Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	faith_n	word_n	5,163	5	4.0959	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15875	Certeyne preceptes, gathered by Hulrichus Zuinglius, declaring how the ingenious youth ought to be instructed and brought vnto Christ. Translated out of latin into Inglish by master Richard Argentyne Doctour in Physyck; Quo pacto ingenui formandi sint praeceptiones pauculae. English	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 26136; ESTC S105852	16,031	46

seing it lyeth not in the power of man to drawe the harte of any one vnto the faith of one god although any mā shulde passe in persuading Pericies / but it lyeth only in god the heauenly father / who doth drawe vs vnto him And yet nothwythstandyng / according vnto the saying of the Apostle / faith is by hearing so that the hearing be the worde of God not truly that the preaching of the worde is of so great force / except the spirite working in vs / g ue vs aduertisement vnto the same And therfore faith must be instilled with moost pure wordes / and moost vsed to procede from the mouth of God / And prayers ioyned vnto the same must be made vnto hym / who onely doth make the faithfull / that whome we teache with worde / he maie illuminate the same with his spirit And perchaunce it shall not be alienate from the purpose of Christe / if we bring the same into the knowledge of God / yea / by thinges that are visible As if we call before oure eyes / the ingent of the vniuersall worlde / declarīg or shewing with our finger / that all thinges are subiect vnto alteration / but it is necessary that he be immutable / and not moued / the which hath cōciled all thīgs / seing they be so diuerse in so firme ande marvailous a concorde Ande againe it ought not to be suspected that he that hath disposed al thinges with so great a prouidence / will he after neglect his owne handy worke / for as moch as amongest mortall men / it is imputed as a vice or blame / if any man be not diligēt or carefull in the thing that apparteineth vnto his house Of this / the same our dearlīg shall learne the pouidence of God / who careth for all thinges / disposeth all thinges and preserueth all thinges For of the two sparrowes that are bought for a farthīge / the one falleth not vppō the grounde vnto vs / without his counsell Who also hath nōbred the heares of oure heades / nothinge vtterly is left out of this care Wherby it is manifest that the same doth determine● not onely of thīges wherof the soule hath nede / but also the body / seing we see the Rookes so liberally to be entre●eined by the same / ande the lilies also so gally to be ●ladde Hitherto / the minde being rightly furnisshed or instructed of the prouidence of god / it cā not be that it may be at any time carefull / or oute of ordre stryken with couetuousnes The whiche affect if in our tendre age we cut from vs than ●a●e we delyuered the minde from a great daūgerous and hurtefull plage He shall knowe truly that God is not onely a lorde / but also a father of all those that beleue in him / that is / of those that trust in him and that he desyreth that we shall come with as moch haste vnto hym / to craue for helpe / as vnto the parent or father that hath begotten vs / ande with his propre wordes hath promised helpe / because certeynly he loueth to be prayed Wherfore if the sycknes eyther of minde or of body do vexe or greue the / the remedye must be obteyned from him / if thy ennemy do trouble the / if envie do oppresse the / thou must runne vnto hym If we covet wisdome or learnīg we must wowe him for them / yea bothe wife and children are also to be desired at his hand If the increase of goodes ād honoures come a litle to plentyfully vnto vs / we must desyre of hym / that he wyll not suffer our mynd to be made to tendre wyth them or effemyna●e / ande so to be brought oute of the right waye What nede many wordes generally / he shall knowe that all thinges are to be asked of him and he shall thinke it a wrōg / to aske any thinge of him / that shall not be condecent for him to parforme / ād fynally he shal be a shamed eyther to couet or to haue any thyng the which by hym is not laufull / and he shall onely get and laye vp in treasure those thinges that maketh mē truly happie He shall vnderstand the mistery of the Gospell this waies / he shall knowe before all other thinges the state of the fyrst manne / that is to saye / howe he through death is deade againe / howe after that he had trāsgressed the precept of God / he infected by his transgresse all his posterite For the dead can not beget the lyuysh / neither haue we euer sene a blacke morian borne amōgest Inglishmē Wherby / this our frende shall know also his disease Also by this he doth knowe / if he do vnderstand howe we do all thinges by the motions of our affectes / howe God truly is farre of from them Wherby it followeth vndoubtedly / that we also shulde be moost clere without all affectes if we shal desire to dwell with God For like as euery innocent / hath nothing to do with those that are moost geuen vnto myschefe / ād cōtrary the wicked can not abide the iust For as those that are of the nature of Nero do bidde and commaund other like vnto Seneca to be handeled / euen so of the contrarie / the same tumbe doth hyde or couer the Emyans with the S●●pians / so none other shall inhabit with God / than he that is wythout spot ande holy / as God hym self is holy / ande indued with the purenes of harte For blessed are the pure in harte because they shall see God But howe shall we get so great an Innocency / the which are nedged round● aboute with moost impure affectes we being here●● betwixt the hammer and the stithe for so moch as God doth require so great an innocencie / we beyng corrupted / can of our selues do nothīg but vice / whether we will or not we are compelled to yelde vnto God and to permit all thinges vnto his grace Here springeth the light of the Gospell When we are inclosed wyth these strayghtes / Christ doth take vs oute / the whiche hath deliuered vs farre better / than any great God of the Gentyles that was thought to preserue them / aboue all thinges / erecting the conscience nere vnto desperation / ande sone after when by moost assured hope he hath ioyned the same vnto hym / makyng it fortunate For seyng he is most clere without all blotte of all corrupted affectes conceiued truly of the holighoost / and borne of a pure virgin First to deliuer vs he did sett forth this his innocency for vs. For truly he suffered oure labours and paynes / ande afterwarde he maketh those which vndoubtedly beleue thys / blessed For he that shall beleue this lyberall pardon / graunted of God by Christ / vnto the miserable kinde of mortall mā / he shal be saued / ande beyng made the coheyre of Christ / he shal be in ioye with the