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	grace_n	heart_n	10,388	5	4.9061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75337	The form of consecration of a church or chappel. And of the place of Christian buriall. / Exemplified by the R.R.F. in God, Lancelot late lord-bishop of Winchester, in the consecration of the Chappel of Jesus in the foresaid diocess.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3126; ESTC R210146	18,931	149

sufficienter reparatum fuerit in clausuris et an omniae ibi decenter et secundum ordinem fiant et si minus fiant per censur as Ecclesiastic as corrigendi His finitis precatur denuò LOrd God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who because thou art the God not of the dead but of the Living shewest hereby that they are living and not dead and that with thee do live the spirits of all them that dye in the Lord and in whom the Souls of them that are Elect after they be delivered from the burden of this flesh be in joy and felicity Thou hast said thou wilt turn men into small dust and after that wilt say Return again you Children of men Thou art the God of Truth and hast said it thou art the God of power and might and wilt do it by that power whereby thou art able to subdue all things unto thy self and bring to pass whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and Earth with whom nothing is impossible Lord Jesu Christ who art the Resurrection and the Life in whom if we believe though we be dead yet shall we live who by thy death hast overcome death and by thy r●sing again hast opened to us the Gate of everlasting life who shalt send thine Angels and gather the bodies of thine Elect from all the Ends of the Earth and especially those who by a mystical union are flesh of thy flesh and in whose hearts thou hast dwelt by Faith We humbly beseech thee for them whose bodies shall in this place be gathered to their Fathers that they may rest in this hope of Resurrection to eternal life through thee O blessed Lord God who shalt change their vile bodies that they may be like thy Glorious body according to the mighty working whereby thou art able to bring all things even death and all into subjection to thy self Holy and blessed Spirit the Lord and giver of life whose Temples the bodies of thy Servants are by thy sanctifying Grace dwelling in them we verily trust that their bodies that have been thy Temples and those hearts in which Christ hath dwelt by Faith shall not ever dwell in corruption but that as by thy sending forth thy Breath at first we received our being Motion and Life in the beginning of the Creation so at the last by the same Spirit sending forth the same breath in the end of the Consummation Life Being and Moving shall be restored us again so that after our dissolution as thou didst shew thy holy Prophet the dry bones shall come together again Bone to his Bone and Sinews and Flesh shall come upon them and thou shalt cause thy Breath to enter into them and we shall live and this Corruption shall put on Incorruption and this Mortal shall put on Immortality God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost accept sanctify and bless this place to that end whereunto according to thine own Ordinance we have ordain'd it even to bestow the Bodies of thy Servants in till the number of thine Elect being accomplished they with us and we with them and with all other departed in the true Faith of thy Holy Name shall have our consummation and Bliss both in Body and Soul in thy eternal and everlasting glory Blessed Saviour that didst for this end dye and rise again that thou mightest be Lord both of the Living and the Dead whether we live or die thou art our Lord and we are thine living or dying we commend our selves unto thee have mercy upon us and keep us thine for evermore Reintrantes igitur Capellam cantant priorem partem Psal 16. Conscendit Suggestum Magister Matthaeus Wren Thema ei posterior pars vers 17. cap. 2. S. Joan. Zelus domus tuae c. Agit de affectibus in Christo Zelo inter coereros nec illo falso sed pro Deo nec coeco sed secundùm scientiam pro Domo pro Cultu Dei de praesentiâ Dei praecipuè in Templis magno non Morum solummodò nostrorum sed spei quoque et Fidei incremento fulcimentoque Denm Locorum distinctione gaudere confirmat tum exemplo mirifico Jacobi tantoperè distinguentis Bethel tum maximo omnium miraculo quo Christus Mercatores è Templo ejecit Enarratis Christi per hoc factum devotionibus concludit in debitam à nobis Templorum reve entiam atque istius Fundatoris Encomium meritissimum Cantatur pars reliqua Vespertinae precationes incipiendo jam á Symbolo Apostolico secundùm communem Ecclesiae formulam finiuntur FINIS

probatoque Capellae hujus Jesu omni adparatu adest tandem Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Honorandissimus Lancelotus Episcopus Wintoniensis Septembris 17o. Anno 1620. horâ ectavâ matutinâ aut circiter erat autem dies Dominicus Episcopus Capellam statim ingressus induit se pontificalibus quem secuti itidem qui ipsi à sacris domesticis aderant Matthaeus Christopherus Wren SS Theol. Bacc. Saecerdotalibus induuntur Egressus dein cum illis Episcopus convenarum magnâ stipante catervâ Fundatorem affari orditur in haec ferè verba Captain Smith you have been an often and earnest Suiter to me that I would come hither to you now that we are come hither to you what have you to say to us Tum ille praefatâ humillime Reverentiâ schedulam porrigit quam suo nomine recitari cupit per Willielm Cole qui Episcopo à Registris erat eam ille ad nutum Episcopi clarâ voce sic