Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	fire_n	ghost_n	holy_a	6,369	5	5.6726	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30669	The mystery of iniquity discovered to work in the children of disobedience whereby the pretended godliness of schismaticks appeareth to be the greatest ungodliness : in a cathedral-lecture at St. Peters in Exon / by Arthur Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6198; ESTC R43074	27,889	48

Spirit of light did again distil the now darker residue of the Chaos and refined its better part into the ethereal heaven the mansion of the Sun and Stars but this second days work is not expressed to have any blessing because the second number breaketh unity The Spirit of Light the third time invaded the yet darker deep and distilled the better part of it into air the rest remaining a thick water with a caput mortuum so all the darkest and horridest parts of the Chaos flying the Light were precipitated to the Centre and being not capable or not worthy of a new distillation the waters were so removed that some parts of the earth might receive the Light and furnish bodies for such living souls as the heavenly influences should kindle Thus we see in the work of Creation the best still kept highest and all the darkness of the Abyss fled to the Centre And as the world was created so is it still preserved by light and love which is the universall soul of the whole knitting the higher parts with the lower and maintaining life here with the continual influences from above and again tying the lower with such a band of love that all conspire the mutuall good This I might largely prove and confute the vulgar Philosophy which dreameth of a continual war between the elements and fancieth privation a principle of generation But I may fear to have already wearied some readers with these abstruser considerations I shall only remember this which every unlearned man may observe That the very air and water have so much love as to forget their own interest when a neighbour stands in need of their help That will descend and this will ascend to supply a vacuum which is the communicative part of love and again if the arrow or the ship make a violent division they presently hast to come together again which is the unitive part of love Only the earth is void of both parts of charity it will not communicate but sticketh to it self and as far as it can prevail freezeth the water to the same selfishness nor it loves not union but unless it be glued together with some moisture or hindred for want of place it crumbleth to pieces and all the love it hath even to it 's own children is kindled in it by the influences of heaven Thus from the work of creation which sheweth that as any thing is higher so it proportionably is filled with light love I am 1.17 it appeareth that strife is none of those good perfect gifts which are from above and come down from the Father of Lights but riseth from the uncharitable earth the seat of darkness 1 Iohn 2.9 11. Heb. 1.3 For he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness 2. The Son the Redeemer of the world is the brightness of his Fathers glory the express image of his Person Brightness is so expresly the image of Light that none but Philosophers know the one from the other and they tell us that brightness conveyeth light from it's fountain Christ came from heaven to bring heaven to us and us thither and he brought love as the means to reconcile God to us us among our selves The angels proclaimed his coming to be for this end that there might be peace on earth and good will both towards and among men the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth both This great business he promoted in all his Sermons and in all his actions and all his passions in his life at his death and after his death Taught to have a love so extensive as to reach our greatest enemies so intense as that which himself exemplifyed even to dy for one another This was his old and his new his first and his last his great and his peculiar and his critical commandment Iohn 13.34 c. and 15.12 c. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if you love one another Every disciple is known by the caracteristical precepts of his Master the disciples of Pythagoras by their silence the disciples of Plato by their sublime notions of Zeno by their apathy of Moses by their circumcision of the Sadducees by their denying the resurrection of the Pharisees by their broad phylacteries and mine by their love Their love which shall be more ardent and more large then any other in the world and that in so eminent a degree that all men even of the weakest understandings shall see and admire it Mens goods are known by their marks their Servants by their liveries soldiers by their arms and my disciples by their love And it shall be so conspicuous that all men shall see it All men know the Sun by his light and fire by it's heat the Aethiopian by his blackness and the Camel by his bunch and all men shall know my disciples by their love Thus was love Christs commandment his proper and peculiar commandment It was his commandment and it was his legacy He left a love-token to be remembred by which was not only a remembrance of his love to us but an embleme of our mutuall love among our selfs The bread which we break is the Body of Christ and teacheth us to remember that we are one bread and one body i Cor. 10.17 The same bread teacheth that he was broken for us and that we must be knit together among our selves This is the wisdome which cometh from above brought from heaven by our Saviour and by him recommended to us by all possible endearments Those practices which oppose this cannot be the cognizance of Christians of Antichrist they may be 3. When he left the world he took care to have this his dear commandment promoted in his Church by the Holy Ghost which the Apostle thus describeth Eph. 4 8. When he ascended on high he gave gifts to men Acts 2. viz. the gift of the holy Spirit whereby he installed Officers coming solemnly and visibly upon every of them in the likeness of flames of fire which resemble cloven tongues licking the air the Holy Ghost is Light too And these Officers were thus installed that they might kindle in the Church the flames of Divine Love That speaking the truth in love c. vers 15.16 i.e. That Love being the common soul of the whole Church might knit every several member with every other in one common affection and so the whole body Ecclesiastical grow up like a body natural whereof every member shareth with the rest as in one soul so in one interest and one affection To this office they were principally installed and this work they principally advanced No duty so often so ardently recommended as Love If the graces be compared the greatest of them is charity and above all we must have perfect charity If their titles be considered Love is the royal law the bond of perfection If vertues it covereth a multitude of sins it fulfilleth the law it