Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	covenant_n	heart_n	new_a	6,959	5	6.8797	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51398	Some collections of scripture, with private mediations as an help in prayer, with some hymns and psalms of David. Cum humilitatis reverentia. By G. M.	G. M., fl. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M27B; ESTC R219297	36,037	92

spiritual and Gospel meltings upon our souls O cause us to feel the warming and the reviving blood of the everlasting covenant working effectually upon our poor dead hearts and consciences And dear Father do thou be pleased to rescue us from our selves deliver us we humbly pray th●● from a vain trisling spirit in the things of Eternity O make us captives of thy love and then shall we follow hard and close after thee the Captain of our salvation The Lord in much mercy waits on us continually to be gracious unto us and shall not we wait on him to be made glorious for ever Dear Father we humbly pray thee to be pleased to soften our rebellious hard hearts by the gracious meltings of thy holy spirit that so we may be fitted to receive thy truths and bring forth the fruits of them in a most holy and a most heavenly conversation O for Christ Jesus sake make bare thy own arm and deliver our poor distressed souls from that bottomless pit of eternal destruction O strengthen our Memories increase our faith kindle our zeal renew our Natures and make us such as thou wouldst have us to be best at heart and best at last for Christ's sake O rectifie our wills enlighten our understandings and subdue every lust within us and cause us to run the ways of thy commandments Dear Father we beseech thee we humbly beseech thee to make us more serious and more sincere ●n the things of Eternity that we may not trifle ●n those things of so high a nature wherein our ●oor immortal souls are so nearly concerned Good Lord in much mercy be graciously pleased ●o carry on thy own work in us and for us to he honour and glory of thy name and for the eternal welfare of our poor distressed souls O for Christ Jesus sake open blind eyes soften our hard hearts unstop our deaf ears subdue our rebellious wills and renew our corrupt natures and bring us into a conformity and an humble subjection unto thy blessed self O when shall it once be that we may with our blessed Lord and Saviour count it our Meat and our Drink to do thy will O God O for Christs sake cast an eye of pity and compassion upon ns shew us the favour of thy chosen make us glad with thy inheritance and visit us with thy salvation Good Lord we beseech thee to enable us to lay fast and sure hold on him on whom thou hast been graciously pleased to lay help And dear Father we humbly pray thee to be pleased to raise us up from the death of sin to a life of righteousness And we humbly beseech thee to let us feel the power of Christ's Death killing sin in our mortal bodies that we may no longer obey it in the lust thereof Dear Father we beseech thee to be graciously pleased in mercy to blot out all our sins by the precious blood of thy dearly beloved Son that so our names may not be blotted out of the book of life and we for ever thrust out from thy presence out of the holy City of our God And for Christ Jesus sake make us faithful to the death and then give unto us a Crown of Life And dear Father do thou be pleased to rouze up our drowsie dull consciences and help us we beseech thee seriously to look into our inward man knowing that it is high time to awake out of sleep the time is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light le● us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fullfil the lust thereof O Lord our God thou hast promised to keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee O help us we beseech thee help us to trust in thee and sincerely to wait on thee that so we may be brought into the possession of this peace that lasts for ever O help us seriously to look up unto thee for thou art the Lord our God and there is none else so shall we be saved with an everlasting salvat●on And dear Father we humbly intreat thee to make us to be zealously affected for the honour of thy great name and then seal unto us thy everlasting covenant of life and peace Then shall we greatly rejoice in the Lord and our souls shall be joyful in our God for he will cloath us with the garments of salvation and will cover us with his robes of righteousness then shall we be drawn with his loving kindness and mercy and loved by our dear Lord with an everlasting love And we humbly intreat thee to prepare us for that great day of our Lord Jesus Christ when he shall come to shake terribly the Earth O blessed and happy a●e they who put their whole ttust and confidence in him and sincerely hope in his mercy O Lord we are upon the very brink of an endless eternity and it will not be long e're we shall be in another world as certainly as we are now in this O help us now help us dear Lord that whatsoever our hands find to do to do it with all our might for there is no wisdom nor knowledge nor work nor device in the grave whither we are all a going Dear Lord we humbly beg thy pardon we have none to fly unto but unto thee thou hast the words of Eternal Life O! for Christ Jesus sake forgive all our Transgressions and in Mercy heal all our Back-slidings and dear Father as ever thou intendest mercy unto our poor souls work a thorough change upon our hearts consciences and save us by believing O for ever blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for us who are kept by the power of God thro' faith unto salvation O make us more heavenly and more holy that we may be blessed in the first resurrection that the second death may have no power over us that we may live and reign with our God and our dear Redeemer for ever and ever Amen Psalm 4 HEar me when I do call O God my Righteousness Thou hast enlarged me when I Was bound in sore distress Have mercy upon me And now my Prayer hear O Sons of men how long will ye My Name refuse to fear My Glory into shame You turn and Vanity You love to see How long will ye My Truth you plain deny But know the Lord will set The godly man apart Even for himself for he will hear When he calls with his heart Be still and stand in awe O sin not on your bed In heart

