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	word_n	5,821	5	4.1313	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97248	A divine miscellany full of delightful and profitable variety, or, The pious mans recreation, in a garden of sweet flowers and fruits divided into four parts / by Richard Younge of Roxwel in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing Y150; ESTC R43833	21,306	32

not Christ at all that loves him not above all That soul shall have its will of God that desires nothing but what God wills and the onely way to obtain our will of God is to do the will of God Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3.22 A vicious Pattern more infects then a vertuous Doctrine instructs When any thing is granted generally therein is implyed this exception If it be not against Justice and Right We must obey what God commanded by Moses and what we cannot perform is supplyed to us by our belief in Jesus God looks not for what he gives not yet if the life of Christ be not our Pattern the death of Christ will not be our Pardon Vnbelief is a sin that is least visible and yet a sin that is most damnable Outward acts are more scandulous but inward lusts are more dangerous If you would know the heart of your sins you must then know the sin of your hearts Duties can never have too much of our diligence nor too little of our confidence It 's better to be innocent then penitent to prevent the Malady then to invent the remedy When sorrow has possession of the house it will shut sin out of the doors Your sins have been your greatest Traytors and your sorrows will be your choicest Helpers Those sins shall never make a Hell for us which are an Hell to us Godly sorrow is such a grace as without it not a man shall be saved and with it not a man shall be damned He that lives in sin without Repentance shall die in sin without forgiveness there must be a loathing of sin in our affections before there will be a leaving of sin in our conversavations A hearty mourning for our transgressions makes way for a happy Funeral of our corruptions A man desires not what he knoweth not saith Chrysostome neither are unknown evils feared wherefore the work of regeneration begins at illumination Acts 26.18 Col. 1.13 1 Pet. 2.9 Christ goes undesired in the world because undiserned by the world But did they see all in this Pearl of price they would sell all to purchase it As no man can shun the evil he fears not so no man will ●mbrace the good he knows not St. Austin before his Conversion could not tell how to be without those delights he then found so much contentment in but after when his Nature was changed by the loadstone of the Gospel when he had another spirit put into him then he sayes Oh! how sweet it is to be without those former sweet delights God made the world of nought because men should set it at naught as did the Apostle the better to prevail with others who after he had been wrapt up into the third heaven reckoned of all earthly things riches honours pleasu●es but as dross and dung in comparison of the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified And what saith holy David a man of a most brave and divine spirit I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all riches They are more to be desired then gold yea than fine gold sweeter also than the honey and the honey-comb Psal 19.10 And again How sweet are thy words unto my mouth Psal 119.103 This likewise was Jobs judgment Job 28.12 to 20. He that looks upon Heaven with desire will look upon Earth with disdaine to value a Heavenly Reversion above an earthly possession is the best proof of a wise man he is but a Cock of the worlds Dunghil that priseth a Barley-Corn before a Pearl and Children onely are more taken with present Counters then with future Crowns but as Carnal things seem small to men that are Spiritual so spiritual things seem small to the carnal Who will shew us any good say Sensualists Psal 4.6 Any good will serve their turns that know not the chiefest good By groans unutterable God doth usher in joyes unspeakable Sin never ruines but where it reigns it 's only a murtherer where it is a governor It is not destroying where it is disturbing Lust is least hurtful where it is most hateful A Christian should mourn more for the lusts of the flesh then for the works of the flesh the sin of our Nature transcends the nature of our sins We should be more taken up with searching our own hearts then in sensuring others lives But for want of self-examination most men are like Travellers that are skilled in other Countrys ignorant and unacquainted with their own neither do we more love our selves above others then we see others better then our selves beside most men put their own faults in that part of the Wallet which is behind them others faults in the other part which is before them and they have much the more quiet for so doing an evil Conscience being like a bad Wife that will either be gadding abroad or scolding at home Men usually more affect Spectacles to view others faults then Looking-glasses to see their own Yet to point at anothers spots with foul fingers is both simple and unseemly for they are fittest to blame others that are blameless themselves Let him sayes our Saviour that is without sin cast the first stone In vain do we rebuke those sins abroad which we tollerate at home That man only makes himself ridiculous that leaving his own house on fire runs to quench his neighbours for which read Rom. 2.19 to 24. 1 Cor. 9.27 When thou seest thy brother slip first reflect upon thy self and say with Plato Am not I such an one Or with Austine May not I do the like For he that will cast a stone at an Offender must be free himself before Samuel doth charge Israel with their sin he clears his own innocency 1 Sam. 12. And were it not strange that the Witch should tell the Juggler he hath a bad Conscience or that the Hypocrite should raile at the Player or the Usurer challenge the Thief Or if so will they not retort this answer Physician heal thy self Luke 4.23 But we are so far from this that vice corrects vertue We live in an age wherein not to be a Knave is to be a Fool and to be holy is to be abhorred Men in these dayes fear nothing more then to be good hate nothing more then to be fashioned according to the Word of God One may more safely and with less blame live viciously then reprehend vice Barrabas shall find more favour with the multitude and less opposition then Jesus Neither are they more propitious to vice then they are malicious to vertue for goodness alone is the whetstone of their malice and makes th●m sick of the spleen according to that of the wise man Prov. 29.27 He that is upright in his way is abomination to the wicked Nets are not laid for kites or birds of prey But for the harmless still our Gins we lay And