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	word_n	7,125	5	4.2824	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

scituate in a barren desolate moore or wildernesse the place is as farre from all fertilitie as commerce no harvest no trading are there to be found but the prison it selfe seemes to be banished and imprisoned In short the whole soyle of that moor is like the banished * stoicks Corsica yeelding nor bread nor water no nor fire enough saith he for a funerall In this prison diverse debtors ●●ve been starved and some were said to eate their owne flesh even in those times of peace and plenty Guesse yee then what cries and yells for bread and water there are now to be heard amongst the many scores which at present are shut up in that straight prison Yea the passengers doe heare the cries ere they see the prison For a close to this point of Imprisonments take but this one word It is a like difficult thing to find amongst our enemies in the West a wicked man in their prisons or a godly man out of them 3. Deaths Lastly if we look to varieties of Deaths and Banishments there is stabbing shooting hanging both by order and at pleasure besides other multitudes of Saints doe die daily by wandring up and downe in dons and caves and holes of the earth yea some with their families have inhabited the woods and clefts of the rocks nay the tops of the ragged rocks Sometimes leading their hungry little ones in their hands and anon carrying them along in their armes to goe and make their bed in the dust and to seek their bread out of desolate places Math. 2.18 all destitute afflicted tormented There you might see in the streets a Rachel a mother weeping for her slaine children Gen. 21.15 16. and will not be comforted because they are not Here in a wood sits another Hagar-like with a dry bottle and a fainting sonne and she lifts up her voice and weeps Not farre off in an house you may discover a third like her of Zarephath ● Kin. 17.12 dressing and baking up the last meale of the Barrell with the utmost oyle of the Cruse that she and her family may eate it and die Yea it hath beene a lot which Ladies of honourable Families have not escaped viz. after they have bin deprived of their houses by fire of their goods by plundring of their lands by Sequestration of their Sons under yeares by imprisonment at last to escape to the next Garrison on foot almost bare-footed in borrowed shooes leaving their wearing Garments in the hands of the Enemy But what doe I multiply instances seeing the bare History of Westerne sufferings of this kind would seeme but meere Poetry to the multitude 3. The Afflicting of Job in his Soule The third and highest degree or common place of the enemies cruelty upon Job was afflicting of him in his soule with spirituall scourges and scorpions by temptations false accusations and desertions This was indeed like the breaking of the bones and chopping of them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the Cauldron Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life so said Satan when he compared Jobs goods with his body but Christianity will tell us life for life and all that a man is will he give for his soule And againe Prov 18.14 the spirit of man will support his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can beare In the last place therefore the enemy doth set upon his soule by a strong temptation from the wife of his bosom Then said his wife unto him Iob 2.9 Wilt thou still retaine thine integrity Curse God and die In which words there is a scornefull exprobration and a wicked direction the exprobration in these words Dost thou still retaine thine integrity As if shee had said what art thou so senselesse so sottish as still to goe on in this course What have all thy prayers fastings and sacrifices profited thee Where are the ●arnings what is the advantage of thine holinesse and singularity And yet dost thou still retaine thine integrity Away with these emptie shewes and fruitless devotions delude thy selfe no longer with dreaming of help and happinesse from thy Jehovah but seeing there is no hope of thy deliverance by his blessing dispatch thy selfe with a curse Curse God and die These bolts came from his wife next what sharpe and keen charges doth he receive from his mistaking friends Who by their false accusations and conclusions against him did endeavour to dispute him out of his innocency Thus Eliphaz begins to charge him Remember I pray thee who ever perished Iob 4.7 being innocent or where were the righteous cut off Then Bildad doth second him Doth God pervert judgement Iob 8.3 or doth the Almighty pervert justice And lastly Iob 11.2 3. Zophar the Naamathite is in the same straine Should a man full of talke be justified should thy lips make men hold their peace These are the darts of his friends But finally the Lord himselfe doth strike him thorow with spirituall agonies and desertions of which he complaineth in these words The arrowes of the Almighty are within me Iob 6.4 the poyson whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God doe set themselves in array against me The Caldeans and Sabeans the losses of his goods and children together with the ulcers of his body the cruell mistakes of his friends and the malignancy of his wife were all as nothing to this spirituall battell-array Parallels In my Westerne parallel to this affliction I must double my Lamentations Alas alas poore native Country This last degree of Jobs misery is the highest and heaviest of all so is it that wherein thou canst most aptly and fully compare with this thy pattern For Did Satan turne the mouth of Jobs owne Ordnance upon himselfe 1. Friends and kinsfolks treacherous Gen 10.25 making his friends to become miserable comforters Did also the wife of his bosome turne Malignant Surely these our dayes are as the dayes of Peleg in whose time the earth was divided they are the very times of division which were fore-told by our Saviour when he sayes There shall be five in one house divided three against two Luke 12.51 52.53 compared with Matth. 10.34 35 36. and two against three it is like that the three were Malignants the father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother in law against her daughter in law and the daughter in law against her mother in law Loe there are the five Stella ad loc if you take the same woman to be both the mother to her son and the mother in law to his wife But though a shower of stormy divisions hath over-spread the whole Land in generall Luke 12.54 yet you see this cloud arising especially in the West there is the father divided against the son that is many an old wicked