perlegit IN the Name of Richard Smith of Peer-tree in the County of Southampton Esq Right Reverend Father in God I present unto you the state of the Village of Weston and the Hamlets Itchin Wolston Ridgeway and the part of Bittern Mannor being all of the Parish of S. Maries neer Southampton in the Diocess of Winton as well in his own as in the name of the Inhabitants of the said Village Hamlets c. wherein are many Housholds and much people of all sorts who not only dwell far from the Church but are also divided from the same by the great River of Itchin where the passage is very broad and often dangerous and very many times on the dayes appointed for Common-Prayer and that Service of God so tempestuous as the River cannot be pass'd and so the people go not over at all or if any do yet they both go and return back in great danger and sometimes not the same day Besides in the fairest weather at their return from Church they press so thick into the Boat for haste home that often it proves dangerous and ever fearful especially to women with childe old impotent sickly people and to young children many times also they are forc'd to baptize their Children in private Houses the water not being passable and when they lye sick they are without comfort to their souls and dye without any Ghostly advice or counsel their own Minister not being able to visit them by reason of the roughness of the water and other Ministers being some miles off remote from them And thus much formerly having been presented to your Predecessor he favourably gave leave to the said Richard Smith to erect a Chappel on the East-side of the said River at the only proper Cost and Charges of him the said Richard Smith which Chappel being now finish'd with intent and purpose that it may be dedicated to the worship of God and that his Holy and Blessed Name might there be honour'd and call'd upon by the said Richard Smith his Family and the Inhabitants aforesaid who cannot without great danger pass over unto their Parish Church I in the name of the said Richard Smith and in the names of them all do promise hereafter to refuse and renounce to put this Chappel or any part of it to any profane or common use whatsoever and desire it may be dedicated and consecrated wholly and only to religious uses for the Glory of God and the Salvation of our Souls In which respect he humbly beseecheth God to accept of this his sincere intent and purpose and he and they are together humble Suiters unto your Lordship as Gods Minister the Bishop and Ordinary of this Diocess in Gods stead to accept of this his Free-will offering and to decree this Chappel to be severed from all common and profane uses so to sever it as also by the Word of God and Prayer and other Spiritual and Religious Duties to dedicate and consecrate it to the sacred Name of God and to his Service and Worship only promising that we will ever hold it as an holy Place even as Gods House and use it accordingly and that we will from time to time and ever hereafter as need shall be see it conveniently repair'd and decently furnisht in such sort as a Chappel ought to be And that we will procure us some sufficient Clerk being in the Holy Order of Priesthood by your Lordship as Ordinary of that place and by your Successors to be allow'd and licenced and unto him to yield competent Maintenance to the end that he may take upon him the Cure of the said Chappel and duely say divine Service in the same at times appointed and perform all other such offices and duties as by the Canons of that Church and the Laws of the Realm every Curate is bound to perform Post haec Episcopus Captain Smith is this the Desire of you and your Neighbours Quo affirmato Ille In the Name of God let us begin Orditur igitur â Psalmo 24º THe earth is the Lords and all that is therein c. Alterni verò respondent uterque Sacellanus sic deinceps ad finem Psalmi dictâ autem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 paulatim se promovet Episcopus ad portam Capellae atque recitat è Psalmo 122o. I Was glad when they said unto me we will go into the House of the Lord. Our feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem Substitit itaque prae foribus universa multitudo intrante Episcopo et Fundatore cum Sacellanis qui genua statim flectunt ubi spectari commodè audiríque possint a plebe atque Episcopus infit Let us dedicate and offer up unto God this Place with the same prayer that King David did dedicate and offer up his 1 Chron. 29.10 BLessed be thou O Lord our God and the God of our Fathers for ever and ever c. usque ad finem vers 18. paucis mutatis Deinde MOst glorious God the Heaven is thy Throne and the Earth is thy Footstool what house then can be built for thee or what place is there that thou canst rest in Howbeit we are taught by thy Holy Word that thy will is not to dwell in the dark Cloud but that thy delight hath bin ever with the Sons of Men so that in any place whatsoever where two or three are gathered together in thy name thou art in the midst of them But specially in such places as are set apart and sanctified to thy name and to the memory of it there thou hast said thou wilt vouchsafe thy gracious Presence after a more special manner come to us and bless us Wherefore in all Ages of the world thy Servants have separated certain places from all profane and common uses and hallow'd unto thy Divine Worship and service either by inspiration of thy blessed Spirit or by express Commandment from thine own mouth By inspiration of thy holy Spirit So didst thou put into the heart of thy Holy Patriarch Jacob