Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	jesus_n	lord_n	speak_v	7,871	5	4.7669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80399	Mris. Cooke's Meditations, being an humble thanksgiving to her Heavenly Father, for granting her a new life, having conclnded [sic] her selfe dead, and her grave made in the bottome of the sea, in that great storme. Jan. the 5th. 1649. / Composed by her selfe at her unexpected safe arrivall at Corcke.	Cooke, Frances, fl. 1649.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6008; Thomason E600_9; ESTC R206391	13,171	16

of the rocks the Lord hid it from me and I could not believe that I should be preserved neither could I tell whether God would put a period to my life the Lord revealed it not to me concerning living and dying but he fitted me for both in believing that I was his and I blesse his Name the Lord kept me all the time of the storme in a submissive humble believing and quiet frame of spirit and he spake to my heart by way of questioning with me that suppose the Lord should spare my life now and at another time should call for it would I be contented to suffer for him by way of being a witnesse to his truth and the faith of Jesus Christ if he should call me to it unto which I found my spirit willingly to submit and I resolved with all my heart and soule to repay this dying life to my ever living God whensoever he calls for it and howsoever he will have me to come to him at sea or land And I will not feare the King of terrors as Job calls death let him bring me to my Fathers house which way he will whether through the fire or through the water I hope I shall be willing to suffer any death that might bring glory to him that hath suffered death to bring me to life believing that Christ would not bring me into any condition but that he would be with me therein and then I know that I can do any thing through him which strengtheneth me 4. Phil. 13. v. For I blesse the Lord I never once repined all the time but I patiently lay expecting every houre when I should be dissolved and be with Christ in his glorious and triumphant Kingdome and after the Lord had searched my heart and had wrought in me a willingnesse to submit to him and had shewed me what a solemne action it was to dye and had made me sensible that there was a cloud of griefe but faith would pierce thorough that and see life in the midst of death and that in finishing my course and in resigning my spirit to God that gave it I should find my fraile nature sinking but the Divine Nature supporting and that there is a little agony to be gon through about the time dissolution when the soule will be heavie unto death notwithstanding a submission to its Fathers will Matth. 26.38 39. v. After the Lord had given me a taste of death he gave me life conditionaly that I should be willing to dye and suffer death for him at another time if he called me to it whereupon I solemnly promised covenanted with God and mad my vowes unto the most high in the hearing of my dearest friend on earth others That if the Lord would deliver me out of this terrible storme and bring me safe to land againe and renew my dayes I would give up my selfe and my new life wholly to the Lord that I would walke more closely with him in holy Communion then ever I had done formerly that I would no more live to my selfe nor to the world but wholy to the Lord that I would study to live more Gospel-like declaring and holding forth to the world that the Lord had overporw+'rd my soul by his free grace overcome my heart with loving kindness many extraordinary deliverances which cal for extraordinary praises if it pleased God to mak me partaker of such a singular mercy I would not only record it in my heart all the dayes of my life but in all places render thanks unto the Lord while I have any being and tell all the world that I have my life from Christ and therefore must spend it for him And the Lord did suddenly accomplish the thing which I had so earnestly prayed for when the sea had done threatning it was mercifull ere I was aware of it as if God would surprise me with deliverance and I could scarce believe that I was come to a harbour when I was told so the newes was so unexpected and sudden to me that I was like those men that had prayed long for the returne of the captivity of Babylon and it was the conclusion of many prayers and when they saw that the Lord did accomplish it on a sudden and the thing was done in a trice they were as men in a dream Psal 126.1 verse they could scarce believe it was so so the Lord wrought deliverance for Peter suddenly when he was fast asleepe and did not so much as think of it and so the Lord delivered Joseph out of prison on a sudden which shewed he had heard his prayer therefore blessed be his Name for ever And this the Lord doth to overcome the heart and to draw out the affections unto himselfe and that he might be admired of his Saints that they finding him giving in Jweet and unexpected deliverances may returne everlasting praises unto him and glory in the God of their salvation Psal 40.10 11. verses that they may learne alwayes to trust him for we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selvs but in God which raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that hee will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1.9.10 The Lord hath his path in the whirlewinde and in the storme Nahum 2.3 verses And the Lord answered Job out of the whirlewind Iob 38.2 verse and said verse 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth hast thou entred into the springs of the Sea or hast thou walked in the search of the deeps hath the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou seen the doores of the shadow of death verse 7.2 King 3.11 And Eliah went up in a whirle winde into heaven so that wee may see when the Lord descends to the creature Exod. 1918. or calls for it to ascend up to him it is in some marvelous and extraordinary manner as by stormes and whirlewindes fiery Chariots and thick clouds and hee gives us the reason why he doth so in Exod 19 9. that the people may believe for ever when he speakes to them God hath severall wayes to speak and after severall manner he doth reveale himselfe to the sons of men under the Gospell as well as under the Law although some will not believe although one should come from the dead to speak to them when the morning starres sing together and all the the sons of God shout for joy or who shut up the Sea with doores when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the wombe and said hitherto shall thy proud waves come and no further and here shall they be stayed Where the Lord Jesus is broken forth in spirit where he is risen forth from the dead there is a glorious appearance of the presence of God which fills the soule with joy when Mary came to Elizabeth she said what am I that the