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	fear_n	zion_n	19	3	8.5934	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04961	Spirituall almes a treatise wherein is set forth the necessity, the enforcements, and directions of the duty of exhortation.	A. L., fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 15103; ESTC S105957	127,652	518

neede of the ph●sitian but they that are sick I came not to call the righteous that is h Luk. 16. 15 tho●● that iustifi● themselues before men but sinners to repentance that is such as i Mat. 11. 28 labour and are heauy laden with the k Psal 38. 4. burden of their sinnes The l Gal. 3. 24 Law therefore must be the Schoole-master to bring men to Christ from mount Sinai they must come to mount Sion from m Heb. 12. 21 feare and quaking to n Vers 24. that speaketh better things then that of Abel and neuer any receaued the spirit of adoption to cry Abba Father but they first ● receaued the spirit of bondage o Rom. ● 1● to feare For vnlesse men come to Christ with a●hes and mourning and the spirit of heauinesse how ●●all he p Esa 61. 3. giue them beauty for ashes the oyle of ioy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heauinesse Arist This is that which is euery where spoken against as the q Act. 28. 22 doctrine of the Apostles was and say men this is to begin at the wrong end For say they you must first begin with faire and soft words to winne the loue of men or else you will neuer doe other good then stirre the world about your eares and make variance and combustion as some crackt-brained preachers doe where ●re they come And in common discretion say t●ey how should men expect the quiet fruite of righteousnesse from others if they gash and cut them to the heart with such terrors and sharpe rebukes Arch. First I answeare this sounds as if some young conceited scholler not knowing what belongs to husbandry should tell a ploughman whom he seeth breaking vp his fallow grounds and ploughing and grubbing vp his thistles and thornes alas ●●r what meane you can ●ou looke your ground ●hould euer yeelde you good crop if you vse it ●us hardly Or like as if ●ome Shepeards swaine be●olding a wise builder pul●ing down ruinous towers and digging vp and casting out the rubbish that he may lay a sure foundation should blame him for making such heapes ruines where in his conceipt there needed not but a few pla●tering or dawbing repara●ons And when we heare the Lord r Iere. 1. 10. setting the Prophet to roote out and to pull downe to destroy and throw downe and then to build and plant and when accordingly the Prophet chargeth the men of Iudah and Ierusalem to ſ Iere 4. 3. breake vp their fallow ground and not to sow among thornes who is so simple but he that will not learne that may not heereby be instructed how to begin spirituall husbandry and building This is not therefore to begin at the wrong end for thus began God himselfe with Adam and Eue after their transgression by t Gen. 3. 7 8 c. shame and feare and iudging them to lay a ground in their hearts for the Lord Iesus the corner stone that so they might be fitted to receaue the promise of the blessed seede And as all the Prophets held the same course so Iohn Baptist greater then all the Prophets began his u ●uk 3. 3. preaching with the baptisme of repentance for the ●emission of sinnes and ● so did the Lord Iesus vv Mat. 4. 17 himselfe and x Luk. 24. 47 directed also his Apostles to the same course which not 〈◊〉 they obserued in y Heb. 6. ●● Act. 20. 21. laying the foundation first of repentance from dead workes and then of faith towards God but all that in the primitiue times preached with Apostolicall approbation as S. Paul z 1 Cor. 14. ●4 26 witnesseth so conuinced and iudged all vnbeleeuers that they fell downe on their faces worshipping God and reporting that God was in them of a truth Secondly concerning the combustion and variance that accompanieth the a Zac. 7. 5. ministery of the spirit and the b 1 Thes 1. 5. 6. Gospel where euer it comes not in word onely but in power and in the holy Ghost which is a c Esa 4. 4. spirit of iudgement and of burning let me intreate men to stay themselues and seriously to consider of what spirit such men are who now dare to cast that as a reproach against Preachers wherein our Sauiour gloried professing that he d Mat. 10. 34 came not to send peace on earth but e Luk. 12. 49 fire sword and for which hee so highly magnified the Preaching of Iohn Baptist saying f Mat. 11. 12 From the dayes of Iohn Baptist vntill now the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence and the violent take it by force What will ●●ey indite afresh the Lord 〈…〉 us as the chiefe Priests 〈…〉 d who when they had ●othing else to say layed it ●eauily to his charge say●●g g Luk. 23. 5. Hee stirreth vp the people teaching throughout all Iury c Or shall ●ae spirit of Festus or any wi●e temporizer stand vp againe against those fiery-tongued men that h 1 Pet. 1. 12. Prea●hed the Gospell with the ●oly Ghost sent downe ●rom heauen and iudge ●hem to bee i Acts 26. 24. madde with ●uch learning or at least as ● men besides themselues k 2 Cor. 5. 13 because l Verse 11. knowing the ter●or of God they so power●●lly perswaded men that ●●ey turned many from i●●ls and turned out diuels and ouerthrew idolatrous and diuellish crafts and gaines whereby they m Act. 16. 19 c 19. 24. c. exceedingly troubled as some cryed out their city and n Acts 17. 6. turned the world vpside downe as others said Or must wee now at last cast yeel● vp that chosen vessell S. Paul to be a o Acts 24. 3. pestilent fellow and a mouer of sedition through the world as hee was accused because he was p 2 Tim. 3. 11 persecuted at Antioch and Lystra pelted and q Acts 14. 19 driuen away with stones from Iconium r Acts 16. 22 c. openly whipt and stockt in Philippi ſ Act. 17. 5. 6 forced to hide his head at Thessalonica and his ministery generally opposed and blasphemed with t Acts 18. 6. ● insurrections v Acts 19. 28 20. 1 vproares w Acts 21. 30. 34 tumults and x Acts 22. 22 23. out-cryes following him and ● bands y Act. 20. 22. 〈◊〉 afflictions in euery ci 〈…〉 abiding him I confesse that the wise●●me from aboue is peace●ie as pure and neither ●eacher nor Professor ●ay either carry in his own ●eart or kindle among o●●ers any z Iam. ● 14. c. bitter enuying and strife which is earthly sensuall and diuellish the ● seruants of God must not ● 2 Tim. 2. 24. 〈◊〉 striue but rather as bles●ed peace-makers they must raw water out of the wels ●●saluation to quench all 〈◊〉 fiery passions that are 〈…〉 on fire of ●ell But the