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	outward_a	soul_n	5,744	5	5.4127	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17586	The re-examination of two of the articles abridged: to wit, of the communicants gesture in the act of receaving, eating, and drinking: and The observation of festivall dayes	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.; Cowper, William, 1568-1619. Passage of Master William Cowper pretended bishop of Gallway, his sermon delivered before the estates, anno 1606. at which time hee was minister at Perth.	1636 (1636)	STC 4363.5; ESTC S118315	29,491	64

upon the analogic betweene the outward signes and rites and the things signified take eat drink mentally and spiritually by faith Our desires in the meane time are not prayers Prayer is more than desire it is a manifesting of our desires to God The soule may send foorth short ejaculations like darts in every ordinance and these ejaculations may bee incident to all our actions even civill let bee religious even when wee are eating and drinking our ordinarie meat drink But a set and continued prayer can not consist with other actions In suddaine ejaculations no other gesture is required then that wherein the motion of the Spirit of God shall finde them If mentall prayer might bee permitted it is secret before the Lord and the signes of it before men should bee concealed Thirdly What necessitie is it to pray kneeling in this act more then at other prayers at which yee doe kneel It is clear then yee kneel not in regard of that pretended prayer but because yee are before such a creature The like may bee said of thanksgiving Ejaculations of thanks may agree with the proper exercise of the Soule in the time of receaving eating and drinking as it may also with our ordinarie eating and drinking at our tables but not a set thanksgiving which should require the attention of all the powers of the soule and can not bee done without diverting the Soule from the exercise proper for the time Prayer is a craving our taking eating and drinking is not a craving but a receaving Thanksgiving is properly directed to God so is not our act of taking eating and drinking The Sacrament was called the Eucharist by the Ancients not for the act of taking eating and drinking but for the thansgiving preceeding which was but a part of the action The showing foorth of the LORDS death by the act of eating and drinking is but only a representation The showing foorth by word is only a declaration o● commemoration Representation or commemoration are to men and not GOD resemble preaching and not prayer or thanksgiving The celebration of the action it self is a profession of thankfulnesse before man for a great benefite but not thanksgiving directed to God God is honoured by preaching prayer singing swearring praising and not by adoring only To honour is more generall than to adore It is yet objected that in the act of receiving wee receave an inestimable benefite Ought not a subject to kneele when hee receaveth a benefite from his Prince to testifie his thankfulnesse I answere If wee were to receave a gift suppose but a morsell of bread out of Gods owne hand immediatly we ought no doubt to adore upon our knees but not if by the hand of the creature The person who receaveth the gift from the King is supposed to receave it immediatly from the king or suppose hee kneele receaving from his servant mediat civill worship is not a rule for religious adoration which should bee directed to God immediatly Now wee receave the Sacrament out of the hand of the Minister not out of Christs owne hand Yea the Apostles at the first supper adored not on their knees when Christ himselfe ministred the Sacrament howbeit upon occasion and at other times they adored Nor did they adore God the Father upon their knees for the benefite they were receaving The inward benefite Christs body and bloud is not the outward object is receaved by the soule not by the body by the godly only not by all that receave the Sacrament by faith imbracing Christ present by his Spirit in the soule Now the act of faith or believing is not an act of adoration nor is it expressed outwardly by kneeling Wee receave eat and drink Christs bodie and bloud as soone as wee are effectually called and begin to believe and as oft as we believe the promises of the Gospel when wee heare them read or exponed CHRIST bodie is farre absent from us at the receaving of the Sacrament We are united with Christ and made members of his bodie before wee come to the Sacrament and doe not receave his bodie at everie communion as if wee had lost it since the former and yet there is but one bodie received at all the times Wee are said then to take eat drinke Christs bodie and bloud at every celebration of the Lords supper because wee put foorth our faith in act at that time and renewing the act of faith wee take eat and drink by believing that same bodie and bloud which wee did before our faith being strengthened by the outward signes and seales to that end and so grow by faith in union with Christ. Further the manner or forme of receaving a gift should bee answereable to the manner of the offering the nature of the gift and the will of the giver If a King call his Nobles to a banquet it is his will that they sit at table Howsoever then otherwise and at other occasions wee behave our selves as supplicants wee are now according to our Lords will and pleasure to observe that externall forme of a feast which hee hath left to his kirk and to act thereat in our outward carriage age the persons of guests and friends as hee calleth us Iohn 15.15 Therefore howbeit the inviter bee a great person the manner of invitation is familiar to assure us of our preferment and fellowship with him howbeit there bee great inequalitie betweene us and him Againe if wee should kneele because wee are receaving a gift by this reason wee should kneele when wee receave any gift or benefite from GOD As for example When wee are eating and drinking our ordinarie meat and drink If yee will say the one is holy the other commoun then yee confesse yee kneele because of the holinesse of it and that is idolatrie If yee will say yee receave a greater gift then when yee receave your ordinarie food that is not more but that then is a greater motive Yet if it be called a gift then whensoever or whatsoever gift yee receave yee ought to kneele God deserveth thanks for the least of his benefits because bestowed upon us by so great a Lord and for his owne excellencie which is the reason upon Gods part that moveth us to adore him It is frivolous which is alleadged that what we crave upon our knees wee may receave upon our knees For wee crave our dayly food rayment and other necessars upon our knees and yet wee receave them not nor use them upon our knees It is as frivolous That what wee crave of GOD upon our knees in publict worship wee may receive upon our knees For wee may crave in the time of publick worship upon our knees things necessarie for this temporall life and so wee doe when in the Lords prayer wee pray Give us this day our dayly bread By this kinde of reasoning what I crave in private worship upon my knees I may receave upon my knees But it is not the diversitie of the