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	humble_a	revive_v	5,567	5	11.6295	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78070	The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.	Butler, Thomas, Captain.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6339; Thomason E1260_2; ESTC R208898	105,337	331

Lord for he will have mercy on them and to them that call him the Lord their God for he can and will and none else abundantly pardon them and though your thoughts and ways and mine be as far distant as heaven and earth and as far below me yet I will make your thoughts mine and your ways mine you shall think as I think and say as I say and live as I live and in every thing do as I do agree in mind spirit and judgment with me think of your selves and ways as I do think of you and think of me and my ways according as I think of my self and think of others and their ways as I do and then though my thoughts before were in heaven so high yours on earth so low yet now you shall no more be in earth but in heaven with me and in earth with me and in both like me SECT LXXIII The Word that comes from Gods Mouth shall prosper in what it is sent §. 73 NAy furthermore I will pour out my Rain and my Snow my Spirit and my Word from my heavenly Glory upon you that are like the earth sinful and carnal and my Spirit and Word shall not return in vain it shall water you and make you fruitful and bring forth seed to the sower and bread to the eater for as it came out of my Mouth as from heaven so it shall descend in the heart of the earth and plow up the fallow grounds and sow in righteousness and reap in joy it shall accomplish that whereto I sent it and prosper in the thing I take in hand it shall make you bring forth and go out in joy and be led forth in peace the mountains and hills shall break forth into singing and the trees of the fields clap their hands for joy for high and low rich and poor shall praise the Lord no thorns but fir trees no bryers but mirtle trees and it shall be to the Lord for an everlasting sign of praise never to end SECT LXXIV §. 74 No man is just but he to whom Salvation is come BLessed is the man that keepeth judgment for judgment shall keep him and that doth justice for that shall preserve him for to him my Salvation is come the Salvation of the Lord and to him my Righteousness is revealed blessed is the man that hath this and that layeth hold on it for he shall keep the Sabbath from polluting it and serve the Lord he shall keep a rest a holy day for ever to the Lord he shall do no evil neither shall any iniquity be found in his hand SECT LXXV §. 75 The stranger and the Eunuch joyned to the Lord and made sons and heirs to God THe stranger and the Eunuch that are joyned to the Lord shall be sons and heirs neither shall they say we are separated from the Lord any more nor from his people but are united to them nor shall the Eunuch say any more he is a dry tree but the Lord God who joyned himself to them and given them his Spirit even the Spirit of Holiness and Rest to keep a Sabbath within them God will give them a place and a habitation within his house and a name better then of sons and daughters even heirs and an everlasting name that shall never be cut off I will bring them to my holy Mountain and make them my House of Prayer and I will rejoyce in them and accept of all their burnt-offerings and meat-offerings upon my Altar and my House shall be called The House of Prayer for all people though their watchmen be blind and dumb dogs yet I will be their Watchman saith the Lord. SECT LXXVI §. 76 The righteous man perisheth but not his righteousness yet none lays it to heart THe righteous man perisheth though his righteousness endures for ever yet none lays him or his righteousness to heart nor considereth his death or his life and he and his righteousness is taken from the evil to come for what hath righteousness to do with unrighteousness or light with darkness So he is taken from men to God and shall enter in his peace and lie down in his bed of rest and walk for ever in his righteousness But the sinful and wicked man he perisheth not but lives and prospers in the world for a moment but yet his triumph is short this is the Adulterer and the Adulteress and her whorish brood that make a wide mouth speaking blasphemy false children full of iniquity sporting themselves with vanities and inflamed with idols in every place in valleys and hills and hast joyned to another and enlarged thy bed and hast not at all remembred the Lord nor laid him to thy heart for these lovers and lusts have stollen away thy heart thy vanity shall take thee away and none shall deliver thee but they that trust in me shall be delivered and inherit rest in my Land quietly SECT LXXVII The Lord will dwell in Holiness both on §. 77 high and below NAy further Thus saith the Lord to them that fear him whose name and nature is holy and his dwellings in eternity holy that wheresoever he is he makes all things holy and like him if he dwell above or beneath in heigth or in depth in rich or in poor in high or low strong or weak fathers or babes which is called the high and holy place or in the humble and contrite yet he is Holiness in all estates and degrees and revives the heart and spirit of the humble and creates peace also in all their borders both to them a far off and to them nigh at hand neither wil I contend in wrath for ever least I should destroy the souls that I have made but I have seen his ways and will heal and restore comfort to the mourners and peace where there is no peace SECT LXXVIII §. 78 The sin and iniquity of Jacob the Fast that is the Lords the good and acceptable day that he chuses how we must love one another and walk in the light and not in darkness as the Lord doth to us THe Lords people even the house of Jacob have their sins and transgressions as well as others and the cry of the Lord is loud against them he will not spare them above all they shall see it and these be their sins 1. They seek me dayly but it s with the lip only 2. They delight to know my ways but yet hate to be reformed and do it 3. They ask of me the Ordinances of Justice and yet forsake the Ordinance of their God 4. They delight in approaching before God yet they say Wherefore takest thou no knowledg of it 5. They fast and yet find pleasure they fast but from sin but fast to strife and debate you fast not unto me your fast is not the acceptable day of the Lord that is Joy and Gladness yours is rending of garments putting on of sackcloth you have chosen out a fast to your selves

