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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	12,735	5	4.2755	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93876	The commings [sic] forth of Christ in the power of his death. Opened in a sermon preached before the High Court of Parliament, on Thursday the first of Novem. 1649. being a publike thanksgiving for the victories obtained by the Parliaments forces in Ireland, especially for the taking of Droghedah, since which Wexford also was taken. By Peter Sterry, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing S5476; Thomason E578_1; ESTC R203622	37,495	77

a Hand till it overspread the whole Heaven How high did they raise their Proud Waves with what noise They went over our Heads Their Waters came in even to our Souls Did not the cause of Fear seem just and great to the Wisest and Stoutest Spirits As that Poet at Sea cryed out Nihil est nisi Pontus Aether which way soever I looke Nothing appeares but Sea or Skie Such was our condition Nothing appeared on every side but Danger on Earth Deliverance onely from Heaven The Snares of death prevented us were before us as well as behind us What Counsell or Course so●ver we could take seemed alike to hasten Ruine like every touch of a Dead Body that hath stood many yeers in a dry Vault and falls into dust upon the Gentlest Motion This was our Distresse nay this was the Outside onely and Grosse Body It had a Spirit and Invisible Part the Life of the Danger and Distresse The Sorrowes or the Cords the Bands the Companies and Troops of Death ver. 4. The Devill hath the Power of Death Hebr. 2. 14. This is the Sting the Spirit of Death The Devill is the Cord or Chaine of Sicknesses and Death Luke 13. 16. This woman whom Satan hath bound The Devill is like Gad a Troope a Band a Multitude My name is Legion for we are many saith the Devill in the Gospell The floods of the ungodly Beli jagnall vers. 4. The Floods without a Yoake or Bridle The Floods that rebelled Floods Rivers and Waters do signifie in the Language of the Scriptures Invisible Spirits because the Visible Part of things standeth out of these and in these as the Earth standeth out of the Waters and in the Waters 2 Pet. 3. 5. This Word signifieth Floods that run low and deep in Valleyes The Grave or Hell is a Degree of Darknesse a Depth below Death It hath other Troops of Evill Spirits belonging to it One sort of Devils are the Ministers of Death Another Sort the Ministers of the Grave or Hell though Both be subject to One Chiefe the Prince of Devils Revel. 20. 13. Death and Hell or the Grave gave up the Dead which were in them The Invisible Legions from below invaded our Land The Evill Angels that had the Power of Death have been in the midst of us with their Bands hoping to swallow up our Naturall Lives and Outward Comforts to have made us a Place of Skuls instead of Men The Evill Angels that inhabit and command in the Deeps of Hell below Death these rose up out of their Bottomlesse Pit like a Smoak These designed and indeavoured to infect our Soules to darken the Sun of Righteousnesse over our Heads to carry away our immortall Spirits in a Hellish Mist of Confusion into their Accursed Mansions Our Land and Hearts should have been made the Seat of ●im Esa. 13. 22. This Word signifieth Dry Spirits Dry Devils which have nothing of the Water of Life nor are ever refresht with any Sweetnesse or Fruit fulness but labour in the Barrenness Drought Heat Darkness of the Infernall Fires according to that Mat. 12. 49. The Evil Spirit walked thorow Dry Places Thus the Fountaines of the Great Deeps of Death and Hell from below were opened upon us Such was our Distresse This is the First Head 2 Head The Deliverer He is set forth by a Twofold Description 1 Description The Place from when hee comes forth 2 Description The Pompe in which he comes forth 1 Description The Place from which Hee coms forth ver. 6. He heard my voyce out of his Temple The Lord had a Materiall Temple among the Iews But now he hath a Spirituall Temple Iesus Christ is His Temple The Lambe is the Temple Revel. 21. 22. His Saints are His Temple 1 Cor. 3. 