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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	receive_v	18,187	5	5.7163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10033	The patriarchs portion or, the saints best day Deliuered in a sermon at the funerall of Sir Thomas Reynell of Ogwell in Deuon. Knight, Aprill. 16. 1618. Wherein may be seene, 1 The shortnesse of mans life. 2 A Christians combat against 1 Sathan. 2 The world. 3 The flesh. 4 Sinne. 3 A preparation to die well. 4 The reward of glory after warfare. By Iohn Preston, preacher of Gods word at East-Ogwell, in Deuon.	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1619 (1619)	STC 20282.3; ESTC S114305	28,466	80

as the Sea which cannot rest Esay 57. 20. such tossing and troubling there is in it It is as brittle as glasse very bright but quickly broken The world passeth away and the lust thereof The world is a swelling Sea through pride blew thorow enuy feruent through anger deepe through dissembling vnquiet through couetousnesse fomie through wantonnesse supping vp all through the care of the belly Where the greater fishes eat vp the lesse Is the world so turbulent and transitory what madnesse is it then to bee so fast nayled to it in our affections that wee can hardly bee knockt off from it or as wee did verily beleeue there were no other world to come Wee suffer a great deale of trouble which is certaine to prolong our dayes a little time which are vncertaine for this world is not our mansion house or permanent but an Inne or rather but a thorow-fair through which we must passe to our owne house and home Heere we must so lodge this day as that we must be ready to depart the next and though wee loue it neuer so well and liue in it neuer so long we shall finde and be forced to confesse at last when wee must leaue it that it hurts many heales few promseth much performes nothing Let worldly men vaunt of their knowledge how to get and keepe and saue and thriue the knowledge is little worth while the world knoweth not God they may speak of their quicke and stirring spirits but a better Spirit then theirs hath spoken it that the world receiueth not the spirit of truth They may reprooue the Saints of God for singularity but the Holy Ghost reprooueth the world of sinne They may thinke themselues iolly wise men But the wisedome of the world is but foolishnesse with God They may prey vpon the poore but our Sauiour did not pray for the world They may play Rex and domineere as Kings here but Christs kingdome is not of this world Now if any godly soule shall say how may wee ouercome this world I will tell him in a word or two but it is sooner sayd then done First Wee must not loue this world nor the things of this world more then God Secondly wee must not liue after the fashions of this world which are all either vaine or wicked Thirdly Wee must vse this world as though wee vsed it not Fourthly wee must not bee seruant to our seruant the worlde Fiftly if we truely iudge of the world of all the pleasures and profits and dedelights thereof as Salomon hath taught vs who had tryed it well that all is vanity and vexation spirit The best but vanity and the most vexation and so much for our second maine enemy which is the world The third enemy is the Flesh. THe third enemy is our flesh an enemy in our owne house which lies betwixt our brests and bosome and therefore more dangerous This flesh of ours is a Iudas which doth kisse but it is to kill a Dalilah in Sampsons bosome a Caine to Abel an Absolon to Ammon a Ioab to Amasa and in a word the common cut-throat of our soules As a moath which is bred in a garment and nourished by it doth notwithstanding fret and spoyle it so the flesh doth goe about to eate out our soules and doth fight against the spirit which giues life beeing to it Ciuill warres you know are farre more fearefull then forraine innations such is this fight of the flesh against the spirit it is inward and neare at hand to hurt vpon all occasions wee beare about with vs our greatest enemy which will stab the soule or rob it of all rich graces of the spirit darken the vnderstanding dull the memory fatte the heart blind the eyes stop the eares and strip the soule starke naked of all goodnesse If wee haue a Pharaoh a bloody Tyrant abroad wee shall haue a Iudas a plodding traytour at home and how hard is it to preuent the harmes which such an insinuating and close aduersary may pull vpon vs. Hee that ruleth his owne minde is better then hee that winneth a Citie He that represseth keepeth vnder his intemperate passions and violent affections doth a greater exploit and more praise worthy then hee that conquereth Cities and Castles and Townes and Towers Anger wrath couetousnesse and such corrupt affections are our capitall enemies I may tearme them our Turkes against whom wee must dayly warre and fight and that without fainting least they bring vs into bondage for of whomsoeuer a man is ouercome euen vnto the same is he in bondage Sampson did much hurt to his enemies the Philistims yet himselfe was ouercome if not with filthy yet with fond and foolish loue Alexander the Great Conquered a great part of the world yet would hee not conquer his owne anger or command his drunken desires Many rule and gouerne Cities Armies and Families yet are seruants to their sensuall pleasures and delights That Emperour therefore is worthy praise which ruleth his owne propper affections If thou wilt haue all subiect to thee subiect thy selfe to reason Thou shalt gouerne many if reason gouerne thee and rule many if thou be ruled by reason but if thou suffer the flesh to haue the soueraignty set the Crowne on her head thou shalt be sure to liue like a slaue and die no better then a beast But how shall wee ouercome this Enemy that is alwayes at home I will tell thee by these meanes and with these weapons First we must obstaine from fleshly lusts which sight against the soule Secondly we must tame our bodies by fasting and bring them into subiection Thirdly we must mortifie our members Fourthly we must abstaine from all appearance of euill Fiftly wee must not pamper the flesh Sixtly we must reiect such motions as the flesh doth iniect and that at their first entrance the Serpent must be crushed in the shell the Foxe must bee taken while he is a cubbe The last enemy is sinnne THe last Enemie with whom we are to make warre in this world is Sin a busie enemie because he is a borderer an inhabitant an innmate one that eateth with vs sleepeth with vs walketh with vs rideth with vs and meeteth vs at euery turning as fire in the flint so sinne is in the seede it is bred in the bones and will not out of the flesh vntill Iosephs bones be carried out of Aegypt that is vntill we be out of this World Sinne is a Iebusite a seditious neighbour and an insinuating mate so hath it eaten into the nature of Man with its canker and contagion that his affection is infection his reason treason and his will wayward altogether and auerse from good The more the Law of God doth forbid sinne the more doth man commit sinne we run with all might and maine to that which is forbidden for it falleth out commonly with sinners as it doth with sicke