Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	deed_n	flesh_n	mortify_v	5,880	5	10.8136	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90965	Honey out of the rock, or, Gods method in giving the sweetest comforts in sharpest combates. Chiefly intended, as spirituall plunder for plundered beleevers.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3343; Thomason E46_14; ESTC R22911	32,070	38

up by the eternall Spirit which was as it were the Altar sanctifying the gift and offering So no means in the world qualifications duties promises ordinances can satisfie a sin-seeing conscience but the blood of Christ and that also must be tendred unto it by the Spirit of Christ The truth is nothing can satisfie an enlightned conscience but that that did satisfie God himself which is Christ discovered in the excellencie of his merits and this is by the tendring the same through the Spirit by which Christ is thus discovered Rom. 8.1 Secondly the death of Christ hath another influence and consimilitude in the soul and that is the crucifying of the body of sin and that first by way of a holy revenge for the shedding of Christs blood Sin persued Christ even unto the Crosse the Spirit persues sin even to the Crosse also Galat. 5.24 They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof And again Rom. 8.13 If ye through the Spirit mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live Secondly there is conveighed a certain secret ennergettical power and derived in a sweet spirituall manner from the death of Christ viz. by serious contemplation and belief thereof to kill and mortifie sin Rom. 6.6 Our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed And Paul saith Galat. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ Thirdly the blood of Christ is as it were a secret and yet sensible bath wherein the soul is healed and cured and cleansed steeped and rinsed from the filth and guilt of sin This blood is that fountain opened for sin and for uncleannesse to wash in Zach. 13.1 wherein the Saints are washed 1 Cor. 6.11 and this purgeth their consciences from dead works to serve the living God Hebr. 9.14 Lastly the blood of Christ is the life of the soul that is the provision for the life of the soul His flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed Joh. 6.55 indeed that is in respect of everlasting nourishment that flows from it for saith he he that eateth me shall live by me vers 57. He that drinketh my blood shall never thirst Joh. 4.14 because Christ died we live viz. in respect of Justification and because he liveth we shall live in respect of sanctification Joh. 14.19 Thus in many particulars the death of Christ hath a blessed influence in the hearts of the Saints which is the fifth Consideration concerning Christ in the soul in respect of his sufferings Sixthly consider Christ in respect as of death so of his buriall the very grave of Christ hath an operation in the heart We are buried with him Gal. 6.4 Colos 2.12 The old man doth by little and little moulder away as it were in the grave of Christ Seventhly the resurrection of Christ hath likewise an influence in the soul viz. to raise it up to a new spirituall and holy life We are said to be raised up together with Christ Ephes 2.6 He that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your mortall bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Rom. 8.11 The truth is there are most glorious and various operations and influences of the resurrection of Christ in the heart which would be too large now to insist upon Eightly the ascention of Christ is seen also in its operation in the soul viz. to draw up our hearts and desires and expectations heaven-wards Col. 1.2 this is by the Spirit Ninthly and lastly the very session of Christ at the right hand of God and his interceding there for us is felt in the soul the Spirit of God leading it into the presence of God and setting it as it were at the right hand of the Father among the sheep not among goats Matth. 25. giving it all boldnesse even as a right hand favourite and there making intercession with sighs and groans that cannot be expressed Rom. 8.16 Thus you see the first generall Answer to this third generall Question viz. how might we know the Spirit of Christ in the soul from the spirit of delusion Answer The Spirit of Christ in the soul is Christ spiritually in the soul viz. in the sence before spoken of Secondly The Spirit of Christ in the soul doth alwayes act and bias the soul towards Christ by this means the intrincicall bent and frame of the heart is toward Christ the Spirit having a most strong and effectuall work upon the will in answer unto that great defection of the will through Adams fin in the Commission of sin That which I do saith Paul I allow not Rom. 7.15 And in the 19. verse The good I would do I do not the evill which I would not do that I do Will you see the reason of both why vers 22 23. I delight in the Law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members Sin was his sicknesse his complaint his captivitie goodnesse his desire his delight his endeavour the ground of both was the law of God in the inner man viz. the Spirit of life by Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 This did still bias the soul contrary to that principle of corruption of nature So that look how naturall instincts do act and work in severall subjects here below as in elements the fire to ascend upwards the earth to fall downwards c. or in all vegitatives to yeeld fruit according to its kind whatsoever Or in all sensitives to forbear that which it knows hurtfull and to feed upon that which is proper for its particular nourishment The little kid to suck his mothers milk c. as the holy Ghost termes it Exod. 23.19 Or in rationals to preserve it self from known evill and to seek after known good Even so an holy spirituall instinct is in the heart of beleevers to do with delight that which is holy just and good and to be very heedfull of that which is sinfull and wicked and its interruption in both is its sorrow its complaint and its pain as it were It is too true that the best of Gods people are obnoxious unto many disturbances and hindrances in the inward man but it is as true that these are their complaint unto God and their indeavour for cure The Spirit in Scripture is compared to anointing oyl 1 Joh. 2.27 oyl we know hath a naturall property to be uppermost if it be put into any liquids whether they be hot or cold yet the oyl will alwayes ascend and though there might be some interruption while you powre water upon the oyl yet stay but a while and you shall see it settle again and keep all under it Just so the Spirit of Christ doth as it were raise up the heart above all in the soul and though interruptions may be through violent temptations and strong passions and corruptions yet at last all will