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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	soul_n	16,669	5	5.2335	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18693	The vvarfare of Christians concerning the conflict against the fleshe, the world, and the deuill. Translated out of Latine by Arthure Golding.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1576 (1576)	STC 5201; ESTC S116490	35,443	84

Flesh they that are after the spirite do mind spiritual things Surely to be fleshly minded is death but to be ghostly minded is life peace bycause that Fleshlymindednesse is enmitie against God for it is not obedient to Gods law neither can be They therefore that are in the Flesh cannot please god The same Apostle to the Galathians sayth thus Walke in the spirite yee shal not fulfil the lustes of the flesh For the Flesh lusteth against the spirite the spirit against the flesh And those two are at strife one against another so as yee cannot do what yee woulde And again They that are Christes haue crucified the Fleshe with the affections lusts therof To be short the Apostle warneth vs almost euery where to kepe cōtinual battel against the Flesh when we be once regenerated and to stryue with al earnestnesse to holde downe and subdue the sinfulnesse and corruption of our nature sticking still in our Flesh by the spirite of God to crucifie that old man of ours with Christ to clenze away the olde leuen dayly more and more and that I may vse the Apostles owne words to mortifye our earthly members as lecherie vncloanesse nycenesse and euil concupisence Therfore let vs not promise ourselues rist safetie in this life we must stand always as it were in battelray so long as wee carrye the olde man about vs and we must fyght against the Fleshe without ceassing that the bodye of sin may be done away and perish as the Apostle saith to the Romans And they that are sanctifyed by the spirite must not in any wise so deale as sinne may raigne and beare swaye in them but they must with all force withstande the sinfulnesse and forewarde inclination to offend which is bred in them and as S. Peter sayeth they must absteyne frō fleshly lustes which mayntaine warre against the spirit ▪ and they must not abandon their members as seruants too vncleannesse vnrighteousnesse from leaudnesse to leaudnesse but as seruants of rightuousnesse vnto holines Nother must they runne forwarde with blinde brayde whither so euer the flesh driueth them nor heape sinne vppon sinne but they muste fight I say continually against the fleshe as long as they liue They must subdue theyr naughtie affectiōs and not cocker themselues in their ouertēdernesse nor giue head to their lustes Finally we must by al meanes endeuor to put off the old man according to that former cōuersatiō which is corrupted w deceitfull lustes to be renued in the spirit of our mind so as we put on the new man which is created to Godward in true holinesse rightuousnesse as Paule saith to the Ephesians I say to put off the olde man with his deeds and to put on the newe which is renewed to the knowledge and image of him that made him as the same Apostle sayth to the Colossians and lastly to forsake all vngodlynesse worldly lustes and to liue soberly vprightly and godlily in this present worlde wayting for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue him selfe for vs to redeeme vs frō all vnrightuousenesse and to clenze vs for a peculiar people to himselfe that we myght be followers of good workes as the same Apostle writeth to Titus I will adde this one thing more before I make an ende There hath bin some stryfe in our dayes who are rightly to bee taken for fleshly and who for ghostly I wil touch the matter shortly He therefore is sayde to bee Fleshly whiche strayneth not himselfe to the vttermost of his power to keepe downe the corruption and naughtie affections that are in the fleshe and as it were to purge away the old leuen but is caried by them into al kind of leaudenesse and wickednesse and rusheth wittingly and willingly against the precepts of the ten commaundements and shaking off the force of god beareth too muche with him selfe being a seruant to his bodie and that I may vse the words of the apostle Iude walking after his own lusts Contrariwise he is spirituall which being stirred vp by Gods spirite endeuoreth with all his harte to liue a holye life to obey Gods commaundements to kepe himselfe vndefyled of the world to put off the old mā to subdue the sinfulnes that is bredin him as saith the Apostle to kil the deeds of the body thorow the spirit and which feeling his f●esh striuing ther against doeth yet after a sorte offer violēce to his owne nature and suffereth not him self willingly to be ouercome of his owne lustes in so muche that if he can doo no more at leastwise he suffereth not sinne to reigne in him but vpon trust of Gods hope indeuoreth to liue out of the flesh being in the flesh in the meane while bewayling his own infirmitie and weakenesse and bicause he cannot put away the renants of sinne that sticke fast in his flesh he prayeth too haue them pardoned for Christes sake For let no man looke too plucke vp quite and cleane or too remoue whole away the inbred corruption whiche is as the roote of all sins Alwayes there remains some behind vntill the flesh be brought again into dust and consumed to nothing For only death is it that dispatcheth that mischiefe In respect whereof Augustine sayeth thus there is alwayes a fighting in the bodie of this death bicause the cōcupiscence wherwith we be borne cannot be ended as long as wee liue It may dayly be diminished but ended it cannot bee Concerning this difference between the fleshly the spiritual man I will cyte a few things out of Irenaeus who in his fifth booke against the Heresies of Valentine writeth in maner thus They that haue the pledge of the spirit serue not the lusts of the flesh but submit thēselues to the spirit leade their life in all poynts agreingly too reason them doth the Apostle rightly call spirituall bicause Gods spirite dwelleth in them And after a few other words the vnion of the soule and bodie saith hee taking Gods spirit vntoo it maketh a man spirituall But as for them that reiect and forsake the counsell of the holy Ghost serue the lustes of the flesh liue not according too reason but are caried headlong into all sensualitie and being vtterly destitute of the breath of Gods spirit doe liue after the maner of Swine and Dogges them doeth the Apostle iustly call Fleshely bicause they mynd nothing but Fleshly things so foorth The same Authour anon after sayth thus For they that are such doe beare men in hande that they beleeue in the father and the sonne but yet doe they neuer set their myndes vppon Gods woord as they should doe neyther are they bewtifyed with the workes of righteousnesse but as I sayd afore they liue like swine and dogges giuing themselues to vncleannesse gluttome and all other vyces Iustly therefore doth the Apostle terme all such men fleshly and sensual forasmuch as