Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	hand_n	soul_n	5,719	5	5.1086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12815	The day of salvation, or, A homily upon the bloody sacrifice of Christ, or his death and passion written, and intended onely for private meditation of a most noble and vertuous lady, on Good-Friday last, but since thought worthy the publique view / by Anthony Stafford ...	Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 23122; ESTC S1730	20,308	192

glory of his Beauty in his creatures but the ioynt stocke of their whole life can no more expresse him then can a Gloworme the Jubar of the Sun O fixe thine Eyes here for ever and lose thy sight together with this obiect Consider O my Soule that to ransome thee this Master peece this utmost endeavour of Nature and the Holy Ghost offered himselfe a most willing Sacrifice Rise saith hee behold he is at hand that doth betray mee And in another place it is said Jesus therefore knowing all these things that should come upon him went forth and said unto them Whom seekyee They answered him Iesus of Nazareth Jesus said unto them I am hee c. Heere he meeteth sedition halfe way gazeth her in the face and fearelesse confesseth his name And some learned Devines thinke that he would not die by disease or age lest he should seeme to leave this life against his will or out of Naturall infinite Common to all But with his unvaluable Worth Ballance the Affronts and Miseries Hee Endures 1. THis Lord of Lords that frees the captiv'd and illuminates the blinde is apprehended and bound like a Theefe 2. Nay they preferre a Theefe and a Murderer before him demanding Barrabas to be released and him to be Crucified 3. Call to mind againe oh my soule that for thy Crimes hee carried his owne ponderous Crosse and groaned under the weight of it which that the other two did that suffered with him wee read not 4. Meditate also that for thee he was scourg'd in which hee underwent divers punishments due to severall offenders It was the custome amongst the Antients to strike the indocible on the head their servants which they cast out of doores on the necke those who were ordinary delinquents on the ●ace and their more heinous Criminals all over the body Christ endured all these They strucke his Head with a wande or rod his Face and necke with their fists and his whole body they whipt with rods and scourges 5. But weigh withall that the lashes given his soule by the tongues of Blasphemers and deriders were more intollerable then the former 6. Contemplate too that his Torment was much augmented by the very thought of the infamous company he suffered with for they plac't him in the middest betweene two Theeves as if hee had beene their instructer and seducer 7. Neither canst thou beleeve O my Soule but as hee had more grace so hee had more shame then other men which must needs be infinite in that hee was become a naked Spectacle to his greatest Enemies not having any vaile to cover those parts which humane Nature would have hidden from the eye 8. He suffred also in his estate goods and friends of the first of which hee was stripped even to the skinne and of the latter consisting of his owne deare Disciples forsaken 9. And hee was grieviously troubled in mind which did compassionate his fellow feelers standing under the Crosse as his Mother and others and repine at the insolent fury of his foes 10. His Fame and Reputation deare to him as his owne eyes is not onely question'd but defil'd with false and base aspersions for they termed him a Seducer Observe also ô my soule that hee suffered in regard of the place the time and the manner of his Death 11. First in respect of the place which was Hierusalem it selfe where he was once wel knowne honored for the miracles he had there performed 12. Secondly in consideration of the time of the yeare and of the Day the feast of the Passeover being then celebrated which to solemnite a great multitude ●nd concourse of people resorted thither ●● that hee had the eyes of all the World upon him Agayne it was upon the sixt houre of the day with us the twelfth when all men were up ready walking abroad 13. Thirdly in regard of the kinde of Death he did undergoe to with the Cursed Death of the Crosse 14. Remember also O my better halfe that his Passiō was aggravated by reason of the natural cōplexion of his Body for it is certaine his Body was of a most admirable and delicate Temper as being organiz'd by the Holy Ghost himselfe And hence it came to passe that being thus formed without any defect or error in Nature there was no conflict betweene his Flesh and his Spirit Wherefore his Spirit by strong consequence must love his flesh better then any other Spirit or Soule can or ought to love its body 15. And it is very worthy thy serious Meditation That his anguish was increased in respect of the quality of those members in which hee most suffered as his hands and feet which are nervous and most perceptive and most apprehensive of paine 16. Moreover consider O my Soule that his passion was exacerbated in regard of the diuturnity or long continuance of it The Holy Martyres who have perish't by fire water or the sword have quickly finish't their Martyrdome which the same howre or the same Sunne hath seene begunne and ended But the passion of thy Redeemer endured from the very instant as it were of his conception to the houre of his Death For hee certainly foreknew what his Humanity was to suffer the very imagination whereof made him sweatblood Finde if thou canst what particle of his life was free from persecution But more eminently it endured from that dismall houre after Supper to the Ninth houre of the Sixt Holy day● Wonder not therefore that his Soule was sad and heavy since he was most cruelly tor●ur'd in all his senses His eyes on the other side saw the grim and fierce lookes of his Executioners on the other the amiable countena●ce of his Mother and his other female Votaries together with his beloved Disciple all which as he was man he was loath to part with His Eares heard nothing but insulting and deriding Blasphemies His Taste was distasted with ● most bitter and loathsome potion being a compound of Vineger and Gall. The paine he endured in his feeling was diffus'd cleane through his body his Nostrills drew in nothing but Noysome stinks and dampes arising from putrified Carkasses for it was the common place design'd both for the Execution and buriall of Malefactors which is implied in the name they gave it God gotha in our Tongue the place of Dead men sculls And if wee follow some of the Hebrew Interpreters this is the very place wherein Adam longsince was buried for the truth o● which I wish I had some better authority then that of a Jew But if it bee true it is questionlesse not without the speciall providence of God that sinne might first lose his force there ●here hee first gathered strength And this is the Master-comfort of a Christian without which ●ee were lesse happy ●hen the Heathen that ●t the second comming ●f Christ hee shall rise in Glory in despite of Death whose sting shall be taken out and hee ●ive with GOD for ever And this infinite benefit is an effect of his Passion O Hasten Lord Jesu● that ioyfull day which all thy Elect have an● doe still long to see whe● Death and Time sh●l● l●● their Scepters as I d●● now my selfe prostrat● before thee Then shall I and neuer till then b●● truely blessed in singin● with all the Saints and Angells Halleluias eternally to thy most glorie● name AMEN FINIS * The Schoole of Aristotle neere Athens * Though parentation commonly signifies the performance of any office due to the deceased Parents yet here it signifies the slaying of those Enemies or any of their race who flew our Parents or any of our blood ● Bishop An●●●●● on the 〈…〉 * They brib'd K. Pr●sias to betray Hanniball being his guest Oamici amicus nemo See M. de Pless●● in his Tract of the Iewes * Proselites were such Heathen people as disclayming Paganisme became converts and ioyened themselves unto the Church of the Iewes A Iew by father or mother was called an Hebrew but he who was a Iew both by father and mother was stiled an Hebrew of Hebrews and such I here speak of Lib. 3 de civil Dei cap. 15 Athanas de incar Thomas 3 Sum.