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	person_n	son_n	33,804	5	6.4746	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89759	A pathway unto England's perfect settlement; and its centre and foundation of rest and peace, discovered by Capt. Robert Norwood. In this discourse you have cleared and proved, I. What government in its true and proper nature is; and the common errour thereof rectified. ... VI. That the laws, ordinances, &c. of our forefathers, are the onely rulers and governours of the English nation; ... VII. That neither parliaments, or any other, have any right, power, or authority to change, alter, suppress, or suspend the same; ... And in the conclusion, the nature of contracts, and the governments thereupon, made manifest and cleared.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1383; Thomason E702_16; ESTC R203007	38,577	71

Covenants as if they were but straws and swallow the breach of them as sweet morsels Let it be examined and weighed to him with whom I make a contract if I be true and real in it to him I give up my very true and real self so far and so much as that contract extends to during the time thereof and so if he give credit to believe and receive my contract I do therein and thereby make and beget a very true and real essence in and unto him with whom I do so contract and so he hath thereby made unto him as good an assurance of me to be his very true and real self in reference to those things contracted for during the terme of the contract as possibly it can be made and done Therefore if we have made and entered into Covenant and contract with any Let us faithfully and fully as we are able yea freely and willingly also make good and performe the same let our loss damage and detriment be what it will or can it is our contract and it must be kept if any detriment damage or inconvenience arise to us in it or by it that was our own fault and we must therefore bear it and let us not with Adam lay it upon another For certainly upon a due examination search and inquiry it will be found that our selves in very deed and in truth are the proper and true cause of all the calamities troubles sorrows afflictions miseries c. whatsoever call them as you please that at present are that ever did or ever shall come upon happen to or befall us In our self lieth and from our self ariseth and springeth forth the root seeds ground occasion and cause of whatever befalleth every particular man of us verily if it be rightly weighed and considered it will be found so Thy destruction is of thy self O Israel saith the Lord and so it 's said of Israelites in the case of the Gibeonites that they counselled not with the mouth of the Lord which would a man alwayes in all things do he would be alwayes and in all things safe and secure Nor will it be found I believe sufficient to say that the other party or parties performe not but break and falsifie with us we notwithstanding must hold keep and performe with them and nothing may must or can discharge and disoblige but the mutual consent of the parties Covenanted and contracted Wherefore I say Where when so much so far and so long as we may be free let us not be bound But if that we call necessity or conveniency occasion us to contract know assuredly that it very greatly concerns us to be exceeding circumspect very cautious and wary how or upon what grounds we do contract with whom for what use and uses to what ends and for what time Verily a man in this case of all the cases I know in the world had need have his eyes in his head to counsel with the Lord for it must or ought to be fully thorowly and perfectly done and performed and that with all willingness readiness and chearfulness of minde also Wherefore I should then desire when we do enter Covenants Contracts and Agreements with any that so much as we are able they may be very just right true and equal unto all concerned therein for assuredly in justness rightness or righteousness consists the all of man his life his strength his rest peace and happiness if you have not a just true and even center it is impossible you can be at case at quiet at rest and peace in it nor can it give full and perfect life and strength to the whole circumference if the foundation be not plain and level you cannot build a firm stable and lasting structure upon it God is just justice it self God is right or righteous he is righteousness it self We say there is the Father the Son and the Spirit and that these three are one and it is written of Christ the Son that he thought it no robbery to make himself equal with God God did certainly make manifest himself in or by three distinct workings or operations or as we say three distinct persons or in a threefold distinct way and manner of operating rather and these three as we say and say truely are but one God and certainly God is but one and in one or unity consisteth all all light life and strength So you see the Divinity subsisteth and consisteth in equality or oneness and indeed otherwise it could not be So doubtless mans being if he will be and have a perfect upright stable quiet peaceable being in reference to himself and others it must be in equality or oneness and the one is not nor cannot be without the other as it is in God or the Divinity who is the center and foundation to and pattern of all things that be and if the centers and foundations we make and lay be in and upon him they must be such also and if we build not upon him it is impossible our building can stand Let us therefore I beseech you all upon any occasion of Contracts minde this thing and be very careful and wary taking great heed lest we lay a ground and foundation a cause and occasion of emulations strifes and contentions of murmurrings repinings and complainings disquiets and discontents Verily he who thinks he may have the advantage that advantage he seemeth to have will certainly prove his greatest disadvantage as suppose I would make my self greater and higher as we use to speak then the rest in the Contract doubtless as I could make evidently to appear but that I hasten I give the greater advantage to the other by so much as I make my self greater or higher then he And verily I believe the time is not far off wherein there will or at least may be as much contest strife endeavour or desire to be little or low in the world as now there is to be great and high Mans wisdom is returning unto him and he returning unto it God is delivering the Creation from that bondage it hath so long lyen under into the most glorious liberty of his sons which it so earnestly groaneth for and is in pain and travail at this day being even in a readiness to bring forth he is bringing down as Isaiah excellently hath it all things that are high and lofty which are lifted up and exalted above their measure beyond their right and true bounds and limits And what is all this or what doth it mean and speak but onely that he is restoring all things to that which they were in the beginning restoring mankinde and all things together with him to their pristine or primitive glory beauty and excellency Wherefore then should any be troubled fear or be afraid at these tydings O that men would stand still a little whilst God is doing this thing Let us consider and understand what the rule or pattern is which we are to be made