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
A78180	The regenerate mans growth in grace. Shewing, that regeneration of necessitie requireth augmentation in grace. With the motives to move us to grow, signes to know whether we have grown; the lets that hinder our growth; and helps to further our growth. / Preached at a sermon at Lancaster, upon a day of humiliation, by N.B. minister thereof.	Barnett, Nehemiah, b. 1614 or 15.	1646 (1646)	Wing B875; Thomason E1165_1; ESTC R210099	23,846	95

honey such as never came out of any earthly hive he is both Victor and Victus Conquerer for us and food to us and who gives this food to us but he that gave himselfe for us and dranke to us the cup of the New-Testament in his owne blood his blood and wounds doth nourish our soules like the Pelican rather then her yong-ones shall perish feedes them with her owne blood so that in the Sacrament we eate not onely Panem Domini but Panem Dominum not onely the bread of the Lord but the bread the Lord. Hence it may be called Viaticum animae the food that nourishes our soules in it's voyage to heaven God grant that we may never want this food to nourish our hunger starved soules It may be deare in regard of the preciousnesse of it but not deare in regard of the price wee pay nothing for it but faith and love * John 6.34 Let us all pray with the Disciples Lord evermore give us this bread Why should our soules be starved while there is bread enough in our fathers house * Luk. 15.17 Why should we fast while we may feast why should wee stand at a stay while we have plenty of growing food Let us Christians be like travellers that passe from towne to towne till they come to their home so we from grace to grace till we come to Heaven Help 4 The last is a good disgestion when the naturall food is conveied into the stomacke and there well concocted by naturall heate and is made fit to be dispersed into the other members and parts of the body for the strengthening of them so the Word of God must be disgested in the soule must be shewed by meditation and pondring the word in our hearts suffering our thoughts to dwell on it some good while then it proves wholsome nourishment to our weake and hungry soules Your comming to heare doth manifest a desire to have your soules fed Now you know a childe that receiveth food in his mouth and also in his stomack and doth not retaine it there but casts it up speedily againe doth not disgest it and that childs strength cannot be augmented nor growth increased So if you receive the Word into your eares and let it fall againe speedily and not retaine it in your hearts and there disgest it by meditation your soules cannot be strengthened and cannot grow at all We must remember that God doth not require our bare bodily presence at the Church or at any of his ordinances but we must bring our soules to Church as well as our bodies wee may be present with body but absent in minde our minde must be set on what is delivered we must heare as it is the Word of God and not of man as it is the onely meanes appointed for the planting of grace in our hearts as it is a powerfull meanes to beate downe sinne in us and build us up in the new man and to change our barrennesse into fruitfulnesse Thus if we would disgest the Word of God the God of Heavens would not faile to give his blessing to it To make it powerfull to Salvation to every one of our soules causing us daily to bring foorth more fruit of good living to the honour and praise of his holy name We must know that the Word of God is full of spirituall sap and heavenly moisture which is of a fruitfull and growing nature now we might bee growing Christians if we were not slothfull let us be no longer sluggards to our owne soules But practise the policy of the painfull Bee to lodge the sweet honey of Gods Word in the hive of our hearts against the day of dissolution If we had any love to grace we would labour after the meanes of grace we see what paines the voluptuous man takes to pursue his pleasures we see what labour the ambitious man takes to attain to more honours we see what care the coveteous man takes to obtaine riches and why should not we that are Christians and somewhat illuminated with Gods word use the like paines care and diligence to increase the goods of our soules and labour to get a higher degree of this spirituall promotion and strive to enjoy a fuller fruition of heavenly pleasures There is no commodity so profitable no dignity so honourable no felicity so delightfull as to be fruitfull in good works and to abound more and more in the vertues of the inward man and the grace of Gods blessed Spirit Therefore good Christians if ever you desire to be accounted good Scholers in Christs Schoole if ever you will visit the universitie of glory if ever you purpose to be placed in the Paradice of God himselfe Grow then in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Imprimatur CHARLES HERLE