take not our first turne we may wait too long But of all other that season whereon thou pitchest my death-bed is most unseasonable for this work most serviceable for thy purpose How many thousand souls hast thou deluded with this plausible but deadly suggestion For then alas how is the whole man taken up with the sense of paine with grapling with the disease with answering the condoling of friends with disposing the remainder of our estate with repelling then most importunate temptations with encountring the horrours and pangs of an imminent dissolution And what roome is there then for a serious task of repentance No wicked one I see thy drift thou wouldst faine perswade me to do like some idle wanton servants who play and talk out their candle-light then go darklings to bed I hate the motion and do gladly embrace this happy opportunity which God holds forth to me of my present conversion Thou tell'st me how hard it would be if I should not have one mouth-full of breath at the last to implore mercy I tell thee of many a one that hath not had so much neither hath it been hard but just that those who have had so many and earnest solicitations from a mercifull God and have given a deafe eare to them should not at the last have a tongue to aske that mercy which they have so often refused But let me have wind enough left to redouble the name of mercy am I sure upon so short warning to obtaine it How many are there that shall say Lord Lord and yet shall be answer'd with Depart from me I know you not Do I not hear that God whom vaine men frame all of mercy say even of his Israel I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy them There is a time for judgement as well as a time for mercy neither of these may encroach upon other as judgement may not be allowed to seize upon the soule during the season of mercy so neither may mercy put forth it selfe to rescue the soule in an execution of judgement both must have their due turnes let me sue therefore for grace ere the time of grace be over-passed Heaven is as a strong castle whereto there is but one way of entrance the draw-bridge is let down all the day all that while the passage is open let me stay till night the bridge is hoysed up the way precluded I may now stand without and call long enough for an hopelesse admittance It shall be my care to get within those gates ere my Sun be set whiles the willing neglecters of mercy shal find hell open heaven inaccessible III. TEMPTATION Thou art one of Gods chosen Now God sees no sin in his elect none therefore in thee neither maist thou then take notice of any sin in thy selfe or needest any repentance for thy sin Repelled DEceitfull tempter now thou wouldst faine flatter me into hell and make Gods favour a motive of my damnation I doubt not but I am through Gods mercy one of his chosen his free grace in Christ my Saviour hath put upon me this honour neither will I fear to challenge any of the happy priviledges of my Election But that this should be one of the speciall prerogatives of Grace that God should see no sin in me I hate to hear That God imputes no sin to his elect is a divine truth but that he sees no sin in his Elect is a conceit hatch't in hell For tell me thou Antinomian spirit if God see no sin in his Elect is the reason on the behalfe of God or of the sin Either for that there is no sin at all to be seen or for that though there be sin in them yet God sees it not If the former it must be either in relation to the person of the sinner or to the act and nature of the sin Either that he cannot do that act which is formally sinne or that though