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	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19955	Christopher Angell, a Grecian, who tasted of many stripes and torments inflicted by the Turkes for the faith which he had in Christ Iesus; Ponēsis Khristophorou tou Aggelou Hellēnos tou pollōn plēgon. English.		1617 (1617)	STC 639; ESTC S113304	6,378	16

againe to punishment that for feare of stripes I might turne Turke And certaine christian slaues belonging to the Captaine who were of the westerne Church came to me saying now is the time that thou shalt bee scourged to death vnlesse thou turne they besought me saying it is better to die then turne Turke I answered God forbid that I should deny Christ the true God I wil first die an hundred times in one day before I deny my Saviour Christ Then my conscience said to me in private But can I then indure torments even vnto death then my reason answered Christ was a man and yet he suffered on the Crosse to death and that not for himselfe but others But then I reasoned againe Christ was both God and man therefore hee could withstand the terrors of death but I am a fleshly man and perchance I cannot vndergoe the cruell pangs of death but my conscience solved all this doubt in that the Martyrs were fleshly men and sinners yet by the grace of God were strengthned to die therefore by the same grace shall I be sustained And in this cogitation I was much comforted and prevailed in spirit wholy gaue my selfe over to suffer death and they lead me streight waies to the place of execution and bound me hand and foot in maner of a crosse vpon the earth as appeareth by this figure Since here I haue no witnesses that for the present may testifie the truth of these my sufferings therefore I call the eternall father and God of all both witnesse and iudge in this maner The eternall God punish mee in this world and in that to come if I haue not thus suffered from the Turkes vniustly for my faith in Christ as is vnder written For they laid on the earth thicke peeces of timber like the beames of a house and to them they bound me and then they began to beat mee with scourges as appeares in the figure Two men dipping their rods in salt water began to scourge me and when the one was lifting vp his hand the other was ready to strike so that I could take no rest and my paine was most grievous and so they continued beating me saying turne Turke and we will free thee but I answered them in no case vntill they made me halfe dead then they rested a while saying hee is surely very constant and will not deny his religion but we wil tell him that wee will let him goe if hee will say that the Athenian Marchants which are in Venice sent him to betray Athens to the Spaniards and then they began to beate me on the feet saying confesse that the Athenians which traffique in Venice sent thee to betray Athens to the Spaniards and we will let thee goe Now the Turkes would haue me beare false witnesse against the Athenians that thereby they might take them and slay them for the hatred which was betweene the governour and the Athenians I said nothing to this and till this time I vnderstood what the Turkes said but from this moment that is from that time in which they said twice or thrice to me confesse that the Athenians sent thee to betray Athens I answered nothing I vnderstood nothing I was perfectly dead and so remained for the space of an houre and againe after an houre by the grace of God I revived Then the Turks tooke all my substance my bookes I meane and riches I was much in debt till by the request of many noble men I was freed from prison And after a weeke they counselled among themselues to take me and in one houre to kill me or make mee turne Turke by whipping and other torments But this laying wait was made known to all the Christians both men and women in Athens and to me also Then I fled from Athens and wandring abroad found expert Marchants which knewe well both England and many other places and I inquired diligently of them where I might find wise men with whom I might keepe my religion and not loose my learning they told me in England you may haue both for the English men loue the Grecians and their learning and it is a monarchie where are found many very honest wise and liberall men but in Germany France and Italy they haue continually civill warres Therefore I came in a streight course to England and came through Flanders to Yarmouth in England where by good fortune I met with the Bishop of that Diocese who examined me diligently and found the testimonies which I brought from our Bishops and Clergy of Peloponnesus and other places And hee with the rest of the ministerie bestowed mony on mee according to their faculties and sent me with letters to Cambridge for he himselfe was a Cambridge man and the Doctors of Cambridge receaued me kindly and frankly I spent there almost one whole yeare as the testimonie of Cambridge can witnesse Then I fell sicke that I could scarce breath and the Physitians and Doctors counselled me to goe to Oxford because said they the aire of Oxford is far better thē that of Cambridge And so I came to this famous Vniversitie of Oxford now I liue here studious these many yeares And first I thanke God who sent mee to such honest and learned men secondly your Worship who are my most kind benefactor and to all other my most kind benefactors and to all good and charitable men and I beseech God both day and night that hee will restore an hundred fold to you in this life and in the life to come a crowne in corruptible to you I say and all other good men for their great goodnesse and liberalitie Amen An Epistle in commendations of England and the Inhabitants thereof I am conscious to my selfe of mine owne vnworthinesse hauing not so much as a tast of that learning which might make me bold to present my lines before so worthy men yet because as a wise man hath it necessitie driues a man to many a shift I am therefore thus set on worke Our Saviour Christ both God and man as God doth require spirituall honour from the soules of men to wit goodnesse loue carefulnesse to performe good things almes deeds the like according to that of the Prophet David let every spirit praise the Lord and as S. Paule commandeth glorifie God in your bodie in your spirit for they are Gods Now as man our Lord requireth such honour as was due vnto that person in him For so it appeareth in that question of his vnto the Leper who often that were cleansed alone returned to render our Saviour thanks Are there not ten cleansed but where are those nine surely as a wise man speaketh he must needs be of a very ingratefull disposition who in matters of kindnesse can suddenly become forgetfull For my owne part if there be any such who for benefits receiued shall not returne speciall acknowledgement alwaies vnto his freinds let him beare that foule note of