Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	sin_n	soul_n	work_n	7,280	5	5.6981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41671	The sabbaths sanctification ... by W.G.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing G1395; ESTC R31086	24,639	54

his day The like must be done by servants in the needfull services which they doe So in sitting at table to eate meate wee must use all convenient speed To rise the sooner from bed and table and to doe all needfull servile workes the more speedily because it is the Lords day argueth a good respect to God and his service 33 Q. What other caution is to be observed A. Such servil workes as are permitted on the Sabbath must be performed as Sabbath daies workes Such respect must be had to this sacred time as we ought to endeavour to turne all things so farre as wee can to a sanctification of that day 34 Q. How may they be so done A. 1. With due respect to the end 2. With like respect to the manner The end and manner make much to the qualifying of that we doe An evill end and manner much pervert the things we doe but a good end and manner adde much to the glory of warrantable things 35 Q. What is the end to be aimed at A. To be better enabled to workes of piety 1. King 19. 7. This end especially if indeed we doe the better what we are enabled to doe which is the right use and proper effect of the end this end maketh servile works to become Sabbath works For instance if going to bed the evening before the Sabbath we pray to have quiet rest for this end that we may more cheerefully doe the duties of the Sabbath that sleep is a Sabbath sleep so to eat and drinke for that end is a Sabbath eating and drinking So in other things 36 Q. After what manner must they be done A. With raising matter of spirituall meditation from them Luk. 14. 7. On the Lords day our mind ought to be so heavenly as thereby every thing should be done after an heavenly manner not onely workes of piety but also every other worke that we doe thereon should be so done When we first wake we should call to mind what day it is and desire God to sanctifie us to the duties thereof Rising out of bed should bring to our minde the first resurrection out of sinne and the second out of the grave In apparelling our selves we should meditate on the adorning of our soules In washing face and hands thinke on the cleansing of our soules Servants in making and blowing the fire should thence take occasion of stirring up the fire of Gods Spirit in them In preparing meate they should thinke of the food of their soules There is nothing which may lawfully be done from which a pious minde may not draw matter of heavenly meditation whereby the things from which meditation is drawne are sanctified 37 Q. May servil works be done on the Sabbath though they hinder duties of piety A. Yea. Mat. 12. 7. God doth not so strictly tie us as fall what will or can fall out we must goe to Church This phrase not sacrifice Hos. 6. 6. implieth that there may be cases wherein God doth not expect sarcrifices that is externall duties of piety to be performed by us 38 Q. What are those servil works which may be done though they hinder duties of piety A. Such as are of an absolute necessity This absolute necessity hath relation to mans need namely that it is necessary that such and such things be done or els some great dammage or prejudice will come to man 39 Q. How may that absolute necessity be knowne A. If that which must needs be done could not be done the day before nor can be put off to the day after This implies a necessity of the present performance even upon the Sabbath day This first is laid downe as a ground that it must needs be done then it is taken for grant that it could not be done the day before and also that it cannot be put off to the day after therefore it remaines that it must be done on the Lords day For instance A tile falls on a mans head and soarely wounds him on the Lords day It is necessary that succour be afforded to this man The day before nothing could be done for his cure because no man knew he would be hurt Succour must not be put off to the day after least the man perish for want of succour Such therefore as are able to helpe him must doe it though thereby the duties of piety be hindred Note for this purpose Joh. 7. 23. 40 Q. Of what sorts are those workes of absolute necessity A. 1. Ordinary 2. Extraordinary Ordinary are such as for the most part happen every Sabbath and some-where or other are performed on that day Extraordinary are such as may fall out and sometimes do fall out but very seldome and it is a lamentable accident when any of them doe fall out 41 Q. What instances may be given of ordinary servil works which hinder duties of piety A. 1. Tending young children 2. Keeping sick and impotent persons 3. Helping women in travell Most families have some young children which cannot looke to themselves nor be brought to Church without disturbance of the whole Congregation Very oft it falls out in every City and Towne that some be sicke or otherwise impotent by age or some casualty so as they cannot goe to Church but require some to tarry with them and to attend upon them And in what day of the yeare doth it not fall out that some women in one place or other fall in travell If every day then also every Lords day But it is requisite that more then one or two assist them in their travell All these therefore are ordinary servil works whereby some are kept from duties of piety and yet are blamelesse Instance Hannah who tarried from the Temple till her child was weined 1 Sam. 1. 22. and was blamelesse 42 Q. What instances may be given of extraordinary servil workes which hinder duties of piety A. 1. Quenching fire on houses 2. Making up breaches of water 3. Withstanding enemies 4. Freeing living creatures out of present danger The three first of these concerning Fire Water and Enemies are so violent that if present helpe be not afforded against them irrecoverable dammage may soone follow thereupon If therefore in any cases that rule hold mercy and not sacrifice Hos. 6. 6. Mat. 12. 7. most of all in these As for freeing living creatures out of danger we have Christs expresse warrant Mat. 13. 11. Luke 14. 5. If unreasonable creatures are instantly to be pulled out of danger much more reasonable Luk. 13. 15 16. By these particulars which are permitted we may see that a conscionable observing of the Sabbath is not so heavy a yoke as many imagine it to be 43 Q. Is our Lords day now the true Sabbath A. Yes 44 Q. What grounds are there to prove it to be so A. 1. Divine authority This is the best ground that can be even that which is sufficient to settle a mans judgement and conscience Divine authority is that which is