hungry He is water to the weak milk to the faint wine to the strong and yet one and the same Lord God that gives water milk and wine and this he doth in the revealing of himself more or less to us And do but observe the Lords sweet grace in calling us to this feast or banquet that he hath prepared for us Ho every one that thirsteth taste how good and gracious the Lord God is taste of his after all when thou hast drunk many waters and tasted much wine and eat the milk of many creatures that have stollen away thy heart then do but come to this living water after all and indeed if we knew the gift of God and the vertue of this water and who it is that calls us to come to drink we should say Lord give me evermore of this water or else I dye and that I may never thirst again but as long as we have any cisterns Jacobs wells or any such creature wisdom or broken vessel we are apt to forsake the living fountain but after all when all that fails us and cannot quench our tongue enflamed nor cool it nor give us the least comfort then shall we fly to the rock where we are comforted SECT LXIX §. 69 Three things to be observed here more especially on the best wine kept last DO but consider these two things here First The Lord invites us to the waters and then to the milk and after to the wine first to thirsting then to buying without mony and lastly to eating so tender carefull and wise is the Lord to us weaning us by degrees from grace to grace and strength to strength becoming all things to all to win soul● And the second thing is to remember the Governor of the feast in the marriage of Cana that after all the bad wine was drunk commended the water turned to wine by Christ above all that ever he drank before and demanded why he kept the good wine till now so is it in the way of the Lord here when men have drunk their fill and tasted and filled themselves with the creatures if the Lord makes them but to thirst after this water and wine and give them to drinking they shall also say as this Governor here Lord God this is the water and the wine indeed all that ever I did drink before is nothing to this thou hast kept the best last And also do but observe one thing more The best things are best cheap this water is not to be purchased with mony the gift of God comes not that way No no our mony and mony-worth and all such things perish it is free and full and the Lord gives it liberally and upbraids none SECT LXX §. 70 That which is bread and satisfieth and is good and delights the soul and makes it live and prosper in fatness is from the Lord alone HEarken diligently unto me I am the Lord thy God that will help and have mercy on thee and shew thee what is good I will not give thee stones for bread nor serpents for fish neither will I take thee or thy mony thy labor or strength or any such thing to deceive thee but I will out of my love to thee and bowels of compassion knowing this thou art deceived I will give thee bread indeed content and sufficiency of all things that which is bread and that which satisfied which is my grace and peace Hearken therefore unto me alone and take what I shall give thee my water my wine and my milk it is mine and its water of life milk from my everlasting brests my own comforts from my heart my Wine and Spirit it is all good exceeding good the riches of my goodness taste it it will delight thy soul strengthen thy heart enlighten thy eyes and revive thy spirits its fatness indeed its hony and marrow it will make thee fat and fair and well-liking thy soul shall prosper by it and delight it self in fatness with it I will be all this to thee and you shall live in the fatness and fulness of all things if thou wilt live with me thou shalt no more labor in vain nor spend mony in vain after those things that perish but I will take thee to my self in Covenant stature life spirit even an everlasting Covenant the sure mercies of David I will deal in mercy with thee and no other way even from henceforth for ever I will make thee live in peace and happiness and live and feed walk and stand and lie down for ever in sure mercies this shall be thy habitation for ever and I will be thy labor and mony for ever that is thy riches and strength am I and thy exceeding great reward SECT LXXI Christ the true Witness and Leader to §. 71 the People ANd behold your light shall so shine before men that they shall see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven I will give Christ to be the true and faithful Witness in you to the world and your Leader and Commander in all your goings out and comings in to glorifie me in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation and you shall have no other Witness no less a Witness of my Covenant and sure mercies with thee then the Son and Spirit of mercy himself Christ your Lord my Witness in you SECT LXXII §. 72 The people that know thee not shall run after thee for the Lord hath glorified thee in their eyes and their thoughts and ways shall be as the Lords thoughts and ways are BEhold again I will not only give them water wine milk and all manner of good things but I will satisfie them make them delight in fatness they shall live with me I will make also an everlasting Covenant with them I will be their Witness in all things to justifie them and comfort them and to discern between good and evil in them and moreover I will call whole Nations that thou knowest not to bear witness to thee and to follow thee for they hear and see that the Lord thy God is with thee and they that know not thee shall run after thee because of the savor of thy good ointments and they shall come into thy chambers and have fellowship with thee for their fellowship shall be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ so because of the Lord thy God they shall be drawn and because of the holy One of Israel for he hath glorified thee therefore shall they glorifie thee and be glorified together in the Lord also with thee and so shall seek and worship the Lord in one glory for the Lord their God hath found them and therefore they return to him and seek him and is found of them and appears nigh unto them so they cannot but call upon him and he again upon them he calls the sinners to repentance the wicked to forsake his evil way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and to turn to the