Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	lord_n	people_n	word_n	7,267	5	4.0951	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33343	The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4555; ESTC R23711	51,972	277

Ministers great pains-takers but like ignoble and hoggish Gadarens they will grumble at every penny expended for the maintenance of the divine candle that wasteth it selfe to give light to them 439 As a little Barke in a small river may doe farre better service then a greater ship so a Preacher that hath but meane gifts may serve meane capacities as well or better then one that hath greater 440 Gods Ministers are Vines that bring forth grapes but Magistrates are the Elms that underprop them Ministers defend the Church with tongue and pen the Magistrates with hand and power Ministers are Preachers of both Tables Magistrates the Keepers the executive power of the word and Sacraments belongs alone to Ministers but the directive and coactive for the orderly and well performance belongs to the Magistrate 441 A Minister is to desire rather to enflame then enforme his Auditors 442 Iacob would not have misliked the corne though the silver had not beene brought in the sacks mouth so a Sermon should not be misliked if it bring corne to feed hunger though the Preachers mouth bring not gold to feed the humour of every wanton Auditor 443 Luther speaking of the Clergy sets a Probatum est upon a most desperate conclusion Nunquam periclitatur Religio nisi inter reverendissimos 444 It s better to loose the lights of heaven then Ministers which are lights to guide to Heaven 445 He that makes use of the light of the Ministery to worke by its hard if hee cannot get so much by his worke as will pay for his light 446 Bishops should bee Lamps to set up light in the Church not Damps to put it out 447 Paradise was the first Parish that had a Sermon in it and Adam was the first Auditors that heard it and the fall of man was the first text and God was the first Preacher upon that text 449 Solon Lycurgus Numa in publishing their Lawes brought many things against the rule of reason but nothing above the reach of nature but Gods Ministers in preaching the Law of God teach nothing against the rule of nature but many things above the reach of reason 450 When Paul preached to Faelix the accused party triumphed and the Iudge trembled but if touched with affecting words he had turned to Christ Faelix had beene happy indeed 451 The Apostles were like fishermen catching many at one draught The succeeding Ministers like Hun●smen with much toile clamour running up down al day scarse take one deer or hare ere night 452 The liveless letter forvivacity efficacy comes far short of the living voice 453 As Zenophon saith of Cyrus court that though a man should choose blindfold hee could not misse of a good man ●here so neither can one misse of a good text in the whole Bible wherein there is not a word but it hath its weight not a syllable but its substāce 454 Many which will give their Physician leave to tell them of the distempers of their bodies and their Lawyer of the flawes in their deeds yet will not give their Minister leave to tell them that their soules are bleeding to eternall death 453 Many English Ministers may preach of hospitality to their people but cannot goe to the beast to practise their own doctrine 454 Those Ministers that are informed or inflamed rather with the heavenly heat of zeale have a double property 1 Positive for the furtherance of Gods glory and the salvation of others 2 Oppositive against al errour and corruption both in Doctrine and Practise Errores mores 455 Gods Ministers must upon every opportunity use importunity for the raising of sinners out of that dead Lethargy whereinto Satan and an evill custome hath cast them 456 Ministers should be as the Cedars of Lybanus tall and that admit not of any worms yea as the tree of Paradise sweet for tast and faire to look upon 457 The Ministers life is the life of his ministery and Teachers sins are the Teachers of sins 458 Though soules of men be light because materiall yet they will prove an heavy burthen to carelesse Pastors who must answer for them 459 As God is said to hold his peace though hee doe speake when hee doth not punish Psal. 50.21 So hee is said to preach though he speake not when hee doth punish his judgements being reall Sermons of reformation and repentance Mich. 6.9 460 The church here is not in a state of perfection but like the Israelites in the wildernesse the blackest night had a Pillar of fire and the brightest day had a Pillar of cloud 461 The more the Church is afflicted for Christ the more she is affected to Christ 462 Its wisdome for those that are but of the House of Commons to grant a subsidy of sighes for those that are but of the common Councell to take order for a presse of prayers for those that are but private subjects of the Kingdome of Grace to contribute a benevolence of teares towards the quenching of those flames with which the Church of God is on fire 463 As in a paire of Ballances when one scale is up the other must needs bee downe and when one is downe the other is up So if Babell get aloft Ierusalem lyeth low and if Ierusalem rise Babell must fall 463 As the Sonne of Croesus that never spake before seeing one going about to kill his Father through vehemency of tender affection cryed out O man wilt thou kill Croesus So when our Mother the Church is in danger if we have beene dumbe all our life time before yet then wee should have a mouth to open in Prayer for her 464 The Romans lost many a Battell and yet were conquerours in all their warres so it is with Gods Church she hath and may loose many a Battell but in the conclusion the Church shall conquer 465 A man brought many bookes of the Sybils to a King of the Romans and asking a great price for them the King would not give it then the man burnt one halfe of them and asked double the rate for the rest the King refused again and he did the like with halfe of those that remayned and doubled the price againe and then the King considering the valew of them gave him the price he asked so if we forbeare to bid Prayers for the peace of the Church the time may come that wee may be content to bid blood and our whole estates and yet not to doe the Church one quater so much good as wee may now by our prayers 466 As the light of the Sunne doth by reflection from the Moone enlighten that part of the earth or by a glasse that part of the roome from which it selfe is absent so though the Church bee here absent from the Lord yet his spirit by the word doth enlighten and governe it 467 If the people of God fall to remissenesse in life with Ely and from thence to open profanenesse with Phineas then Icabod will follow

