Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	know_v	speak_v	7,234	5	4.6717	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44592	Saints blessed for ever: or, God's people never forsaken asuring every true believer, of their blessed estate, and condition: very profitably to read, and comfortable to every believing soul that truly fears God. Being a rich portion of Gods love to his people; and worthy to be kept in memory for ever. Together with several perswasions to poor sinners, to leave their sins, and come to Christ by repentance. By Roger Hough.	Hough, Roger.	1667 (1667)	Wing H2914; ESTC R215375	10,941	27

Christ by Repentance And First who they are that may be owned to be the people of God whereby every discerning Soul may come to know his condition Several Particulars I might speak of in their discovery but I shall only name these Thrée following First They that are really the people of God they have a discerning faculty implanted in them by the holy Spirit of God whereby they can discern in part and know the Will of God their Father which gives them a full Assurance that they are the very flock of Christ And first they know the voice of Christ John 10.4 They know when Christ speaks unto them in the purity of the word without any mixture of humane invention or tradition brought in by the will of man and as they know the voice of Christ so the voice of Strangers they will not follow every false way is a stranger to them John 10.5 And a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him for they know the voice of strangers They have therefore a discerning faculty betwixt good and evil whereas the naturalman cannot discern the things of God because they are spiritually blinded 1 Cor. 2.14 The naturalman receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him because they are spiritually discerned But a true believer he can discern and see through such a glass the Will of his heavenly Father Secondly As they have a discerning faculty so they have an assured confidence in God So that a gracious soul can say with chearfulness as in Micha 7.7 Therefore will I look up onto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation my God will hear me A gracious Soul can look through all difficulties dangers in afflictions and though it sées Gods hand lifted up yet it can say as in Habak 3.17 18. Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the Vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls yet will I rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my Salvation the Lord is my strength and he will make my feet like Hindes-feet Oh christians its admirable for tongue to speak or heart to conceive the assured confidence that a gracious soul hath in God that rests wholly upon the promises of God made over to them in Jesus Christ It was admirable in Abraham when he went fréely at the command of God to offer his son Isaac that was the only heir of promise of whom it was said Gen. 21.12 In Isaac shall thy Seed be called yet Abraham fréely manifesteth his faith Accompting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence he also receiv'd him as a figure as saith our Author to the Hebrews ch 11. v. 19. this assured confidence is a tryed and precious faith which only appertaineth to true believers 2 Pet. 1.1 Thirdly As they have an assured Confidence in God so they have a Son-like obedience to God Those that are really the Lords people they obey God as their Father in all his cōmands they wil obey his word his ordinances they know the voice of Christ as their shepherd therefore they will follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth you may read the Laws of God imprinted in their hearts by their outward walkings godly conversation they 'l be asham'd to run into any manner of sin either openly or privatly they are such as abhor all manner of sin cannot endure to sin 2 Cor. 3.2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men They bear the badge and Name of Christ along with them they come fréely in their prayers they put up to the throne of grace call God Father as they are instructed in that blessed form of prayer that our Lord Saviour taught his Disciples to say Mat. 6.9 Luk. 12.2 When you pray say Our Father c. which is the very marrow of all prayers And thus you sée beloved That they that are really the Lords people they have First a discerning faculty whereby they can discern by the eye of faith the will of their heavenly father and Secondly they have an assured Confidence in God and Thirdly they have a Son-like Obedience to God so they own God as their Father by which we may assuredly see God will not leave nor forsake his own people as our Saviour saith Those that come unto me I will in no wise cast off Now there are several Grounds in the Second place Why God will not leave nor farsake his people The First is drawn from the Love of God God hath ever a dear love to his own people though love be a faculty in man yet it 's a property in God 1 Joh. 4 8. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love vers 9. In this was manifested the love of God towards us because God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him and herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us first The love of God is from all Eternity and to Eternity it is the greatest Matter of Antiquity in the world A Second Reason Why God will never forsake his people is drawn from the Choice God hath made of them God hath chosen them from Eternity Deut. 7.7,8 The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number then any people for you were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers c. Our blessed Apostle so styles them in 1 Pet. 2.9 But ye are a chosen Generation Gods love to his people begets his choice of them they are the chosen of God precious his dearly beloved ones in whom his soul delighteth Joh 15.16 Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you God hath chosen his people from the foundation of the world and they are his Elect to all eternity for whom he loves once he loves to the end there is no change in God he varies not he is one and the saue yesterday and to day and for ever A Third Ground or Reason Why God will never leave nor forsake his people is drawn from the Consideration of the price of their Redemption God hath purchased them at a high rate as Gods love to his people moves him to choose them so Gods choice of them moves him to redéem them and so they become his purchased inheritance 1 Cor. 6.19 20. And ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your souls 1 Cor. 7.23 Ye are bought with a price be ye not servants of men 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Forasmuch as ye know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things