Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	grace_n	heart_n	love_n	8,186	5	5.1264	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35029	A second call to a farther humiliation being a sermon preached the 24th of Novemb. last past / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford, in his Cathedral Church of Hereford.	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing C6973; ESTC R4769	18,017	45

foregoing the terrible day of the Lord when mens hearts shall fail and melt away for very anguish and Death it self the terrour of men in prosperity shall be wish'd for in that excessive misery as a comfortable deliverance from the horrible Plagues then poured forth And yet all this put together is as nothing compared to those everlasting flames wherein both Bodies and Souls shall be tormented for ever and ever Reason and Experience both teach us that the anguish of the Soul must needs exceed the sufferings of the body by many degrees for you know 't is the Soul that gives sense unto the body the body without the Soul feels neither lancing nor burning If then the Soul be the fountain of sense and isso powerful as to infuse into a stupid dead lump of earth such smart and nimble feeling you cannot but conclude that the original sense of the Soul is capable of feeling far greater torment than the body We see daily Men in Duels tormented with anger and revenge in their Soul throw their bodies upon the point of their hated Enemies sword and receive deadly wounds one after another without any smaying as if they felt them not the greater torment of the mind making that of the body not sensible nor Death considerable but continue their fury to the last gasp All which plainly shews the anguish of the Soul far exceeds any pain of the body Beloved no man can express no nor fully conceive that horrour and raging madness of a Soul in Hell considering how that instead of that excessive and everlasting pain she might have enjoyed the everlasting glory of Heaven and the incomprehensible felicity the Saints possess in contemplation of God's infinite goodness and love to Man and then to remember how this endless felicity was cast away and endless torment incurred for the enjoyment of most silly momentary joys and base bestial delights This is that torment of torments that never dying Worm of Conscience which eternally gnaws and feeds upon the soul. What man with sensible ears eyes and heart hearing or reading and considering these things with a lively apprehension of that Supream Judge of quick and dead coming in the Clouds with all the Host of Heaven and carrying in one hand that glittering two-edged Sword which wounds to eternal death and in the other that just poising Ballance wherein shall be exactly weighed not only the grievous sins of Murther Adultery Perjury c. but every idle word and every idle thought which alone will make up a Mountain of Sands to weigh us down to the pit of darkness besides a vast number of foul and heavy Crimes to precipitate our guilty souls below the very center of Hell into some unknown gulf as bottomless as our sins are numberless What man I say not wholly petrified and become a very Statue but having a sensible heart in some measure to comprehend the terrour of this severe Judgment-day but will humble himself in Sackcloath and Ashes Yea Beloved had we but a lively full apprehension of it our very heart would be shivered into dust and ashes But yet our Humiliation must not end here in this servile slavish fear we must proceed on farther For though the fear of the Lord be the beginning of Wisdom yet love is the consummation of wisdom The Devils believe and tremble but Christians must believe and love Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul. Love is the fulfilling of the Law And certainly there cannot be any man so extream Ill-natur'd but if he firmly believe what Christ hath done for him must needs love him 't is impossible it should be otherwise What man guilty of Treason Condemned to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd and going to Execution should see the Kings only Son run after him with a Pardon from his Father the Son having undertaken to suffer that cruel death for the condemned person that so satisfaction might be made to Justice for the Treason committed Is it possible this condemned person should not love this wonderful loving Prince No 't is not possible yea so love him as to refuse the Pardon and rather chuse to die himself than suffer so noble so innocent and so loving a hearted Prince to die for his Crime And yet beloved this is much short of our case for this is but one mans dying for another both by nature of equal condition But we have the All-glorious Son of the Almighty God dying for us sinful Worms of the Earth yea and he knew full well when he suffered that shameful cruel Death for us how shamefully and cruelly we would requite this his infinite Love by doing many sinful things as hateful to him as death and so as much as in us lies Crucifie the Lord of glory afresh and put him to an open shame And do we now believe all this to be a real truth and yet go on day by day to do these sinful deeds so hateful to him that hath shewed such infinite love to us Beloved let us not delude our selves 't is impossible any man should be so barbarously ungrateful as to believe this and do thus Wherefore most assuredly we do not believe it And why do we not believe it Was there ever any truth so miraculously attested so convincingly proved by thousands of Witnesses both Christians and Jews Christians with love dying for the truth of it and Jews with hatred to this very day relating the fact Why then do we not believe it No other imaginable reason can be given but that the infinite greatness of such love as God to dye for sinful worms exceeds our belief had God done less for us we should have believed him sooner and served him better O the baseness of our corrupt hard-hearted Nature the more God doth for us the less we do for him who can sufficiently bewail this our miserable condition Such we are all by nature though blessed be God many by his grace are corrected and converted into a better state their hearts being purified by Faith and sanctified by Love humble themselves at our blessed Saviours Feet and there bitterly bewail their manifold transgressions and with all fervency of spirit praise glorifie his infinite love mercy This is true Christian Humiliation and Repentance when out of a due sense of Christs infinite love to us we heartily lament our sinful ingratitude towards such a gracious Saviour who laid down his life a Ransom for us The fear of Gods Judgments is good at first to strike us down to the Earth and make us enter into a serious consideration of our sinful ways and what we have justly deserved the everlasting flames of Hell But then to consider notwithstanding all our undutiful behaviour the infinite love mercy of God to lay on his beloved Son the Iniquities of us all that by his sufferings he might spare us and by his death restore us to everlasting life What heart can then chuse