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	word_n	5,178	5	4.5514	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42732	The right honourable, Pourtraid. Or, the vizard taken off pretenders With perswasive reasons to allure the will, and reduce mens actiosn to obtain the title. As also a set boundary to the honour of saints departed. By Samuel Gilbert, Philalēthḗd.	Gilbert, Samuel, d. 1692?; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.	1693 (1693)	Wing G718; ESTC R223675	16,536	72

Philo musus THE Right Honourable POVRTRAID OR THE VIZARD Taken off PRETENDERS WITH Perswasive Reasons to allure the Will and reduce Mens Actions to obtain the Title AS ALSO A set Boundary to the Honour of Saints departed By Samuel Gilbert 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed by F. Clark for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street 1682. To the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. YOur Lordship Honourable by Birth Breeding Parts and Place and Right Honourable by your Piety Pains and Stability in the Church of England a Blessing God hath bestowed upon her as a sound Pillar for her Support and a Saint Paul for a Preacher attended with an experienced magnanimous Courage and yet of a most affable courteous and obliging Demeanour for all which fam'd and beloved by this and other Nations tho' envy'd and maligned by our Churches Enemies To whom should this small Piece concerning the Right Honourable Address it self for Protection but to your Self that is so and an Encourager of all Means to make others deserve that Title I therefore without considering the vast disproportion between the Worthiness of the Person to whom I Write and the Meaness of what is Written on this Subject as well as Obscurity of the Author presume yet with as much Humility as the Attempt can bear to beg your Lordships Patronage thereof against the Villifyings of those Persons that are only Honourable to the Eyes of the Vulgar And that here your Lordship would be pleas'd to accept the Acknowledgment of Favours formerly extended towards me tho' I believe both those and my self drop'd out of your Memory but must ever be retain'd in mine And whil'st I live make my daily Petitions to Heaven for the whole Nations as well as your Lordships Interest that Safety Health Prosperity and Honour with length of Days may be your Portion in this Life and Eternal Happiness in the next And conclude with one to your Self that I may be accepted amongst the meanest of your Servants which Title is with all humility assum'd by S. G. TO THE READER MAny that Act the parts of Persons of Quality on the present Stage of the Vniverse thinks that Honour consists only in Riches Height and strength of Parts Worldly Preferments the Cap and Knee the Vogue of the Vulgar c. all which may be attain'd and yet the Possessors not one Spark of true Honour in them if not attended by Holiness it 's inseparable Companion to make this and their mistake perspicuous to characterize the Right Honourable and to perswade those that are o the ways well quallifi'd thereto is the only Design of this small priced Pocket Piece without Refl●ctions on any but good Intentions to all under what scandalous imposed Titles soever Tories or Whiggs Vale. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HONOUR is the World 's great Diana the Idol whereunto it Sacrifices There are none of such poor and pusillanimous Spirits as would not say at least with Saul to Samuel Honour me before the People Every Man would have a good Name that desires not a good Conscience the Sinner being ashamed to be accounted what he is not asham'd to be Absalom having no Virtues to eternize his Memory erects a Pillar and calls it after his own Name The Heathens were so drunk with a giddy desire of Honour that they would be content to exchange their Lives for a dead Statue Empedocles will Sacrifice his Life to the Idol of Honour and cast himself into the flames of Aetna In a word there is no such flatness and poverty of Spirit that hath not one spark of Ambition in him to aspire to Honour As there are none but desire it so few that deserve it many they would be great they will not be good Glorious but not Gracious they would be Honourable but will not be Holy Many would rise to Honour but they quite mistake the Footstool And seek it rather any where than in Holyness nay some think they cannot be Honourable enough unless Godless Holyness is posted over to Colledges and Hospitals c. and thought by some to be fit only for those that are little better as they think than meer Posts It is enough say they for dry Divines Men of low and poor Spirits as they erroneously judge such of grave subdued mortifi'd and retir'd Minds it is not for them that stand upon their Punctilic's and Tearms of Honour height of Place sublimity of Spirit nobleness and generous Disposition do not most Men glory in their Shame as most asham'd of that which is the only Honour of a Christian his Crown and Garland It is Reason that makes us Men but Holyness Christians and better no Men if not Christians 'T is the Badge of Christianity that makes us Honourable for that is the Livery of the King of Kings The Honour the World bestows is but the Livery the worst sort of People generally give those that commonly pay dear for its trimming must seem their Servants nay indeed be real slaves to their humours that gets into popular applause or worldly preferments which some think the greatest Dignity But what says the Psalmist that Kingly Prophet inspired from above This Honour have all his Saints Holyness and Honour God hath ever knit together with a Chain of Adamant a Bond of such inseperable and individual combination as that the Oracle from Heaven hath pronounced it Them that honour me I will honour As shame of Sin so Honour is the natural Off-spring of Grace As the shadow of the Body to the light of the Sun so Honour is always an inseperable attendant of Holiness like some officious Serviter still at his Masters Elbow Holyness and Honour like a pair of Turtle Doves where you see the one the other cannot be far or the two Cherubims upon the Mercy-seat by a reciprocal and mutual prospect continually interview each other The true Jacob's Ladder or Stair of Ascent to Glory is no other than Grace and the high way to Honour Holyness no way to become great but by being good nor truly honourable but by being holy yea even in God's stile Optimus goes before Maximus as if God himself who is essentially great could not be great if not good or not so great if not so good or not the greatest of all if not the best of All. Only the truly Holy are the truly Honourable 1. Because Honour is nothing else but an attestation of the worth and worthiness that is in any Man whence Aristotle tells us Honor est in honorante non in honorato He means the outward performance of such respective Ceremonies and Complements of Honour as the worth and quality of the person honoured deserveth Now the Spirit of God the best Herald that ever was and therefore knows best how to give Names and Titles never makes mention of the Saints but with Titles full of Honour and