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	life_n	quicken_v	5,163	5	10.2542	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20466	The second part of a plain discourse of an unlettered Christian wherein by way of demonstration hee shevveth vvhat the reasons bee vvhich hee doth ground upon in refusing conformity to kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper / by Tho. Dighton ...	Dighton, Thomas, fl. 1618-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 6877; ESTC S1696	42,581	96

the outward so the outward is the instrument of the soule to expresse the inward yea both these without those affections of the third commandement even holines to the Lord are in vaine and all three if possibly that can be without a conscionable observation of the Sabboth are abhominable Now as all the inward graces of the first commandement are the meere and free gifts of God and not at a mans command so all things essentially necessary in his outward worship as a gesture in the act of receiving the Sacrament is are Gods instruments for the edification of his Church even his conduits to convey those inward graces by which supernaturall vertue or divine property they cannot possibly haue from the canons or precepts of men though all the Christian world ioyne together therein but onely from the free will of God in making choyce of them and so appointing and ordaining them to such holy ends and purposes As therefore nothing ought to bee conformed unto in his outward worship but what is for edification so nothing can possibly be for edification in any degree or respect but what the Lord himselfe hath appointed for that use and purpose Either then kneeling for matter and manner as it is urged is for edification as indeed is pretended or else it may not bee conformed unto but for edification it cannot be unlesse God haue commanded it and therfore either proue by the word that God hath commanded it in the act of receiving or else though he haue commanded it in other parts of his worship and though you say it is not forbidden in this it is a humane device which never edifies but destroyes and therefore of absolute necessity to conforme thereto in the act of receiving the L. Supper is sin The Iewes silled the outward worship of God with actions and ceremonies deuised by them selves or by some other bordring people whose affinity they desired and whose conuersion they perhapps intended not hauing the least thought of setting vp another God or of declining from the true God but to stirre vp them selues with greater zeal and deuotion to serve the Lord their God and to draw others also to ioyne therein with them Yet did not this turne still to theire confusion many times to the ouerthrow of their state The Papists with the same consideratiō haue ordained new sacraments others in like humane boldnes ordain new sacramentals or ceremonies in the administration of the true sacraments you refuse conformity to theirs iustly as you speake because they are additions to the word and may wee conforme to yours without good warrant from the word you Conclude against them that of necessitie the word must come to the elements to prooue and make it plaine that God hath ordained these verie visible signs to be his instruments of grace for the edification of his Church or els though they haue all the devoutest significations that man can deuise there can be no sacrament and haue your ceremoniall signes such a supreame prerogatiue as without direct warrant from the word they ought ipso facto to be conformed vnto Indeed if a Reall presence which in the scriptures sence we acknowledg had destroyed the nature as it changeth the vse of the elements then the breaden gesture or the gesture of kneeling vsed to the breaden god had beene an vnavoidable consequence God is the God of the order as well as of the substance of his worship yea the verie outward order is a speciall parte of the substance of his outward worship and a principall parte of the proper subiect of the second Commandement which honor of ordaining ordering his owne ceremonies in his own worship he neuer committed to Angell prophet or Apostle but laid the gouernment thereof only vpon Christ and will not giue it to any other Now Christs gouernment for order in the act of receving we see to be a table gesture dare we then forsake this and conforme to your order of kneeling without any warrant from the word of Christ no not so much as from an Angel a prophet or an Apostle or Apostolicall Churches In the Institution the Ceremonies of the sacrament had the same warrant from Christ that the signes had If then it be an infallible marke of Antichrist to take away or alter the Elementall signes in which spiritually Christ is Really exhibited how can you Iustifie the alteration of the ceremoniall signe by which euery faithfull beleeuer doth really receaue him are not both these signs together sacramentally vnited to be those verie visible grauen Images or most liuely and reall representions whereby as by his selected and predestinated instruments God the father doth giue Iesus Christ his son all his graces to his children according to the measure of euery man by the effectual working of the holy ghost yea are not these together for without both nothing can be effected I meane the elementall and ceremonial signes by Gods owne ordinance efficient instrumentally to exhibit and receaue whole Christ and all his benefits and yet will you O what will not the Rebellious will of man presume to do against his direct Commandement make vnto your selues other Images and alter these Hereto you reply and say they are but ceremonies and thereto say I no more was the calf in Horeb or those in Dan and Bethel yea these are Christs Ceremonies and the very Ark or Cherubims were no more These are not therefore Idle or for state and ornament or vpon any respect or consideration to be varîed but purposely ordained and in the most absolute perfection of the divine wisdome in the verie institution for the help and strengthening of our weak faith vsed and established being therefore by Christ vnited and Ioyned with the word to make a perfect sacrament and a compleat maner of pertaking spiritual food how may they by any humane authority ever bee altred doth not such a graunt strike mainly and fundamentally at the authority of the second Commandement yea is it not high presumption when the Lord offers this heavenly food not by peeces but in fullnes neither seuering his graces from the substance nor the substance from the graces but even whole Christ and all his merits for us to alter not the placing or order onely which himselfe used and therefore being never repealed thereby established which yet were a fault foule enough but the very dishes or ceremonies themselues wherein this spirituall food is prepared tendred and received as some in restraining the cup others in altering the very elements and you in altering the gesture for so much doth conformity professe wherewith it is received As therefore no one part of Christ wrought our salvation but whole Christ and as where there is no more but the body and bloud of Christ received if that possibly could be yea though really there is no Christ received because it is the spirit or divine grace that quickneth unto eternall life and therefore the true receiving