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	show_v	son_n	5,912	5	5.7697	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08578	An alarm to all impenitent [s]inners. Or, [T]he spirit of bondage raised up in judgement and allayed in mercy. [D]eclared in a short treatise of the sweetnesse of God's love discovered in the bitterness of his wrath. / [B]y Humphrey Browne ...	Browne, H. (Humphrey)	1650 (1650)	Wing B5114A; ESTC R173186	28,861	90

thy mercies and calledst home thy lost sheep into the fold I ran astray out of Gods field into Satans inclosures but the great Shepheard of my soule recall'd me as an object of his loving kindness who might have been a story of his vengeance therefore by his assistance will Isa 12. 1. I say O Lord I will praise thee thought thou wast angry with me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me Where God is there is heaven for in his presence is the fullness of all joy and at his right Psal 16. 11. hand are pleasures for evermore Quicquid mihi vult dare Dominus meus auferat totum se mihi det Aug. in Psal 26. Nothing is sweet besides God whatsoever the Lord will give me let him take away all from me and give himself to me It was the saying of one of King Cyrus his favourites I care for nothing Cyrus is my friend better far may a sanctified soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say so of God I care for nothing yet I enjoy all things because God is my friend in respect of whom I may say with Job to all my other friends miserable comforters Job 16. 2. are ye all Now God is a friend to none but in and through Jesus Christ the Father embraceth none but such as kiss the Son with a kiss of love and homage God me thinks Psal 2. 12. speaks unto us as Joseph to his brethren Ye shall not see my face except Gen. 43. 3. your brother be with you except Jesus our elder bother be with us we cannot behold the smiling countenance of God as a Father though we may to our terror behold his frowning look and austere but as a Judge Therfore as the two Cherubims Ex. 25. 20. looked one towards another but both towards the mercy-seat So albeit we look in this blasphemous and licentious age one towards another as being contrary in judgement yet we must al look towards Jesus Christ if we look for mercie there is no mercie-seat but in him God is no hearing God no helping God at all without him for it pleased the Father Col. 1. 19. Col. 3. 11. that in him should all fulness dwell He is all in all God the Father is covered with a cloud where the glorious beames of his Sonnes love have no reflection Christs presence turnes earth into Heaven and without it earth nay Heaven it self were a very Hell A naturall man pitcheth his Tent in this sublunary world but a Spiritual man centred in Christ soares higher he is with Saint Paul caught up as 't were into the third heaven he is not where he is but his love is where his Lord is as Origen speaks of Mary Magdalene Maria ibi non erat ubi erat quia ibi tota erat ubi Magister erat Origen seeking her Lord at the Sepulchre supposing to have found the Lord of life in the place of death A precious soule whom Christ hath kissed with the kisses of his mouth and betrothed unto himself in righteousness and in judgement Cant. 1. 2. Hose 2. 19. and in loving kindness and in mercies such a one I say tramples Cui Christus incipit dulcescere necesse est amarescere mundum Bern. Ser. in Cant. the world under foot for having heavenly promises he nothing regards earthly pleasures though his worke be here below yet his master and treasure too are above here onely is his pilgrimage but there is his home his inheritance where he need feare no Councell of State Committees or Sequestrators Psal 125. 1. to desturbe him no no he shall be as mount Sion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever His Saviour is his strong tower and Castle of defence he may not therefore fear the siege no not the storm of an enemie though Hyaenae instar cadaveribus delectatur he deligheth to give Ambros Psal 79. 2. the dead bodies of the Saints to be meate unto the fouls of the aire and their flesh unto the beasts of the earth Lift up thine heart then O Psal 38. 4. thou afflicted soul though thine iniquities are gone over thine head and as an heavy burden they are too heavy for thee yet Mat. 11. 28. they are are not too heavie for him who hath promised to ease thee for as the Poets faine that Atlas bore heaven on his shoulders thy Redeemer is willing to beare the hell of thy transgressions on his heavenly shoulders He sweet Jesus dranke the bitter cup of his Fathers wrath that we might drink deep of the sweet cup of his Fathers love he was contented to drink vineger of grief here on earth that we might drink Mat. 26. 29. new wine of glory with him in the kingdom of his Father As Marius being accused before the Roman Senate of treasō against the State came and shewed his wounds saying quid verb a loquar vulner a ●●quntur why should I use any ●ords unto you in my defence ●y wounds declare my love and ●y blood as flowing Rhetorick ●ay perswade you to a firm be●●ef of my loyalty so the wounds ●f the Lord Jesus demonstrate ●is love quot vulner a tot ora every ●ound is a mouth to speake how ●eare and pretious we are in his ●ight He trode the wine-presse Isa 63. 3. ●lone he became the sonne of man despised and rejected of men a man of sorrowes and acquainted Isa 53. 3. with grief that man mighr become the son of God cry boldly Abba Father Where Rom. 8. 15. ●he Apostle useth an Hebrew and Greeke word both signifying the same thing to shew that Jew and Gentile have no salvation but by the spirit of adoption in and through Jesus Christ Gods mercy is the Arke that saves us from drowning in the deluge of destruction but Vu●nus Christi Ostium Arcae th● Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 15. c. 26. wound of Christ is the door ● the Ark Christs merit is the do● of the Arke of Gods mercy an● his death is of greater efficacy t● Multo efficacior Christimors in bonum quā peccata nostra in malum c. Bern. our good then our sins can be t● our hurt he is more powerfu● to save then Satan to destroy● his power and will both are i● league where he is in love O then is any one sick her● Mat. 9. 12. is physick for him is any heart● Cant. 2. 5. faint here are flagons of win● to comfort him Is any conscienc● wounded here is balme of Gi●lead to heale it The Lord dot● proclaim himself by the mout● of Jesus to be mercifull and gracious Exod. 34. 6 7. long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth● keeping mercie for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression● and sin All our sinnes are but as a● drop to the Ocean of Gods mercie● saith Fulgentius Yet let no man presume for the same