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	good_a	grace_n	5,955	5	5.3635	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75964	The lost sheepe is found under a nevv disguisement of a yong-raw-scull'd vvit, &c. A bold adventure, a new way declared in a further imitation of more domestique boarders and schollers of the feminine gender, in vindication of a pious intention, and christian reliefe of a disconsolate husband, and three innocent young children, for the losse of an imperious revolted wife, and an ungratefull man-servant, lately departed together, or asunder, into the streights of Magellanica, or the West Indies, or some where else unknowne, to trade by their owne selfe wits or wills, in chaundry wares, or cotton-wooll, in flat opposition and dislike of so laudable and generous a designe, &c.	Agar, Ben, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing A757A; ESTC R225971	5,514	15

THE LOST SHEEPE IS FOUND UNDER A NEW DISGUISEMENT OF A Yong-raw-scull'd VVit c. A Bold adventure a new way declared in a further imitation of more domestique Boarders and Schollers of the feminine gender in vindication of a pious intention and Christian reliefe of a disconsolate Husband and three innocent young Children for the losse of an imperious revolted wife and an ungratefull Man-servant lately departed together or asunder into the streights of Magellanica or the West Indies or some where else unknowne to trade by their owne selfe wits or wills in Chaundry wares or Cotton-Wooll in flat opposition and dislike of so laudable and generous a designe c. London Printed 1642. THE LOST SHEEP IS FOUND UNDER A NEW DISGUISEment of a young-raw-scull'd Wit c. PAUL may plant and Apollo may water but it is God alone which rendreth the increase The sandy foundation of my building hitherto must be razed and a firmer timely prepared to erect a new edifice upon But seeing my particular ruine with too many in the like Catastrophe cannot nay must not with times variation be repaired by the ancient and ordinary rules of Law and Justice which evidently presages an eminent or imminent dissolution And therefore beyond the care of these outward Tabernacles the eternall mansion of our soules should be thought upon by a sure laying another manner and more firme foundation building and erecting securely on that blessed and most immoveable Rock Christ Jesus by a daily fabrick and edification of a Theologicall archietecture of Faith Hope and Charity which vertues are not singly attained by humane endeavour alone but through co-operation of Gods holy Spirit preventing Grace from divine illustration perpetually assisting yet for certain wee may by industry enlighten and conduct morality to some speciall degree or apprehension of some hopefull perfection beginning at youth especially in the future in one or all the chiefe whereof is Christian charity alwayes intending the morrall good and benefit of others with and sometimes before our selves Now although my former intendment hath prepared ready for the presse two tracts of another consequence and more concerning the publique a taste whereof I have lately set forth in Print by way of a Remonstrance entituled Clericus Mercati of another also likewise ready for the timely expression of Mortification and Repentance Forasmuch as my unhappy and perfidious yoke-fellowes and co-partners both male and female have conjoyntly made me some other way not to be mentioned more publique then my selfe would have it or desired and thereafter framed and suted their intentions and purposes though not with my consent as they pretend quite opposite to these immaculate times as some too precisely deeme which need no Repentance now aswell as no Clericus Mercati both damned in judgement as uselesse or fruitlesse for Church or Common-wealth I have therefore laid aside and suspended awhile both Tracts and rurall office together as impertinent untill the present times mend or end with me and mine and so patiently refer my cause and needlesse calling to the Laws supreame at the last and generall Resurrection In the meane season not grow desperate but assume a stedfast resolution through publique and private distemper to wade through all temporall disasters but first submit and returne to God Almighty beginning like a yong and hopefull Grammar-Scholar with Proximus sum c. true charity begins at home c. Maugre that instance of wisdome and experience which infallibly denoteth Cor humile faciemque moestam plagam cordis efficit mulier improba manus remissas genua soluta quae non consolatur virum suum in angustia c. Ecclesiasticus 25. ver 23. For as much as time and too late experience hath made me sensible of every sillable of this sacred Text and sent home to my habitation even to the very doors and posts of my house a dolefull commentary thereof yet in pious consideration that Sampson though treacherously betrayed by Dalilah had strength enough continued in him afterwards to ruine his enemies by the same meanes they insnared him and surely the promise through divine ordinance and providence is not by the bondwoman but the free as our Apostle also inferreth c. Gal. 4.24 Let me not therefore Christian Reader be deemed too confident or arrogant amid a conjugall contestation to undertake though not by my selfe alone being the unfortunate husband of an impious and revolted wife yet by the obsequious helpe of others pious vertuous and expert assistants that way of my procurement to breed up and religiously educate three dozen at least of pure Virgins and yet turne and returne them all safe and secure to their severall indulgent Parents after foure or five yeares exercise of their young and tender inclinations as chast and pure and surely more perfect and cleare then they came or were delivered into my charge maugre all those imputations of my frozen imbecilitie that way cast upon me by my lustfull wife who after almost twentie yeares experience declares me scarce so able for her satisfaction as an Evenuch or for education as well as procreation of youth male or female more impotent then a dunce or a disguised Schoolemaster lost utterly for want of wit or defect of such another rurall office having almost consumed his whole substance upon his wives wit and her two leav'd booke whereon he hath poared himselfe so dull and blind that halfe his revenue left can hardly procure right Christall spectacles to contrive a close way to pay his debts to her minion or avoyd the acknowledgement of a disguised or discontented Cuckold unlesse the revolted wife would have timely become a convert to returne on her bare knees to aske pardon of her husbands jealousie and not her owne impudency and therefore politikely he turned his Clerke out of doores after his rurall office being first in his debt 500. pound by his wives procurement that she might in pious affection of justice follow after him well knowing before hand that her selfe alone neither could nor would performe the duties of a loyall wife unlesse the man were sometimes ready provided to take off what the master had layd on but mistake me not I meane in dry beating which she could no longer endure from her husband at no time but rathera threefold bum-basting from the abler man her husbands Clerke at all times at home or abroad more willing alwayes to steere her floating vessell by her mans Rudder then her husbands Mainesaile or Tackling either which made her at last cut Cables and ride away by stealth in Church time for feare of too speedy pursuite by an old lame and lasie husband But to avoyd prolixity in this ambiguous and incurable malady and to congratulate with their conjoynt and more feasable designes whatsoever or wheresoever pretended or farther intended betweene themselves or asunder as they cunningly seeme to be for a time of future advantage I dedicate as well to them as these wavering times