Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	bless_a	jesus_n	lord_n	6,161	5	3.6174	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61436	A plain relation of the late action at sea between the English & Dutch, and the French fleets, from June 22 to July 5 last with reflections thereupon, and upon the present state of the nation : together with A preparation for death and a perswasive to criminals to do right to their countrey, and a specimen of a bill for reformation of manners, drawn for the bishops, and mentioned in the folowing reflections.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1690 (1690)	Wing S5434; ESTC R13699	53,677	77

and Disturbers of the Peace of his Country so that the Person who conceals what he knows of that nature becomes accessary even after his Death to all the Evils which are afterward committed and might have been prevented by his Discovery Bendes an obstinate and wilful Concealment even to the Death is not only a Confirmation of that particular wicked Confederacy wherein the Person is engaged or any way concerned or acquainted but tends mightily to harden others and so to support all such wicked Confederacies in general Whereas did such Persons at least when apprehended in their Affliction become serious and not suffer themselves to be longer abused and imposed upon by such a vulgar Error and Diabolical Delusion but consider well judge rightly and act accordingly such wicked Confederacies could not subsist for want of mutual Confidence Nor is such Concealment only injurious to divers other particular Persons and a Violation of that Faith and Love which all Men owe to their Country but very pernicious and of evil consequence to the Partners and all other such Criminals because it encourageth them to venture upon and persist in such Courses as involve them more and more in Sin whereby they treasure up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and expose them to all those temporal Evils which usually first or last over-take them Whereas by such a Discovery as I have recommended the Persons discovered might possibly be reclaimed and brought to Repentance at least might be hindered from so much increasing their Score which were better for them though by an unnatural and otherwise untimely Death than that they should longer protract a miserable Life here to the increase of their Misery hereafter Nor is it less pernicious to the Malefactor himself For as without true Repentance no Pardon can be expected with God So whoever doth not all he can to make Restitution and repair all the Evil and Damage he hath done and to prevent all he can for the future can be no true Penitent holding still an implicit Confederacy at least with wickedness And as he can expect no Favour from God so is he to be looked upon by Men not as a Man of Honor in any respect but as a reprobate deluded and hardned Wretch an Enemy to Man-kind and a Confederate with Death and Hell and the Kingdom of Darkness an odious and detestable Creature insted of being in the least honourable as he vainly fancied That which only is Honourable or Commendable in such Case and the only true Wisdom is 1. To consider seriously the unreasonableness and wickedness of the Crime till such consideration hath produced a just Indignation and Abhorrence of it 2. To acknowledge ingenuously his own Folly and Impotence to yield to and be overcome by such a Temptation what-ever it was which induced him to it and not rather more manly to have born any hardships of a transitory human Life than so basely to have violated the Order of the Divine Providence which assigned those hardships for his Exercise and the Laws of his Country 3. To give Glory to God acknowledging the Justice of his Punishment and the special Providence of God who hath brought him to it not only in Justice but in Mercy too to cut off his Sin for Correction of his Miscarriages and that he may not be condemned with the World if he truly and effectually repent as is before directed 4. To endeavour as far as possible he can to break all such Confederacies and prevent all the Mischief which might otherwise be committed by a plain Discovery of all he knoweth This indeed would be an Evidence of such a Change and Disposition of Mind as is really valuable in the Judgment of all Good and Wise Men and acceptable in the sight of Almighty God and therefore truly Honourable with others and the truest wisdom for himself What I have here said to Criminals is fit to be considered by all who have any knowledge of any such Crimes That which they may fancy to be Faithfulness or Charity or Pity to Criminals is a great Mistake and Delusion and in truth Unfaithfulness and want of due regard to their Country That Malefactors be brought to condign Punishment both Justice and Charity to our Country require which is to be preferred before the Consideration of any particular Person And therefore to hinder or resuse ones Assistance to it is to prefer a Malefactor and desert the Duty he ows his Country But in other respects Chatity and Humanity requires more to be done for them than usually is with us THE END AN ACT FOR The more effectual Restraining and Suppressing of divers notorious Sins and Reformation of the Manners of the People of this Nation WHereas the Advancement of the Honour and Service of Almighty God and of the Protestant Religion which by his wonderful Providence hath been Established and Preserved in these Nations ought at all times to be the Chief Part of the Care as well of the Legistative as Executive Power of this Kingdom but more especially at this time after so admirable a Deliverance from so great and apparent Danger as lately threatned us And for that End a General Reformation of the Lives and Manners of all degrees of People of this Nation is earnestly desired by all good men and by all Means to be endeavoured as that which must Establish both the Church and State and secure to all their Religion Happiness and Peace All which seem to be in great Danger at this time by reason of the Overflowing of Vice which is too notorious in this as well as other neighbouring Nations and more particularly the Sins of Blasphemy Prophane Swearing and Cursing Perjury Prophanation of the Lords Day Adultery Fornication and Drunkenness Therefore for the better carrying on of so good a Work and for the more effectual preventing correcting and suppressing of the Horrid and Hellish sins of BLASPHEMIE and prophane Swearing and Cursing Be it Enacted by the King and Queens Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any Person not disturbed in Brain by Sickness or otherwise shall at any time hereafter presume in word or writing to Blaspheme or speak or write contemptuously or scoffingly of God blessed for ever his Providence our Blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus the Holy Spirit the Sacred Scriptures the Christian Religion or any of them the Person and persons in whose presence or hearing such Offence shall be committed shall and are hereby required presently to set down the Words expressing the said ●●sence or so much thereof as he or they can remember and the manner thereof in writing and to give notice and testifie his and their Knowledge thereof upon Oath within the space of ten dayes unto some Justice of the Peace of the County or Place where the same shall be committed who is hereby authorized and required to administer the said Oath and to