Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bear_v	father_n	son_n	7,431	5	5.4267	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60351	A sermon preached (May 16. 1680.) at the funeral of Mr Tho. Gilson, late minister of the Gospel. By Samuel Slater, minister of the Gospel.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3971; ESTC R222774	26,962	50

troubles and difficulties and take joyfully the spoiling of their goods knowing that they have a better and more enduring substance such as hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive of It is such a place as doth surpass the most sublimated thoughts of the most enobled souls Should one come from thence he could not fully describe it but would rather invite you to come and see It is such a place as shall express and to the life set forth the greatness and goodness and glory of that God which framed it Give me leave to set before you something of its amiable beauties and excellency in these four Particulars 1. Heaven is full of light If it be a pleasant thing to behold the Sun what is it to behold the Sun of Righteousness darting forth his brightest beams of love and glory with which he shall not dazle but delight the glorified eye that will be strengthened and enabled without weariness to fix and dwell upon such an object God and Christ are the Temple of that City so that it hath no need of the Sun nor of the Moon to shine in it for the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof Rev. 21. 22 23. And where there is such full and glorious light there can be no cloud nor darkness No there is no ignorance no error not the smallest mistake no half notions or imperfect apprehensions of things Here we seek and cannot find propound many questions but receive no satisfactory answers we follow on to know yet are deficient in our knowledg But there all Truths are plainly reveal'd all Mysteries are clearly and fully opened the most abstruse Providences are interpreted the most difficult Questions are resolved and not one ●…not left untied The meanest Saint in Heaven if there be any differences and degrees of glory there knows God and himself and all things better than the best read and most learned Doctor upon earth what was puzling here is plain there for they see as they are seen and know as they are known The Lambs there do most delightfully wade through those deeps in which the admired and lofty Elephants here are swallowed up 2. Heaven is full of grace and holiness It is called the holy hill and the habitation of Gods holiness It is a glorious place and God and holiness are the glory of it Holiness here is in its infancy there in its strength and glory Saints when arrived there have attained to their highest perfection because they do fully enjoy God and are compleatly conformed to him Now al●… the groans of a longing soul are these Oh! I have not apprehended I have not yet att●…ined neither am I already perfect And therefore he reacheth forth to that which is before and presseth on to the mark The children of God here meet with many troubles from without but that which must breaks their rest and above all things imbitters their condition to them is sin and sou●…-wants under this he complains There is a great deal of corruption s●…ll much dross after all my refi●…ings and much chaff af●…er all my winnowings O wretched m●…n that I am who shall deliver me from this body of de●…th And there is but a little grace a dim eye and a feeble hand and a short breath how doth faith stagger and hope faint and patience tire Ah my leanness my leanness I say it is under these things that the renewed and truly gracious soul doth more groan and lament than under all the pressures of the world Were these wants supplied these burdens removed he would carry others comfortably and laugh at the frown of a creature and the shaking of the spear Now in Heaven there is no sin and all grace all fairness and no spot nor wrinkle not the least blemish David in Psal. 17. 14. had been speaking of the flourishing estate of the men of this world who have abundance for themselves and enough to spare for their babes though this is a cutting and killing consideration that what they have now is all the comfort they are like to have They have their portion in this life Well now observe every one as they like saith he vers 15. As for me I will behold thy fac●… in righteousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness Here they complain that they are so unlike to God that while they call him Father and bear his name they have no more of his nature and image it is the design of the Gospel and work of the Spirit to change them into that image from glory to glory but in Heaven there shall be a perfect change such as will issue in their satisfaction 1 Joh. 3. 2. Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not ye●… appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as ●…e is When once you come to Heaven there will be an heaven in you God will make all grace to abound but especially and above all Love shall shine forth with the greatest luster and burn with the most vehement flame There God will magnifie his love upon you and there shall you abound in your love to God Here it is your great grief that you can love God no more and you may pick matter of comfort and joy out of that very grief It is a sign thou lovest God dearly if thou dost indeed mourn because thou canst love him no more And in this also rejoice that in Heaven your love to God will be perfected There you shall love him as much as he requires though to all eternity you shall not love him so much as he deserves He shall have your all though that all falls short It being utterly impossible that a created love should be commensurate with Divine Perfections 3. Heaven is full of excellent company It is no lonesome solitary place In this world wheresoever we come we find but a few alas too few that do in sincerity fear God Atheists and Papists and Hypocrites and Formalists and profane ones overspread the earth and like ill weeds come up apace the flowers appear only here and there We have indeed many Professors a power of people that call themselves Christians and he that will may believe them such but how few be there that are experimentally acqu●…inted with the power of godliness and have Christ formed in their hearts But in Heaven there is great store of them and none else In a clear frosty night if you do look up you will see the Sky full of Stars but there are inconceivably more on the other side There is already an innumerable company of Angels and spirits of just men made perfect what do you think then will there be when all shall meet together in the morning of the Resurrection 〈◊〉 what a noble glorious huge Assembly will that be Without doubt you will find company enough and that so