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	reap_v	sow_v	14,782	5	11.5940	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54077	A weighty question, proposed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament together, with some queries about religion, for the good of mens souls, that they may seek after, and be established in that which gives life / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1220; ESTC R18887	4,751	10

becomes of the man there with all that springs from him where is his wisdom where is his former Worship what becomes of all his Forms of Religion do they not all moulder and come to nothing and he become as a little child to be formed again in the Power of Life and born of the Spirit of Life that he may enter into God's Kingdom Do not all the old things pass away and new things spring up from the Seed of Life which God sows and preserves in the hearts of his by his Power Now who is wise to understand these things who hath the Key to open the Mysteries of Life who knoweth the times and the seasons the times and seasons of Forms and the times and seasons of Life and Power Who seeth what God is about to do in the world and prepareth his heart for his administrations on the earth Who is a friend to God and to mankind and willing to travel in spirit out of this dark corrupt earthly state of things into the heavenly nature and being where man was at first from whence he came out of which he departed and can never be happy till he return thither again and can never return thither by his own strength and reason but only by the power and leadings of God revealed in him in an inward Principle of Life And he that will follow this must first feel it in his heart and then turn his back upon the earthly nature and wisdom and war against his own corrupt reasonings in and with the Light of the Principle of Life as it ariseth and is further and further made manifest in his heart through the Grace and Mercy of God which thereby offereth its help to miserable lost man to redeem him out of his misery and undone estate Man hath a time to hear allotted him by God and when that time is over it is determined concerning him He is a Seeds-man in this world and what he sows here he must reap hereafter He soweth either to the flesh or to the Spirit either to his own will or to Gods will He followeth either the ways of his own heart or of Gods spirit He either feels the power of Religion and is renewed thereby and fitted for God or contents himself with a form without the Power and in effect remains what he was He that is renewed he that is changed in heart and life he that soweth to the will and nature of God shall inherit life with God He that liveth in a form of Religion without the power and followeth the vanities of his own mind going out of this world unrenewed and unfitted for God shall be cut off from God and lie down in sorrow and anguish of soul where he will bitterly bewail his mis-spent time and the losing of his souls life and happiness for the injoying of a few earthly lusts and pleasures suitable only to the earthly nature and spirit in its corrupt and degenerated estate O man whoever thou art that art drowned in the lusts and pleasures of this world which answer only to the sensual and corrupt part O remember that thou hast also a precious soul which wants redemption by the power of God to make thee happy And one day this soul will be awakened in thee and when it is awakened it will feel its want of God This is the day of Gods stretching out his Arm to thee O slip it not out for if thou dost Terrible will the day of thy awaking be and thy misery unavoidable and intolerable And if now the pains of thy body be so dreadful to thee what will the tearings of thy soul be by the wrath of the Almighty Lay it to heart and retire inwardly seeking to feel somewhat of God gathering and guiding thy soul out of thine own worldly nature and spirit into the nature and life of his Spirit that thy soul at present seperated from God and drowned in the earth may return to and be happy in the center of life from whence it came For there is a center of souls as well as of the earthly nature and the spirit of man returneth to God that gave it as well as the body to the earth And then the Lord appointeth it to its proper place which is according to the nature it is found in If it be Wheat if it be of the renewed nature if it hath taken up the Cross and followed Christ in the Regeneration then he gathereth it into his Garner If it be of the chaffie nature of the earthly spirit the mind remaining unrenewed and unreconciled to the Nature of God then to the unquenchable fire even to the fire which will burn and scorch unquenchably and to the worm which dieth not but gnaweth perpetually and bringeth to mind all the former vanity nis-spent time to encrease the heat and flames of the fire O where is the soul that if it were not wholly bewitched and lulled into a dead sleep by the stupifying spirit of this world would run so great a hazard for the enjoying of a few momentary pleasures in the sensual part and lose thereby the inward enjoyment of Peace and Reconciliation with God here and of the pleasures of his Kingdom of true Glory afterwards Now for a close let me say one word in the upright love and true good-will of my heart to this present generation that they may consider and take heed if possibly if possibly it is this Even as a Father after the flesh is tender of the Children he begets according to his nature and would not suffer them to be wronged or destroyed if he could help it So is the Lord tender of those whom he begets in the Nature of his Life and in his due season will appear for them as surely as he is God and as surely as he hath begotten them out of the worldly nature unto himself by the Spirit and Power of his Life Therefore O touch not any whom the Lord hath in the least measure anointed with his holy oyl For what is done unto the least of these poor naked sick imprisoned ones c. he looketh upon as done unto himself Because he is one with them in the sufferings of their flesh whom he hath made one with himself in Spirit THE END