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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88585	Love's letters, his and hers, to each other, a little before his death.	Love, Mary, 17th cent.; Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3166; Thomason E646_6; ESTC R208751	4,189	8

leaving you on earth where are three of my Babes those two above need not my care but the three below need you●● It comforts me to think two of my Children are in the bosom● of Abraham and three of them will be in the arms and care of so tender and godly a mother I know you are a woman of a sorrowfull spirit yet be comforted though your sorrows be great for your Husbands going out of the world yet your pains shall be the lesse in bringing your Childe into the world you shall be a joyfull Mother though you be a sad Widow God hath many mercies in store for you the prayers of a dying Husband for you will not be lost to my shame I speak it I never pray'd so for you at Liberty as I have done in Prison I cannot write much but I have a few practicall Counsels to leave with you viz. 1. Keep under a sound Orthodox and soul-searching Ministry Oh there are many deceivers gone out into the world but Christs sheep know his voice and a stranger they will not follow attend any Ministry which teacheth the way of God in truth and follow Solomons advice Pro. 19.27 Cease to hear instruction that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge 2. Bring up your Children in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord the Mother ought to be a Teacher in the Fathers absence Pro. 31.1 the words of his Mother taught him and Timothy was instructed by his Grand-mother Lois and his Mother Eunice 2 Tim. 1.5 3. Pray in your Family daily that yours may be in the number of the families who do call upon God 4. Labour for a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price 1 Pet. 3.4 5. Pore not on the comforts you want but upon the mercies you have 6. Look rather at Gods end in afflicting then at the measure or degree of your affliction 7. Labour to clear up your evidence for Heaven when God takes from you the comforts of Earth that so as your sufferings do abound your consolations in Christ may abound much more 2 Cor. 1.4 8. Though it is good to maintain a holy Jealousie of the deceitfullnesse of the heart yet it is evill for you to cherish fears and doubts touching the truth of your graces If ever I had confidence touching the grace of another I have confidence of grace in you that I can say of you as Peter did of Silvanus I am perswaded that this is the grace of God wherein you stand 1 Pet. 5.12 Oh my Dear Soul wherefore dost thou doubt whose heart hath been upright whose walking hath been holy c. I could venture my Soul this day in your Souls stead such a confidence have I of you 9. When you finde your heart secure presumptuous and proud then pore upon corruption more then grace but when you finde your heart doubting and unbeleeving then look upon your grace not on your infirmities 10 Study the Covenant of Grace and Merits of Christ and then be troubled if you can you are interested in such a Covenant that accepts purposes for performances desires for deeds sincerity for perfection the righteousnesse of another viz. that of Jesus Christ as if it were your own Oh my Love rest thou in the love of God in the bosome of Christ 11 Swallow up your will in the will of God It is a bitter cup we are to drink but it is the c●p our Father hath put into our hand when Paul was to go to su●… at Ierusalem the Christians could say The will of the Lord be done Oh say you so when I go to Tower-hill The will of the Lord be done 12. Rejoyce in my Joy to mourn for me inordinately argues that either you envy or suspect my happinesse The Joy of the Lord is my strength Oh let it be yours also Dear Wife farewell I will call thee Wife no more I shall see thy face no more yet I am not much troubled for now I am going to meet the Bridegroom the Lord Jesus to whom I shall be eternally married 13. Refuse not to marry when God offers you a fair opportunity but be sure you marry in the Lord and one of a good disposition that may not grieve you and one of a comfortable livelihood in the world Farewell Dear Love Farewell and again I say Farewell the Lord Jesus be with your Spirit the Maker of Heaven and Earth be a Husband unto you and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be a Father to your Children So praies From the Tower of London the 22. of August 1651. the day of my Glorification Your dying yet most affectionate Friend till death Christopher Love