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	john_n	17,081	5	6.2026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28184	The non-pareil, or, The vertuous daughter surmounting all her sisters described in a funerall sermon upon the death of that vertuous lady, Elizabeth Hoyle, late wife of the worshipfull Thomas Hoyle, alderman of the city of Yorke / by that godly and reverend divine, Mr. Iohn Birchall ...	Birchall, John.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2940; ESTC R6101	31,968	42

ones upon earth even unto those that do excell in vertue and excell in grace Should a man come unto every man and unto every woman in this place and ask them this question vvhat kind of persons have the highest roome in your soules whom d●e you most highly prize and most dearly love this is a most sensible thing and b●ing applyed will come close unto the quick is it a gracious man yea or no is it an excellent man in praise yea or no if it be not from God I tell thee this day that the Lord marks thee out this day for a bad man what can be more plain then that in 1 J●h 3. 10. by this is manifested a chi●● of God and a child of the Divell a child of God is one that loves God an●●●rk●s righteousnesse and he loves his brother especially his brother in ●race above hi● b●●ther in n●tu●e why ye must live with those whom ye love Oh this child of God that is now dea● she loved the Saints of God while she lived and the●e●ore now she lives with the Saints of God being dead This loving of the br●th●e● is not as the cause why we are in a blessed state for so Christ is but as an evidence so indeed it is This for the second Use Use 3. The third Use is to perswade good men bad men all men to come unto God and to get much from God even to excell in grace that so at de●th they may be able to say in truth what our Saviour said for pe●fection Oh saith he in John 17. 1. Fa●her I have finisht the work which thou gav●st me to d● now therefore F●ther gl●rifie me There was a work given him to doe and a work given him by God this work must be done it was so then he prayes Now therfore Father glorifie me So the Lord hath given thee and given me a work to do a work in generall a work in speciall a work to do a work to finish and it is the work which the Lord hath given us now then let it be thy indeavour to finish it and then when death comes thou maist pray in truth as thy Saviour did for perfection Father the worke which thou gavest me to doe I have done it yea Father I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do now therefore Fathe● glorifie me And here now take both the means for this and also the Argument to it 1. For the means whereby we may come excell in g●ace for this is thy glory and this is thy commendation they are these three 1. The Lord Christ the Fountain of grace 2. The spirit of Christ the Author and Work●● of grace some speciall and particular graces of Gods spirit And 3. the right making use of the meanes of grace For the first of these to wit Christ the fountain of grace Would a man have grace yea would a man be full of grace why the Text tells us that there is a fulnesse of grace in Christ and of his fulnesse we must all receive grace for grace And would a man indeed be excellent let him labour in a speciall manner to be filled with Gods Spirit oh that evill jearing spirit that is in persons against Gods Spirit at any time at their best leisure let them read what I would commend unto them and they shall finde in the book of God that when it is said that such a man did something that was excellent then the text tells us that the Spirit of God was upon him and the Spirit of God filled him Sampson was a strong man yet when he did any admirable act of strength you shall find that the Spirit of God stirred him up Elijah did great great things but then the Spirit of God came upon him Elisha also did great things but then the Spirit of God came upon him So in Luke 1. there it is said that the Mother of John was filled with rhe Holy Ghost and the Father there was filled with the Holy Ghost and then he spake unto admiration ver 37. and 34. So in the Acts of the Apostles in the 1. of the Acts there the promise is made that the Apostles shall be filled with the Hol● Ghost and in Acts 2. what wonders do they but first they are filled with the Holy Ghost So you shall find in Acts 3 4 5. Then the Apostles filled with the Holy Ghost and Then the Apostles filled with the Holy Gh●st did so and so So in Acts 6. and in Acts 7 there is Stephen full of the Holy Ghost an admirable man and Paul in Acts 11. being full of the Holy Ghost set his eyes there on a wicked Wretch who is that why a man that hindred the passage of the Gospell that Bariesus that sought to turn the Deputy from the Faith Pau● looking on him he said Oh full of all subtilty and malice thou child of the Divell and enemy of all righteousnesse wilt thou not cease to pervert the straight wayes of the Lord Thus you see that when any either admirable speech hath bin spoken or any admirable thing hath bin done still persons have bin filled with the Holy Ghost Thus labour to partake of the fulnesse of Christ and labour to be filled with the Holy Ghost And for the speciall grace of Gods Spirit as in the body of a man that is strong lusty active and able some parts are to supply with spirits for nourishments and for growth as the stomack liver and heart so in the soul of a child of God there are certain graces that are usefull for all practises such as are these 〈◊〉 Faith Hope Love and Fear these are all Mother graces h● but above all the fi●st ●o the grace of Faith this will direct a man what he should d● this will perswade a man why he should do and this will inable a man h●w he should d● yea to work wonders all the wonders that have bin in the world have bin w●nderfull by their Faith And for Hope that is an admirable grace to make a man rare in g●ace d●e not you remember what is said in J●h 1. 3. he that hath this hope what h●pe is that why this hope to see Christ and t● be like him he that hath this hope what doth he why he doth purifie himself even as Ch●ist is pure and that other Text also in 2 Pet. 3. 11 12. Seeing these things m●st be dissolved ●h what m●nner of persons ought wee to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse why what is the matter why because the time shall come when the Heaven shall passe away with a noise the Element shall melt with fervent heat and the Earth with the things that are therein shall be burnt up and then we looke for ●ew Heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnesse we look for a new Heaven a new earth that is we look for another place of habitation even in heaven for properly there is no earth