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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	grace_n	8,077	5	5.8830	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66403	A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1672 (1672)	Wing W2711; ESTC R38653	30,581	162

favours vanquish with ●hy mighty hand all open enemies and privy Conspirators who oppugn ●heir Religion Life Diadem or Dignity Crown each of them with all virtues these virtues with ●ong lives and their lives at the last with eternal glory Amen For Charity or the works of Mercy O Lord of mercy and compassion I beseech thee by the tender bowels of thy Son Christ Jesus to move my stony heart to the works of mercy that I may keep my hours of Prayers mourn with them that mourn counsel them that are amiss help them that are in misery relieve the poor comfor● the sorrowful help the oppressed forgive them tha● trespass against me pray for them that hate me requite good for evil despise no man or woman reverence my betters respect my equals be humble and courteous to my inferiours Imitate those that are good shun those that are bad embrace virtue eschew vice Be patient in adversity modest in prosperity thankful in either Keep a watch over my tongue Scorn this world and thirst after Heaven Amen For the receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God through whom only is granted forgiveness of sins and life everlasting who didst justifie the Publican when he confessed the woman of Canaan when she prayed Peter when he repented and the thief upon the Cross when he called upon thee grant unto me a most miserable and wretched sinner pardon and forgiveness of all my transgressions which I most humbly confess I have committed against thee that I may receive this Communion of thy Body and Blood not to my judgement and condemnation but to my everlasting comfort and salvation who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Meditation When you have newly received O Lord increase my faith O Lord let the Body and Blood of Christ be fixed in my soul to my comfort in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come Amen For that day you expect to hear a Sermon or when you read upon your Bible ALmighty and everlasting God whose Word 〈◊〉 a lanthorn to our feet and a light unto our paths open and enlighten my understanding that I may learn the mysteries of thy Word so far forth as is necessary to my salvation purely and sincerely And be so transfigured in my life and conversation unto that which I shall learn as to please thee in will and deed through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen For Sickness and all other Vses you have excellent Prayers in the Book of Common-Prayer PRINCIPLES Few Notes for the private Use of a most Noble LADY A Prayer to be said upon your knees before the reading over of these Notes ALmighty God the Fountain of true Wisdom and Knowledg send thy Holy Spirit into my heart that I may sufficiently understand and stedfastly believe all the Doctrins necessary to my Salvation and adde such practice and obedience to this Faith through the whole course of my life and conversation as I may so serve thee in thy Kingdom of Grace that hereafter I may be made partaker of thy Kingdom of Glory through the only merit and mediation of thy dear Son and my dear Saviour Jesus Christ Amen I. MAn since his fall in Adam hath no hope of salvation but by the Covenant of Grace betwixt God and Man Whereby God promiseth unto man Mercy and Forgiveness of Sins and man unto God true Faith in Christ and holiness of life and conversation II. CHrist is the Saviour as of all so especially of them that believe and these alone are of God's Church Now the Church of God is Any Company or Congregation of men wheresoever living called by God through the sound of the Gospel unto the Faith of Christ and distinguished from other Societies by these five Marks especially 1. hearing and reading the Word 2. Faith thereunto 3. the use of the Sacraments 4. Prayer and 5. Sanctity of life Where these five things are there is ever a Church of God and sufficient means of salvation III. THe Word must be read often upon your Bible with modesty and short desires of the heart unto God to give you grace to understand it to believe it and to practise it It must be heard upon all convenient occasions especially in those two hours of the Lords day appointed by the Church and the State for that Divine Worship and then you must observe four Rules 1. Observe the Preacher with attention and modesty 2. Secondly apply unto your self in particular the Doctrins and Uses which are delivered in general 3. Examin your conscience if you be guilty of the sins there reproved and presently call to God for grace to amend them 4. Think upon these things again when you come to your Chamber IV. THis outward hearing and reading of the Word together with the inward working of the Holy Ghost in your hearts doth beget a true lively and saving faith which is A full belief without doubting that all is true which God hath spoken or promised in the Scripture and that you rest wholly and confidently upon God that he will grant unto your self in particular forgiveness of sins upon your Repentance and Amendment and perseverance unto the end This is the main point you are seriously to meditate upon and therefore observe these precepts 1. If you do not believe or if you do doubt of any thing in Scripture presently pray unto God to strengthen and enlighten you 2. If you doubt whether you may have any particular interest in those general promises of grace in Christ propounded in the Gospel fall again to your prayers for an increase of Faith 3. If you doubt and yet can find in your heart to pray for more faith let your conscience never be troubled with such a doubting 4. Mark well when the Creed is in reading and give an assent with your heart to every Article And as I doubt not you have learn'd it so keep it still in memory V. NOw as this practical and working Faith is wrought in us by the reading and hearing of the Word joyned with Prayer so is it signed and sealed in our hearts by the two Blessed Sacraments Baptism The Lords Supper Observe in either Sacrament two parts A visible sign Water in Baptism Bread Wine in the Supper An invisible grace Remission of sins in Baptism The benefit of Christ passion in the Supper VI. BAptism is the first Sacrament of the New Testament to wit An outward washing of Water appointed by Christ in his Church with this promise that upon your being Baptized you were as certainly washed from your sins Original being an infant and actual if you had been of years by the Holy Ghost and the Blood of Christ as you were rinsed outwardly in body by this Element of Water Mark then these Vses of Baptism 1. It assures us we are washed from our sins by the Holy Ghost

