Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	earth_n	heaven_n	holy_a	7,009	5	4.7805	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37090	A summarie platform of the heads of a body of practicall divinity which the ministers of the Protestant churches abroad have sued for, and which is farther enlarged in a treatise intituled, An earnest plea for gospel-communion, &c.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing D2890; ESTC R37314	6,354	13

is revealed therein Secondly how it is made and confirmed with men Concerning the revealing of the Covenant in the Scriptures the Doctrine of the Canonical Books which are the only true instrument of the Covenant as they are distinguishable from the Apocryphal is to be delivered where two things are to be made out First what the true Characters of Canonical Scripture are and that the Apocryphal Books have them not Secondly that in the Canonical Books the Truth and Covenant of God is held forth by Divine Authority Infallibly perfectly and evidently Concerning the making of the Covenant two things are to be held forth from the Scriptures First what the Tenour of the Covenant is which God doth make with men Secondly what the Motives are which oblige men in conscience to entertain it Concerning the Tenour of the Covenant three things are to be opened First who the persons are concerned in the Covenant Secondly what the form of the contract and the terms of the agreement are between these persons Thirdly what the performance and accomplishment is of that which is contracted and agreed upon The Persons concerned in the Covenant are God Mankinde and Jesus Christ God is considered here as he is the Authour of the Covenant and as such only revealed and to be known by us Mankinde is considered as he is bound to depend upon God by a Covenant Jesus Christ is considered as he is the Alone Mediator between God and man by a Covenant in respect Of his twofold Nature as being both God and man in one person and consequently a true Medium and centre of all Gods and mens properties Of his threefold Offices as being the great Prophet the High Priest and the only King of all Saints in heaven and in earth Of his twofold state of life the first of Humiliation on earth the second of Exaltation in heaven and the works of his Mediation between God and man in both estates The form of the contract and the terms of the agreement are to be opened in shewing two things 1 That the manner of Gods contracting is with none directly and properly but with his only begotten Son and with mankinde only in by and through him 2 That the things promised by God and the terms upon which they are promised are distinguishable First as the promises are made to Christ Secondly as they are made to the believers in him And lastly as they are made to the professors of his Name The performance and accomplishment of that which is promised and agreed upon to be done on all sides is to be opened in tvvo things 1 Hovv Christ by his obedience and sufferings having performed all that he did undertake towards God for mankind did by his death make over all the promises of the Covenant by way of Testament unto such as believe and profess in his Name that from him by Faith they might become theirs directly and properly 2 How the Father by his power and glory made good unto Christ all his promises by raising him from the dead by setting him at his right hand and by giving him all power in heaven earth to administer his own Testament by sending forth the Holy Ghost for through in and by the preaching of the Gospel And in this Administration of the Testament of Christ by the Spirit in the Gospel there is to be opened 1 A general call given and an offer of Grace made by Christ on Gods part unto all that hear the Gospel 2 A particular application of Grace dispensed according to Gods own will whereby the terms of the Covenant are made good To all believers by their effectual calling and conversion unto God and by their constant perseverance in grace unto the end To all professors by their gathering of themselves together into one body and by their mutual edification and growth through the unity of the Spirit and the communion of holy duties The tenour of the covenant being thus opened the Motives which are powerful to oblige mens consciencies to entertain the offer and keep the tenour thereof are to be delivered and may be reduced to three heads viz. 1 To the happiness which in this life befals to those who are in Covenant with God See Psal 25.10 2 To the obligation which lies upon the consciences of men to obey Gods Commandements and his calls 3 To the condition wherein men shall be at the day of Judgement When these heads are handled which concern the making of the Covenant then the Truth concerning the confirmation of the Covenant is to be opened to which head doth belong the Doctrine of the signes annexed unto the administration thereof amongst the professors where two things are chiefly to be insisted upon 1 How they are instituted and appointed by God to be outward means to assure us of his meaning and to seal up the realty of his working and effecting the tenour of the Covenant in the inward man 2 How they are to be used by us that we may be confirmed in Grace thereby and receive the effect of that for which God hath appointed them Hitherto the Doctrines have been mentioned which relate unto the principle of the life of Godliness which is the Covenant of Grace now follow the heads of Doctrine which contein the parts of this life which are two The one conteining the substantial the other the circumstantial life of Godliness The Substantial life is the power and practice of all the truth whereby God is enjoyed in the Covenant and the Doctrine thereof may contein two parts The first should hold forth the Material parts of the life of Godliness distinctly The second the formal union of these parts in the whole man conjoyntly The Material parts of the substantial life of Godliness make up the inward and the outward man of God The inward man of God is the New Creature whereof the Doctrine to be delivered should contein these heads 1 What the Regenerate state of the soul is and how it is wrought by the Spirit of God 2 How it is discerned and differenced from the unregenerate state of the soul 3 What the acts and motions of the spiritual life are wherein the regenerate soul hath secret fellowship with God 4 What the deceits are of natural imaginations of superstitious practices and of Satanical delusions mixing himself therewith whereby he doth transform himself into an Angel of light and whereby the soul is bewitched and possessed with an unclean spirit instead of being renewed by the Holy Ghost The outward man of God is the state of life wherein all our wayes are through the inward principle made conformable unto the heavenly calling Here the Doctrines are to be delivered 1 Of self-denial in respect of ungodliness and worldly lusts which cleaving to our nature are fomented from without in our flesh 2 Of self resignation or of offering up our wayes to walk after the Spirit by The life of Sobriety in respect of our selves The life of Righteousness