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
A66348	A sermon preach'd before the lord-mayor and Court of Alderman at S. Sepulchres-Church on Wednesday in Easter-week, A.D. MDCXC by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1690 (1690)	Wing W265; ESTC R34698	26,352	43

let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not Which brings me to the last thing proposed Vthly To consider the great Engagement we have to the fulfilling of this Duty in that Glorious Reward which God has promised to the performance of it Among all the Arguments which either the Authority of Holy Scripture or the Common principles of Reason afford to us to stir us up to the practice of this Duty there is none that strikes so forcibly upon the minds of all sorts of Men as the Consideration of those great Blessings which God has promised to the diligent performance of it and of those severe Judgments which he will one day execute upon those that shall continue to neglect and disregard it Other reflections may serve to convince Men of the Justice and Reasonableness of such a practice and which indeed is so very clear that there are few so ill-natured and insensible as to deny it But this shews the Necessity of it Others may force us to confess it to be very titting that we should be thus kind and charitable to one another But this speaks with Authority and makes us resolve in good earnest so to be He that tells me how highly reasonable it is that I should do all the Good I can with the portion which God has given me * That for this end I have received it and to this end ought especially to employ it * That my riches are not my own but committed to me in trust for the Benefit of others as well as for my own use and that I shall be false to that trust if I do no Good to others by them * That I ought to express my Gratitude to God for his extraordinary Favours to me by being Bountiful to those who have not received so large a portion of him * That this will above any thing render me most like unto God and most beloved of Men * That the poorest person in the World is yet my Brother partaker of the same Nature and Constitution it may be of the same Promise of Grace too with my self and therefore that it will be highly not only un-Christian but even unnatural and inhumane not to have some sense and feeling of his Miseries In a word * That our Riches are very uncertain and we should consider that what is the Condition of many Thousands now but lately in as flourishing an Estate as our selves may for ought we know the next Year be our own if God for our Vncharitableness shall think sit to let us also fall into the hands of the same Cruel and Merciless men and therefore that we ought to think what we should judge reasonable for others in such a Case to do to us and then remember the Great Rule both of Nature and the Gospel and do even so unto them does certainly speak a great deal of Sense and may justly move my Assent to his Arguments But 't is the man who can draw aside the Vail and set Life and Death Blessing and Cursing before me and then make it appear upon such Grounds as I cannot deny or even doubt of that my Happiness or Misery both in this World and the other depends upon my Observance or Neglect of this Duty that will awaken all the Powers of my Soul and at the same time both convince and force to a compliance And such is the Argument we have here before us and from which therefore the Apostle concludes the necessity of our doing Good as a matter that would admit of no debate Be not says he deceived God is not mocked For whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also reap He that soweth to his flesh that is that either spends what he has on the sensual Enjoyments of the Flesh or else hoards it together to the Covetous satisfying the desires of it shall of the flesh reap corruption But he that soweth to the Spirit i.e. as the next Verses interpret it does good makes a wise and pious and charitable use of what he has shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Wherefore let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not Many are the Promises of the like kind which we meet with in other places of Holy Scripture And from all which it is obvious to conclude that if we have any regard either to our present Happiness or to our future Glory there is nothing wherein we ought to be more careful than by our Charity to establish our selves in both For 1st As to this Present Life What is it possible for any one to desire to make him a happy man in this World that God has not freely promised to the merciful and liberal Would he secure his Riches Would he confirm the Enjoyment of them both to himself whilst he lives and deliver them down in peace to his posterity when he comes to dye This Charity has the promise of above any thing besides He that giveth to the poor says Solomon shall not lack And in another place he gives this as the very reason of it Prov. xxii 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor And holy David confirms the truth of this Remark not only from the Promise of God but also from his own Experience Psal. xxxvii 25. I have been young and now am old yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging their bread He is ever merciful and lendeth and his seed is blessed For the LORD loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints they are preserved for ever But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off The righteous shall inherit the land and shall dwell therein for ever Nay but would he do yet more Would he even encrease his Wealth and grow more prosperous in the Enjoyment of it 'T is a strange Assertion but yet by the Blessing and Promise of God a very true one that by giving it thus away he shall encrease it There is says Solomon that scattereth and yet encreaseth And would you know who that is He will tell you in the next Verse The liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself Would he provide himself a security amidst all the uncertain and many times miserable Varieties of this World And be safe even in the midst of all its Dangers Charity is the best defence the surest preservative against all Calamities Blessed is the man says David that considereth the poor and needy the LORD will deliver him in the time of trouble The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and not deliver him into the will of his enemies In short would he be blessed in all things that he putteth his hand unto and have every thing prosper according to his hearts