Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	contrite_a	high_a	humble_a	5,259	5	8.8192	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

that 't is one of his Crown-Jewels his peculiar prerogative to teach his people so as to profit Isa. 38.17 Cathedram habet in caelis qui corda docet He who speaks to the heart speaks from Heaven hath his pulpit there one from the dead cannot do it an Angel from Heaven cannot do it Rev. 3.7 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} if he be not opening though he do nothing to shut no man can open But if he will be the teacher it matters not what the schollar be he hath no felllow at it who teacheth like him faith Elihu Job 36.22 6. Minde him of his promise not only that he will teach but passively that his people shall be taught Joh. 6.45 especially the humble and it may be thou canst say upon thine own observation I never was proud of any thing never boasted of any good expected but I mist it of any good enjoyed but I lost it God will not suffer thee to be proud upon any termes he will rather have thee humbled by thy sins then proud of thy grace and seeing he hath laid thee and keeps thee so low will he not teach thee 7. Minde him of his practise all along from the creation to this day which of all his Saints could not say as well as David Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up until now Psal. 71. 17. Nay he teacheth the husbandman Isa. 28.26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him now put him to it and say Lord art thou the plowmans God and dost thou teach him and wilt thou not be my God to teach and to instruct me to make me wise to salvation for this also if any thing must come from him who is wonderfull in counsels and excellent in working 8. His goodness puts another argument into thy mouth Psal. 119.68 Thou art good and dost good and if ever thou wouldst do me a good turn O teach me thy statutes 9. Appeal unto him if it be not thy practice as knowing the unfitness and unsuitableness of thine heart to any holy service to cast it into his hand and thence to expect it when the duty calls for it of another tincture put in kelter and fitted thereby for spiritual motion 10. He knows it is the devil and his agents and factors thy corruptions which do distract and disturb thee and would any parent endure that his slave should abuse his childe before his face when he is upon his knee for a blessing or comes to receive his commands Ask him how he can indure to see his execrable slave insult over thee before his face and doth not rate away that curre and pluck him off and fling him down to hell from whence he came why will he not do it It is the reproach of Senacheribs Idoll that they who came out of his bowels slew him there 2 Chron. 32.21 in the house of his God under his Idols nose in the very act of worshiping 2 King 19.37 and he could not protect him Tell the Lord thy God the only true God the living God it will not be for his honour that thou shouldst be continually bafled and abused by Satan and those that come forth out of thine ownbowels when thou settest thy self to worship him he looking on who alone is able to rescue and relieve thee whose glory the devil strikes at herein as well as at thy peace ad safety 11. Tell Him if he will allow thee nothing at present but the comfort of obedience to sweeten thy attendance upon him yet that shall not discourage thee that shall not rid him of a customer his work on earth as well as in Heaven is both work and wages not only for but in keeping his Commandements there is great reward Psal. 19.11 It is joy to the just to do judgment Prov. 21.15 and through grace it is so in some measure to thy poor soul 12. Lastly When at any time thou art afraid to go away from an Ordinance utterly unregarded from a Sermon from a Sacrament from off praying ground and no notice taken of thee say secretly in thy heart Lord I am here thy poor client whom thou knowest so well lo here am I not one word not one look not one touch this day in this duty Say with her in Judg. 1.15 Give me a blessing for thou hast given me a South land a dry land give me also springs of water and thy Father will be as liberall as hers was he will give thee the upper springs and the nether springs 't is well he findes thee there though thou dost not yet finde him thou shalt in conclusion be no loser by it But all these pleadings may some doubting soul say for ought I know may prove in vain for I have thoughts and oppressing fears sometimes that a God so high holy and happy is not at all concerned minds not the addresses of a worm so wofull so sinfull so full of distresses and distractions no more then a man minds the movings or murmurings of flies or bees which moves swiftest or hums sweetest for we are infinitely lesse to Him then they are compared with us and sometimes I find no answer at all or so strange and contrary that my fears are strengthned and confirmed Now though this temptation cannot prevaile far upon thee at least not finally if thou art a constant pleader with God yet it is neefull when it doth but shew it self to go and order thy cause before him and fill thy mouth with Arguments against it 1 Call to mind how god Himself hath affirmed the contrary and tell him thou darest not question the truth of his ingagements Psal. 138.6 Though the Lord be high yet hath he regard unto the lowly he doth not at all forget himself when he remembers thee Nay he sets forth himself in all his Sublimity and Glory when he professeth the greatest kindnesse and condescension to those who judg themselves least capable of it Isa. 57.15 Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dewll in the high and holy place here 's enough to make all the Creatures that should hear it exceedingly to feare and quake as 't is said of Moses Heb. 12. 21. and yet what follows what a soft still voice after all this thunder I dwell also with him that is of a broken and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones so that he who is brought below the condition of a Creature broken and crumbled to nothing may yet be a companion for this high and holy One so in Isa. 66.2 though Heaven be my Throne and the Earth my Footstool yet to this man will I look that is poor and of a contrite spirit and that trembleth at my word Ask him now whether this be the presumption the device of any Creature or his own discovery which he hath