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	life_n	7,349	5	4.3274	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

safe on the land see others suffer shipwracke Had we stolne ordinary fauour might be found appeached of murder we might be succoured But now for our conscience vvee finde no mercy neither can supplication finde grace To prison we are drawne laid vp close Rods are made ready for vs racks and other engins of torture are prepared He that escapeth best lieth long forgotten enduring the designments of his Keepers fury Thus are we become like outcasts of this world like vile ragges which are throwne out of dores Euery day bringeth his load of affliction no place can recline our heades in safety Comfort we haue none but only this thou art on high and in thy handes lieth the lotte of our fortune We are brought exceeding lowe as lowe as wormes of the earth Vpon which passengers treade and bigger creatures make their pray Neyther haue wee at any time rest neyther finde we in any place security If for a space our Persecutors relent it is to reenforce their cruelty If a calme arise in one place the sword rageth in many others vvith double seuerity If they pretend any fauourable remission it is only in regard of farther policy Who is yet free can not warrant himselfe any little vvhile from their fingers And who thinketh himself secure is often times in most daunger The day layeth vs open the night can giue vs no assurance At home we are caught by searches in the wayes we are apprehended by watches False brethren are mingled among vs and by fayned friendes we are oft betrayed No wit is equall to the malice of our foes hardly can any fore-sight frustrate their diligence No not their sinfull subtilty who seldome seeke thy gratious Sacramentes more trusting their ovvne policy then thy diuine prouidence In this wise while prisons are filled with thy seruants or that otherwise they are had in pursuit Families runne to ruine and children want necessary education Of this fathers feele in their harts the griefe and mothers doe often complayne But better is thy grace then great wealth and a cleane soule then exquisite learning To this and all other tribulations giue an end O blessed Father of heauen Ioyfully that we may serue thee in holynesse and piety in peace and security The second Lamentation WHY number we our temporall detrimēts O most bounfull Lord which are the least part of our present calamity And lament not rather our spirituall losses the diminishing of thy glory Not our priuate damages not our earthly discommodities so much vexe and torment vs. But the zeale of thy faith consumeth vs thy dishonour is the great corasiue Reproches against thy Religion wee repute as our owne daylie they light vpon vs as a tempest of stones We pine away to see thy lawe forgotten and die for griefe that thy ordinances are despised Mourning to consider the kingdome of darknesse so enlarged and impiety so deepely rooted In our captiuity we weep amaine calling to minde the calamity of thy Church For neither can we sing thy notes hauing lost our Temple Nor with worthy magnificence celebrate thy Mysteries being so impouerished and spoyled Nor haue any harty gladnesse being abridged of thy most honourable Seruice Because of this our VIRGINE mourne our young-men lament our aged wring their handes Our Priests girt with haire offer Sacrifice as in the dayes of Iudith For why our lightes are fewe in number our solemne Seruice is impared Organs musicke are laid aside the melody of Sion is out of vse Our glory is in captiuity our ornaments are in the enemies hand Susteinance of our soules is barred from the conduits of saluation we are excluded Pretious and rare in these dayes is thy worde thy holies are seldome seene No otherwise liue thy Priests with the rest of thy seruants then as in the time of Elias when they were hidden in caues They are put to silence who would raise vp Iacob to remorse and conuert Israell from her Apostasie Few are left to instruct people in the way of justice and teach wreatches to shunne sinne With grones people seeke the supersubstantiall foode Neither without danger of death search they spirituall refection The pathes are beset with enuious eyes in passage to thy holy rites our steps are watched Little ones craue the bread which came from heauen and there is none to giue it them They which had sometime the celestiall Manna at wil die in the streets for hunger He which feedeth thereon liueth for euer and hee which doth not can haue in him no life yet is it taken from vs. Abolished are Confirmation and holy Chrisme principall armour vnto Christian constancie The reuerent rites of Baptisme are quite rejected as vnprofitable The Diuell rejoyceth that hee is not adjured but may dwell