Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	sin_n	7,861	5	4.4662	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09511	The poore mans appeale In a sermon preached at Leicester assises before the judges. By T.P.	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1620 (1620)	STC 19791; ESTC S100747	21,164	34

your reward in Heauen Earthly Monarches thinke they goe far when they speake like Herod euen to the halfe of my Kingdome And what a poore thing is that Not an inch in the mapp and in the forme of the Heauens nothing The goodly houses they bestow are but as Childrens Kings halls made of shells and dust and what pleasures the Courts of Princes can afford vs Heb. 13. let Moses refusall tell vs pleasures of sin common to vs with beasts and but for a season for a moment But whom God exalts and aduances hee rewardes with his owne kingdome a kingdome of glory his owne cittie a cittie of pure gold in that mansion to remaine with him at the same Table and yet higher to sit with him vpon the same throne Apoc. 3. This is more then euer was Omnis potestas impatiens consortis And Pharoah to Ioseph his prime fauorite Lucan onely in the throne I will be aboue thee What might be added of the high nature of those ioyes which the Angels enioying doe adore and of their eternitie At his right hand are pleasures for euermore To giue vs heauen if wee could doe his Law were Iustice high enough though but for one instant of time but when it is added For euermore it is Iustitia in excessu in excelso too T' is Iustice at the Highest And finally no lesse admirable is the Power of God which is so high in him sayes Beza it makes him euer Agent and neuer Patient and that can neuer cease being the same it is Bellarmine would proue the Popes supremacie by his twelue great names giuen him by his Parasites more easie were it from Scripture recounting the glorious names of God as also from his miracles to draw vp this Power to a supreame head But it is a beaten way and a subiect so full that who euer handles it cannot choose but handle it well I will onely instance in that height of Power which is exprest and prooued by place Power terrestriall is declared by ascending to thrones and if exaltation be measured so then the Lord alone as Esay sayes shall be exalted For hee dwells sayes Esdras aboue the Aire super altitudinem aëris 2. Es 6. Nay super altitudinem coelorum a second super aboue the height of the heauens 2. Es 4. That is a maine height For who can find out the height of Heauen sayes Syracides the pride of the height as hee termes it Ecclus 43. I but there is another super yet aboue the heauens and the heauens of heauens What aboue all I farre sayes the Apostle gone vp on high farre aboue all heauens Ephes 4.10 The Queene of Sheba viewing the high throne of Salomon of which the Text sayes There was none like it in any kingdome 1. Reg. 10.20 and obseruing all his royaltie Non habebat vltra spiritum shee was astonished But an higher than Salomon is here For Salomon in all his royaltie was not clothed like the Lillit of the field much lesse like the Lord of Heauen who dwells in light inaccessible and cloths himselfe with light as with a garment As Salomon had no such roabe so no throne like Gods For he prepares his throne in Heauen sayes the Psalme Solium excelsum a throne high and lift vp Esay 6. a glorious high throne sayes Ieremie 17.12 Before which throne all thrones are cast downe sayes Daniel for it is a fire flaming aloft and towring vp higher than the highest Now as the throne so is the Power of God that the embleme of this And therefore King Dauid will not repent his kneeling to God Psal 95. For as he adds the Lord is a great God and a great King aboue all Gods Nor will Salomon for all his owne highnesse rob God of his honour but stand to the title which he hath giuen him here It is no more than right He is a King euen Rex regum a king ouer all kings and higher than the highest Most high aboue all the earth and much exalted aboue all Gods Psal 97.9 But of what vse is this Title for vs Vses of manifold vse We may draw all to Timor Amor Feare and Loue. First Feare and that first in gesture when wee present our selues before him It is exacted by himselfe We may beleeue him when he sweares it I haue sworne by my selfe sayes the Lord that euery knee shall bow to me Repeated in Rom. 14.11 Esay 45.23 And hee giues vs such examples as we cannot refuse Christ Iesus himselfe who best knew this height the infinite distance betwixt the Creator and the creature as hee was most humbled in soule so he profest it in lifting vp his eyes to Heauen in prayer in kneeling falling on his face The glorious Angels adore with couering their faces and falling downe before him The Church begins her Lyturgie with that inuitement O come let vs worship and fall downe and kneele before the Lord And yet I know not how it comes to passe we seeme many of vs ashamed of doing this reuerence to God Hic homo erubescit timere Caesarem said Macaenas So rude is our behauiour and such a sacrifice of fooles we offer him as if we neither thought vpon our owne condition which is but dost and ashes with one blast disperst past gathering vp againe nor remembred him to be our God for then we would not stand like Elephants or stonie Pillars in his Temple but prostrate our selues and thinke no abasement too much not the lowest being done to him that is the Highest So in our tongues secondly forbearing that sawcinesse and familiaritie some vse in Prayer wherein as the heart must be Faith so the lungs would be Feare least it catch an heate So coole a forme is that of holy Church Graunt vs O Lord those things which for our vnworthinesse we dare not presume to aske Remember sayes Salomon God is in Heauen and thou on the earth Let thy words be warie and few The same feare should possesse vs when we speake of or sweare by his name not vainely falsely For holy and reuerend is his name 2. Vse Amor Loue And this is natiue and radicall in the very temper of oursoules and as a sparke would breake to flame but that the world and the Diuell choake and keepe it downe and this fraile corruptible masse weighs downe the immortall spirit for these two are contrary one to another The bodie of the earth carthie but the soule from heauen heauenly tho forced like the Sunbeames to conuerse with filth and dost yet haeret originisuae cleaues still in affection to God and hath restlesse motions of desire to returne to him that made it but clogd with sinne and feebled in all her powers shee must begge and wait now a superinduction of graces that so being stablished in faith and rooted in charitie and borne vp by the assistance of Gods spirit as by the wings of a Doue she may flye vnto her rest