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	part_n	whole_a	26,351	5	6.3148	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13082	Scotlands warning, or a treatise of fasting containing a declaration of the causes of the solemne fast, indyted to bee kept in all the Churches of Scotland, the third and fourth sundayes of this instant moneth of May Anno 1628.& the weeke dayes betwixt them, as they may be goodly keeped in Townes. Together with a direction how to proceed in the religious obseruation of any soleme fast. Written at the appointment of superiors by Mr. W. Struther, preacher of the Gospel at Edinburgh.	Struther, William, 1578-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 23370; ESTC S120441	41,231	90

we humbled our selues before him he commanded the destroying Angel to depart from vs. An. 1625. When hee threatened extreame Famine in the rotting of all our Cornes wee called on him by Fasting and Praying immediatelie thereafter for seuen weekes gaue such serenitie as scarcelie any man doeth remember the like Anno 1626. Hee is that same God that hee was then And if we will run to him in true Repentance hee both can and will deliuer vs as of before In a word we must processe our selues seuerelie before God 1. In presenting our selues before his fearefull Tribunall and standing there compare our selfe to that righteousnesse of the Law and our God and wee shall finde that our sins are moe than the haires of our head 2. When wee haue found it so wee must cry in the bitternesse of our heart with the Publican knocking on our breast The Lord bee mercifull to mee a sinner Luke 18. 3. This sight of our vilenesse and sorow for it must chase vs to God to begge remission of sinne and to be couered with the righteousnesse of Christ Wash mee throughlie from my sinne and cleanse mee from mine iniquitie Psa. 51. 4. We must striue to find remission sealed vp in the peace of conscience All this processe before God must be formed in our conscience led in a spirituall feeling Many a time we doe the worke of God negligently and content our selues with a light thoght motion of these things But we must labour to bring our conscience to a sight our heartes to a feeling of them without which God cannot bee pleased nor we blessed in this worke And this processing is a great blessing of God because it bringeth vs back to the first processe that God formed in vs at the time of our conuersion and acquainteth vs with that Processe which wee shall see at the last day and shall secure vs from the terrour of it Wee shall then count our selues happie for tymous processing our selues whē we shall see others condemned who now neglect to doe it Further wee must remember our ordinarie measure of Deuotion will not serue our turne in Fasting But as the solemnitie is more than customable occasions So our Deuotion in it must as far exceede our ordinarie as it is aboue ordinarie occasions The Sabbaths seruice had the own measure aboue the daylie Sacrifice So our Griefe Zeale Faith and softnesse of heart must bee seuen fold more than at other times Therfore is it compared to the greatest sorrow as the sorrow of a woman mourning for her first borne and for the Husband of her Youth and that as the mourning of Iudah in the Vallay of Megiddo for the slaughter of Iosiah Zach 12. When our Soules by the Grace of GOD are brought to this holie Disposition we must also take order for our Bodie that it may know in the owne kinde this Exercise that defrauding it of the owne desires wee may bring it to some feeling of that worke that is within it euen of the reasoning betweene God and our Soule that pinching of it is both the chastining and amending of it Wee must abstaine from mirth and solace When Gods Sword is forbished shall wee then make mirth and contemne his rodde ●zech 21. 10. Let the Bride-groome goe foorth of his chamber and the Bride out of her Chamber VVhen God is angry it is not timous nor comelie for vs to sport or giue ourselues to any delight If Nehemiah forbade the people to weepe at the reading of the Law because that day was a festiuitie to God Nehem. 8. Shall it not bee more vnseemelie to laugh and rejoyce in the dayes wherein God calleth vs to mourning and teares It is not a day of libertie or loosing our minde and body to delights but inclosing and shooting vp our selfe in secrete That wee retrinch and call in all our thoughtes that at other times may goe out to our businesse and keepe them all as a mourning widow clothed vvith du●e in tokens of the affliction of our Soule The maine thing indeed that God requireth in publicke humiliation is true Repentance in godlie sorrow for our sinnes and earnest imploring of his mercie in Iesus Christ. Rent your hearts and not your garments and yet with all hee requireth also a bodilie Fasting that our bodies bee defrauded not onelie of their superfluous and vnlawfull desires but also of their due and lawfull necessities in nourishment and rest and that for these speciall reasons 1. That the bodie by that abstinence may bee afflicted and punished as one instrument of euill to the Soule Though strength and health of the bodie bee a blessing of God yet oft-times it affecteth the Soule and either stirreth it vp to euill or else is a readie weapon of vnrighteousnes to execute the euill desires of it 2. That it may bee taught by that defrauding and punishing what is the punishment of sinne 3. That since it is a great impediment to our Soule in good when it is satisfied in all the desires it may not hinder but rather further the Soule in so holie an exercise but the felt necessities of it make it to spurre our Soule to bee earnest in the seruice of God who is onlie able to saue both Soule and bodie 4. Lastlie for the compleete Humiliation of the whole Man that as both Soule and bodie haue sinned and euerie one of them haue had their owne parte in that wickednesse they may now suffer conjunctlie and bee humbled for it before God VVith prayer and Fasting other things must bee joyned First course and base Apparrell that none come before God in their best cloathing but in their course and common garmentes Costlie rayment doeth no more agree with Fasting and Repentance than laughing and surfette An heart sopped with sorrow and bitternesse for sinne can neither desire nor take paines vpon the busking of the bodie Remorsfull thoughts can neither breed nor dwell vnder a painted face and a husked bodie Contrition in the heart commandeth a neglect of the flesh As our flesh ought to bee taught by defrauding of nurishment so also in bafnesse and neglect of apparrell In most of our former Fastes this hath beene a blotte that people haue come to the Lords House in their best garments vvhen hee hath cryed for sacke-cloth and ashes They mak no difference betwixt Fasting and Feasting Betwixt Repentance and other ioyfull solemnities as Communion and Thankesgiuing Naomie thought her name vvhich signifieth beautifull not fitting for her pittiefull estate and the bitternesse of her heart and desired not to bee called Naomie but Marah or bitternesse VVhen our Parents sinned in Paradise their nakednes made them ashamed and that shame made them couer ther nakednesse vvith anie thing that come first to hand Busking at Fasting is not of shamefastnesse but a shamelesse out-facing of the vvorld their own Conscience and the Iustice of God That deuotion will neuer pierce heauen vvhere the ratling of silkes