Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02183	Short rules sent by Maister Richard Greenham to a gentlewoman troubled in minde for her direction and consolation, also very necessary for euery Christian to be exercised withall: vvith directions for a Christian life.; Garden of spirituall flowers. Selections.	Greenham, Richard. aut	1612 (1612)	STC 12324; ESTC S116702	4,951	1

Short Rules sent by Maister Richard Greenham to a Gentlevvoman troubled in minde for her direction and consolation also very necessary for euery Christian to be exercised withall VVith directions for a Christian life 1 THose Temptations shall be laid to your charge wherevnto you haue yeelded c. yeeld not therefore but resist as S. Iames biddeth 2 No motion shall hurt you wherevnto you giue not consent in hart You haue no sinne which in heart you long to be freed from you want no goodnesse which in heart you couet to haue Rom. 7. 3 Where sicknesse is at the highest there is hope of diminishing so likewise in temptation 4 It is a great mercy of God to discerne a temptation in time of temptation 5 When you would doe any good or receiue any good offer vp your endeauours actions and meanes in a Sacrifice to God in Christ beseeching God to giue his holy Spirit to sanctifie his owne Sacrifice 6 If you haue receiued but a little release of temptation giue thanks and you shall haue more 7 It is a sinne as well to deny Gods gifts as to presume of them 8 Temptation smothered as fire burnes more inwardly 9 Be perswaded alwayes you are in the presence of God and his Christ and frame your actions accordingly 10 Be more afraid of secret sinnes then of open shame lay this foundation sure that there is mercy with Christ Iesus 11 Remember the former mercies you haue receiued and thinke your present estate to be none other then the estate of Gods Children if you be grieued pray to God if relieued praise him there is a vicissitude of griefe and comfort as of light and darknesse 12 Beware of a discontented minde in any case yea be contented to haue your desires denyed you of God and if your prayer be not heard of God vexe not your selfe too much neither vehemently couet nor be grieued for any thing sauing the hauing or losse of the fauour of God 13 Labour for meekenesse and patience and be ready to kisse the rod and to offer vp all to him of whom you haue receiued your selfe for if you struggle it will fare with you as with a Byrd in a Grin the more she striueth the faster she is We must vse the word in troubles and temptations as a sicke man doth his Meate which though hee eate against his stomacke presently feeleth no benefit of it yet we know by experience it doth him good and himselfe afterwards shall perceiue it 14 The patient bearing of misery is an acceptable sacrifice to God for when the Goldsmith putteth a peece of gold into the fire to make better vse of it it seemeth to the vnskilfull that hee vtterly marreth it So the children of God in affliction seeme to the iudgement of the naturall man vndone and brought to nothing but spirituall things are spiritually discerned 15 Beleeue alwayes your estate to be the worke of God and vary not therein for your humiliation your consolation the glory of God and the good of many others 16 Beware that you doe not often alter your iudgement of your estate as saying sometimes it is Gods worke sometimes melancholy sometimes your weakenesse and simplicity sometimes witchery sometimes Sathan for these diuers thoughts will much trouble you you may thinke melancholy to be an occasion but no cause and so of the rest Therefore looke stedfastly to the hand of God surely trusting on this that he not onely knoweth thereof but that whatsoeuer is done directly or indirectly by meanes or immediately all is done and gouerned by his diuine prouidence for your good 17 Say not you cannot be helped for that may hinder the worke of God Say not if I were in such a place and such a place I should doe well for God is infinite and therefore euery where aswell where you are as where you would be 18 Whereas in consideration of the falling away of many excelling you both in the ages and graces of the new birth you feare you shall not perseuer vnto the end your meditation and collection is good so long as it preserues you from the carelesnesse of the flesh but it is euill when it should dissolue the assurednesse of your faith Indeed so long as you looke vpon your selfe you haue cause of feare because you are vnable to prolong as you are to begin new birth but if you looke to God you haue nothing but matter of faith for that whom he once loueth he loueth for euer Againe as a man that swimmeth in the deepe waters is neuer in danger of drowning so long as his head continueth aboue the waters So though you swimme in deepe seas of dangerous temptations yet are you sure and secure because Christ Iesus your head is still aboue all troubles and therefore is able to draw you his member to the shore of saluation without all perill of perishing 19 Beleeue that God the Father doth gouerne your temptation that the holy Ghost shall and doth assist you that Iesus Christ was tempted to ouercome in you that the Saints on earth doe pray for you euen those which neuer knew you but doe pray for the tempted ones 20 None can iudge of the worke of the spirit but by the light of the spirit as none can iudge of the Sunne but by it selfe 21 Dispute not with God least you be confounded nor with Sathan least you be ouercome 22 Be euer perswaded your punishment is farre beneath your sinne 23 In such multitudes of Gods mercies as you enioy meruaile not you haue some Crosses God sends blessings with crosses least we should dispaire likewise crosses with blessings least wee shoud presume 24 In any outward blessing which you see you cannot haue beseech God you nay neuer be vexed for it 25 No shame griefe or sorrow pleaseth the Lord which goeth altogether seperated from a sweet perswasion of his fauour Againe our pleasing our selues in the assurance of pardon is not acceptableto God which altogether reiecteth the care of espying bewa●ling and auoyding of sin Wherefore let this be the barre ●nd bond of your affection in these cases so long as Christ goeth with you so long as the mercies of God accompany you so long as the grace of the spirit shineth vpon you be dea●●ng with your sins and condemne them vnto death Likewise while you are tender of conscience afraid of sin reuerently perswaded to walke holily with your God laugh at Sathans accusation despise destructions and set at naught the terrours of Hell You neuer erre one way nor other but by fayling of one or both these points That is either in your griefes you are grieued without comfort or in your ioyes you reioyce without reuerence whereby it fals out in the end that as in vnnecessary griefes you can finde no spiritual pleasure so in vnaduised ioyes you can finde no spi●●tuall profit 26 It is the policie of Sathan to blinde and beset with a quiet possession of an vniust mirth