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	lord_n	7,515	5	3.6414	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76826	The condemned mans reprieve, or Gods love-tokens, flowing in upon the heart of William Blake, a pentient sinner, giving him assurance of the pardon of his sins, and the enjoyment of eternall happinesse, through the merits of Christ his saviour. Recommended by him (being a condemned prisoner for man-slaughter within the statute) unto his sister, and bequeathed unto her as a legacy.	Blake, William, prisoner in \"Exon Jayle\"	1653 (1653)	Wing B3154; Thomason E705_18; ESTC R207110	9,122	16

THE Condemned Mans REPRIEVE OR Gods Love-Tokens flowing in upon the Heart of WILLIAM BLAKE a penitent Sinner giving him Assurance of the pardon of his Sins and the Enjoyment of Eternall Happinesse through the Merits of Christ his Saviour Recommended by him being a condemned Prisoner for Man-slaughter within the Statute unto his Sister and bequeathed unto her as a Legacy Galathians 6. 14. 17. God forbid that I should glory save in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world LONDON Printed by Richard Bishop Anno Dom. 1653. The condemned Mans Reprieve Gods tokens of Love sealed and lockt up in the heart of a Saint by the Spirit of God with the key of Love The riches of Gods grace flowing in upon the soul of a Saint expressed with joy and thankfulnesse to his abillity finding himselfe unable to speak what sweet tast what infinite consolation he finds in Christ Iesus VVHat tempests what fiery darts of Sathan have been thrown at me what wounding of conscience what flames of Hell fire flashing in my face upon remembrance of my sinnes which I have acknowledged to my God in prayers and tears how long did I pray and desire others to pray for me before I could finde comfort how long did the Devill lead me away captive in sins which I knew not to be sin when I thought I had comfort and it was no true comfort till thou O my most lust and Loving God didst by the convincing power of thy Spirit discover to thy poor creature his own emptinesse and vilde condicion by nature I had both selfe love and spirituall pride within me how willingly would the Divell have posted mee to Hell with those sinnes hadst not thou O my God humbled me and made me see my self in the looking glasse of thy Word with thy Spirit I was meere vanity as the dust that fleeth away I confesse to thee my most just God my repentance was not true my sorrow and tears thou regardest not because I was selfe till thou threwest me down in my selfe and madest me humble I perceive thou delightedst not in mee nor had I such delight as now I blesse thy Name I do find and doe here set down in writing to the praise of thy Name to the exalting the eternal infinite mercies of thee my Eternal Loving God in Jesus Christ living in me to the sole praise of thy Name how long was I under the spirit of bondage how long did I fear the grand enemy of mankind the Devil but Lord thou hadst compassion upon me when I was afar off and how sweetly at last in the midst of tears and groans didest thou come and refresh my fainting soule with a still low but sweet voyce Sonne be of good choar thy sins are forgiven thee how often Lord hast thou turned my tears of sorrow into tears of joy what comfort hast thou given mee in my prayers when I found by faith in thee comfort from thee how hast thou strangly and powerfully with faith in the Lord Jesus taught me to pray unto thee with thine own Spirit how hath my soul often melted into tears from the apprehensions of thy Love and many manifest tokens of thy Love thou hast put my tears into thy bottle my heart makes an ekko as thou emptiest it so thou fillest it again and every heart-tear sounds a heart-filling joy Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted oh what a calm doe I feele in my soul in my meditacion of thee and yet Lord when I look back upon the World and my own natural thoughts and consultacions with flesh and blood what rough tempestious waves do arise in my mind but Lord I trust in thee and did I not constantly servently call aloud to thee in my prayers Lord help me or I perish it were impossible I should be saved and how could I find such joy in tribulacion didest not thou keep up my heart by true saving Faith in thee my God in and through Jesus Christ the true consolacion of my poor soul in this weak creature O my God I cannot expresse thy Love to my poor soul it is infinite I am but finite I can but wonder and not enough thou breathest into me full streams of thy Love how doth my soul earnestly desire to empty it selfe in thee the more I expresse to thee the more thou fillest me how lovingly dost thou refresh my soul with thy blessed Spirit and how blessedly my soul yeeldeth to the love of thee my Love by thy Love in me my Love my Joy what melody do I hear what sweet low musick doth thy Spirit sound in my heart O that thou wouldest make it an Instrument that it live yet till it breath forth its sound and praises to thy Name name me for one of thy faithful servants to whom thou intendest to say well done my good and faithfull servant Lord not my will but thy Will be done by me thy poor and unworthy servant on Earth as it is in Heaven Lord I am thine do with me what thou wilt Lord let mee heare thy voyce let me know it that I may run willingly if thou call presently let me be ready with my wedding garment to meet thee sweet Jesus if thou bid me stay give me patience let thy Will be done by me in me with me doe what thou wilt Lord I am thine command willingnesse in me to obey thee in all thy Commands command what thou wilt my faith is such in thee thou wilt enable me thou wilt not forsake them that trust in thee Lord my trust is wholly in thee Lord thou knowest I am feeble and weak but thou art strong and powerful oh my God uphold me with thine Almighty power that I fall not from thee I am vilde and impure mutable but oh my God thou art holy and just pure unchangable immutably good my cheifest good my God I am uncertain but thou art certainly my most mercyful God my wayes are not like thy wayes O that thou wouldest direct my feet according to the revealed Will of thee my God but O my God I have not kept thy Statutes I have walked out of the way in the Wildernesse of sin but sweet Jesus thou sweetly tellest me thou art the way the truth and the Life I will therefore lay hold on thee thou hast promised me thy Love I am thine stay me I am sick thou art my life comfort me or I shall die warme my soul that it cool not cherish me my Love my heart will elce fayl me O God make me constant faithfull as thou art faithfull give me more golden apples of thy Love give that I may give thee the praise of thy Love give me yet more of the riches of thy grace that I may be liberall to others as thou art liberall to mee expresse more of thy Love to me that I may extoll thee in my expressions to others who are thy

