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	love_n	soul_n	5,414	5	4.9498	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05221	The spirituall spring A sermon preached at Pauls, vvherein is declared the necessity of growing in grace, and the goodly gaine that comes thereby, &c. By Richard Lee, preacher of the word of God at Woluerhampton in Staffordshire.	Lee, Richard, d. 1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 15354; ESTC S108400	16,886	24

men doe of a dead Hawke a good one if she were aliue Let your faith out-looke your eyes and march on valiantly As for vs Ministers Ministers we should be knowne as Aarons rod was by blossomming and fruit and like Nabuchadnezzars Ouen seauen-times hotter then others God would haue his messengers as an Emperour would haue his wife without fault or suspicion of fault We should haue life in our doctrine and doctrine in our life but we haue many like a Rauen cryes on euery steeple East West North and South but hauing got her prey she lies downe vnder a sunny banke and yee heare no more of her so many Preachers spare no paines in season and out of season till they be warme in some fat Parsonage then like Demas they embrace this present world as the Eagle they flie high and haue no eye to their nest Psal 137.5.6 It is a iudgement when the tongue cleaues to the roofe of the mouth When like the Storke haue a sweet voyce being yong but a hoarse one in old age they either Preach not at all or as lightning onely flasheth but warmes not and truely how can it be that the cold can warme others and he that is dead can quicken others To end with priuate men Priuate Christians How many Professors of Religion with Lots wife haue lookt backe let these know that many set out of Egypt that neuer saw the land of Canaan some like Iohn march furiously yet sit downe and catch cold and fall into a consumption Some now and then smite sinne a little as a mother doth a childe that shames her but loue it well enough others wound sinne a little but will not kill it When Elisha bad Ioash take his arrowes smite on the ground and be smote thrice and staid The man of God was wrath 2 King 13.19 and said thou shouldest haue smitten fiue or sixe times then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it So if men would but giue their corruption more deadly wounds they need not be like a Hackney that tires in the heate of the day or a dull Asses trot that will not last long or like the children of Ephraim are armed and carry bowes yet turne backe in the day of battell yea deale vnfaithfully and turne aside like a deceitfull bow Psal 78.9 We must tell to these sinking-downe estates that little decayes will proue great breaches slidings leade to fallings indifferency to sencelesnesse The more a man is inlightened the worse hee is falling backe A candle neuer enlightened smels not but being enlightened and blowne out then it stinkes The back-sliders in the seauenth persecution Fox Act. Mon. were punished with strange diseases and euill spirits When Cranes flye backewards it is a signe of a tempest Aelian l. 3. c 13. There is nothing but soule weather towards for him that hath broken couenant with God When loue tokens are sent home we say a match is broken The Lord dwels not in that heart that hath the goodnesse remoued out of it When we come into the Kings Pallace and see all the sumptuous Hangings taken downe we conclude the King is remouing of his lodging When wee haue shouldred God out of our hearts our case is miserable It is a wondrous danger of a heate to take cold The Nouatian heresie a great sect and many learned men were of them held that a reuolter could not bee receiued againe howsoeuer I abhorre their bleare-eyed error because I here God say Returne O back sliding Israel Ier. 3.2 yet neuerthelesse there is such intricate turnings and Meandry windings that few returne none without much sorrow and smart Hierome Origens lamentation is wofull and may affright a faller-backe such mens consciences as a broken legge wil paine in ill weather Yet O Lord there is mercy with thee that thou maist be feared The chiefe Physitian of the soule hath scored vs out a way for deliuery Reu. 2.5 first Remember whence thou art fallen secondly Repent cry out against this sinne hate it loathe it lastly and doe thy first worke neuer rest till thou hast got thy former strength To these I may adde three more first Doe all this quickly A candle put out blow the match quickly and it may enlighten wee are like sluggards the longer we lye in bed are vnwillinger to rise Secondly ill company is as ill aire or ill dyet to a man in a consumption which will hinder his health not better him Lastly know God loues vs not the worse if we heartily mourne for our faylings and flye to him Christ calles his Spouse faire pleasant O loue for delights Cant. 7.6 although Chap. 5. she had caught a fall and mar'd her face Hauing now as a Hawke strucke my talents into the face Vse 3 of seuerall offenders let me ring my siluer bels in the cares of a growing good man It is pitty hee should goe without his due If it be betweene thy flesh and spirit as was betweene the house of Dauid and Saul 2 Sam. 3.1 Now there was long warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid but Dauid waxed stronger and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker If thy flesh be tamer thy spirit stronger so that thou canst feele olde age as well by the strength of the soule as the weakenesse of the body Thy Conscience Faith Loue and all other graces are mightier and as it were vp in a swarme in thee Thou art more watchfull then before A childe the older it growes the lesse it sleepes Thou that before wast afraid to follow God in the darke but now art as a Sea-card needle standest in the greatest tempests we haue for thee a neast of young ioyes we open a mine of gold vnto thee and tell thee thou art a true Christian crosses cannot crush thee God bindes thee vp among his iewels and hath made more promises to doe thee good then euer hee made to hold vp the pillars of the world Some it may be accuseth himselfe alas I cannot grow Obiect 1 oh would to God I were better I answere that Grace growes but slowly Answ and loseth ground of time Againe the blade springs whilst the husbandman sleepes we may be better and not aware of it Also there are kindes of growing trees one while shoote vpward another while downe An Apple may grow one while in greatnesse after in goodnesse Obiect 2 But I am nothing like so forward as I was at my first conuersion my prayer is weake my hearing dull Answ What are thy cloathes too little for thee a good signe of growing But a man may abate in fiue respects of his former forwardnesse and be no back-slider First so farre as it was new to vs the lame man Acts 3. leapt at his first curing we must not suppose that he did alwaies afterwards in his goings leape The Israelites at their deliuery out of Babylons captiuity their mouthes were filled with