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	resurrection_n	soul_n	5,493	5	5.6473	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93749	The observation of the three great festivals asserted in the Christian church and that objection answered, from Gal 4. 10, 11., and also the right manner of the observance of them made known, in a sermon, preach'd on Easter-Day / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing S5127; ESTC R42800	18,000	24

no Benefits of Christ's Resurrection Marvel not at this that the Apostle Paul should say Ye must be risen again with Christ that is as Christ was raised again in the Body so ye must be raised again even whilst in Body in your Spirit As the same Apostle Paul explaineth himself elsewhere touching this matter as Christ rose from the Dead even so we should rise up to newness of Life And so the like Reason is to be learned from his Crucifixion The Sixth Chapter of the Romans is full and express to this Purpose Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of Life For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection Knowing this that our old Mnn is crucified with him that the Body of Sin might be destroyed That henceforth we should not serve Sin For he that is dead is freed from Sin knowing that Christ being raised from the Dead dieth no more Death hath no more Dominion over him For in that he died he died unto Sin once But in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also your selves be dead indeed unto Sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. And so to allude unto 1 Cor. 15. 44. Christ was raised again in his Natural Body even in that Body of Flesh which He brought from out of the Womb of the Virgin Mary and He carried about him more than Thirty Years while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us So we should be raised again with him in our Spiritual Body that is in those Spiritual Qualifications and Inward Endowments which even now we have and derive down from Christ our Head altho He sits on the Right Hand of God There is a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body both in this our present State as well as it will be so in the future Resurrection And even now we are made up both of this Natural Body and of this Spiritual Body all one and in like manner as man is now made up of Body and Soul all one and in like manner as there is a living Soul and a quickening Spirit The first gives Life here and the latter is in order to Life hereafter And this is that first Resurrection which the Scriptures speak of particularly in that Great and Remarkable Place of the Revelations Blessed is that hath his part in the first Resurrection upon such the second Death hath no Power From what hath been aforesaid may be perceived the great Importance and Necessity of rising with Christ as also it hath been shewed from Rom. 6. what this rising and to be risen with Christ means even to walk in newness of Life For we know that when one is dead and raised again he hath thereupon a new Life or another Life given unto him And so People should turn over a new Leaf and run Counter to all the Thoughts Words and Actions of their former natural unregenerate State There is an Old Common and Proverbial Saying That People should have somewhat new upon them at Easter Which tho it be commonly understood of Cloaths and Garments yet there is some Divine and Serious Truth contained therein and to be gather'd from it And that is what was just now said now at this time our Thoughts are taken up with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead we should also examine and prove our selves whither we be risen with him and then question further and look about or rather from within our selves whither we have any thing new on us or rather within us Do we walk in Newness of Life And have we put off concerning the former Conversation the old Man which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts thereof And have we put on the new Man which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness There is a great Fault and Failure abroad in the World amongst the too superstitious Observers of Lent and Holy-days for many think that such a Season of the Year is for Mortification and Repentance which Mortification by the way is not a Popish Word but a Gospel Duty Mortifie therefore your Members which are upon Earth Col. 3. 5. for he that is dead is freed from Sin Rom. 6. 7. Now Mortification signifies the making dead that is unto Sin whereas this ought to be a Christian's Business all the Year round And so I have read and heard that the Papists do observe their Carnival before Lent wherein they give themselves over unto Sin and to all manner of Excess of Riot like them of whom Isaiah speaketh And behold Joy and Gladness slaying Oxen and killing Sheep and drinking Wine Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Isa 22 13. And so upon Shrove Tuesday they glut and make themselves drunken because afterwards they must take up and be very demure and fast And so after that is over again they return to their former Excess and Gormandizing There is too much of the Leaven and Remainder of this kind of Popery amongst too many who call themselves Members of the National Church of England for the manner of many of them is to practise a Fit of Holiness for a Season That is to be in a serious Mood upon the Sabbath or Holy-Day But then they are of the Worldly Vain and Ungodly manner of Spirit all the Residue of their time And this is like the putting on of new Cloaths at such a Season and upon such an Occasion and then putting them off again But all this and such like is not to walk in Newness of Life according to the Meaning and requiring of the Spirit of God For to walk denotes a constant and continuing Posture which we abide in as often and as long as we move It is such a pace as holds on and continues in going And so Life again is a constant and continuing thing which abides whither we sleep or wake even as long as we breathe So that to put these two together it is certainly the Will of the most High God that we his Creatures and Servants should walk in Newness of Life as constantly and continually as we move and breathe and live for the new Life is not a thing to be put on and off to be changed altered or laid aside upon every shift or turn no more than we can destroy this natural Life and raise it up again of our selves without endangering or hurting it This cannot be done And tho many pretend to live or lead a new Life for a Season as a Day or a Week or a Month and then they leave it off again and then they return to their old ways like a Dog to his Vomit But in such the new Life was never truly or