Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	holy_a	work_n	7,712	5	5.1991	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65154	A healing question propounded and resolved upon occasion of the late publique and seasonable call to humiliation in order to love and union amongst the honest party, and with a desire to apply balsome to the wound, before it become incurable.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V69; ESTC R38388	16,135	28

unsubdued And therefore the Lord thinks fit by this meanes to shew them the need of being beholding to their spiritual part to restore them again and bring them into their right temper and healthful constitution And thus whilst each dissenting part is aggravating upon it selfe faultinesse and blame and none excusing but all confessing they deserve in one sort or other reproof if not before men yet to Gods sight Who knowes how soon it may please God to come into this broken contrite and self denying frame of Spirit in the good people within the three Nations and own them thus truly humbled and abased for his Temple and the place of his habitation and rest wherein he will abide for ever of whom it may be said God is in the Midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early or with his morning appearance At which time he will sit silent no longer but Heaven will speak again and become active and powerful in the spirits and hearts of Honest men and in the works of his providences when either they goe out to sight by Sea or by Land or remaine in counsel and debates at home for the publique Weale and againe heare the prayers of his people and visibly own them is a flock of holy men as Jerusalem in her solemn ●easts I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel saith the Lord to doe it for them And then they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them and that they are my people and that ye my flock the flock of my pasture are men that have shewed your selves weak sinful men and I am your God that have declared my self an all-wise and powerful God saith the Lord God Postscript Reader UPon the perusal of this Discourse thou wilt quickly perceive that these two things are principally aimed at in it by the Author First to answer in some measure that which is called for by those in power when they publiquely professe they desire nothing more then conviction and to find out the hidden provocations which either have or yet may bring forth the Lord against these Nations in the way which at present they are in Secondly To remove out of the minds and spirits of the honest Partie that still agree in the reason and justice of the good Old Cause all things of a private Nature and selfish Concern the tendency whereof serves but to foment and strengthen wrath and divisions amongst them and in Place thereof to set before them that common and publique interest which if with sinceritie embraced may be the meanes of not only procuring a firm union amongst them but also of conserving them herein In order to this the Author hath not been willing much to declare his own Opinion or deliver any Positive Conclusions as to discusse the business by way of question and answer and thereby make as neer a conjecture as he can of that wherein the several dissenting parts may with better satisfaction meet together and agree upon a safe and righteous bottome then to remaine at the distance they doe to the apparent advantage of the Common Enemie the approaching ruine of themselves and needlesse hazzard if not losse of the Cause they have been so deeply engaged in Especially considering that when once they shall be found beginning to come forth to one another in such a condiscending self-denying spirit cleansed from the stain of hypocrisie and deceit they may be well assured that light will spring up amongst them more and more unto a perfect day and then those things which at present we have next in view will prove as shadowes ready to flee away before the morning brightnesse of Christs Heavenly Appearance and second comming through which they will be heightened and improved to their full maturitie to the bringing in that Kingdome of his that shall never be moved And because an Essay hath been already made in a private way to obtain the first thing that is to say Conviction which chiefly is in the hand of the Lord to give the same obligation lies upon the Author with respect to the second for the exposing of it as now it is unto Publicke view and therein leaving it also with the Lord for his blessing thereunto LONDON Printed for T. Brewster at the sign of the three Bibles at the West-end of Pauls 1656.

