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	prayer_n	son_n	6,000	5	5.5465	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

will be of infinite use The Adversary here has carved-forth the Churches allowance which shee accepts abundantly thankfull to her God And now in this time of distraction so full of bussel and confusion the Church has but one work to doe which shee attends with all care and watchfulnesse Their keeping their Spirit cleane that their Prayers may be pure Their intercourse and commerce to Heaven kept open and their Communion intire with the Father and the Sonne This is their worke and they give their heart unto it And now though the Earth be smitten and stagger like a drunken man Though it open wide whilst she gives up her dead and discovers her slaine and vomits-up the Hierarchy with all their Brutish Pastors who have been a burden to her so long and cumbered her ground Though a great quaking fall upon the Kingdoms of the world so as they be smitten together and broken to pieces yet these People cannot be carefull not greatly moved There is a River shall refresh them in this drougth and an hand shall hold them fast in this Earth-quake while the Lord is performing his whole worke upon mount Sion and on Jerusalem While he is making an end and drawing the Conclusion which will be to the heart of His People gracious and glorious Amen So much to the first Blasphemy and the conclusion therefrom I will but name the other 2. That these Praying People are newly fallen mad Not newly sure they were anciently so mad as now they are ever since they could not run with those that blaspheme them so into the same excesse of Riot with them 1 Pet. 4.4 Ever since they did abominate Babylons Wine which indeed has made all the Earth druncken and the Nations mad as at this day Jer. 51.7 Ever since they kept their foot from the Path of the destroyer and loathed the way of Cain ever since they served their God according to the Rule of His will Ever since they could Pray indeed in the Holy Ghost have they been accounted a mad People By those that are mad indeed mad upon their Idols mad with rage as your poore flock of sheep never are But Armenta and Pecora the Kine and Bulls of Bashan Nimrods mighty hunters before the Lord great oppressors of the world Beasts-like-men these are mad and so we say in ordinary speech But a mad flock of sheep was never heard off from the beginning to this day These are harmlesse gentle and meek to a Proverb and so meek they must be and humble for they are the poore of the flock and God has humbled them He has meekned their hearts for He has laid open their hearts unto them so they know themselves now and have so learnt Christ that they are lowly meek and vile in their own eyes and content to be more vile and base in their owne sight But they blesse God for this reproach above many for so they reproached Christ their Head even so He hath a Devill and is mad Joh. 10.26 This makes them leape for joy because their Lord Christ was so reproached For as they are made conformable to their Lord Christ in their sufferings from the hand and tongue so shall they be made conformable to Him in their consolations They are as he was so blasphemed in the world they shall be as He is in Glory 1 Joh. 3.2 What manner of Glory Nay had I the tongue of an Angel I could not tell you that I can reade it as you can That when the Lord Christ shall appeare these poore of the flock shall be like Him and see him as He is like him and as He is I can say no more but admire O the weight of glory Onely if you are of the number of those destitute ones the poore of the flock take your Fathers blessing before you goe Blessed are yee when men shall revile you persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Mat. 5.11,12 A Postscript Here is a vacant place I will tell two stories and fill it up one touching a person the other a Thing All is heathenish but we can make it Christian and very sutable to all that is said before Sophocles a grave Poet indeed lived a monastick life retired and much in meditation He is a fool and mad both said some they were his sonnes and so in our common speech they would have begg'd their Father for a fool a mad-man fit to have a Guardian over him unfit to be a guardian over others his sonnes were fitter men they thought pretty youths The father after his manner said little but did much and yet held close to his work quickly shewed it to the Judges See Sirs said he is this the worke of a fool a mad-man The application must be short the best men are just so accused by sons I will not call them bastards not sons because they pray they sing Psalmes they maintaine communion with their God Aug de 〈◊〉 I assure thee Reader this was all could be charged against them in the worst times and by their fiercest enemies these enemies themselves being Judges Well! they will keepe to their work the closser for this And when their work shall be manifest as one day it shall and the thoughts of all hearts Then what ever the wicked think now they will say then These were the onely sober wisest men So much of the person Of the thing next Archimedes had an Engine the strangest that ever was in the world Therewith he defended a Citie bigger then Gloucester and defeated a storming enemy there To tell all in a word This man thus boasted of himselfe and this Engine Give me another earth said he whereon to set my foot and I will pluck-up this earth and throw it like a ball Sea and all Truely I cannot but smile at his conceit As Diogenes said He would see how he could drinke out of his hand before he would throw away his dish So this great Ingeneere would have sure footing on another earth before he would cast away this but he did expresse the energie and strange working of his Engine very well There are a people who have as strange an Engine as this which we call nothing but Prayer I le tell you what it will doe defend a Citie from a storming Adversary More then so It will pluck up earth to heaven and pluck down heaven to earth I have neither time nor space to say more but so it will doe An End