Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	soul_n	true_a	7,689	5	4.8842	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30814	A glimpse of God, or, A treatise proving that there is a God discovering the grounds of atheism, with arguments of divers sorts against atheists : shewing also, the unity of the Godhead, and the trinity of the persons ... / by ... Mr. Thomas Byrdall ...	Byrdall, Thomas, 1607 or 8-1662?	1665 (1665)	Wing B6404; ESTC R14883	155,901	472

their being they are kept by the power of God but God is immortal absolutely and independently 3. Angels and souls of men are immortal per participationem by participation God makes them partakers of his immortality 4. There is an analogical mortality in Angels and the souls of men though they cannot cease to live yet they may cease to be happy and to live miserably to eternity The damnation of the Apostate Angels is a kind of death so the damned souls suffer a kind of death Damnation is called in Scripture the second death it were better that such souls did perish as the souls of beasts and when they cease to live this natural life in the body that they did cease to be CHAP. V. Vses drawn from the life of God IF God be the living God then Vse 1. he is the onely true God to be feared of all and to be worshipped 1. To be feared because he only can kill and make alive he alone preserves men from destruction and turns men into destruction The vanities of the Gentiles can neither do good nor hurt neither save nor destroy they have hands but cannot strike a man into destruction nor pluck a man from destruction When Daniel was cast into the den of lions the living God preserved him from death when his accusers were thrown in their Idols and golden images could not preserve them but the living God destroyed them See what a good use Darius an heathen King made of it and what a charge he giveth Dan. 6. 26. I make a decree that in every dominion of my Kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel the reason followeth for he is the living God the Images whom we adore for God are dead things how doth he prove that God is a living God vers 27. he delivereth and rescueth c. therefore fear and tremble before him the gods whom we serve can neither deliver nor rescue nor work signs and wonders the like argument Christ useth to perswade us to fear God because being a living God he can destroy both body and soul 2. He is the onely true God to be worshipped because a living God and therefore can hear help and save all such as worship him in spirit and truth men shew no greater madness in the world nor do more un-man themselves then in worshiping dead stocks and stones who have carved hands but are dead hands and cannot save have carved ears but are dead and cannot hear such were the gods of the Heathen and to adore dead stocks was the fruit of their blind Religion and the Papists that pretend to know the true God are no less sottish what is their Bread-Worship Altar-Worship Crucifix-Worship but a robbing of the living God of his glory and giving it to dead senseless creatures Vse 2. Is God a living God then commit your lives to him in well-doing trust the eternal living God with your mortal lives and fear not the rage and malice of evil men for they cannot take away your lives from you unless God permit them not an hair shall fall from your head without his knowledge then much less shall a drop of your blood fall much less a limb shall be cut off from your bodies much less shall they take away your lives from you if the living God will keep them and preserve them See Davids practice in a time when his enraged Enemies consulted to take away his life from him They devised to take away my life but I trusted in thee O Lord I said thou art my God my times are in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies c. Psalm 31. 13 14 15. all our times are in the hands of the living God our time of life the continuance and length of it our time of death the manner moment and instrument of it all is in the hands of the living God thy life and death are not in thine enemies hands they cannot take away thy life at their pleasure wherefore commit thy life to God and fear not the rage of enemies Should we at any time forsake God to please men for the preservation of life and betake our selves to sinful shifts it may fall out to us as Christ foretold He that saves his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for Christs sake shall save it even this natural life or the eternal life of the immortal soul Therefore if ye will have us to dye let us not be much troubled but be ready to give up our lives into the hands of the living God and if he will have us dye we can but dye as the Leapers said at the gate of Samaria the living God can give us a better life and if the Lord will he can deliver us from death The three Children were more regardful of their duty to God then of their lives Dan. 3. 16 17 18. this was the sum whether God would deliver them or not deliver them they were not anxiously careful they were careful to serve God but careless about the saving of their lives Better it were that the fiery Furnace should consume their lives then that the fire of Hell should consume their souls Vse 3. Hence there is good ground we should place all our confidence in God and in no creatures whatsoever because they are all dead perishing vanities if we may confide in any creature then may we put confidence in Princes because they are great and powerful they are Gods on earth and can afford the best aid and help to men in distres yet consider that in Psa 146. 3 4 5. Put not your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help Princes though they are great in power yet they are the Sons of men and obnoxious to the common condition of mankind they are vain mortal they dye and perish and when they dye all their thoughts perish all the purposes plots designs and intentions of Princes to do men good dye with them and their favourites are left to shift for themselves Then the Psalmist Vers 5. breaks forth into admiration of such a man who maketh God his help his aid his confidence and hope he is a living God he cannot dye he is a great God and his greatness is a living greatnes and none of all Gods thoughts perish but they endure from one generation to another if we must not put confidence in Princes then much less are we to trust in uncertain riches in uncertain honours in in Houses and Lands for these are all dead things and more vain and less able to help then man when riches are gone and perish the living God will and can aid us all the creatures are by fits but so many dead dogs before the living God Vse 4. ●s God a living God and the fountain of all life and motion then we should not despair of any though they through corrupt lusts do even stink in the nostrils of the godly