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	love_n	soul_n	6,851	5	4.8704	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47122	A sermon, preached before Sir Marmadvke Langdale at his entrance into Barvvick by I.K., a native of the same place, sometimes preacher of Gods word there.	I. K., Native of the same place, sometimes preacher of Gods word there.	1648 (1648)	Wing K14; ESTC R19010	20,717	29

mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heavinesse thus are we taught in the first place by mourning in Jeremiah and dying in Josiah how well mourning becomes an holy soule repente ut emoriantur humani loves how suddenly death unthrones our mortall Gods Mourning and Death were our first lesson and the second is like unto it mourning for the dead Which mourning for the dead in the Text takes hold by this connexture and of burying the dead in the verse before and he was buried among his Fathers Tombes and they mourned for him This testimony of the spirit of God gives sufficient weight and reverence to the Doctrine Howbeit in these miserable times under colour of reforming superstitious abuses decent and allowed expressions of devotion are so endangered to be extirpated that the piety heere enjoyned must so far enjoy the impiety of the age as to have a few words bestowed upon the poynt Death is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fatall debt which wee owe to nature for living after our Father Adam and mourning a naturall debt which our children owe to us for dying before them deny the living to mourne and deny the dead are dead The rude Laconian more reproved the indolency of the Stoick when he answered him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My sorrow is the flux of Nature For the God of Nature is so carefull not to have this piety in mourning for the dead obliterated that he hath twisted it upon those tender strings of our naturall relations and affections which wee feele to crack within our selves when our friends heart strings breake and then our bowells towle their last knell The first dyer was Abel Abel the just and his Father Adam mourned long for him till by the birth of Seth he was comforted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as by a mortall resurrection type of an eternall saith Nissen noting that Abel that is mourning must continue with Adam till Seth Achates must attend upon Æneas till the resurrection when saith Iohn Rev. 21.4 there shall be no more death nor sorrow Those Timons that will neither retaine humanity in themselves nor indure it in others what thinke they of the Sonne of God Whom this slinty wisdome of theirs and abstracted Divinity could not withold from sorrowing for the dead No he was Mediator betwixt the living and the dead and therefore as in his person he assumed our infirmities so by his practice he justified this sympathy of the living with the dead He groaned in the spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he troubled himselfe he wept Jo. 11.33 both in complyance with Martha and Mary his mourning and for destitution of Lazarus his dying Friend Job 39.14 This was the spirit of our Dove not like the Ostrich that is hardned against her owne as if they were not hers and leaves them in the dust quia privavit eam Deus sapientiâ saith Iob. because God hath deprived her of wisdome These vaine glorious contemners of sorrow for the dead would they wash their horny eyes with teares might see how death while they deny him one thing sorrow takes from them two both their piety and their Friend Truely these buryers of Nature alive are of the same veines with the Donatisticall Circumcellions though they have not so much of the bloud in them and of the same dye though they be not yet so deepe dipped But they are not farther from humanity that are offended with mourning for the dead then they are from Christianity that quarrel with their burialls and funeralls consult the Scriptures whereas burying is simply called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the rich man dyed and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 16.22 Gen. 50.2 was buried the word which both the Septuagint useth of Jacob in the old Testament and Mathew in the new of our Saviour is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 26.12 which signifies not onely buriall but decent funeralls and is compleated in that word which Luke useth of those devout men who lamented greatly for Stephen and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 8.2 tooke care and order for his funerall Paul in joines that all things should be done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 14.40 decently Ma. 15.43 and Marke appropriates to Joseph of Arimathea the stile of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the honourable Joseph because of the solemne inhumation decoravit honesto funere Mat. 26 10. this care of burialls and charge of funeralls is by our Saviour called a good worke by Iacob a deed of mercy by Luke an Act of devotion Gen. 47 29. Act 8 2. and Paul makes Ioseph's charge concerning his bones an effect of faith then not to be needlesly long in shewing that buriall refers to the hope of the resurection and was ordained from God from the beginning In Act. 8.2 saith Calvin in honour to the body to which the resurrection is promised and which even after seperation is candidatum resurrectionis saith Tertullian our owne Iosiah in his reformation of both Kingdomes was so religiously respective hereof 2. King 23.18 that he lookt among the tombes carefully and would not suffer the bones of the Prophet to be disturbed yea Iesus the blessed yesterday to day and for ever the same justified the costly and therefore envied Mat. 26.12.13 anoynting of his body under the name of Sepulchralis a Funerall charge I am sure for the charge of that Funerall Oyntment her Funerall Sermon shall last till the generall houre glasse of the world be run and shall outlive all the long windy Sarments and Canons are bolted against burials and Funerall Sermons vae tibi miser sayd Augustine of Iudas bonus odor occidit te The odour of a decent funerall is to a Iudas like the smell of the Angels perfume that drove the Divell away from Tobias Tob. 8.3 Doth any startle at this illustration as Apocryphall Let him looke into the Canonicall Scripture he shall finde that at Moses death God himselfe preacht the Funerall Sermon Josh 1.2 Deut. 34.6 Jude v. 9. and he that buryed the body he saith the Text was at least an Angel though the Devill contended against it and disputed about it O miserable abusers of the name of Christians Indeed uncircumcised Iewes whose soules are too narrow to comprehend the relation of their owne bodies which unfortunate vessels as long as they have the salt in them they can put to any lustful or sensuall use still reserving in themselves spirituality forsooth as Irenaeus saith the Valentinians did but as soone as they are parted from their soules they count them no more then dust and corruption and the slight burialls they afford them but an humane formality done in the remembrance of the naturall relation they had to the party alive Thus they proceede from Stoicisme to Epicurisme first Pharisees then Saduces But you beloved conceive rightly of the mystery which is your hope the seperation and dissolution of

