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	sow_v	5,273	5	10.3024	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

fiftieth Psalme saying The sacrifice to God is a spirit troubled with sorrow and thou GOD wilt not despise a heart contrite and meekened Wee must bring forth fruits of our penance and repentance by the amendment of our sinfull lives as Saint Iohn Baptist said to the Iewes in the third of Matthew For God cannot be deluded with the faire words onely of a sinner saying I am a sinner and yet will not amend For God looketh whether those words come from the heart being contrite which if they did amendment of the evill life should insue and good workes should spring out where the evill did grow before which new spring of good workes is the fruit of penance We must also goe forward in the way of our Lord and not stand still for else wee cannot come to our journeys end David saith in the 118. Psalme The immaculate and unspotted men be blessed that doe goe forward in the way of our Lord. He that saith that he dwelleth in Christ must walke after Christ in his way which is his commandements as he himselfe did As Saint Iohn saith in the 2. chapter of his first Epistle and therefore wee may not stand still but goe on in doing good to our journeyes end as he did Saint Paul saith to the Galathians in the 6. chapter See that ye erre not God cannot be mocked such as a man doth sow such shall he reape he that soweth in the flesh shall reape thereof corruption and he that soweth of the spirit shall of the spirit reape life everlasting Let us not cease in good doing for wee shall reape it not failing when the time commeth Therefore whiles we have time let us doe good to all men and chiefely to the domestickes of our faith And as we should study to be rich in faith for Christ did choose such to bee of his flocke though they were poore in worldly goods As Saint Iames saith in the 2. chapter of his Epistle so must we study to be rich in good workes as Saint Paul saith in the 6. chapter of the first Epistle to Timothy where hee biddeth him teach the rich men of the world to be ready with their abundance of goods to helpe the poore and to make thereby a treasure in heaven and to study to be rich in good workes so for these two richesses the one the riches of faith the other the riches of good workes we should chiefly study Also Christ in the sixth of Matthew doth teach us three chiefe exercises which will conferre greatly to the amendement of our life that is to say fasting to tame thereby the inordinate lusts of the flesh Almesdeeds to refraine covetousnesse and to helpe to redeeme our sinnes therewith as Daniel saith in the fourth chapter And prayer to Almighty GOD thereby to abate our pride and outrequydance and arrogance that we not trusting of our selues but of his helpe may aske of him things necessary for us from time to time And that wee should oft pray Christ teacheth us by the parable of the Widow which by her importunitie and oft crying to the wicked Iudge that feared neither God nor man obtained at the last iustice of him as it is written in the ●8 chapter of Luke We reade also of Christ that hee sometime prayed all ●ight to God as it is written in the sixth chapter of Luke ●nd Saint Paul saith to the Colossians in the fourth chap●er give you to prayer being vigilant in it and to Timo●hy he writeth in the fifth chapter Shee that truely is a Widow let her give her selfe to prayer night and day And to the Thessalonians he writeth in the fift chapter of the first Epistle saying Pray without any day leaving off not that wee should doe nothing else but that wee should oft amongst other things that we doe pray to Almighty God laving him calling him to remembrance that hee may helpe us putting in all our deeds our confidence in him Which wee might easily doe briefely saying divers times on the day though it were but one Pater noster at one time so that Christ thereby should not bee farre from our remembrance nor wee should not by worldly pleasures or businesse stray abroad farre from him nor the devill should not so boldly approach us seeing us alwaies under the wing and protection of our heavenly Father And surely if wee could thus dispose our selves our affaires should prosper the more in this world and wee should also thereby please Almighty God and come to the glory everlasting Whereunto our Saviour Iesu Christ who hath redeemed us bring us all Quo vivit regnat cum deo patre in ●nitate sancti spiritus per omnia secula seculorum Amen FJNJS