Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	raise_v	6,497	5	7.6474	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07647	Immediate addresse vnto God alone First deliuered in a sermon before his Maiestie at Windsore. Since reuised and inlarged to a just treatise of inuocation of saints. Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius De Dominis vpon the authour, Richard Montagu.	Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641.	1624 (1624)	STC 18039; ESTC S112845	131,862	253

piè vtiliter inuocantur the very decision of the Oracle of Trent So they dispute without any scruple as if there were no difference for the employment nor any distinction of condition for the engagement Not obseruing how much they differ both in employment and condition when as Saints and Angels differ many waies and Angels are set vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in regard of men For the Excellencie of their nature Nobilitie of kinde Extent of their ●●dowments Vse of their Employments and worth of their Atchieuements many waies aboue and beyond the Sonnes of men They are called Angels from their Employments and are Agentes in rebus vpon Earth vnto God vpon course in kind ordinarily and extraordinarily Angels Liegiers Angels Keepers of men and Countreyes Angels Messengers vpon occasions Saints in Paradise are nor so nor so sent employed at any hand They haue their Habitacula their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mansions not Free among the dead to goe and walke at libertie as they will to performe Seruice in attendance vpon Gods Employments except peraduenture vpon peculiar Dispensation some one or other at some one time or other Vnlesse vpon peculiar dispensation of employment hath beene dispensed with for egresse è receptaculis and for some extraordinarie Dispensation as Moses and Elias at the Interuiew with Christ vpon Mount Tabor One in a Million in long tract of Time happily hath had such vnusuall Employment whereas Angels are messengers ordinarily by prime institution in their kind So that the Case being different betwixt these two people Holy Saints and Angels not in one allotment were it commanded were it lawfull or expedient to Call vnto Holy Angels in time of trouble yet can it not ex aequo bee inferred we may therefore Call vnto Holy Saints as well and in semblable sort To prooue the supposition of Equalitie betwixt them euery way Which spoyles that conclusion out of Matth. 22. it is alleaged out of Matth. 22.30 that by euidence of our Sauiour Himselfe the Saints are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 equall with Angels euery way goe hand in hand with those blessed Spirits so many waies Transcendent in Nature and Employment Thus it is alleaged by the Master of Controuersies as well as by others to this purpose and intent Or rather the collusion out of that Text. but falsly and with much Collusion For the Text is no way to the purpose of any such equalitie of Saints and Angels First there is a meere disagreement in time Our quaere is onely de praesenti What In regard of the disagreement in time and in what state the Saints are at present not yet reunited vnto their Bodies It is not questioned it is not to purpose what they shall bee hereafter in Time to come It is questioned what Power they are of for Intercession now when wee doe or may stand in need of Assistance to bee heard and deliuered in time of Trouble What is it to our purpose what they shall bee hereafter when wee stand in no need of their Assistance any more nor of Recommendation vnto the Maiestie of Heauen We with them and they with vs alike interessed in God and both alike partakers of that blessed state which shall neuer bee changed not so much as accosted with any time of trouble The Power they are of the Profit to be had by them is for time of this Life and Gods dispensation with vs in this present world wherein our necessities are often very great and vrgent and sore extreamities are vpon vs many waies It must needs bee then an idle discourse in them an halting and a lame Conclusion nothing to purpose not able to perswade that disputeth and proceedeth from what Shall bee hereafter in Time to come after Iudgement to that which is now in vse and being in the olde World Many things are now which shall not bee then when as all things shall become new and what is now shall not be then when we and all shall be changed So that First the place of Scripture is not to purpose in regard of Time Secondly lesse in respect of Subiect It is another thing of a different Nature In respect o● Sub●ect our Sauiour himselfe 〈…〉 that 〈◊〉 to the present 〈◊〉 which there particularly is insisted on Our Sauiour in that passage doth precisely and punctually direct his speech vnto the Sadduces those Iewish Atheists and Epicures that denied the Resurrection of the dead and to prooue their impious assertion Put a Case as they imagined of absurd Inference if there were granted a Resurrection A woman there was that had seuen husbands in her life to whom shall shee appertaine at the Resurrection It is answered To none of them as wife For in that other world is no more man or wife marrying or giuing in marriage but Men are like Angels Then like Angels At the Resurrection the Saints of God become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then and not before equall to the Angels So precisely hee speaketh of the Time to come these perswaders alleadge it for the present Secondly not then alike per omnia point per point no not in the Kingdome of God in glorie Our Sauiour nor said nor yet meant so Amongst men shall continue Male and Female in distinction of Sexe as now Angels nor are nor shall bee Male and Female Men shall neuer become Spirits as Angels are nor Angels haue flesh and bones and be clothed with their skin as men shall be For then there is no Resurrection of the dead if Bodies raised vp out of their dusts to Life be not the same againe which sometime they were Different Natures Men and Angels must necessarily haue distinct Naturall Proprieties Accidents doe follow the condition of those Substances in which they are In qualities and Indowments of kind as well as in formall being and Subsisting Men and Angels shall differ and bee distinguished after the Resurrection Therefore not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like Angels in euery point and if not so how in this of Indowment vnlesse peculiar warrant can bee shewed To conclude our Sauiour limitted that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Equalitie of Holy Saints after the Resurrection vnto Angels vnto one thing only and no more one particular alone and no moe that whereof the present quaere then was marrying after the Resurrection or remaining man and wife Euen in this particular not being married not giuing or being giuen in marriage Saints shall bee then but are not as yet equall vnto the holy Angels So the issue is So that the equalit●● is many wayes nothing to the purpose They are like in one thing onely not in all that One thing is not hath nothing to doe with this thing Nor are they yet alike in that one thing they shall bee hereafter are not now And we must be answered for now not then for the Present not the Future or to come So the Euidence is 〈◊〉 and speaketh not