Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	7,322	5	6.0283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81112	Euchodia. Or, A prayer-song; being sacred poems on the history of the birth and passion of our blessed Saviour, and several other choice texts of Scripture. In two parts. / By Daniel Cudmore, Gent.	Cudmore, Daniel, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C7460; Thomason E1606_2; Thomason E1498_2; ESTC R208455	38,700	131

His sweet his Patient knocks Delay like that false Brother cries I go But means no less then so VVho but a begger for a slender pittance VVould with such patience dance for an admittance 6. O let us open lest his wrath break through VVe are not thunder-proof O let us open to his calls such knocks Ev'n might awake deaf rocks VVho might enamour'd on his gracious gifts Divide their flinty clifts Lest he appear next in a Vulture 's shape T' act on our souls a rape Lest with his lightning he our bodies harrow Incinerate our bones and drink our marrow 7. Lord I am dull O let thy Spirit pierce Way for a quick commerce 'T is wholesome Physick Lord to be soul-sick Health to be pierc'd at quick When ere thou com'st I 'm either gone from home Or thou before I come Next if deny'd break th' house 't is thine and I Allow the Burglary And let thy holy winde with quick inquest Enter and raise his Earthquakes in my brest 8. Then purge thy Temple let my flesh ev'n long O give each pore a tongue To cry Come blessed Spirit let each mouth Breathe Rise O North come South Breathe on thy Spices breathe lest that thy garden Not blow'd or dew'd on harden Like to that quondam-Nursery of thine Once-fruitful Palestine Thus by thy grace refresh'd in thy good time It flourish may like Eden in its prime Psal 63. 4 For thy loving kindness is better then life it self 1. BEtter then life it self what 's life what blindness Prefers his life before thy loving kindness Were life possest of all that feigned bliss The Alchoran can promise after this Yet what were all these joys what gust or savor Had all these pleasures yet without thy favor 2. Could man re-purchase by some unknown price His ancient Mannor real Paradice Should he be re-saluted The sole Lord And seisin giv'n him by that flaming sword Could Man have all these joys what were 't to be At peace with Creatures and at war with Thee 3. Should man be with that chosen vessel rapt Up into heav'n and there in glories wrapt Should he with such a holy violence As was Elijah once be wafted hence Could man have these without thy love what were it To what Elijah and blest Paul inherit 4. If the wings of our time of life did flag Nothing below the age of crow or stag If in man's body fitly did condense An equal temper of the elements Yet what were life without thine from above Or breath without the breathings of thy love 5. Life is a noble thing by God 't was breath'd A jewel to man's carkanet bequeath'd To cherish 't by instinct is all our strife All good 's included in the Name of Life Yet if thy gracious Spirit not revive We but dead and onely seem to live 6. True a live dog exceeds a lion dead But a dead dog excells a life that 's led Without thy favour without thy direction Thy breath in us corrupts by sins infection Without thy love each creature 's both our Foe And all enjoyments turn to bitter woe 7. Except our money with thy stamp be coyn'd Except our friendship with thy love be joyn'd Except thy marrow do our dish imbellish Except our wine do savour of thy relish Our money friendship all our wine and sood Not currant is not true not sweet not good 8. Dear God! without thy love all creatures may Match me I live and am and so are they No difference without thy quickning presence There is 'twixt me and unbelieving peasants If here thy love bear witness of thy choice I in thy loving kindness shall rejoyce 2 Pet. 3. 10. But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness 12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat 1. Thus learn'd Let 's be fore-warn'd And thus astonish'd In time let 's be admonish'd In vain our brains we pump To tell the terrours of that trump Cloud-rending thunders are but soft Quiet as night and silent as a thought Or as the noisless musick of the Spheres To this sound that shall deaf our ears No vapours bellowing from the ground At all are like this sound And if that Trump shall make The dead t' awake Where shall it drive Th' alive If shall the sensless graves and th' earth obey Shall we not quake and tremble worse then they 2. I wonder If that the Thunder Makes beasts to flee For safety to some tree Let 's think then with what terrour Shall that loud Trump wake sin and errour How do we tremble if we meet The eager flashes of a lightning sheet How do we wish to quench a burning City If possible with tears of pitie If with our fev'rish friend we fry In hearty sympathy How shall we melt as fast As th' heavens wast When I and you Shall view The heavens to dissolve the skies to swelter And stars in melting elements to welter 3. We count At Sinai 's mount When God propounded The Law all were confounded God 's thunder-rhetorick With lightning flash'd made Nature sick Sinai like some Vesuvius seem'd Its trembling womb with constant earth-quakes teem'd As if the feigned Cyclops there were under And there did forge and frame their thunder His Law God with such terrour spake It made the just to quake How will he then impeach His statutes breach And sin how strict Convict Shall they not feel those terrours of the Law Which they at Sinai onely heard and saw 4. The torrid Zone 's not so horrid As some do feign Nor is the dog-stars reign Our wits foment more fuel Then Nature gave they 're not so cruel But who hath so his thoughts indulg'd To think these flames less then they are divulg'd May fear to be cast from this burning frame Into an everlasting flame 'Mong those contemners of that Prophet Who did denounce that Tophet Whereon a forc'd belief Shame pain and grief Shall without end Attend Where sighs shall serve but to blow up the flame And tears the oil which shall foment the same 5. And thus We now discuss The world of old By Noah was foretold And as they at his Ark Some at our preparations bark The Atheist 's ready to ask whether Our Christ and Mahomet will come together Since both have been expected long t' invest Theirs in a Paradise of rest There 's none but both upbraids and pities Wretch'd Sodom and her Cities Ev'n they were thus surpris'd When unadvis'd They reck'ned not Just Lot And who knows Sodom 's fate but counteth