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	truth_n	word_n	7,274	5	4.1793	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11115	Heavens glory, seeke it. Earts [sic] vanitie, flye it. Hells horror, fere it	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?; Sparke, Michael, d. 1653, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 21383; ESTC S112117	58,519	284

his garner but the chaffe he will burne in a fire that should neuer be quenched This was the preaching and embassage which the holy fore-runner of our Sauiour Iesus Christ brought into the world And so great was the thunder of these words and the terrour which entered into mens hearts so dreadfull that there ran vnto him of all estates and conditions of men euen of the very Pharisees and Publicans yea and Souldiours also which of all others are wont to be most dissolute and to haue the least care of their consciences and each of them demanded for himselfe particularly of that holy man what he should doe to attaine vnto saluation and to escape those terrible threatnings which he had denounced vnto them so great was the feare they had conceiued of them And this is that deare Christian brother which I doe at this present in the behalfe of Almighty God deliuer vnto thee although not with such feruency of spirit and like holinesse of life yet that which importeth more in this case with the same truth and certainty for so much as the faith and Gospell which Saint Iohn Baptist then preached is euen the same now taught Now if thou be desirous to vnderstand in few words how great the punishment is that almighty God hath threatned in his holy Scriptures to the wicked that which may most briefly and most to the purpose be spoken in this matter is this That like as the reward of the good is anvniuersall good thing euen so the punishment of the wicked is an vniuersall euill which comprehendeth in it al the euils that are For the better vnderstanding whereof it is to be noted That all the euils of this life are particular euils and therefore doe not torment all our sences generally but onely one or some of them As taking an example of the diseases of our body we see that one hath a disease in his eyes another in his eares one is sicke in the heart another in the stomacke some other in his he●d And so diuers men are diseased in diuers parts of the body howbeit in such wise that none of all these diseases be generally throughout all the members of the boby but particular to some one of them And yet for all this we see what griefe onely one of these diseases may put vs vnto and how painefull a night the ficke man hath in any one of these infirmities yea although it be nothing else but a little ach in one tooth Now let vs put the case that there were some one man sicke of such an vniuersall disease that he had no part of his body neither any one joynt or sence free from his proper paine but that at one time and instant hee suffered most exceeding sharpe torment in his head in his eyes and eares in his teeth and stomack in his liuer and heart and to be short in all the rest of his members and joints of his body and that he lay after this sort stretching himselfe in his bed being pained with these greefes and torments euery member of his body hauing his particular torment and griefe Hee I say ●hat should lye thus pained and afflicted how great torment an● g●iefe of minde and body thinke ye should he sustaine Oh what thing could any man imagine more miserable and more worthy of compassion Surely if thou shouldest see but a d●gge to be so tormented and ●ri●ued in the street his very paines would moue thy heart to take pitty vpon him Now this is that my deare Christian brother if any comparison may be made betweene them which is suffered in that most cursed and horrible place of hell and not onely during for the space of one night but euerlastingly for euer and euer For like as the wicked men haue offended Almighty God with all their members and sences and haue made armour of them all to serue sinne euen so will he ordaine that they shall be there tormented euery one of them with his proper torment There shall the wanton vnchaste eyes be tormented with the terrible sight of Diuels the eareswith the confusion of such horrible cries and lamentations which shall there be heard the nose with the intollerable stinke of that vgly filthy and loathsome place the taste with a most rauenous hunger and thirst the touching and all the members of the body with extreame burning fire The imagination shall be tormented by the conceiuing of griefes present the memo●y by calling to minde the pleasures past the vnderstanding by considering what benefits are lost and what endlesse miseries are to come This multitude of punishments the holy Scripture signifieth vnto vs when it saith Mat. 15. Psal. 10. That in hell there shall be hunger thirst weeping wailing gnashing of teeth swords double edged spirits created for reuengement serpents wormes scorpions hammers wormewood water of gall the spirit of tempest and other things of like sort Whereby are signifi●d vnto vs as in a figure the multitude and dreadfull terrour of the most horrible torments and paines that be in that cursed place There shall be likewise darknesse inward and outward both of body and soule farre more obscure than the darkenesse of Aegypt which was to be felt euen with hands Exod. 20. Th●re shall be fire also not as this fire here that tormenteth a little and shortly endeth but such a fire as that place requireth which tormenteth exceedingly and shall neuer make an end of that tormenting This being true what greater wonder can there be than that they which beleeue and confesse this for truth should liue with such most strange negligence and carelesnesse as they doe What trauell and paines would not a man willingly take to escape euen one onely day yea one houre the very least of these torments and wherefore doe they not then to escape the euerlastingnesse of so great paines and horrible torments endure so little a trauell as to follow the exercise of vertue Surely the consideration of this matter were able to make any sinfull soule to feare and tremble in case it were deepely regarded And if amongst so great number of paines there were any manner hope of end or release it would be some kinde of comfort but alas it is not so for there the gates are fast shut vp from all expectation of any manner of ease or hope In all kinde of paines and calamities that be in this world there is alwayes some gap lying open whereby the patient may receiue some kind of comfort sometimes reason sometimes the weather sometimes his friends sometimes the hearing that others are troubled with the very same disease and sometimes at the least the hope of an end may cheare him onely in these most horrible paines and miseries that be in hell all the wayes are shut vp in such sort and all the hauens of comfort so embarred that the miserable sinner cannot hope for remedy on any side neither of heauen nor of earth neither of the time past or