Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	ghost_n	holy_a	word_n	15,366	5	4.0928	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19266	A true and most dreadfull discourse of a woman possessed with the Deuill who in the likenesse of a headlesse beare fetched her out of her bedd, and in the presence of seuen persons, most straungely roulled her thorow three chambers, and doune a high paire of staiers, on the fower and twentie of May last. 1584. At Dichet in Sommersetshire. A matter as miraculous as euer was seen in our time.		1584 (1584)	STC 5681; ESTC S118208	4,279	14

Sister whiche were in the house with other of their freendes watching and sitting vp to comfort her if her extreame fitt should any way molest her who hearing her husbande call came in and brought a Candle lighted and set it on the table which stood neere where the woman laie She began then to waxe as one very fearefull saying to her husbande and the rest doe you not see the Deuill whereat they desired her to remember God and to cal for grace that her faith might bee onely fixed vppon him to the vanquishing of the Deuill and his assaults Well quoth she if you see nothing now you shall see something by and by and forthwith they heard a noise in the streete as it had been the cōming of two or three Carts and presently they in the Chamber cried out saying Lord helpe vs what maner of thing is this that commeth here Then her husbande looking vp in his bedd espied a thing come to the bedd muche like vnto a Beare but it had no head nor no taile halfe a yarde in length and halfe a yarde in height her husbande seeing it come vp to the bed rose vp and tooke a ioyned stoole and stroke at the saied thing the stroke sounded as though he had stroken vppon a Featherbedd then it came to the woman and stroke her three times vpon the feete and tooke her out of the bed and so roulled her to fro in the Chamber and vnder the bed The people there present to the number of seuen persons were so greatly amazed with this horrible sight that they knewe not what to doe yet they called still vpon God for his assistaunce but the Candle was so dimme that they could scarsly sée one another At the last this Monster whiche we suppose to be the Deuill did thrust the womans hed betwixt her legges and so roulled her in a rounde compasse like an Hoope through three other Chambers downe an high paire of staires in the Hall where he kept her the space of a quarter of an hower Her husbande and they in the Chamber aboue durst not come downe to her but remained in praier weeping at the staiers head greeuously lamenting to see her so caried away There was suche an horrible stincke in the Hall and suche fierie flames that they were glad to stoppe their noses with cloathes and napkins Then the woman cried out calling to her husbande now he is gone then quoth he in the name of God come vp to me and so euen vpon the suddaine she was come so quickly that they greatly marueiled at it Then they brought her to bedd and fower of them kept downe the cloathes about the bedd and continued in Praier for her The Candle in the Chamber could not burne cleere but was very dimme and suddenly the woman was got out of the bed and the windowe at the beds hed opened whether the woman did vnpin the windowe or how it came to passe they knewe not but it was opened and the womans legges after a marueilous maner thrust out at the windowe so that they were clasped about the post in the middle of the windowe betweene her legges The people in the Chamber heard a thing knocke at her feete as it had been vpon a Tubbe and they sawe a great fire as it seemed to them at her feete the stincke whereof was horrible The sorrowfull husbande and his brother imboldened themselues in the Lorde did charge the Deuill in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to departe from her and to trouble her no more then they laied handes on her and cried to the Lorde to helpe them in that their greate neede and so pulde her in againe and set her vppon her fette Then she looked out at a window and began to saie O Lord quoth she me thinke I see a little childe but they gaue no regard to her These wordes she spake two or three times so at the last they all looked out at the windowe and loe they espied a thing like vnto a little child with a very bright shining countenaunce casting a greate light in the Chamber then the Candle burned very brightly so that they might one see an other then fell they flat to the grounde and praised the Lorde that he had so wonderfully assisted them and so the child vanished awaie Then the woman beeing in some better feeling of her self was laied in her bedd and she asked forgiuenesse at Gods handes and of all that she had offended acknowledging that i● was for her sinnes that she was so tormented of the euill Spirite And so God bethanked she hath euer since beene in some reasonable order for there hath beene with her many godly learn●d men as M●ister Doctor Cottington Parson of the same Towne and Maist●r Nicholles Preacher of Bruton with other cheefe Preachers from diuers pl●ces of the Countrey FINIS ¶ These be the names of the VVitnesses that this is most true Steuen Cooper Iohn Cooper Ales Easton Iohn Tomson Iohn Anderton Myles Foster With diuers others