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	jesus_n	lord_n	17,123	5	3.7490	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36377	The right use of an estate briefly directed and urg'd in a sermon lately preacht to a person of quality upon his coming to be of age / by Theophilus Dorrington.	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1683 (1683)	Wing D1950; ESTC R33460	42,593	62

is the direful end of a wicked Life and thus will the Wretch be used at last who abuses his Portion here 3. By the abuse of your present enjoyments you encrease the mutability of them at least with respect to your selves You make your changeable Condition here more liable to change if you do not use it well a man must use a vessel of Glass with more care than he need to do one of Iron The loss of your enjoyments during Life or by Death may be caused or hastened by the abuse of them That Estate which might afford a man comfort and pleasure through a long life a few years of extravagant expences will make an end of the deepest Bag has a bottom and you may observe by other men that the greatest Estate if it be not wisely and moderately used may in a little time be thrown away The Glutton and the Drunkard shall come to Poverty and Drowzieness shall cloath a man with Raggs sayes the wise man Prov. 23. 21. Again By means of a whorish Woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread Prov. 6. 26. He shall be served just as the Prodigal in the Parable first gull'd and drawn dry of all his Wealth and to that purpose may be highly flatter'd and carefully pleas'd and humour'd and when he is poor shall be despised as much and kickt out of Doors and then like him he may have the honour to serve Swine or be preferr'd to dine with them These sins when a man becomes addicted to them do naturally bewitch him with a strange carelesness of all his Affairs and tend to make him most lavishly prodigal He cannot keep his expence upon them within any other bounds than necessity forces As long as his own Estate will administer to him or others will lend these wild sins can find occasion for expence The excessive and intemperate use of sensual pleasures weakens and gluts the Appetite and he that so uses them can never have so high a Relish and sense of them as he may that is moderate Foolish men through their greedy desire of Pleasure destroy the thing they love The Rich Glutton cannot take so much delight in his highest delicacies as the hungry Labourer does in his course fare By Excess too men destroy themselves they turn food into Poyson and bring themselves to misery by their pleasures It blasts the health of their body and fills them with uneasie distempers and hereby their lives are made miserable and their death is hastened After a few tedious and groaning years they drop betimes into their Graves Sobriety and moderation are the most effectual means to cherish the health and life But a man must begin and practise them from his youth that they may have this effect 'T is late to begin it when you have corrupted the blood and evaporated the spirits and contracted distempers the Jewel health is much more easily kept than recover'd when 't is once lost Poverty Sickness and Death the great Enemies of your Pleasures are the natural Consequents of the intemperate use of them But besides these evils may be expected to follow this from the just judgment of God As he is highly offended at every abuse of his gifts he may testifie that displeasure by taking them away from you or you from them Consider careless Sinner that you continually provoke the righteous God to put an end to all your Mirth and Pleasure every irregularity you are guilty of deserves this and perhaps does hasten intended Vengeance The more you abuse the Patience of God the more unlikely do you make the continuance of it Now consider these things but a little and the folly of a lawless intemperate Life will most plainly appear is it not an unparalel'd folly to purchase a little wild Mirth at the dear rate of a miserable remainder of Life and a hasty Death Alas how little of the Pleasures of this Life do you enjoy who are so soon overtaken by Distempers what delight can a Man take in his dainties when his sick Stomach nauseates them what Pleasure is there in Musick when the Head akes or is affected with a Frenzy or a Lethargy what delight has the Sinner in his most pleasant Sins when he lies languishing in a Bed his feeble Limbs not able to support him and there he is rotting alive the remembrance of them is rather vexatious than pleasant whe● the pains he feels were contracted by them How little of the Pleasures of Life do they enjoy that soon dye are cut off in the midst of their dayes and carried out to be laid in the Dust Methinks if there were no other Argument for Temperance the Love of Pleasure should perswade to it