in infants from their first natiuity Matrimony is concluded to be a prophane bargaine neither blessing nor grace belonging thereunto Orders are none at all where thy Priestes sate enstalled raigne those whose persons are not sacred Blinde guides vnfaithfull watchmen dogges dumbe to the theefe barking at the houshold Hirelinges they peele the woole suffering the sheepe to perish They runne and were not sent take charge of soules without vocation In at the windowe they came and not at the dore they cry The Lord the Lord he spake not vnto them Worne out in prison are al thy true Bishops no one is aliue to sustayne thy flocke Prophecies miracles and visions are taken away rarely reuealest thou the secrets of thy Kingdome No publike Altar incense or oblation either resembled or verified is the time of Antichrist Ah howe are golden times turned to drosse our plate to pewter To adore thee in spirit and truth is heynous to be present at thy Altar is a grieuous penalty To vnburden conscience at feete of a spiritual father is a matter of life At the houre of death it selfe absolution is denied the extreamity auaileth not to pardon The holy Vnction ordayned for our better passage is not permitted So that without just preparation vvee must enter combate vvith our deadly enemy Bookes for edification and prayer are committed to the flame whatsoeuer serueth vs to deuotion is destroyed If they finde thy holy Mysteries they tread them vnder feete the furniture of thy glory is their pray Ornaments and vesselles consecrated to thy seruice are prophaned to priuate vses as in the captiuity of Babylon At monuments of thy Sonnes passion or representation of thy Saints they vpbraid vs with Gods and Idolatry Defacing thy memories they pretend thy honour and blaspheming thy friends they alleadge thine owne Commaundement Lighting vpon reliques they reuile them if they finde the memoriall of thy death about vs they pronounce vs Traytors If they catch a Priest a hundred D●●egs are at hand vvhich dare lay violent hand vpon thine anointed Who concealeth the guide of his soule is not Caesars friend Abdias is not innocent If any deuout Sunamite harbour Elias her offence is vnpardonable Who reuerenceth the highest

the riuers of the valleys nor al the showres of heauen are able to wash away the stayne and shame No sope nor scowring can clense the crime no darknesse nor death it selfe can hide it No continuance of time nor the age of the world shall make it forgotten Other nations heare of it hardly beleeue it because such cruelty hath scarse seemed possible Posterity shall read of it and wonder all generations to come shall detest the fact Our Persecutors owne issue shall blush to heare the outragious actes of their auncestors Barbarous death of innocentes is much yet to misreporte the cause augmenteth the despite Refusall to commit an act against conscience call they rebellion not to deny the Catholike faith they tearme felony and treason Traytors indeed such as were thy chosen Apostles when forbidden to preach the truth Such as the Primitiue Christians when by Heathen statutes impugned was Religion Manifest is our guilt and great is our offence vvhen by going to Church all is pardoned All this we endure for thy sake O thou fountayne of grace not reuolting from thy beliefe We haue not forsaken thee least we should be forsaken of thee at the last howre Not denied thee before men least we should be denied of thee before thine Angels Turne therefore vnto vs thy gratious countenance wherewith thou cheerest the world Giue eare to our prayers consider of our complaint Heare the voyce of thy Martirs bloud or at least wise heare their supplication and intercession Whome spoyled of their garment of flesh thou hast clad with robes of immortality The fourth Lamentation THE garland of glory is fallen from our head the beauty of thy City is defaced O God the beholder of our combatte be mindfull of our abasement vnder the heauy hand of those which hate vs. We hope in thee because we haue knowne thee professed thy name Thou exaltest the humble and regardest a contrite hart Streatch out thy hand to our aide for thou art the buckler and defence of Israell Father of orphans Husband of widowes piller of the poore Teach men not to lift vp themselues vpon earth against thee and thy Saints Let not the memory of thy afflicted be laid aside forget not his patience for euer Cheere vp his just desire ease the mourning of his hart Chastise vs no longer in thy rage nor correct vs with indignation Heale vs for we are bruised haue mercy vpon vs for we are brought exceeding lowe In silence we expect thy long-desired consolation True it is that we deserue more of thy rodde then we feele and before thine anger we sinned If we sinne are our foes righteous