Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	corruption_n	flesh_n	reap_v	5,289	5	10.9811	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23433	Certain selected spirituall epistles written by that most reuerend holy man Doctor I. de Auila a most renowned preacher of Spaine most profitable for all sortes of people, whoe seeke their saluation; Epistolario espiritual. English.	John, of Avila, Saint, 1499?-1569.	1631 (1631)	STC 985; ESTC S115437	230,543	452

And it is a thing which I desire much at his hands who writes to me For I finde soe many who are impatient with me● vpon this occasion that I had rather ●hey wrote not at all then that they should be offended with mee soe soone And soe much of this What shall I now say to you or what shall I beg of you since you are soe much my good Lord but that forasmuch as you are a Cauallier of honour you resolue to fight and that you be not called by a wronge name a thing from which a christian ought most to fly for such a one must loue sincerity and be that very thing which he appeares to be I know well that the vigilancy of our mortall enemy the deuill is soe great that for the drawing vs to be of his party and for feare least we should gaine that which he hath lost hee will often make you feele ●ob 7. That the life of man heere on earth is a continuall warfare and now and then will make you groane vnder the affliction of his extreme importunity and cry out to our Lord from whome succour comes D●●●●● 〈◊〉 patior Esay 38. responde pro me O Lord I suffer violence do● thou answeare for wee And now since you haue one already who makes you remember that you liue in warre I will put you in minde in what sort you are to wage it that soe you may ouercome For wee cannot expect as a frui●e of this warre but either great felicity or great misery since the triumph of this victory is to be God possessed for all eternity and the losse by being vanquished is the losse and that for euer of almighty God O that a man were able to thunder out soe strong a voice as that it might reach to the eares of all mankinde and might astonish them with the feare of hell encourage ch●●● with the hope of heauen O you Sonn●● 〈◊〉 Adam how long will you be soe blinde as 〈◊〉 to see this how long will you be soe deafe as not to heare this how long will you be soe insensible as that this truth will not be able to penetrate to the very lowest and mo●t inward part of your harts Tell mee why haue you rendred your selues soe basely vnder the fee●e of your enemies and why doe you runne after them with your hands tyed vp without either feare or shame Doe you not know that bee whoe suffers himselfe to be ouercome by sinne Iohn 〈◊〉 vs taken prisoner by the deuill Doe you not knowe that the wages which sinne giueth is death both of body soule in hell and that for all eternity why doe you wish your selfe soe ill as to goe hunting after Your owne mischeife giuing stabs as it were to your owne soules by being soe mightily inraged for euery little offence which may be offered you And why haue you not a feeling of the losse of God of his freindshipp since you haue soe quicke a sence when there is question of a little riches or honour which whether it be kept or lost it makes you in very deede neither more nor lesse what will you answeare in the day of visitation and anguish which is coming towards you when these shadowes being past and this sinoake being vanished you shall be summoned to leaue that flesh which you loued soe much and to forgoe this present world which you soe esteemed and you shall be presented before that rigorous Iudge whome you will finde soe much the more seuere against you as he hath founde you lesse obedient to him What would you haue him doe would you haue him know you for his Caualliers you who haue gone fighting in his enemyes campe on their side And whilest hee mainteyned you with his blessings and euen with that very life whereby you liue you would needes obey the lawes of his mortall enemy when the while you detested his what would you haue God doe would you haue him pay you for the seruice which you haue not done Into what reasonable minde can it sincke that I should serue one man demaund my pay of another with what colour can I who haue offended a man aske him a reward when I haue do●●● as of a faithfull seruant Let vs not be deceiued O men in this Noe man shall reape Gal. 1 2. Cor. but according to that which he hath sowen He who soweth in flesh shall reape corruption and he who will reape life must sow in spiritt for grapes grow not out of thernes nor figgs out of thistles I had forgott my selfe for I was speaking to dead men as if they were aliue What doth it profitt to sound a trumpett to him whoe is in the profundity of deafenes what doth it profitt mee to say Heare this to men with whome it enters not euen by the very first gates of their hart What shall we doe O Lord for now I se● that the threat which was made by the Prophet Esay is fulfilled Hearing you shall beare and 〈◊〉 vnderstand and seeing you shall see Esay and yet not see For neither words nor scourges nor swee●●e vsage cann suffice to waken those miserable creatures out of their deadly sleepe till their end arriue when they must heare the sentēce which sends them to Hell and then must feele eternall torments without any remedy thereof A great misery is this hee is happy whome our Lord hath deliuered from it giuing him notice of his wicked wayes and a will to walke afterward in such as are good Remember you therefore that day wherein God called you and know that then God opened your eares and eyes to the end that you might both see and heare ●●verely and as truly as if he had cured some pe●son who had beene blinde and dumbe And remembring it giue great ●hankes for the same since a guift was then giuen you if you disposed your selfe well to receiue it which is more worth then all things els since freindshipp with our Lord was giuen you to which noe other thing may be compared And lett the signe of your true gratitude be a faithfull care of perseuering to keepe your eyes and cares open towards Almighty God For hee would be much more blame-worthy who should fall when his eyes were open and might see that hee were falling then another whoe had noe eyes in his head It is one thing for a soule to doe absurd things another thing for a man who is of iudgment And soe the fall of one whome our lord hath raysed and placed vpon his feete and giuen him light wherewith to see is more displeasing to his diuine Maiesty then they which he tooke before they knew or loued God I beseech you therefore admonish those new Caualliers of the king of heauen that they vndertake not this busines in iest since both the punishment of negligence and the reward of due care which is taken in it is noe matter which indeede endureth iest