Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	holy_a	soul_n	5,525	5	4.7594	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04028	A sermon vpon part of the second chapter of the first epistle of S. Iohn: Preached by Thomas Ingmethorp. The summe whereof is briefly comprised in this hexameter ...	Ingmethorpe, Thomas.	1598 (1598)	STC 14086; ESTC S106261	22,018	51

7.37 But because faith is no vaine opinion conceaved by the perswasion of man but a solid sounde apprehension of the things which are exhibited in Christ it shall not be amisse if wee consider a little what the scripture doth report as concerning Christ For vnlesse we doe acknowledge him to be such a one as hee is there purtrayed and depainted to be wee can never fulfill the commandementes of faith but shall runne headlonge against the perilous rockes of mis-beleefe to the everlastinge hazard and shipwracke of our souls For to forge any thing of Christ that he is not is as horrible as to saie there is no Christ Whatsoeuer therefore is registred in scripture of Christ either it toucheth his person or his office The person of Christ is one therfore in no wise to be devided Wherein are ioiued two distinct natures the one of the selfe-same eternity maiestie substance with God the Father the other in the time prefixed taken of the Virgin Marie Both these I say be cōioyned in one person but not confounded For the Deity remaineth whole is not stained with any spot of humane infirmity neither is the humanitie swallowed-vp with the glory of the divine maiesty But as he is perfect God so is he likewise perfect man consisting of a true humane body reasonable soule This may be avoued by many manifest testimonies of holy writte For the olde Prophets in regarde of the divine nature of Christ Esai 7.6 call him wonderfull Zach. 13.9 the everlasting Father Ier. 23.6 coequall with God eternal yea and which more is the Lord and God himselfe Esai 11.1.53.2 but having respect to his manhoode they name him a branch a graffe of the roote of Iesse David the sonne of David the last and least amongst men Ioh. 1.1 In the gospel likewise there is expresse mention made of the Godhead of Christ in the beginning was the worde Vers 14. and the worde was with God and that word was God but the same Changelist in the same place intimating his humane nature saith further 10 30. and that woorde was made flesh not by making exchaunge of his divinity but by taking our humanitye into him For by way of exposition hee addeth and dwelt amonge vs. So CHRIST himselfe 8.58 speaking in the person of the sonne of GOD sayeth I and the father are one 14.28 and before Abraham was I am but in the person of man hee sayeth the Father is greater then I. Much might heere bee alleadged for further proofe of this pointe if neede required But let it suffice vs that it is a speciall commaundemente of CHRIST necessary to bee beleeued of every true Christian man that Jesus Christ in one person is very GOD and very man * This figure of speech is called of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Damascene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but commonly communicatio idiomatum a cōmunicating or mutuall entercourse of properties whēas that is vouched of one which is proper to another both those natures being in such sorte vnited and knit togither that the properties of either doe abide sound though by reasō of the Hypostaticall coniunction and vnion betwixte them it commeth oft to passe that that is attributed vnto whole Christ which properly belongeth but to one of the natures only Which caution if we giue not good heede vnto in reading holy scripture we may soone run contrarie ere we be aware with Arrius Evion Marcion Valentinus Nestorius and others who through ouersight in that point intangled themselues with many grosse heresies to the great annoyance of the Church and their owne vtter destruction The informattō of this doctrine is very behoofeful for the corroborating and strengthning of our weake faith For so much as otherwise Christ could not haue atchieued that wōderful exploit of our redemption had he not bin both God man Man to make satisfaction for man that had offended God to ouercome death the due stipend of sin whom no meere man of him selfe was able to surprise The office of Christ is implied in his names For if that saying of the Poet be found daily verified in a number conveniunt fatis nomina saepe suis mens names oft proue sutable correspondent to their fortune and destinie the same ought especially to take place in the son of God so long longed looked-for The name Jesus is an Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and expresseth his office in a more general signification for it soūdeth as much Mat. 1.21 as a Saviour according to the true etymologie thereof giuen by the Angell Christ is a Greeke word and doth more specially notifie his maner of sauing vs. For whom the Grecians terme Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrewes call Messias and is as much in Latine as vuctus in English annointed Now of old by the ordināce and appointment of God 1. King 1 3● Kings and Priestes were wont to be annointed Exod. 30.30 whom to haue bin types and shadowes of Christ then to come cānot be gainesayed and so answerably vnto that figure was our sauiour called Christ that is annointed Not that he was annointed with materiall oile but as it is in the Psalme Psal 45.7 with the oile of gladnes that is with the giftes and graces of Gods holy spirit aboue all other his brethren the sonnes of men being consecrate thereby to take vpon him the office both of the chiefe and eternal priest-hood and prince-hood of Gods people In witnes and token whereof John Baptist saw the holy Ghost Math. 3.1 in a visible forme descending and lighting on him In beleeuing then and professing the son of God to be Christ we acknowledge and confesse him to be both king and priest of Gods people that is to say of the whole Church And therefore except wee will make of him an image without life we must agnise in him accordingly the duties aswell of the one as of the other The priests office in time past was to teach the people and to instruct them in the lawe of God as also to pray and offer sacrifice for thē These things are al fully performed by Christ in every part for hee did not only teach the people when he was conversant vpon earth but still doth to this day whilst hee revealeth and maketh his wil known to the Church by his ministers and by his spirite quickeneth the same in the heartes of men Nay Christ is to bee holden for the only and singular doctour and schoole-master of the Church 1. Cor. 1.7 For ministers doe but execute the externall function onlye which though it be done neuer so exquisitely neuer so in printe as they say yet if Gods spirite doe not inwardely concurre therewithall it availeth no more then if a candle bee set before a blinde man though neuer so bright or a tale tolde to a deafe man though neuer so lowde and

