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	son_n	witness_n	5,359	5	7.9501	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03284	The confession of faith contending how the troubled man should seeke refuge at his God, thereto led by faith: with the declaratio[n] of the article of iustification at length. ... Compiled by M. Henry Balnaues of Halhill, & one of the Lords of session, and Counsell of Scotland, being as prisoner within the old pallaice of Roane: in the yeare of our Lord. 1548. Direct to his faithfull brethren, being in like trouble or more ...	Balnaves, Henry, Sir, d. 1579.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1584 (1584)	STC 1340; ESTC S100771	112,936	310

to the law of his mind which is no other thinge but the tyrannie of the Deuill drawing and prouoking man to followe the lusts and concupiscence of the flesh Not onelie in externall workes but also in the inwarde affections of the minde as to doubt or diffide of the goodnesse and mercy of god or to bee slouthfull voyde and emptie of the loue and feare of god The lawe of the minde is the lawe of god prouoking and calling man to doe all Iustice and righteousnesse whiche the faithfull man consenteth to in his minde to bee good and iust And yet findeth no power in him selfe to performe the same for the whiche the holy Apost with an exclamation saith O vnhappy man that I am who shall deliuer mee of this mortall body which is no other thing but a masse of sinne These wordes he saith not as of a doubt in his faith but of a feruent desire to be dissolued and separated from this vile life to bee with Christ because hee giueth thankes vnto god by Iesus Christ by whome hee is deliuered of the said battell Reade the 7. Chapter of the Epistle to the Rom. where yee shall clearely perceaue this matter at lenght Therefore the saintes and holy men vehemently lamente these motiones and affections of the fleshe whiche they feele in their inward wit reason manly wisdome repungning against the spirite and will not bee subiect thereto nor may not of their own power or strēgth but by the spirite of god which beareth witnes with our spirite that we are the sonnes of god There are none which perceaue this battell or valiant fighting but the iust men which confide not in their own workes merits or deseruings but only in the mercy of god through faith in Iesu christ by whom they obtein victory thank god But because this mortall body of sinne is euer repungning vnto the spirite and our greatest ennemie daylie borne about with vs. The Apostle exhorteth vs most feruently by the mercy of God to giue offer the same a quicke liuely holy and pleasant sacrifice vnto God And that our seruice and worshipping of God be reasonable not cōforming our selues to this world but to be renewed and reformed into a new witte knowledge and vnderstanding That we may haue proufe how the wil of god is how good how acceptable and how perfit The which is that we mortifie our bodies members which are vpon earth not only to abstein from externall outward and grosse sinnes as from fornication incest vncleanesse auarice indignation wicked lustes concupiscence ire filthie communications like vnto these reakoned by S. P. but also to cōceaue in our harts the true and perfite feare of god which moueth and causeth vs to abhorre sinne and detest our wicked corrupte nature which euer resisteth the will of God and entiseth vs to follow our owne will wit reason and honest appearance of good zeale and intention the whiche wee should not obeye but the will of God which is to beleeue in him and in Iesus Christ whome hee hath sent and also it is the worke of god for the which wee should euer pray to god thy will be fulfilled and not ours This doing the kingdome of heauen is within vs as Christ saith Luc. the 17. Chapter And the olde man mortified in our bodies and crucified with Christ the body of sinne abolished and destroyed that wee serue no more to sinne the which is no other thing but to cast off all our affections of the fleshly mā and submit vs wholely to Christ and as hee hath risen frō death that we likewise rise with him from sinne and liue a new life in the kingdome of righteousnes no more being vnder the lawe nor sinne but vnder grace That is Christ and his worde the whiche will neuer teache vs to sinne but to all vertue in faith The order hereof S. P. teacheth Romanes the 12. chap. and so forth to the ende of the epistle And S. Peter in his first epist. the 2. chap. teacheth the same This quicke and liuely sacrifice which God desireth of vs and is so pleasant and acceptable in his sight is a contrite and broken harte a troubled spirit humiliate and subiect vnto God These the Prophete calleth the affections of the minde or thoghts of the harte which are broken afflicted and cast downe by the knowledge of sinne place their whole hope and confidence onely in the mercy of god The same affections of the hart hee calleth the sacrifice most acceptable vnto god And commaunded the same to be offered vnto him as it is written Giue vnto the Lord the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your whole hope into him And in the 49. psal he calleth the same the sacrifice of praise thākesgeuing For we should euer praise god that is preache and foorthshowe in all thinges his infinite goodnes And what euer we think speake or doe direct the same to his glorie This is a worthy sacrifice to be done by a Christian on this maner we are taught by S. P. to the Heb. diuerse other places of the scripture To the fulfilling of this sacrifice is required that we spoyle our selues of the old man that is our first conuersation in sinne which wee haue of naturall propagation of old Adam And is cledde beareth the same so long as we liue after the example of Adam Euer rebels to god and his law And clothe vs with new Adam that is Christ with whom wee are cledde when we reforme our life to the similitude of him which restoreth again to vs the Image and similitude of god to the which we were created This is the right and true holinesse integritie and iustice to the which in Christ we are renewed by the holie Spirit that we should liue in all Iustice and holines of life In that we wer created by god in the beginning that we should walke before him Therefore the Apost commandeth vs to be renewed with the spirit of the minde and cloth vs with the new man The minde is the fountaine beginning of all thinges So it must be renewed if any good works shuld follow And that teacheth the Prophete Esay in these wordes Put away the euill of your thoughts from my eyes c. And so to doe good workes according to the pleasure of god order of the scripture is to beginne to mortifie this sinfull body as is before rehearsed Then are we the good tree whose fruite is sweete and pleasant in the sight of god and acceptable to him Therefore lette vs deny our selues take our owne crosse vpon our backes and followe Christ as he harh commanded vs in his Euangell for the which he suffered death for vs leauing to vs an exāple that we shuld follow his footstepps neither go before Christ nor yet aside with him but let vs follow him the which we doe