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	love_v	son_n	5,848	5	6.2157	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27499	The still-borne nativitie, or, A copy of an incarnation sermon that should have been delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster, on Saturday, December the five and twenty, 1647, in the afternoone, by N.B., but prevented by the committee for plunder'd ministers, who sent and seized the preacher, carried him from the vestry of the said church, and committed him to the fleet, for his undertaking to preach without the license of Parliament ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1648 (1648)	Wing B2018; ESTC R18366	26,917	36

dust preserve each atom and by a most inscrutable providence keep every more of that dust to the glorious resurrection And this although not comparable in it selfe to the glory of the soule yet hath in it an unspeakeable weight of comfort And therefore O My soul though I desire thee not to be so unnatural to cast of the body Yet learne to know a truer freind then my flesh Let thy care be to gain and keep Christ thy study to please him thy labour to serve him thy joy to know him thy greife to offend him thy suffering for him rather yea more then ever it hath been for this body of mine who will stay longer by thee prove kinder to thee then e're that hath been or is like to be And O My flesh though I would not have thee unreasonable yet begin to be sensible of a truer Guide a constanter keeper and a blesseder governour then ever my owne soule hath or will be to thee Let thy feet stand in the Gates of Sion or be running towards the house of God Let thy hands be working the thing that is good Let thine eyes be lifted up to the place where Christs honor dwells And let this be thy Covenant with them and make thy tongue to tell of his praise and speake good of his name that will restore all these left to corruption by the soul to become vessels of glory in the resurection of the just And in the meane time keepeth them that that not a haire of thy head shal be lost And O thou very God of peace who when thou beginnest to take into favour lovest with an everlasting love for such is thy Covenant into protection never leavest nor forsakest such is thy unchangeable nature so take my soule into favour my flesh into tuition that both being sanctified throughout My soule may long for thee my flesh may cry out for the living God! My Soule love thee as it is beloved of thee and my body serve thee as it is and shall be preserved by thee for ever Secondly when I contemplate the unity of Christ's person therein consider how near Man is brought to God I am enforced to acknowledge all promised Vnions of God to man possible all commanded Vnions of man againe to God reasonable The promised Vnions of God to Man are 1. Pastorall He our shepheard we his Flock 2. Oeconomicall he our Master wee his servants 3. Consanguineal He our Father we his Sonnes and Daughters 4. Conjugall he our Husband we his Spouse here his hride in the resurrection his Wife for ever and the like In the first his call and our following declares us one way In the second his command and our obedience one Worke In the third his tender care our dutifull honour one Generation or Kindred In the Last his holy desire and our chast submission one love And all these unions made easie even to faith by the Vnity of Christ's person He that gave us his sonne how shall he not with him freely give us all things The commanded Vnions of man to God are 1. Of Judgement that wee as he doth approve the things that are more excellent 2 Of Will for election that we as he doth desire truth in the inward parts and this is to chuse the better part 3. Of Affection that we as he doth hate the evill and love the good being merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful 4. Of Conversation that we be holie as he is holie perfect as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect that we purifie our selves as he is pure And all this is but to be one spirit as the Apostle saith He that is joyned to the Eord is one Spirit And good reason For God requires no more of us then St Paul did of the Galatians and upon the same ground Be ye as I am for I am as ye are O yee Sonnes of Men be ye as Gods And the Children of the most high for the sonne God is God yet for your sakes became the sonne of Man And O my Soule since thou hast no reason to doubt have faith to pray Philosophie ●ath taught thee That every Essence is an Vnity not only in number as opposed to multitude but even in nature as an undivided being the desire of which last Vnity is the cause of sorrow in the sense of division Thy sinfull and therefore wofull experience hath taught thee to feele thy selfe involved in the curse of Simeon and Levi to be divided and scattered But this Mystery is that which teaches thee by the Gospell to expect Vnitie as a gift to desire it as a benefit On therefore my soule take with thee words and say O Lord I am by sinne either a solitary wild Wolfe or at best a strayed sheep from the sold of peace but by this I know thou canst I hope thou wilt make the Wolf lye downe with the Lamb or cause thine owne immaculate Lamb the Lamb of God to take away that sinne which makes me a Wolfe in thy sight Or if a strayed sheep seeke O seek according to thy promise that which was lost and bring againe that which was driven away bind up that which was broken strengthen that which was sick feed me upon a good Pasture and on the high Mountaines of Israel fold me O my God I am by nature a fugitive or a Captive a Rogue or a slave without Master or under a cruell Master where my work is sin my wages death I sow the wind and reap the Whirlewind but O thou great Commander of all hearts who rulest by love and so makest thy service to be perfect freedome I want a service do thou entertaine me I am weary of my Old Master do thou redeeme me I yeild to thy Yoke accept thy condition embrace thy Covenant and for reward build upon thy courtesie Thy Gospel shall be my Indenture thy Sacraments the Seales thy sonne the Vndertaker of my truth thy Holy Spirit and my owne Conscience the Inward thy holy Angels and the World the Eye-witnesses of my fidelity Thy secrets I will keep Thy commands I will religiously obey Thy talents improve Thy goods not wast No contract will I make prejudicial to thy service For this purpose I yeild my Eare to the awle and doore of thy house bore it for I will not go from thee for ever O Lord my God my poore soule is by sin become either an Orphant to my sorrow or a Bastard to my shame either fatherlesse without God or of a faulty Father Iohn 8. 48. The first is the object of pity but the last of reproach Thou hast promised to succour the first but hast commanded thy doores to be shut against the last Thou wilt be a Father to the Fatherlesse but a Bastard shall not enter into thy Congregation to the tenth Generation O my God my soules substance is true borne as in thy Creation only since sinne an Orphan of grace the Child of wrath by nature