Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	cause_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	110	3	9.3296	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11846	The eye of faith open to God unfolded in a sermon preached at the funerall of that vertuous and religious gentlewoman, Mrs. Julian Blackvvell, together with a narration of her vertuous life and happy death / by John Sedgvvick ...	Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1640 (1640)	STC 22149.7; ESTC S3177	32,588	142

sight of sinfull objects and that could not so easily swallow downe those vanities and courses which others doe not so much as scruple at to her dying day shee did abhorre Popish and Superstitious vanities and was much grieved that any should take upon them to practise or maintaine any thing that was contrary to Gods Word and justly scandalous unto Christians Secondly God had given 2. Lovingnesse to the godly her to become very loving hearted unto the godly if she saw in any but aliquid Christi that is something of Christ with holy Bucer shee dearely loved them the graces of God bestowed on them drew her affections to them making her greatly to delight in their company and conference shee often would say to mee where is the pleasure that sinfull societies can yeeld unto a Christian I am sure I can finde no delight in being amongst them O it is the godly and such as truly feare God that are my delight and that shall be truly welcome unto my house there are many Christians this day alive that can testifie her reall love unto them a good patterne for us all to follow wee should make them the men of our company and delight here that are our companions in grace and shall be our company in Heaven Thirdly shee was large 3 Desires and cravings after goodnes and amendment hearted in her desires after goodnesse and good things a little heart shee had but low which made her very greedy after and desirous of grate such a holy covetousnesse and unsatiable thirst was implanted within her that shee could never give her selfe satisfaction in any present measure of grace or actuall performance of duties but was carried with a vehement desire of bettering or mending her selfe in both out of that desire which she had to profit and benefit her owne foule and to augment and enlarge her selfe in graces and duties Hierony●●i Epistolae ad Paulam Marcellam alia● with those religious Romane Ladies of whom S. Ierome speakes shee would be full of holy enquiries solid questions and apt cases of conscience God gave unto her that excellent gift of improoving Christian acquaintance and Christian society for hardly could any good Minister or able Christian come to visit her in her health or sicknesse but shee would be pressing and putting of them on to some soule-profiting discourse by which she might both doe her selfe and others good oh it is a blessed thing for Christians to bee acting Maries part and I could heartily wish that in this she might be followed in this City and other parts for I finde this to be a common fault that God puts into our hands many opportunities of doing our selves good by the company of Ministers and Christians and wee have no hearts to improove them wee thinke that when wee have feasted them and for a time courteously entertained them wee have done enough Oh how often hath mine eares heard her wishing that she had more power to beleeve and spirit to pray and to obey This Sister of ours made it her daily worke to be treasuring up a stocke of grace for another world and the neerer she was to glory the more thirstie was she after grace Surely where those longings and thirstings after soule enlargement in graces and duties are wanting there may bee a strong supposition that spirituall life is also wanting For herein doe artificiall bodies differ from naturall bodies that the one are capeable of extension the other are not Fourthly She was fearing 4. Fearfull of her owne standing and state hearted in respect of her spirituall and eternall condition she did much trouble her selfe about that one thing necessary namely the setling of the happinesse of her soule both here and hereafter shee had an heart making Heaven to be Heaven and it was a great businesse with her how shee might bee sure to have Heaven when she left the world she was not in the number of those who onely then thinke of going to Heaven when they see themselves ready to drop into Hell Neither was Heaven unto her an empty Notion or going to Heaven an ordinary matter but a thing of the highest concernement she knew that she had a soule and what it was to have a soule mistaken or miscarry in so great a matter as salvation yea so serious was this Christian Sister of ours in this maine businesse that shee would often suspect her owne care and question her owne evidences for Heaven being ever and anon jealous least that shee should faile of Heaven at the last This was admirable and imitable in her that shee would be putting her selfe to the triall that so shee might see and finde her selfe to be Heaven proofe and judgement proofe and when upon long reasoning and due triall shee could not put of from her selfe the evidences of a gracious condition out of a holy feare shee brake out into these words Sir are you not mistaken in your trialls or in my selfe I pray you to deale plainely and faithfully with my soule doe not make me to beleeve that I am better then I am or that my estate is safer then it is remember that you are Gods Minister and you must give an account to God if that you doe not discharge your duty in discovering to me the truth of things Let me know the worst of mine estate for I desire not neither did I send for you to be slattered and soothed by you O think of this all you that tie up the liberty and authority of Gods Ministers when they come to visit you who cannot endure the setling of your spirituall estates by the searching of your soules Fiftly She was bold hearted 5. Zealous in spirit the fire of holy zeale was kindled within her spirit and shee was so farre from being ashamed of God and his cause that as occasion was offered and as it became her in her place shee would speake for God and plead for the power and purity of His blessed worship and service yea shee kept that liberty to her selfe which many loose namely so to enjoy her best friends that with all she would wisely dislike and Christianly reproove what shee saw or heard to be amisse in them which made such as well knew her the more truely to honour and love her Sixtly She was Heavenly 6. Heavēly mindednes hearted and dead to the world whilst shee lived in the world shee so minded her countrey in Heaven that she could willingly part with all the creatures for Heaven nay she had so ordered her affections and affaires that shee had little else to doe but to die when shee was to die well knowing that an heart set into the creatures is loath to make an exchange of earth for Heaven it was neither Husband nor Children nor Mother nor Brothers or Sisters nor Friends that could stand in her way to make her loath or unwilling to die they were all lookt upon with a dead eye long