Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	die_v	life_n	live_v	6,262	5	5.6877	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80745	The saints fulnesse of joy in their fellowship with God presented in a sermon preached July 21. 1646. before the Honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster, being the day appointed for thankesgiving for the surrender of Oxford. By the least of saints, and the meanest of the ministers of the Gospel, W. Cradock.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6765; ESTC R231691	24,702	43

see this or that Government so cleare in the word or any other circumstantiall truth controverted amongst the Saints these and such like things cut him not off from the head these things doe not un-Saint him Rom. 14. And therefore woe be to thee if thou reject him The second rule is laid downe in the words following my text if ye walke in the light saith the Apostle you have fellowship q. d. Brethren I would have you to have fellowship with us But if we walke in darknesse wee lye and doe not the truth but if wee walke in the light as he is in the light wee have fellowship one with another What is this light It is holinesse of life and conversation If a man doeth righteousnesse he is borne of God 1 Iohn 3. as if he had said this is the rule that I goe by he that walks with God calls on his name teacheth his family hates that which is evill takes paines in that which is good c. him I account to be a man that is borne of God he walkes in the light with whom I ought to have fellowship and communion Beloved I had many more Uses as to examine our selves by what I have said whether wee have commumunion and fellowship with Jesus Christ whether the Image of Christ be on us have wee his graces are wee like Christ remember that word Rom. 8. 9. which will sound terrible in thine eares when thou comest to dye If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his hast thou the Spirit of Christ did Christ walke and talke and plot and designe against the people of God as thou doest Remember if thou be one with Christ thou hast the same Image the same Spirit the same Grace the same life in a word thou doest not Gal. 2. 20. live but Iesus Christ liveth in thee This may comfort us also if wee apprehend it spiritually if wee be poore wee are married to one that is rich if full of wants there is a fulnesse in Christ to supply us if tempted by Satan in him wee are more then Conquerors wee shall tread Satan under feet if trampled on Rom. 16. 20. by the world yet wee are Kings and Queenes The same annointing that is powred on him the head runs downe to the skirts of his garments And it should be an incitement to all of us who professe our selves believers to walke in the light to walke as those that are married to Christ Doeth it become a Sonne of God a member of Christ to be proud to be froward to sharke to cheate to be a worldling as many professors in this adulterous generation are walke therefore I pray as children of the light And so I have done But it may be you will say What is this to Oxford Farringdon or Worcester the businesse of the day Truly Beloved Jesus Christ is good for all things at all times And as touching the mercy of God in these things to us and the Kingdome the Lord hath been pleased to teach you this morning more largely and fully then I am able to doe the Lord sanctifie it to you and me a few words indeed I had concerning that subject but they are for the most part spoken to you already by our Reverend Brother therefore I shall but touch upon them First it is a word of information to us all I am sure I have it from the Lord and his word that wee learne from our mercies Oxford especially that every proud and high thing that exalts it selfe against Christ and his people God will throw downe I my selfe was a spectator an eye-witnesse when the Lord delivered that City that University into the hands of our Army and being there I did study and strive according to the small portion of grace I had received to meditate what I might learne for Gods glory and the good of my soule from that businesse and amongst all the meane thoughts I had this came in with the greatest glory into my soule that beholding that University that I had formerly knowne and heard much of lately I was filled with admiration to see how all the pride of that place was brought downe in one day Thought I surely the designe of God in these dayes is to bring downe one proud thing after another that exalts it selfe against Christ It was a gallant University what a strong impregnable Garrison was it also There was all the Military art of the Kingdom there was the Law learning policy and wit of the Kingdome and some conceive the wealth of the Kingdome too had for a long while been there also there was line upon line and Bulwarke upon Bulwarke and fence upon fence and it was the very Center of all the enemies of God when they had been routed abroad or frighted at home then presently away to Oxford as to a sure refuge yet Oxford though it were never so rich so learned so fortified so filled with Princes Nobles finest witted schollers and best skilled soldiers most experienced Politicians though it was the very Queene of England yet Oxford it must stoope downe and fall And in these times for my part I apprehend nothing with more clearenesse and evidence of Gods meaning in all his worke in these dayes then that it is his glorious designe to bring downe every high looke and every Oh thou opposer of God godlinesse lay this to heart proud thing that exalts it selfe against Christ These are the last times read Esa 2. you shall see it at large and wee have seen by experience also what course God hath taken with many You know foure or five yeares agoe off goes the head of one great man then a little afterwards some others arose and downe they goe also And now at Oxford they had as I said art wit and strength policy nobility wealth and what not but Grace which were the very words of some of them and where are they Take it for a truth of God if any â˜œ start up yet in their roome if any grove grow up to eclipse Gods glory or shadow his house if any thing or person will exalt it selfe against Christ I am confident it is Gods purpose and glorious designe to cut them off God will bring them downe to the dust Learne therefore to walke humbly before the Lord and doe not strive any longer against the streame and though the Lord have given you such power and peace that you have no enemies yet take heed least any of you step up in their stead for be assured be you never so great as God is in Heaven and wee are on earth that man family faction or crew that will goe about to oppose God or his people God will throw them downe lie low therefore on the ground and give glory to Jesus Christ I had also a word of exhortation but my Brother hath prevented me and spoke most of my thoughts concerning that already only if you will give

