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	pray_v	prayer_n	6,987	5	6.6304	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26929	Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.; Farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure but forbidden	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing B1266; ESTC R4900	39,816	48

to lament immoderately when we lay the bodies of our friends in the grave because we see not whither the Soul is gone nor in what triumph and joy it is received unto Christ Which if we saw it would moderate our griefs And even so we over-pity our selves our friends in our temporal sufferings because we see not whither they tend and what will follow them We see Job on the dunghil but look not so far as his restoration Jam. 5.11 Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy There is no judging by the present but either by staying the end or believing Gods predictions of it Use It is allowable in Christs disciples to grieve in faith and moderately for any of his departure from them They that have had the comfort of communion with him in a life of faith and grace must needs lament any loss of that communion It is sad with such a Soul when Christ seemeth strange or when they pray and seek and seem not to be heard It is sad with a believer when he must say I had once access to the Father by the Son I had helps in prayer and I had the lively operations of the Spirit of grace and some of the joy of the holy Ghost but now alas it is not so And they that have had experience of the fruit and comfort of his Word and Ordinances and Discipline and the Communion of saints may be allowed to lament the loss of this if he take it from them It was no unseemly thing in David when he was driven from the Tabernacle of God to make that lamentation Psal 42 and 43. As the hart panteth after the Water brooks so panteth my Soul after thee O God My Soul thirsteth for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God My tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say unto me where is thy God O my God my Soul is cast down within me c. And Psal 84.2 3 4. My Soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God yea the Sparrow hath found an house and the Swallow a nest c. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house They will be still praising thee For a day in thy Courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a Door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness It signifieth ill when men can easily let Christ go or lose his word or helps and ordinances When sin provoketh him to hide his face and withdraw his mercies if we can senslesly let them go it is a contempt which provoketh him much more If we are indifferent what he giveth us it is just with him to be indifferent too and to set as little by our helps and happiness as we set by them our selves But we little know the misery which such contempt prepareth for Jer. 6.8 Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my Soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a Land not Inhabited Hos 9.12 Yea Wo also unto them when I depart from them When God goeth all goeth Grace and Peace Help and Hope and all that is good and comfortable is gone when God is gone wonder not therefore if Holy Souls cry after God and fear the loss of his Grace and Ordinances and if they lament the loss of that which dead-hearted Sensualists are a weary of and would drive away it will be the damning sentence Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity And therefore all that is but like it is terrible to them that have any regard of God or their Salvation Doct. 3. The sorrows of Christs Disciples are but short It is but NOW that they have sorrow And how quickly will this NOW doctrine 3 be gone Reas 1. Life it self is but short and therefore the sorrows of this Life are but short Man that is born of a Woman is of few days and full of trouble He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not Job 14.1 2. Though our days are evil they are but few Gen. 47.9 As our time maketh haste and posteth away so also do our sorrows which will attain their period together with our Lives As the pleasure of sin so the sufferings of the godly are but for a season Heb. 11.26 Now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1.6 The pleasures and the pains of so short a life are but like a pleasant or a frightful Dream How quickly shall we awake and all is vanished If we lived as long as they did before the Flood then worldly interest prosperity and adversity would be of greater signification to us and yet they should seem Nothing in comparison of Eternity For where now are all the fleshly pains or pleasures of Adam or Methuselah Much more are they inconsiderable in so short a life as one of ours Happy is the Man whose sorrows are of no longer continuance than this short and transitory life Reas 2. Gods displeasure with his Servants is but short and therefore his corrections are but short Psal 30.5 His anger endureth but for a moment but in his favour is life Isa 54.7 8. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Isa 26.20 Come my People enter into thy Chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast Thus even in Judgment doth he remember mercy and consumeth us not because his compassions fail not Lam. 3. He will not always chide nor will he keep his anger for ever For he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust Psal 103.9.14 His short corrections are purposely fitted to prepare us for endless consolations Reas 3. Our trial also must be but short and therefore so must be our sorrows Though God will not have us receive the Crown without the preparation of a Conflict and a Conquest yet will he not have our Fight and Race too long lest it overmatch our strength and his Grace and we should be overcome Though our Faith and we must be tried in the fire yet God will see that the Furnace be not over hot and that we stay no longer but till our Dross be separated from us God putteth us not into the fire to consume us but to refine us That when we come out we may say It is good for us that we were afflicted Psal 119.71 and then he will save the afflicted People Reas 4. The power of those that afflict Gods