Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	law_n	life_n	sin_n	22,698	5	5.7840	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76236	A relation of a mans return and his travaills out of a long and sore captivitie to partake of that rest, which remaineth to the people of God. Written for the sake of those who wants the consolation of Israel, and would walke in the heavenly way thereof, if they knew it. Written by one of Zyons travellors, Th. Bayles.	Bayle, Thomas.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1470; ESTC R230852	33,900	24

in the Light of the Lord with his ransomed ones and be taught of his wayes and to know his secrets as those did who feard his holy Name For Job was miserable when he scraped his soares with a potsheard and the Lord restored him and David cryed long and sought the Lord and at last he sayd that the Lord had heard him and granted unto him his request so that he in trust in the Lord sayd surely mercie and goodness shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever so dearly did the Lord for ever so dearly did the Lord engage his heart unto him And Paul cryed out O wretched man that I am and yet afterwards he sayd that the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus had set him free from the Law of Sin and death which was the great occasion the Law of Sin and death haveing dominion over him of his wretched wofull state and many others which he had read of and sayd why not I why should not I pertake of the goodness and mercie of the Lord as well as they for he concluded that neither they nor yet any that did pertake thereof which is the benefit that comes by Jesus Christ had more need of it feelingly then he had Thus he entertaind a belief into his heart and sayd that he hoped the Lord was the same to day as yesterday even a God gratiouss and mercifull pardoning iniquity and sin for his owne name sake and that is arme was not shortned that he could not bring forth deliverance as of old time and therefore sayd that he would hope although it were but a litle least he also should be cut of through unbeleife as those who fell short thereby and though he found in him self litle or no cause for it but his necessity I 'l hope and I 'l waite sayd he although it be against hope there may be some what in it more then I know at present This was when he in the deep sence of his state stood as one broken and poured forth before the Lord in teares and sorrow days and nights and he must have it freely and of good will or not at all and in mercie and loveing kindness for he had nought but miserie and necessitie to part with being naked and bear before him for his coverings weare rent and he remained as empty and void of any thing which should have been life or refreshment unto him Now he had read thus I counsel thee to buy of me white rayment that thy nakedness may not appeare and that thy shame may be coverd and in such a state of need he was and necessity unto which that counsell was given and he had tryed many sellers and many merchants whose merchandise he found answerd not to releive him in his necessity and their garments were too short to cover his nakedness with all and haveing essayed for releife where by he might have had hopes and not walked too and fro under the subjection of disconsolation and amazement he thought at the last by the conduct of a secret still and inward vertue that he must buy enjoy and possess that covering which can hide and be sufficient thereunto from the storm in Gods sight of him which searched his heart and tryed his reines which brought to light the thingh of profane Esaw and that stretched forth the rod of Justice and Jugment upon the back of the fool which had sayd in his heart there is no God and that as it is written he stood at the door and had long there stood knocking that he might be opend unto and come in and this he could not deny but must confess although he had an eare and did often heare him knocking yet strove he against him and was loath to yeild or submit thereunto through the unbeleife and hardness of his heart begotten in him by his false and deceitfull adversarie then disguised like a freind But now his necessitous state and deplorable condition enforced him such constraint had the love of God upon his soule to receive him in that he might and his father come in also and sup with him and he with them so the man expected the supper the food the refreshment the covering and salvation and thought it no more then so so alienate and estranged was he from the right way of the Lord in darkness and ignorance but otherwise he found it to be as at a certaine time the Lord said unto him when in a sad bewilderd state he was I will lead thee by a way which thou knowest not and so it came to pass an unknowne way it was wherein he never could make a right or streight step but as his minde inwardly was directed by the guidance hand of his holy power no longer could he see his way or the path in which he was with safety to tread that so he might have hopes at last to pass through into the desire of his soule but as his heart was fixed in relyance upon the Lord out of all his owne strivings motions and contrivances And so the opening of the door was to be which his owne hardness of heart and unbeleife stood against before that he that stood at the door and knockt could get in and the crookednes and perverssnes that the way of the Lord migh be prepared and his entrance in be through faith in him and thus the voice of a burning and shining Light cryed prepare the way of the Lord make his path streight Thus the doing of all those forementioned lets and hinderances away and leagues and covenants with hell and death must be parted with broken and made void and that by him his assistance who comes with his fan in his hand thorowly to purge his floore till when no supper could be enjoyed although here a litle and there a litle of the crums thereof might fall downe unto him by way of encouragement and to teach him that worthy was the Lord to be waited upon and sought after in the way of his Judgments For so began they to be manifested with in him as a refiners fire as fullers soape the burning heat whereof and sharp pierceings made him to feare exceedingly that the wheat would have been consumed with the chaffe that his small hopes which did arise in him from the experience he had as in the twinckling of an eye beheld of the mercie of the Lord and weak resolution and himself must for ever have been consumed in its gloriouss and righteouss workings thus was he fild with dread and feare before the Lord and the ariseings of his gloriouss power And Moses saw a bush burning with fire and the bush not consumed thereby and Moses turned aside to see that great sight and the Lord spoke from out there and sayd unto him put of thy shoes from of thy feet for the ground where on thou stands is holy and Moses hid his face and was