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	soul_n	understand_v	5,748	5	6.7898	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87802	Abraham's image in one of his sonnes: or, The picture of a good old man, represented in a sermon upon the third of November, anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton, at the funeral of John Dethick Esquire, father to the late lord mayor that was of London in the year 1655. By William Knapp Master of Arts, of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, now rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk.	Knapp, William, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing K667; Thomason E937_2; ESTC R207740	24,523	44

in the downie bosom of Abraham as heaven is expressed to be Luk 16.23 When children in their parents absence and at distance from their own dear home are evilly intreated at the cruel and merciless hands of strangers how do they double their haste in their retreat homeward in expectation of ease and quiet in their tender Parents bosom where they heare nothing but comfort and remember nothing less then former miseries even so do the Saints of God they know that whilest they are at home in the flesh they are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and in that interim do sit in Captivity as sometimes the Israelites by the waters of Babylon Psal 137.1 and are scornfully made to sing the song of the Lord in a strange land Vers 4. but when they come to dye they know they shall be gathered to the glorious society of Angels holy spirits in heaven where they shall sing uninterrupted Haleluiahs to God and the Lamb for ever and this brings me to the Third and last general observable in the words Thirdly something after Abrahams death He was gahered to his people St. Augustin understands by people the blessed quire of Angels Quaest 226. in Gen. who together with the Saints make up one body reconciled by the blood of Christ Col. 1.20 others understand by the phrase the state of the dead as being aequivalent to sleeping with his fathers being buryed in the dust where all they were and this opinion is not much amiss yet if we would more gently draw milk from the brests of the Scripture we may understand by the words the state of Abrahams soul after death for 't is not said his body was gathered to his people but he was bearing denomination from the better part He that is according to his soul he was gathered to such spirits of just men as were gone before him to heaven from whence we may observe that The souls of men dye not Obs. but after dissolution go to their severall proper places There are certain proper receptacles for the souls of men after death the souls of good men go to their people in heaven the souls of wicked men go to their like accursed crue in hell the souls of good men go to the glorious Pallace of the Son of righteousness as was Christs prayer to his father Iohn 17.24 but the souls of wicked men go into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels and heaven is proper for those and hell for these as Judas is said to have fallen from his Apostleship * Act. 1.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to go to his proper place so that the case is very plain that the souls of men dye not with their bodyes and so much is demonstrable not only by that marvelous light which shines from the Sun of righteousness in the meridian of the Scriptures but by that light in the Lamp of the soul which remains unextinguished by the fall of Adam take notice of in the first place the 12. of Ecel 7. then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God who gave it note also the 12. of St. Mark 26. where our Saviour told the Sadduces who denyed the resurrection that God was the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who certainly were alive as to their souls because our Saviour told them that God was the God of the living and not of the dead Vers 27. Note also 2 Cor. 12.2 where we read that St. Paul was caught up to the third heaven but whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell It seems St. Paul thought his soul might have a being either in or out of the body note yet a clearer place than all in 2. Cor. 5.8 where we find that the Apostle desir'd to be absent from the body that he might be present with the Lord. And now if there be any so far drowned in their naturall corruption as to deny the scriptures then let them heare those of their own Tribe averring this truth Pythagoras thought when the soul had left one body it did presently inform another and so ad infinitum most of the Poets beleived an Elysian Field where the souls of good men had a pleasurable repast after death and * in Lact. ● Cicero affirm'd castos animos puros levi quodam facili lapsu ad Deos id est ad naturam sui similem pervolare that chast and pure souls did make their flight to the Gods of whose Divine nature they did participate and thus the very heathen thought nay the immortality of the souls of men is so cleare a truth that the very Devil himself cannot deny it as appears by one of his Prophetesses Sibylla Erythraea in Lactare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They which fear the true God inherit everlasting life and eternally inhabit the most and fruitful garden of Paradise And now my brethren since this is a truth so manifest out of the blessed word of God and by confession of all sides it may be matter of First comfort to some Secondly reprehension to others Thirdly instruction to all First this may be comfort First to such whose dearest friends relations are dead in the Lord as this our friend doubtless is such as they are not amissi onely praemissi not lost or utterly perish'd but sent before us thither whether the Lord grant we may follow for they have exchanged a Hadadrimmon or valley of tears for a glorious seat of pleasures at the right hand of God for evermore Psal 16. they have only left of serving the Lord at a distance and are gone to waite on him at his own court Secondly comfort to such who for conscience sake are under the hands of implacable persecutors who can but kill the * Mat. 10.28 body and are not able to kill the soul and if their bodies only suffer which suffer for an advantage they may be killed but not hurt as a Philosopher once said of a Tyrant occidere potest laedere vero non Seneca he may kill me but he cannot hurt me Julian that bloody Apostate in slaughtering the Christians pretended that if they looked upon their condition as so good after death he did them no wrong to send them the sooner away and truly no more hedid not for he did but send them away from such incarnate Devills as he was unto a glorious company in heaven they were but ground with the teeth of such furious beasts the better to make bread for Angels as saint Jgnatius Thirdly comfort to such who with the holy Prophet in Psal 31.10 have spent their life with grief and their years with sighing for their sins and who have walked soberly righteously and godly in this present world and have been painfull and faithful labourers in the Lords Vineyard having born the heat of many laborious