Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91010	A bundle of myrrhe. Or Several sweet truths spiritually unfolded under these following heads. 1. Mercy magnified. 2. Practical graces. 3. Christs humiliation. 4. Certainty of salvation. Published by H.P. minister of the Gospel.	Prime, H.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3458; Thomason E1476_1; ESTC R209523	20,540	61

First Gods act ordained or put the subject matter us the end whereunto amplified by antithesis Not unto wrath but to obtain salvation the means whereby his decree was executed By our Lord Jesus Christ Or thus the Author of the decree God the nature of the decree appointment or ordination putting unto salvation amplified by the contrary not unto wrath the object of the decree Paul and the believing Thessalonians us In that Paul pleads his and the believing Thessalonians exemption from Gods Ordination to wrath and his and their appointment to Salvation observe we That our freedom from perishing and our appointment to eternal life may be known and we infallibly made certain so as to profess our knowledge therein This is the peculiar joy of the Disciples of Christ that their names are written in heaven Luke 10.20 not that they may not rejoyce in other things so they rest not in them separate from this but their proper joy is not temporal grace or mundane glory but eternal salvation which begins in Gods election which if they know not how shall they rejoyce in it The Apostle grounding the security of Christians against the sense of their corruptions within and crosses without in Gods benefits to the Elect his justification secures them from accusation of all other and Christs intercession from condemnation Gods love in Christ from all adverse power in respect of separation from life How shall this be applied but by knowledge of our election Rom. 8.33 c. Paul knoweth his own salvation and his election unto it and professeth his knowledge Rom. 11.2 Peter calls upon us to make our election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Election to life and freedom from ordination to wrath may be known two ways ordinary besides the way of special revelation 1. By the testimony of Gods Spirit who assuring our adoption doth thereby assure our predestination to the adoption Vse For use it is onely sent into the hearts of sons and heirs of God Gal. 4.6 And it secureth their hearts against fears that arose of former bondage that with liberty of spirit they call God Father with great certainty as appears in the doubling of the Word And knowing themselves for the present the sons of God as they wonder at Gods love so they are sure they shall he glorious like Christ at his appearing and as they know their salvation with eternal glory they know their election thereunto because none are glorified but the predestinate 2. Election may be known by the proper effects of it of which a judgement may be gathered in a mans own soul to assure his heart before God and to give him boldness As the Apostle gathers the election of others 1 Thes i. 4 5. 2 Thes 2.13 from the appearing effects wherein God manifests his purpose of saving them at least probably so may we by the evidence of the same grace to be in truth in our selves Psal 65.5 as causing to come to God by true conversion and to Christ by Faith so as we are new creatures are made meet for Gods use and fitted for our part in the lot of the Saints in light perceive the power of Gods Ordinances in us satisfying us with the pleasures of his house purging our selves from Errors and Vices 2 Tim. 2.21 1 Ioh. 3.3 purifying our selves as Christ is pure and cleaving with purpose of heart and with love of soul to God and his doctrine in Christ Generally all the good that God doth to us concerning our salvation as effectual grace with the right use of it is the effect and so an evidence of election Would God do such things for us shew us such things receive our offerings if he went to destroy us would a wife man bestow lace and trimming on a filthy rag to cast it to the Dunghil Vse Seeing we may know Gods good will determining of us for good Psal 106. it serves First to stir us up to seek this of God and to mark the voice of his Spirit in our hearts when we hear the Gospel and when we pray to him and with all to acquaint our selves with graces peculiar to the Elect and prove our selves whether we have them in us It is profitable to be certain both for thanksgiving to God and for kindling love that may move us effectually to live to him and to rest our souls in fears and want of present things Fear not little flock it is your Fathers pleasure to give you the Kingdom Luke 12.32 It is profitable also even for humility to know that all the reason of our differing from other is Gods good pleasure he had no respect of any thing in us of the profit of the knowledge of Election after Secondly This serves for confutation of Papists that hold no certainty to be had ordinarily of a mans election while he lives here because this is a depth unsearchable Romans 11. vers 33. To which it may be answered That the reason is unsearchable but the thing is revealed to Gods children what his will is to them by the Spirit that searcheth the deep things of God or because a man cannot be certain of his Faith and Justice to be true or if he could yet they are not proper to the elect but are given to reprobates who continue not in them and none know they shall have perseverance To which it may be answered That a man may know his Faith and Justice such as he may know he is not reprobate 2 Cor. 13.5 If so then he may know he is elect he may know his grace so far as to assure his heart before God to have boldness in the day of judgement and his perseverance he knoweth by Gods promise Jere. 32.40 his faithfulness 1 Corinth 1.8 9. by Christs merit and intercession by the Spirits sealing unto the day of Redemption Object Object But we are commanded to fear Sol. Sol. Fear to sin but withal to trust perfectly to give diligence to full assurance of Faith unto the end hold the confidence and rejoycing of our hope fast For God hath not appointed us As this stands for an Argument to excite the will to the choosing and pursuit of these graces to furnish us for the good fight observe we That the certainty of our salvation under the seal of Gods decree is an incentive to vertues no occasion of looseness It provokes to the study of Faith and Love and puts on the care of all holy means and endeavors tending to accomplish Gods appointment Col. 3.12 13. As the elect of God holy and beloved put on c. 2 Peter 1.3 4. 1 John 3.2 3. Revel 19.7 God hath joyned life and godliness vertue and glory Gods image is a great part of our glory 2 Cor. 3. Gods decree is to the means and to the end it is to save by sanctification of the Spirit and Faith of Truth chosen us to be holy Ephes 1.4 To obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ through