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
A97247	The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing Y149B; ESTC R230928	73,141	127

Saint Peter speakes who because they love to speake evill of the way of truth 2 Pet. 2.2.12 If they see but an hypocrite discover himselfe they not onely harden themselves in their sinnes and as it were breake their owne necks at this stumbling blocke being Satans trap set on purpose to catch their blind soules in but condemne all the rest of his profession to be such as hee is save that they dissemble their hypocrisie more closly cunningly which is as equal and just as it was for Simeon and Levi to murther all the Sechemites for the offence only of Hamors Son But as all are not thievs that dogs bark at so all are not hypocrites which they terme so Indeed as all our enemies are not alike witty so they are not alike malicious for some transcend this way as Doeg did the rest of Sauls servants another way you shall know such an one by these few markes his hatred is so inveterate and universall that he spends all his wit in frothy scoffes and invectives against the whole people of God and as if the doore were not wide enough except he set open all the windows and brake downe the walls to let in this infectious ayre his tongue scrues something against the religious into all discourses and when his owne invention failes it shall be supplyed with what he hath heard for as the Papists never found any error spued out by the Ancients but they have licked it up superstitiously to abuse the same so he never heares of any scoffe slander or divellish invective formerly devised but he licks it up that he may spit it out againe in the face of some professor or on the other fide poyson those with whom he doth converse being to his company like a mad dog that so biteth every one he meets that they become mad too and as apt to bite others as himselfe or in case he meets with another like himselfe in wit and malice it may be said of them as Diogenes spake of two ill conditioned women when hee saw them talking See how the Viper and the Aspe are changing poyson And nothing so ticles the spleene or glads the heart of such as that discourse which may most shame profession disgrace Religion and dishonour God But O that ever those tongues which dare call God Father should suffer themselves thus to be moved and possessed by that uncleane spirit Or that ever the Church should owne such for her children In the Primitive times the Church would have denied her blessing to such a Sonne that shou●d have thought himselfe disparaged by serving Christ and wearing of his livory although he had not scoft at others yet this man flatters himselfe that he is a Christian yea you cannot beat him from it but that he is as good a Christian as the precisest and shall goe to heaven as soone But let him that reads consider whether it be not a fearefull thing to lend to Satan the heart for devising the tongue for uttering and the eare for hearing of calumnies and all this to disgrace the grace of God in his children and make it frutlesse to themselves and others O impiety to be abhorred Such sport on earth is only sport for the fiends in hell and let them looke to it for such joyes may chance to cost them eternall mourning yea certainly if the infernall Tophet be not for them in case they repent not it can challenge no guests for I may well say unto such an one Many sinners have done wickedly but thou surpassest them all thine is such a superlative such a soule-murthering sinne that no other sinne can parallell it But thou hast plenty of excuses to pacify thy blinded and benummed conscience Yea thou wantest not some carnall reasons to make it good as an easie invention may put false matters into true Sylogismes And amongst the rest thou wouldest not have men singular wherefore that they may have lesse zeale and more temper thou seek●st to alay their heate with frumps and scoffs and taunts and jeeres as how often doe we heare remisse professors strive to choake all forward holinesse and zeale by commending the golden meane For carnall men who cleave as close to custome and example of the greatest number as clay to a Cart wheele thinke every one exorbitant that walketh not after their rule 1 Pet. 4.4 As the Sodomites thought of Lot Gen. 19.9 the hundred and twenty Governours of Daniel Dan. 6.11 and the Caldeans of Shadrach Meshech and Abednego Dan. 3 8. to 30. Daniel of all Darius his servants was so bold as to pray three times a day not in contempt of the King of Babylons decree but in zeale and obedience to the God of Heavens command the Governours stranging at it accuse him and say this Daniel which is of the captivity regardeth not thee O King nor the decree which thou hast signed but doth so and so wherefore command we pray thee that he be cast into the Lyons den for no decree nor statute which the King establisheth may be altered Dan. 6. Againe what disorder is this that I heare of you saith Nebuchadnezzar to Shadrach Meshech and Ahednego will not you serve my gods nor worship the golden Image that I have set up Dan. 3.14 who answer no be it knowne unto thee O King we are not carefull to answer thee in this matter they were all as stiffe as if they had eaten a stake and they could not bow to an Idoll as the godly have beene in all ages not being able to wheele with the times Yea they that truely feare God are usually as immoveable as the Sun in its course because they thinke and speake and live by rule and not by example and hold themselves as fast tyed as if they had the oath given them which the Aegyptian Kings solemnly presented to their Judges not to swerve from their consciences what command soever they should receive from rhemselves to the contrary Which strictnesse is a great eye-sore to carnall men who hate singularity almost as they doe sanctity which makes them to cry it downe Now this imputation of singularity and their extolling the meane is a cunning discouragement but it is the Devils Sophistry for the meane of vertue is betweene two kindes not betweene two degrees it is a meane grace that loves a meane degree of grace Yet this is the onely staffe with which the World beates all that are better then themselves What will you be singular Or are you wiser then all Or what is this but want of discretion And to speake truth that which worldly men call discretion eates up all true wisedome There discretion and moderate stayednesse devoures all true honesty and goodnesse But shall Lot leave his righteousnesse for such an imputation of singularity Or shall he not depart Sodom because the whole City thinkes it better to stay there still Shall Noah leave building the Arke and so himselfe and his houshold perish because all