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	quicken_v	5,491	5	10.4511	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07733	The cleansing of the leper discoursed, and opened, first, in certaine lectures within the cathedrall church of Saint Paul, in London; vpon occasion of that great visitation of the plague, in the yeare of our Lord, 1603. And now thought meet to be published, for our present instruction and comfort; as being fitted both to this time of pestilence, and of famine amongst vs. By Henry Morley, Bachelour of Diuinitie.	Morley, Henry, d. 1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 18115; ESTC S112895	120,818	318

they did worke wonders with them wheras it is a thing impossible for them by such causes to produce such effectes there being so great disparitie and disproportion betweene them vnlesse it bee by a diabolicall operation that worketh together with them By whose power and helpe I doe verely beleeue such things to bee wrought if they be really and truely done rather then by anie vertue or power in the causes and meanes or by anie knowledge and skill in those impostours coseners which pretende and would at the least seem to doe them The third cause why our Sauiour vseth his tongue in healing the Leper was to shewe the exceeding great power and vertue that is in his speech and in his words insomuch that when hee woulde haue gone to the Centurions house to haue healed his seruant the Centurion desired only his word for the doing of it Dic verbū tantùm Mat. 8.9 say but the word onely and my seruant shall be whole Concerning the vertue power of whose word if we shall enter into a view and consideration wee shall find it not like the words of other men which are commonly vaine and idle but full of waight and power hauing as much vertue and efficacie in them as his workes haue For as God speaketh in his workes Aug. ad Deogratias ep 49 as Saint Austen sayes so likewise hee worketh in his speech working as mightily by his wordes as by his deedes When our Sauiour Christ taught preached vnto the people they were al amazed and wondred at the gracious wordes that came from him Luke 4. Luke 4.22 When he disputed with the Sadduces and the Pharises hee put them all to silence with his words so as they durst not meddle any more with him Mat. 22. Mat. 22.46 When the officers wersent to lay hold on him they were so moued with his words that they had not the power to lay hands on him saying to those that sent them Nemo sicut hic locutus est Ioh. 7.46 neuer any man spake as this man doth Ioh. 7. Againe being sent the second time to apprehend him he doth but say Ego sum I am he and they went backward and fell to the ground presently Ioh. 18.5 Ioh. 18. The power and efficacie of whose words is such and so great that it produceth most strange and wonderfull effectes in the hearts of men But as the Sunne hath a seuerall operation in seuerall subiects hardning clay and softning waxe so the word of Christ hath one operation in the harts of the wicked and an other in the harts of the godly For the wicked it doth greatly trouble and astonish them Dan. 5 as it did Belshazzar Dan. 5. It humbleth and bringeth them downe as it did Achab. 1. King 21 1. King 21. It maketh them to feare and tremble as it did Felix Act. 24 Act. 5 Act. 24. Yea it striketh them dead as it did Ananias and Saphira Acts 5. For the godly it quickneth giueth life vnto them Ioh. 6 The words which I speake saith Christ are spirit and life Ioh. 6. It giueth light knowledge vnto them Thy Word sayth DAVID is a lanterne vnto my feet and a light vnto my steps Psalm 119. Psal 119. It mollifieth softneth their hearts he sendeth forth his word sayth the Prophet and melteth them Psalm Psalm 147 147. It sanctifieth and maketh them pure and holy Now are you clean saith Christ by the word which I haue spoken vnto you Ioh. 15. Ioa. 15.3 It feedeth and nourisheth the soule Man shall not liue by bread only sayth Christ but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Mat. 4. It resisteth Mat. 4.4 and defendeth vs against our enemies Put on the whole armour of God saith the Apostle and among the rest take the sworde of the spirit which is the word of God that yee may be able to resist and to stand in the euill day Ephes 6. Eph. 6.16 Where if wee happen to be wounded sometimes hee sendeth forth his word again and healeth vs fulfilling that in vs that the Centurion sayd Dic verbum tantùm sanabitur do but speake the word only my seruant shall be made whole Mat. 8 Lactantius speaking of the efficacy and power of Gods word Lactaut de falsa sapien cap. 26 maketh as it were a challenge in the praise of it Giue me saith he a man that is full of wrath and reuenge with the word of God I will make him as meeke and as gentle as a lamb giue me one that is couetous griping with the word of God I will make him liberall and bountifull giuing his mony with a ful hand giue me one that is timorous and fearefull of death and of euerie danger with the word of God I will make him bolde and hardie and to con●emne Phalaris his bull and all kind of torments giue mee one that is giuen to lust and pleasure and to incontinencie with the word of God I will make him as sober chaste and continent as a pure Virgin Such is the power of the diuine wisedome that it will presently driue awaie all folly the mother of all wickednesse vno lauacro omnis malitia abolebitur with one lauer of Gods word al wickednes wil be washed away A thing which Philosophers could never do with their wisdom who although they haue spent al their life in the study of it they could neuer make themselues nor others the better if nature withstood never so little the most that it could do was Sapientia corum vt plurimum efficiat non exscindit vitia sed obscondit Lact. ibid. that it did somwhat restraine their wickedness and couer it but it did not altogether correct and reforme it If you desire to haue an instance hereof in some example doe but examine thy self how thou art affected in thy soule when thou hearest one of Dauids psalms how when thou hearest one of the diuells songs how when thou art in the Church hearing of a Sermon and how in a Theater or Play-house hearing of a plaie and thou shalt easily see what great difference there is though there bee but one soule in the diuers motions affections and dispositions of it that it may manifestly and most euidently appeare hereby to men of the least vnderstanding in what price and estimation wee ought to haue this word and with how much reuerence we are to entertaine it whenas there is such power vertue efficacie in it being like vnto that Manna which God did feed his people withall in the wilderness Mannae haec fuit natura saporem sui pro desiderio rescentium subministrans Chrysost in hom Quod nemo laeditur nisi ●● se Psal 51 whose nature was as Chrysostome sayes to taste and relish according to the appetite and desire of euerie one that did eate of it If we be sorrowfull and grone vnder the