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	reap_v	sow_v	6,631	5	10.6553	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

escaped vengeance yet his hoar-head was not suffered to go down to the grave without blood 1 King 2.5 6. How justly doth he scourge Whoremongers and Adulterers with the not and canker even in those parts wherein they offend do we not ever and anon hear of some notorious drunkards drowned in ditches and puddles or taken away by some sudden disaster in the midst of their disorder when they have neither wit not will to repent nor to cry so much as Lord have mercy upon us I have read of a Thief strangled and so executed by the sheep that he stole tying it by the legges and carrying it on his head and sitting down to rest upon a great stone by the way the sheep strugling pulled him over the stone and choaked him so that he was found dead in the morning and the sheep alive at Ailton in Huntingtonshire Dr. Beard Judg. pag. 570. So he doth punish those with disobedient children who have been disobedient to their Parents Erasmus writeth of one that did beat his own Father and being reproved as guilty of so vile a fact he answered when he was as I am he did beat his Father and I make no doubt but there stands one pointing to his Son then a childe who will hereafter do the like to mee Therefore by the nature of our punishment we may know the nature of our sin for commonly the same measure is returned that we have measured Do we finde men ungrateful to us let us search have not we been ungrateful to our God if so no marvel if men be so to us By this means Alphonsus King of Arragon came to see his sin I have said he advanced many to honour and preferments and heaped great favours upon them and yet I still finde them to be ungrateful but searching mine own heart I do not much wonder at it for I finde that I my self being advanced by God and having received great blessings from him have been unthankful to his heavenly Majesty and it is but just that men should make such a return to me as I have made to my God Are we punished with the loss of our worldly goods and substance Is it not because we have set our hearts too much upon them or with sickness did not health make us wanton and forgetful of our frail condition Let us thus by the kind of punishment search out our sin that repenting we may obtain pardon Thus have I shewed that God doth sometimes use martial Law against the wicked by remarkable stroaks of his Justice upon them in this world because otherwise men would think there were no God or at least that he were not Just but these examples are but now and then if he should punish all in this world men would think there were no Judgement to come but that all were dispatched here and after this life no more ado therefore he defers the main execution of his Justice till the end of the world and then he will do right to every man he will as St. Paul saith render to every man according to his works Rom. 2.6 both secundum qualitatem secundum quantitatem according to the quality and according to the quantity thereof First He will judge us according to the quality of our works he will render good for good and evil for evil not evil for good not good for evil To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality he will give eternal life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Jew first and also of the Greek Rom. 2.7 8 9. The good Tree that bringeth forth good fruit shall be cherished and preserved The evil Tree that bringeth forth evil fruit shall be cut down and burned O the vanity and folly of many worldlings who go on in all sin and wickedness and yet hope to have a reward in Heaven as well as the best I but God is an upright Judge as he will not requite good with evil so he will not reward evil with good Do men gather Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles If a man sow Tares can he expect a crop of Wheat or if he sow Cockle can he look for a harvest of Barley Be not deceived saith the Apostle God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6.7 8. Secondly He will judge us according to the quantity of our works they that have most sins shall be adjudged to most torments they that have most good works to most glory The sentence is past already on the Whore of Babylon quantum in diliciis fuit for so much pleasure give her so much pain so much for so much a most righteous Judge The ignorant servant shall be adjudged to few stripes the negligent servant to many stripes Luk. 12.47 48. Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye devour Widdows houses and for a pretence make long prayers therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation Mat. 23.14 So that some shall have greater damnation than others See here the pittiful folly of some desperate wretches who being given over to a reprobate sense to commit all filthiness with greediness and being reproved and admonished to run better courses and shewed the danger of their waies how they will bring bitterness at last sollace themselves with this miserable comfort oh we know the worst of it we can be but damned Alas alas they know not consider not what it is to be damned an horrid hideous unexpressible irrecoverable mischief to be damned and how there are degrees of damnation too the more sins the more stripes and how that those who sin against light knowledge and conscience careless and wicked Christians shall be thrust deeper into Hell and scorched in hotter flames than Infidels and Pagans for our Lord assures us in the Gospel That it shall be easier for Tyrus and Sydon than for Bethsaida and Corazin at the day of doom and that sinful Sodom shall speed better than proud Capernaum at the last day Doubtless Tyrus and Sydon and Sodom shall be damned and have most dreadful punishments in Hell in that lake which never shall be quenched where the worm dieth not and the fire never goeth out But Bethsaida Corazin Capernaum shall have more dreadful punishments more fearful torments why because Bethsaida Corazin Capernaum had means of salvation heard Christ and saw Christ heard his Doctrine and saw his miracles and yet repented not believed not whereas Tyrus Sydon Sodom had no such means therefore their punishment shall be lighter the others heavier He will also reward our good works according to their quantity so much for so much though he will not reward