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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	bone_n	flesh_n	7,585	5	7.4908	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86646	Quaking principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken truth. Being an examination of the tenents held forth by certain northern people, viz. 1. Slighting of the written word. 2. A speaking to that within man. 3. Denying the use of reason in the matters of God. 4. A denying of the ascension and being of the body of Christ. 5. A denying of all the ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honour to men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant. / By Henoch Howet.	Howet, Enoch.	1655 (1655)	Wing H3152; Thomason E821_2; ESTC R207358	15,546	20

one some things by another some things by a third c. and all this is by the virtue of Gods working c. How easie a thing it is for the wicked sinning wretch to his conviction or terror to believe from reason God is able both to remember and take account of all his sins and to set them before him at the day of judgment 3. Considering that God hath created the whole world in six days how easie a thing is it conclude that he is able to send down the new Jerusalem from above according to the Word Rev. 21. And let those be silent that ask where shall there be room at the Resurrection for all to stand for as they are not able to comprehend what was spoken of before till it was brought to pass so neither are they able to comprehend how there shall be room more than they are able to create room for those that shall appear to judgment But we allow not that Reason that will not let the Word run and be glorified but reproach it and speak against it as those that believe not Election but stand questioning the justice of God as if God could be no further just than they could see him just These do in effect denie his Name Wonderfull for they would have him so little and narrow a God that they are able to defend him or else they would think it their part to stand still and wonder when they cannot see through his justice and not ask how they should defend his justice when any thing exceeds the compass of their reason Paul thought these persons not worthy of an answer Rom. 9.19 20. and therefore he takes them off short saying Nay but who art thou O man that repliest against God c. Neither do we allow of that reasoning which will take a Text of Scripture and raise an argument from it and thereupon conclude their own salvation and so get a conclusion instead of Christ for their assurance when as the Scripture telleth us it must be wrought out saying Work out your salvation with fear and trembling for Christ is to be noted for to be manifested to his John 14 21. revealed in Gal. 1.16 And therefore let us know that there is a day to dawn and a day star to rise in our hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 all which we are in prayers to be violent for and wait patiently for This is the good use of reason to resist the gain sayers of truth in disputes to be readie always to give answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us 1 Pet. 3.15 and to taste of the goodness of God till we have lost our selves in it and to crie out with Paul O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out Rom. 11.33 And now I come to the fourth of their mistakes viz. Their denying of the Ascersion or the Being of the Bodie of Christ under the pretence of this Scripture Flesh and Bloud cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven It is true that flesh and bloud without the Spirit and Life of God cannot but he that is joyned to God is one spirit so if we should say This bulk or lump or form of man or mans flesh could not continue upon the earth it were true meaning without life for it would rot putrefie and stink c. But we shall prove first the burial of that Bodie of Christ John 19. at the later end of the Chapter his Resurrection chap. 20. his shewing his hands and his side to his Disciples and after to Thomas but to prove this fully that it was the bodie that walked upon earth he saith himself Luke 24 39. Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have And that it is the same Jesus it is proved in Acts 1.1 2. The former Treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach untill the day in which he was taken up which proves that the doing and teaching Jesus was taken up and I affirm it was the bodie for when he was upon earth he did no actions but with his bodie nor spake words but with his tongue that is a member of that bodie and that the same Jesus was taken into Heaven is plain in Acts 1.11 Ye men of Galilee Why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven This same Jesus must be he who is spoken of in v. 1. who is not without the bodie being the things that he spake and did were spoken and done with his bodie And now it follows that I prove he is in Heaven in Heb. 4. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest that is passed into the Heavens Jesus the Son of God And it is proved that this High Priest is not without the bodie because he is called a man and I hope all men will say the bodie and soul is the man And that this man continues for ever is proved in Heb. 7.24 But this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood And in Heb. 8.3 It is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer And v. 4. For if he were on earth c. which proves that the manhood is in Heaven And in Heb. 9.24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us And if any doubt whither it is the man there spoken of look in Heb. 10.12 for the speech is continued and there it is said But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down at the right hand of God And if any man doubt whither the man be now in Heaven let him look into Acts 3.20 21. And he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the Heaven must receive untill the times of restitution of all things Now Christ was preached a crucified Christ so that the bodie must needs be in Heaven 1 Cor. 1.23 We preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness It was the greatest stumbling block that could be to the Jews in the world to think that he that should come to deliver Israel should first be crucified These things thus proved let no man hereafter say that that bodie of our Lord which was crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem is not in Heaven And thus you see how these men denie the Lord that bought them if they denie that bodie that was crucified for them for he bought Lordship over all things by his death and so by that bodie that bled and suffered on the Cross and by that death became their Lord Philip. 2.7 8 9