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
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

be her inheritance whose worke was sinne and companion Satan let us therefore labour to espouse our souls to Jesus Christ who will here decorateus with grace and hereafter when he bring us home to his Palace he will cloath us with robes of glory and put a Crown of pure gold upon ou● heads in the kingdome of his Father Where God shall wipe away all teares from our eyes and Rev. 7. 17. we shall have happiness without any heavinesse light without any darkness and all this without any end Let us now commune with our own hearts and consider As there is a Pallace of glory so there is a dungeon of eternall miserie both receptacles for the souls of men the way to the one is pleasant but the journeys-end is most painefull the way to the other is paineful but the journeys-end is most pleasant the voiage is tempestuous but the arrivall is beyond al expression joyfull as it is written Eye hath not seen nor eare heard 1 Cor. 2. 9. neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him O then let not us sell this everlasting kingdome of glory for a cup of cold comfort a draught of deadly poison as Lysimachus sold his kingdome for a cup of cold water but as it is Satans heaven even in hell it selfe to bring wretched men into utter darknesse counting himselfe happy when he can make others like himselfe most unhappy So let it be our heaven on earth to fight against this cursed enemie under the banner of the Lord Jesus till we have beat down all his strong holds and utterly subdued him under our feet insomuch Rom. 6. 14. that sinne shall have no more dominion over us Now we must fight against this enemy in the Spring even in youth we must labour to walke in the paths of holinesse whilst we are able to run in the wayes of wickednesse we must serve our best Master in our best daies least we offer up the best of our service unto the worst and the worst of our service unto the best if Satan hath had our Magnificat all our daies God wil scarce accept of our Nun● Dimittis at the last gaspe if our soules are dedicated at first to Satan as his Synagogue it is to be feared they will never be consecrated to God as his Sanctuary Grace will hardly be courted by the old man which was rejected by the young and he shall scarce winne her in sicknesse or on the death-bead who did not woo her in perfect health if God come in youth and find no fruit beware the fig-rrees curse Never fruit grow on thee hereafter Mat. 21. 19. Manna is to be gathered in the morning and grace to be embraced in youth As Solomon whose heart was the Throne of wisedome and whose tongue was made up of harmonie adviseth us saying Remember now Eccles 12. 1 thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou Frangas citius quam corrigas quae in malum induruerunt Quintilian shalt say I have no pleasure in them It is il graffing upon an old stock and to put the Nectar of vertue into the old stincking Cask of vice is as impertinent as to put new wine into old botles therefore while we are young men let us cast off the old man with his works and put on the new man the Lord Jesus Christ who of 1 Cor. 1. 30. God is made unto us wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption Would we then embosome our selves in Christ do we desire to behold a gracious mercie-seat in the midst of a just tribunal let us humble our selves under the mighty hand of God that he may 1 Pet. 5. 5 6. exalt us in due time casting all our care upon him for he careth for us He forgetteh not the cry Psal 9. 12. of the humble it climbes the batlements of Olympus and wrestles with God till it obtaines a blessing it pierceth the clouds of the air and by the strength of Christs out-stretched arme it dispells the clouds of Gods displeasure and cause●h the light of his countenance to shine upon us miserable sinners Now therefore I beseech you that are my dear friends and old acquaintance Ubi nullus metus ibi nulla religio Psal 2. 11. to set Gods mercie his justice evermore before your eyes the one to keepe you from presumption and the other from despair serve the Lord Mal. 3. 14. with fear and rejoyce with trembling Say not within your selves it is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we keep his ordinance and that we walk mournfully before the Lord of Hostes O what greater deformity is Quid indecentius quam curvum recto corpore gerere animum Bern. in Cant. Ser. 14. A praefinibus arcendus est hostis Sen. there then to have such crooked souls in upright bodies But I hope better things of you shew your valour therefore by driving the enemie back in the frontiears deal with your sinnes as the Pygmies deal with the Cranes crack them in the shel sin is as the Sea if it once make but a small breach it threatens a great deluge that which first seems but a peccadillo may at last without deception of sight be seen in a multiplying glas●e Non est securum inter serpentes dormire Hieron it is not safe to sleepe among serpents Peccatum dulce in faucibus tormenmentum invisceribus Aug. nor slumber in transgressions for they which run the hazard commonly like men stung with Aspes they hasten to death not feeling their dying but are dead before they thought themselves to have been sick Sin is indeed a poisonous pill sugred and candied over it is sweet in the mouth but Peccati dolor et maximus et aeternus est Cicero Attic. sowre in the maw pleasent to the sense but destructive to the soul the taking of it is delicious but the operation deadly for if Rom. 8. 13. ye live after the flesh ye shal die but if ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live Though wickednesse Job 20. 12. 13. 14. saith Job be sweet in his mouth though he hide it under his tongue though he spareit forsake it not but keep it still within his mouth yet his meate in his bowells is turned it is the gall of Aspes in the midst of him He forsakes his own mercie Lay Jonah 2. 8. Iam. 5. 9. your hands therefore upon your hearts behold the Judge standeth before the door Jesus Christ is ready to descend in a Throne of clouds to judge the world and if ye have not your Quietus est in the soul before death with a cold hand presents one to you in the body eternally miserable must ye be When the righteous shall at the great day and