Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	morning_n	night_n	tuesday_n	3,079	5	14.4484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60281	The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies, made evident by physical, and sensible experiments together vvith some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before / by G.S.	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3854; ESTC R38925	208,492	331

Family Yet he resolved to remain in the house for a season During which time some persons about not very judicious counselled him to send his children out of the Family here and there to try whom the trouble did most follow assuring him that this trouble was not against all the Family but against some one person or other in it whom he too willingly obeyed Yet for the space of four or five dayes after there were no remarkable assaults as before The Minister hearing thereof shewed him the evil of such a course and assured him that if he repented not and called back his children he might not expect that his trouble would end in a right way The children that were nigh by being called home no trouble followed till one of his sons called Thomas that was farrest off came home Then did the Devil begin afresh for upon the Lords Day following in the afternoon the house was set on fire but by his providence and the help of some people going home from Sermon the fire was extinguished and the house saved not much loss being done And the Monday after being spent in privat Prayer and Fasting the house was again set on fire upon the Tuesday about nine a Clock in the morning yet by providence and the help of Neighbours it was saved before any harm was done Mr. Campbel being thus wearied and vexed both in the day and in the night time went to the Minister desiring him to let his son Thomas abide with him for a time who condescended but withal assured him that he would find himself deceived and so it came to pass for notwithstanding that the child was without the family yet were they that remained in it fore troubled both in the day time and in the night season so that they were forced to wake till mid-night and sometimes all the night over During which time the persons within the Family suffered many losses as the cutting of their Cloaths the throwing of Peits the pulling down of Tu●ff and Feal from the Roof and Walls of the House and the stealing of their Apparel and the pricking of their flesh and skin with Pins The Presbytery having conveened at the place for a solemn Humiliation perswaded Gilbert Campbel to call back his Son Thomas notwithstanding of whatsoever hazard might follow The Boy returning home affirmed that he heard a voice speak to him forbidding him to enter within the house or into any other place where his Fathers Calling was exercised Yet he entered but was sore abused till he was forced to return to the Ministers house again Upon Monday the 12 of February the rest of the Family began to hear a voice speak to them but could not well know from whence it came Yet from evening till midnight too much vain discourse was kept up with the Devil and many idle and impertinent questions proposed without that due fear of God that should have been upon their Spirits under so rare and extraordinary a trial The Minister hearing of this went to the house upon the Tuesday being accompanied with some Gentle-men who after Prayer was ended heard a voice speaking out of the ground from under a bed in the proper Countrey Dialect saying Would ye know the Witches of Glenluce I will tell you them and so related four or five persons names that went under an evil report The said Gilbert informed the company That one of them was dead long ago The Devil answered and said It is true she is dead long ago yet her spirit is living with us in the world The Minister replied saying though it was not convenient to speak to such a person The Lord rebuke thee Satan and put thee to silence we are not to receive any information from thee whatsoever fame any persons go under Thou art but seeking to seduce this Family for Satans Kingdom is not divided against it self After which all went to Prayer again which being ended for during the time of Prayer no trouble was made the Devil with many threatnings boasted and terrified the Lad Thomas who had come back that day with the Minister that if he did not depart out of the house he would set all on fire The Minister answered and said The Lord will preserve the House and the Boy too seing he is one of the Family and hath Gods warrand to tarry in it The Devil answered He shall not get liberty to stay he was once put out already and shall not abide here though I should pursue him to the end of the world The Minister replied The Lord will stop thy malice against him And then they all prayed again which being ended the Devil said Give me a Spade and a Shovel and depart from the house for seven dayes and I shall make a grave and ly down in it and shall trouble you no more The Good-man answered Not so much as a Straw shall be given thee through Gods assistance even though that would do it The Minister also added God shall remove thee in due time The Devil answered I will not remove for you I have my Commission from Christ to tarry and vex this Family The Minister answered A permission thou hast indeed but God will stop it in due time The Devil replied I have Mes. Iohn a Commission that perhaps will last longer than your own After which the Minister and the Gentlemen arose and went to the place where the voice seemed to come from to try if they could find any thing And after diligent search nothing being found the Gentlemen began to say We think this voice speaks out of the children for some of them were in their beds The Devil answered You lie God shall judge you for your lying and I and my Father will come and fetch you to hell with Warlock-theeves and so the Devil discharged the Gentlemen to speak any saying Let him speak that hath a Commission meaning the Minister for he is the Servant of God The Gentlemen returning back with the Minister they sat down near to the place whence the voice seemed to come from and he opening his mouth spake to them after this manner The Lord will rebuke this Spirit in his own time and cast it out The Devil answering said It is written in the 9 of Mark the Disciples could not cast him out The Minister replied What the Disciples could not do yet the Lord having hightned the Parents faith for his own glory did cast him out and so shall he thee The Devil replied It is written in the 4 of Luke And he departed and left him for a season The Minister said The Lord in the dayes of his humiliation not only got the victory over Satan in that assault in the wilderness but when he came again his success was no better for it is written Joh. 14. Behold the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me and being now in glory he will fulfill his promise and God shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly