Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	ghost_n	holy_a	remit_v	8,165	5	11.0672	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08848	[Divine meditations.]	Palfreyman, Thomas, d. 1589?	1572 (1572)	STC 19136; ESTC S120110	52,549	180

and makest them thereby to be partakers with thée of thine heauenly and diuine nature through the wonderful operation of thine holy spirite We are taught by thine holy Apostle that what so euer is not of this faith is sinne and that there is no possibilitie without it to please thée or to finde grace by sute at thyne holy hande And therefore all they that come vnto thée must in déede firmly beléeue that thou art very God and very Man yea and suche a God of mighte of mildenesse great mercy aboue all Gods as both can and euer will heare incline thine eare and abundantly rewarde all them that with liuely and true faith séeke thée and vnfaignedly desire to finde thée or to be relieued by thine holy hande By this fayth O Lorde we also obteine of God thy father all good things yea what so euer we craue at his hande in thy name Through this fayth also so many as beléeue are iustified made the sonnes and heires of God and enioy most certainly thereby the rewarde of euerlasting life O Lorde Iesu great is the power and working of this fayth for by it the consciences of the godly are quieted by it they truely know thée the onely high and eternall God by it they loue and feare thée be constant towards thée strong and pacient in al aduersitie their hope is firme for things to come by it they conceiue boldenesse to repaire to the throne of thy grace for mercy to haue sure trust in thee to inuocate thine holy name to adore and worshippe it to confesse the truthe before thée to obey it moste gladly to perseuer therein moste willingly to withstande the force of all tyrannie to yéelde vp in time their spirite and to goe through fayth to thine and their heauenly father Séeing then O graciouse God and Sauiour that this vertue is so heauenly so holy so mightie so acceptable and preciouse in thy sight that without it nothing can be well pleasing the will of thy maiestie or to serue happily our owne turnes and we also of suche frailtie can not attayne to this moste singuler treasure except it come from aboue euen from thée and infused into our hearts by the grace of thine holy spirite we moste hartily beséeche thée by the power thereof to make cleane our hearts to purge them of all error darknesse and ignorance of all mistrust infidelitie and vnfaythfulnesse and to plant moste spéedely in vs a true liuely and vndoubted faithe in the blessed and moste glorious Trinitie in God our heauenly father in thée O God oure only sauioure and in the holy ghoste our most deare and swéete comfortour by whome alone we be all highly blessed preciously redéemed and eternally sanctified and that also for thine only sake O blessed sauioure thine heauenly father is well pleased with vs our sinnes cléerely remitted vnto vs This faithe O swéete Iesu daily encrease in vs help most gratiously our vnbeléefe O Lord strengthen vs from faithe to faithe that we may at the laste thorow thine accustomed grace be made perfectly faithfull constante warriors and valiant conquerors in the defence of thine holy religio againste the power of Sathan the worlde and Antichriste and in all things to she we oure selues in this life bothe in our profession manners truly and frutefully faithful euen to the high exaltation praise of thy name which liuest and raignest with God the father and God the holy Ghoste true and perfecte God our onely mediator and aduocate world without end Amen V. To the attainement of Grace and for the due examination of suche desires and motions as are put daily into oure mindes BEholding O God our maker the miserable state of mākinde in this lyfe how diuersly therein and in finitely he is continually beset compassed and hedged in with bodily and ghostly euil stepping euery moment amōg the low shrubbes lurking stubbes stumbling blockes craggie rockes dead pits trappes catches snares grinnes furious and fierse beastes in the wildernesse of this worlde to present destruction alwayes vncertaine and feareful through danger whereunto in his wayes he may leane or trust wandring in this desert among doutful chaunces voide of certain hope farre off from comfort forsaken of frendes beset with many enemies and entised diuersly to sundry desires and motions so moste gréenously perplexed and inwardly afflicted in minde musing before thée O Lorde in thine heauenly presence vpon hys moste wretched state what shall betide him knoweth