Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	law_n	mind_n	7,026	5	6.6163	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54841	Empsychon nekron, or, The lifelessness of life on the hether side of immortality with (a timely caveat against procrastination) briefly expressed and applyed in a sermon preached at the funerall of Edward Peyto of Chesterton ... / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2182; ESTC R33405	28,827	44

accurate and logicall Analysing of the words as would but serve to divert you from the scope and drift for which the holy man Iob did make them a part of his Preaching and for which I have chosen them to be the subject of mine own but shall immediately consider them as an entire Doctrinall Proposition exhibiting to us both the frailty and frame of man and the reason of the one implicitly rising out of the other Man is born of a woman there 's his Frame He hath but a short time to live there 's his Frailty He hath but a short time to live because he is born of a Woman there is the reason of his Frailty from the condition of his Frame Nor is He attended onely with vanity but vexation of spirit As Iacob said unto Pharaoh His Dayes are evil as well as Few However empty of better Things yet from the Bottom to the Top I mean from his Birth unto his Buriall he is Repletus miseriis fill'd full of Trouble And yet by way of Application we may reflect upon the Text in a threefold Antithesis For To Man as born of a woman we may oppose the same Man as being Regenerate and born of God To the very short life he hath by Nature we may oppose the life eternall he hath by Grace And to his fullness of misery whilst he is here in the body we may oppose his Fullness of Bliss and Glory But first let Man be consider'd in his Hypogaeo that is his state of Declination as he is born of a woman and having a short time to live and that for this reason because he is born of a woman For t is a Maxime in Philosophy which never fails That Generable and Corruptible are Terms convertible It is demonstrably proved that we must one day Dye because we did one day begin to live All that is born of a woman is both mixt and compounded after the Image of the woman of whom 't is born not onely mixt of the four Elements but also compounded of Matter and Form And all things Compounded a must be dissolved into the very same principles of which at first they were compos'd Hence are those pangs and yernings of the flesh and the spirit of the Appetite and the Will of the law in the members and the law in the mind b the one Inclining towards Earth from whence 't was taken and the other towards Heaven from whence 't was sent The truth of this had been apparent if it had onely been taken out of Aristotle's Lycéum but we have it confirmed out of Solomon's Portch too for in the Day when man goeth to his c long home when the grinders cease and the windows be darkened and all the Daughters of Musick are brought low when the silver cord is once loosed and the golden Bowl broken so as the mourners are going about the streets d Then the Dust shall return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God who gave it When God himself was pleased to be born of a woman he submitted to the conditions of our Mortality and had we know but a short time to live for He expir'd by Crucifixion before he was full thirty four as his younger e Brother whom we commemorate before he was full thirty three Man hath a short time indeed as he is born of a woman because he is born of a woman for as it presently follows in the verses immediately after my Text He cometh forth as a f Flower and as a flower he is cut down He flyeth also as a shadow and continueth not And therefore Epictetus did fitly argue the very great fickleness and frailty of worldly things first because they were g made and therefore had their beginning Mark is Threescore and Ten if Moses himself hath set it right Or place it further at fourscore farther yet at an hundred the life of man we see is short though it should reach the very utmost that Nature aymes at But how many wayes are there whereby to frustrate the Intentions and Ends of Nature How many are there buried before their Birth How many men's Cradles become their Graves How many rising Suns are set almost as soon as they are risen and overtaken with Darkness in the very Dawning of their Dayes How many are there like the good King Iosias like righteous Abel and Enoch and that laudable Person whom now we celebrate who are taken away † speedily from amongst the wicked as it were in the Zenith or Verticall point of their strength and lustre It is in every man's power to be Master of our Lives who is but able to despise his own Nay 't is in every one's power who can but wink to turn our beauty into Darkness and in times of Pestilence how many are there can look us Dead by an arrow shot out of the Eye into the Heart For one single way of coming into the world how many are there to go out of it before our Time I mean before Nature is spent within us Many are sent out of the world by the Difficulties and hardships of coming in We are easily cut off even by eating and drinking the very Instruments and Means of Life Not to speak of those greater slaughters which are commonly committed by Sword and Famine which yet must both give place to surfet Death may possibly fly to us as once to Aeschylus in an Eagle's wing Or we may easily swallow Death as Anacreon did in a Grape We may be murder'd like Homer with a fit of Grief Or fall like Pindarus by our Repose we may become a Sacrifice as Philemon of old to a little Iest Or else as Sophocles to a witty Sentence We may be eaten up of worms like mighty Herod Or prove a Feast for the Rats like him of Mentz A man may vomit out his Soul as Sulla did in a fit of Rage Or else like Coma may force it backwards He may perish by his strength as did Polydamas and Milo Or he may dye like Thalna by the very excess of his Injoyment He may be Provender for his Horses like Diomedes Or provision for his Hounds like Actaeon and Lucian Or else like Tullu● Hostilius he may be burnt up quick with a flash of Lightning Or if there were nothing from without which could violently break off our Thread of Life and which by being a slender thread is very easily cut asunder we have a thousand Intesline Enemies to dispatch us speedily from within There is hardly any thing in the Body but furnisheth matter for a Disease there is not an Arterie or a Vein but is a room in Natures work-house wherein our Humors as so many Cyclops's are forging those Instruments of Mortality which every moment of our Lives are able to sweep us into our Graves An ordinary Apoplexie or a little Impostume in the Brain or a sudding rising of the Lights is enough to make a