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	soul_n	work_n	7,291	5	5.7496	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19300	The English schoole-master teaching all his schollers, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath euer yet beene knowne or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, hovv any vnskilfull person may easily both vnderstand any hard English words, ... Deuised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote, Master of the Free-schoole in Bury St. Edmond.; English schoole-maister.	Coote, Edmund, fl. 1597.	1630 (1630)	STC 5714; ESTC S113503	60,601	96

and that wee turne not to our old sinnes againe but wisely auoyd all occasions to sinne 17 That wee fall not from our first loue but continue still our affections to the liking of Gods Word all the holy exercises of Religion diligently hearing it and faithfully practising of the same in our liues and conuersations that wee prepare our selues before we come and meditate and conferre of that wee heare eyther by our selues or with others and so marke our dayly profit in Religion 18 That wee be often occupied in meditating on Gods benefits and works and sound forth his praises for the same 19 That we exercise our Faith by taking comfort and delight in the great benefit of our redemption by Christ and the fruition of Gods presence in his glorious blessed Kingdome 20 Lastly that we make not these holy practises of repentance common in time nor vse them for course A Prayer framed according to this Catechisme ALmighty God and most mercifull Father in Iesus Christ as thou hast plainly set before vs our cursed state in the cleare glasse of thy heauenly Word so we beseech thee open our eies to see it pierce our hearts to feele it by the inward working of thy holy spirit For we Lord are most vaine and vile creatures iustly tainted with the rebellion of our first parents conceiued in sinne bondslaues of Satan necessarily and yet willingly seruing diuers lusts and committing innumerable sins against thy Maiesty whereby we deserue most iustly to endure all miseries in this life and to be tormented in Hell for euer But blessed bee thy Name O Lord our God who when there was no power in vs no not so much as any desire or endeuour to get out of this woefull estate hast made vs see and feele in what case wee were and prouide a most soueraigne remedy for vs euen thy deare and onely begotten Son whom thou hast freely offered to vs not onely kindling in vs a desire to enioy him but enabling vs by a true and liuely faith to lay hold vpon him and to be partakers of all his benefits to the saluation of our soules And now Lord that it hath pleased thee by faith to ioyne vs to thy Sonne Iesus Christ and by thy Spirit to make vs members of his body wee humbly pray thee by the same spirit to renew vs daily according to thine owne Image worke in our hearts a dayly increase of true faith and repentance and in our liues a holy and comfortable change O God enable vs in all good measure to walke worthy of all thy mercies and to serue thee who hast created and chosen vs and thy Sonne who hath redeemed vs from death and made vs heires of glory and thy blessed Spirit who doth continually sanctifie and keepe vs with faith feare and zeale in true holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our life Finally seeing of thine infinite goodnesse and mercie thou hast appointed diuers excellent and holy meanes for the daily increase of thy graces in vs and for the confirming and quickning of vs in Christian conuersation wee humbly beseech thee to grant all those good meanes vnto vs and to continue them among vs giuing vs grace to vse them purely constant●y and zealously to the glory of thy Name and profit of our brethren and saluation of our soules through Iesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be giuen all honour and glory for euer Amen A thanksgiuing before meate O My heauenly Father I thanke thee through Iesus Christ for making these Creatures to serue me and for giuing me leaue to feed on them now I humbly pray thee to giue me grace moderately and soberly to vse them that my bodily health may be still continued to thy glory the good of others and mine owne comfort in Iesus Christ Amen A thanksgiuing after meate O Lord feeling my body to be refreshed with meate and drinke and my mind also fitter to doe those things that thou requirest of me let it now be my meat to doe thy will and those workes which belong to my dutie with all cheerefulnesse and good conscience that for these and all other thy mercies my thankfulnesse in heart word and deede may be acceptable in thy sight to the end of my life through Iesus Christ to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor glory and thanksgiuing now and euer Amen A Prayer for the morning O Lord our heauenly Father we thy poore and wretched creatures giue thee most humble and hearty thanks for our quiet and safe sleepe and for raising vs vp from the same We beseech thee for Christs sake to prosper vs this day in our labour and trauell that it may be to the discharge of our duty in our vocations principally to thy glory next to the profit of the Church and Common-weale and last of all to the benefit and content of our Masters Grant deare Father that we may cheerefully and conscionably doe our businesse and labors not as men pleasers but as seruing thee our God knowing thee to bee the cheife Master of vs and that thou seest and beholdest vs with thy fatherly eyes who hast promised reward to them that faithfully and truly walke in their vocation and threatned euerlasting death and damnation to them that deceitfully and wickedly doe their workers and labours we beseech thee O heauenly Father to giue vs the strength of thy Spirit that godly gladly we may ouercome our labors and that the tediousnesse of this irkesome labour which thou for our sinnes hast powred vpon all mankinde may seeme to vs delectable and sweete Fulfill now O Lord these our requests for thy Sonne our Sauiours sake in whose Name wee pray as he himselfe hath taught vs Our Father c. A Prayer for the Euening MOst mercifull God tender Father which besides thine inestimable mercies declared and giuen vnto vs in the making of the world for our sakes in the redeeming of vs by the death of thy deare Son Iesus Christ in the calling of vs to the knowledge of thy blessed Word in keeping of vs hitherto in thy holy Church and in thy most gracious gouerning of vs and in all things hitherto for our singular wealth commodity hast also most fatherly cared for vs kept vs this day from all dangers both of soule and body giuing vs health food apparell and other things necessary for the comfort and succour of this poore and miserable life which many other doe want for these and all other thy good gifts and gracious benefits which thou of thine owne goodnesse only and fatherly prouidence hast hitherto powred vpon and dost presently powre vpon vs and many other wee most humbly thanke thee and praise thy holy Name beseeching thee that as all things are now hidden by meanes of the darkenesse which thou hast sent ouer the Earth so thou wouldest vouchsafe to hide and bury all our sins which this day