of this Cause will pour out so abundantly of his spirit upon his people attending on him in righteous wayes and will also so move their hearts to choose persons bearing his Image into the Magistracy that a more glorious product may spring up out of this then at first we can expect to the setting up of the Lord himselfe as chiefe Judge and Lawgiver amongst us And unto this the wisedome and honesty of the persons now in power May have an opportunity eminently to come into discovery For in this case and upon the grounds already layed the very persons now in power are they unto whose lot it would fall to set about this preparatory work and by their orders and directions to dispose the whole Body and bring them into the meetest capacity to effect the same The most natural way for which would seem to be by a General Council or Convention of faithful honest and discerning men chosen for that purpose by the free consent of the whole Body of adherents to this Cause in the several parts of the Nations and observing the time and place of meeting appointed to them with other circumstances concerning their Election by order from the present Ruling Power but considered as General of the Army Which Convention is not properly to exercise the Legislative Power but only to debate freely and agree upon the particulars that by way of fundmental Constitutions shall be laid and inviolably observed as the conditions upon which the whole body so represented doth consent to cast it selfe into a Civil and Politique Incorporation and under the visible forme and administration of Government therein declared and to be by each individual member of the Body subscribed in testimony of his or their particular consent given thereunto Which conditions so agreed and amongst them an Act of Oblivion for one will be without danger of being broken or departed from considering of what it is they are the conditions and the nature of the Convention wherin they are made which is of the people represented in their highest state of Soveraignty as they have the sword in their hands unsubjected unto the rules of Civil Government but what themselves orderly assembled for that purpose doe think fit to make And the sword upon these conditions subjecting it self to the Supreme Judicature thus to be set up how suddenly might harmony righteousness love peace and safety unto the whole Body follow hereupon as the happy fruit of such a settlemeut if the Lord have yet any delight to be amongst us And this once put in a way and declared for by the General and Army as that which they are clearly convinced in the sight of God is their duty to bring about and which they engage accordingly to see done How firmly and freely would this oblige the hearts and persons the counsels purses the affections and prayers with all that is in the power of this whole party to do in way of assistance and strenthning the hands of those now in power whatever straights and difficulties they may meet with in the maintenance of the publique safety and peace This then being the state of our present affairs and differences let it be acknowledged on all hands and let all be convinced that are concerned that there is not only a possibility but a probability yea a compelling necessity of a firm union in this great Body the setting of which in joynt and tune againe by a spirit of meekness and feare of the Lord is the work of the present day and will prove the onely remedy under God to uphold and carry on this blessed cause and worke of the Lord in the three Nations that is already come thus far onwards in its progresse to its desired and expected end of bringing in Christ the Desire of all Nations as the chiefe Ruler amongst us Now unto this re-uniting work let there be a readinesse in all the dissenting parts from the highest to the lowest by cheerfully coming forth to one another in a spirit of self-denial and love in stead of war and wrath and to cast down themselves before the Lord who is the Father of all their spirits in self-abasement and humiliation for the mutual offence they have been in for some time past one unto another and great provocation unto God and reproach unto his most glorious name who expected to have been served by them with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire And as an inducement unto this Let us assure our selves the meanes of effecting it will not prove so difficult as other things that have been brought about in the late war if the minds and spirits of all concerned were once well and duely prepared hereunto by a kindly work of self-denial and self-abasement set home by the spirit of the Lord upon their consciences which if he please he may doe we know not how soon Nay if we shall behold with a discerning eye the inside of that work which God hath been doing amongst us the three years last past it would seem chiefly to have been his aime to bring his people into such a frame as this is For in this tract of time there hath been as we may say a great silence in Heaven as if God were pleased to stand still and be as a looker on to see what his people would be in their latter end and what work they would make of it if left to their own wisedome and Politick contrivances And as God hath had the silent part so men and that good men too have had the active and busie part and have like themselves made a great sound and noise like the shout of a King in a mighty Hoast which whilst it hath been a sound onely and no more hath not done much hurt as yet but the feare and jealousie thereby caused hath put the whole Body out of frame and made them apt to fall into great confusions and disorder And if there be thus arisen a general dissent and disagreement of parts which is not nor ought to be accounted the lesse considerable because it lies hid and kept in under a patient silence why should there not be as general a confession and acknowledgement of what each may find themselves overtaken in and cannot but judge themselves faulty for This kinde of vent being much better then to have it break out in flames of a forward and untimely wrathful spirit which never works the righteousnesse of God Especially since what hath been done amongst us may probably have been more the effect of temptation then the product of any malicious designe and this sort of temptation is very common and incident to men in power how good soever they may be to be overtaken in and thereupon doe sudden and unadvised actions which the Lord pardons and over rules for the best evidently making appear that it is the work of the weak and fleshly part which his own people carry about with them too much