Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	heart_n	5,603	5	5.0093	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15827	A short and briefe summe of saving knowledge consisting of the creed, ten Commandements, Lords prayer and the sacraments. And is made profitable introduction to the larger art of divinitie, composed by the methodicall tables of A.R. and published by I.Y.	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1621 (1621)	STC 26088; ESTC S113976	8,831	32

dayly growing vp with Christ 1. Cor. 11.23 This memorable Banquet proportioned in the outward Elements and inward Graces Q. How doe the outwarde Elementes teach the outward man A. Either in themselues or their vses Q. How in themselues A. Both for substance and qualitic Q. How for substance A. As the bread is the staffe of life and as the wine glads the heart of man Q. How in their qualities A. As they are common and sensible sensible to the eyes and eare feeling smelling tasting Q. How in their vse A. Either as they are handled by the minister or by the receiuers Q. How by the Minister A. First in setting them apart Secondly in blessing of them Thirdly in breaking of the bread and powring forth of the wine Fourthly in deliuering them to the Contmunicants Q. How by the receiuers A. First by taking the bread and drinking the wine Secondly by digesting of them first in the stomacke then in the liuer lastly in euery part whereby they are made powerfull to humane duties Q. How doth all this teach the inward man in respect of grace A. In proportioning them to Christ both in himselfe and in his vse Q. How in himselfe A. Both in his nature and qualitie Q. How in his nature A. As his body is the bread of life where of whosoeuer tasteth shall neuer hunger and his blood is drinke indeede that for euer makes glad the heart and soule Q. How in the qualitie A. As his body and bloud were common with ours in all things sinne onely excepted and that he is made sensible both to the eare bored by the Spirit the eye annointed with eye-salue and to the feeling of the sanctified affectiō also to the smelling of ioy and tasting of the hungry soule Q. How in the vse A. Either as hee is appointed of the Father or receiued of vs. Q. How of God A. First as hee is called to this worke Secondly indued with grace Thirdly as his body is crucified for vs and his bloode poured out for the washing of our wounds Fourthly as hee is deliuered and giuen to euery beleeuer How receiued of vs A. First he is taken by the hand of faith and his body is fed on by meditation and his blood spiritually drunken to wash our soules then is hee disgested first in the vnderstanding and then in the will and affections and lastly distributed to euery faculty both of body and soule by which wee are made able to euery good word and worke which is the happy life of euery Christian FINIS ❧ The Conclusion HItherto Industrious and painefull Reader I haue but brought thee to the top of Mount Nebo and with this prospectiue glasse haue giuen thee the general veiw of the land of Canaan If thou wilt be pleased with the Spies sent out by Moses to enter further and send forth the Scouts of thy Soule to make larger discoueries thou shalt finde the depthes of diuiniue more fully sounded concerning thy faith in one God three persons and after thou art entred further into the Continents and hast coasted the shores plyed vp the frythes thou shalt discouer the inhabitants of heauen earth their qualities tempers regiment of life their dyet imployment c. I meane thou shalt finde in some good measure how richly God hath furnished the world in what excellent manner he gouerneth it especiall his great care for thee and thy happinesse In essence hee is simply one yet hath he made himselfe many attributes so that what thou canst not conceiue by one act of vnderstanding thou mayest the better perceiue by many Thou shalt see the persons delighting themselues aboue all thinges in thee and thy saluation and accordingly put foorth themselues in al their works of Creation and Prouidence thou shalt find againe thy duty debt to God for al his fauors for if God shed abroad Rom. 5.5 his loue in thy heart then must thou of necessitie loue him againe No man goes to his bed and warmes it with his owne heat but hee lookes for heat againe So God resting in the heart lookes for loue out of it 1 Tim. 1.5 In a word I shall be glad if by this and the other I shall make the Art so easie for thee that thou mayest reape thy profit by it And thus as by a letter of advertisment from the coast of Canaan I cease thy further trouble neuer ceasing to pray for thee Thine in Christ Iesus as his owne IOHN YATES