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	jesus_n	son_n	14,487	5	5.3429	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09738	The A. B. C set forthe by the Kynges maiestie and his clergye, and commaunded to be taught through out all his realme All other vtterly set a part as the teachers thereof tender his graces fauour.		1547 (1547)	STC 20; ESTC S110721	4,511	18

peccata vestra liberet vos ab omni malo saluet et confirmet in bono et ad vitam perducat eternam Amen ¶ These questions the master ought to demaunde and to lerne his scolers SPeke my good chyld Tel me what art thou The chylde aunswereth ¶ As concernynge my fyrst byrth I am a creature of God endewed with wyt and reason the son of Adam And as touching my newe and seconde byrth I knowledge my selfe to be a Chrystian ¶ The question wherfore saiest thou thou art a Christian The aunswere ¶ Bicause I am Christened in the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost ¶ The question ¶ what is baptisme ¶ The answere It is called the lauer or water of regeneration by the which euery one that beleueth is receaued and consecrated into the felowship of Christes Church to be partaker of the lyfe euerlastynge ¶ Question In whom beleuest thou ¶ Aunswere ▪ I beleue onely in god the father almyghty so for the as the Crede speaketh ¶ Question ¶ what is fayth ¶ Aunswere Fayth is a sure confidence und trust of mynde trustyng beleuynge in the very lyuynge god The question ¶ Howe many Gods are there ¶ The answere There is but one god alone for all sufficient whiche hath his beynge of hym selfe and all creatures haue theyr beinge of hym ¶ The question ¶ Howe manye persons byn there in the godheade ¶ The aunswere There are three persons which is god the father god the sonne and godde the holye ghost thre persons in trinitie and one god in essence ¶ The question What is god ¶ The aunswere God is he of whose goodnes by whose power I am persuaded assured thorow my faith to receaue all that good is vnto whom also I flye in all aduersities perils as vnto a present al alone is sufficict helpe for me he paciētly abydeth our turninge from sinne ful of mercy gentyl good redy alwayes to forgiue suffereth no sinne to be vnpunished that vnto the third and fourth generatiō vntill none of that sinfull flocke be left alyue ¶ The question ¶ In whom beleuest thou The aunswere I beleue in god the father almyghty maker of heauen and earth in Iesu Chryste his onely sonne our lorde c. ¶ The question What meanest thou by this fyrst article ¶ The aunswere ¶ I beleue that he is my god and mercyfull father vnto me tenderynge me as his dere beloued chylde and to be euermore vnto me an almyghty helper ¶ The question ¶ What menest thou by the third fourth fyfth and syxt articles c. The aunswere ¶ I beleue that Chryst was conceaued borne and suffered for my sinnes and that he arose to make me ryghtuous ☞ The question What thynge worketh this fayth in thee ¶ The aunswere It worketh in me loue to God and to my neyghbours as to my selfe so changeth me into a newe man so that now I beleuing and knowynge god to haue shewed so excedynge loue for me and study to do his cōmaundementes and am full heauy in my harte that I can not fulfyll them ¶ Then when the chyld is come to discretion let hym be induced to knowe what god is GOd is myght wysedome and infinite goodnesse without beginninge with out endyng truth vnchangeable iust and mercyful only god in thre persons the father the son and the holy ghost in whō al thynges be by whom al thynges be made and created And by whom all thynges be gyuen to vs and in the lyfe to come ¶ It is also necessary to knowe what man is ¶ Man is created after the lykenes of the Image of God And throughe the sinne of our fyrst father Adam is made pore vyle wretched ignorant inconstant frayle and redy to sin ful of Ipocrisie and vainglory and redy to fall into eternall dampnation All this folowethe after that we are conceaued and borne into this worlde ☞ A godly rule of the true and Christian religion TO serue God frely euen from the harte To bere his Crosse and obey our rulers to profyte al men and hurt no body to trust in the merites of Chrystes passion to be saued from sinne and none otherwyse this is the onely and best religion ¶ Here after foloweth an inuocation vnto the holy Trinitie HOly Trinitie be helpinge vnto me O God in thy name shall I lyft vp mine handes the triumphant crosse of the passion of our Lorde Iesu Chryste Iesus of Nazareth kynge of the Iewes sonne of God haue mercy vpon me In the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost So be it ¶ Grace before dynner or supper PRaysed be thou our most mercyful and heuēly father which of thy inestimable goodnes hast gyuen thy moste deare beloued son Iesus to paynefull deathe for our sakes thereby not all onely delyuering vs and all faythfull from euerlastynge deathe and damnation but also purchafynge vnto vs euerlaftynge lyfe ioy and felicitie endue we beseche thee thy holy spirite into our hertes that we may dayly more and more walke and go forwarde in the pleasaunt path ways of thy ryghteous lawes and commaundementes So be it After dynner or supper NOwe you haue well refresshed your bodies remembre the lamentable afflictions and miseries of many thousands of your neigh bours and brethrē in Christ visited by the hand of god some with mortal plages and diseases some with imprysonment some with extreme pouertie and necessitie so that ether they can not or they haue not to fede on as ye haue done remēbre therfore how much and how depely ye presēt are boūd to the goodnes of almighty god for your health welth libertie and many other his benefites giuen vnto you GOD SAVE THE KYNGE the Queene and the Realme and send vs peace in Christ Amen ¶ Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Powell