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	lord_n	soul_n	7,621	5	5.0274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41743	Graces, to be said at the table before and after meat Very necessary for young people and children, with morning and evening prayer.		1655 (1655)	Wing G1476A; ESTC R177582	13,711	50

God save his Church unto the end God grant we may our lives amend Amen Grace before Meat THe Lord that did all things create for Man to serve him at his néed Blesse all that which we drinke or eate and give it strength our flesh to féed For whatsoever shall nourish in déed Whether it be good for man or beast must by his mighty power be blest And sith we have an inward Man Which by no meanes obtaine we can but by him that is heauenly bread And eke of spirituall things the head Let us still féed on him in mind that gave his flesh to féed man-kind Thus doing we shal runne our race with out the want of any foode And at the last come to that place that promised was to Abrahams brood And by faith wash in Christ his blood where evermore we shall him sée That is one God in persons thrée O Lord preserve in health and peaee the Nobility of this Land Thy holy Spirit in them increase that they may be a true guide unto this Land A Sword to cut off Popery cleane that they and we may hold that truth Which they have loved from there youth Grace before meat TO eate and drinke doth small availe the World is all but vaine Except the Lord our hearts do gui●● our pleasures are but pain Grant us therefore O Christ that we may all with one accord Not live to eate but eate to live and live to praise the Lord. Short Graces for young Children when they first begin to speak Grace before Meat O Lord our God to thee we pray to blesse our food which thou dost send And make us loue thy Lawes alway so that we may our lives amend Grace before Meat THe Lord of love and God of peace Of all good things that gives increas● So blesse us all and all our food As that we eat may to us good Amen Grace before Meat HE that is King of Glorie and Lord over all Bring us to the Super of life eternall Amen Grace before Meat THough diet be thin and Table but small Yet ere you begin be thankfull for all Sundry GRACES in Meeter to be said after Meales Grace after Meat ALl flesh is grasse Mans life is vaine his pomp is but a flower He féeds his corps and thinks to live yet dead within an houre It is not flesh of beasts nor fowle that can mans life maintaine For food of bodie oft we sée nought else to be but vaine Then feed our souls sweet Saviour Christ with bread of life so pure That thought our flesh be earth yet make our soules aie to indure Yea kéep thy Church in Christian love and peace And let thy Kingdome come with spéed to all joyes increase Grace before Meat ALl laud and praise be to the Lord for these good gifts of thine Whereby we now refreshed be and for thy word divine Which teacheth those that able be whom thou hast blest with store To ease them that have need of help when they doe aske therefore Now as the bread our bodies need our soules so need thy word Which thou doest give that we may live thanks be to thée O Lord. Amen Grace after Meat AS thou hast fed our bodies Lord so feed our soules likewise And make us mindfull of the poore as riches doe arise Increase thy flock preserve our Church thy grace and peace us send That we may lead a godly life and make a faithfull end Amen Geace after meat FOr food and health and all the rest the Lord be thanked and alwaies ble●● Who with his grace so store us still that we swerve no way from his will Our Nobility God kéep the Nation God 〈◊〉 and grant us long true friends to have Am●● Grace after Meat LIke as thou hast Almighty Lord refreshed us unworthy here With meats made holy by thy Word so let thy grace O Lord appeare To make us mindfull of the poore Which lives in woe and great distresse And to be thankfull evermore for these thy guifts and all goodnesse Which ●●e confesse procéed from thée to whom be praised eternally Amen Grace after Meat NOw let us pray unto the Lord And yeld him thanks with one accord F●r that which we received have Though nature no such plenty crave Much bound we are to God above Who hath vouchsafed us to love That from amonge the rest that went We take repast where is no scant Lord grant us mindfull for to be Of such that live in poverty For we confesse it pleased God We might with them tast of his rod. God save the Church and Commons of this Land God send us peace in Christ Amen Grace after Meat O Lord we thanke thée for this food we have receiv'd of thée Lord grant us gr●ce our lives to lead more thankfull for to be Amen God save his Church the Poore defeed God send us peace in Christ Amen Grace after Supper OVr daies do passe as this day now is come unto an end But Gods good grace shall never faile his Children to defend As thus our Supper Christ hath blest in joy to end the same Mo we beséech our Father dear in Iesus Christ his name That we may be participates whom he hath bought so dear Of his great Supper where his face shall shine on us most clear When as the Lamb shall make his feast in Heaven where is such store Of which who tasted once no doubt shall never hunger more To thée be praise oh God and Christ thy little flock defend Preserve our Land and come with spéed our troubls to amend Amen Grace before Meat THanks be to God in Heaven above for he hath fed us well God grant us grace from heaven above to féed our selves as well Repentance with the fruit thereof that we never forgot Tender O Lord thy holy Church and Rules in it set And ever more upon England thy grace and truth down send That it may be the Word and Grace all sinfull soules amend And finaly all such as be afflicted for thy Wordr Comfort them by thy holy Ghost Through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace after Meat O Blessed God through Iesus Christ that féedst us euer more Give us thy grace that we alwaies may give thée thanks therefore Amen Grace after Meat O Lord God the benefits whereof we have had store We knowledge all to be thy guifts to thée be thanks therefore Amen Grace after Meat LEt us give thanks to God our Lord that féedeth us alway Beséeching him that with his Word like wise be fed we may Grace after meat FOr Meat Drink and t is thanks be given to our Lord Iesus Amen Who useth not often before meat to pray Nor thanks to God after but so goes his way He sitting or rising so letting Grace passe Doth eat like a swine and departs like an Asse Here ends the Book of Graces Evening PRAYER O GOD of Angels and Men the founder of all Creatures both visible and invisible in

