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spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	7,322	5	6.0283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91029	Mishʻam A stay in trouble or The saints rest in the evil day. Exactly discovered from their cordial dependance upon God, and comfortable assistance by him. Shortly digested as the saints manual in the worst of times. The first part. / By Alexander Pringle, a worthless servant to Christ in the work of his Gospel.	Pringle, Alexander, of Harwich.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3500; Thomason E1592_1; ESTC R208844	60,000	209

in Psal 30. There is such a mystical Unity betwixt Christ and his Members No correspondence with Christ without his members that there is no correspondence with the one without respect to the other they suffer and complain of the same injury Tanto vos affectu amare dignatur ut quod nos patimur ipse se pati testatur Aug. Hom. 15. Such is Christs affection to us that he witnesseth his affliction for us Therefore If this day I might be esteemed worthy to counsel you Ezhortation to all the saints I would seriously desire you consider the troubles of your brethren as if they were your own their danger as your indemnity Such a care as it becometh your interest in them so let me tell you ye are concerned in their safety All things come alike to all men sayes Solomon Eccles. 9.2 Cuivis potest accidere quod cuiquam potest scito omnem conditionem versatilem esse quod in illum incurrit in te quoque incurrere potest P. Syr. apud Senec. Troubles common to al the saints That which befalleth one may befall another And it is worth observation saith he That every condition is changeable and the lot of one may fall in the lap of another And this is a Truth beyond Contradiction An advertisement to all That there is no people or person whatsoever that hath such armour of proof Animad as is affliction-free Tum tua res agitur c. It is the great Councel of Providence which passeth Decree of the Saints troubles and determineth precisely of its individual objects the Saints must be no choosers but bearers of their burthens Our own case must warn us Ille hodie ego cras sayes ancient Bernard He to day and I to morrow Therefore let this be a word in season Applic. to such who would seal their love to Christ to shew more then ever their cordial affection to his suffering Saints Secondly Consid 2 such whatever they are to the world Such are dead who are not tender of the godlies case or sufferings yet they are dead as to God As they are not affected with the Saints danger so they are not quickened with the Saints life If they were of their spirit they would act like their being operari sequitur esse operation or action is the natural flux of essence as things are in Nature so they Act. Hereby we know that we are translated from death to life because we love the brethren 1 Joh. 3.14 There is nothing which signeth more the life of grace in our selves Note A mechanick membership without compassiō or sense then to commiserate the mortal ingagements of the godly It is but a kinde of a mechanick Membership which sympathiseth not with the case and temperature of the person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ex Herodoto a wooden leg naturally is of no feeling or moving as a silver nose is of no smelling and a withered hand of no holding Dead members in the body for shew only and yet those are in the body more for shew then use being altogether sensless of its pain or pleasure So these members are dead in themselves Note which are past feeling the dangers of others They are rotten as to the body which doth not compassionate its sufferings Membra putrida mortua sensum non habent tales sunt Christiani qui de alienis malis afflictionibus non dolent August in Psal 130. Hom. 15. As rotten and dead members sayes he have no sense such are Chistians who for the evils and calamity of others have no sorrow Hence it is no wonder the wicked are much of Gallius spirit Acts 19 The wicked careless of the saints condition careless of the Saints calamity they having never tasted of their comforts They live not the Saints life and so are sensless of the Saints lot they are altogether strangers to the sanctimony of their conditions and therefore to the severity of their afflictions Therefore me thinks this Consideration may prove serviceable Strong arguments to tenderness as an effectual incentive to all the godly that as they have an eminent interest in the things of heaven so to owne the transient troubles of their brethren here upon earth Thus as they are not of the world they will distinguish themselves from it as they are the coheirs of Glory they will convince the world they are the precious children of the Spirit of Grace Therefore I shall humbly beseech all the godly Exhortation to all the saints in this juncture of Jacobs trouble to witness their principle by their practice what they are in the graces of their life To wrestle with God by the greatness of their labour this day with the Lord Let it be known to the enemy that there be Chariots and Horsemen in Israel and that the practice of the Saints by prayer is of greater power in heaven The power of prayer then all Navies or Armies whatsoever moving upon Sea or Land Let it not be said We must look upon Christs members interest in trouble that we want a life to breathe for the refreshment of Christs Members lest he take it ill at our hands Who knoweth but he hath separated us from the sadness of their condition that we might be suiters for their safety It is good for them that we may be honoured to have a subordinate hand in their happiness Let their ingagement put a more then ordinary ingagement upon our spirits The saints danger an argument of our intercession Let it be a matter of publick evidence that we live not onely to our selves but to our brethren It shall be a glorious victory which is purchased by prayer it shall be a triumph of the Lords contriving a day of the Lords deliverance and an eminent evidence of the Lords benevolence to our British Jerusalem it shall be worth our pains worth our prayers it will determine our interest in God by our prevailing with him in behalf of his Saints Thirdly Consid 3 No zeal to God where there is no love to the brethren as such are not affected with a sense of the Saints misery so they are not warmed with a zeal to the Lords glory It is very certain the same spirit which is troubled with the one is melted with the other Animad There is such a strict communion betwixt the Lord and his servants The saints neglect is the Lords dishonor that he not only accounts their injury but neglects as impeachments to his glory and therefore where there is no tenderness for his Saints he looks for none or little respect to himself I could heartily wish that every soul considered seriously a few things of that correspondence kept betwixt God and his servants in extremity The thoughts of which would influence their spirits to a sympathy of their condition as it becometh the Lords and our interest in