come out of that state of sinne then sin begins to hang heavy and hee feeles the great weight of it 67 As a living member is no burthen nor cumbersome to us but a dead one is so as long as Sinne lives in the soule ' it s nothing cumbersome but when it s once mortified it becomes a great burthen to us 68 As the out-rage of Pirats will not cause two States at peace together to enter into warre unlesse the one state consent to and maintaine them in their rapine so ' it s not the rising of lust in our hears that breaks the peace betweene God and us unlesse they be consented to approved of and nourished with some presumption 69 As in a corne field unlesse wee manure and plow and weed it it will waxe fallow and be overcome with weeds so ' it s with our hearts except we plow them and weed them and watch over them they will soone bee over growne with lusts 70 Puntoes formalities and cuts and fashions and distances and complements which are now the darling sins of the upper end of the world shall in the end prove nothing but well acted vanities 71 The adulterating of wares the counterfeiting of lights the double weights and false measures and the courteous equivocations of men greedy of gaine which are almost woven into the very art of trading shall in the end prove the mysteries of iniquity and selfe-deceivings 72 Such as study play-bookes Pasquils Romanses c. Which are the curious needle-worke of idle braines doe but load their heads with Apes and Peacocks feathers in stead of pearles and precious stones 73 The conflict of the godly is with the unholinesse of sinne but the conflict of the wicked is only with the guilt and other sensuall commodities of sinne the first hates sin because it hath filth in it to pollute the other feares sin because it hath fire in it to burne the soule 74 As a noble mans child stolne away and brought up by some lewd begger cannot conceive or suspect the honour of his blood so unable is corrupted nature that hath beene borne in a wombe of ignorance bred in a hel of uncleannesse and enthralled from the beginning to the Prince of darkenesse to conceive or convince a man of that most holy and pure condition wherein he was first created 75 The best wit without heavenly wisedome makes us either the devils instruments to trudge upon his errands to drudge in his service or his implements to weare his coat to make him pastime 76 The workes of naturall men doe neither begin in God nor looke towards God nor tend to God God is neither the principall nor the object nor the end of them 77 The Spirit opens sinne in the soule as a Chrirurgion doth a wound in a close roome with fire friends and remedies about him but the Devill first drawes a man from Christ from the word from the promises and then strips the soule and opens the wound thereof in the cold ayre only to kill and torment not to cure and releeve 78 It is as great a work of the Spirit to forme Christ in the heart of a Sinner as it was to fashion him in the wombe of a Virgin 79 Outward temptation prevented inward corruption in our first parents but inward corruption prevents outward temptation in us 80 Most carry themselves as men to men recompensing love with love againe but as Devils towards God recompensing his love with hatred 81 We make God stay our leisure in turning from sinne therefore hee may well make us stay his leisure in pardoning of it 82 Want of sorrow for sinne is a greater argument of want of love to God then the sin it selfe 83 A Glutton may fill his belly but he cannot fill his lust a covetous man may have his house full of money but hee can never have his heart full of money And an ambitious man may have titles enough to over-charge his memory but never to fill his pride 84 Water mingled with wine doth not take away the substance of wine but weakens it so our smaller sins doe not take away the nature of good deeds but weaken them and make them lesse perfect 85 Blacke besprinkled upon white takes not away the whole colour of white but only darkens it so our good workes are not rooted up by our infirmities but onely defaced and obscured 86 An unadvised practise comming from ignorance is farre more tolerable then wilfull disobedience convicted and condemned by knowledge 87 In Adam and Christ no thoughts were misplaced but though they were as many as the stars yet they kept their rankes and marched in their courses but ours as Meteors daunce up downe in us 88 As in printing let the letters be never so faire yet if not placed in their order and rightly composed they marre the sense so are our best thoughts if mistuned or misplaced 89 Our thoughts at best are like wanton Spaniels who though they go with and accompany ther Master and come to their journies end with him yet do run after every bird and wildly pursue every flock of sheepe they see 90 If wee would but looke over the coppies of our thoughts which we write continually wee should find as much non-sense in them as we find in mad mens speeches 91 Whereas men should draw crosse lines over their sinnes and blot them out through faith in Christs blood they rather coppy and write them over againe in their thoughts with the same contentment as they first acted them 92 Thoughts are the first begotten and eldest sons of originall sin yea and the Parents and begetters of all other sins their brethren the first Contrivers and Achitophels of all the treasons and rebellions of our hearts and lives the bellowes and incendiaries of all inordinate affections the panders to all our lusts and the disturbers in all good duties 93 If we have not mine of precious truths hid in our hearts no wonder if our thoughts coine nothing but drosse frothy thoughts for better materials which should feed the mint are wanting 94 As to prevent wind which ariseth from emptinesse men use to take a good draught in the morning so to prevent those vaine windy thoughts which the heart naturally engenders and which arise from emptinesse bee sure every morning first to fill thy heart with thoughts of God 95 Heauen hath a Pillory whereon Pia fraus her selfe shall be punished 96 He that surpriseth truth with an ambush of equivocation is as bad an enemy as he that fights against her with a flat lye in open field 97 A lye once set on foot besides the first Founder meets with many Benefactors who contribute their charity thereunto 98 Slender and leane slanders quickly consume themselves but he that is branded with a great crime though false when the wound is cured yet his credit will bee killed with the scarre 99 Slanderers slay no lesse then three at once with one blast