Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	divine_a	holy_a	person_n	6,347	5	5.4510	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34673	The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670. A profession of faith.	1645 (1645)	Wing C6424; ESTC R30971	35,301	46

diminished Deut. 4.2 Rev. 22.18 19. Which also is so clear in truths necessary to salvation that the entrance into it giveth light yea understanding to the simple Psal 19.7 2. Concerning the Godhead in the Vnity of Essence and Trinity of Persons That God is a Spirit most holy immutable eternall every way infinite in greatnesse goodnesse power wisdome justice truth and in all divine perfections 1 Tim. 6.15 16. Joh. 4.24 Isai 6.6 Exod. 34.6 7. And that in this Godhead are three distinct Persons coeternall coequall and coessentiall being every one of them one and the same God not three Gods and therefore not divided in essence nature or being Deut. 4.3 but distinguished one from another by their severall and peculiar relative property the Father is of none but of himself the Son is begotten of the Father before all worlds the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son from all eternity all together are to be worshipped and glorified 3. Concerning the Decrees of God That God hath unchangeably decreed in himself from everlasting touching all things great and small necessary contingent and voluntary with all the circumstances of them to work and dispose them according to the counsell of his own will yet without being Author of or having fellowship with the sins of any to the praise and glory of his great name And touching the eternall estate of men that God hath according to his most wise free and unchangeable purpose in himself before the foundation of the world chosen some in Jesus Christ to eternall life to the praise and glory of his grace and rejected or reprobated others to the praise of his justice 4. Concerning Creation and Providence That in the beginning God made by his Word all things of nothing very good and made man male and female after his own Image righteous and as a faithfull Creator doth still uphold dispose and govern all things to the ends for which they were created having care especially for man and amongst men chiefly for the righteous and believers so that neither good nor evill befalls any man without Gods providence 5. Concerning the fall of man and originall sin That in as much as Adam was the root of all mankind the Law and Covenant of works was given to him as to a publike person and to an head from whence all good or evill was to be derived to his posterity Seeing therefore that by the subtilty of the Serpent which Satan used as his Instrument first Eve then Adam being seduced did wittingly and willingly fall into the disobedience of the Commandment of God Death came upon all justly and reigned over all yea over Infants also which have not sinned after the like manner of the transgression of Adam Hence also it is that all since the fall of Adam are begotten in his own likenesse after his Image being conceived and born in iniquity and so by nature children of wrath dead in trespasses and sins altogether filthy and polluted throughout in soule and body utterly averse from any spirituall good strongly bent to all evill and subject to all calamities due to sin in this world and for ever 6. Concerning mans restitution That all mankind being thus fallen yet the elect and only they are redeemed reconciled to God and saved not of themselves neither by their own works but only by the mighty power of God of his unsearchable rich free grace and mercy through faith in Jesus Christ who of God is made unto us wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption in the relation both of a surety to satisfie God justice for us and of an head to restore the Image of God that was lost and repair the nature that was corrupted in us 7. Concerning the Person and Natures in Christ That the Lord Jesus of whom Moses and the Prophets wrote and whom the Apostles preached is as touching his Person the everlasting Son of God the Father by eternall generation coessentiall coequall and coeternall God with him and with the holy Ghost by whom he made the world and by whom hee upholdeth and governs all the works he hath made who also when the fulnesse of time was come was made of a woman of the Tribe of Judah of the seed of David and Abraham viz. of Mary that blessed Virgin by by the Holy Ghost coming upon her and the power of the most high overshadowing her and was in all things like unto us sin only excepted so that in the person of Christ the two natures the divine and humane are truly perfectly indivisibly and distinctly united 8. Concerning the Offices of Christ That Jesus Christ is the only Mediatour of the new Testament even of the Covenant of Grace between God and man the Prophet Priest and King of the Church of God for evermore and this office is so proper to Christ as neither in the whole nor any part thereof it can be transferred from him to any other And to this office hee was from everlasting and in respect of his Manhood from the womb called separated and anointed most fully with all necessary gifts as it is written God hath not measured out of the Spirit unto him 9. Concerning Christs propheticall Office That Christ hath perfectly revealed the whole will of God so far as it is needfull for his people either joyntly or severally to know believe or obey and that he hath spoken and doth speak to his Church in his own Ordinances by those instruments whom hee sendeth and by his Spirit 10. Concerning the Priesthood of Christ That Christ being consecrated hath appeared once to put away sin by the offering and sacrificing of himself and hath fully performed and suffered all those things by which God through the blood of his crosse in a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savor might be reconciled to his elect and having broken down the partition wall and finished and removed those ceremoniall rites and shadowes is now entred into the most holy place not made with hands to the very heavens and presence of God where he for ever liveth and sitteth at the right hand of Majesty to make intercession for such as come unto the Throne of Grace by that new and living way and he maketh his people a spirituall house and an holy Priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God through him 11. Concerning Christs Kingly Office 1. In generall That Christ being risen from the dead ascended up to heaven set at the right hand of God the Father hath all power in heaven and earth given to him and doth exercise his power in his government of this world over all Angels and men good and bad to the preservation and salvation of his elect and to the ruling and destruction of the reprobate communicating and applying to his elect the benefits vertue and fruit of his prophecie and priesthood to their regeneration justification sanctification preservation and strengthening in all their spirituall conflicts against Satan the world and the flesh