Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	call_v	spirit_n	13,631	5	5.4279	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19605	The crib of ioy containing spirituall exercise, for Christmasse. S. Steuen. S. Iohn. Innocents. Circumcision. Epiphanie.; Crib of joy.		1611 (1611)	STC 6039.5; ESTC S120351	14,693	50

to saue vs from the curse of the law Circumcised to take vpon him the similitude of sinfull flesh for that was a sacrament of originall corruption Called Iesus that he might saue his people from their sinnes as the Angell expounded his name vnto Ioseph This Circumcision he first suffered for vs in the flesh and after performed the true effect thereof within vs by his Spirit to wit a Circumcision made without hands as the Apostle speakes by putting off the sinfull bodie of the flesh through the circumcision of Christ who by his spirituall knife first cutteth off the foreskinne of our hearts and makes them bleede in sorrow for our sinnes past for Circumcision is a bloudie thing as Zipporah said to Moses and he that will be a true Israelite his heart must bleed 2. The foreskin being remoued which hardned our hearts before there followeth a tendernesse of conscience which giueth a quicker sense of future transgression Next he purgeth the vine branches that they may bring forth more fruite circumcising all superfluous and vaine cogitations in vs lopping all luxurious affections lest ouergrowing they might ouerthrow vs like Absolons haire for want of cutting So are we also of circumcised lips and eares when our mouth shall speake no vanitie and our eares relish the word of wisedome Thus renewed in heart and affection in soule and bodie when old things are passed 2. Cor. 5.17 and all things are become new we may offer and present vnto God the poore widowes offering of two mites our soule and bodie to be a liuing sacrifice and an acceptable New-yeares gift vnto him since it is all that we haue thereby assuring our selues that our names are knowne and called and written in heauen for the Spirit hath circumcised vs. EPIPHANIE WE may well conclude with the manifestation of Christ vnto the Gentiles For without this all that hath bene said is nothing vnto vs who be as the Apostle telleth vs sinners of the Gētiles But now God perswades Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem that is Gen. 9.27 the Gentiles which came of Iapheth to ioyne themselues vnto the Church which is the posteritie of Shem for which thing father Noah prayed long since Iob 38.13 Now the morning takes hold of the corners of the earth as God said to Iob that the wicked might be shaken out of it for the Sun of righteousnesse shineth to the men of the East Zachar. 2.4 Now Ierusalem begins to be inhabited without wals as Zachary prophesied when the Church shall not be hemmed within the precinct of that nation Now the great mystery of godlinesse is reuealed when God manifested in the flesh is preached to the Gentiles For these VVisemen were the first fruits of the Gentiles whereupon followed a mightie haruest The haruest indeede is great Go and teach all nations This word of life in Dauids time was but a light and a lanterne Ps 119. v. 105. Nun. now it is a morning Starre appearing in the East and after a Sunne of righteousnesse which enlighteneth euery one that cometh into the world Ioh. 1.9 whose beames directly behold these corners and ends of the world vpon which the firmamentall Sunne looketh but asquint Now is the Gospell preached as Christ gaue in commandement vnto euery creature not vnto men onely but euen to those barbarous nations which scarce caried the face of men these silly creatures in times past vnacquainted with the lawes of ciuill humanitie This is the meane crop the first fruits were the wise men of the East with whom Christ dealeth in their owne art that he might haue the faster hold of them for he leadeth them by a starre because they were Astronomers and therefore able to discerne a miracle in that kind So he dealt with his owne Disciples by sea stilling the tempest and causing Peter to walke vpon the waters because they were watermen by those miraculous draughts of fish because they were fishermen hereby shewing himselfe to be that wise maister-fisher of soules which fitteth his baite to euery kind VVe see the goodnesse of God vnto the Gentiles in that Christ was manifested to those men shall we learne the dutie of the Gentiles towards God by the deuotion of these men vnto Christ They came to worship him in heart in bodie and in goods they opened their treasuries and where the treasure is there is the heart The heart commands the bodie as the Centurion his seruant saying to the foot Go and it goeth c. Neither did they come to worship Christ emptie handed Deut. 16.16.17 but brought with them such gifts as their countrey did affoord gold incense and myrrhe Aurumregi Thus Deo Myrrhamorituro Gold not so much to relieue the wants of his poore parents who were able to compasse no better a birth-chamber then a stable as to shew themselues tributaries to his Maiesty vnto whom was giuen the heathen for his inheritance Psal 2.8 and the ends of the world for his possessions Frankencense was brought not so much to sweeten the place as by incense to acknowledge the Deitie of the Son of God Myrrhe was also offered with no lesse mysterie then Mary her ointment at the day of his buriall for it is to preserue his dead bodie from corruption who being dead and buried yet saw no corruption 1 If then wee receiue Christ for our heauenly King and Soueraigne of our soules in obedience vnto his Euangelicall law it is as much as if we brought gold and much fine gold 2 If we offer vp prayers and thanksgiuing that is saith Dauid as incense Psal 141.2 and the vplifting of our hands as an euening sacrifice 3 If in deuotion wee relieue the Church and preserue the members of his mysticall bodie militant from corruption distresse and miserie this is as Myrrhe vnto his naturall bodie These be our Christian oblations 1 Obedience to his law the fruite of faith 2 Prayers and supplications grounded vpon hope 3 Deuotion and almes proceeding from charitie towards our brethren Noster enim taleis reddit agellus opes These be all which our earthly mould by the influence of heauen can yeeld which that it may yeeld looke we stedfastly with Elias vpon this little clowde 1. King 18.44 rising at the first no bigger then a mans hand or the breadth of a Crib from which wee desire and expect those manifold drops of the graces of his Spirit to fall vpon our hearts that we may returne vnto him together with his Father and Spirit all praise honour and thankes this time and for euer Amen FINIS