Saints and Servants who are part of my life thou hast made us one in thee and thou art one in us thou art the Vine we but branches O make us fruitfull water our hearts bathe our souls in the Ocean of thy Love open the Fountain of thy Love that we may swim pleasantly in the streams of thy Love till we come to thee the water of Life the head Spring of all our joy with thee for evermore O my God what joy doe I already see by the eye of my Faith I know not where I am I see but dim light but my comfort is I shall come to more glorious light I shall one day see thee perfectly enjoy thee more fully I feel the reflexes and the glittering Sun-beames of thy Love sweetly warming my soul my eyes are watery with looking up to thee the very apprehension of thy Beauty the Sun-beames of thy Love force teares from my eyes thou art the cause I weep and joy of my weeping thou makest mee weep with thy Love I am sick with thy Love and thou healest me with it thou emptiest and fillest me thou throwest me down and liftest me up how doth thy Love play with my soul and how doth my soul play and delight it selfe with thy Love my Love my Joy hide not thy selfe from me but hide me in thee let mee finde thee alwayes in mee that I may alwayes finde my selfe in thee let me heare thy voyce pronouncing me faire then shall I enjoy all thy hidden treasures all thy vast possessions all thy sparkling Beauty glorious Holinesse divine Wisdom make sure to me thy promises thy all-in-all in me that I may be all in thee who am thine What need I fear that have thee for my Defence that hast made mee more then a Conqueror through thee therefore I shall want nothing who shall lay any thing to my charge being thou hast freed me from my sins what should daunt me or discourage me that doe enjoy thy Love thou possessest my soul and defendest me from my enemies with thy power What shall separate mee from thee who art my God and I am thy creature the Law cannot pronounce me cursed for my Saviour hath kept it for me and so pronounceth me blessed I am no more my own I am Christ's and he is mine he died for mee he hath mortified sin in mee he hath subdued my sins in me I finde no more pronenesse to sinne my desires are made conformable to thine I desire no longer to live in my selfe but in thee my Christ I regard not iniquity in my heart the love of my Christ makes mee loath my selfe and my base corruptions I have a base esteem of my selfe I have a perfect hatred of sin that I see lives in me I live not in it the death of my Beloved that once died for mee hath mortified my sinnes they have no rule over me my Love my Christ is my Ruler by his Spirit I can accept of no other Guide though sinne be in me yet I am out of my sinnes in my Christ O World O Flesh O Divell let mee alone you have nothing to doe with me let me serve the Lord my God for I am his I was yours too long get you gone I command you in the name of my beloved Christ though it be true that I did often transgresse the Law yet my Saviour he hath pleaded for mee he hath procured a pardon for all my sinnes and sealed it he hath set his hand to it and hath put it safe lockt up with the key of his Love in my heart by his Spirit all the Divels in Hell can never get it from me I fear not you can but kill my bodie you can doe no more the Lord will raise me up again at his comming and then my corruptible bodie will be made incorruptible and this bodie which is mortall shall be made immortall and glorious then will this his Spirit which bids me write here come againe and own me by the vertue of my Beloved shall I be raised up again to meet the Lord my God with joy and rejoyceing to the praise and glory of his great and holy Name this is true for Christ himselfe in whom only I trust for Salvacion hath told me so whatever you plead against me it is to no purpose for I have a righteous Advocate at Gods right hand nay further I have Gods discharge within mine own heart which is my acquittance you have nothing to require O Law but death the wages of sinne that pray take whensoever it pleaseth God you shall have it as for my soul my God by his free Grace hath clasped it in his armes of mercy I am his darling his jewell J see plainly that he delighteth in mee hee lives in me by his Spirit and I in him by my Faith although I have I confesse broken the Law yet Jesus Christ kept it and he hath satisfied the justice of God it makes as much to my discharge as if I had kept it my selfe as my Saviour was beloved of God the Father so am I through faith in him You 'l say I transgresse the Law daily in thought word or deed I say no it is not I but sin that dwelleth in me I have a bad neighbour but Christ will give mee patience and courage to war against my enemie it shall have no power it may take the best Saint cowardly and unawares but I blesse God I have strength from Christ by his Spirit that beats him out of doores he lodgeth not in my heart I have no room but for my Love my Christ I am wholly his and hee is mine for should I regard iniquitie in my heart the Lord would not heare my praiers I see by the eye of my faith that I am freed from sin though not free from sinning I will rejoyce though sin dwell in my flesh O my beloved Christ I see there is more good in thee for me then there is evill in sin against me O my eternall God thou art more pleased with mee thy poore creature for my Christ thy Son's sake then ever thou were displeased with me for my sins sake O my God I lay them all open before thee I confesse and forsake them to come to thee my God for mercy thou hast promised mee forgivenesse forsake me not my God for I am resolved by the assistance of thy Spirit never more to forsake thee do not thou leave me comfortlesse but support me by the Almighty power of thy Spirit within me how odious doth sin appear to my soul how fain would the enemy of my soul undermine it and weaken my faith in thee what strivings and subtill temptacions hath the Devil to ensnare the soul of thy Servant if he could how fearfull am I when I think of any thing but thee be thou therefore the continual meditacion of my heart how fearfull am I to look on orcommune with the World or the vanities of the World least they