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	soul_n	speak_v	6,085	5	4.7010	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92847	An arke against a deluge: or, Safety in dangerous times. Discovered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons, at their late extraordinary fast, October 22. 1644. / By Obadiah Sedgwicke, Batchelour in Divinity, and pastour of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of the said House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing S2364; Thomason E17_18; ESTC R11991	18,247	36

the recoyling the crouching the flight of the soul in the apprehension of an absent imminent prevalent and approaching evill the Schoolemen and others distinguish thus There is a threefold fear 1. Timor poenae A fear of punishment which some call Timorem Gehernalem Servilem this is raised by the justice of God threatning by no meanes to clear the guilty 2. Timor offensae a fear of sinning and this is raised by the kindnesse of God whose presence and bounty causeth an exceeding fear to offend him 3. Timor Reverentiae A Reverentiall fear and this is raised by the Greatnesse and Majesty and Ability of God and it is like that of a child to his Father or of a wife to her Husband some use I shall make of this distinction anone but for the present take me thus There is a double Fear G. Paris Pusillanimitutis 1. One of Distraction or amazement which routs the soul and crusheth all its faculties disabling their command and use in matters either spirituall or civill take heed of this fear fear such a fear as this which is too hard for Reason and Religion too 2. Another of Discretion and Judgement flowing Cantae Declinationis from faith Timor debitus as Aquinas stiles it a fear when a man should fear and as a Christian should fear to this shall I apply my discourse such a fear as this should be in us when God threatens dangers And it comprehends 4. things in it 1. An awaking of the Souls of men a rouzing of 4. Things in duc Fear them out of a Lethargie a shaking off of the Spirit of slumber and deep sleepe Fear speaks to the soul as the Marriners to Jonah when the ship was endangered Awake thou sluggard why sleepest thou It opens those carelesse and secure eyes to see the Lord displeased indeed and now upon the way marching towards the destruction of a Nation or person We can see wrath and fury in men and be moved but right fear seeth wrath in God it sees the King of heaven and earth displeased and all the arrows of vengeance which flye up and down all of them taken out of his Quiver and cast abroad and shot by his just and mighty hand That the controversie with the land is his controversie and the sword which is bathed in blood is his sword and that it shall accomplish his pleasure to the full till he be pacified with us 2. A Concussion of the Soul under this Apprehension the Text doth not say onely that Noah feared but it saith that he was moved with fear the meaning is this That God thus apprehended in the Greatnesse of his wrath and power should exceedingly affect us the Indignation of the Almighty should make a dint Heb. 12. 19 21. and strong Impression upon our hearts As Moses when he was upon the mount and heard the sound of the Trumpet and the voyce of words and saw also the burnings with fire he did exceedingly Fear and Quake So when we heare either by the voyce of Gods Ministers or by the Trumpet of Gods reall warnings or by the devouring flames of his acting wrath that God is provoked by us and incensed against us this must make us like David to fall flat down upon our faces or like Moses to quake or like Habakkuk to quiver with fear Who should not fear thee O King of Nations There are three sorts of behaviour under Gods anger 3. Sorts of men and Judgements 1. Some utterly carelesse disrespective and deaf though God cryes aloud in the wayes of vengeance these men are like foolish children running out to play in the midst of thunder and lightning or rather like Zimri and Cozbi then impudently sinning when God was judicially destroying the Campe for sinning Secondly some are onely amazed and astonished at the first blow perhaps at the beginning of a judgement a little husht and stirred and wrought on but perceiving the danger to keep a distance they grow bold to sin still like the Frogs we read of all silenced on a sudden when Jupiter threw down the great beams among them but observing their immunity they put on their confidence and old note again Thirdly others are throughly affected and stirred in the apprehension of Gods displeasure As seeing more than heaven in his favour and more then hell in his wrath our protection safety happinesse in that and our losse desolation and compleat misery in this These are persons who will Fear the Lord and His displeasure For who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger Nahum 1 6. 3. A solemn consideration upon both the former The School-men say that Timor facit consiliativos And the Philosopher saith that Fear makes men wise for it makes them flee to counsel There is nothing more suspicious and more inquisitive then Fear for as in Love all the soul is called in to obtain or rejoyce so in Fear all the soul is called in to consider and advise how either to prevent or to sustain the approaching evil Now there are two grand enquiries which Fear makes upon the apprehension of Gods displeasure one is What have we done thus to provoke God Two enquiries of Fear another is What may we do to pacifie this provoked God As when Joshua's heart melted with Fear because God went out against his own people before Ai why What is the matter Lord saith Joshua that Israel turn their backs upon their enemies Israel hath sinned saith God And now Joshua makes a narrow search to finde out the sinner he searcheth from Tribe to Tribe from family to family from man to man till Achan was found out And when Achan who was the cause of Gods displeasure was found out Joshua stones him to death and then all was well again 4. A quick care to use all proper means by which God may be pacified and judgements removed You never knew a man full of Fears who was not also a man full of Cares Give me a Christian who fears about his eternall salvation this man will take care and give all diligence to work out his salvation and to make his calling sure Give me a person who fears his corporall safety this person cannot sleep for care how he shall preserve and secure himself Grief makes men heavie and Pleasure makes men carelesse and Despair makes men uselesse and Fear makes men carefull and diligent The Lord threatens Nineveh with destruction the Ninevites believe this and fear this fear commands Jonah 3. an immediate Fasting and humbling and crying unto God and repenting Jehoshaphat apprehends the danger of Invasion and 2 Chron. 20. 3. the Text saith He feared but then it immediately subjoyns And set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a Fast. Jacob he feared his brother Esau I fear him saith Jacob lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children But this Fear sets on Prayer and