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	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44705	[Eloheem], or, God and the magtistrate as it was delivered in a sermon before the honorable Baron Atkin and Justice Tirril, two of His Majestie's judges of assize, in the cathedral church of Lincoln, and in the shrievalty of the honorable Sir Edward Dymockek, and champion to His Scared Majestie / by Obadiah Howe ...	Howe, Obadiah, 1615 or 16-1683.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3050; ESTC R10259	38,248	64

quo minus imperio deposito privatus tutò vivere possit That he did nothing during his Government but his power being laid aside he could live safely a private life It is well for men in power so to act as that they may freely look man in the face but it is a great deal better so to act as that they may be able with cheerfulnesse to look God in the face The Jewes have a Saying Quem admodum judicasti ad lancem Innocentiae imaginetur sibi judex acsi gladius inter faemora ei gehenna aperta fuisset As thou hast judged by the ballance of Innocency so the Supreme Judge shall judge thee Therefore let the Judge upon the Bench imagine to himself as if he had a Sword between his thighs and as if Hell was open before him So judge us here whil'st we stand before you that when you come to stand before God you may change your Judgement Seat for Thrones there to sit and judge the Twelve Tribes of Israel Lastly one word of application general to us all and I have done Magistrates are Gods as representing him and doing his work in judgement Then God is Iudge himself and he will judge the World and there is a Iudgement to come and these are but the Prologues to that dreadful Solemnity And it cannot well be that we being helped on by such Monitors should be unmindful of that day these being so lively representatives of it and least we should these are our Annual Remembrancers all we who are but Spectators of others Iudgement must be persons concerned in that upon our own accompts where we all shall have our Last Trial not for Temporal Inheritances but for Eternity The true Notion of Iudgement to come well considered made Felix tremble when he sate upon the Iudgement Seat much more will it have that effect upon us when we come to stand before it Can we hear of the coming of the Iudge and not think of that wherein it is said He cometh to judge the World in Righteousnesse riding his last Circuit upon his Cloudy Chariot Psal xcvi 13. Can you behold the great Conflux of people from every Quarter to this Solemnity and not think of that day wherein he shall call to the heavens from above and the earth beneath to his judgement Psal l. 1 4. Can yee behold the person of the Judge and not think of that man by whom God hath appointed to judge the World Acts xvii 31. Can ye hear the Trumpet sound before the Judge and not think of those formidable Heralds of that Day when he shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised 1 Thess iv Latter End Can ye behold these as the Poet calls it Ignita purpurea so here upon better reason these flaming Scarlet Robes with which the Iudge sits vested and not think of those flaming Robes which that Iudge shall come cloathed with when he shall come in flames to render vengeance upon all ungodlinesse 2 Thess i. 8. Can ye behold the Iudge sit down upon his Seat to take cognisance of all Causes Criminal and Civil and not behold as in a Vision Christ sitting down upon his Seat to take cognisance of all things done in the body whether good or evil 2 Cor. v. 10. Can ye behold the Iustices of the Peace upon the Bench as Iudicis Coassessores Coassessors with the Iudge by joynt suffrage ratifying the sense and proceedings at Law And not think of those Coassessors with the Great Iudge who shall judge the World and sit upon Thrones by joynt suffrage and assent ratifying the proceedings of that Iudge 1 Cor. vi 2. Can ye behold the Gaol delivery the prisoners conducted to the Bar by the Iaylor and surrendred up to Iustice and not think of that great Gaol Delivery wherein Earth and Sea shall give up their dead and small and great shall stand before God Rev. xx 12 13. Can you see the Books opened every mans Case stated Inditements read Witnesses produced and circumstances proved and all fit for Sentence and not think of those Books which shall be opened wherein all our actions are registred and we all shall be judged out of those books Rev. xx at which time there will be imprisonment without Bail Indictment without Ignoramus Conviction without Plea Sentence without Writ of Error Execution without Reprieve and Judgement without Mercy for all Sinners all which though it be the least in mens thoughts yet it shall certainly come and its prudence before-hand to set our selves before that Tribunal And when we behold the guilty felons at the Bar with pale face and akeing hearts let us think every one of us Iam mea res agitur our part is now acting And thus reason Seeing we look for such things what manner of persons ought we to be in all holinesse of conversation and knowing the terrour of the Lord let me persade you to passe the time of our sojourning here in fear Homo timet Regem qui forte cras morietur ne puniat eum non timet à Rege vero in cujus potestate est anima nostra in hoc faeculo in venturo Aben Ezra in Exod. xx 3. We fear the Magistrate who may die too morrow least he should punish us but fear not the great King in whose hand our souls are in this life and that which is to come The Iews have left a good caution behind them Haec tria consideres non incides in manus transgressionis Vnde venis quo tendis coram quo tibi ratio reddenda sit Consider these these three things and thou shalt not fall into hands of transgression Whence thou comest whither thou goest and before whom thou must give an accompt So speak and so do as those that must be judged by the Royal Law the strictest Rule and stand at his Tribunal who is the severest Iudge that we may with freedome go to meet him in the air not having the black stone of condemnation and so to fall but the white stone of Absolution and so to stand in Judgement and be for ever with the Lord. And thou O Father who hast appointed to judge the World by that Man Iesus Christ and wilst convince the World of sin by thy Holy Spirit Send down thy Spirit into our hearts and so blesse these thy servants who are now to judge in endowing them with a Spirit of Iudgement that they may so execute the Iustice of the Lord in this their day that they may not fear to stand before that Great Tribunal in the Day of the Lord. And so blesse and direct us all in our passage through this Valley of Tears that we living in thy fear not to the will of the flesh but to the will of God we may all when we come to meet at that Great Assize be found blamelesse and without spot at his appearing And this we beg for the Sake and in the Name of Iesus Christ our dear Redeemer to whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all Glory and Honour now and ever Amen ●INIS