Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

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
A35119	Compassion to all the sorrowful, afflicted, visited, tempted, suffering seed whether inwardly or outwardly in the city of London or elsewhere in England.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing C7198; ESTC R29661	7,196	10

COMPASSION To all the Sorrowful Afflicted Visited Tempted Suffering Seed whether inwardly or outwardly in the City OF LONDON Or elsewhere in England THus saith the Lord say to them that are of a fearful heart be strong fear not behold your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompence he will come and save you This is spoken unto you whose Consciences are tender having the deep Sence of Gods Judgments upon your Spirits which are now upon the City of London and other parts of this Isle Whether upon your own persons or families or as yet more remote from you who wait upon the Lord in the way of his judgments if possibly he may be intreated by you to stop his hand from slaying the Righteous together with the wicked and those who know not their right hand from their left Yee know if his anger be kindled but a little that blessed are all those who put their trust in him I know your griefs and am well acquainted with your sorrow which are most of all that yee your selves have not redeemed the time as yee now see yee might have done although yee grieve to see others despise Gods Laws in that for your time yee might have been teachers of others yee have need to be taught the first principles of the teachings of God as Repentance for your dead works it being your daily burthen that yee can feel no more life stiring in your hearts and services nor no more faith towards God to draw life and virtue from him nor no more of the opperations of his hands and openings thereof to fill you with his blessings which makes yee doubt sometimes whether yee are of the sheep of his pasture or of the number of the flock of his hands by reason of your leanness of soul and poverty of Spirit concluding in your selves yee have not yet truly learned the Doctrine of Baptisms being yee find so much of self and the spirit of this world alive in you and so little of the hay straw and stuble yet consumed and burnt up in you that yee question many times whether yee know the foundation of God laid in your hearts And yee find daily so many temptations and vain thoughts lodge within you to the disquieting and vexing of your Righteous souls that yee fear the Baptisme of the holy Spirit is not yet attained by you seeing your sorrows are so many and your comforts so few and uncertain that yee know not certainly whether there be any such holy Spirit come into your hearts And for the Resurrection of the Dead and eternal judgment yee fear that yee know little of them more then yee have receiv'd by the hearing of the ear and reading of the Letter without you therefore yee doubt that your faith stands but in word and not in power because it removeth so little out of your hearts that stood there before and giveth you no more victory over the world but as yee were so yee are still too much in bondage to it which is your grief Although too long after victory is present with you but how to attain and perform it continually over all things both in words thoughts and actions yee find not Yet yee cannot satisfie your selves with the common faith viz. that such a state or condition is not attainable but rather find cause enough in your selves to judge your own remisness and negligence in not watching in the Light to keep your hearts with all diligence experiencing that now your own folly doth correct you because yee have often had precious seasons and opportunities as a daily prize put into your hands but yee improved them not as yee might have done Nevertheless yee dare not like those whose foolish hearts are darkened lay the fault upon God as if the reason was because he denied you power never intending to make you perfectly holy least your Salvation should be of your selves But Experience hath taught you otherwise in that when yee are at any time most holy and sanctified throughout in body soul and spirit yee are then most meek and lowly inheriting the presence and Kingdom of God in your hearts Further yee know there would be no variance or discord between the Lord and you but for your defects in love to him and watchfulness to his councel from which causes flows your miscarriages in life and conversation and such darkness upon you that yee cannot see the Salvation of God crying out as undone saying we are cast out of thy sight Oh Lord wilt thou be merciful no more And no marvel because yee know right well that if the Lord be alwaies before you yee cannot be moved Thus far I have traced you by the foot-steps of the flocks of the companions although to you they seem as untroden paths and like the way of an Eagle and as a Ship at Sea yet be it known unto you the same steps have been troden by the brethren that are in the World as the way of the Lord to shew them what was in their hearts like as he did to Israel of old O that I had the tongue of the learned so as to shew you the causes of your diseased weaknesses that a perfect cure might be received First of all I find your minds abroad and your eyes gadding too much in the ends of the Earth where yee find many wandering like your selves which multitudes so infects your minds as to strengthen your hands in this evil and thereby to lessen it in your selves Also the wicked one so busieth you in finding fault with others as if yee were to keep their Vineyards whereby he cunningly enticeth you to neglect your own under pretence of service to them or otherwise to fill your hearts so with prejudice against Religion it self as if all men were liars which thing lurking so secretly in your bosomes that when the Winter cometh and stormes arise it gendreth to fear and bondage through the mixture of unbelief carelesness and lukewarm-indifferency all which now appears to be a monstrous birth although before nursed and dandled as a most beautiful Child and so lawfully begotten as none so likely to inherit the Kingdom as it But now yee see it is for judgment and must not be heir with the son of the freewoman Again as many by talking what once they did possess and enjoy have lost the sence and comfort of what they should have to support them at present so others by speaking so much of suffering are made unfit to suffer and at this day how many are there who have so spent their precious time in often relating the cruel deaths and hardships of others that they are neither prepared to die nor fitted for trial themselves and hence also ariseth the multitudes of their fears and troubles Another cause of your fear and trouble I find to be the falling of many good and righteous people in this common calamity as if the Lord had no more respect to them that serve