not what to doe which way to turne him whether to flée not certaine of his ende ignorant when howe and where he shall ende his dayes and leaue to earthe his moste wretched and earthie carcasse who during his shorte time possesseth two powers diuersly drawing and leading him althoughe onely one preuayleth either with him or againste him which is a willyng consente to vayne pleasures bredde in the corrupted fleshe or otherwise a more apte inclination to the good wil and motion of the spirit which are bothe contrary the one to the other and the one continually warring or waging battaile against the other whose fight if there be resistance are bothe very violente to preuaile stirreth daily the soule to great vnrest Which powers or partes of man O Lord in the time of innocencie before the fall of my first parents haddest coupled them togither in moste blessed concorde and vnitte but alasse nowe separated peace broken and set at discorde by the Serpente the enemie of peace and of mankinde and cannot liue ioyned togither wythoute contynuall warre ruffeling and wrangling together as things dyuers althoughe in déede but one I beséeche thée therefore O my God the greate God and maker of heauen and earthe to beholde with greate compassion my miserable state among the rest in this moste wofull and gréeuous conflicte my greate frailetie and weakenesse wythoute thy grace my darknesse and ignoraunce and the power of sinne raygning in myne earthely and mortall members that as thou arte God the author of peace the true light and guid and the only God of my strengthe to preuaile for me by thine holy spirit against the Prince of sedition and darkenesse of fraud and deceit of erroure and lies and the corrupted motions of the sinneful fleshe so graunt me the strengthe of thy grace a liuely and quicke féeling faithe also in thy promisses thorowe Christe that thereby my spirite being alwayes prepared quickned and directed by thy spirite it may yéelde to the only quickening and good motions therof that by the heauenly power of it I may at all times be constante in them and learn perfectly by due examination and with good desires out of thy worde of truth the euent of all attemptes stirres motions assaultes entisements dessres prouocations and affections to iudge truely of them to way rightly their natures from whence they come by what spirite to what ende whether worthy thy well liking tēding to thy

pride O Lorde that art only omnipotente milde and mercyfull and the only perfect hope of thy beloued inheritance vpon whom thy grace hath moste fréely abounded and whose sinnes thou haste remitted by the onely oblation sacrifice and bloude shed of thy deare sorme Christ Iesus for which purchase and moste pretious redemption thou only requirest of them but to be beloued againe and that with an vpright staysdnesse an assured strength and true confidence only in thée and not otherwise vainely in any vaine man or other treatures and that they be not hautie in theyr owne eyes but possesse euen in thy sighte in them selues the spirit of méekenesse and of most lowly submission we most entirely beséeche thée to strengthen vs héerein with thine heauenly grace to stay vs vnto thy selfe to make vs humble in oure owne eyes that imitating the steppes of thy sonne we be not ashamed to beare in thy sight the contempt of this wretched world and to become with all lowlinesse and milde subiection euen very slaues to all others for the loues sake of thy deare sonne Iesus whose rule of Humilitie we haue moste truely professed and thereby promissed to beare with pacience bothe pouertie and all other afflictions in thys vale of wretched nesse where when and in what manner so euer it shall please thée to lay them vppon vs. O Lord so vpholde thou vs with thine heauenly grace that we staie not simplie vpon our owne selues or putte oure truste in others but flee faste from our selues and from all others and put oure whole and onely hope in thée endeuouring with all our powers bothe of bodie and minde to obey thy will trust only in thée that thou wilt always be the readie helper of oure good willes and a moste apte furtherer of all oure honest meanings Lette thy mercie O Lorde so be vppon vs that we be not vainely puffed vppe or putte confidence eyther in oure owne knoweledge or in the pollicie of any mortall manne but onely depende vppon thy Diuine fatherly prouidence which both helpest and géeuest thy grace to the humble and thrustest also downe the lostie and proude So temper vs lord with thine heauenly grace that we glory neither in our richesse if we haue them nor yet in our