A SERMON Preached before Sir MARMADVKE LANGDALE At his entrance into BARVVICK By I. K. a Native of the same place sometimes Preacher of Gods word there Hosea Chap. 3. vers 5. Afterward shall the children of Israel returne and seeke the Lord their God and David their King and shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Printed in the Yeare 1648. And Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah 2 Cron. 35.25 THE sphere of this Text is Lamentation the Poles whereon it mov●●● Iosiah and Ieremiah In the upper the etheriall part of this sphere w●●● see the bloud of Iosiah in the nether the watry hemisphere wee have the teares of Ieremiah And as the caelestiall Spheres have their first moover above them So is there in this Text a third person the Spirit of God who onely being above the King and the Prophet placed them heere in the Firmament of his word and by this his Testimony hath consolidated the blood of Iosiah and the teares of Jeremiah into fixt Starres wherein all men may reade their common condition and Kingdomes calculate their owne Nativities and dissolutions So in this darke Sphere of Lamentation Iosiah dying Ieremiah crying wee finde yet the Spirit of God testifying though in the cold Region of the revolting Iudah both King and Prophet be eclypsed the one by death the other by sorrow yet are they heere caught up into the cleere Orbe of the Scripture torres eruti deigne and there memorated to all Posterities by the uncloudeable testimony of the spirit of God Zach. 3.2 in whose sight since the death of his Saints is precious Psal 116.13.56.8 and he puts all their teares into his bottle therfore are these things noted in his booke therefore are Iosiah and Ieremiah recorded heere as Monuments and their bloud and teares turned into Rubies and Pearles to make Bracelets to adorne the Spouse of Christ Heere first wee see in Mourning and dying the condition of us all in this world sorrow and death play all our game Lugemus aut lugemur omnes in vicem It is an hard question whether at our entring wee begin sooner to weepe or to dye But in our progresse whereas dying hath no intervals sorrow seemes to admit some interludes but in a wise mans apprehension they are but delusions Looke into the Stage of the world you shall see two serious Actors the Dyer and the Mourner All the rest play the foole or the counterfeit whereupon the judicious spectator Eccle. 2.2 Solomon called out to laughter in●anis thou art mad and to mirth Quid frustra deciperis And the great Iob sayd of himselfe Job 29.24.31.23 if I laughed on them they beleeved it not so seldome did he so little could he laugh qui semper quasi tumentes super se fluctus timuit Deum who thought continually he heard God like the mighty billowes of the Sea rowling over his head But the Sonne of God quoties ve●ò elle Isai 53 3. Psal 88.15 how oft did he impropriate the Title of vir dolorum the man of sorrowes From my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde Luke 17 50. and againe I have a Baptisme to be baptized withall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and how am I straightened till this be fulfilled For well knew the Sonne it was the will of the Father that sorrow should be the dyet and viands of man in the course of this life where the feathers and downe wee rest upon have their quills and thistles the Rose wee smell her pricks the meate on our Tables cryes out to us Mors in ollâ there is death in the pot This habituall sorrow for the fits of worldly mirth quamvis non intempestivis amaenitatibus are but recesses from it and I neither condemne every act of joy Gen. 35.18 nor justifie every motion of sorrow this habituall sorrow from which Bennoni the sonne of sorrow was called Benjamin the sonne of strength and by which the sorrowfull Iabez became more honourable then all his brethren 1. Cron. 4 9. this habituall sorrow I say this commanding sadnesse this mastred and well rayned pensivenesse is wisdome in the minde valour in the heart salt in the wit discipline to the flesh from whence there breakes forth a Majesty in the very countenance It is indeed the ballance of the soule without which a light and empty heart like an unpoysed Barke danceth aloft to the flattry of the windes which will quickly lay her low But we have every where so many causes of the one of these two sorrow that the other death might be jealous we forget him and surprize us suddenly if with the statue of sorrow in Jeremiah the spirit of God had not erected also a monument of death in Iosiah and justly for the same which David calls the valley of the shadow of death in the 23. Psalme he calls the valey of Baca in the 84. for sorrow is saith Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the shadow of sinne and mortality now as if a man were placed so high aboue the earth that night the shadow of it could not reach to him he should have continuall day so those soules onely that have wrought so high that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the last point of this shadow of sin Mortality is below their feete those have no sorrow unlesse it be to looke downe upon us and see quantâ sub nocte jaceret nost ●a dies in what a true night of lamentablenesse we walke here on earth which yet we thicken with grosse conceits of false mirth the best use then of naturall life is the thinking on death O that they were wise saith Moses Deut. 32.29 that they would consider their latter end Sion remembered not her later end therefore she came down wonderfully Lam. 1.9 saith our Ieremie in this Lamentation yea in spirituall life Paul desired to know nothing here but Jesus Christ and him dying 1. Cor. 2.2 sleepe like a Publican takes excise of our life onely the rest of it is our owne he that thinkes not on death is asleepe what wee deny to the one Brother the other takes away O how I love thee thou meditation on death since not time but thou measurest life and makest it mine Through this narrow dark optick of the meditation on death our eyes help'd with the watry spectacles of teares pierce through the chrystalline Heaven and looke to eternall life Iohn confesseth of Peter and himselfe Jo. 20.10 who ran to the Sepulchre and presently returned home that they missed of that dignation which was afforded to Mary who stayed there looking into the tombe and weeping her constant adhering to the Sepulchre had the honour to see the vision of the Angels and her weeping the grace to heare the first salutation of her glorified saviour who appoints saith Esai to them that mourne Esay 61.3 and gives them beauty for ashes the oile of joy for