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	work_n	6,979	5	5.5332	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46850	A visitation of love to the tender plants of Gods vineyard given forth by Henry Jackson ; also two generall epistles, given forth by William Caton.	Jackson, Henry, fl. 1662-1700.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Scostrop, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing J71; ESTC R11245	15,342	21

of heart and minde walk ye in the daily crosse unto that part and nature which would crucifie the Son of God afresh and cause you to build again those things which you once destroyed by getting up into a fleshly liberty and exaltation which is not the liberty of the Sons of God who have dominion over that part which would cause the offence of the crosse to cease for such as give way unto that though they have begun in the Spirit yet will end in the flesh and though they once might partake of the virtue of the root of life yet afterwards degenerate from it and bring not forth fruit unto God but both branch and fruit perishes so against that friendes all are to watch which would lead out into fleshly liberty or into any exaltation of flesh or spirit above the daily crosse of Christ how glorious soever it may appear to the outward eye yet a snare of death there is in it and the vertue of the pretious life will withdraw it self from such as follow it though they may flourish as a green bay-tree in the profession of truth yet the vertue of the root of life having withdrawn it self their leaf will shortly wither and they become as corne that groweth on the house top that brings not forth fruit to perfection And therefore my dear friends the word of exhortatation which ariseth in my heart unto you all is dwell low in the fear of the Lord God and in humility of heart walk with him in the measure of that grace ye have received of him for that is safe for you all and to him that hath shall be given that he may have in abundance but unto him that hath not profited in that which he hath even that which he hath shall be taken from him Watch you therefore my dear friends that a daily profiting you may know in that tallent which is committed unto you for there is no profiting in or by another nor by what another hath received of it but by abideing in that which ye have received of God in your own perticulars that you may feel that grow and increase in you and you in it untill it have wholy leavened you into its own proper vertue and nature and thereby an entrance is and will be administred unto you more and more into that which is eternal even into the kingdome and life of our Lord Jesus Christ and you will feel an habitation in that and and a sitting down in it which indeed is exceeding pretious and will countervaile all your sufferings labours and travels for it And that you will feel raised up in you which serves God as naturally and does his will unto which his commands are not grevious but joyous nor is his yoke burthensome but this brings forth fruit naturally unto God for indeed it is of him and from him and not of this world but born from above and seeks those things that are eternal and to be unto God in deed in truth and in righteousnesse and though this brings forth the workes of God outwardly before men and stands singly given up in body soul and spirit to serve him in all things and to do his will that therein the Father may be glorified yet it doth not seek to appear before men nor to be approved by men in any thing but to answer the Lord in all things and to stand approved in his sight and unto his witnesse in every conscience and this is the son of God for ever and heir of the Kingdome and a plant of the right hand of the God of Heaven which naturally bringeth forth fruit to the praise of the Lord of the vineyard who hath planted and watered it And so dear friends feel this in you all raised up begotten and brought forth for this will the Lord God cherish as a Father his onely begotten and this shall receive the rain in due season even the former and latter rain the dew of Heaven and the fatnesse of the good ground shall daily water and nourish this in the root and in the branch and though the briars and thorns may seek to smother this yet the fire of the Lord shall consume them and every plant that the Father hath not planted which seeks to hinder the growth of this the axe of the Lord shall cut them up so that the leaves of this shall never wither nor its blossomes perish the scorching heat in the Summer nor the stormy blasts in the Winter shall have no power over it because it is rooted in an eternal ground of life and watered with the dew of of Heaven which causeth it to flourish and blossome in due season and bring forth fruit to perfection to the everlasting glory and renown of the Lord of the Vineyard over all who is blessed for evermore And so dear Plants of my heavenly Father recieve ye my words in the word of life from whence they were written and therein also may you read feel and receive the thing I testifie of and exhort unto even the engrafted word which is able to save your souls that by it you may have power over that whether in your selves or in others which would draw you from the root of life or word engrafted in your own particulars for that is your enemy and to be watched and warred against which would draw you from that in whatever appearance it may come unto you in that as an Angel of light to draw you from the light of life revealed in you or from the present sensible feeling of your own particular estate and conditions in it into something before or behind which may seem glorious unto the eye that is abroad saying Lo here or there is the Kingdome of God in this or that or the other observation and thereby seek to raise up a covetting or longing desire to be in another state or condition in a higher or more glorious state or dispensation then what you are grown into by the light of life the manifestation of Gods spirit which is given unto you to profit withall but I say unto you goe not forth but abide with the Lord in that which ye have received of him that by it a growth and enterance may be administred unto you into the Kingdome in deed and in truth for the Kingdome of God comes not by observation of this or that or the other thing nor yet stands it in high words or guilded and coyned expressions but in judgement and mercy in peace in truth and in righteousnesse and happy are they that enter it through judgement and righteousnesse and sit down in it in the peace that endures for ever and goes no more forth to the right hand nor to the left for the things that are behind also may the enemy tempt you withal to draw back your minds from the Lord into the glory of Egypt the thing which you have once turned your backs upon even the fading enjoyments of this present life