Consider too how sad and uncomfortable that Death will be which you are conscious that your selves have hastened when you think how many years longer in a course of nature you might have lived and now are called hastily away from all that you have loved and delighted in Thus do careless Sinners pursue their own Misery and Vexation when they allow themselves a boundless gratification of their Lusts and seem to be only in the pursuit of Pleasure let it therefore be your resolution and care so to use this World as not abusing it Now I have finisht both the intended parts of this Discourse I have shown you how to behave your selves in the use of your present enjoyments towards God and towards your Neighbour and your selves and the motive which the Spirit of God thought worthy to perswade men thus to use these things I have illustrated what success this Discourse has upon the Reader I know not but doubtless the great God observes either it will reclaim or withhold thee from the Vices of a mad Age or make thee more guilty in following them after having received another Exhortation to the contrary Thou dost not in tend perhaps to run into the great extravagances mention'd but yet art unwilling to observe the strictness of Rule but consider that sin is very apt to encrease that the small degrees of transgression allow'd make way for greater and they make it just with God and provoke him to give thee up to such a high degree of sin as may severely punish its self Consider this general Rule which I have explain'd and urg'd is the Command of Almighty God thou canst not willingly break it without Offence to him 't is of no less consequence to observe or slight it than to enjoy his favour or incurr his displeasure Oh think how easily he can crush the bold offending Worm think what a danger he is in who stands exposed by his Crimes to the Divine Vengeance Dread the invincible thunder of his Wrath Think what Vengeance is due from God to him who makes his Advantages to do much good the means to do much evil who contradicts the end of God in the Gifts that he has bestowed on him and has been only the more wicked for the Bounty of God towards him who to gratifie his own wanton and unnecessary Appetites has often Offended what severe Punishments must such a Sinner deserve Consider that this general rule directs you to use your Portion with Credit and Comfort to make your Life as happy in what you have as that can make it to improve your Portion to the best advantage It directs to such a course as will render your passage out of Life easie and chearful attended with a quiet mind with the applauses of a good Conscience and all your good Actions will then afford you comfortable thoughts and reflections It directs you so to use your Portion as to make your Death as much lamented by others as welcome to your self so as to embalm your Name and make your Memory blest and praised to Posterity This rule directs you to such an use of your present enjoyments as will be matter of Consolation to you in the other World matter of eternal satisfaction and joy when the good deeds which you wrought here shall there be eternally rewarded I think then the Reader may easily conclude I have been pleading with him in his own behalf for himself and his own interest I have been urging nothing but what Self-love together with Wisdom would chuse Who would think it should be a Presumption in me to imagine that in such a case I shall prevail with many can it be a difficult thing to perswade Men to that which is their own Interest but alas it does too often prove so Blinded by Lust and Temptation men will not see their true Interest in the clearest discovery that can be made of it God alone can effectually open the eyes of men to understand that and incline their Wills to chuse and pursue it to him therefore I commit the Reader with this Prayer O Thou that art the Father of Lights and who workest in us both to will and to do according to thy good Pleasure grant I beseech thee that the mighty power of thy Spirit may attend these Instructions and effectually perswade every person that reads them to receive and practise them do thou teach them to deny all ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live Godly Righteously and Soberly in this present World Let these Rules be planted in many Hearts and from thence be abundantly fruitful in good works to their Happiness and thy Glory the great ends of my ambitious but weak endeavours Grant this Oh Lord for the sake of Jesus Christ our Saviour to whom with the Father and the Spirit be ascribed Kingdom Power and Glory for ever Amen FINIS Deut. 8. 3. Prov. 15. 1. Juv. Satyr 14. Davenane Gondib. Canto 6. Eph. 4. 28. 1 Tim. 5. 6. 1 Cor. 13. 6. Jer. 52. 16. Seneca Thyest Act. 2. Chor. Du Moulin of Contentment Eccles 1. 4 Psal 49. 17. Eccl. 12. 5. Prov. 1. 24. to the end