Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bless_a	lord_n	soul_n	6,252	5	5.0695	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53376	An epistle of information, exhortation, and consolation to all such as are distinguished by names of reproach and ignominy ... : containing also, a sober rebuke for former sloathfulness / by John Onley ...	Onley, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing O346; ESTC R10781	10,212	15

in making provision for the Flesh merchandizing with the Commodities of this Life or else either exercising them in such a cold frozen heartless lifeless customary manner that we have neither felt tasted nor experienced that Strength Life Health and Nourishment we might have done nor by Example Doctrine and Conversation c. have we set others so much as we might have done in the way thereto or which is worse than if we had been born dumb We have by our time Light Knowledge c. but for the most part got such an opinionative Profession centring in certain external Institutions being by Christ appointed not for Rest but Motion which although some of which was perspicuous enough in the word yet others being of doubtful Interpretation have in the way that some have practised them found strong opposition We have so studyed and imployed our Abilities thereabouts that our participation of the Knowledge of Christ hath got from our hearts into our heads that instead of sweetning our Souls therewith and refreshing enlivening and uniting our Souls to every one in whom the Image of the Lord Jesus doth appear thereby upholding that admirable and ever blessed Communion of the Saints in the Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace we have as naturally consequent thereof so rent the seamless Coat of Christ so broken and divided the Saints in pieces so wounded and tortured the Consciences of the Tender so obstructed the Gospels Propagation so rejoyced the World making the Wicked to triumph erected such Trophies to the Devil's praise that many have been even Factors for Satan Fewellers for Hell labouring to bring in more matter for the Everlasting Burning under pretence of beating down Babylon c. Christ's Life hath been stifled and Sion crucified Oh what a potent deadly Engine of the Devil have we managed insensibly and by unobserved degrees promoted to many-headed Babel by such as would ascend into Heaven alone the language of whose Workmen the Lord is now confounding reducing them into one Common Calamity in order to their Re-unity The Lord give all his people a Sight a Sorrow a Repentance to Amendment with Pardon for this thing 4. How have we took up our aboad in the Wilderness saying in our hearts It 's good for us to be here Or upon the distrust of this Security removed but to the Suburbs of Sion from whence we might either with ease Retire at pleasure to the old Residence or enjoy them in Common together resting in those things as the End that by Institution was appointed but as a Mean thereto How violent hath been our motion after Air and Emptiness whilst the Eternal Pearl hath stood as a thing not worth the laying out our time strength and industry for the obtaining of How comfortable hath the Intelligence of our likelihood of enjoying the Worlds Felicity been unto our Souls whilst those Eternal Enrichments of the Kingdom of Glory have in their most powerful and lively Delineations made upon us such faint Impressions esteeming and rather choosing to abide in these dirty houses of Clay enslaved to the World our Souls imprisoned from God and in our earthly dark mind which is too much predominant pore up and down with the poor blind World after Rest and Felicity in those uncertain things that have it not in themselves Rather than with Noble Saint-like Resolutions contemn those childish Gew gaws that please but the sensitive and most ignoble part and raise up our Souls into the apprehension of and pursuit after and restless motion till we are possessed with those heavenly Treasures those durable Riches that give full comfortable and perpetual Satisfaction which till the Soul light upon and center in as its End of Motion Oh how sad and lamentable by accident how deceitful and damnable is every sublunary thing that we give our minds to that we might gain Rest and Comfort from 5. How little did we hearken after or take delight in the Appearance of the Harbingers and fore-runners of our Lord's Presence how little have we been affected with the approach of the Year and Day of our Deliverance with the Apprehensions and fore-thoughts of our purchased Possession and Eternal Unity and Communion with Christ and all Saints in Light yea when the Lord hath by the mighty Power of his Spirit in the Mouthes of some of his Servants brought these Things sweetly to our Ears with the danger of Negligence Key-coldness Formality and the love of this present World that so interposeth eclipseth and hindreth the Influences of these things from our Souls that they can take neither Life Strength nor Refreshment therefrom How formally sleepily and forgetfully have we given them Entertainment as things we were not concerned in or had no need as yet to trouble our selves about yea even in that very Institution by which Christ in what he hath done is a doing and will speedily do for his Saints is exhibited and represented How little have we been refreshed strengthened and made watchful to the Day of his Appearance many rather eating and drinking Condemnation to themselves first obstructing and shutting out its Operation from their Souls by their own Unpreparedness and then go away and report that God was not there to be found c. 6. How seldom have we come with hungry and thirsty Souls to and after the Bread of Life whereby we might have experienced the Word of the Lord to have been more reviving and delightful to our taste than Honey and the Honey-comb or any temporal Food to the outward man and more satisfactory enriching and desirable than Gold yea than much fine Gold Oh how oftner rather have we so filled and glutted our Appetites and Affections with Fleshly Provisions being rich full and satisfied before-hand with the World that the Word of the Lord hath been but as an empty sound which we have only lent our Ears to going away poor empty miserable blind and naked though we see and knew it not 7. How common hath it been with us to spend much of our time in discourse of the World our Imployments therein and trading therewith our Gains and Losse thereby which after News from Heaven our Title thereto and Interest therein our thriving or losing in and about those Means of Grace that are Assistants thereabout in breathing forth our Experience of God's Love in praising the Lord for his admirable Love to us-ward when we were in our Blood in the estate of Wrath Death and Condemnation shut out from the Presence of God into Prison Captivity c. that then by the precious Blood of the Son of his Love He should not only ransom and redeem us therefrom but by the Power of his Word and Spirit call us into the insight thereof and Everlasting Rest Peace and Comfort thereby being brought into the Arms and Bosom of himself and made Heirs of Eternal Glory also in magnifying his Mercy to us-ward in restraining the Power of Unreasonable men from exercising