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	live_v	mortify_v	7,524	5	11.3904	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30139	A discourse of the building, nature, excellency, and government of the house of God With counsels and directions to the inhabitants thereof. By John Bunyan of Bedford.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5510; ESTC R215887	24,619	67

coming of the Lord. 9. To entertain Good Men let 's not forget Some by so doing have had benefit Yea for to Recompence this act of theirs Angels have lodged with them unawares Yea to encourage such a work as this The Lord himselfe makes it a note of his When Hungry or when Thirsty I have been Or when a Stranger you did take me in Strangers should not to Strangers but be kind Specially if conferring Notes they find Themselves tho Strangers here one Brotherhood And Heirs joynt Heirs of Everlasting Good These should as Mothers Sons when they do meet In a strange Countrey one another greet With welcom come in Brother how dost do Whether art wandring Prethee let me know Thy state Do'st want or Meat or Drink or Cloth Art weary Let me wash thy Feet I 'm loth Thou shouldst depart abide with me all Night Pursue thy Journey with the Morning Light. X. The way of reducing what 's amiss into Order here ALtho this House thus honourable is Yet 't is not Sinless many things amiss Do happen here wherefore them to redress We must keep to our Rules of Righteousness Nor must we think it strange if Sin shall be Where Vertue is do'nt not all men plainly see That in the holy Temple there was dust That to our very Gold there cleaveth rust In Abrahams Family was a Derider I' th' Palace of a King will be the Spider Who saith We have no Sin doth also say We have no need at all to watch and pray To live by Faith the Flesh to Mortify Or of more of the Spirit to Sanctify Our Nature All this wholly needless is With him who as to this has nought amiss But we confess 'cause we would not be Liers That we still feel the motions and desires Of Sin within us and should fall away Did not Christ intercede and for us pray We therefore do conclude that Sin is here But that it may not to our shame appear We have our Rules thereby with it to deal And Plaisters too our deadly Wounds to heal And seeing Idleness gives great occasions To 'th Flesh to make it's rude and bold invasisions Upon good Orders 't is ordain'd we see That none dwell here but such as workers be So plain's the Law for this and so compleat It bids who will not work forbear to eat Let then each one be diligent to do What Grace or Nature doth oblige them to Who have no need to work for Meat or Cloath Should work for those that want Not that the Sloath Of Idleness should be encouraged But that those poor indeed be Clad and Fed. Dorcas did thus and 't is to sacred Story Committed for her praise and lasting Glory This House then is no Nurse to Idleness Fig-Trees are here to keep and Vines to dress Here 's work for all yea work that must be done Yet work like that to playing in the Sun The Toyl's a pleasure and the Labour sweet Like that of David's Dancing in the street The work is short the wages is for ever The work like me the wages like the Giver No Drone must hide himself under those Eaves Who sows not will in Harvest Reap no Sheaves The sloathful man himself may plainly see The Honey's gotten by the working Bee. But here 's no work for Life that 's freely given Meat Drink and Cloth and Life we have from Heaven Work 's here enjoyned 'cause it is a pleasure ●ice to suppress and augment Heavenly Treasure Moreover 't is to shew if men profess The Faith and yet abide in Idleness Their Faith is vain no man can ever prove Hee 's right but by the Faith that works by love If this good Counsel is by thee rejected If work and labour is by thee neglected If thou like David lollest on thy Bed Or art like to a Horse pamper'd and fed With what will fire thy Lusts and so lays Snares For thine own Soul when thou should be i' th' Wars Then take what follows Sin must be detected And thou without Repentance quite rejected This is the House of God his Dwelling-place 'T is here that we behold his lovely Face But if it should polluted be with Sin And so abide he quickly will begin To leave it desolate and then wo to it Sin and his Absence quickly will undo it And since Sin is of things the worst of all And watcheth like a Serpent on a Wall Or flyeth like an Eagle in the Air Or runs as desperate Ships void of all care Or as great Solomon hath wisely said Is as the way of Wantons with a Maid Who tick and toy and with a tempting giggle Provoke to lust and by degrees so wriggle Them into their affections that they go The way to death so do themselves undo As it is said This mischief to prevent Let all men watch yea and be diligent Observers of its motions and then flie This is the way to live and not to die ☞ He that would never fall must never slip Who would obey the Call must fear the Whip God would also that every stander by That in the Grass doth see the Adder lie Should cry as he did Death is in the Pot That many by its Poyson perish not But if that beastly thing shall hold its hold And make the man possessed basely bold In pleading for it or shall it deny Or it shall seek to cover with a lie Then take more aid and make a fresh assault At it again diminish not the fault But charge it home If yet he will not fear But still unto his wickedness adhere Then tell the house thereof But if he still Persist in his abomination will Then fly him 'cause he is a leaprous man Count him with Heathens and the Publican But if he falls before thee at the first Then be thou to him faithful loving just Forgive his sin tell it not to a Brother Lest thou thy self be serv'd so by another If he falls not but in the second charge Spread not his wickedness abroad at large But if thou think his sorrow to be sound Forgive his sin and hide it under ground If he shall stand the first and second shot If he before the Church repenteth not Deal with him as the matter shall require Let not the House for him be set on fire If after all he shall repent and turn To God and you you must not let him burn For ever under sence of sin and shame You must his sin forgive in Christ his name Confirm your love to him in Christ you must By all such ways as honest are and just Shy be not of him carry 't not alooff But rather give him of your love such proof ●hat he may gather thence ye do believe ●o mercy Christ again doth him receive Two things monish you as to this I would The first to shew the Church wherein she should ●n all her actions so her self