THE SAINTS FULNESSE OF JOY in their fellowship with God PRESENTED In a Sermon preached July 21. 1646. Before the Honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster Being the day appointed for Thankesgiving for the surrender of OXFORD By the least of Saints and the meanest of the Ministers of the Gospel W. Cradock LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons and are to be sold by George VVhittington at the blew Anchor neere the Royall Exchange 1646. THere was an Order from the Honorable House of Parliament to print this Discourse such as it is allowing me the usuall priviledges vouchsafed in this kind in obedience to which Order I appoint Matthew Simmons and Hannah Allen to print the same W. C. TO THE HONORABLE House of Commons ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT PEACE among Brethren is the Pearle that is lost in these dayes which many pretend to seek and all justly complaine is wanting many out-cryes there are for it in the mouth 's of some whose hearts and principles are full of warre and contention Their words are Ps 55. 21. softer then oyle and yet they be drawne swords Yea such is the hypocrisie of this age that it is become almost the Character of a Malignant or Atheist in all companies with much seeming zeale and devotion to pray and desire Peace Union Reconciliation neglecting the while all meanes that may conduce to the same Others there are and those not a few who long for Peace and that sincerely but not hitting the right way to attaine to it doe often cast more Oyle into the flame and make the breach wider This following Discourse though it be the meanest of any that ever hath been presented unto you points out the surest and readiest way to finde this Jewel i. Fellowship with the Father and his Sonne Jesus Christ Fellowship with God necessarily begets fellowship between men He onely is an enemy to Man that is not upon tearmes of friendship with God God is love and when we are in him and walke with him wee cannot but be like him Could wee fully apprehend God as our Father Christ as our Head all the Saints his members chosen and beloved wee should no longer bite teare and devoure one another a spirit of Love Goodnesse Meeknesse Long-suffering that is in God and dwells in Christ would run through all our veines tempering our hearts and framing our carriages Euk. 6. Ephes 5. towards men as God's in Christ hath been towards us Yea it would mollifie our spirits towards all even the worst of men and make us live peaceably as much as in us lieth with all men To give no offence to any man Rom. 12. 1 Cor. 10. Titus 3. 1 Cor. 4. Mat. 5. To speake evill of no man To blesse when wee are blasphemed To give up our cloakes to him that takes away our coat c. And because there is a generall distance growne between men and God an intermission of spirituall fellowship therefore these Scriptures are become now Apocryphall which were precious Truths formerly to the Saints and it may be still are to a few who studied rather to conforme themselves to the strictest Rules then wrest the Rule to their owne carnall senses and corrupt lusts a practice too common in these times Oh that wee could then doe as the wise Traveller who being wilderd in a Forrest despairing to finde the way forward returnes thither where he first lost his way We have lost our way our selves our God and all almost by an Over-violent contention about Things externall Wee have cast durt upon each other that will not be wiped off our names in many Ages opened the mouth 's of the wicked rejoyced the hearts of Papists grieved the Spirit of God Oh how happy should wee yet be if wee would returne to our GOD renewing our fellowship with him in the Spirit Surely it was better with us then when wee made our Hos 2 Fellowship with God Holinesse Righteousnesse our chiefe studie when Christianitie and the power of Godlinesse was the Cement that united us together When wee were distinguished from the world and knowne to one another by the style of Saints Professors of Godlinesse Honest-men It is one of my firmest Principles and by Gods Grace shall ever be my practice to make union and communion with God my maine worke to studie peace with all men To Love Honour Receive SAINTS quÃ SAINTS To receive I say those whom Christ hath received The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ binde up every one of your soules in that bundle and so preserve your whole spirit soule and body blamelesse unto his comming which shall ever be the most unfeigned prayer of Your most humble servant W. CRADOCK A SERMON PREACHED at the late Thankesgiving before the Honourable House of COMMONS 1 IOHN 1. 3 4. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ And these things write wee unto you that your joy may be full THe chiefe end Beloved of your meeting here this day is to rejoyce together for those manifold mercies that the Lord hath been pleased to bestow of late especially upon you and the whole Kingdom and I suppose that we I meane the Ministers that are called hither by you are intended to be as the Scripture saith as furtherers of Phil. 1. 25. your joy But truly Beloved those mercies of themselves that are in your thoughts and that have been spoken of here already at large I meane those victories and surrenders of Garrisons c. though I confesse they be very great and glorious yet they may in a sort be reckoned among naturall things they are at best but temporall mercies and so they can produce but a kind of naturall joy For as wee heard this morning vide Mr. Wilkinsons Sermon the effect must be as the cause is And as it is somewhat beneath a Christian to insist much upon those naturall things thereby to expresse naturall affections so is it much more below the worke of a Gospel Minister to stir you up to such joyes as these things doe properly produce Therefore my designe at this time is as God shall inable me to raise you up a little above all these things to lead you to spirituall joy which indeed is the onely true joy at least the fountaine of all joy For take any other joy and abstract it from its spiritualities then indeed you may say of it with Solomon it is but as the crackling of thornes Eeles 7. 6. it is light short superficiall and will undoubtedly end in everlasting sorrow Therefore as I would not put you out of your way of rejoycing so I wish I could scrue you up to the truest joy that is to the most spirituall joy which is fully laid downe here in my text And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ And these things write wee unto you that your joy may be full The Apostle in this

Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Text snippets containing the quad