Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	contrite_a	humble_a	revive_v	5,567	5	11.6295	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90167	Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males.	Holt, Thomas, Sir, 1570 or 71-1654.; Holt, Robert, Sir.; Holt, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing O396aA; ESTC R42531	10,608	24

hast charged with folly With what Countenances with what confidences can we then sinfull and impure Creatures lift up so much as our eyes unto Heaven having so much and so long sinned against Heaven and in thy sight to provoke the eyes of thy Glory Rather therefore standing a far off may we smite upon our brests and the joynts of our Loynes being loosed and our Knees also smiting one against another may we here trembling and sorrowing say God be mercifull unto us sinners who have not been only alienated but even enemies in our mindes by wicked works as it were to augment yet more the fierce Anger of the Lord against us And yet seeing it hath pleased Thee O Father by thine own Sonne to reconcile all things unto thy self we have holdnesse and accesse with confidence by the faith of Him unto thy Throne of Grace Hoping and believing that in by Him we shall obtaine mercie and finde Grace to help in time of need And such O Lord is all our time even as to temporall things when could we truly say that we had need of nothing but as to Spirituall things when could we not truly say that we have need of every thing being by nature All of us wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked And yet O Lord there is hope in Israel concerning this thing even such have looked unto thee and were lightned and their faces were not ashamed the poor man cryed and the Lord heard him And thou art the Father of Lights with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning And Iesus Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever more Why then should we be cast down poor souls or why should we be disquieted within us We hope still in God that we shall yet praise Him for the help of His Countenance Though thou art the High and Lofty One that inhabitest Eternitie yet hast thou regard of poore Mortals yea thou hast promised saying to this man will I look even to him that is Poor and of a contrite spirit that trembleth at thy Word to revive the spirit of the Humble and to revive the hearts of the Contrite ones to remember the Congregation of thy poore for ever But alas O Lord we finde and feele too much securitie and impenitencie in our hard hearts opposing weakning or depraving our Beleeving because thou gavest Christ to give repentance unto Israel aswell as remission of sins And we have too long made our hearts as an Adamant stone least we should hear thy Law and so be humbled and penitent But thou Lord smotest the rock it self that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed and ran in dry places like a River touch our hearts we shall relent to tears move our eyes and we shall then look up unto him whom we have pierced and so mourn and be in bitternesse for our sinnes for which he so suffered So let us be before thee here that when we come unto Thee hereafter thou mayst wipe away all tears from our eyes that there may then be no more sorrow nor crying nor any more paine for us as for the Impenitent and Unholy the smoke of whose Torment ascendeth up for ever where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth In the mean time O Lord because none can understand his errors as who knoweth how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret sinnes but especially keep back us thy servants from presumptuous sinnes let not them have dominion over us Yea wash us throughly from all iniquities with the blood of Iesus Christ which cleanseth from all sinnes For if our Transgressions and our sinnes be upon us and we pute away in them already how should we then live for ever if our sinnes lye down with us in the Dust and how Iustly mightest thou cut us off here now with pining sicknesse and from day even to night make an end of us or make us to possesse only moneths of vanity and wearisome nights to be appointed to us But as thou hast said that by Christ all that believe are justified from all things even so most Gracious Lord be it unto us thy servants according to thy word enabling us to look up unto Iesus who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith yea Lord we believe help thou our unbeliefe And seal we pray Thee our pardons here and thy justifying of our persons by thy sanctifying of our Natures for hast Thou but one blessing O our Father wilt thou forgive only and not give also O give unto us those Sanctifying those saving Graces of thy Spirit whereby thou makest thine meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light That we may be first partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in this world and then partakers of the Divine Glory in that which is to come Perform O Lord thine own promise according to thy own Method in promising that the Lord will give Grace and Glory guide us with thy Counsel and afterwards receive us unto Glory And now Lord as we prase Thee for thy multiplied mercie all this day past so we pray thee for thy continued mercy all this night coming when the shadows of the Evening are stretched out keep us O Lord under the shadow of thy wings untill all callamities are overpast for thou Lord only canst make us dwell in safety We stand in Ieopardy every hour but most exposed unto dangers and with least helps in the night oh then let the Angells of the Lord encamp round about us and preserve us So shew that they are all Ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of Salvation But because as unto much longer life our Bones are dryed our hope is lost and we are already almost cut off for some of our parts Lord make us so wise as to consider our latter ends that as death is the end of all and after death judgement so whilst living we may lay it unto heart till death worketh in us so to live in thy feare that we may dye in thy love and in that thy loving kindnesse which is better then life Thou mayst say O Lord to any or all of us ye fools this night your Soules shall be required of you work in us therefore as thou also hast wrought all our works in us to remember thee on our beds and to meditate on Thee in the night watches because thou knowest our down-sitting and our up-rising and understandest our thoughts afar off when therefore we awake let us be still with Thee And as with long life thou hast in some measure satisfied us so now shew us thy Salvation Givens O Lord such a prospect of the Heavenly Canaan as may make us more willing to leave this wildernesse more desirous to be dissolved and to be with Christ in whose presence is the fulnesse of joy and at whose Right Hand there are