Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	speak_v	6,346	5	5.2623	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19777	Doubtings dovvnfall first, prouing the communitie of the Saints assurance. Secondly, disprouing Bellarmines and his fellowes false allegations and friuolous exceptions against that truth. By Edvvard Dalton, preacher of the Word, &c.	Dalton, Edward.	1624 (1624)	STC 6204; ESTC S115432	25,476	66

Iob. 13.4 16.2 2.12 13. for as they cast dust vpon their heads and sate by him seauen daies and seauen nights together sorrowfull yet at last failed in applying comfort So hee hauing animated a fainting soule refreshed a wearied spirit and suppled a wounded heart with sundry spirituall Cordials against the rigour of the law the frailtie of the flesh the greatnesse and grieuousnesse of afflictions a long time should leaue that soule so languishing that spirit so weary that heart so wounded in danger of the last enemie and in doubt of none of the least mercies for not one but euery faithfull soule perceiuing it must though it haue foiled many aduersaries faile in the end wholly and faint vnder the burden of one or other opposition not obtain the end of its hope and expectation the loue of God in Christ is plunged deep in the gulfe of desperation and so would Paul become the sauour of life to none the sauour of death to all euen those which are coheires with him in Christ which must not so much as once into our thoughts bee admitted or in our minds conceited much lesse with our mouthes be vttered seeing the holy Ghost affirms 2 Cor. 2.15 16. that he was the effectuall sauour of life to the Fathers chosen and to the Sonnes redeemed For the 3. 3. The ground of his cōforts thing considered in the Context the Ground of Pauls arguing of his comforts here laid down are of two sorts the one working Gods loue mercy Christs merits efficacie the other witnessing Gods spirit our spirit or a renued conscience Now all euery of these cannot but be affirmed must necessarily be confessed to be cōmon to all not only proper to any of the faithful for to deny these one or any of them to one or any belieuer is to deny him to be elected which proceedes from Gods loue to bee redeemed which is of Christs merit to be sanctified which is the work of the spirit seeing therfore the groūd of this his inseparability frō Gods loue in Christ of the other priuiledges is cōmō I conclude that To be persuaded of assured in these is also cōmō with the Apostle to euery truly regenerated Christian Thus the Text and Context cleare our conclusion Aduersaries confession but that wherein we may iustly triumph and which is not of the least force both to confound the persons confute their opinions is their owne Confession For say they if there were either a word Bellar. l. 3. de Iustof c. 8. saying to euery particular person as our Sauiour to the sicke of the palsie Sonne thy sins be forgiuen thee Math. 9.2 or we could certainely know the truth of our conuersion we might freely conclude concluding assure our selues that we should neuer be separated from the loue of God in Christ but which is all one be saued that our sins are pardoned we are iustified and shall be glorified But there is say the aduersaries of this truth no such particular promise reuealed now by name or in that maner to any particular Saint in or by the word nor any such assurance of our conuersion can be apprehended therefore we cannot be assured either our sinnes are pardoned or wee neuer shall be seuered from the loue of God in Christ or at last shall be saued The first is friuolous Generall propositions particularly to be applyed the second false The first is friuolous for let them tell me is not the Gospel the same for comfort that the Law is for terror to the soule must the soule apprehend and apprehending apply in particuler to it selfe the generall precepts prohibitions and threatnings of the Law and may it not in like maner apprehend and apply The Gospel aswell as the 〈…〉 in particuler to it selfe the generall promises and priuiledges of the Gospell how is the Lords mercy ouer all his workes is his hand of fauour shorter then his hand of fury Psal 77.7 c. Hath the Lord forgotten to be mercifull and doth he thus shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure Is his Mercy thus smothered by Iustice and hath his Iustice got the start so far of Mercy Must I swallow the poyson may I not taste the Antidote must I lay to my sore the Corafiue only may I in no case apply the Plaister Shall an heire into whose hands the entaile of his Ancestors inheritance commeth reading the euidence knowing there is none other to debar him of it though he cannot finde his owne name in particuler his dead Ancestors being so tong-tied that they cannot speake not conclude I am of the same linage and therefore this inheritance doth belong vnto me and may not euery Saint and member of Christ in particuler knowing himself to be a spiritual heire of Abrahā Acts 3.25 26. reading the Letters Patents of the King of Heauen seeing the Kings Seale hauing all committed to his own vse conclude that the benefit of this blelongs vnto him seeing his father could not cancell it his Soueraigne would not neither can any pretend title to his preiudice for though there be many yet his interest is as good though perhaps not so great why should not he then apprehend it as his own right in particular Be the words neuer so generall he may safely inferre the particuler for this is the practice of the holy Ghost nay and the aduersaries themselues make the like conclusion It is the practise of the blessed spirit somtime to apply a particular to a general vse To apply particularly generall propofitions is the practise of the Spirit sometime casting that couer which will serue a multitude vpon a few and again healing the wounded heart of one with those plaisters which had bin applyed vnto many The Apostle applieth challengeth to himselfe others the same which the Prophet Dauid alledgeth of himselfe Seeing thē saith he that we haue the same spirit of faith according as it is written I beleeued Ps 116.10 2 Cor. 4.13 Ios 1.3 4 5 6. therefore haue I spoken wee also beleeue therefore speake by the same reason whereby the Lord encouraged Iosuah in particular against all enemies euery member of Christ aswell one as another all as any one in his iudgement must be moued in all their wants to eschew couetousnesse Heb. 13.5 and be content with such things as they haue because he that is the Lord hath said it I wil in no case faile thee neither forsake thee Ps 56.4 11.13 Heb. 13 6. seeing that kingly Prophet vpon the persuasion that the Lord was his helper did not feare what man might do vnto him both he and other may not only account the Lord as their helper also but vpon that hope take heart against the feare of all wrongs And is it not cleare in that great question how a man stands righteous in the sight of God that