taught vs by God in the holy Scriptures What call you the holy Scriptures The word of God contained in the Bookes of the Old and New Testamen● Doth this Scripture or word of God containe in it all points of true religion and euerything necessary for the Saluation of a Christian Yea. Tell me then from this Scripture how many Gods there be One What is God An euerlasting Spirit Immortall Inuisible most strong and onely wise How many persons are there Three Which be they The Father the Sonne and the Holy G●ost How is God knowne By his Workes Word and Spirit Who created the World God Whereof did he create it Of nothing and that by his word Who made you God the Father How did he create you In Holinesse and Righteousnesse Why were you th●● created To glorifie God Are you able to doe this of your selfe No. Why so Because I am a sinner How come you to be a sinner seeing you were so perfectly created By the fall of Adam What was his sinne Disobedience against God in eating of the forbidden fruit How comes it to passe that you are become a sinner in Adam Because he was the Father of all Mankinde How doe you proue that you are a sinner By the Testimonie of mine owne Conscience and by the Law of God What is the Law of God A perfect rule of righteousnesse commanding good and forbidding euill the summe whereof is contained in the Commandetmens How many be there Tenne Rehearse them 1 Then God spake all these words and said I am the Lord thy God which hath brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage Thou shalt haue no other Gods but mee 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heauen aboue nor in the Earth beneath nor in the water vnder the Earth thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sinnes of the Fathers vpon the Children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thousands to them that loue me and keepe my Commandements 3 Thou shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy GOD in vaine for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine 4 Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seauenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt doe no manner of worke thou and thy Sonne and thy Daughter thy Man-seruant and thy Maid seruant thy Cattell and the stranger that is within thy Gates for in sixe dayes the Lord made Heauen and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seauenth day Wherefore the Lord blessed the seauenth day and hallowed it 5 Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giueth thee 6 Thou shalt doe no Murther 7 Thou shalt not commit Adulterie 8 Thou shalt not Steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbor 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife nor his Seruant nor his Maid nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his Are these words I am the Lord thy God c. a Commandement or Preface A Preface to the whole Law How be the Commandements diuided Into two Tables or Parts How many be there of the first Table Foure How many of the second Sixe What doe the Commandements of the first Table teach you My duty towards God What doe the Commandements of the second Table teach you My duty towards my neighbour Are you to vse the Commandements as Prayers No because they be no Petitions but Commandements Are you able to keepe them without breaking any one of them in thought word or deed No Why Because I am ready and disposed by nature to offend both God and my Neighbour To what end then serueth the Law To shew vs our miserie and to leade vs to Christ and to be a rule euer after for the well ordering of our liues What is the punishmant for the breach of the Law Eternall destruction both of body and Soule Js there no way to escape it and be saued Yes How By Iesus Christ Who is this Christ The Sonne of God perfect God and perfect Man Could there no other mean● or person bee found in Heauen or Earth to saue you but the Sonne of God must doe it No verily Must he needs be God and Man Yes Why First because he must dye for vs and God cannot dye therefore he must be Man Secondly hee must ouercome Death which being onely Man he could not therefore he must be also God did he saue vs As he was Man perfectly righteous hee performed the perfect obedience of the Law and satisfied the justice of God for me And as he was God he ouercame death and raised vp his body the third day Are all men partakers of this benefit of Redemption purchased ●y Christ No there are a number that shall haue their part in Hell with the Diuell and his Angels Who are they that shall haue their part in the death of Christ Onely such as truly beleeue What is Faith Faith is a full assurance of my saluation in Iesus Christ alone Hath euery man this faith in himselfe No● for it is the guift of God and not of nature How is faith gotten By the outward hearing of the Word of God Preached and the inward working of the Spirit How is it strongthened and increased in you By the same preaching of the Word and the vse of the Sacraments and Prayer How shall any man know whether hee haue this true and sauing faith or no By the fruits and markes thereof What be the fruits of faith A hatred of all sin a continuall care to please God in the duties commanded and vnfained loue to Gods word and to his people Rehearse the summe of your faith I beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of Heauen and earth and in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord which was conceiued by the Holy Ghost borne of the virgin Mary suffered vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried hee descended into Hell the third day he rose againe from the dead he ascended into Heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence shall he come to judge the quicke and the dead I beleeue in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting Amen How many parts be there of this Creed Two Which be they The first is of God the second is of the Church vs now come