Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	worship_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	4,806	4	12.4611	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64956	The conversion of the soul, or, A discourse explaining the nature of that conversion which is sincere and directing and perswading all to cease their loving sin and death, and to turn to God and live / by Nathanael Vincent ...	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing V403; ESTC R38014	195,915	409

without him O now the Soul honours God above all By these and such like acts of the Soul God is chiefly honoured therefore turning must of necessity be with the Soul. 3. The Soul must turn because it is the Soul that yields Obedience to the great commands both of the Law and Gospel There is not so much as one Precept either in the Law or in the Gospel kept aright unless the Soul keeps it The summ of the Law is Love but Love must be with the Heart and Soul nay it must be with all the Heart and with all the Soul or else it is but a meer shadow and appearance it is but like the Picture of Fire that hath no more heat in it than the Picture of Snow Heark what our Lord saies to him that asked Him Which is the great Commandment in the Law Jesus answered Mat. 22. 37 38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Mind And as the Law calls for Love so it requires Spiritual Worship God is jealous of his Worship and he will accept of none but that which is worship in Truth John 4. 24. God is a Spirit and he will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth Now there cannot be worship in Truth unless it be worship in Spirit All worship is but false and if it be false it must needs be vain that doth not proceed from the Spirit of the Worshipper If you should imploy many hours in a day in pattering over a great many Words that either you don't understand or if you do you don't mind all this would be unacceptable nay it would be abominable Then for the Gospel The two great commands of the Gospel are Faith and Repentance neither of these can be obeyed without the Heart It is the Soul and Heart that believes Rom. 10. 10. With the Heart man believeth unto Righteousness and with the Mouth Confession is made unto Salvation And as for Repentance it is impossible that should be true unless the Spirit be contrite unless the very Heart be broken Tears Complaints walking softly rending the Garments wallowing in Ashes this will not prove the truth of Repentance the Heart must be broken or else you have not truly repented Psal 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and a contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise And so in Psal 34. 18. The Lord is nigh to them that are of a broken Heart and saveth such as be of a conitite Spirit 4. Lastly The Soul must turn to God because Judgment at the great day will be according to Truth Then the Secrets of all Men will be made manifest when the Lord appears he will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the Counsels of the Heart and then shall every man have Praise of God 1 Cor. 4. 5. At the great Day all things all Persons will be called by their proper Names Hypocrisie will be called Hypocrisie and Saints will be called Saints No Hypocrite will be owned for a Saint at that day nothing that is counterfeit will pass for currant the Judgment of God will be according to Truth In the day of Judgment only Conversion with the Heart Conversion with the Soul will pass for true Conversion Sincerity will be owned and it will be Crowned Hypocrisie will be unmasked and which should exceedingly startle all unsound Professors of Religion Hell is in a special manner called The Portion of the Hypocrite as it is said to be prepared for the Devil and his Angels I have shewed you when the Soul may be said to be converted unto God I have proved till then Conversion can never be sincere I have demonstrated the Necessity of Conversion with the Soul. The Application of this Doctrine remains I shall be but brief upon it There are two Uses that I shall make By way of Information in the first place And by way of Exhortation in the second place From this Doctrine we may be informed concerning several particulars 1. If sincere Conversion be with the Soul hence we may inferr the Souls Capacity The Soul is chiefly receptive of the Grace of God. It is the Soul of Man that doth principally partake of the divine Nature The Soul of Man hath a natural resemblance of God because as God is a Spirit so the Soul of Man is a spiritual and an immortal Substance And then the Soul doth spiritually resemble God when it is renewed in the spirit of the Mind and when true Holiness by the Spirit of the Lord is wrought in it Eph. 4. 23 24. 2. Hence I inferr the Souls great worth and value Gods Eye is upon your Souls all the while you are in his presence and though you do never so much if you deny him your Hearts and Souls you do nothing that he will accept at your hands Thousands of Rams ten thousand rivers of Oyl the first-born for the transgression the fruit of the body for the sin of the Soul as the Prophet speaks Micah 6. 7. What doth all this signifie All this is nothing nay let me tell you it is worse than nothing Souls are of great account with the Father of Spirits How much was done how much was paid that Souls might be redeemed And therefore in all your Services your Souls must be ingaged or else the ingaging is to no purpose The Conversion of one single Soul to God is more pleasing to him than the most laborious and heartless services of all the Hypocrites from the beginning of the World to the very end of it these Services are so far from being pleasing that they are expresly affirmed to be an abomination unto God. 3. Hence I inferr the difficulty of Conversion If the Soul must be converted certainly Conversion is a very difficult thing It is comparatively more easie though hard still but comparatively it is more easie to order the conversation to bridle the tongue But to rule the spirit to bring the thoughts into Captivity to alter the bent and natural inclination of the Will and to raise the Affections towards those things that are above to make them prized and pursued that before were things utterly sleighted this is difficult indeed and really the difficulty would be insupâ—rable were it not for the Resurrection of Christ and the Power of that Resurrection shewed forth by the Spirit of Christ Before a Soul can turn to God it must be new made it must experience the power of Christs Spirit and it must rise with Christ or else it can never in good earnest seek those things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. Lastly Hence I inferr that in Examining whether we are Converted or no a special Eye must be upon our Hearts and Souls We must take our Souls to task and strictly try them and see what is most suitable to them what they love best and what it is that they desire most And if

