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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	natural_a	5,868	5	6.7181	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10027	A sermon of spirituall life and death Preached before the king, at White-Hal, Nouember, 1616 by the late faithfull minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. In Diuinity, chapplaine in ordinar[y] to his maiesty, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1630 (1630)	STC 20278; ESTC S114308	21,702	38

A SERMON OF SPIRITVALL LIFE AND DEATH Preached before the King at White-Hal Nouember 1626 By the late faithfull Minister of Iesus Christ Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity Chapplaine in ordinar to his Maiesty Mr. of Emmanuel Colleage in Cambridge and sometimes Preacher at Lincolnes Inne Iohn 6. 53. Verily verily I say vnto you Except ye eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood ye have no use in you Printed at London by T. C. for Michael Sparke dwelling at the signe of the Blue Bible in Greene Arbor 1630. ILLVSTRISSIMIS VENE RABILISSIMIS ET PIISSIMIS VIRIS NATHANIELIRICH MILITI RICHARDO KNIGHTLIE ET IOHANNI PIM ARMIGERIS GVLIELMVS PRYNNVS Hancposthumam aulicam concionem Clarissimi IOANNIS PRESTONI SS Theologiae Doctoris Regis Capellani Collegij Immanuelis Magistri et Hospitij Lincolniensis nuper Concionatoris nunc primum typis mandatam Annotationibusque nonnullis marginalibus illustratam Amoris et Beneuolentiae suae minutulum pignus D. D. D. Gellius Noctium Attic. lib. 17. cap. 14. Beneficium dando accepit qui dignis dedit A SERMON OF SPIRITVALL LIFE AND DEATH 1 IOHN 5. 12. He that hath the Sonne hath Life and he that hath not the Sonne hath not Life THe Apostles scope here is to shew vs what great priviledges wee haue by Iesus Christ amongst which this is one of the chiefest That he that hath the Sonne hath life that is he hath a life of grace for the present and shal haue a life of glory for euer hereafter which he sets downe by the opposite He that hath not the Sonne hath not life So that the point lyes euidently before vs That whosoeuer hath not a spirituall life for the present hee is not in Christ and whosoeuer hath it is in Christ and shall liue for euer whence these two points are to be obserued 1. That euery man by nature is a dead man that is dead in trespasses and sinnes 2. That yet there is a life to bee had which is contrary to this death First I say Euery man by nature is a dead man for life you see here is from the Son now there is no man borne a member of the new Adam but euery man is borne a member of the old therefore in that sense is borne a dead man though otherwise indued with a naturall life for if the roote be dead as the old Adam is all the branches that rise from the root must be dead also Againe spirituall life is nothing else but a coniunction of the soule with the Spirit of God euen as the naturall life is a coniunction of the body with the soule now as the soule leaues the body so the holy Ghost withdraws him selfe from the soule when it is disioynted distempered and made vnfit for vse For euen as a man dwels in a house while it is habitable hee playes on a musicall instrument while it is fit and in tune he vseth a vessell while it is whole and sound but when the house growes ruinous and inhabitable he departs from it when the instrument is vnstrung he layes it aside when the vessell is broken or boared thorow hee casts it away And as the soule departs from the body when it is growne ruinous when it is made inhabitable through mortall diseases it layes it aside as an ouerworne garment after the same manner the holy Spirit withdrawes him selfe from the soule of a man when it is broken ruinatëd and distempered through the mortall disease of sinne and of naturall corruption and this is the case of euery naturall man whatsoeuer till he be reuiued by the infusion of a new life And yet it is the common opinion of naturall men that if they liue in the Church and be baptized and pray and heare the word and imbrace the true religion and practise the outward duties of it that they are out of doubt in the state of this spirituall life And therefore I thinke it would bee an houre well spent to discouer dead men to themselues to perswade them that except they be made new creatures d Except they bee borne againe they are in a state of death and cannot be saued in that state and condition For you see he that hath not life hath not the Son and he that hath not the Sonne shall dye the wrath of God abides on him for euer Iohn 3. the last verse Now it is said Ephes. 4. 18. That men are strangers from this life through the ignorance that is in them and the hardnesse of their hearts Marke it they are strangers from this life partly through ignorance because they are Ignorant of this worke of life and regeneration they thinke there is a greater latitude in religion than there is within which compasse if they come they are safe that is though they bee not so strict and so zealous though they goe not so fast to heauen as others yet they shall do as well as the best In a word they are ignorant what belongs to this life saith the Apostle and therefore they are strangers to it Partly againe they are strangers to it because of the hardnesse of their hearts that is either because they are so distracted and possessed with worldly businesse that they cannot attend it or they are so besotted and surfeited with pleasures and delights that they are not sensible of the things that belong to this life and therefore they are strangers to it that is they are not able to iudge of it whether they haue this life of grace or not You will say vnto me how shall we know it You shall know it from those properties of life and death that are taken from the naturall life and death 1. A man may know whether he remaine in the state of nature whether he be a dead man or no by considering whether hee haue any change wrought in him For as it was said of Christ He was dead and is aliue so it is true of euery man that is in Christ Hee was dead and is aliue Now there are many changes in a man age makes a change place and company makes a change education custome and experience makes a change but when a man is translated from death to life it is another kind of change As if another soule dwelt in the same body that a man can say Ego non sum ego That when his old lusts his acquaintance his old temptations shall come hee is able to answer them and to say hee is not the same man though they knocke at the same doore yet there is another inhabitant come into the house and they finde not him they looke for Euen as you see when a graft is put into a Crab-tree stocke it changes all the sappe and the fruit and the leaues and all are of another fashion so it is when the life of grace is put into the heart of a naturall man it changes the inward man