fréendes if they be mightie for thou moste mightie God haste dominion ouer their power and when thèy are alofte and exalted in their glorie thou throwest them downe abatest their corage and destroyest them with thy heauie hād but to glory as we ought only in thée which doest fréely minister vnto vs all things necessarie and destrest aboue all to giue thine owne selfe wholely vnto vs Thou O Lorde haste led vs the way to true humilitie that whether touching either the mightinesse beautie or cômlinesse of the body which being stricken with some light disease is by and by ouerthrowne and defaced we in no wise aduaunce our selues And least we stand most vainely in our owne conceits whether for oure owne towardenesse wisedome wit or in other things iudge better of our owne selues thā we doe of others we greatly offend and fall into thine heauie displeasure and bring thy wrathe vppon vs bicause we estéeme them not as thine owne proper giftes and so be thankefull vnto thée for them O graunt vnto vs therfore most gratious God thy spirite of méekenesse and true humblenesse that we may walke rightly before thée and haue in our selues and in thy sight cleane hartes constantelaithe and moste sure hope and considence trauing cōtinually thy spirit of romfort paciently therby to beare our crosse to folowe the example of our sauioure Christ and to beare with ioy the afflictions of this life through his merits precious death pastion Amen XII Against Couetousnesse IF we O thou iust terrible God coulde nowe thorowe thy grace euen in the middest of all oure iniquities heaping daily iniquitis vppon iniquitie remember yet in time thy certaine deter minatiō and threaiued iudgement vpon this world the plages thereof shortly enstring for the wickednesse of end 〈◊〉 harte and as thou haste tolde vs by thy Prophet Esay to lay to 〈◊〉 to make the face of the whole earth desolate and scatter abrode all the inhabitoures thereof bicause they haue offended thy lawes changed thine ordinalires and made thine euer lasting testament of 〈…〉 receiuing therfore with wee their most sharp bitter portion the taste of thy diuine fury vtter shame desolation swift confusion O what cause haue we then to remember in these oure dayes if through grace it might be for good this most vile sin abidng the rest the outragious 〈◊〉 couetousnesse that so diuersty woorketh the disglory of thy name spoyleth thy churches welfare Which in the estimation of this worlde so langely raigneth so vniuersally so familiarly yea also mercilesly ouerfloweth al deuoureth al hath al at his beck and hastneth fast vpō this geiteration an euil and pitilesse generation doubtlesse in the end now of this olde rotten worlde the sodaine and straight performance of thy hideous and fearefull premisses O Lord our God moste dangerous is our stats our dayes are most euill our desertes are great we haue sinned greuously thy plagues are iustly prepared and thy iudgements to condemnation by thy iustice are at hand vpon vs For who in effecte cā say from any sin his hart is clean or rather most mōstruously against nature not to be defiled either who can in conscience say that he féeles not in him selfe as priuately for him selfe and corruptly this most hurtfull and infectuous maladie of the soule which amongst all other contagious euils is moste perniceous and by the diuel him self déepely grafted in vs and is by him so closely crept in vnto vs that it hath ioyned it selfe euer to the very secrete affections of our hartes shewing it selfe a most diligent woorker a busie labourer or minister to the procuring bréeding encreasing norishing and bringing forthe of corruption ruption and sinnes innumerable couertly lurking in our filthie flesh sowly to the death issueth abrode in his time For it is as sayth thine holy Apostle the roote of all mischéefe and that all suche also as are the Rauens and gréedie Gripes or gutlings of the world and desirous of the deceiteful riches thereof fall without stay into temptations and snares and into many beastly foolish and noisome lusts which draw them into temptation and destruction Also he calleth it a woorshipping of idols it spoileth God of his honor and is therby in euery place of the holy Scriptures condemned and forbidden as a sinne most hainous horrible diuellishe and damnable bicause it is a moste curssed and venemous euill tied to ambition hautie and vaineglorious full of maliciousnesse ful of crueltie very tirannous and greeoely hunteth after bloud the déepe set séede doutlesse of the diuell who was a murtherer from the beginning hathe therewith by his subteltie maruellously