h●● chastised us and we were chastised turn th● us and we shall be turned thou art the Lo●● our God O! that remembring our ways ar● all our doings wherein we have been defile● we could loath our selves in our own sigh● for our iniquities and for our abominations O! give us saving knowledg give us t●● spirit of Truth who will guide us into ● truth incline our Ears to wisdom and o● Hearts to understanding that we may cry a●ter knowledg and lift up our Voice for u●derstanding that we may understand the fe●● of the Lord and find the knowledg of o● God that we may be able to cry unto thee ● our God we know thee hast thou not prom●ed saying I will put my law into their Hear● and write it in their inward parts and I w● be their God and they shall be my Peop●● O! that thou would'st give us this Knowled● that thou would'st fill our Hearts with t●● knowledg as the Waters cover the Sea ● give us the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelati●● in the Knowledg of Christ that the Eyes ● our Understandings being inlightned we m● know what is the hope of his Calling a●● what is the riches of the Glory of his Inher●tance in the Saints Dear FAther is not th● secret with the Righteous is not the secret the Lord Revealed to them that fear him ● give us a love of God and of Christ and all things that belong to him Thou hast said I will Circumcise their Hearts and the Hearts of our seed to love the Lord our God with all our Hearts and with all our Souls that we may live and not die Oh set us on fire burn us make us new and Transform us that nothing besides thee may live in us O! wound very deeply our Hearts with the Dart of thy Love and that because of our sins which are many are forgiven us we may love thee not a little but much Oh! that we were sick of Love that our understandings will and affections were all overcome and amazed and that our faintings were enflamed towards thee and even ●melted into thee O sweet Jesu touch our Souls with thy Spirit that Vertue may come out of thee into us draw us unto thy self Oh let the savors of thy Oyntments whose very Breath is love be ever in our Nostrils O give us the Flagons of the New Wine of thy Kingdom which may lift up our Souls above our selves in our Loves that we may forget the low and base Loves of this World and by an Heavenly access may be Transported into an Heavenly Love and Embrace Jesus Christ who is the Lord from Heaven with a love like himself Oh! let us desire Union with thee and help us to bring forth fruit unto thee O give us the fruit of the Spirit that may resemble thee and be pledges to us of thy Union with us O burn and consume whatsoever would grow one with our Souls besides thee O let the fire of thy Spirit so turn our Souls into a Spiritual Fire that the dross of the Flesh and the World being wholly consumed we may be Spiritua● and so bring forth Fruits only to the Spirit O sweet Saviour look upon us in mercy or● look of thine will awaken our loves and mak● us to weep bitterly that we loved thee so little whom to love sufficiently our best and might●est Loves are most insufficient Prevent ou● seeking with thy seeking be thou present wit● us in thy Providence and Power when tho● seemest to be far off us in the tast of thy sweetness and fruition of thy Loves and then whe● we have regained thy Love we will hold mor● hardly and keep more Fastly and love thee mor● vehemently and provide a Stock of Loves in th● Summer against the Winter if it return any more O help us to love one another as Christ hath loved us and make Our Love to abound more more towards all men especially to them that ar● of the houshold of Faith And good Lord cause us to love our Enemies to bless them that curse us and to pray for them that despightfully use us and persecute us O give us a zeal after God and his Truth good Causes and good men O let us not rest concented with a lukewarm Profession being neither cold nor hot but make Our Souls to break for the Longings they have for thy Judgments at all times O that we were Fervent in the Spirit zealous always in every good thing O that the zeal of thy house might even eat us up And that Our zeal might provoke Others unto thee O that thy Word were in Our Hearts like a burning fire that we were weary with forbearing and that we could not stay O give us the Grace of Patience Thou hast told us in the world we shall have Tribulation and thro' much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdom of God O make us to run with patience the Race that is ses before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despised the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God O help us to consider him that endured such contradictions of sinners against himself lest we be wearied and Faint in Our Minds Let us not think it strange concerning the fiery Trial but rather rejoi●e in as much as we are made par●akers of Christs Sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed we may be glad also with exceeding joy O teach us to reckon with our selves that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared to that glory which shall be revealed in us Hast thou not said that if we be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are we O therefore that it may be given to us in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake O help us to deny our selves and to take up our Cross daily and follow our Saviour Give us perseverance and to this end make us to build on thy promises Thou hast said that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord tho he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his right hand Thou hast said to your Old Age I am he and even to hoary hairs will I carry you and I will deliver you for this God is our God for ever and he will be our Guide even unto death O give us One Way and One Heart that we may Fear thee for ever And make thou an evetlasting covenant with us That th●n wilt not turn away from us to do us good O put thy Fear into our hearts that we may not depart from thee And dear Lord help us to hold fast the profession of our Faith without wavering confirm us unto the end that we may be blameless unto the coming and day of our Lord Jesus Christ And dear Father