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	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
A56579	A modest and peaceable letter concerning comprehension, &c.	B. P.	1668 (1668)	Wing P7; ESTC R7834	7,213	16

That God would take them out of the World This you may find in the Reports of that Learned Judg as it was left amongst many other of his Reports all exactly written with his own hand and as they are now publisht by Sir Harebottle Grimstone who now is the worthy Master of the Rolls And you may note that the said Reports were publisht in the year 1658 at which time Oliver the Tyrant was in his full power and you may there find that all his Judges allowed these Reports to be made publick and subscribed their Names to them and with Oliver's consent doubtless for he had found that those very Non-conformists whose Sedition helpt him into his power became after a short time as restless and discontent as they were with their lawful King and indeed as willing to pull him down as they had been diligent to set him up Dear Cousin these Places to which I have refer'd you for a Testimony of what I said are not to be doubted and though you would not then give any credit to what I assur'd you I knew to be a truth yet I hope you now will And now seriously Sir let me appeal to your own Conscience and ask how easily would you have given credit to any stranger that had brought you news of any error committed by any Bishop or their Chaplins or by any of the Conformable Clergy though there were not any reasonable Probability for it Dear Cousin consider what I say and consider there is a great stock of innocent blood to be answered for not only the blood of our late Vertuous King and the blood of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Lord Strafford but the blood of many good and innocent Families that now eat the bread of sorrow by being impoverisht and undone and which is worse there is a corruption of the manners of the greatest part of the Nation to be answered for and all this occasioned by our late Civil War and that War occasioned by the discontented restless Non-conformists and them only for till then we knew not the name of Independent or of Seiker or Quaker Cousin these are the sad effects of thes● busie bodies many of whom God hath still so blinded that they cannot yet see the errors they have run themselves and the Nation into nay that would imbroile it again into greater ruin rather than not be complyed with in their peevish desires and designes Dear Cousin I will not say all but indeed too many of the men with whom you comply and do so much magnifie are too like Simeon and Levi that were Brethren in this iniquity And as you love the peace of the Church in which you were Baptized and the peace of the Land in which you were born and live and enjoy what you have nay as you love the peace of your own Soul draw back and let it not enter any more into their Councels or Confederacy but at last take notice that though neither you nor any of your Associates scruple at the sin of Sedition but rush into it without Consideration or fear even as a Horse rushes into the battel yet I pray take notice that St. Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians reckons it with the deeds of the flesh even with murder and Witchcraft which you so much abhor and many think Sedition a more hainous sin than they by reason of the more evil and more destructive effects of it for murder may become so by taking away the life of but one single person and witchcraft hath its limits and bounds set to it perhaps not to take away the life of any man but only to do mischief to a single person or a Family and must end there But who knows the limits of Sedition or when the fire is kindled which is intended by seditious men who can who is able to quench it And for some proof of the miserable effects of it though I might give you too many sad instances of them in former times yet I will only refer you to the late Long Parliament now fresh in memory and the woful effects of that Civil War begot and maintained by seditious discontented men And for the sorrow you express for those men of tender Consciences that are scandalized at wearing a Surplice kneeling at receiving the Sacrament the Cross in Baptism and the like and would have them therefore taken away that so many so learned and so godly Men might by taking them away be brought to a Conformity and made capable of preaching the Gospel which otherwise they cannot do being scandalized at these Ceremonies I now ask you what if more men and more learned men and more godly men and as tender conscioned men shall be scandalized by their being taken away What care will you or those of your party take for their tender Consciences Nay I ask again what if we shall forget or neglect the tender Consciences of our own party and comply with yours What security can you or they give us that this shall satisfie them so as to ask no more when this is granted Or that a year hence their Disciples or their Successors shall rest satisfied with what is now granted Really I cannot think any security can be given but that this being granted yet any man of a melancholly or a malicious or a peevish or a fantastical or a wanton Conscience or a Conscience that inclines to get reputation and Court applause may call his own a tender Conscience and become seditious and restless if his tender Conscience be not compli'd with I shall next satisfie your desire or rather your challenge why I go so constantly to the Church Service and my answer shall be in all love and in sincerity I go to adore and worship my God who hath made me of nothing and preserv'd me from being worse than nothing And this I do inwardly in my Soul and testifie it outwardly by my behaviour as namely by forbearing to cover my head in that place dedicated to God and only to his Service and also by standing up at the profession of the Creed which contains the several Articles that I and all true Christians profess and believe and also by standing up at giving Glory to the Father the Son and to the Holy Ghost and confessing them to be Three Persons and but one God And secondly I go to Church to praise my God for his many deliverances of me from the many dangers of my Body and more especially of my Soul in sending me Redemption by the death of his Son my Saviour and for the constant assistance of his Holy Spirit a part of which Praise I perform frequently in the Psalmes which are daily read in the Publick Congregation And thirdly I go to Church publickly to confess and bewail my sins and to beg pardon for them for his merits who died to reconcile me and all Mankind unto God who is both his and my Father and for the Words in which I