Iesus who ever blesse us and these his gifts that both our eating and drinking and speakin may redound to the glory of God through the merit of Iesus Christ our Lord and onelie Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Almighty and everlasting God which by thy ●oreknowledg doest see the beginning middest and end of all the works of thy holy hand and didest make Man according to thine owne Image and brethedst into him an immortall foule and gavest him understanding to know thee to be his God and Creator of all things in heaven and earth and didest ordaine Man to be Lord over the workes of thy hands and to receive all things necessary for the sustentation of his mortal bod● of thy goodnes with thanks giving we mo●t humbly beséech thee of thy mercifull goodnesse to blesse and satisfie us with thy holy presence that we may be the more moved to be thankfull unto thee for all the good gifts which we rec●ived at thy mercifull hand through Iesus Christ our onely Saviour To whom with thée O Father and the holy Ghost be all honour praise and glory for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Father of mercy and God of all consolation which hast created us for thy glory and these ●●y good Creatures for our use blesse and sanctifie them we beseech thée that by the moderate rec●ived thereof our bodies may be nurished and thy name ever more and more praised through Iesus Christ our onely Lord and blessed Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Iesus Christ the Sonne of God that for our sakes didst die and sheddest thy most precious blood for the forgivennesse of our sins blesse thou our Meat and Drink which we purpose to receive in thy name and assist us O Lord with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our lives that according to thy holy and pure Gospell we may live to thy glorie and profit of our Brethren And when the dayes of this our Pilgrimage shall be ended grant us to rest in thy peace that we may at the day of Iudgment h●ve joyfull resurrection unto everlasting life through thy most precious death which art the onelie Sonne of God and our everlasting Saviour To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Mercifull Lord Iesus Christ which didst ●ake five Loaves and two Fishes and lifting up thine eies unto heaven didst distribute them unto the people and they all did eat and were satisfied being aboue five thousand men beside women and children we beseech thée how to blesse these gifts which we are about to receive at the hands and us allso that they may be to the comfort and health of our bodies and we may for them and all other thy benefits bée evermore thankfull unto thee To whom with the Fa●er and the holie Ghost be all honour and glorie for ever Amen Grace before Meat THe eies of all things d● look up and trust in thée O Lord thou givest them meat in drie season thou o●enest thy hand and filles with thy blessing everie living thing good Lord blesse us and all these thy gifts which we are about to receive of thy bounteous liberalitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace before Meat THe God of all ●ower who hath caled from death the great Pastor of the Sheep the Lord Iesus comfort and defend the Flock which he hath redeemed by the blood of his eternall Testament Increase the number of true Preachers represse the rage of obstinant and cruell ●ira●●s mitigate and lighten the hearts of the ignorant release the paines of such as be afflicted but especially those that suffer for the testimonie of a good Conscience And finally confound Satan by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen Grace before Meat THy Name O Lord be praised for all the benifits that thou most graciously dost bestow upon us for féeding our feble bodies when they are hungry with plenty of thy good Creaturs and strengthening the imperfections of our members by vertue of thy mighcy power so that all and everie part of us are hereby made apt and fit to follow our callings And like continuall thanks be given unto thee O Lord for all thy merciefull blessings thou vouchsafe to bestow upon us in preserving us both bodie and soule even from the beginning of the world to this present and from all these casualities and temtations which we are incident unto through the frailt● of flesh and imperfection of nature which graci●us gifts we acknowledge to have received of thy mercifull goodnes and for the merit of our Lord and Saviour In whose name we render ●hée all ●o●er praise and thanks from this time forth for ever more Amen Grace before Meat WHether ye eat or drink or whatsoeve● ye do else let all be done to the prais● of God whom we beséech to blesse us with o●● meat and drink through Christ our Lord Amen Grace before Meat CHrist which at his lest Supper gave him selfe unto us promising his body to be crucified and his blood to be shed for our sinnes blesse us and our meat Amen This prayer may be annexed to the end o● every Grace especially those which be the shortest GOd preserve his Church God blesse th● Nobility and the Commons God defen● the favourers of the Gospell and make us al● faithfull in the same God send the Gospell 〈◊〉 joyfull and frée passage throughtout the world tha● euery one may live uprightly in their calling t● the glory of God through the me●its of our Lor● and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Godly GRACES to be said after Meales Grace after Meat ALL Glory honour and immortall praise be given unto thee O eternall God the which hast fed us wretched sinners even from our Creation in our Mothers womb We be begotten conceived and borne in sin O Lord have mercy upon us we beseech thée forgive us our sins illuminate our hearts and assist us with thy holy spirit to consider that we receive all things needfull both for our soules and bodies even at thy hand and to give thée most heartie thanks and continuall praise for ever world without end Amen Grace after Meat FAther of bounty and God of our strength from whose liberall hand we have received this nourishment of our earthly bodies grant that the fulnesse thereof may not breed in us a dulnesse of spirit or neglect of thankfulnesse but that we may be more and more inflamed to serve thée and bring for●h the fruits of a lively Faith by our thanksgiving through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grace after Meat GRant O most mercifull Father that our hunger thurst being satisfied with the muderate use of these thy good gifts and Creatures sanctified with thy holy word we may both in body and mind be apt and able to doe good works to the glory of thy most holy name Amen Grace after Meat HOnour and praise be