12. ult yet they are not too much to be magnified A man may have the Gift of Prophecy who is not a Saint but a worker of Iniquity Mat. 7. 22 23. A man may have the Gift of Prayer that has not the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and then though he Prayes never so well as to outward Expression yet his Heart being carnal proud self-conceited self-designing in his Duties he is really to be rank'd among the carnal and the formal Worshippers Under how many Praying lips are there covetous wrathful lustful and haughty Hearts and these Hearts are far from God whatever good words are given to him And if the Heart is absent from a Duty God is also absent and that Duty as splendid as it seems is really Hypocrisie and Provocation Judas had Gifts and so had Demas but had they saving Grace this World had the highest room in the Heart of the one and of the other I read in Scripture that an evil Spirit came upon Saul and he fell a Prophesying in the house 1 Sam. 18. 10. I have read of a Scottish Major who excelled in the Gift of Prayer but had made a compact with the Devil O Professor do not rest and glory in thy Gifts but humbly use them and be sure let it be within the sphere of thy Calling Labour to excell in Love and lowliness of Mind that 's the way to have the more comfortable evidence of Conversion in thy own spirit and to be the more truly serviceable to the Church of Christ Thus have I discover'd many mistakes about Conversion that your danger might be apprehended and avoided And pray remember that groundless Confidence you are Converted is one of the strongest barrs against the Grace of God one of the mightiest hindrances of Conversion And Oh! how unconceivably woful and dreadful will it be still to continue confident till Hell it self for ever but too late convince you that your Confidence is utterly unreasonable VSE II. If Conversion be thus necessary Behold the madness of refusing to be Converted There is an hereditary Phrenzy that is derived from the old fallen Adam unto all his Posterity not one of his Children is born in his right Wits the Understanding of none return until they are born again Physicians tell us that the signs of Madness are furor audacia fury and boldness and alas how bold are men in Sin They rush into it as an Horse into the battel Jer. 8. 6. They are so daring as to fight against the Almighty though none ever hardned himself against him and prosper'd And these audacious Sinners when reproved and urged to returning and submission they are full of fury and rage and are ready to rend the Reprover The Madness of every one that will not be Converted I shall demonstrate in several particulars and Oh that the Discovery may tend to the Cure of it 1. He that will not be Converted he will not be pardon'd though he is Condemn'd to dye eternally and a Pardon is offer'd him he hears the Gospel which is the Word of Reconciliation he is told that God is ready to forgive forward to be at Peace nay beseecheâ— him to be reconciled 2 Cor. 5. 20. but he will not be intreated he will continue an Enemy he chuses to lye under Guilt and Wrath still and acts so senslesly as if everlasting Burnings were not to be dreaded but to be desired 2. He that will not be Converted he will not be healed of a most deadly Plague though the Physician do offer freely and throughly to Cure him Sin is certainly the sorest Distemper because 't is the Souls Disease No Souls dye but of this Plague and all Souls must perish and be lost that refuse to be healed Christ came on purpose to heal but frantick Sinners are more afraid of their Physician than of their Sickness though never so dangerous and mortal The unjust Man sayes let me alone to be unjust still though my Vnrighteousness hinder my entrance into the Heavenly Kingdom the proud Man sayes let me be proud still whatever the Scripture speaks of Gods resisting the Proud the unclean Sinner sayes let me be filthy still if I can't go to Heaven without being Holy I care not to come thither Thus Jerasalem of old would not be cleansed the Lord offer'd to sanctifie and heal her but she would by no means consent to it Jer. 13. 27. Woe unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be 3. He that will not be Converted is certainly frantick for he will not be eased of a load that he can't bear Can he stand under the weight of thousands and millions of Iniquities No no the least of all is heavy enough to sink him into Hell Oh how exceeding low will he be depressed under the whole number Can he bear up under the Almighty's Indignation that Wrath has such righteousness and strength with it that none can stand before it Now if the Sinner would become a Convert Iniquity should be removed divine Anger appeased through a Mediatour but he utterly rejects the motion 4. He that will not be Converted is resolved to remain poor though the greatest Treasure the Pearl of price be proffer'd him and may be had for prizing and acceptance The second Adam tells us how we are beggar'd in the first those words may truly be applyed to every natural Man Thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Rev. 3. 17. Now our Lord adds v. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me Gold tryed in the fire that thou mayest be rich This Gold can't be bought too dear nay 't is bought without money and without price Parting with our Sins and Idols which we preferr'd before this tried Gold and willingness to have it is in a Gospel sense buying of it But Unconverted Sinners are so poor in understanding that they preferr their beggery and lusts before all the Vnsearchable Riches of Christ 5. He that will not be Converted is resolved to be a Slave though he is called unto Liberty In the Gospel Liberty is proclaimed to the Captives and the opening of the Prison to them that are bound Isa 61. 1. The Son of God did and suffer'd much to procure this Liberty he paid a vast Price when he gave himself a ransom But frantick Sinners are fond of their Fetters they chuse to be drudges in the basest work which is the working of Iniquity they fancy such is the distemper and vanity of their Imagination the bondage of Corruption though the worst of bondage and the forerunner of being for ever in Chains of Darkness to be easie and pleasant and they will not come to the Son to make them free indeed 6. He that will not be Converted the Hopes that he entertains are most unreasonable He Promises to himself safety though in the greatest danger he sayes he shall have Peace though the way of Peace he knows not but goes in

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