Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	day_n	ghost_n	holy_a	6,984	5	5.1861	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

without skin without flesh without life the Church of God as Isaac bound hand and foot the knife at the throat the fire burning as Jonah in the belly of the Whale in hell as Christ in the Grave How desperate was the condition of the Jewish Estate in the Reign of King Ahaz they were so low that they knew not by what possibly they could rise again God said to him Aske a sign of the Lord thy God aske it either in the depth or in the height above But Ahaz said I will not aske and why would not he He thought nothing in heaven nor in earth could do him good Israel was in Egypt as a burning Lamp in a smoaking furnace as Abraham in a deep sleep full of horror and of great darknesse in Babylon as a Lyon dead in Rome as men kild whose bodies lie unburied the Church sometimes passeth through the waters through the Rivers through the fire through the flame Christ the head of the Church therefore much more the Church was as a Plant or Root in a dry ground without forme without comelinesse without beauty despised rejected of men a man of sorrows one acquainted with griefes Yea the Heroes the worthies they of the first Three they are sometimes necessitated to passe through the Pikes to break through an Host an Army to gain a little water You your selves the Worthies of the Kingdome have you not severall times received the sentence of death within your selves have you not been at your stands at your losse God will raise up Mountains of opposition that you may be nothing in your selves that you may be all in him Let them perish that bring the people of God into the hazard of perishing Haman the common enemy that plotted and contrived the utter ruin of the people of God was himself hanged upon the same gallows that he prepared for Mordecai nec lex est justior Nor did Haman dye alone as the head of the Malignant partee but Hamans ten sons drank of the same cup yea they that would have acted in so hellish a design the Jews put to the sword 76000 men it is worthy of your observation the Jews that stood up for their Liberties for their Religion yet the Text twice expresly Records That they layd not their hands on the Prey See what the Gibeonites asked of David 2 Sam. 21.3 4 5 6. What shall I do for you and wherewith shall I make the Atonement that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord And the Gibeonites said unto him We will have no silver nor gold of Saul nor of his house neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel And he said What ye shall say that will I do for you And they answered the King The man that consumed us and that devised against us that we should be destroyed for remaining in any of the coasts of Israel Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul whom the Lord did chuse And the King said I will give them I do not deny but the Law of God doth it self allow composition for mens lives men may in some cases redeem their lives with their Estates Ismael did not slay them that said They had treasure in the field But if there be any whom God hath marked out for destruction they that give their lives to them their lives may go for their lives Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently All are not involved in the same guilt that are in the same Action 200 joyned themselves to Absolon in his treasonable practise yet they went in the simplicity of their hearts Yet there are a partee that are leaders to the blind that Justice may not shut her eye against them in Babylon there are some that have not the mark of the Beast upon them they are to be invited to be called out to be received in but they that have the name the number the marke of the beast they must dye without mercy and like milstones be thrown into the midst of the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone the commands of God are not onely peremptory Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup that she hath filled fill to her double but a blessednesse is promised to them that execute this command O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones peruse that of the Lamentations and you shall see who they are that are to be destroyed and how to be destroyed Render unto them a recompence O Lord according unto the work of their hands give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them persecute and destroy them in anger from under the Heavens of the Lord Give them sorrow of heart there is their character there is their marke by which they are set out for destruction there is that black beane that fatall robe which designs them for death the margent of your Bible reads it give them obstinacy of heart an hard heart is a great evill but an heart hardned an obstinate heart obstinacy of heart such a heart that will not that cannot be softned one reads it give them a veil upon their heart they upon whose heart there is a vail that when Gods hand is lifted up they will not see give them a shield upon their heart a shield not to defend them from the fiery darts of Sathan but as the Interlineary glosse reads it ne penetrentur jaculo praedicationis The sin against the holy Ghost is unpardonable and could we distinctly know that sin men should not pardon it more then God blasphemy was to be punished by death this sin the highest blasphemy I beleeve there are many at this day that are guilty of this sin to sin against mighty convincement so Christ argueth against the Pharisees is to sin this sin they that fight against God as the Jews did that opposed Stephen who were not able to resist the spirit by which he spake yet they were cut to their heart they gnashed on him with their teeth they stopped their eares they stoned him to death if some are not guilty of this sin against the holy Ghost yet there are many that are guilty of that sin which is unto death of that sin which leads unto death which shall never return again that have stood out against the Word of God the Providences of God the mercies of God that have grieved the Holy Spirit resisted the Holy Ghost quenched the Spirit and done despight unto the Spirit of grace Christ would not spare the figtree above three years they that stand out this year after the master of the Vineyard hath been at so great cost and hath taken so great