A MANVAL OR Three SMALL and PLAIN TREATISES VIZ. 1. Of Prayer or Active Divinity 2. Of Principles or Positive Divinity 3. Resolutions or Oppositive Divinity Translated and Collected out of the Ancient Writers for the Private Use of a most Noble LADY to preserve her from the Danger of POPERY By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Arch-Bishop of YORK LONDON Printed for William Garret and are to be Sold by Joseph Clark and Ralph Needham in Little-Britain 1672. Certain PRAYERS AND Short MEDITATIONS Translated out of the Writings of St. Augustine St. Gregory St. Bernard Joannes Picus Mirandula Ludovicus Vives Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the private Use of a most Noble Lady Morning Prayer MY Soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning Watch I say before the morning Watch. O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee O Lord assist me with thy Holy Spirit in my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins REceive O Lord in the arms of thy mercy thy distr●●sed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returns unto thee from her sins Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighs and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy dear Son's sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God our heavenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect me still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that my thoughts words and deeds may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name and the eternal comfort and salvation of mine own soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Another O Most sincere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sun fetcheth his begining Thou which enlightenest every man that cometh into the World Thou Light whom no night or evening can obscure but continuest ever in thy High-noon brightness Thou Word and Wisdom of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soul and understanding that thy weak Hand-maiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the World and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing unto thee and leading to the waies of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Jesus that art not only righteous but righteousness it self and art my Advocate with God the Father justifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of judgment because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of injustice and pollution For it is not upon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soul relies but only upon a faith assurance and bold confidence in thee mine Advocate who livest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIve me thy Grace O Almighty God so to vanquish and overcome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee over the Devil and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that his desire of reading and ●earing thy sacred Word which by thy Holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercy be daily renued and augmented unto a perfect fire of zeal and devotion to the honour of thy Name and salvation of mine own soul in Christ Jesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman O Lord Jesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobility of birth that thy Evangelists have diligently searched out and recorded thine own genealogy give me thy unworthy Hand-maiden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy favour and mercy But rather as it was first acquired in my Ancestors let it still be preserved in my Person by my continual serving of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all works of Charity to my Neighbours Give me grace that as thou hast plac'd me in Birth Rank so I may be found in devotion piety lowliness of mind weekness and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous above others And if it be thy gracious Will to make me a Mother of Children and Mistriss of a Family let me appear a pattern and ensample of Devotion and Piety to all that are about me And make me and them so to live in thy fear that we may dye in thy favour through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Wife ALmighty God which hast given me to be a comfort and an helper unto my Husband endue my soul with those Heavenly Graces wherewith I may be most enabled to serve thee and please him Knit our minds as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of sincere affection Give either of us sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankful towards our Soveraign sincere loving one towards another Crown withal if it be thy will these chast intentions with thy fructifying grace that we may become the happy Parents of such Olive branches as may one day advance thy Glory in the Church and Common-wealth In a word so incorporate us both by faith in Christ unto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attain unto thy kingdom of Glory Amen A Prayer for one attendant neer the person of a Prince ALmighty God by whose gracious providence it cometh that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that nearness of attendance upon His Royal Majesty give him grace so to serve thee that he may the better serve him and by making him thy Saint continue him his servant Fill his mind with all wisdom knowledge and other virtues befitting his rank and calling that he may seem no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant careful and industrious in his Masters affairs Make him to accompt it his only happiness to serve thee his only virtue to observe him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soul may be carried by the Angels unto thy Court where one day is better than a thousand Crant this for thy dear Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDULA his twelve Thoughts or Weapons against all the Temptations of Sin Think 1. THe pleasure thou art tempted unto but short and momentary 2. And even this is attended with loathing and anxiety 3. And yet that for this thou must lose Heaven 4. That thy life is but as a dream and shadow 5. Thy death is suddain and at thy door 6. Thy time of repentance casual and uncertain 7. Thy reward or punishment endless and eternal 8. That thou art a creature of an