is by this argument wee may certainely perswade our selues that we haue the true knowledg faith of Christ if we keepe his commandementes For the Apostle speaketh not heere of a bart historical knowledge Iam. 2.19 which the Divels themselues haue and are never the neerer but of that saving knowledge whereby we are iustified as the Prophet Esay witnesseth Esa 53.11 But this be amplyfieth by setting against it another proposition of the contrarie Hee that saith I knowe him and keepeth not his commandements is a lier the trueth is not in him as if hee had said the keeping of Gods cōmandements is an evident token of the true knowledge and faith of Christ to boast therefore of the one without having apparent testimony of the other is but a Thrasonicall brag a lowde lie voide of trueth Which accordeth with the premisses on this maner whereas I saide before that Christ was given vs of God the father to be the reconciliation for the sins of the whole world 1. Ioh. 2.2 and that we must vse him for our mediatour and advocate with the father let no man gather therevpon vers 1. that it is sufficient to be called a Christian to learne the stories of the Bible by rote neither yet to bee partaker of the holy Sacraments instituted by Christ For besides all this there is an other matter of far greater moment and importance required at our handes namely a liuely knowledge of Iesus Christ which is a worke influence of the holy Ghost It graffeth vs wholy into Christ ravisheth vs with admiration loue of him so as we hunger and thirst after nothing more then to testifie the same to the worlde by our obedience towards him in keeping his commandements This carefulnesse to walke in the waie of Gods commandemēts who so feeleth effectualy wrought in him may well ascertaine his conscience to the vnspeakable ioy and iubily of his soule that he is indued with the true knowledge and faith of Christ indeede But otherwise if he find no inclinatiō no disposition at all but rather a backewardenes and repugnancie in himselfe that waie let him leaue glorying in any such vaine paradise for he doth but he plaie the Hypocrite And this as neere a I can vtter is the true purport and meaning of the Apostles wordes Wherein are wrapped many very good points of doctrine worth the vnfolding as well for comfort as instrucion And first it is not lightly to be passed over that S. Iohn saith not barely we think or we suppose but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by this wee are sure that wee knowe him A cleare evidence and strōg proofe that we may haue certain knowledge of our salvation For salvation being apprehended by faith as the whole tenor of scripture every where defineth in that the Apostle heere plainely confesseth wee may bee sure of our faith nay setteth downe an infallible note of the certaintie thereof it cannot be the faithfull should be vncertaine or doubtfull of their salvation This doth flatly repeale that dangerous and wicked Cannon of the counsaile of Trent Sess 6. c. 9. whereby men are taught alwaies to stagger and stand in doubt of their salvation as being impossible for any in this life to know of a surety that he in particular shall be saved without by some special priviledge frō God he be made privie therevnto A faithles doctrine like a shippe in a storme without helme or cōpasse betwixt the billowes surges of the sea but no marvaile though the Papistes do thus lesson their schollers alwaies to doubt of their salvation the ground the matter and forme as it were of whose doctrine is their owne lucre and gaine For once let this trueth be admitted off that Christians be by the worde and spirite of Christ assured of their salvation by him then may they streight poore men bid adue singe a perpetuall requiē for the soule of their priesthood their pardōs their trentals their dirgies their chauntries their censing their singing their ringinge their masses and praiers for the dead with whatsoever mercenary trumperie els of like stampe For bar them of their profit the onely butte the onely white they aime at and all these I warrant you will quickly lie in the dust if that common proverb be not wrōgly fathered on them no pennie no pater noster Againe in that they looke to bee saved by their owne workes which alas they cannot but see in their giltie cōsciēces howsoever they hoodwinke blindfold their eys against the light of the truth to be spotted vnpetfect such as ar not able to abide the touch of Gods iustice how cā they stād resolute mē but needs must remaine scrupulous and suspicious of salvation as not knowing whether they haue desartes enough to serue their turne or no Thus doth the spirit of giddines wherewith the malignant Church is intoxicate and governed Like the Rat prodi● seipse S●rez bewraie it selfe evē by his owne doctrine Secondly commeth to be marked the certaine marke wherby to discerne the true Christian from the counterfeit Hypocrite True it is that faith maketh a Christiā howbeit because it doth many times lie hid and we cānot readily iudge of other mens mindes wherein faith hath her seat and mansion therefore the Apostle sheweth how the faithfull may be descried by an outward marke that is the keeping of Gods commandements Whereby is meant not that perfect and continuall abiding in all thinges commended and commanded in the lawe to which condition Levit. 18.5 doe this and liue is annexed a burthen to heavie for any wordly wight to beare so long as we are invironed on every side with the infirmities of the flesh Gal. 3.12 but only that careful studie indevour wherewith the faithfull soule is inflamed and set one fire towardes the commandements of God to fulfill them in some good measure as God shall enable him whereunto nevertheles by reason of the corruptiō of our nature much imperfection will cleaue will he nill hee when hee hath done the best he cā Neither did S. Iohn faine this marke of his owne head but learned it of his master Christ Ioh. 14.23 For he saith hee that hath my wordes and keepeth them is he that loveth me vers 24. And againe as it were doubling his blowe he that loveth me not keepeth not my word in another where ye are my friēds if ye doe whatsoever I cōmand you So whē God the father had made solemne proclamatiō from heaven Mat. 17.5 this is my beloved sonne in whome I am well pleased to admonish vs of our dutie withall hee adioyneth heare him signifying thereby not the hearing of those thinges which Christ should giue in charge in his word with our outward eares only but the expressing practising of the same in our liues and conversation for they onely are pronounced blessed of him Luc. 11.28 which heare the