Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bring_v	ghost_n	holy_a	5,461	5	4.9556	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12273	The harmonie of the lawe and the gospel Wherin is plainly shewed, that howsoeuer they differ in time and some other circumstances, yet in substance they are one & the same. And by waie of application, the pretended antiquitie of Poperie is discouered, and found to be a meere nouelty: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, the 9. of Aug. 1607. by George Cresvvell, minister of Gods word.	Creswell, George.	1607 (1607)	STC 6038; ESTC S117450	22,951	66

23 verse of this Chapter doth more apparently set downe saying that the Iewes before faith came were kept vnder the lawe and shut vp vnto that faith which should afterwarde bee reuealed And in the Ephesians it is said Ephe 2. 13. 13. ●4 that the partition wall of the law is taken away from the Gentiles that hitherto had been strangers from the Common-wealth of Israell and now called vnto the faith that of Iewes and Gentiles there might be one Church of Christ Iesus For which cause afterward it was called a Catholicke Church by reason it was extended to the elect of all ages and places Now as touching the doctrine and vse hereof the Apostle doth teach vs that they doe offend and sinne that extend the law beyond the bound of it now seeing the true seede Christ Iesus is already come are stil willing to thrust the law vpō Gods children For as S. Augustine saith Qui dedit 1. Cap. in Episto Galat. seipsum pro peccatis nostris apertè c. That is He that gaue himselfe for our sinnes doth plainely shewe that the law did profit nothing seeing it saith that Christ gaue himself that he might suffer for vs that he might Iustifie vs whom the law made guilty that being deliuered frō the lawe by the faith of Christ wee should bee no longer sinners but righteous by our second birth the children of God Obiect But some obiect against this and say that Christ whilst hee liued vppon the earth kept the lawe and therfore contrarie to the example of Christ they bring in a damnable libertie of sinne who doe affirme the lawe to bee abrogated But to Christ fulfilled the law this I aunswere that Christ indeede kept the whole lawe because hee became subiect vnto it when he was made man of the Virgin and the lawe had not as yet attained to his full end which followed onely in the death of Christ by whose merite and power the vaile of the Temple rent asunder that all men might knowe that the legall worship was now abolished Secondly Christ kept the law not by constraint but willingly not for himselfe but for vs that he might both free vs from the intolerable yoake burden of the law also might abrogate that sorrowful sentence of condemnation which the lawe denounced against vs because so long as the same endured blessing and saluation whereof he is the meane for vs could take no root in vs. Nether by this is there opened any window for the libertie of sin For although they that are in Christ are to feare no more condemnation from the law yet is there remaining a dutie of obedience wherunto we must alwayes be subiect which they onely truely hartily performe that are endued with a true and liuely faith Now we come vnto the third part of this place wherein is showed by whom how the law was giuen of which the Apostle doth in such sort speake that therby we may vnderstand how far more excellent the Gospell is then the law that therby it may be manifest how much they are deceiued that secke for righteousnesse and saluation in the law Of this point the Apostle auerreth two things first that it was ordained and giuen by Angels or as Steuen speakes by the disposition and ministrie of Angels And being thus giuen vpon necessitie it must bee glorious But much more glorious is the Gospel because it was preached by the onely son of God Christ Iesus by the which argument the Apostle commends the doctrine of Christ vnto vs in the beginning of his Epistle to the Hebrews Therfore as much as Christ Heb. 1. 1. 2. doth excell the Angels so far doth the Gospell excell the law Neither is this any hinderance vnto the comparison That God when hee gaue the lawe did speake For in holy scripture oftētimes doth God speak to men by the ministry of Angels Obiecti But some will obiect say why might not the Gospel be preached by an Angel but vpon necessitie the Son of God must come into the world to be the preacher of it To this I answere In the law are contained precepts with promises threatnings al which might haue been proposed by an Angel But the Gospel hath in it not onely precepts of faith and promises of eternall saluation but it bestowes life and saluation itselfe vpon vs. For it is the power of God Rom. 1. 16 to saluation to euery one that beleeueth It is the word of reconciliation and of eternall 2. Cor. 5. 18. Act. 10. 6. life So that truly hath the Angell spoken of Peter the teacher of Cornelius He shall speake vnto thee words wherby thou and all thy house shall be saued Finally with the Gospel is ioyned the enheritance of saluation and of the kingdom of God Now these things are of such sort that they cannot be giuen vnto vs by the benefitte of an Angell or any other creature whatsoeuer For how can he make them the heires and sonnes of God who is neither sonne nor heire himselfe but adopted by grace Therefore that the authoritie of the Gospel might be firme and certaine it was necessarie to bee preached by the eternall sonne of God Cirillus makes Cirillus an excellent difference betweene the lawe and the Gospell First saith he the lawe condemned the world and subdued all men rightly iustly to cursing But the Sauiour freed the world for he came not to iudge but to saue the world Secondly although the law graue grace to the know ledge of the true God recalling men from the worship of Idols and teaching to discerne good from euill yet it did not effect this perfectly indeede but onely in part But the grace and truth of the onely begotten sonne doth giue vs good things not in figures and shadowes but openly manifestly by his doctrin brought vs to the perfect knowledge of faith Thirdly the law gaue vs the spirit of bondage to feare But Christ the spirit of adoptiō vnto liberty Fourthly the law established the circumcision of the flesh which as saith our Apostle is nothing but Christ brought in the circumcision of the heart and the spirit by faith Fiftly the law baptizeth thē that are washed in water but Christ baptizeth with the holy Ghost and with fire Sixtly the law broght vs into a tabernacle which was a figure of true things to come But Christ hath brought vs into heauen into a tabernacle which not man but God hath created Seuenthly the law brought no perfectiō of good things but the doctrine of the Gospel bringeth full and absolute blessing And lastly Moses by the law condemnes the whole world but the Son deliuers the world frō the curse of the law with the multitude of his mercy heals cures the sicknes maladie of the world Like as Moses brought the children of Israell Theodoret out of Egypt but Iosua into the Land of promise so the law brings