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	life_n	power_n	7,077	5	4.6413	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03267	Aarons bells a-sounding In a sermon, tending cheiftly [sic] to admonish the ministerie, of their charge, & duty. Preached by M. Samuel Hieron at a general visitation neere Bristow. And now published by them to whom his coppy was entrusted after his death.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1623 (1623)	STC 13385; ESTC S116920	25,064	63

Ambassadours of Christ If you love vs not in regard of our persons yet love vs in regard of our office we are indeed but earthen vessells but we have pretious treasures in vs if you esteeme vs not because we are vessells and of earth yet honour vs for the treasures sake Our ministerie is not ours but the Lords we and thrice wee be to him that scorueth it The last thing comes to be considered Doct. 5. in this verse That thou fulfil it It is heere required of the minister that he thinke it not enough to dis-charge his duty coldly and perfunctorily and for fashion as it were but he must sett himselfe to it earnestly zealously and fervently that he may even fulfill it that he may as Paul speaketh make his ministery fully knowne 1. Tim. 4. and approove himselfe the true minister of Christ and make it appeare by all meanes that it is his hearts desire to fulfill his ministery So did Apollos preaching fervently teaching diligently the things of the Lord. First he spake fervently and then taught noting thereby that many speake who do not teach because they speake not fervently as Apollos Thus did Paul burne in Spirit and then he testified to the Iewes that Iesus was the Lord. Thus did Christ preach ●oh 7. of whome the Pharises messengers gave this testimony and ingenuously confessed never man spake like this man because he spake zealously and with authority and mat 7. not coldly and faintly as did the Scribes Tho a man had all knowledg of all Fathers tongues and arts yet unlesse he have zeale Act. 2. he can never fulfill the ministery of Christ Therefore did the H. Ghost descend in the likenes of cloven tongues like fire to signify a zealous a hott preaching ministerie Iohn was a burning as well as a shining light ioh So must we burne with zeale if we will fulfill the ministerie If this be so what shall we say of theise cold comfortles use 1 discourses and morrall-philosophy-lectures rather then Sermons without zeale of formall-preaching ministers which shame the heate by which men should be quickened being as Bernard speakes luciferi but not igniferi having some light of knowledge in their heads but no fire of zeale in their hearts who speaking the word of God do weaken the power thereof by dulnes and f●a●nes of Spirit bringing forth their doctrines as many woemen do their children still-borne without sence without feeling without motion using doctrine without application application without zeale like men without soules or Images without lives Such were the intollerable cold collations of the Scribes and Pharises whereby they did loose their Auditours and made their Synagogues desolate and such are the Sermons of those ministers whose minds are drowned in wordly matters whose spirits are frozen and pittifully benummed with woldlines and sensuality And so dull are their owne hearts by want of holy meditation that they have no life in their ministerie nor power in their preaching more then when a little boy 2. tim 1.6 saith grace Wherefore as Paul bids Timothy to stirr up anadsopurem the graces of God in him to blow them as it were with bellowes as the Greeke word imports so must we and endevour to Godly vehemency in our preaching that we may enforce our doctrine to the hearts of the hearers and may make our ministerie knowne to Gods people And lastly that our ministerie may be fulfilled let vs be 1. Tim. 4.12 to them that beleeve as Ensamples in word in conversation in love in spirit in purenes as Paul speaketh to Timothy let vs labour to be unreprooveable and without blame that we sett an edge on our Sermons 〈◊〉 may by our owne life authorice our doctrine let us first be confirmed as Peter was and strengthen others let vs first observe the commandements of God then teach them others to observe let vs first labour to be the servants of God as Paul was and then the Apostles of Iesus Christ let vs have in our brest-plate both urim and Thummim both knowledg and holines and in the outmost borders of our garments let there be both bells and pomegranates toe both soundnes of doctrine and sweetnes of conversation Take away the reproch of the people that hath a great while taken vp rom 2. that speech Thou that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe You are in the face of the people a fault in you is as a staine in the face and a blow in the eye as most perspicuous so most dangerous in the hand the glove may cover it in the feete the shooes may cover it in the body the clothes may cover it in a child his age in a woeman her sexe in a private man his ignorance may excuse it in you that must be Ensamples to others in all kind of conversation nothing can excuse it Therefore if there be heere any lizards that do wipe out with their tayle the print of their feete made in the dust any preacher who by the uncleane tayle of a loose life wipes out the print of true doctrine if any have Iacobs voyce and Esaws hands if any that carry the bellowes of preaching in the one hand to kindle and the water of ungodlines in the other to quench it let them not deceive themselves by their preaching their ministery is not fulfilled and therefore they shall have their portion with that servant that knowes his masters will and doeth it not And now to Conclude all I say vnto all take heed to your ministerie for the devill your adversary there is his dread as a lyon there is his power as a rouring lyon there is his desire to hurt goeth about there is his industrie and seeketh there is more then ordinary diligence not what but whome he may devoure Even the soules of men that is his preye His force very greate his wiles and advantages not unowne his malice experienced his cruelty such as as hell can afforde therefore take heede to your ministerie The wicked your enimies are Eagle-eyld to looke into you and spye you as narrowly as the Romans did Cato or the Pharises Christ to find a fault and having found either your ignorance or your negligence or the pride of your ambition or your covetousnes they have enough to talke of with joy on every ale-bench Others see your faults and weepe in secret for your sinns that Gods glorious gospel that sweete oyntment should be carried in such filthy boxes as some of you are Take heede to your ministerie you have received in the Lord you have received of the Lord to him you must give account you have received it for the Lord to him you must performe your dutye shame not him that hath called you walke worthy of the Lord approove your selves as workmen that need not to be ashamed in fulfilling this your ministerie for if you have bene faithfull there is layd vp for you a Crowne of glorye which God the righteous judge shall give you at that day if unfaithfull go many fathomes deeper into hell then other men because you have bene the Soule-murderers of them whome you should have saved Thus as the Colossians must say to Archippus so I to you every one take heede to your ministerie which you have received in the Lord that you fulfill it Even so good Lord grant vnto the ministerie of thy chosen ones all gifts fit for their calling give vnto them increase of knowledge give them faithfulnes give them zeale that they may teach thy people in thy trueth And reforme all them that either for ignorance cannot or for negligence will not or for fearfulnes dare not or for wickednes and ungodlines ought not to preach thy word that true Pastours being placed in among thy people which may feed them with knowledg and vnderstanding thy church may grow vp in perfect beauty to the glory of thy name Amen! 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