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	heart_n	life_n	6,559	5	4.3541	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02221	Memento mori, or, A word in season to the healthful, sick, and dying, fit for this calamitous time. Wherein sicknesses, rage, and deaths, are frequent. In which is discoursed, 1. That the present life of man is short. 2. That death is most certain. 3. That the time and way of death is uncertain. 4. Motives to prepare for death. 5. Some things to be done in preparation for death. 6. Some antidots [sic] against the fears of death. / By a minister of the gospel.	Clark, James, 1660-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing C4464; ESTC R171374	12,777	19

not what hour the Lord doth come therefore be ye also ready Though there were no more but this one command and advertisement from our Lords own mouth it is enough to make us think it our great concern to prepare for death and to alarm us agreeably to ply this great work Besides the motives we have already touched at viz That death is cer●ain and the time and manner therof uncertain we will offer a few more considerations to perswade and excite you to do what ye can to be in a prepared estate for approaching death We get many fair warnings and speaking memorials that we must die Are not sickness raging and deaths frequent through the Land At this day 't is observed there are far more Burials than Births few Families have escaped wherein there has not been either sick or dead When we go to Church or Mercat do we not miss many of our Friends Neighbours and Acquaintances that a few days or weeks before were wont to attend these publick occasions as we do and now where are they They are gone and their places of converse or residence knows them no more What is the language of this but hodie mini cras tibi What 's my fate to day may be thine to morrow Again we must die but once we have need to see that we do it well We say and do many things amiss in the ordinary course of our life which we may have leisure and helps to amend and rectifie but not to die well can never be helped now or never is the time of preparing for death for as the tree falls so will it ly if thou unhappily happen to die in a graceless unconverted estate without God and without Christ thou dies also without hope for there is no hope in the grave whither we go there is no more Preaching Faith and Repentance after time no more mercy to be expected of God no more mediation by Christ no more gracious motions of the Holy Spirit as life leaves you death will find you and as death finds you so will eternity treat you therefore it is the living ●he living must lay it to heart and that while they are in the land of hope for if ye die unprepared your hopes are afterwards out off for ever Eccl. 9.5 10. The living know that they shall die but the dead know not any thing Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest Isai 38.18 The grave cannot praise thee death cannot celebrate thee they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth Remember also that when the Harbingers of Death come though thou shouldest pray him with strong cryes and tears to spare thee yet a little while that thou mayest be better prepared ere thou go hence to be no more None of thy Reasons or Rhetorick will prevail to reprieve thee one moment his strict orders he must put to present peremptory execution one breathings respite I say thou needest not exp●ct For as it is Job 14.5 Thy days are determined the number of thy months are with God he hath appointed thy bou●ds that thou canst not pass it is impossible either to anticipate or transgress the set and definite time and period of Gods unalterable decree and appointment And is there not a great deal of strong reason ye should prepare for death even more than a parity with respect to other cares and con●erns this being the care of cares If ye have Debts or Accounts to give in to any that owes you will you not take time to Ex●ract them and to fit and set them in order Now have you not Counts to clear with God Are ye not deep in his Debt What innumerable debts of sins and debts of mercies and of time and other Talents are you in Arrears of to God And have you not just ground to expect that he will call you to an account Matth. 25.19 After a long time the Lord of these servants came and reckoned with them If you are to take a voyage or to go a journey are ye not concerned to provide for them And have ye not a far journey and dangerous voyage to go that are to land at times end in the astonishing Abyss of Eternity and perhaps knows not whether in Heaven or Hell If you are to come into the presence of a King of Clay will ye not as Joseph Gen. 41.14 put your selves in your best prepared dress you can and are ye to appear before the King of kings and will you not change your dirty raggs and put on your be●● ornaments If to engage in Battel will you not arm and prepare for your own safety And when to engage in the last Battel of the Soul at death will ye adventure naked and Armless Have not too many careless souls done so who when to die have been filled with sorrowful complaints and horrible out-cryes O time time Had I time again how busie and careful would I be to improve all my hours for better purposes than I have done specially in preparation for my last hour As on the contrary who ever repented their preparing for death None sure ever had reason for these who are prepared and in case to die well if God spare them are also in case to live well and prepared the better to improve every lot of life it brings not death the sooner that we much mind it and prepare for it Yea and not only may the wicked be filled with horror when to die unprepared but even many godly who have died under a cloud have lamented bitterly their not being actually so prepared as they ought to have been for they have found Satan then set most furiously upon them his time being short and they being short of some of their provisions against his assaults But though they may not be actually prepared so much as they should be yet being habitually prepared by their gracious and salvifick translation from death to life in their Effectual C●l●ing and Conversion they need not so much be in bondage for fear of death as those who are nothing prepared being in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity It is indeed a terrible thing for such to be surprized unprepared for they not being meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light when they enter the gates of death the gates of Heaven will be shut against them for ever and the gates of hell opened thereby to enter into everlasting torments prepared for them But ere I pass from this Head I would have no holy to think that when I am thus pressing preparation it is only upon the sickly or dying no no I exhort you who are in most established like health and vigor so to number your days as to apply your hearts to this piece of true wisdom for it will take our freshest health our strongest w●ts our outmost vigour as the