Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	see_v	5,205	5	3.8267	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64791	The vain insolency of Rome, challenging salvation to her own faction discovered in two letters : the first whereof was written by a priest of the Church of Rome to a gentlewoman of York, that had got out of the snares of the popish superstition : the second sent by the same gentlewoman (instructed by a divine of the Church of England) in answer thereunto.	Priest of the Church of Rome.; Gentlewoman of York.	1673 (1673)	Wing V18; ESTC R5313	8,557	40

their Snares and got through the goodness of God their feet out of them and publickly given the account of their change I refer you to their Books better known possibly and I wish accordingly considered to your self than me I cannot urge you upon more weighty terms than you are pleased to prompt unto me the due remembrance of the worth of your immortal Soul Sir I desire to emulate your own Charity to my self and say in your behalf as you say in mine I should be glad to suffer death that you would accept of life No loss you say and you say truly in it for you speak in conformity to the language of Christ himself What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole World and lose his own Soul like the loss of a Soul Precious it is to God and should it be vile to our selves to whom the damage will be only prejudicial God the Father sent his Son to redeem it God the Son shed his blood to ransom it and the Holy Spirit is plased to seal it with his signature as the peculiar treasure of God Now then I beseech you Sir 〈◊〉 weigh with your self the dange●… you expose this precious Soul of yours unto and not your own only but the Souls also of as many as you win to your own errour whilst you tell them as you do me that Salvation is not to be had out of St. Peter 's Fold meaning thereby the present Church of Rome in which to speak my mind freely to you I think that Salvation can very scarcely if at all be procured by those of it that dye in the constant defence of the pernicious errours maintained generally by all that adhere unto it To speak nothing of the manifold and gross deviations of your Church from both Sacred Scripture and primitive antiquity as half-Communion the absurd doctrine of Transubstantiation Purgatory Divine Service in a tongue not known to the people that should perform it c. I say to speak nothing of these what strange ●xpressions fall from your own Pen in the little Note which you sent me Sweet Jesus and his unspotted Mother grant you grace to do well by St. Francis Xaverius his Intercession Had you commended me to the grace of Christ alone you had done it with good warranty from St. Peter in whom you boast Thus speaketh he Epist I. 5. 10. The God of all grace c. make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you Christ with the Father and the blessed Spirit are one God you know from any of the blessed Persons we may ask Grace and wish it for others securely But to crave it from Creatures such is the Blessed Virgin though never so glorious is very dangerous if not blasphemous If I be not mistaken Divines make it an argument of the Divinity of the second and third Persons in the Holy Trinity that in the Scripture stile Grace is wished from them in conjunction with the first Thus the rest of the Apostles salute and thus they frequently take their leave of the Churches to which they write No mention in these forms of the Blessed Virgin she is never joined to the Holy Trinity in such prayers for Grace and indeed if God as St. Peter speaks be the Author of all Grace what Grace need we ask of the Blessed Virgin And then again I am a little startled at these words unspotted Mother if you mean no more by it than that the Blessed Virgin since her death is discharged from all sin and defilement incident through the fall of our first Parents or rather unavoidable to our humane Nature I can easily admit the term unspotted but if by the word unspotted you insinuate our Ladies immaculate conception I expect better reasons than ever yet I have heard alledged before I can sign such an Article with my faith I am told that Saint Anselm saith that the Mother of our Lord was conceived in sin and why we should not believe him speaking so agreeably to the language of the Holy Spirit which exempts none but our Lord himself from the common Contagion I see no reason What were the Vertues of your Saint Francis Xaverius to whose intercession also you think fit to commend me to me is uncertain but this I am most sure of that the intercession of our Blessed Saviour with his Father is sufficient for me that he hath commanded all that labour and are heavy laden to come unto him Mat. 11. 28. and that such as do come unto him he will in no wise cast out John 6. 37. I confess when I made my application to you I was in great trouble and for my sudden ease was ready to flie unto any profession that would offer me present relief Alas you know people falling from an high place catch at any thing within their reach if sharp Swords or red hot Irons were in their way they would lay hold on them It was I now perceive no small stupidity and blindness in me that I did not so fully as I should have done consider the excellent constitution and pure doctrine of our Church of England For therein I now see all the comforts that can be imagined requisite unto distressed Souls are abundantly offered unto me I have the Scriptures accurately translated I have the sense of my dear Mother in exact conformity to them laid before me in our 39 Articles I may have access unto my Confessor in all cases of my perplexities and I find such of our Priests to whom I have made my applications compassionate grave and faithful unto me But they tell me and I am very well pleased to hear it from them that I must not be discouraged though I find not that present ease that I long for Upon my profession of repentance and faith in Christ they are ready to dispense unto me the benefit and blessing of their absolution but if I find not presently that transport of rejoycing which it may be I too hastily catch at they advise me not to be too much discouraged but to wait the Lords leisure who will have us even after he hath received us to pardon sometimes by experience find the truth of that speech in the Holy Prophet Jerem. 2. 19. It is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my fear is not in thee saith the Lord God of Hosts They support me with this assurance that if I repent and believe the Gospel I shall certainly be saved and if any offer me Consolation upon other terms they do but delude me Whatsoever my discouragements are they exhort me to patience and the doctrine is the more satisfactory unto me because I see it to be agreeable to that meek resolution of the Church in the holy Prophet Mic. 7. 9. Where in her affliction I see her pitching upon this conclusion and saying I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him I am not at