Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	power_n	soul_n	word_n	7,471	5	4.1227	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85734	Christ the Christians choice. Or A sermon preached at the funerall of Mr John Cavvs one of the magistrates of the famous corporation of Plymouth. March the 29. Anno Dom. 1645. By Alexander Grosse. B.D. and pastor of Bridfoad.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing G2069; Thomason E286_19; ESTC R200080	22,210	24

CHRIST THE CHRISTIANS CHOICE OR A Sermon preached at the Funerall of Mr JOHN CAVVS one of the MAGISTRATES of the FAMOVS CORPORATION of PLYMOVTH March The 29. Anno Dom. 1645. By ALEXANDER GROSSE B.D. and Pastor of Bridfoad Phil. 1.21 To mee to live is Christ and to dye is gaine Psal. 73.24 Thou shalt guide me with thy Counsell and afterward receive me to glory Psal. 73.25 VVhome have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Psal. 73.26 My heart and my flesh faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever LONDON Printed by R. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the Gilt Cup under St. Augustines Gate 1645. Philippians Chapter 1. Vers 23. Having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is farre better NOah left the earth to enter into the Arke The children of Israel left the land of Egipt for the fruition of the land of Canaan Every santified and beleeving soule is willing to leave all that it may fully enter into Christ that it may have a compleat fruition of Christ who is all in all Better then all infinitely more then all to every regenerate and gracious soule No prisoner but is willing to leave the prison-house for the enjoyment of his owne house No excile but is willing to leave the land of banishment for the repossession of his owne Country No soule that knowes its owne bondage under corruption it s owne alienation and exilement from Christ in part at least during the dayes of its abode in this earthly tabernacle but with Paul hath a desire to depart and be with Christ which is farre better This our deceased Brother making use a little before his death of these words to his wife almost to the same purpose Saint Paul made use of them to his Philippians Haveing a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is farre better Neverthelesse to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you Is that which invited and moved me to treat of these words in this houre of his funerall and from them to deduce some instructions for the proffet and consolation of the living The words propound unto us and present before us the choyse of a gracious soule the Paradise wherein it desires to dwell the Sun which it desires to behold the Pearle which it desires to possesse the Haven wherein it desires to harbour the Tree whereon it longs to feed and the Fountains whereof it doth desire to draw and drinke a full and everlasting draught even Iesus Christ and nothing else Haveing a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is farre better In the words there is 1. Motus a motion the internall moving stirring longing and working of the soule excited assisted inabled acted moved framed and disposed bent and inclined thereunto by the gracious presidentiall active and mighty power of the holy spirit Like the motion and stirring of the heart of a prisoner longing after and looking out at the prison windowes for some tidings of liberty and freedom like the motion of a man in darknes waiting for the appearance of the light like the motion of a wife in the time of her husbands absence looking for and expecting her husbands returne a motion raised excited quickned and strengthned by a collation and comparison of the soules future felicity with its present misery as the husbandman compares the joy of his future harvest with the labour of his present winter The souldier the glory of his future Crowne with the difficulty of his present battle The traviller the comfort of his future Paradice with the sadnes of his present Wildernes lively sence of present misery sweet and powerfull apprehension of future and ensueing glory fill the soule truly gracious with longings of unwearied and sacred vehemency Assurance of future happines makes a good man restles under the presant burthen of his corruption Here is Movens The party longing desiring to depart and that is Paul a chosen vessell afaithfull servant of God a liveing member of Christ None can truly desire to be dissolved but he that is sure to be saved No man willingly leaveth his present habitation but he that is assured of a better dwelling No wise man willingly to cast of his present garment but he that hath another a better to put on No man can be upon right grounds willing to be dissolved but only that man who is truely fanctified he who is not throughly interested in Christ cannot willingly leave all for Christ Eleazar Abrahams servant put a jewell upon Rebeccaas face and bracelets upon her hands and gave her jewels of silver and jewels of gould and rayment and then shee was willing to goe with him willing to leave all and enjoy Jsaac for her husband That soule alone which Christ beautifieth with the saveing gifts of his spirit the love tokens of Christ better gifts then jewels of silver and gold Js the soul the only soule that can forsake the dearest things of this life that can readily leave its habitation in this mortall flesh and take up its everlasting abode with Christ Here is Termin●s the terme whereunto this gracious foule moves and that is double the one Privative the other Positive the first Privative a desire to depart or be dissolved exprossing the nature of death not an Annihilation but a dissolution a seperation of the foule and body the foule is now in the body as a bird in the cage a prisoner in the prison house a traviller walking under a cloud and therfore much desires a discharge and exemption from his fad and burthensome condition No child of God desires death under the naked and simple notion of death it is in it selfe the King of terrours repugnant and disstructive to nature a thing never desired for it selfe but for some other thing therfore here is Secondly a Positive terme wherein this motion and desire of the foule ends that is in the fruition of Christ that he may be fully and everlastingly with Christ that he may come out of the prison of the flesh to be clad with glory to sit downe and raign with Christ as Joseph came out of prison haveing his prison garments taken from him a Gould ring put upon his finger royall apparell put upon his backe and made the second person next to the King in the Kingdome of Egypt that he may come out of all the servitude and slavery bondage and troubles of this life to triumph with Christ leaving sinne Satan and the world behind him conquered subdued distroyed as Israel came out of the waters of the red Sea triumphing leaving Pharaoh and the Egiptians there drowned behind them The fruition of the Lord Iesus makes death desirable and lovely in the eies of al truebeleevers Here is Motivum The motice which sets the soule on worke thus to desire to be with Christ and this is drawne Ab V●●● From the fruit and benefit thero