17. Which Temple Ye are When God comes forth to make any Eminent Change in the World His First Movings are in the Spirits of His Holy Ones The Decrees are passed and fixed in Iesus Christ in Heaven The Discoveries of the Designes and First Preparation to act them upon the Stage of this visible World is from Iesus Christ in the Hearts of His Members A Philosopher is said to have foreseene and foretold an Earthquake from the motion of the Waters trembling at the Bottome of a Deep Well So do Spirituall men perceive beforehand when God is about to shake the World or a Land by the Stirrings and Prophetick Preparatory Motions in the Bottome of their Spirits which lye neer to and touch upon the Invisible World the Angelicall and Divine Nature Rome had its Shield dropt from Heaven Troy its Divine Image of Fallas While these were preserved it was impossible to destroy these Cities The Saints are the Temple of the Lord in the midst of us Preserve these with all Tendernesse For they are our Sanctuary The Presence of the Lord is with us by Jesus Christ in them God heareth our Cry and ariseth to deliver us from Jesus Christ in their Spirits This is the First Description 2 Description The Pompe in which the Deliverer comes forth ver. 9. He bowed the Heavens also and came downe God is represented as Descending in State comming down to be upon the Earth after the same manner in the same Majesty as He sits upon His Throne above Bowing the Heavens as He descends descending upon them as a Pavement to his Feet The sense is that God appeares like a God as a God Present in the midst of us Putting forth Himselfe in a Heavenly Divine Extraordinary way above the Reach beyond the Compasse of Humane Wit and Capacity as the Heavens are above the Earth The Heaven of God is the Heaven of Heavens a Spirituall Heaven God comes downe among us upon thi●Heaven upon this Mount Sion where He dwels in the midst of His Ten Thousands of Angels and Glorified Saints Thus Heaven and Hell meet upon this our Earth in the Mid-way Every Good and Evill is Spirituallized in the midst of us The Devill comes up from Hell with his Invisible Legions God comes downe from Heaven with His Invisible Chariots While Men fight Angels fight Michael and his Angels with the Dragon and his Angels He wants his Spirituall eye who hath not seene God Descending the Devill Ascending Both meeting on this Portion of the Earth in these Times and Both Contending ●onflicting sharply for the Body of Christ and Christianity among us as once they did for the Body of Moses He wants the Eye of Reason that hath not seene God and the Devill resisting one another after a Supernaturall manner by Supernaturall Powers and Policies in our Naturall and Civill affaires as Jannes and Iambres resisted Moses Who is not forced to confesse of One Party that the Hand of Satan hath bin with them as the Hand of Ioab was with the Wise woman Who likewise can deny of those Things that have been brought to passe on the Other Party That It is the finger of God Verse 10. Hee rode upon a

Cherub and did fly yea Hee did fly upon the Wings of the Wind. The Angels and the Elements have marched and fought in their Course under the Banner of the Almighty Angels have been the Horses Winds the Wheels of the Chariots of the Lord of Hosts On these Hee did fly over the Heads of our Enemies The Motions of Providence and Mercy have been so Strong and Swift in these Islands that it is manifest the Lord hath used the Ministery of Angels more then Men and hath made His Spirits as a Powerfull Blast a Consuming-Changing Flame Thus much for the Second Description the Pomp in which our Deliverer comes forth 3. Head The Deliverance This hath its 1. Circumstances 2. Conclusion 1. Circumstances These are Three 1. Distempers 2. Discoveries 3. Darknings 1. Distemper Vers 7. Then the Earth shook and the Foundations also of the Hills mooved and were shaken The Earth often signifies the Common-people The Hils the Potentates of the Earth The Common-People are shaken but the Foundations the Greatnesses of the Potentates are mooved and taken away by these Shakings of the Earth The Earth is sometimes put for men Hills for Spirits or Angels Men tremble and feel a Commotion in the Frame of things Those Evill Spirits which rule as the Gods of this World tremble much more because they cleerly perceive the Foundations of their Kingdome to be shaken and almost overthrown These are the Impressions made upon the Creation by the Eternall God as he goes forth The People are affrighted by the Amazing Changes that come to passe they tremble they run together in Mutinies They fear the Earth on which they stand is going away from under their Feet and all things running into their First Abysse or Sea of Darknes like the Swine of the Gaderens in the Evangelist Great Men reel feeling their Foundations like Rolling Sands or Tumbling VVaves before the Lord 2. Circumstance Discoveries Verse 15. Then the Channels of the Waters were seen and the Foundations of the World were discovered At thy rebuke O Lord at the blast of the breath of thy Nostrills The