Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dwell_v	holy_a	temple_n	6,250	5	8.1563	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34946	The new paradise of God, or, The regenerate and his fruit set forth in a sermon to the Hertfordshire-citizens at Bow-Church in Cheapside, London, July 2, 1657, being the day of their publick festival / by Isaac Craven ...	Craven, Isaac, d. 1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6862; ESTC R7152	19,959	32

of this world for did they truly apprehend and rightly value it they would be more in their desires and motions towards it If thou knewest the gift of God said our Saviour to the woman of Samaria and who it is that saith unto thee give me to drink thou woulst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water t John 4. 10. But poor sinful creature she knew it not Nor was it her case alone 1 Cor. 2. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him Balaam indeed had a kind of glympse of it in the 24. of Numbers How goodly saith he are thy Tents O Jacob and thy Tabernacles O Israel As gardens by the river side as the trees of Lign-aloes which the Lord hath planted and as Cedar-trees beside the waters Yea but the knowledge he professeth hereof was not by faiths apprehension or upon personal experience or with a cordial valuation only by the vision of the Almighty u Num. 24. 16. Whereas the knowledge which the faithful have is fiducial experimental appretiative delightful They speak but first they have believed Psal 116. 10. I believed therefore have I spoken They see but first they have tasted w Ejus dulcedinem non cogniscitis quia minime degustatis Greg. Psal 34. 8. Tast and see that the Lord is gracious And then for appretiation and delight O how great is the goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee x Psal 31. 19. How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts y Psal 84. 1. A day in thy Courts is better then a thousand z ver 10. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy Courts We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy holy Temple a Psal 65. 4. The consideration whereof may serve in the first place to depretiate the adored excellencies and perfections of this world and to take off our spirits from discontentative emulation at the sight of prosperous sinners For alas in the greatest fulness of their external accommodations in the height of their glory and the exquisitenesse of their delights yet for lack of these rivers of water they are but a drie ignoble generation not worthy to be compared with the plants of Christ even in the worst of their outward condition For as he in Plutarch said of the Scythians that although they had not Musick nor Vines among them yet they had gods b Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Regenerate in their greatest want of outward supplies yet so long as they have the Spirit of God and their situation by these still waters c Ps 23. 2. they are not destitute of true felicity Yea by the benefit of those holy streams they are happy in the exercise happy in the increase in the assurance and continuance of received graces In the due valuation whereof the treasures of Egypt were but trash to Moses d Heb. 11. 26. the priviledges of a Jew but dung to St. Paul e Phil. 3. 8. the Tents of Kedar but a prison to David f Ps 120. 5. I had rather saith he be a door-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the Tents of wickednesse g Ps 84. 10. And accordingly the Emperour Theodosius rejoyced more in his Ecclesiastical membership then in all his Imperial Majesty Wherefore 2. say now ye that are planted in the house of the Lord is it not good being here to keep close to him that hath thus disposed us and tendred our spiritual accommodation O let it engage us and strengthen our resolutions to persevere in the faith of Jesus Christ Remember the trees in Jotham's parable h Jud. 9. 8. c. which being severally courted with the proffer of a Kingdom should I saith the Olive-tree leave my fatnesse Should I saith the Fig-tree forsake my sweetnesse Should I saith the Vine leave my Wine So against all the allurements and temptations of the world should we forsake these rivers of living water these peerlesse priviledges for the momentany pleasures of sin No take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God i Heb. 3. 12. Lord saith Peter to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life k John 6. 68. I will dwell saith David in the house of the Lord for ever l Psal 23. 6. And Let their money perish m In vit Galeac Caracc with them said that noble Marquesse of Vico that esteem all the gold in the world worth one dayes society with Jesus Christ and his holy Spirit Now in the sense of this blessed accommodation what remaines but that we return those Rivers to their Ocean n Suae reddantur origini fluenta gratiae Bern. and improve them to answerable Fruit Who plants a Vineyard and eats not of the fruit thereof o 1 Cor. 9. 7. And that 's our last particular in this description of a blessed man as he is represented in his fructification that bringeth forth his fruit in his season Which words although in a Grammatical Consideration they relate to the Tree yet intentionally to the Regerate compared to it And they lie to be taken up in a four-fold gradation He bringeth forth His fruit Bringeth forth fruit In his Season 1. Edit He bringeth forth is not meerly for receiving but as well for yielding not barely for taking in but joyntly for giving forth for the actus elicitus believing with the heart and for the actus imperatus confessing with the mouth p Rom. 10. 10. For receving by Faith of Christ's fulness and for disbursing by Love to Christ's glory that as out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh q Mat. 12. 34. so the sap of infused grace will soon finde vent for its own disclosure In the place before alledged I believed therefore have I spoken And in 2 Cor. 4. We also believe and therefore speak Howbeit whereas verbal profession is but the leaf of the tree the honest sincere Christian determines not his faith in leaves stopps not there but 2. Edit fructum He bringeth forth fruit renders his faith visible by the adjuncture of New Obedience his profession honourable by translating the form into Power his graces observable by drawing them out into Works As his faith into the work of faith his love into the labour of love his hope into the patience of hope 1 Thess 1. That as Jacob allegorically prophecieth of Joseph A fruitful bough by a Well Gen. 49. 22. So it is the prayer and care of an Israelite indeed that in some correspondencie to his gracious supplies he may be filled with the fruits of righteousnesse r Phil. 1. 11. and fruitful in every