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	sin_n	6,442	5	4.4152	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04808	A sermon made at Blanford Foru[m] in the countie of Dorset on Wensday the 17. of Ianuarij last past at the session holden there, before the honorable and the worshyppefull of that shyre, by William Kethe minister and preacher of Gods word. 1571.	Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1571 (1571)	STC 14943; ESTC S106665	14,345	54

But we do read to the perpetu all prayse of Lucius Valerius who being consull of Rome and dying whilest he was consul hauing by his life time the custody of the treasure of Rome in his keepyng was yet so free from making him rich by vnlawfull meanes that hee was found so poore at his death that the charges of hys buriall was payde by the common people And that of Quintus Cincenius is not to be passed ouer who beyng taken from the ploughe and made Dictator of Rome after that he had gotten many noble victories and had done meruelous thynges for the common weale returned home to the plough agayne ▪ from whence he was taken so endyng hys lyfe with a contented mynde as one not desirours to become riche by bribes and rewardes Wherfore if such as be offendours in the cōmon wealth would assaye to corrupt those that be in office and authority by their bribes and rewardes to escape condigne punishment Such as be officers should vse to aunswere them as GOD aunswered the Iewes saying Who requireth these thynges at your handes So should officers say to offendours who required these bribes at your handes God sayd to the Iewes will I eate the fleshe of Buls So should they say haue we not Bull bief inough of our owne but that we must be corrupted by your bribing Bull bief or Oxen be not the hilles and valies ours haue not we possessions inough to liue by but that we must beare a porte by such vnlawfull meanes to ouerthrow Iustice If rulers and officers would thus aunswere bribe offerers then should they auoyde those punishmēts and plagues which God threatneth to fall vpon bribers and wicked men would not be so bold to sinne in hope to escape punishement by geuyng of bribes The tyme calleth vpon me to make an end you haue heard vppon this first Argument of Christ these three notes first that ignoraunce can excuse no man Secōdly that where the word hath sounded there man can haue no cloke for his sinne Thirdly you haue heard how loth man is to acknowledge his sinne how he putteth of hys sinne to others what shiftes he hath to qualify to escape punishement for hys sinne Now let vs besech almighty God our heauēly Father to illuminate our mindes with his holy spirite and that you which be the Magistrates and fathers of this our countrey may so quyte your selues in your offices that negligence be not layd to your charges at that great and dread full day but rather that you folowyng the steppes of that good steward in the Gospell vnto whom Christ sayd O thou good seruaunt thou hast bene faythfull in litle I will therfore make thee a ruler ouer much so you after that you haue passed your liues here in holynes and righteousnes the Lorde Iesus at hys commyng may draw you vp vnto hym and so raigne with hym to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all prayse honor and glory Amen Iohn 15. vers 22. Iohn 1● 13. Three Argumentes to conuince the Phariseis Uers. 23. Uers. 24. Thre notes gathered of the first Argument No cloke where the Gospell is preached Ezech. 3. 17. and Cap. 33. 1● The office and duetie of Ministers Then wo be vnto blynd and ignoraunt slouthfull guides Rom. 1. 19. and 20. Rom. 13. 11. 1. Pet. 2. A warning to Magistrates 〈…〉 ▪ Exod. 23. 3 Leuiticus 29. 65. Deu. 1. 178 16. 16. Pro. 24. 23 Psal. 2. 10. Iam. 2. 2. The Church is full of such whiche would to God they might bee thrust out good men let alone The second note No man without sinne Wilfull sinne obstinate sinne the sinne of infidelitie 1. Iohn 9. 2. 3. c. Trayterous libels set vp by the Papistes How the Ministers are handled by the Papistes for not consentyng to superstition The office of the Minister and the office of the Magistrate The abuse of the Saboth day The Sabboth day turned into a Reuelyng day Sturdy va gabondes not looked vnto The poore neglected vagabonds relieued Trayterous practises agaynst the state This matter would be looked vpon Manlius Torq The fearefull end of tyrauntes Luc. 12. 47 The thyrd note Mans corruption in acknowledggyng and confessyng his sinne Iohn 8. Mat. 25. 44. Gene. 3. The grace of Papistes in postyng their faults euer vnto others Such fellowes would bee had in remembraunce The popes Bulles Note this gouernour of others A caueat for admitting of witnesses Disobediēt are they that deface not all monumentes of Idolatry An other vsual tricke of the Papistes Esay 1. 11. and 12. 13. Psal. 50. 10. and 11. 12. c. Esay 1. 23. Cambises the sonne of Cyrus Alexander Seuerus Lucius Va lerius Quintus Cincenius