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
A73786	The food of the soule: against the day of iudgement. By A. D.	A. D.	1624 (1624)	STC 6161; ESTC S124430	10,530	54

when it shall please the Lord to call vs to the high Star-chamber ouer our heads he may Antipelargein that is requite vs with farre more sumptuous iewels and richer ornaments making vs cohabitors with Angels and the admired paragons of all perfection let vs therefore confidently beléeue in Christ desiring him most heartily and vnfainedly to giue vs of this bread of life which is the onely restoratiue against hunger thirst Auicen like a foole said in his Aphorismes that good was the best restoratiue No no this bread of life is the most heauenly remedy against all diseases it is a poyson for vice but a life-giuing potion for vertue It is the bread of death for carnall gluttonie but it is the bread of life for spirituall hunger If thou béest famished eate of this bread and it will reuiue thée it can heale all leprosie of sinne and remoue all maladies from a sin-sicke Soule it is the Nectar of our saluation and the Lethe of our iniquities tast but once of this bread of life and thou shalt euer after loath the sugered cates and bewitching dainties of lustfull affections looke daily vpon this bread of life and thou shalt euer after hide thine eyes and stop thine eares which are now captiued vassals to behold and heare the legerdemane of humane iugling desires All Syren songs of carnall concupiscence and vices loue-lines which are now imprinted in thy brest shall be quite cancelled out after thou hast once digested inwardly and thy soule hath had an happy concoction of this bread of life it purgeth all the hidden corruption of mans folly and giueth working pils to vomit vp originall transgressions it is the present remedie for a body which lieth in a consumption of grace to tast of this bread of life within a short space by the vnspeakable hidden operation will make a blessed recouery for this languishing creature If thy soule bee hungry or thirsty behold two sacramentall riuers flowing out of the Paradise of Christs body in the one thou shalt finde this bread of life in the other this water of life tast either of them and thou shalt neuer hunger or thirst more yea the power of this bread cannot bee sufficiently declared by the tongue of the worthiest Orator Wherefore let vs onely satisfie our soules with this bread of life whose power and efficacie our dayly Orator Christ Iesus hath declared vnto vs in these words He that commeth to me shall not hunger and he that beleeueth in mee shall neuer thirst Wherefore to draw to a conclusion let vs from the bottome of our hearts desire Christ Iesus euermore to giue vs of this bread that when the glasse of our life is runne out and with the Pheni● we may discerne the tearme of our daies and with the Swan discouer our fatall end that it would please him to féed our hungry soules with this spirituall food this bread of life and place them at his heauenly table to satisfie themselues with this celestiall banquet yea when our breath vanisheth our eyes waxe dim and we turned out of the house-roome of this transitory world repaire vnto our doomesday house where the worms the dead mens Lawyers shall take their fées out of vs their graue clients and our bodies shal be their bread to satiate their hunger yet thou O Iesus would vouchsafe to giue vs thy body the only bread of life for to nourish our hungry soules that by the wings of a liuely faith we may fly vp to the heauens and inioy that age of vnspeakeable pleasures the eternall Father through the merits of his déerest Sonne by the scepter of his holy Spirit so rule our hearts that wée being righteous as Elias and our prayers feruent as those of Elias they may pierce the clouds and open heauen and thence bring downe this bread of life this dew of diuine grace vpon vs and satisfie our soules with this mysticall banquet of Christs body O Lord inflame our tongues with the zeale of deuotion that our prayers may be feruent and may make a swéet incense to pacifie thy wrath that thou blotting out all our vnworthinesse out of thy memory maist graciously hearken to our petitions maist grant vs this inestimable treasure the price and ransome of our soules redemption If Lyons seeke their meat of God if the Oxe know his owner the Asse his Masters crib grant vs a most carefull desire to craue this meat of our soules to wait seeke for this bread of life that we which were created by a consultation of the Deity redéemed with the pretious blood of Christ sanctified by the holy Ghost may bee partakers of this blessed bread of life and in the end and without all end sit at his heauenly table raigning together with the Trinity in the Kingdome of Heauen to which be all glory power praise and dominion both now and for euermore Amen FINIS PRAYERS FOR PRIVATE HOVSHOLDS O Lord prepare our hearts to pray O Most mightie eternall GOD who art the Creator Guider Gouernor and Preseruer of all thinges both in Heauen and Earth vouchsafe we humbly beseech thee to looke downe with the eye of pity and compassion vpon vs miserable and wretched sinners who at this time are prostrate here before thee to offer vp this our Sacrifice of Prayer and Thankesgiuing vnto thee And although we be vnworthy by reason or our manifold transgressions to present our selues before thee yet we humbly beseech thee for thy Sonne Christ Iesus our blessed Lord and Sauiours sake to accept of vs and to grant these our prayers and petitions which wee doe make vnto thee Wee render vnto thee LORD most mighty and most mercifull humble and hearty thanks for all thy blessings and thy benefits from time to time bestowed vpon vs for our Election Creation Redemption Vocation Iustification that measure of Sanctification in this life and the assured hope of Glorification in the life to come As also for our Health Wealth Peace and Prosperitie for the free passage of thy glorious Gospell for sparing vs thus long and giuing vs so large a time of Repentance as also for all other thy benefits whensoeuer or howsoeuer bestowed vpon vs We giue thee humble and harty thanks more particularly for thy gracious protection of vs this day past and deliuering vs from all the perills and dangers of the same And seeing thou hast brought and kept vs safe to this present night wee humbly beseech thee LORD to protect and keepe vs in the same watch ouer vs with thy prouidence Shelter and defend vs from all the assaults of the world the Flesh and the Deuill Keepe vs from all sinne especially from those sinnes whereto by nature we are most addicted Make vs sorrowfull for our sins past and seale vnto our hearts wee humbly beseech thee full assurance of the forgiuenesse of them in thy Sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ Increase our faith our zeale and our knowledge and make vs dayly more and more to increase in piety and true holinesse Set a watch O Lord before the doore of our Hearts that they thinke not before the doore of our Lips that they speake not before all the parts of our body that they doe not any thing which is amisse or may breed offence Blesse vs also wee beseech thee in our calling wherein thou hast set vs prosper that which thou hast giuen vnto vs and which in thy feare wee set our hands vnto Stirre vs vp to imploy our selues faithfully religiously and industriously in our calling Giue vs all things needfull for this present life and grant that wee may so passe through things temporall that our affection by them may not bee with-drawne from things eternall These things and all other which thou knowest meet and requisite for vs wee humbly craue at thy hands in the name of thy Sonne our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ concluding these our Petitions with that forme of Prayer which himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. Another prayer O Mercifull Lord and louing Father that of the incomprehensible riches of thy mercy towards the disobedient and lost children of Adam who seruing Satan after the blind and vnbridled lusts of the vile flesh whe●e caried away through sinne and ignorance to damnation hast reconciled vs to thy fauour through grace and adoption in Christ Iesus the righteous by faith and holy conuersation in whom wee are deliuered from eternall death and destruction Haue mercy vpon vs and for loue of thy sweet Sonne our Redeemer defend vs against the power of the destroyer and with thy mighty hand lift vs vp out of the filthy puddle and deathfull corruption of this abhominable world purifying our hearts with thy grace that wee being wholly inclined to thy heauenly desires may grow perfect in all holines and abounding in the good workes which thou hast prepared for thy Saints to walke in for the glorifying of thy name wee may grow an acceptable Temple for thy continuall dwelling in vs O Lord to the vnspeakeable peace and comfort and the euerlasting blisse and saluation of our soules through Christ our Sauiour Amen FINIS