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	work_n	10,605	5	5.6748	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84131	An elegiacall commemoration of the pious life, and most lamented death, and funerals, of Mr. Josiah Shute, rector of the parish, of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard-Street. Who left us on the 13 of June. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing E337; Thomason E75_1; ESTC R21939	10,148	24

methinks to fright away a sinfull Thought Devotion hovered about Him when He was addressing Himselfe to pray and his whole gesture kindled a warme Zeale even in a frozen Bosome Whilest his petitioning words fell from Him they begate penitent sighes in those which joyned with Him to witnesse that their Hearts breathed out the same requests All his Ejaculations were the sober dictates of the spirit they were not fiery and sudden raptures hudled up conceived and born in a hasty minute his Zeale though fervent was modestly ordered considering to whom he spake nor did He on the otherside tye himself to a few set words as if the Almighty were to be appeased with spels but his well-fitted Petitions varied as oft as any occasions offered themselves and when Hee had as it were prepared the attentive Soule by prayer and begg'd a blessing upon His houres discourse hee so chearefully so solemnly addressed himselfe to the worke of a holy Orator that Hee presently had possession of our Eyes Eares and Hearts He seldome unlesse some proper occasiou call'd for it varied His Text or leapt from place to place to start a new Subject He commonly pursued one piece of Scripture with such learned perspicuity such a pious pleasancy and did so heighten our religious appetites that we were sorry for the parting Sands and long'd for the next houre to finish that which to day perhaps he did only cut out or divide for another dayes exercize In His delivery He was neither affected nor loose having such a command of his tongue and voice that he could handsomely fit them for every subject At a Funerall He pleaded so mortifyingly in the behalfe of Death that He made some desirous not to live others to live better nor did any returne from Him without a beneficiall conviction of their owne Mortality So pathetically would He solemnize the passion of our Saviour that his hearers might well laugh at the superstition of a Crucifix which only reacheth the gazers eye or but slightly toucheth the abused soule when as He imprinted in every heart Christ crucified by representing every circumstance of His Passion so to the life as if He were bleeding a fresh and were againe stabb'd and wounded by us that were His sinfull Auditory By these meanes He became Master of our consciences which stood in awe of His words and were powerfully subdued to his saving Doctrines Nor did He administer sharp things only He had Balme for the broken and contrite heart soft and gentle perswasions to win a trembling soule He never denounced judgement but his eyes were big with Teares He was none of those Thundereres who represent GOD in all his terrible Attributes and shaddow over his Mercy and Compassion He rather allured then terrified a straying conscience and rather endeavoured to bring it home to the Fold then drive it further from safety And though He did dresse Divinitie with all the winning advantages and pious allurements of spirituall Rhetorick though the words He cloathed it in were imbroadered with all the flowers of Learning with golden Sentences and precious Meditations which did cath the attention of every Auditor Yet this Kings Daughter for so is the word well preached was all glorious within the matter which was the in-side was rich and substantiall The weakest Capacity went along with Him understandingly all the way so well did He comply with the meanest hearer The more delicate apprehension of the Nobility and Gentry which were still part of that Religious Throng was so advisedly suited that He did as it were court them from their sins and by a holy Insinuation did even steale into their Bosomes and so powerfully convince them of their vanities that they alwayes carried home with them new resolutions And the most Sober the most Learned Persons for some such were almost alwayes a part of this Auditory discovered in every Sermon such a digestion of generall Learning so many full expressions of a Scholar of a sound Preacher of a Holy man that they could even have kissed the Pulpit in approbation of those blessed Truths sent down from it There might you see the graver Divines willing to improve their Knowledge and their Piety by that Summary of Divinitie which might be found in every dayes Lecture And there might be seene the Young-men of the Cassock lately set up in their Trade for Soules inabling themselves for their sacred Imployment so attentively fixing their whole selves on Him as if they had a designe to assimilate themselves to every excellency of His. One eyeing Him as if he were learning to put on his Reverend Gesture which gave Life to all that fell from him the other how to borrow his unaffected Art and facility of utterance another how to weave his reading and his meditation with such cunning and advantage another curiously observing his Method with a purpose to contrive his after labours by so rare a Modell Thus He was a President for all men yet was there such a mixture of Grave Humility in all these Perfections as if He only had beene ignorant of them And wonder not that this Towre of David made so faire a shew and had so many swelling eminencies for He had a Foundation large and sure Grace laid the first stone and Perseverance built upon it a connexion of Piety and Good-works was the Morter or Ciment Faith was the Buttresse that kept it upright and stedfast the Holy Spirit was the Master-workman by whose active influence every thing was disposed Nature lent all her aides to make the worke perfect for as so many Labourers whose proper imployments were herein necessary she lent an open Capacitie a retentive Memorie a searching wit a trying Judgement And here were all those servants of Art which make the super-structure as indefatigable Industry inquisitive Studie curious Observation satisfying Experience and the usefull extractions of Bookes and Antiquities Let it then be the boast of others that they are able to performe the most sacred and mysterious office of the Ministery without being much beholding to Learning that necessary Hand-maide to divine Knowledge whilest we pitie and laugh at the cunning Ignorance of these zealous Drones It will be a worthy addition to his lasting Fame that He was not contented to make himselfe intimate with the whole Scripture and have every Text readie to refute an Adversarie or convince a Sinner but He did run over the whole Bodie of Learning sipping from every part of it as from so many flowers some serviceable notions which being by his holy Art digested as by the subtile Chymestrie of the Bee help'd to make up that Honey those sweet and cordiall Lectures with which He frequently entertained us He read the Bible in that Originall language in which those happie Secretaries to the Holy Ghost penned it that he might be the more familiar with the true intentions of every word and expression of it making himselfe acquainted with the learned Languages because he would look back