Spirits of Men and Things which run deep and covered like Channels of Water hidden having their Dark Passages in the Bowels of the Earth neer the Center these are now exposed to an open View and seen by every Eye The Principles of Church and Common-wealth Naturall Civill Supernaturall are drawn forth and discovered It is Light that maketh Manifest saith S. Paul God is Light saith S. John The Descent of God into the World is as a Great and Bright Light held neer to the Object It maketh manifest the Hidden things of Darknes and the Secrets of Hearts As the Sun by its Powerfull Heat examineth all sorts of Seeds in the Earth drawing them forth in their severall Vertues and Properties ripening them to a cleer Distinction in their Proper and Perfect Fruits so doe the Strong Shinings forth of the Lord Iesus work upon Spirits and Principles As the VVindes shake the World with Tempests and Earthquakes which cleave the Earth and rend the Rocks lay open the In-most the lowermost part of Things letting in Day upon the Ever-lasting Night so doth the Blast of the Breath of thy Nostrills O God so doe the Mighty Breathings and Breakings ●●rth of thy Spirit They rend to the Bottom the Spirits and Principles of Men They show to the Open Day the most hidden Tracts the Deepest Seeds and Roots of Nature the Letter the Law Formality Hypocrisie Profanenesse Atheisme the World the Devill The Spirit of God puts it Hook into the Nostrils of each Spirit drawes it forth from the midst of the Deep waters where it hid and sported it selfe and layes it naked upon the Dry Land 3. Circumstance Darknings v. 9. Darkness was under his Feet As the Great Fire of the Sun puts out the Lesse Fire upon the hearth by shining on it so are the goings forth of the Lords-work unto such as are below them who see not his face in them but lye under his feet They trouble that Light which before they had and leave them Darker Divines tell us that the Saints in Heaven shall have their Understandings strengthened by a Light of Glory to inable them to bear the Beatificall Vision of God The Soul even now stands in need of a Glorious Light of Grace to proportion it to the Present Appearances of God He that hath not this spirituall Illumination as to the Dispensations of the Lord in our Dayes will bee exceedingly dazeled in the eye of his Understanding by the Brightnesse of these Lightnings upon the World Vers 11. Hee made darknes his secret place his Pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the Skie The Angels which wait upon the Presence of God as ministring Spirits are both Lights to sh●w Him and Veils to hide Him They are as Candles or Lamps set up round about the Throne of God as Revel. 4. 5. They are also as clouds overshadowing the Almighty as the Cher●bims in the Sanctuary overshadowed with their wings the Mercy-seat Angels are the Deep Waters of the Skie above the Firmament when they are Calm and Cleer they are as a Chrystall glasse they discover the Face and Wayes of God in them But when they please they thicken and trouble their own Waters that the Paths of the Lord cannot bee discerned When Moses desired to see the Glory of the Lord God hid him in the Cleft of a Rock and laid His Hand upon him as His Glory passed by Then He took off His hand and let him see His Back-parts onely Exod. 33. 22 23. While God passeth by among us in the midst of all His Holy Angels by Glorious and Active Providences His Angels lay their Hands upon the Eyes of most men not suffering them to see the Glory the Face of that Divine Presence but the Back part onely the Change and Trouble upon the Worldly Part of things Vers 12. At the Brightnesse that was before Him His thick Cleuds passed When the Sun shines in its strength it drawes up store of vapours which gathering into Thick Clouds passe along before the Sun over the Heads and Eyes of men After the same manner the Spirituall Discoveries of Christ extract and attract the severall Principles of Carnality Morality Enmity in the Hearts of men As God goes on these having thickened themselves into Clouds passe along over the Heads of such Soules taking away the Sun their God quite out of their eye These are the Circumstances of the Deliverance The Conclusion followes 2 The Conclusion of the Deliverance The very Repetition of severall Passages in this Psalme with very little Alteration or Addition will fully suit with our Purpose and Posture Ver. 34. He teacheth mine Hands to warre so that a Bowe of Steele is broken by mine Armes Who taught that New Army of Raw Souldiers to fight so that a Royall Army was broken by them at Naseby was it not thou O God Ver.