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	scripture_n	19,615	5	6.1818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01937	The man for heaven A sermon preached at the court to his Majesties houshold, anno Domini, 1637. By Iohn Gore, rector of Wendenlofts, and preacher of S. Peters in Cornhill, London.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.	1639 (1639)	STC 12073; ESTC S103329	11,321	26

said of his Friend or Father Si bene essem sine te nunquam venirem ad te If I could bee well without thee I would never come at thee It is our illnesse and our weaknesse our lamenesse and our sicknesse that makes us to repaire unto Christ or else I am afraid wee would seldome or never come at him As for the Holy Ghost David cals him a Loving Spirit Psal 143. 10. a Spirit that loves the company and the conduct of a poore sinner let thy loving Spirit lead mee into the land of Righteousnesse it is not only a leading Spirit but a loving Spirit a Spirit that loves to lead us and to carry us into all truth into all goodnesse and to guide our sinfull feet into the way of peace wee read of divers that were condemned in Scripture for having to doe with Familiar Spirits and justly for what gracelesse wretches were they that durst bee familiar with those evill spirits that were the mortall enemies of their soules that durst to harbour those hellish Serpents in their bosomes that stung their Soules to death eternall And oh what a blessed and a happy thing it were if we were but halfe so desirous of the familiaritie and acquaintance of the Good Spirit as they were of the evill ones then as Iob speakes in the place fore-named Inde proventus erit bonus thereby good shall come unto thee Good to thy estate thou shalt prosper by it Good to thy children they shall flourish by it Good to thy name thou shalt have credit and reputation by it Good to thy body thou shalt have health and protection by it but speciall good shall come to thy Soule thou shalt have mercy and peace and salvation by it Thou shalt have his good Word to instruct thee his good Angels to guard thee his good Spirit to comfort thee and above all his good Kingdom to receive thee Therefore if thou lovest thy selfe and tenderest thy owne good let thy conversation with God bee Res familiaris a free a frequent and a familiar thing Lastly if wee take the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the native and proper sense as it signifies the traffiquing and trading that one Merchant or one Citizen hath with another then it affords us this consideration That to converse or to have commerce with God is Res quest uosa the gainfulest trade and the richest marchandise under Heaven For if wee beleeve the Apostle Godlinesse is no vile commodity but exceeding gainfull yea gaine it selfe yea and great gaine too if not to the purse yet to the Conscience if not to the estate yet to the soule it is for it hath the promises not only of the life that now is but of that which is to come There bee many that say saith David Psal 4. 6. Who will shew us any good It is not the saying of one man or of some men but of many and of most men who will shew us any Good all their desire is to listen and inquire who can tell them of any good purchase any good bargaine any good fortune that may concerne them or come to their hands let the party that shewes it bee who hee will if hee shewes any good wee love him wee thank him for it Behold here is one Saint Paul by name that shewes us Summum Bonum the Greatest Good the truest and surest Gaine that is to be had in all the Christian World and that is to keep a Factory in Heaven as it were by the meanes and mediation of Jesus Christ to deale betwixt God and our own Soules in a secret and a sacred commerce to exchange our Prayers for his Favours our duties for his Mercies and so to drive a Spirituall trade in the City of God And this will bring us into such a way of profit that wee shall gaine Wisdome and Grace and Comfort and Credit in this life and a Crowne of Eternall Glory in the life to come and now judge your selves whether to have our conversation in Heaven bee not Res quaestuosa a gainfull thing I come now to the second generall proposition of my Text which is this How wee that live and converse upon Earth can bee said in proper sense to have our Conversation in the Heavens I shall answer it foure waies 1. Per Elevationem By lifting up our hearts and minds and Soules to God Wee read Levit. 11. 21. that those Reptilia those Fowls or other Creatures that crept on all foure were Abomination in Moses Law the people might not eat nor touch them but those that had legges and wings to leape withall and to lift up themselves from the Earth toward Heaven those were cleane in Gods account This was certainely a symbolicall type to signifie unto us that those Christians that are alwayes creeping as it were and crawling and groveling upon the Earth alwayes minding earthly things and setting their hearts upon the muck of this World they are uncleane and Abomination to the Lord But they that have the legges and wings of Faith and fervent Prayer to leape as it were from the Earth and to lift up themselves towards Heaven in their ejaculations and devotions to God they are those whom God accepts An Angell once cried Revel 8. 13. Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the Earth Inhabitantibus non Accolis saith a Father not to the sojourners and strangers of the Earth as all good Christians are whose Home is Heaven and the Earth but a place of their pilgrimage for a time But the woes are to the setled Inhabitants of the Earth who so fixe their hearts on the Earth that they make it their Heaven like that Cardinall that would not change his part in Paris for his part in Paradise or like the Children of Reuben and Gad Numb 32. 3. that desired to make their stay on this side Jordan and let their brethren if they listed passe over into the Land of promise for their owne parts they liked well of the place where they were and did not desire to remove because it was a place fit for their Cattell In like sort they that make more account of their cattell than they doe of their conscience and doe more esteeme the pleasures and profits of a life temporall than the incomprehensible joyes of the life eternall they that so love the Earth that by their good wills they would not leave it for Heaven Woe bee to them three wayes first woe to them in life secondly woe to them in death thirdly woe to them after death or thus woe to their bodies woe to their soules and woe to both body and soule together in that woefull place of torment In a word therefore if we desire to escape this threfold woe and that it may bee well with us both here and hereafter let us doe by our af●ections as Husband-men do by their corne if it lie low in a damp room it is in danger to putrifie and corrupt and stink therefore