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	person_n	son_n	20,542	5	6.1434	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19605	The crib of ioy containing spirituall exercise, for Christmasse. S. Steuen. S. Iohn. Innocents. Circumcision. Epiphanie.; Crib of joy.		1611 (1611)	STC 6039.5; ESTC S120351	14,693	50

THE CRIB OF IOY Containing Spirituall Exercise for Christmasse S. Steuen S. Iohn Innocents Circumcision Epiphanie Iohn 7.37 In the last and great day of the Feast Iesus stood vp and cried saying If any thirst let him come to me and drinke LONDON Printed for Christopher Purset dwelling neare Staple Inne in Holborne at the signe of Marie Magdalens Head 1611. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN God Iohn by his Diuine prouidence Bishop of London RIght Reuerend it is the custom of all sorts of writers to seeke a patrō for their books dedicatiō wherfore I the publisher herof being a poore mēber of your last flocke and the Author to me vnknowne haue emboldened my selfe to choose your Lordship knowing none more fit to be the Guardian of this Orphane vnder whose protection I render both it and my self the rather because the earnest desire of all those who euer read this little Treatise intituled The Crib of Ioy hath moued me to the publishing hereof Therefore right Reuerend if either the Worke it selfe may receiue passage through your Lordships good fauour or my duty towards you herein may be accepted crauing pardon for my presumption I end continuing my prayers for your long life with eternall happinesse Your Lordships most humbly to be commanded Christopher Purset CHRISTMAS DAY The three circumstances of person time and place may draw the lineaments of this dayes ioy 1 WE may reioyce that our Sauiour and Reconciler to God was manifested this day to be a person and no inferior creature That the Iewish sacrifice of beasts and birds or other oblations were not in them selues propitiatorie but in eye to a worthier Mediatour It had bene a disgrace to our reasonable soule the image of God to haue bene valued at so base a price An indignitie to God himselfe to haue had his anger against sinners alayed and his iustice satisfied with the killing of a calfe a thing vndecent in our conceit preposterous in nature Heb. 10.4 vnpossible that the bloud of Buls and Goates should take away the sinnes of the soule 2 VVe may much more reioice that it was not the person of anie man or Angell or new made creature but of God himselfe manifested in the flesh If Noah Ezck. 14.14 Daniel and Iob should stand vp before God and make intercession for vs God telleth vs they should onely saue their owne soules and yet not that neither without further mediation Noahs wine must needs be don away with bloud Iobs sinne with sacrifice and Daniels imperfection with mercie If a holy Angell should set his puritie betweene God and vs he might iustifie himselfe but his white robes of innocencie were too short to couer our nakednesse If anie creature should offer himselfe to death for vs we might thanke him for his good will but he had neither authoritie to lay downe his life for another nor power to take it vp againe for himselfe Our Mediatour is God and Man one Christ God that he might pacifie and satisfie by his worth the person offended for he is as good as he Man that he might suffer for the offendor for he is flesh and bloud of the same nature with vs. One Christ that he might vnite God and Man inseparably who were disioyned before by sinne for the same person who as Man loueth man being also God is infinitely beloued of God the same Christ an intercessour for man in his manhood cannot be denied of his Father for his Godhead sake Therefore so long as his humanitie sticketh fast to his diuinitie tyed with that inseparable knot of the vnitie of person which the point of the speare could not dissolue herein is our reioycing Rom. 8.38.39 That neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. 3 VVe may most of all reioyce that of the diuine persons the second was this day incarnate for in him the loue of God is doubled vpon vs God the Father loued vs before he gaue his Sonne had he not loued vs he had neuer bestowed so precious a gift vpon vs but hauing now giuen his Sonne thereby to make vs sonnes he must needes loue vs one degree more in that we are his sonnes God the Sonne loued vs before he became man but being incarnate we may challenge a degree of loue more in that we are his brethren He loued vs before he gaue himselfe much more now we are his owne for he hath dearely bought vs. That precious ointment streaming from Aarons head that blessed Spirit which the Sonne our Sauiour of his fulnesse distilleth vpon vs loued vs in that he ouershadowed the Virgin for vs loued vs in that he infused faith into vs renewed our hearts reformed our wils sanctified our persons but shall hee not now loue his handie worke much more whereupon he hath bestowed such cost If God loued vs when we were strangers runnagates rebels and so loued vs as he then intended to adopt vs what will a fatherly affection moue him vnto If the Sonne loued vs when we were yet his enemies and so loued vs as he forsooke himselfe for vs is it not intended he will loue his friends and brethren heires and fellow-heires of the same kingdome If the holy Ghost loued vs and so loued vs as he tooke in hand such vntoward prices such hard hearts such waiward and crooked affections shal we doubt that dwelling in vs as in holy temples he will not keepe vs in reparations Thus the triple loue of the blessed Trinitie is multiplied vpon vs they all loue vs because they loued vs they loued vs that they might loue vs more they loue vs more in that the second person being the naturall Sonne hath made vs adopted sonnes in whom God is our Father and from whom the holy Spirit is deriued Reioyce then that he was a person and no inferiour creature a diuine person and no creature and againe I say reioyce in that the second person in Trinitie the eternall Sonne of God as vpon this day was borne of a pure virgin 2. Circumstance THat which is good rare and bringeth ioy with it must needs be acceptable vnto vs but yet more welcome if it come in an acceptable time 1 In good time was Christ borne when the Scepter was departed from Iuda Gen. 49.10 and a law-giuer from his feete VVhen Israel was subiect to the Romanes and the true Israelites made seruants vnto them that were slaues vnto sinne then was that little Stone cut out without hands Dan. 2.45 which dashed the kingdomes in peeces and became a mightie mountaine Then was the little Child of Bethlem incarnate of the virgin without a father borne without a midwife swadled without a nurse preferred without the help of man to an euerlasting kingdome to rule ouer vs for our spiritual