Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01470	Characters and essayes, by Alexander Garden; Characters upon essaies morall, and divine	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?; Garden, Alexander, 1585?-1634?	1625 (1625)	STC 11595; ESTC S118826	29,544	60

meet Natures Perfection is an Holie Man And the best Good that Shee exhibite can For what hath Earth more perfect than that Spright In Sanctitie that serues his GOD aright Yet Nature perfects no such Peace alone But Grace and Fayth their working there-vpon The Holy Man is only hee that 's wyse For only Heav'n hee holds before his Eyes And what is heere Below and Earthly hee That vses only for Necessitie And so as that they finde him and afford To serue his Needs while that hee serues his LORD His Senses so hee tempreth and commands That they t' obey his Spirit readie stands Which in an Orbe Aethereall doth moue Stirr'd by a Strength and Power from Aboue And by observing Natures Course and Lawes The Arte of Reason hee acquires and knawes And Treads on the th' Earth and trav'ling doth remaine While hee turne Earth and bee trod on againe Altho his Soule inlarg'd from Carnall Stryfe Doe liue in Heav'n that gaue his Senses Lyfe Vntill the Resurrection of the Flesh That from the Earth shall ryse refynd and fresh When all the World is waltring vp-syde-downe When Fortune fawnes or when the Fates doe frowne Hee happie doth his Sprite possesse in Peace Because supported with the Power of Grace His Charitie and librall Handes declare Of Others Want his kynde and Christian Care Hee gladlie giues of what his GOD hath given Which shall to him redoubled bee in Heaven To liue to GOD his Practise all doth proue Heaven is through Fayth his Hope the LORD his Loue. His Exercise is Prayer his Studies bee Into the Volumes of Divinitie And There hee meditates admiring most Th'Vnit ' of the FATHER SONNE and Holie GHOST VVhich nev'r in all the numbers of his Dayes Enough can hee admire extoll and prayse His Heart to watch his Eye hee ordaines it And to his Mouth a Doore hee makes his Wit And both hee ordaines ev'r and doth direct His Sprite from sinfull Pleasure to protect Hee liues not lyke a VVorldlie VVorme that does For Permanent Things perishing heere choose No no his Loue is set on Thinges vnseene And ravished with VVares that are Divine His Loue is Heavenlie Holie and doth hold No Holie Dayes with Loue of Mundane Mold VVherefore hee 's lyable to manie Losses And oft incurres and combred is with Crosses Yet Heavenlie Helps and Hope vp-holds him so That Losse no Losse nor Crosse hee counteth no. An Olde Man 49. THe Instance of a Tract of Tyme of Yeares VVhere-in declyning Natures Power appeares VVhen by Defect of Senses see wee may The vse of Reason both restraind and stay Bot yet his Knowledge with his Tyme conferre And hee shall prooue Experience Kalendar Tho in the power of Action hee is not As 't were a Blanke extracted from a Lot Hee is a Subject bot of Sicknesse now And VVeaknesse Agent that the Backe most bow Crost with the Coagh and a corrupted Breath And so Praecursor to approaching Death An Olde Man ●…s bot halfe a Man and twyse Hee turnes to bee a Bairne and childish lyes Hee 's bot the living Picture of a Man And is a verie dying Creature than Beholde him well and in effect you 'll finde Him bot a Bladder blowne and stuft with VVinde Hee 's lyke a withred Tree and arride Root That buds not flowrisheth nor beares no Fruit. And lyke a VVeather-worne and Tyme-torne House Decaying fast and falling ruinous Tho in his dying and declyning Grouth Yet is hee Pepper in the Eyes of Youth Hee is the jest of Loue and for Infirmitie Hee may the Mirrour bee of Miserie Yet Aged Lockes and Silver Haires deserue That Youth should reverence regard and serue For Honour often tymes and VVisdome both Into an Olde Mans Gowne and Garment go'th Ag'd Gravitie and great Experience Doth challenge both Respect and Reverence His wyse Advyse his Counsell true and sage By Practise long oft proov'd from Youth to Age Should with all States and Persons bee respected And not in Honourable Age neglected His Wordes are Oracles they should bee Noted In Kalendars for Common vse and Quoted His Actions should bee imitate and choosed To bee there-after for Exemples vsed But as the Tyme and Torch of Waxe doth waste So liue hee nere so long hee dies at last A Young Man 50. THe Spring of Time when Nature mindes to vent Her Pride and best of Beauties excellent And to the Worlde show and exhibite will Her Arte Divine in-Imitable Skill Hee is the Loue and the Delight of th' Eye And well considred singular to see His Flesh and Sprite are at a Iust and Iarring And hee is all in Making or in Marring His Wit and Will stands at intestene Stryfe If This or That shall Lord and leade his Life His Vertues bee in Waxing or in Waining And all his Good in losing or in Gaining His Thrift is as hee guydes him and begins If Tentlesse sure hee tynes if Wisel ' hee wins His Credit is what ever bee his Calling And Honour in the Mounting or the Falling His Life is in th' Increasing or Decay And hee walks in the VVyde or Narrow VVay Hee is a Bloome that 's blasted in the Bud Or growes to bee a Fruite that 's faire and good Hee 's like a Bird that dies ere Nature brings Her to make vse and venture to her Wings Or like a Colt that is Fensce-fed and Ydle And None can breake without a Stryping Brydle Or Falcon-like must bee well Mann'd and Fram'd Els hee can nev'r or hardly bee reclam'd Hee is Dames Natures Darling and her Io And cheefest Charge of Reason is also His Exercise is Studie in his Youth Or it is Action in his elder Grouth His Studies are vnto his Pleasures most Or vpon Knowledge is bestow'd his Cost The Disposition marked of his Mynde Declares him Iade-lyke or of Iennet kynde His Carr●…age is a Trying Table or Touch. That proues him Gentle or degenred much For Youth is lyke to Lumpes of Lead or Waxe That at the Workers Will th' Impression takes Which being hardned and becomming cold Th' Indented Dints and forme it hath doth hold The Qualit of his Birth frames him perforce In his Vpbringing better bee or worse And while Experience fine and Reason fit His Vnderstanding hee 's no Man as yet No rather bot a Chylde and I may say With Flatterie to bee deprav'd a Prey And doth consist and stand in such a Case As eyther hee is in the Way of Grace To proue a Sainct or walking in his Evill And Path of Sinne shall doubtlesse grow a Devill FINIS