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	lord_n	soul_n	6,252	5	5.0695	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80408	Redintegratio amoris, or A union of hearts, between the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable peace, accompanied with speedy justice and piety. By way of respective apologies, so far as Scripture and reason may be judges. / By John Cook of Grayes-Inne, Barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6026; Thomason E404_29; ESTC R201862	78,816	92

the Potter the new moulding of this Army was visibly from heaven and the Lord hath carried them all over this Kingdome as his beloved darlings with much love in his brest towards them and he that suffered no man to doe them wrong would not have them to wrong themselves because he moulded them for vessels of honour and now being at rest in God and thinking to rest from their labours the blessed Spirit begins to witnesse to their spirits that all is not yet as it should be and their souls being troubled within them how they might glorifie God and ●e intercessors to the Parliament for the liberties of this Kingdome the Lord said unto them Seeke yee my face and they answered thy face Lord will we seeke and sequestred two daye at Saffron Walden to seeke the Lord by fasting and prayer a thing unheard of in the Germane Wars to see a Noble Generall and valiant Commanders that had encountred with Lyons and walls of brasse to lye groveling upon their knees and pouring forth fervent prayers the breath and voice of God in them asking counsell from heaven begging light and direction from the Father of lights praying for wisdome from above what a rare example is it how admirable is God in all his workings And when they rose up to eate and their countenance was no more sad the Lord had by the powerfull influence of his good Spirit given in a sweet return of Prayer for their continuation together and thereupon the souldery desiring a generall Rendevouze the horse and foot met with such a generall re●oycing and such an unanimous resolution to live and die together for the just rights of King and people that it is most admirable to consider such a wonderfull conjunction of mindes and such noble Principles that money which is the Loadstone that draws the iron hearts of most Souldiers is no more reckoned by them then dirt in comparison of just liberties who can say but that this is altogether of a divine off-spring which to oppose what is it but to despise the spirit of grace I am confident that they which kick their heels against this Army will in the end break their necks N●xt I shall onely ask the question whether out of those quivers of arguments used by the Parliament to justifie their raising forces I might not draw many even take them all out one after another to justifie the Armies not disbanding all was done by the Parliament for the publike good The Parliaments Motto is pro salute p●puli and the Armies pro salute populi Dei totius Angliae no lesse can be presumed from the Army for they who have adventured their lives for the good of the Kingdom will never do any thing to endanger it Certainly hee that saved my life I owe it to him I will never distrust him they have the character of God upon them and of his Consecration the Parliament hath lately voted them their Army the whole Kingdom favours them and all good Christians have cause to love and honour them and yet there are some calumnious spirits that would rob Christall of its brightnesse but the Sun of the Armies innocence will quickly melt the ice of all these Calumnies It is not my designe to improve those popular arguments formerly used that for Papists to maintain the Protestant Religion was a pernicicus contradiction What is it to hold that to imprison men for their Consciences that break no Law is for the Liberty of the Subject as some Kindle-coals affirme that honest Justices were weeded out of the Commission has there been no honest men grand instruments of Liberty displaced and divested of their trust to the grief of Gods people for no other reason but because they were not Presbyterians That many as bad as Arminians are preferred and faithfull men disgraced and displaced and all this by the cunning artifice of malevolent spirits nor what the Parliament said that his Majesty by his many Declarations and Protestations for the maintenance of our Laws and Liberties intended no more but that we should have such a Religion and such Laws as his Majesties Bishops and Judges would afford us and should conceive to be best for us judge whether that be not a blinde implicite obedience to trust the Bishops with our souls what is the Law but every mans birth-right and the rule of life and therefore fhould be plain and easie that every man may know● For a guide to be blinde how unreasonable is it if some men may have their desires shall we be in any better condition I shall humbly crave leave to vindicate the high Court of Parliament and the Army from some Objections lately darted against them The lightnesse of some mens follies exceeds the weight of their malice they are content to be fools rather then to acknowledge the worthy labours of that supreame Court they are such ignorants that they know not any good the Parliament hath done thi● many years saying that they have made our Religion worse and they do not intend to make our Laws the better No let all honest men ever blesse God for this Parliament how gladly would this Kingdome have made themselves slaves for ever had not this Parliament stood mightily for their Liberties I but say some the Parliament by imprisoning such as have been faithfull Labourers in the Vineyard for difference in opinions are undoing all that they have done and we fear things will be as bad as in the Bishops times judge not rashly there is no Ordinance yet to restrain Gods people from private meetings nor for suppressing of seperate Congregations Compare what is past with present times and 't is very much that things are no worse for former kindnesses which Parliament and City have shewed to honest people I trust the blessings of Heaven shall be upon them forever however do not for the abortion of the twentieth childe kill the nineteenth believe it this Parliament is the spring and conservatory of all our Liberties and Properties having removed old Grievances and laid the foundation for innumerable benefits and advantages to the Kingdome There are in both Houses most excellent Moses's Nehemiahs Jeremiahs and Pauls that have adventured for the people ô the infinite love of many of our finite Moses's and Worthies What had become of Israel i● he had forsaken his charge upon every tumult and queremony of the people What innumerable difficulties have our Worthies in Parli●ment surmounted Able to have daunted and stinted the most noble resolutions though the command of God lay heavy upon them ●o deliver this Kingdome and let the oppressed go free as the Discovery of America by Columbus a Genoa Merchant though a rationall man skilfull in Mathematicks might have concluded that there was a Western part of the World not discovered yet the Enterprize was so transcendent that few men would have had the courage to have attempted it though sure to succeed And though there are sufficient reasons publikely