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	see_v	soul_n	7,734	5	4.7469	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56611	A brief exhortation to those who are shut up from our society and deprived at present of publique instruction. Which may be useful to others also who have any feeling of Gods judgments. By Symon Patrick rector of St. Paul Covent Garden.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing P756; ESTC R217129	9,069	17

them to find out those faults that are to be amended And again you will see if you look about you that there are other persons who stand above you requiring other regards then your equals do And here it is much to be considered whether you have dutifully carried your selves to your naturall parents Whether you have honoured the King with your spirituall Governours and Pastors as you ought And whether your Masters and all your betters have had their due respect Have you not been irreverent in your behaviour or speeches to some of these Have you not disobeyed their just commands and contemned their orders Have you not causlesly quarrelled with their injunctions and found fault with their government Nay hath it not been your manner to revile them and speak evil of them Are you not ready to believe all the evil that is spoken by others and to sit in judgment upon your Governors Do you not sleight and undervalue their authority Have you not mean thoughts of them never considering that they are set by God over you I doubt these are sins that have spread themselves far more then the Plague And therefore narrowly examine your selves about them that none of them may escape your notice And then cast your eyes on other persons that are below you who may charge you it is possible with many sins more Consider what care have you taken of your children your servants and all others who are committed to your charge that they may want nothing that is needfull either for their souls or bodies Have you made a conscience to instruct them in their duty or to send them to be instructed I cannot instance in all particulars unless I should write a Book and therefore I desire those who are Parents only to enquire about this one thing which is of great moment Have you put your children in mind often of the vow they made in Baptism Do you remember them of their promise to forsake the devil and all his works and to keep Gods holy will Commandments Do you tell them that God hath taken them to be his children and that they may not therefore do as they list but as he would have them Do you teach them the Catechism which is appointed for their instruction and take care they come to him that hath the cure of souls among you when it is required there reverently to receive his admonitions I fear these things are too much neglected if not despised or else we should see Christian people in better condition If any of you therefore intend now to make one good Christian let him call himself to an account in this particular You see my Brethren already that it is a very serious business to amend seeing there are so many things to be set in order And yet you have not heard all that you have to do if you design a reformation For you are to consider how you have respected your selves to whom there is a great reverence due and whom many things do very much misbecome As for example is it fit for a rational creature to mind nothing else but getting of wealth which he must so shortly leave Hath he nothing else to care for but what he shall eat and what he shall drink and wherewithall he shall be cloathed Is it seemly for ●…m to wallow in drink to burn with lust and filthy desires How doth he look when he is full of wrath and transported by his choller Is he not quite transformed doth he not seem to be beside himself Examine your selves then in these things in matters of temperance of chastity of meekness of patience of heavenly mindedness and such like And think you are not your selves till you be reclaimed from the sottish vice of drinking and tipling from beastly uncleanness from fury and rage which are no less brutish nay from earthly mindedness and the love of money which is a very gross stupidity But I see it will not consist with the brevity I design to say any more on this head but the rest must be left to your own conscience Only let me briefly note two benefits which you will receive by an impartial sober weighing of what hath been said First You will see that it is a work of time and pains to amend so many things as you may find amiss and therefore will require not only your present but your future indeavours Especially if you consider that in all the cases I have mentioned there are these things likewise to be examined and pondered The frequency of those sins the delight you took in them the expense of time and money they put you too the degree of boldness and shamelessness the scandall they brought along with them the dishonour they did to Religion to holy daies and holy things the many reproofs and checks they were against with all the vows and resolutions which you broke that you might commit them If these things I say be weighed you will not easily believe your selves if you should fancy that the business is already done which I suppose was but begun together with this affliction that is upon you And now I mention your affliction it gives ●…it occasion for the second note which I would have you make viz. That your punishment is a great deal less then you deserve That you have not received so many stripes as you have committed offences Here being such a vast number of sins which you may find your selves guilty of it will make you cry out if you be touched with any pious sense It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed Why doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sin There is no reason that we should repine under his afflicting hand but rather bless his goodness that we are not in a far more lamentable condition II. And that you may not be more miserable nor after severer strokes here fall into everlasting condemnation I beseech you as you love your souls stir them up by the grace of God to a through and speedy reformation in every particular wherein you must charge your selves to have done amiss You see your work do not go about it with a dull and an heavy heart but with earnestness with zeal and fervour of spirit as those who are infinity concerned in it The danger you are in sure will awaken you The judgements of God which hangover your heads will chase away all sloth and laziness And especially the sad sense of your former neglects will make you give all diligence that this business may not miscarry in your hands Which that it may nor III. I beseech you in the next place that your purposes of reformation which I hope you are now forming may proceed upon a right ground and flow from a sound and lasting principle of obedience viz. not meerly from the fear and dread of Gods present judgements but from a true fear of himself and a reverend regard to his Sovereign