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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	glory_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	133	3	9.4306	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88141	Elias redivivus: a sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons, in the parish of Saint Margarets West minster, at the publike fast, March 29, 1643. By John Lightfoote, preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange, London.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2053; Thomason E99_11; ESTC R20324	33,230	56

was a man as may be guessed by his writings of a very shallow wit Yet was he the Author of the like error to most Ecclesiasticall men who cited this mans antiquity for the defence of their part as Irenaeus and whosoever else is of the same opinion with him I will not censure nor condemne the opinion but referre it to superiour examination onely this I cannot but say of it that I doe not remember that ever I heard or read of an opinion of so extreame and monstrous strangenesse that in so short a time hath gotten so great a beliefe and so large an entertainment and neither tongue or pen hath stirred against it It is our hope and prayer that once you may have liberty and leisure from the great rent in the whole peece of the State to looke upon the rippings in the seames of the Church that such opinions as this and others may be taken either by you or by your authority into examination before like Joab and Abishai the sons of Zerviah they grow too strong and defie a tryall The Spirit and power of Elias is held by some to meane but one and the same thing his powerfull Spirit So indeed sometime runneth the sense of the Hebrew stile As in that answer of our Saviour Joh. 14. 6. I am the way the truth and the life the scope of the question that occasioned it seemeth to call it to such a sense I am the true and the living way Others distinguish the meaning with the words and by the Spirit of Elias understand patience and tolerancy of persecution and by the power the prevalent and efficacious virtue of his ministration But we need not to goe farre for interpretations when either the words are of no great difficulty or what they be of will easily be explained by the Scripture it selfe By Elias his Spirit then are we to understand not his owne within him but the Spirit of the Lord or of Prophecy upon him And so his spirit is said to be upon John as Moses his spirit was upon the Elders and the spirit of the same Elias upon Elisha By the power of Elias upon the Baptist is not meant the power of miracles for John wrought none wheras Elias did many but his power of preaching for the conversion of many unto God So that whereas the ancient Prophets of the Law and among them Elias had a double power of the Spirit upon them To foretell things to come and to worke miracles so had John the first Prophet of the Gospell a double power but of another nature and a better He foretold not things to come but he explained those that had him foretold and he wrought not miracles upon bodies but he was miraculously powerfull upon soules Now should we come to compare Elias the Baptist ther we should finde them agree in many parallels as that they both came in very corrupt times that they both restored religion very much in that corruption that they were both persecuted exceedingly for that restoring Elias by Ahab and Jezabell and John by Herod and Herodias and divers other agreements upon which not to insist because they bee obvious to every eye this collection may we take up from the words in hand That Elias is a proper and pregnant patterne for Reformers As when Moses was making the Sanctuary and the appurtenances God often cals upon him to make all things according to the patterne which was shewed him in the mount So in this like worke of yours which you have in hand can you platforme out a reformation by a better patterne then by Elias since you will not doe it but by some patterne from the Mount A man that in the text is a copy to John the Baptist in his reforming And a man that in his owne time restored all things as our Saviour saith of him Mat. 17. 11. And fitly then may he be a patterne for these times of ours He restored perishing religion the decaying law he restored forgotten Prophecy and as the Jews hold forsaken Circumcision for of Circumcision doe they understand those words of Elias himselfe They have forsaken thy Covenant 1 King 19. 14. And of Elias the restorer of Circumcision they misunderstand those words of the Prophet The Angell or Messenger of the Covenant Mal. 3. 1. But I stand not here as a Surgeon over his Anatomy to reade unto you a Lecture of reforming upon the Sceleton of Elias it were beyond good manners as it is beyond my skill Let me addresse my selfe to you that sit by and are spectators of these Worthies as they labour in their worke in a word or two of application and that according to the two words that are before us the Spirit of Elias and his power 1. By the Spirit of Elias I told you is understood the Spirit of God that was upon him Now as the Apostle saith x Cor. 12. 4. the Spirit was but one but the gifts were diverse For looke in the fourth of the Acts and the thirty first it is said of the Apostles there that when they had prayed the place was shaken and they were filled with the Holy Ghost And so they had beene some dayes before namely on Pentecost day Act. 2. 4. Now they having beene filled then how can they be said to be filled againe Why then with the gift of tongues and now with the gift of holy boldnesse for for that it was they prayed ver. 29. Among the diverse gifts then of the holy Spirit that Elias had this is not the last nor the least that made him renowned His extraordinary zeale for the Lord of Hostes So much expresseth he concerning himselfe 1 King 19. 10. 14. And so much seemeth our Saviour to aime at in his answer to his two disciples that would have fire fetched from heaven as Elias had done Ye know not saith he what manner of spirit ye are of Luk. 9. 55. of a zeale beyond your warrant and you would be forward you know not how The thing that you may take notice of from hence is this That no true reformation can be expected which is not carried on with a spirit of zeale The workes of God must be wrought with his Spirit they that desire to forward his glory must do it with a holy forwardnesse It is the honour of Levi Deut. 33. 9. that when he was about the imployment of the Lord he was so zealous in it that he forgot all civill relations and said unto his father and to his mother I have not seene him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his owne children And so our Saviour in the third of Marke when his mother and kindred would have taken him off from preaching for they said he will faint or he is beside himselfe be it whether it will for the originall word will beare both he was so zealous in the worke in hand that he would not owne