if Iacob offend is Esau innocent If Hierusalem please thee not shall Babilon delight thee Wilt thou euermore be angry O Supreame Iudge or canst thou forget mercy Wilt thou serue this Realme as thou hast serued Afrike and Syria To let misbeliefe prepare the way to Infidelity suffering to enter an eternall Apostasie Let not the name of thy Christ Church be exiled let not a faithlesse generation roote vs out Not so O Lord for thy tender kindnesse and mercy pull vs violently out of cruell handes Rouse vp thy selfe like a Giant reuenge the bloud of thy Saints Let not the scourge of the vngodly be alwayes vpon the backs of the just Least they presume saying thou maintaynest their cause and that saluation is on their side Chastise vs with thine owne rod as children and not with the rodde of the vncircumcised Pull the speare out of the enemies rest knappe his launce in sunder and breake his sword Thou dwellest still vvhere thou didst thou art the same God and glory of Israell To thee our forefathers called oppressed by Heathen and thou redeemedst them To thee Catholikes made their moane vnder the yoke of Arrian heretikes and thou didst redresse their bondage So vtterly annihilating the aduerse sect that scant their name remayned vpon earth Euils innumerable compasse vs about howe long wilt thou turne away thy face Not for euer O Lord not for euer we beseech thee Shall so many ignorants yet zealous neuer haue thy light reuealed So many which for want of instruction perish shall they neuer haue true teachers Because diuers which liued in the flourish of thy Church haue set it at naught shall those neuer see it who if they sawe it would neuer forsake it Because many by yealding deserue such a yoke shall they which are constant be alwaies vnder it Shall the few sparkles which thou hast left in the lande be extinguished for lacke of cherishing What if the fathers did eate a soure grape shall the teeth of their children for euer be on edge The wicked wil not worship thee aright shall they therefore be alwayes vexed which worship thee in spirit and truth If thou haue decreed O wisdome incomprehensible concerning that generation which enjoyed the highest glory of thy sanctuary And forsaking their Pastors stood not stedfastly for their Religion in the time of contradiction That they shal pine away by fourty yeares trauaile in the desert neuer enter into the land of promise Nor see the glory of thy second Temple in all Royall magnificence If this be thy holy pleasure the secret counsaile of thy long delayes Or if the number of thy designed Martirs be not yet accomplished to whome by these times thou furnishest a Crowne Or if thou wilt needes haue the secrets of all harts to be opened and rippe vp all dissemblers by long probation That the vvhole vvorld vvorld may behold vvho serued thee from their hart and who followe thee with corrupt intention Or whatsoeuer else the depth of thy designments intendeth by this so long persecution Yet hasten the times for thy deare mercy sake O liuing Lord. Calme the tempest alay the raging wanes Saue vs vvho are daungerously tossed vnite vs who are dispersed and commaunded a-sunder That as one in hart so with one voice in free assemblies we may laude thy holy name extoll thy praises all the day long Giue vs in the meane space patience in our afflictions and ghostly profit by these our temptations Let them neither vvinne vs by vvordes nor vveary vs by cruell deedes O thou which art the saluation of thy people Aide vs O Sauiour glorifie thy selfe in our deliuerance Thou art the God of our forefathers thee only we will magnifie Thou art a zealous God we will not partake in thy dishonour Prepare the feete of thy forerunners let vs heare the noise of their steps approching Reueale the treasures of thy kingdome vvhich haue beene so long suppressed Graunt vs to reape at length with joy who haue a great space sowed in teares In expectation whereof our life vanisheth in griefe our yeares consume in sobs While we powre forth our soules before thee crauing at thy handes saluation Arise O Lord visit thy flocke raise vp the rased walles of Hierusalem Neglect not the vvasting of thy heritage Renewe thy truth vvhich hath beene so long a time without fruit let faith flourish againe like an oliue Then shall all nations feare thy name the Kings of the earth shall haue thy mercy in admiration We shall all vvith one harmony sing glory in thy Temple and sanctifie thy Altars with Sacrifice All generations to come shall prayse thee and make honourable mention of thy great goodnesse Thy Angels of heauen shall magnifie thee the Saints and blessed Spirits shall fall at thy feete and giue thankes Euery soule pray that this may soone come to passe and euery tongue say Amen Come O sweete IESV come FINIS