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spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	soul_n	16,669	5	5.2335	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01872	Natures cruell step-dames: or, Matchlesse monsters of the female sex; Elizabeth Barnes, and Anne Willis Who were executed the 26. day of April, 1637. at Tyburne, for the unnaturall murthering of their owne children. Also, herein is contained their severall confessions, and the courts just proceedings against other notorious malefactors, with their severall offences this sessions. Further, a relation of the wicked life and impenitent death of Iohn Flood, who raped his owne childe.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 12012; ESTC S118637	8,352	24

effectuall prayers of Gods holy Ministers and Congregations of his Saints here on earth to deliver her out of the snare and bondage of Satan whom she voluntarily obeyed If a limbe had beene broken shee would not rest satisfied till a Chyrurgion had beene present for to cure her If shee had falne suddainly desperate sicke for feare of death hastily they post and runne to seeke for a Physitian but her soule is sicke and drawes nigh downward into Hell whatcare or cure of that where was God or his Ministers thought of all this while blessed Saint Paul so soone as the Viper seized on his hand shooke it off immediately into the fire a whole moneth this venemous Viper Murder lodgeth in her heart God prayer unto him and hearing of his Word all this while was layd aside Cunning deluding Satan sitteth likewise on her tongue as he tooke seizure on her heart that he tyeth fast not able to pray which might have prevailed against him Devoute Prayer is his scourge and faithlesse faint-hearted people onely give place unto him and sinke downe at his feet The Devill is but a weake faint-hearted Coward Resist him saith the blessed Apostle and hee will flye from you This kinde of evill spirit saith our Saviour Christ cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer Our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ in the disconsolate time of his most bitter passion on the Crosse for our sakes to encounter Satan to comfort himselfe in that great Agony he was in and to get the Conquest of that grand captaine of all mischiefe prayer unto his heavenly Father in the Garden inculcates frequently this duty unto his distressed followers Watch and pray and joynes the necessity of it least yee fall into Temptation Is a weake childe able to stand in the way of a Lyon stirred up unto fury and rage no whit possible much lesse is a sinnefull weake man able to grapple with the powerfull strength of sinne and Satan and therefore pray that power may be given unto you from above to resist the least of whose temptations ye are no wayes able to resist of your selves 1 Pet. 5. 8. Bee sober and watch for your adversary the Devill as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devoure Diabolus non dormit the Divell is not idle neither sleepes nor slumbers but watcheth to take his advantage seeketh which way unawares to rush in suddenly upon poore soules By lamentable late experience Satan hath foyled many witnesse those weekely bills of casualties for London and Middlesex The Devill although hee is impudent and potent the holy Apostle in the ninth verse shewes a meanes there to abate his pride who resist in the faith a faithfull Christian makes him to fly feare and quake In the first of Samuel 17. chap. 40. vers There is mention made that David chose him five smooth stones out of a brooke with one of them hee flew Goliah Medici utuntur diversis medicamentis ad diuersos morbos at Christianis contra omnia mala unicum remedium est praecationis medicina Granatensis Learned Physitians apply various medicines unto the nature of the disease but unto Christians onely one Soveraigne medicine as an Antidote is prescribed against all manner of malignous diseases the onely remedy is medicine of Prayer the healthy man prayer preserveth alive the sicke man Prayer restoreth health In time of warre prayer is the victorious Conquerour In the time of peace prayer is the infallible Defender of King and people in health and prosperity Saint Iames 5 chapter 15. verse Sinnes are promised to be forgiven and the prayer of a righeeteous man availeth much if it bee seruent Praecibus non passibus itur ad Deum ergo ascendat oratio ut descendat gratia as the foot by paces carry the body so the soule is carried up unto Heaven by Prayer therefore let thy prayer ascend up unto thy God daily that hee may send downe the dew of his holy Spirit into thy soule Deijcitur Satan cum tu ascenderis ascendis duobus modis meditatione et oratione meditatio quod decet docet oratio quod deest obtinet Gregory Satan is cast under thy foot when thou raisest up thy soule toward Heaven by Prayer Two manner of wayes there are that man may climbe up unto the toppe of Heavens holy hill namely meditation and prayer meditation is prayers hand-mayd Meditation instructeth what becommeth the soule to doe prayer supplies what is wanting unto the soule Good King Dauid in the 5. Psalm ver 3. made a promise unto Almighty God and what was it My voyce shalt thou heare betimes Oh Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up A domino hoc iubemur orare ut ab eo qui secretorum cognitor est recipiamus orationis occultae mercedem Chrysoftom in Math. Homil. 8. We are of the Lord Jesus commanded this chiefely to pray that of him unto whom the secrets of all hearts are manifest wee may receive openly a heavenly Reward of our Prayers offered in secreets to conclude this as the Psalmist advised Powre out your prayers before him without which no minuite of the day can be happy unto us I will commend unto your daily meditations and practise that repleate zealous Collect prescribed to be read in the second Sunday in Lent and the Lord give a daily blessing to those that doe imbrace the instruction The last Caution is the neglect of Gods Minister in not repairing unto him SInne is like a spot in a garment at the first it may be easily expunged but by continuance it gathereth more and more soile unto it making it so difficult that it freteth the garment into peeces before it can be cleane Ignorant people behold their sins through the spectactles of their owne fantasies they extend or extenuate their sinnes as they please thereby deceiving themselves some make sinnes lesser and and others greater than they are and it cannot otherwise possible be because they are not able to judge of the difference being ignorant and unlettered than a blinde man can distinguish colours A stumbling blocke into this womens way the Divell casts not to goe unto her Minister unto whom the Almighty GOD had given the pastorall Cure of her soule to reveale her minde unto him for feare of revealing it againe what doth GOD intrust us with your deare soules and will not you trust us with your filthy sinnes to discover them to disburden your heavy laded consciences will you not make nice to shew a noysome foule ulcerated body and shew the place where it paineth you most to the chyrurgion to have thereby ease and bee too too curious in the matters of your soule your abominable sinnes let them alone untouched or not confessed at all which by confession may bee lessened and people made wary to walke more circumspectly and the hainousnesse of sinne being set before mens eyes may deterre them from committing of them againe