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	sin_n	son_n	6,073	5	5.1685	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09419	A despised virgin beautified, or, Virginia benefited. setting forth, though concisely, yet perspicuously, the state of that and the neighbouring plantations, both as they have their blemishes, with the causes thereof, and as they may be cured, with the consequences thereof / by O.Ll. Gent. Sometimes an inhabitant of Virginia.	O.LI., Gent. Sometimes and Inhabitant of Virginia.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2618A; ESTC R180038	13,011	20

A Despised Virgin Beautified OR VIRGINIA Benefited Setting forth though concisely yet perspicuously the State of that and the Neighbouring Plantations both as they have their Blemishes with the Causes thereof and as they may be cured with the Consequents thereof I am black but comely c. Cant. 1. 5. By O. Ll. Gent. sometimes an Inhabitant of Virginia London Printed by Henry Hills for Edward Dod and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy Lane 1653. To the Christian and to the Judicious Reader that is wel-affected to the Common salvati on purchased by Christ or to the Common good of this Republique REader which of the two soever you are I have a double word to offer to your consideration First that the undertaking of this work to express this accomodation for the benefit of the American plantations in both Spirituals and Temporals is not a thing that I undertook in my own strength or for any base ends of my own But as the Lord can bear me witness that I ly not upon the hearing the minister in publique the last Lords day stir up every one to indeavor the exaltation of Christ in his proper place internally and externally I conceiv'd it a duty incumbent upon me to offer my two mites to the Lords treasury if it might be acceptable to him having nothing else wherewith to honour him at present or if it might be profitable for my longed-for friends in Virginia who have been often in my weak measure and manner though an unworthy wretch presented at the Throne of Grace by me That God of his infinite riches and glory by Christ would supply all their needs and being by so many years experience acquainted what was that necessary thing that conduceth to their eternal well-being and yet there wanting I have here presented you as the Lord inabled me with what I humbly conceive ever submitting to better Judgements may be the best expedient to accomplish the happiness of that place Secondly I must answer the unsatisfyed Reader who knew my former conversation both there and here and how unsuitable it hath been to what I here present That though he might say Physician heal thy self or Hypocrite first pull the beam out of thine own eye c. I confess what was my sin which as it hath been my shame so it is through grace and will be the subject of my sorrow that I have walked so disorderly But I hope through great grace by Christ Iesus I have and shall obtain mercy and enjoy favor with the Father and fellowship in the Spirit with the Son and Saints and that henceforth he will shew me for my self the comming in and the going out and fashion of his Temple that henceforth he will sanctifie me and preserve me blameless to the comming of his Son to the praise of the glory of his grace and therefore I beseech you my friends both of Virginia and of my Native Countrey who have seen my out-goings not to be grieved in spirit at my undertaking of this For as I conceive my self bound by duty to undertake this task so I conceived there was a great deal of equity in it both toward the Lord and towards you of Virginia and also you of my Native Countrey that as I have been notoriously evil to the dishonor of God and the discredit of the Gospel before you so I might be notably instrumental if the Lord please to promote his praises in Virginia in the first place and afterward it lyeth upon my thoughts and I do believe it will be accomplished that I shall do the like in my own Native Countrey so that both places shall see the glory of his free grace to me and learn to love and fear believe and close with the Lord of Love and Life I beseech you then without prejudice reeeive these weak exhibitions of my duty and love to my God my Countrey and my Friends and pardon what is amiss and pray for him that would fain be found walking in the truth whilest he is From my Chamber at the Flying-Post in White Fryers London this 6th of October 1653. O. Ll. A Despised VIRGIN beautified OR VIRGINIA benefited AS a skilfull Architector that would erect a lofty edifice and build beautifully for the benefit of the Owner digs deeply to lay the foundation of his Structure or as a wise Physician will not prescribe physick to his Patient till he have seen sure symptoms to know the disease by the first left his building fall and his labour and charge be lost the second left his Patient fail and his reputation be blemished So in this businesse that lierh so strongly upon my spirit to be doing service for the Publick that thereby my God may be honoured the Gospel propagated and the Kingdome of the Lords Christ enlarged I would willingly take the wisest the safest the profitablest and honourablest as to the Publick way the Lord shall lead me to do in doing this work and therefore as concisely as I can I shall endeavour to represent my experiences what I have though of weakest judgment observed to be the disease of that distressed member of this Common-wealth both as to Church Sate And that what are and have been the thoughts of my heart I hope suggested by the Spirit of God for the good of that Countrey for neer these fourteen years as concerning what expedient may be fourd to remedy the distresse of the disconsolate Virgin Countrey Virginia and render her sound and in perfect health therein shewing the beauty that may be expected to be seen in her when she is prepared for and presented a spotlesse Spouse to the Lord Jesus her husband and also the benefit of having such a member annexed to this Common-wealth In the discovery of her disease give me leave to remind you of her Primo-genitors or first Masters of Europoean extract and what have been the successours for the generality thereby we shall get a little light into the originals of her disease and be the better able to give judgement on her and so to prescribe the remedy as the Lord shall in able a poor creature Virginia so stiled and taking her name from the late Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth of happy memcry as a glorious instrument in the hand of God for doing the work of the Lord in her time which title was given her by the first Adventurers as considered to landing and living there in Queen Elizabeths days But the Emergencies of the publick affairs of those times took up the spirits of men from thinking much of that Colony during the reign of the said Queen and the businesse lay dormant till about the years 1607 or 1608. when divers Noblemen Gentlemen and Citizens imbodied themselves in this City of London and made a Virginia Company under the specious pretences of propagating the Gospell and preparing a way to the setting up the Kingdom of Christ Jesus in those American parts and I believe many godly men really