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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97301	Zion's sad tears, for Nineveh's just fears. Or, Hours of mourning, for yeers of sinning; Being some few directed observations of divine mercy, & sinful returns: with an humble offering towards regulation of land and maritime affairs. By a humble seeker of truth and peace.	Humble seeker of truth and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing Z14; Thomason E684_25; ESTC R207055	12,707	27

Fellow-labourer a dead Dogg Sir enquire not after the Author of this but that of us both To the Reader of what sort soever PEradventure you as others may stile me mad or otherwise as some in other cases have in respect of the main disproportion of several things in this parcel but I shall not say you are so if censorious If I am mad 't is for your cause if sober 't is to God I shall not invite you much to look on the Infant for its names or Fathers sake but if you like it or it you 't is yours not mine I begg no customers or company now being indeed never less alone then when alone If you find the Child in the rushes and preserve it in time it may produce better things however my travel in its birth shall not be lost for I have gain'd what I in part desired to see The God of Power sanctifie it and then it shall be blest if not kist by you The piece is not a nine days wonder but some few void hours in that time the matter I commit to you not the form for hast maks waste and prevented me in puting things in order though my end was good and my judgment I hope with my God this is onely truly for an humbled people I have no hard words or Aenigma's to Christen it with but what I have you are welcome to if you be a Christian 't is well enough it may receive the attendance of some vacant minutes if it make you weep to see it do so I cannot help it rock it perchance it may gain sleep though the poor father little if you shall curiously search his Name you may finde it Homo then seek no farther unless you bring tears to attend his Funeral who had rather for you die then read your Elegie To deal plainly with you I am here call'd forth to shew you part of what I have but it being ill Cook'd and dish'd with as bad sauce if you can receive and digest it I am like to shew you more however give me no occasion to answer for it lest you make me stark mad and then deprived of my sences not be able An Infant Idiot or Lunatick all which I am is as I take it excusable by the Law of the Land Sed si pereo pereo greater Pillars wil be shaken when mine are so yet this is my comfort Cedars fall when Mushrooms will spring One secret I must tel thee that Part of my right hand till I extended it in writing was shrunk up and then again I found its use yet not able to write over again what I writ or indeed remember it in former things of late The fruit of my gleanings I wish you and to see better things from you contribute your talent with mine now in time now in time of necessity it can do no hurt but may enlarge my thoughts expecting it and your bringing in what you have to the Publick praying for the prosperity of all the friends of Zion I remain Yours in all due respects A Servant of Truth and Peace To Nineveh and its People O Nineveh Nineveh Nineveh the former three most resplendent places in the Nations about us and this in particular though I have been a Beggar for you What more could the Lord have done by and for you then what was done What unthankful returns hath he received from you ye had need of 3000 Ionahs so many Trumpets and as many years to awaken and call you to true repentance Did Divine mercy raise you to the Empire over your sisters to repay your heavenly Father in the imperfect Coyn of your own base ingratitude or walk after the carnal lusts of your own hearts Could you be apt to Signe such Oaths Protestations and Covenants of mens inventions and never seriously make one in your own hearts with the giver of all good things to live soberly and uprightly in this present life to his glory and your own comfort as also the mutual defence and preservation of each other therein But every one of your hands is full of oppression and violence and for your wicked desperate Oaths crucifying again the Lord of life the Land now mourns and trembles before the presence of the Lord. Must the God of Power deliver into your hands your betters even the declared Kings and Princes of the earth and can you continue still walking in their impious steps Must you return as Doggs to the vomit or a blind people to the Onions and Garlick of Egypt Surely the Lord may yet reserve mercy for you if you can but by Faith eye the Arme which hath not long since rendred it self bare for your preservation and now contends with a flaming sword against you not onely so but threatning a Mortality within your own Walls and Pavilions O heavenly Father if it be thy will let every individual Member of the people here and abroad lay these things seriously to heart and let the crucified Image of thy Son be fixed in and upon every soul and spirit that shall read or hear these Funeral-Elegies though clothed in raggs preserve thy choyce ones as the Apple of thine Eye let them not alwayes be dying Sacrifices for worse then themselves restrain the fury and madness O Father of spirits of the Wolves and Bears of the Forrest which now thou hast called forth and spare thy poor people when thou shalt deal with them And all this for thy dearly beloved Sons sake To the rigid Presbyters and rude Pulpit-knockers of these times KNow ye not that holiest David and wisest Salomon had their crimes yet both reproved repented and found mercy Where is Pharaoh your Covenanted Idol become Is he not seeking all ways and means to destroy your hopes and lay them in the dust Must you Idolize the sons of men and even betray all Governments that put you not in the room of Christ himself Nor know ye that for the transgressions of a Land many are the Princes thereof Why cannot ye submit to that Power the Lord hath appointed and vail your Plumes in the time of sudden Calamity and indeed joyn heart and hand with despised little ones to seek your Maker in humility and love O condescend in time lest else your untempered Morter suddenly make our Walls fall about our ears let your moderation be known to all men and be you Serpent-like wise but Dove-like innocent not Wolves in Sheeps clothing to fleece the Flock and feed the belly-gods but study the peace of the Government and people if you can do no more letting alone the Civil Magistrate to punish Turbulencies and Seditions Indeed you should more observe and proclaim the holy Name of the ever-living God his dearly beloved Son and sacred Spirit more and more nay deny your selves if true Disciples take up his Cross and follow him wheresoever he shall call you or into what condition soever But 't is to be feared you more serve the god of the world not