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	temple_n	7,031	5	7.9574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08802	Faith & experience:, or, A short narration of the holy life and death of Mary Simpson, late of Gregories Parish in the city of Norvvich: who dyed, anno 1647 in or about the thirtieth yeare of her age after 3 yeares sicknesse and upwards. Containing a confession of her faith and relation of her experience, taken from her owne mouth. To which is added a sermon preached at her funerall, upon Rom. 14. 6,7. / by John Collings.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Life & death of a true Christian deciphered in a sermon.	1649 (1649)	Wing C5316A; ESTC R231574	44,489	160

a beleever to live to God and how a beleever may be said to live to the Lord. I will open it in three or four particulars 1. A beleever may be said to live to the Lord Ratione Iuris by way of Right owning and acknowledging God to be his God as a Sonne lives to his Father and a Servant to his Master wearing Christs livery and acknowledging himselfe to be Christs Servant Proclaming with David Psal 116. 16. Truly Lord I am thy Servant I am thy Servant and the Sonne of thy handmaid for thou hast loosed my bonds Yea and this he will doe in all places and companies if Jesus Christ be named he is not ashamed to say with M. Herbert My Lord and Master He every where acknowledgeth his subjection and duty to God by his service as his Master by his homage as to his Soveraigne by his dutifull feare as to his Father according to that of the Prophet Mal. 1. 6. If I be a father where is my honour and if a master where is my feare He every where honours God as his Father and feares him as his Master Secondly The beleever lives to God formally He followes the dictates of his word and the motions of his spirit He is come into the world to doe his will he knowes that for this end he was borne and readily in the whole motion of his life sayes I delight to do thy will O my God If God in his word or by his spirit sayes to him Goe he goes Come he comes doe this he doth it He disputes not the rebellion of his owne will nor private interests of his owne spirit against the will of God once revealed unto him Thirdly The beleever lives unto God finally The whole end of his life of all his actions words tradings recreations is to glorify God and he doth nothing but he prefaceth this question to it how may God have glory what shall God get by this Action this is the designe he drives the interest he pursues every of his arrowes are levelled at this white and all his actions ordered to this end it is his work to glorify God both in his body and spirit according to the Apostles exhortation 1 Cor. 6. 20. Lastly He lives unto God dependently Indeed this is rather a living upon God but yet it is a living unto God too The life which he now lives is by faith upon the Son of God Gal. 2. 20. He cleaves unto God in all the Conditions and all the Relations of his life Thus he lives not to himselfe but to the Lord. Yea and Thirdly The third branch It is his duty therefore while he lives not to live to himselfe but to the Lord because while he lives he is the Lords Which is the third thing This is plaine if you doe but consider what I said before in the particular explanation of the first branch of the Doctrine viz. How far the beleever while he lives is the Lords 1. Because he is the Lords purchase What shall I buy a servant and shall he serve another Master Shall I buy an house and shall it rent to another Landlord 2. Because he is the Lords possession See the Apostle pressing this duty from both these Arguments 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. What know ye not that your body is the temple of holy Ghost which is in you and which you have of God and you are not your owne for yee are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are Gods Yea and thirdly 3. Because we are the Lords in so neare Relation Would you take it well that your children or apprentices which you maintaine should live to themselves And trade for themselves or others and not live to you and trade for you That your wife should live to another Either formally or finally and not to you whose she is And is there not as great an engagment Christians lyes upon you to live to the Lord you are his Children his spouses his servants nay nearer yet his members There is all reason in the world that you should not live to your selves but unto him And thus I have done with the second Branch of the Doctrine viz. That when the beleever lives he lives not to himselfe but to the Lord and it is his duty so to do because while he lives he is the Lords I passe to the third Branch The third Branch That when the beleever dies he dies not to himselfe but unto the Lord and it is his duty so to doe Here for the explanation of this Branch I shall do these two things First I shall shew how a man may be said to die to himselfe which the beleever doth not Secondly I shall shew you what it is to die to the Lord and how a beleever may be said when he dies to die to the Lord. 1. I conceive a man may be said to die to himself 1. when himselfe is the causer wisher or desirer of his own death thus Saul and Iudas dyed to themselves and could not stay Gods leisure The beleever is of another spirit Or Secondly when in dying or desiring to die he meerly aimes at his owne end out of a conceit of the ease and rest he shall be at because he knowes if he be in the grave There the wicked cease from troubling there the weary be at rest as Iob passionately spake c. 3. or to deliver himselfe from obloquies as Ionas cap. 3. or to save himselfe from danger as Saul or to be out of the horrors of a guilty conscience as Iudas these men dyed or would have dyed to themselves Or thirdly a man may be said to die to himselfe when he doth no good by his death declares not the glory of God nor faith in God but dyes like Nabal though his spirit be not over-powred with diseases nor he robbed of his senses yet he dyes like a block Now the beleever none of these wayes dyes to himselfe 1. He will not choose his owne speare with Saul nor twist his owne Halter with Iudas He will not only aime at his owne ease in his death but if the Lord stops not his mouth by an over-powring disease nor bereaves him of his sence and speech he will be setting out the goodnesse and glory of God with his very utmost breath as this our precious Sister that had such a mind of her journey that she could talke of nothing else I passe to the second thing propounded Second Branch To shew you What it is for a Beleever to dye to the Lord and how the beleever when he dyes will dye to the Lord. First he will dye at the Lords leasure he wil not hasten his death nor dye the death of the wicked his soule is indeed so greedy of glory that he is continually sighing after a dissolution and crying come Lord Iesus come quickly but yet not so hasty but he leaves God to his liberty for so poor a circumstance of