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	teach_v	5,964	5	6.2816	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89084	Mercvrivs pacificvs, or, Vox tvrtvris. A dove in this deluge of division sent from Gods arke, to present a peace-offering upon the altar of Iehovah Shalom, humbly proposing a divine direction for composing of controversies according to Gods revealed will. by E. M. Gent.	E. M., Gent.	1644 (1644)	Wing M18; Thomason E35_11; ESTC R11788	7,719	21

MERCVRIVS PACIFICVS OR VOX TVRTVRIS A Dove in this Deluge of Division Sent from GODS ARKE TO Present a Peace-Offering upon the Altar of IEHOVAH SHALOM Humbly Proposing A Divine Direction for Composing of Controversies according to Gods Revealed will Prov. 18. 18. Contentiones submovet sors inter Robustos dirimit By E. M. Gent. Psal 85. 8. I will heare what God the Lord will speake for hee will speake peace unto his people Psal 29. 12. Jehovah in diluvio The Lord sitteth upon the flood The Lord sitteth King for ever The Lord will blesse his people with peace Psal 34. 14. O pray for the peace of Ierusalem LONDON Printed in the yeare 1644. MERCVRIVS PACIFICVS OR VOX TVRTVRIS c. EVery weeke produceth new Mercuries bringing no better Newes then meerely Messages of the Kingdoms increase of Miseries relating nothing but the sad Rumours of a bloody unnaturall Warre and the fearefull fruits and effects thereof rapine ruine death and destruction This Mercury presents you with a soveraigne Medicine to helpe and heaale these your miserable Maladies prescribed by the Great Physitian of both soule and body and pickt and fetcht out of that Garden of his where the most pretious and choyce herbes of Grace plants of goodnesse grow Vnder the Law he that was not able to bring a Lambe for Sacrifice was permitted to offer a Turtle-Dove or young Pigeon In the Gospell a mite freely given renders a poore Widow liberall Though Almighty God hath not lent me an hand so large yet hee hath vouchsafed me an heart inlarged with as much faithfull loyalty to my Soveraigne and true love to my Countrey as any subject in the Kingdome which I shall ever be ready really to expresse even with the sacrifice of my life and all that is mine In this deplorable time of distraction what good subject true Christian and hearty well wisher to the happinesse of the Common-wealth can enjoy an heart not desiring an head not devising and an hand not endeavouring to produce something which may conduce to an happy conclusion of these unhappy dissentions Every hand hath brought some stickes of sinne to increase this flame Let every heart and soule send sighes and grones to Heaven wish with Ieremiah their heads Fountaines and their eyes Rivers to poure out the teares of true contrition For the quenching and extinguishing the consuming fire of these Controversies that the voyce of the Turtle may againe bee heard in our land that the Alarmes of warre may no longer sound in our eares that there be no more leading into captivity no more complaining in our streetes but the Lord may give us beauty for ashes and the garments of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse In publishing this ensuing tract I desire the integrity of my meaning may not bee mis-interpreted I presume not to advise or direct but humbly present to the serious consideration of the learned and grave Sages and prudent Pillars of the state of this disjoynted Kingdome such Texts of holy truth as it hath pleased God by his Spirit to direct me unto and to point out unto me and such propositions as by assistance of the same Spirit I have deduced thence conceiving them materially conducing to an Accomplishment of an happy conclusion of the unhappy and destructive differences now depending betwene his Majesty and the Parliament I trust none will be so uncharitable as to contemne or condemne my purpose herein as too presumptuous for tendring propositions tending to so great a blessing as peace nor any so malitiously impious as to deride or despise so divine a direction because presented by a weake and sinfull instrument God is pleased oftentimes by men and meanes in humane imagination most unworthy and infirme to bring to passe weighty and wonderfull matters out of the mouth of Babes he ordeyneth strength and revealeth to such what he concealeth from the worldly wise and prudent T is as easy with God to worke without meanes as with and against them as by either t is all one to God be cleane or go wash yet we are not so much to depend on his will hidden as to neglect to practise his will revealed so to doe is rather a badge of rash presuming then any notable courage of faith Againe good Counsell is not to be valued by the person saepe etiam holitor valde opportuna locutas the proverbe tells us And surely he 's sicke to the ruine of himselfe that refuseth a Cordiall because presented in a spoon of wood we think not the worse of Gold because presented in a bag of leather Good wine is as wholsome taken in an earthen cup as a Goblet of gold God to whom the hearts of all men are open knoweth that my sole and principall intention herein is onely his glory and the good and Peace of His Majesty His Parliament and Kingdoms And thus much I doe with sinceritie of heart protest and to use the words of Saint Paul Rom. 9. I say the truth in Christ I ly not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the Holy Ghost that I have great heavinesse and continuall sorrow in my heart For these disconsolate divisions in the Kingdome and could wish my selfe sacrificed for the accomplishment of an happy union between his Majestie and Parliament and without ceasing alwayes have made mention thereof in my prayers beseeching the God of Peace who maketh men to be of one minde in an house by such meanes as to his omniscient wisedome shall seeme most meet to unite them and to work a speedy reconciliation betweene them And that after often fasting Humiliation hearty prayers for an happy Accommodation I was directed unto these texts of Holy Scripture herein specified as it were by the immediate finger of God and have received since Revelations hereunto conducing dictated if I may so speake by Gods good Spirit unto me which I never yet disclosed to any person nor doe I thinke fit at this time to publish but shall hereafter God directing me being required declare them Now these things which I write concerning Lotts before God I lye not I neither received them of man nor ever till now imparted them to any man neither was I taught them but by the revelation of God the Father of lights who hath continually incited me by the motions of his holy Spirit to publish the same touching and checking my conscience for concealing not sooner divulging therof God is my witnesse my aime is not vain-glory or any other reculiar end for mine own purposes but the Peace and the happinesse of the Kingdom and his alone glory to whom onely all honour power and praise is to be ascribed as most justly due I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell my reines also instruct me in the night season Psa 16. 7. Dominus portio partis meae calicis mei tu sustent as sortem meā The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup Thou shalt