Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dwell_v	ghost_n	holy_a	7,805	5	5.5260	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04849	A sermon at Paules Crosse, on behalfe of Paules Church, March 26. 1620. By the B. of London. Both preached and published by his Majesties commandment	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1620 (1620)	STC 14982; ESTC S108031	22,978	62

I shall sowe no pillowes I am now to present before your eyes the glasse of your honours Your Citty hath beene anciently stiled Augusta Caesar had to name Augustus saith the story quia naturâ hominis amplior because he was more then the nature of man It may be your Citty was more then other Citties I am sure it had not that amplitude and maiestie it now hath Not to weary mine eyes with wandring and rouing after priuate but to fixe vpon publicke alone when I behold that forrest of masts vpon your riuer for trafficke and that more then miraculous bridge which is the communis terminus to joyne the two bankes of that riuer your Royall Exchange for Merchants your Halls for Companies your gates for defence your markets for victuall your aquaeducts for water your granaries for prouision your Hospitalls for the poore your Bridewells for the idle your Chamber for Orphans and your Churches for holy Assemblies I cannot denie them to be magnificent workes and your Citty to deserue the name of an Augustious and majesticall Citty to cast into the reckoning those of later edition the beautifying of your fields without and pitching your Smithfield within new Gates new Water-workes and the like which haue beene consecrated by you to the dayes of his Maiesties happy reigne I hope the cleansing of the Riuer which is the vena porta to your Citty will follow in good time But after all these as Christ to the young man in the Gospell which had done all and more Vnum tibi deest si vis perfectus esse vade vende so may I say to you There is yet one thing wanting vnto you if you will be perfit perfit this Church not by parting from all but somewhat not to the poore but to God himselfe This Church is your Sion indeed other are but Synagogues this your Ierusalem the mother to them all other but daughters brought vp at hir knees this the Cathedrall other but Parochiall Churches this the Bethel for the daily and constant seruice of God other haue their intermissions this the common to you all and to this doe your Tribes ascend in their greatest solemnities others appropriated to seuerall Congregations this the standart in the high rode of gaze others are more retired this the mirrour and marke of strangers other haue but their side lookes finally this vnto you as S Peters in the Vatican at Rome S. Marks at Venice and that of Diana at Ephesus and this at Ierusalem of the Iewes or if there be any other of glory and fame in the Christian world which they most ioy in You haue opened your hands and filled with your blessing a blessing of this kinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are both the Apostles words 1. 2. Corinth many Churches both at home and abroad S. Albans and a number besides looke with a chearefuller countenance through the oyle of your goodnes Your English Colonie in Virginia I named hir the little sister that had no breasts hath drawne from the breasts of this Citty and Dioecesse a thousand pounds towards hir Church The Churches of Prague Franckendale though of an other bloud nothing of kin to you the latter I confesse the maiden and prime suite of Hir that in all respects of grace and accomplishment is the prime Lady of Europe the other a meere stranger at that time the present condition of things not then suspected nor dreamt of haue both had an offering of a faire eye from this honourable Citty Now as Esau to his father when Iacob had beene before him Nunquid non reseruasti Num vnam tantum haue you not kept one blessing in store or had you but one blessing or haue you forgotten the old rule Charitas à domo sua that Charitie beginneth at hir owne house or will you be marked with those the Apostle speaketh of which prouide not for their owne Or will you begin at your owne houses indeed and there build like Xerxes togati seele your chambers with Cedar and paint them with Synoper 22 Ierem. that when you haue done you may walke in the tarras of them and say Is not this great Babel which I haue built for the honour of my name But as for the house of the Lord with those 1. Agg Nondum tempus the time is not yet come Nunquid tempus vobis est read forward it is a fearfull place and stingeth like Scorpions Ponite corda vestra super vias vestras Consider it wisely you eat and are not satisfied c. What is the reason quia domus mea deserta vnus quisque festinat in domum suam because mine house lieth desert and euery one maketh haste to build his owne house Or is no man smitten at the heart as Dauid was 2. Sam. 7. Behold I dwell in an house of Cedar but as for the Arke of the Lord it remaineth in medio pellium in the midst of curtaines Or these houses of clay which we beare about vs and are in medio pellium indeed in the midst of skins shall we garnish and trim on the outside like painted sepulchres whited walles gilded potsheards Aegyptian temples that scarce haue an Arke a good soule within them but some Monkey or Cat or Crocodile or the like and that in so garish and strange a fashion that that which was opprobrious in former dayes is prodigious in ours Iuvenes vt foemina compti a man trickt like a woman a shame then Iuvenes foemina tonsi a woman trim'd like a man a grace now Quid androgynus saith Tully what is a man-woman woman-man nonne fatale monstrum Shall all this be done I say and shall this house of the Lord the place where his honour dwelleth drop downe by peeces and leaue a memoriall against vs of senselesse indevotion to succeeding ages O yee the liuing stones and reasonable Temples of the Holy Ghost breath vpon the chill faces of these dead and disfigured ones euen for kinred sake the spirit of life and refreshing renew their youth as the Eagles take off their filthy garments as they from Iehosuah Zach. 3. and giue them a change of raiment and as God spake to his people Malach. 3. Bring in that there may be meat in my house and proue me bring in that the house of the Lord may but subsist and stand and proue him if he will not open the windowes of heauen and powre downe his blessings vpon you Goe vp to the mountaines Agg 1. bring wood c. doe but begin the worke lay but a stone of it shall I euer distrust the prouidence of that God that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginner and finisher of euery good worke that giueth both to will and to doe whose Spirit bloweth where it pleaseth who when he gaue order for the building of his Tabernacle the charge was no more but this Euery one that is willing whose heart