Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	ghost_n	holy_a	14,941	5	5.3174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87205	A declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For the undeceiving of deluded and seduced people, which may be satisfactory to all that doe not wilfully shut their eyes against the light. In answer to certaine late declarations and acts framed by the Irish popish prelates and clergy in a conventicle at Clonmae-Noise. Licensed by the secretary of the army.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1650 : Ireton); Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.	1650 (1650)	Wing I1031; Thomason E596_6; ESTC R15772	11,563	16

are not able to carry on your worke you are ready when ever you shall get the power into your hands to kick them off too as some late experiences have sufficiently manifested And thus we come to the designe you being thus wholesomely united intended to be prosecuted by you Your words are these That all and every of us of the above Archbishops Bishops Prelates are now by the blessing of God as one body united And that we will as becommeth charity and our Pastorall charge stand all of us as one intire body for the interest and immunities of the Church and of every the Prelats and Bishops thereof and for the honour dignity estate right possessions of all and every of the said Archbishops Bishops and other Prelats And we will as one intire united body forward by our counsels actions and devices the advancement of his Majesties rights and the good of this Nation in generall and in particular occasions to our power And that none of us in any occasion whatsoever concerning the Catholique Religion or the good of this Kingdome of Ireland will in any respect single himselfe or be or seem opposite to the rest of us but will hold firm and intire in one sence as aforesaid c. And if there were no other quarrell against you but this which you make to be the principall and first ground of your quarrell to wit as so standing for the rights of your Church falsely so called and for the right of your Archbishops Bishops and Prelats as to engage People and Nations into blood therefore This alone would be your confusion I aske you is it for the Lay fee as you call it or revenue belonging to your Church that you will after this manner contend or is it your jurisdiction or the exercise of your Ecclesiasticall authority or is it the faith of your Church Let me tell you not for all nor any of these is it lawfull for the Ministers of Christ as you would be thought to be thus to contend And therefore we will consider them a part For the first if it were S. Peters patrimony as you tearm it that is somewhat that you lawfully came by although I must tell you your Predecessors cheated poore seduced men in their weaknesse upon their death beds or otherwise unlawfully came by most of this you pretend to Yet Peter though he was somewhat too forward to draw the sword in a better cause if that weapon not being proper to the businesse in hand was to be put up in that case he must not nor would he have drawn it in this And that blessed Apostle Paul who said the labourer was worthy of his hire chose rather to make tents then be burthensome to the Churches I would you had either of those good mens spirits on the condition your reveneues were doubled to what the best times ever made them to your predecessors The same answer may be given to that of your power and jurisdiction and to that prehemenencie of Prelacie you so deerely love onely consider what the Master of the same Apostles said to them So it shall not be amongst you who ever will be chiefe shall be servant of all For he himselfe came not to be ministred unto but to minister And by this he that runs may reade of what Tribe you are And surely if these that are outward things may not thus be contended for how much lesse may the Doctrines of faith which are the works of grace the spirit be endevoured by so unsutable means He that bids us contend for the faith once delivered to the Saints tels us that we should do it by avoiding the Spirit of Cain Core and Balaam and by building up our selves on the most Holy faith not pinning it upon other mens sleeves praying in the Holy Ghost not mumbling over mattens Keeping our selves in the love of God Not destroying men because they will not be of our faith waiting for the mercy of Jesus Christ not cruell but merciefull But alas why is this said why are these Pearles cast before you You are resolved not to be charmed from using the instrument of a foolish shepheard You are a part of Antichrist whose Kingdome the Scripture so expresly speakes should be layed in blood yea in the blood of the Saints you have shed great store of it already And ere it be long you must all of you have blood to drinke even the dreggs of the cup of the fury and wrath of God which wil be powred out unto you In the next place you state the interest of his Majesty as you say And this you hope will draw some English and Scots to your partie But what Majestie is it you meane Is it France or Spaine or Scotland speake plainely you have some of you lately been harping or else we are misinformed upon his Majestie of Spaine to be your Protector Was it because his Majesty of Scotland is too little a Majestie for your purpose Wee know you love great Majesties Or is it because he is not fully come over to you in point of Religion If he be short in that you will quickly find out upon that score an other Majesty His Father who complied with you too much you rejected now would make the world believe you would make the Sons Interest a great part of the State of your quarrell How can we but thinke there is some reserve in this and that the Son is agreed to doe somewhat more for you then ever his Father did Or else tell us whence this new Zeale is That the Father did too much for you in all Protestants Judgements instead of many instances let be considered what one of your own Doctors Dr. Enos of Dublin who writing against the agreement made between the Lord of Ormond and the Irish Catholiques findes fault with it and sayes it was nothing so good as that the Earle of Glamorgan had warrant from that King to make but exceeding far short of what the Lord George Digby had warrant to agree with the Pope himselfe at Rome in favour of the Irish Catholiques I intend not this to you but to such Protestants as may incline to you joyn with you upon this single account which is the onely appearing inducement to them seeing there is so much probability of ill in this abstracted And so much certainty of ill in fighting for the Romish religion against the Protestant And fighting with men under the guilt of so horrid a massacre from perticipating in which guilt whilst they take part with them they will never be able to assoyle themselves either before God or good men In the last place you are pleased having after your usuall manner remembered your selves first his Majesty as you call him next like a man of your Tribe with Ego Rex me●s you are pleased to take the people into consideration least they should seem to be forgotten or rather you might make me believe they