Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	good_a	grace_n	lord_n	7,245	5	3.6848	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60633	The glory of the new covenant	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4305; ESTC R28163	7,242	10

The Glory of the New Covenant MAny and divers are the manifestations of the Love and grace of God wherein he is willing to shew forth the Riches of his Mercy in his own kindness and from one degree to another he openeth himself according to the good pleasure of his will and also according to the preparedness and fitness that the heart is in to receive him for although it be in his pleasure to manifest and measure forth the Riches of his grace and love unto a people yet he doth not do it beyond their present capacity in which he beholds them in a preparedness and fitness to joyn unto him and receive him for he well knoweth and understandeth that there is a part in man which would abuse his Gifts if it could compass them to it self and therefore he withholdeth the manifestations of his love and grace from that part and doth never answer it by manifesting or measuring forth any thing of his love unto it for he hath determined to famish that part to death that the true hunger of the true birth may openly breath unto him and receive satisfaction in him for though that part which is of the flesh may catch at something which unto the poor is manifested yet it can never compass the gift it self for that is ever with held from it as being unworthy to be intrusted with such an excellent Treasure and it can never attain unto any higher degree of what is manifested from God unto the true birth then to behold it afar off in which sight it creates a likeness of what it beholdeth and transforms it self as if it was the same thing and here many people sits under the government of a transformed Spirit and doth believe that they are come under their own Vine and sits under their own Fig-tree and that they are ceased from their own labour and are entered into their Rest and this they cry up as the most excellent glory that far exceeds the glory of service and this is no other but the fleshly part that is set down at ease under the government of a transformed Spirit under which the true Seed lies in bondage and deep Captivity and such have kept back that which they should have given to the Slaughter and hath saved the worser part alive and are set down at ease in it and so they have erred from that of God in them by which he prepares and fits the heart to receive him in his own way and the glory of their Rest is but as a fading flower which to day is excellent in its shew and to morrow passeth away and is no more and this is not the glory of the New and Everlasting Covenant wherein the God of Love and Peace is all unto his Children For a new Heart will I give them saith the Lord and a new Spirit I will put into them and I will be their God and they shall be my people Mark Here the Lord prepares a new heart and a new Spirit which according to the preparedness and fitness is only in a capacity to receive him in the manifestations of his Love Grace and Mercy which being received into that heart and Spirit which God prepareth he then becomes their God that so Receives him and they become his people in his own Covenant and this is the passage from Death to Life when the Law hath had its full force in the old heart to condemn the flesh with all the motions of it and so it is a ministration that is Glorious though it be a ministration of Condemnation for asmuch as it makes way for the Rising of the Seed in which there is a better hope through which ministration all must pass before they be prepared and fitted to receive the love and grace of God For when the Law hath had its full force upon the old Man and hath condemned the first Adams sinful flesh then is the way prepared for the second Adam to manifest his life in his quickning Spirit and there the new Birth comes to be born which hath a new heart and a new Spirit and is in a capacity to receive the Love and Grace of God and so Grace and Truth comes by Jesus Christ who fulfils the Law in every point and causeth the administration of Condemnation to cease and brings in the ministration of Righteousness that far exceeds it in Glory And here the New Covenant comes into its place by the Resurrection of the Seed and in the Seed the glory of it doth far exceed the glory of the first Covenant and there the good thing is come unto which the shaddow pointed the Substance come the Life come the Everlasting glory come and a sure Defence stretched over it And this is the Rest that is Pure and never was Polluted and who are entered into it they labour no more in their own works but are now Created in Christ Jesus who worketh all for them and in his strength they are able to do all things for he hath quickned them in his life and in his life they are zealous of good Works and who are come into this quickning power and life of Christ they are truly in their Rest for their own works are all ceased and they are ceased unto them and yet they labour in the Holy Calling whereunto he calls them for as he gives them life so in his life they have motion and in the motion of his life they do all things according to his Will and this is the Work in the New Covenant Not according to the Works of the Old for then it was said Do this and Live But now it is said Live and do whatsoever I command you And this is true love manifested unto him when that is done which is commanded by him for by the power and virtue of his Life received there is strength given to do those things that are well pleasing in his sight and who are come into this Covenant of love and life they are more active in doing what his pleasure is to have done then when they were labouring and working in the weakness and unprofitableness of the Flesh and so the glory of the New Covenant doth far exceed the glory of the Old Forasmuch as the Life is Risen and the Righteousness thereof Revealed which is the good thing unto which the first Covenant pointed and it doth not destroy any good works which God hath ordained but quickneth more into them and maketh more zealous of them and the new heart and the new spirit is more servent to serve the Lord being that life is come which quickneth in service and in which the service is accepted And this is the birth that is Redeemed from under the Law and the service of it to serve God in Newness of Spirit under his Grace in which it is approved and accepted for as no flesh living under the Law can be Justified so no Innocent Babe that is under Grace is condemned but all