Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	break_a	heart_n	sacrifice_n	5,353	5	8.6130	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64977	The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing V427; ESTC R222561	16,894	33

exercises is of no worth in Gods account all is flattery all is mockery without the Heart the Sacrifices under the Law although of Gods own appointment yet comparatively with the Sacrifice of the Heart they were not esteemed and without the sacrifice of the Heart they were despised but the Heart was never despised never refused but readily accepted as the most delightful sacrifice See Psal. 51.16 17. For thou desirest not sacrifice that is comparatively else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt-offerings the Sacrifices of God are as broken spirit a broken and contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise God doth not despise the heart yea He desireth and delighteth in the Sacrifice of the Heart when it is offered up unto Him by the hands of Christ our great High Priest in Heaven a heart broken and bleeding for sin gasping and breathing after God is very pleasing and acceptable And as God will accept the Hearts of any so especially the Hearts of young ones the sooner any bring their Hearts unto God the better is he pleased the Rose is sweetest in the bud before it be quite blown and the love of Youths to God hath a great fragrancy and is very sweet and delightful to Him R. 4. All especially young men ought to give God their Hearts because he doth best deserve them not only as he hath a right to them of which before but also as he is the most deserving object Nothing is worthy of their Hearts beside Him or in the least degree of comparison with Him 1. If Loveliness do deserve Love God is altogether Lovely this cannot be said of any creature in the world which may be apt to draw away the Heart the creatures indeed may have loveliness but the loveliness of creatures is inferiour Gods loveliness is supreme the loveliness of creatures is defective Gods loveliness is perfect the creatures may have some loveliness but God hath all loveliness the creatures loveliness is derivative Gods loveliness is from himself and whatsoever loveliness the creatures have they derive it from Him and therefore even that loveliness is eminently in Him and moreover such loveliness as is infinitely beyond that What is the Beam in comparison of the Sun What is the Stream in comparison with the Fountain What is the drop in comparison with the Ocean And what is creatures loveliness in comparison with the Creator's loveliness Indeed God's loveliness is not visible like some creatures-loveliness because God is a Spirit and his loveliness spiritual but Gods loveliness is not the less because it is not corporal and visible but the more because not so low and inferiour and subject to alternations as bodily beauty is as the beauty of the mind adorned with wisdom and grace is far beyond the beauty of the 〈◊〉 of the rarest symmetry and mixture of colours so the beauty of God which is spiritual doth infinitely excell all created beauty whether of body or of mind Gods loveliness cannot be discerned with the eye of the body but it may be viewed with the eye of the mind with the eye of faith through the illuminations of the spirit indeed the beauty of his face cannot be seen by any in the body the vision of this is fit only for Angels and is reserved for the Saints in Heaven yet in his back parts there is infinitely more loveliness to be seen than in the face of any creatures whatsoever if there could be a composition of all created loveliness in one person it would fall infinitely short of the loveliness of God in any one of his excellencies and perfections Hence was that desire of David Psal. 27.4 One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple And Psal. 63.1 2. O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee as in a dry and thirsty land where no water is to see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary 2. If sutableness do deserve love there is infinitely more of this in God unto the Heart than in any thing else that any may set their hearts upon Indeed sensitive objects are more sutable unto the bruitish part I mean the senses in which many bruits do excell men but God is most sutable to the most excellent and noble part of man which is the soul He is a sutable good and the only sutable good for the Heart because he is the only chief good nothing beneath nothing besides the chief good can give true satisfaction to the Soul none but God can fill up the large and immense desires of the Heart the house may be filled with goods the bags may be filled with silver and gold the cabinets may be filled with jewels but none of these things can fill the Heart the eye may be tired with seeing and the ear wearied with hearing and all the senses glutted and cloyed with their proper objects but none of these objects are sutable to the Soul and therefore cannot fill and satisfie its desires Earthly riches are uncertain and thorny worldly honours are vain and windy sensual pleasures are thin and empty and all are of short continuance and very transitory and what then can they all do to give satisfaction unto a rational Soul which is a spiritual substance to an immortal soul which must abide when the body is dropt off into the dust and all these things are vanish'd out of sight and which must live so long as the eternal God shall live God only is the sutable good for the Soul the creatures are not so far beneath the Soul as God is above it the creatures have not so much emptiness as God hath fulness the creatures have not such insufficiency as God hath All-sufficiency he that is Self-sufficient must needs be All-sufficient an Ocean surely is sufficient to fill a Bucket or a Nut shell though ten thousand worlds are not sufficient to fill one Soul yet one God that is All sufficient can fill ten thousand worlds of souls It is a great expression Eph. 3.20 21. Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us to him be glory c. He can do above abundantly above exceeding abunantly above in the original the words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above abundantly He can do infinitely beyond not only our Prayers and what we can ask but also our conceptions and what we can think We may ask for great things mountains of Gold seats amongst the Starrs the most delicious things for the sense but God can do more than this for us and if he doth not give such things because they are not so good he giveth that which is better a little true Grace