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	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44698	Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 \"Yield your selves to God\" / by J.H. ...	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1688 (1688)	Wing H3044; ESTC R14684	27,043	72

better and higher Good. You will shortly have nothing left you but himself you will be pluckt away from your Houses and Lands and Friends and all your outward comforts and now in what a case are you if you can take no pleasure or satisfaction in God! You are therefore to yield up your self to him in full union as with your most grateful and delectable Good with this sense possessing your Soul Whom have I in Heaven but thee or whom on Earth can I desire besides thee And thus you are to look upon God in your yielding your selves to him You are to yield your selves to his Claim as your rightful Owner To his Instruction as your undeceiving Teacher To his Government as your Gracious Sovereign Ruler And To the enjoyment of him as your best and most satisfying Good. Or your self-communicating Benefactor But it also concerns you to have distinct and right thoughts of the state of your case and how things are between him and the Sons of men that you may duly apply your selves to him in so great a transaction The Gospel under which you live tells you he treats with men in and by a Mediator his own Son who came down into this wretched World of ours in great compassion to our miseries and took our Nature was here on Earth among us an incarnate God. God manifested in the flesh Because we were partakers of flesh and blood he took part with us likewise of the same and in that Nature of ours died for us to make way that we might yield our selves to God and be accepted No man now comes to the Father but by him He must be acknowledged with great reverence and a most profound homage must be rendered to him He that denieth the Son hath not the Father And it being his pleasure to treat with us by his Son and the case requiring that we apply our selves to him we are to take notice of him according to those capacities wherein Scripture represents him to us And it represents him agreeably to those same notions according to which we have shewn we are to consider God the Father in this matter so as that Christ being the Mediator between him and us when we yield our selves to him ultimately and finally under the notions that have been mention'd we are first to yield our selves to his Son Christ Jesus our Redeemer under the like notions For 1. Being to yield our selves to God as our Owner we must know the Father hath given all things into the hands of the Son John 13. 3. and that He is Lord of all Acts 10. 36. which in the first sense signifies him to be by the Father's constitution the Owner of all things even as he is the Redeemer For he therefore died and rose again that he might be Lord of dead and living i. e. of both Worlds agreeably to what he himself speaks immediately upon his resurrection from the dead All power is given to me both in Heaven and Earth Matth. 28. 18. 2. And for those other notions of God under which we have shewn we are to yield our selves to him as our Teacher Ruler and Benefactor they correspond to that threefold Office of Christ of which you cannot but have heard much viz. of Prophet King and Priest so that we are to commit our selves to him when we yield our selves to God as a Teacher come forth from God and who reveals him to us whom no man hath seen at any time As one that must reign over us and over the greatest on Earth Luke 19. 14. and 27. Psal. 2. 6 7 8 9 10. and by whom we are to be reconcil'd to God and restor'd to the enjoyment of him Rom. 5. 11. And because our blind minds and perverse hearts need light and grace from above to direct and encline us hereto therefore hath the Spirit of the Father and the Son a great work to do in us to this purpose Whereupon we are to yield our selves to that blessed Spirit also as our enlightner and sanctifier which our being directed to walk in the Spirit Gal. 5. 25. and our being told that they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his Rom. 8. 9. and that as many as are the Sons of God are led by his Spirit v. 14. do plainly shew You see then we are to yield our selves to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost which also our having those great names nam'd upon us in our Baptism as we before told you doth import And how necessary all this is you will see if 2. We consider how we are to look upon our selves in this transaction i. e. 1. We are to consider our selves as God's creatures being as you have heard to consider him as our Creator and so we must reckon we owe our selves to him and do but yield him what we owe and what was his before For how can you but be his who of his meer pleasure hath rais'd you out of nothing 2. We must remember we have been apostate creatures such as had faln and revolted from him and so our yielding our selves to him is a giving our selves back to him having injuriously withdrawn and with-held our selves from him before And because the injury was so great as we could never make any recompence for therefore it was necessary such a Mediator should be appointed between God and us for whose sake only we can expect to be accepted when we yield our selves So great a Majesty was not to be approacht by offending creatures without so great a Days-man and Peace-maker 3. We must consider our selves as impure and every way unfit for the Divine Presence Service and Converse and who did therefore need the power of the Holy Ghost to be put forth upon us to make us fit and that therefore our case required we should put our selves into such hands for that purpose 4. We are to consider our selves as under the Gospel as sinners invited and call'd back to God as such whose case is not desperate or who need to abandon our selves to ruine tho' we have greatly offended as if there were no hope We are to consider our selves with distinction from the condition of other faln creatures The Angels that fell and kept not their first station have no Gospel sent to them to invite them back and persuade them again to yield themselves to God you have Into what a transport should this thought put you how should it mollifie you oh what a yielding temper and disposition of spirit should it work in you towards this gracious call and just challenge which the great God now gives you and makes unto you Thus far then you see how you are to consider God and your selves in this your yielding your selves to him You are now next to consider 2. What your yielding your selves to God according to such considerations must include or be accompanied with For it is not reasonable to think you have no more to