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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	grace_n	word_n	5,577	5	4.1119	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97020	Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ, delivered in a sermon at St Mary's in Oxford. / By John Wall, Dr in divinity and præbendary of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing W467; Thomason E2120_2; ESTC R210151	17,884	56

for you and by the Spirit which he sent to you that he might lead you into all truth and make you partakers of a pretious inheritance amongst the Saints in glory Custodite animas nulli credite raso keep your soules with all diligence and let nothing draw you from the love of Christ Jesus cleave to the Lord with all perseverance and what God hath joyned let no man sever In vaine do we renew the league of divine friendship if we do not hold it inviolably without provocation of great offence The fathers would have Caudam hostiae as well as Caput hostiae both head and rump to be offered no lesse in spirituall sacrifices then heretofore in the just performance of legall observances The pretious robe of Christian holinesse ought to be like the embroydered Coat of the Patriarch Joseph which is said to be talaris downe to the feet and below the ancles that we may adhere constantly to the Lord and finish our Course in the perfection of holinesse It is a great interest we have in God by meanes of this present union labour to improve it and do not grieve the Holy Spirit whereby yee are not only joyn'd and coupled but Sealed and confirmed unto the time of your redemption Christ saies yee are made whole sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto you I say yee are made friends sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto you when the house of your Soule and tabernacle of your Conscience being swept and garnisht may draw many uncleane spirits in and the end prove worse then your beginning Are yee not washt are yee not cleansed are yee not reconciled are yee not justified are yee not cured are yee not healed are yee not renewed are yee not sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Christ hath obtained for you the remission of your sinnes and Christ hath put on you the garment of his righteousnesse that yee may find grace in the sight of God and be adopted into the family of his dearest children with all the Company of his elect Angels Beware then of relapsing into sinne and take heed there be not found among you a heart of unbeliefe to depart from the living God O let not the poyson of sinne abide in you because the love of God hath abounded towards you but hate it as a Serpent and embrace him that hath taken away the sting Avoyd it as a Syren and hold what you have that no man take away your Crowne the Crowne of your life the Crowne of your rejoycing whereby we are enabled to cry with the Apostle and to sing triumphantly with joy in God through our Lord Jesus by whom we have now received the atonement And so I come to my last observation The result or extraction of delight and glory exultation and jucundity Which indeed is pleasing and may serve for application of all that hath been spoken In Deogloriamur we joy in God Saul had a Jonathan David an Absalon and Paul himselfe a beloved Timothy and a deare Philemon wherein they took much pleasure and delight But God alone is the joy of our hearts and the Solace of our Spirits that hath called us to his eternall glory through Christ Jesus And doubtlesse we may very well joy in God that enjoy so much from God in temporall mercies spirituall graces outward benedictions and inward refections that fill our soules with marrow and fatnesse For to speak in the words of Salomon The winter is past the showers are gone the singing of Birds is come and the flowers appeare in our land Choyce flowers of grace and peace truth and righteousnesse whereof we may compose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St Chrysostome speaks a thousand garlands of divine celebrities and tripudiant gratulations He that turned water into wine before his death turned blood into wine at his death the blood of his Crosse into the wine of gladnesse the blood of his passion into the wine of consolation A sweet wine a pleasant wine the mulsum of grace and the mustum of his Spirit for so I promise you St Bernard termes it reserved for the marriage of the lambe and kept as t were in the wine cellars of the King that we may be cheared and wholy forget the vanities of the world the pleasures of sinne the lusts of the flesh and the lures of Satan For indeed he is the right object of humane Comfort most absolute and compleat most adequate and perfect that can satisfy the heart of man and fill every corner of that winding Labyrinth with delicious Content We joy in him and we joy of him in him for the grace of present adoption of him for the hope of future exaltation to our selves and to our brethren In him simply as he is God in himselfe of infinite power and incomprehensible majesty in him respectively as he is God to us of infinite goodnesse and unspeakable mercy In him as a God in him as a Father in him as a Lord in him as a Saviour that we are his and that he is ours by the gracious stipulations of Evangelicall promises Our God and our Father our Lord and our Saviour the Author of peace and everlasting tranquillity the donor of life and immortall glory which makes the spouse rejoyce with melody and sing with jubilee my beloved is mine and I am his He feedeth among the lilies the white Soules and pure Consciences of men Sanctified with the Spirit of holinesse Aeneas Sylvius used to say as t is recorded in his life by Platina nullum gaudium sine virtute solidum there Could be no sollid joy without the exercise of virture Had it been said without the love of God in Jesus Christ it had been spoken most divinely Some joy in their strength but that is Carnall some joy in their wisdome but that is imperfect some joy in their treasure but that is deceitfull some joy in their greatnesse and honour but that is inconstant and sometimes mutable and therefore we joy in God that are endeared to him and have received the benefit of divine atonement Our heart doth rejoyce and our flesh doth rejoyce in God the living God that makes us a rejoycing and Creates us a very joy through Christ his Sonne and the powerfull working of his Continuall intercession The originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is most emphaticall and impleyes a kind of joy more then ordinary even gestient gladnesse and triumphant glory I know not whether I should call it an exultation or an insultation because it makes us insult over the adversary and triumph over the enemy laughing at his destruction and exposing him openly as the Graecian did of whom the verse goes Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectoramuros for by this we do not only joy in God but we joy over that which may anoy our soules and trample on it with derision and contempt Not unlike our blessed Saviour when he