Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	everlasting_a	reap_v	sow_v	6,865	5	10.5221	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41543	A fair prospect shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen & things that are not seen, in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Lady Judith Barrington at Knebworth in Hertfordshire / by Tho. Goodwin ...	Goodwin, Thomas, d. 1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1270B; ESTC R40911	26,888	78

innumerable company of Angels and Spirits of Just men made perfect or with Cain and Pharaoh and Judas with the Divel and his Angels and Legions of unclean Spirits 't is said Acts 1. 25. of Judas at his death he went to his own place Brethren as sure as you have all places of abode here on earth which you call your own homes so shall every one of us have either in heaven or hell a home that shall be our own place In this world neither the wicked nor the Righteous are in their own places here for the most part the wicked and the ungodly have got the upper places the Children of God sit lower-most Dives sits at his table feasting and Lazarus lies at his Gate begging Beltshazars place here is a throne of Majesty and righteous Daniel a prison and a Den of Lions But it shall be quite otherwise when all by death enter into their own proper places in Eternity The worst places in the world are too good for sinners and the best in heaven are prepared for Saints who in Christ are blessed with all Spiritual blessings in heavenly places Me thinks this should be a very affecting meditation O my Soule where wilt thou be when thou art gone to thy own place when thou art removed from hence and shalt have left Husband and Wife and Children Neighbours and Friends and all these things that are seen where will thy abiding place be Where must I spend my Eternity which can indeed never be spent certainly if men would but use all diligence as the Apostle sayes they might come to know where their Eternal mansion shall be every man in this world may be said to chuse his own place in the world to come Joshua 24. 15. Chuse you sayes Joshuah to the Israelites whom you will serve but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Psa. 119. 173. I have chosen thy precepts sayes David he that chuses Christ for his Lord and King to be ruled by his word to be Sanctified and guided by his Spirit he consequently chuses heaven for his future habitation But you that here refuse to serve the Lord that will not let Jesus Christ reigne over you you that chuse your lusts for your Lords and walke after the flesh as a servant after his Master you that chuse Mammon for your Master and the world for your portion you turn your back upon heaven and run head-long to destruction you make a Covenant with death and an agreement with hell That there shall be your habitation what a gnawing worme will this be in the Consciences of wicked men for ever in hell to consider This is a place of our own chusing here is the same Company we chose for our acquaintance on earth we cared not for Communion with Saints nor fellowship with God on earth here we are sentenced to an everlasting separation from them we are justly miserable being made so by our own choice and consent volenti non fit injuria O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self Lastly proceed a little farther in thy meditations concerning Eternity what provision and preparation hast thou made for Eternity The fool in the Gospel applauded himself in this that he had much goods laid up for many years but nothing was laid up for Eternity hast thou been any wiser Faelix quem faciunt c. hath his woful Example item'd thee into more Carefulness what art thou provided with for thy long home in Eternity It is a commonly known true saying Ex hoc momento aeternitas The great weight of Eternity hangs upon this small wire of time time hath an influence on Eternity a few drops of bloud will discolour a great quantity of water the well or ill-spending of this moment of time will colour the great sea of Eternity into a white of happinesse or blacke of misery Thinke seriously of it Christians every action word or thought of thine will make thy Eternity better or worse My houres preaching and your hearing at this time will adde either to both our eternal happiness or to both our eternal miseries All that we now do will rebound againe upon us in Eternity As when we put a lump of Sugar into a cup of wine or water it falls presently to the bottome out of sight but there it dissolves and diffuseth it selfe over the whole cup and may be tasted in every parcel of it thus do all our actions sinke as it were out of sight and out of memory into the bottom of Eternity there they operate and effect either our happiness or misery which will be felt and tasted by us throughout all Eternity Every wound which thou now givest thy Soule by sinne kept never so secret now will then fall on bleeding openly and smarting Eternally O what miserable abused Soules will then be to be seen most cruelly hackt and hewen with sin all over full of bruises and putrified sores every good action and holy duty will then be seen blossoming forth Peace and Joy and Consolation Consider that place of the Apostle Gal. 6. 7 8. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Every man is a sower his actions are his seed this life is his seed-time Eternity is his harvest his reaping-time The husbandman that sowes oates does not expect to reap wheate his crop depends upon his seed Sirs Whatever you do now is but sowing to Eternity when you are hearing and praying you are sowing when buying and selling you are sowing when you are swearing and lying you are sowing and all these several sorts of seeds will certainly come up in Eternity doest thou ravel out thy time in vanity and sensuality and sin and yet look to be happy Eternally This is to sow thy field with oates or tare and to look for a crop of wheate If thy seed be sin thy crop will certainly be misery O! what an encouragement should this be to Saints to be fruitful and abundant in good duties in Praying Fasting Repenting for sin c. Although no present difference appears between him that prayes and pray not The good husbands ●a●d that is well sown yields at p●ese●● no more profit then the sl●gga●ds that is unsown and over 〈◊〉 with thi●●les and nettles the Husbandman w●it● until the time of 〈◊〉 ●omes You Harvest ●s 〈◊〉 then you 〈◊〉 have been ●owing to the 〈◊〉 shall reap life 〈…〉 Be abundan● 〈…〉 of the Lord For 〈…〉 rally shall reap liberally and he that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly And because all will rise again in Eternity ●o what you do accurately As that famous Painter Zeuxes being asked why he was so accurate in drawing all his pieces answered Pingo Aeternitati I Paint for Eternity You Pray and Hear and