Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	certain_a	company_n	good_a	35	3	2.1572	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42233	Lavernæ, or, The Spanish gipsy the whole art, mystery, antiquity, company, noblenesse, and excellency of theeves and theeving : with their statutes, laws, customes, practices, varieties, and differences, also their originall, rise, and beginning, of what parents, education and breeding the author was : with a pleasant discourse hee had in prison with a most famous theefe, and also his last disgrace, being a work no lesse curious than delectable / first written in Spanish by Don. Garcia ; now in English by W.M.; Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English	Garcia, Carlos.; W. M. (William Melvin)	1650 (1650)	Wing G212; ESTC R177476	64,069	288

also a great number of evill angells with him who were copartners with him in his rash and accursed purpose And these although they do equally partake with him in the paine essentiall which is being deprived of God have neverthelesse some difference amongst themselves whether it be that everyone is of one kind as saith a Doctor of the Church or whether for that they had more or lesse consent in his malice Because that without doubt those who obstinatly defended the pride of Lucifer fell with him into the deepest place of the earth which is the center of the the world where divines doe place Hell And those who were not so vehement but onely approved his purpose with a certaine and determinate fellow-liking fell not so low I will say that the accidentall paine of them was not so great as that of these others And of this sort the accidentall paine of these spirits was made severall according to the degrees of the malice which they had in their sinne And though that in Hell there is no order as Iob saith there is notwithstanding a certaine government and order among these spirits vnder-placed and divided into severall companies with diverse degrees and qualities So as the good Angells in the heavenly Ierusalem are divided by their order into Angells Archangells Thrones Powers Cherubins Seraphins and other holy dignities All the Legions of Divels which fell from Heaven remained subject to the Archangell Michael who hath commandement and empire overthem all As also according to some mens opinions every good Angell of Princes hath commandement over one Legion And beside the obedience which all of them owe to Saint Michael as to their Captaine Generall vnder God they have also among them their Prince of malice to whom they are subject and obey and upon him depend diverse Lievetenants and Governors who wholly divide the governement of all the hellish malice every one of them having vnder his charge the disposing and good order of his band Neither lesse nor more than in a well ordered Campe where there is a great multitude of Souldiers the body of the armie is divided into severall Regiments as are the Generall the Camp-master Captaines Ensignes Sergeants Corporalls and others of this sort who order the Souldiers and the armie And as there are sundry Offices of these some being foote others horse some Musqueters others Pikemen and finally of severall employments there are also among the evill spirits severall Offices and places some tempting by Covetousnesse others by Riotousnesse others by Ambition and finally every particular sinne hath its appointed and determinate Officers having all of them equally one onely end and scope to carrie soules to Hell In this Divellish armie there are some Divels that never come out of Hell but are evermore shut up within it receiving the soules which enter in thither and giving to them a place and kinde of torment which their sinnes deserve There are others who are ever wandring compassing the earth to and fro and searching for soules to carrie them into Hel. Neverthelesse let no man thinke that these have any power or authoritie to beare away one soule to Hell nor these others to shut up in their darke dennes vnlesse it be by the expresse commandement and particular commission of God And so much concerning these hellish Officers As for its largenesse it is such that all sorts of sinfull soules enter into Hell and it is ordinarily full fraughted and peopled with Blasphemers Perjur'd persons Murtherers Adulterers Envious persons and to conclude with all sorts of Evill-doers who although they have in common the essentiall paine which is the wanting of God and are all of them in Hell yet they have severall roomes and torments according to everie ones deferving sithence it is certaine that the paine of him that oweth little shall not be so great at all as the paine of him that oweth much and that the just Iudge chastiseth and recompenseth every one according as he deserveth To all this varietie is added the extreme confusion of Hell the disorder the vnquietnesse the vnrulie cariage and continualagitation with which they are alwaies tormented seeing it is evident that where rage and despaire reigneth there can be no friendly fellowship nor agreement This estate practise disposition of the horrible pit of this hellish lodging is the lively pourtraict of that desperate life which men suffer in prison in which the beholder shal find so in tire so mutuall a correspondence that there is not almost any other difference between them but in the name Because that first to the essentiall paine of Hel which is the depriving of Gods powerful presence the want of liberty hath correspondence which with a just title we may cal a paine essentiall for so much as it is the queen of al the apprehēsions motives of sorrow which are able to afflict a good wit And as in that the soule being deprived of God it is also deprived of all worldly pleasures even so in this to wit in prison it enjoyeth not any thing which hath the least shadow of content Because that although a prisoner were clothed with purple served as a King fed with the most delicate vitailes of the world his Chamber hang'd with cloth of gold that hee were entertained with all sort of Musicke visited by his parents and friends all this nor all that could be desired more could bring him any kinde of comfort On the contrary he should have lesse because that all things availe nothing but to awaken his appetite and make him desire that which others enjoy and to which he cannot attaine Whence proceedeth the increasing of his want of libertie and consequently his paine The harshnesse and force of depriving of libertie may be easily known by its contrarie this being infallible that the depriving of one thing shall be by so much evill as the possession of it shall be good And libertie being the most precious Iewell of the soule and the greatest perfection which the vnbounded Author of this hath engrafted in the reasonable creature it is certaine that the depriving thereof shall be the most crosse and vnsufferable of all others That libertie is that which guideth and directeth mans actions to diverse ends without enforcing them and with pleasure choosing and commanding experience teacheth this in which the supreme work-master would distinguish man from other living creatures whose end obtaineth by a naturall instinct which leadeth them as by a bridle to the appetite and delight in it and that it is so powerfull and maketh man so absolute that his vnderstanding having proposed the good the perfect the honest and the delectable he may resolve with himselfe to love it or not to love it at all sith that none but God may aske a reason of this so absolute commandement Naturall Philosophie telleth it Whence and from many other reasons which I could bring it is clearely perceived that there is not any thing in the