Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	creature_n	enlighten_v	great_a	56	3	2.1569	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12199	The sacred mysterie of the gouernment of the thoughts discouering their nature and differences, and together, resoluing such speciall doubts, which are incident hereunto. Very necessary for the tryall and safe keping of the heart. And also, for the well ordering and comfort of a Christian life.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1619 (1619)	STC 5706; ESTC S109835	100,475	547

of our wayes and so followes desperats impenitency and reiection of the mercy of God so an heaping vppe of wrath against the day of wrath The Conquest hereof that Thoughts are not Erce Appeares first By the commandement of GOD which forbiddeth them Exod. 10 10. And it is therefore sette in the last place as the exposition and touchstone of all the other which seeme to reach only to outward facts or motions with consent shewing as the Apostle expoundes it nay our Sauiour Christ himselfe Math. 5. Rom. 7. That the Law is spirituall extending to the very thought of the heart and so expressing the power thereof that it is of God who searcheth the heart by it 1. Cor. 14.25 Heb. 4.12 And therein also the vse thereof which is to worke an vtter denyall of Nature and to send vs daily vnto Christ Gal. 3.27 And also to trye the sinceritie of our obedience whether it bee as well inwarde and secret vnto God as outward and apparant vnto men And so to comfort vs both against the Imputations of infirmitie seeing in the Law of our Mind we cleaue vnto God with purpose of heart but especially against imputation of hypocu●sae in regard of outward fayling seeing as Sathā knows not our thoghts nay our selues know not in this respect our own soules the●efore though wee doe fayle outwardly and our hearts may smite vs for the same yet the Lord knowes our hearts and thoughts we can appeale vnto him as Ezechias and Dauid did in the sinceritie of our hearts and though●s nay though our hearts should fayle vs yet seeing the Lord is greater then our heart and knowes who are his therfore may we appeale frō our ignorant and vnbeleeuing harts vnto our God who knowes that of and in vs which we cannot know and so approues vs as we are in his purpose aboue what wee are in our selues yea contrary to that we feele in our selues doth gratiously accept vs. Oh what a comfort is this to a distressed soule through violence of tentation or the roarings dampes of the flesh though he crie yet hee thinkes God heares him not because now he knowes not whether he prayes or no. Rom. 8.27 or what he prayes That now he is answered by the spirit That hee that searcheth the heart knoweth the meaning of the spirit opposing Gods knowing of our prayers to our not knowing of them as if he should say Let it not trouble thee that thou perceiuest not that thou prayest for though thou know not yet God the searcher of thy heart who is greater then thy heart hee knoweth and approueth thy prayer God sees that good which we see not sometimes in our selues Thus doth the Nature and vse of the Commandement euince that our thoughts are not free not allowing to thinke euill of the Prince Eccl. 10.70 no not of the meanest 2 And so doth also the Nature and glory of the Lawgiuer euince the same Namely The Lord our God 1 Who beeing a Spirite is therefore not onely to be worshipped with bodily seruice but euen with the heart and al the powers and faculties thereof Ioh. 4.24 Euen with all the Minde with all the Soule with all the Heart and with all the Strength Mark 12.30 Luk. 10.27 Deut. 6.5 Mat. 22. Pro. 23.26 2 Who hauing cre●ted and redeemed both body soule is therefore to be glorified both in soule and body for they are his 1. Cor. 6.20 onely Psal 94. 3 Who searcheth the heart and by the Spirit searcheth the hidden things thereof and knoweth the thoughts long before Psalm 139.2 Ier. 10.17 1. Cor. 2.10.11.12 As being euery where Ierem. 23.24 And preseruing and vpholding of the minde in it thoughts Act. 17.28 And therefore is to bee worshipped in the heart as being the tryall of the sinceritie thereof 1. Thes 2.3.4 Psal 44.18.19 20.21 Mat. 5. so Dauid Psal 119.168 I haue kept thy precepts that is constantly and sincerely for all my wayes are before thee Pro. 3.6 4 Who is also righteous and will not onely iudge vs according to our words or workes but euen according to our euill thoughts as beeing breaches of the tenth Commandement and so breaking the whole Iacob 20.10 Act. 1.22 Eccl. 11.9 As iudging the worke by the heart Esay 58. which indeede is the treasure both of good and bad Luk 6.45 46. Thus witnesseth the Spirit that the thoughts of the wicked are abomination to the Lord Pro. 18.15.16 Herein most odious because hereby they take liberty to prophane his spirituall Nature making a mocke and Idoll of him as if hee knew not the thoughts had no soueraignety ouer them A third argument to proue that thoughts are not free is from the consideration of those to whom the Law●s giuen Namely Mankinde whom if wee consider generally either in their first Estate 1 As they are Creatures are they not hereby generally at the deuotion of their creator euen in soule as well as in body 2 Are they not subiects to their all-seeing Lord in all things to doe him all spirituall homage 3 Are they not fitted immediatly with that heauenly image that so they may bee conformable to the inuisible God Secondly if wee consider them particularly as they stand in the corrupt estate of Apostasie Are not all their thoughts and imaginations onely euill continually Gen. 6.4 Is there any power in them so much as to thinke a good thought 2. Cor. 3 5. And are they not hereby lyable to the curse for the breach of the spirituall Law which requireth inward and intire obedience in soule body and spirit Deut. 4 Are they not hereby ●ed captiue vnder the law of sinne they cannot choose but sinne though they choose and entertayne the same with all greedinesse so farre it is that there thoughts are free to euill that indeed they are only free to euill they haue no libertie to any thing that is good 1. Cor. 3.20 Thirdly consider wee man in the estate of his recouery If wee obserue the means whereby this was acc●mplished namely the sufferings of Christ seeing he suffered as well in soule as in bodie as this doth argue a generall taineture both of soule and body so doth it imply are stauration both of soule aswell as the body and a subiection therof with the body to the obedience of C●rist 2. Cor. 4.10 And this shall the better appeare if wee consider the worke it selfe I meane the effectuall power of Christ in the restoring of nature which is herein operatiue that it makes it a Creature so new that olde things are passed away wee are dead and buried with Christ and all things are become new The very Spirite and quintessence of the mind the most noble inward part thereof renued which I take to bee the Thoughts The affections ordered and changed from earthly to heauenly obiects The vnderstanding illightned to conceyue the great mystery of godlines the conscience purged and quieted from dead workes to serue the liuing God Heb. 9.