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	son_n	work_v	10,642	5	8.4504	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07554	The misterie of iniquitie Plainely layd open by a lay-Christian, no profest diuine, out of truth in humanity, and rules of naturall reason. Whereby the world may see, read and vnderstand, the proud and vaine comparison of a cardinalles red-hat, and a kings golden crowne. Alwayes prouided, in reading, read all, or read nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1611 (1611)	STC 17934; ESTC S114600	61,425	60

reasons as formerly haue beene toucht and laid downe Now such beeing the State of Traficke in the Out-Ports at least fit for the Graue and Wise to knowe and consider the reformation whereof though none but Authority may promise performe Yet as necessity compels so common duty makes it lawfull for all to wish and further Vnto whome therefore the Port-Townes aforesaid for themselues their next neighbour Citties Townes Parishes and Friends in all humble Submission by way of remembrance exhibit this petition Qui Reipub. Cicero offic lib. 1. praesunt Duo praecepta teneant vnum vt Vtilitatem Ciuium sic tueantur vt quioquid agant ad Eam referant obliti Commodorum suorum Alterum vt totum Corpus Reipub. current ne dum Partem aliquam tuentur reliquas deserant Qui autem Parti consulunt Partemque negligunt Seditiones Discordias inducunt Nam ex co fit vt alij Populares alij Optimi alicuius studiosi videantur Pauci Vniuersorum The Out-Port hauing ended appeald their CVSTOMERS and cald them for witnesse Whose Coats broken at Elbowes and Hose out at heeles had made them retyre and were loath to come forward But after TRAFFICKE and the OVT-PORTS as the CVSTOMES came in Question were sought for and found to be missing the CVSTOMERS by consequence were commanded to come in who like Poore Schollers with their Books in their hands but daring not to speake by way of Accompt frame Cyphers with their Pens and make signes in this manner If Happinesse be that State which all men so desire al ayming at the least at their highest blisse and Religion and Iustice our furest stayes to stand to and safest helpes to finde it That is to say If Religion by Sanctifying our Wittes and by reforming our Willes to cleere our Vnderstandings belay our Summum Bonum agaynst our Ghostly Enemies Sinne Death and Sathan by faithlesse Desperation And Iustice by protecting our Liuings our Liberties our Lyues our Honours and the Peace of all the Land against Nymrodising Tyrants and all their Adherents by Violence and Obtrusion I meane The Vse of Religion If Religion serue to settle the Tranquilitie of our Minds by holy Contemplations to fill our Soules with Ioy by Faith in Iesus Christ to encrease our Heauenly comforts by the Word and Sacraments to seperate our Callings by the name and style of Christians and to edifie the Church by Doctrine good Life And Iustice serue to warrant the Vse and Perpetuity of all our worldly wealth by honest conuersions The Vse of Iustice to confirm our Christian Liberty by Grace and Obedience to prolong our Liues by 〈◊〉 Loue and Loyalty to maintaine our Credits by Charity among men and to protect our Peace both in Church and Commonweale by Piety and Probytie maintaining as it were a kind of free Trafficke and mutuall Commerce betweene the Throne of God in Heauen and his Church vpon Earth by Doctrine and Prayer for the vse of Goodnesse Alheauen by Inspyrings downwaids and all holy Desires vpwards being as Angels or Marchants betweene God and Vs In a word The End of Religion If Religion serue to strengthen the meeke humble minded or leaue to Reprobation the proud aad peruerse in the vaine Immaginations of their obstinate harts The End of Iustice And Iustice to protect the possession fruition of all our Meum and Tuum as well in Tythes as in Tributes that our Fayth aboue with Deity belaying our Summum Bonum our Charity in humanity might worke out our Happinesse by the Medium CHRIST-IESVS both GOD and MAN Fayth I say apprehending the Mercies of the Father for the Merites of the Sonne by the Working of the Spirit the Fountaine of al Grace and Mother of Obedience nay If GOD be GOODNES and GOODNES be TRVTH and TRVTH be to be beleeued as Christians are taught the Comforts out of Question must needes bee very great where Men may dwell in houses whose foundations are laide on such assured grounds In which regard forsooth wee poore despised Schollers disgraced Out-port Customers want words to set forth our Ioyes and Conceiptes of the Goodnesse of GOD and Bounteous Disposition of our KING and sacred SOVERAIGNE for the stayes of Religion and Distributiue Iustice in these our happy daies but were those * The High Censtable and Earle Marshall of England Iudges in the Court of CHIVALRIE Patrons of Honor whom Mercury should scrue by APOLLO found out and the rooses of our Schooles made Wind-tight and Water-tight in the breaches and wants of Commutatiue-Right we would then write Verses in praise and commendation of our Prince and our Peeres sing Alleluya to the Great KING of Heauen For Iustice being Commutatiue aswell as Distributine Commutatiue Iustice the same we call Trafficke and Traffick the high way that leades vs all to Blisse so it is most GRAVE and most WISE in HIGHEST AVTHORITY that whereas by the Rules of Religion and Distributiue Iustice there eyther are or should be aswell Tributes of Homage as Attributes of Honor Heues●um Vtile transcendently due to Soueraigne Sublimity euen in Earthly States as Gods among Men that Honestum on the righte hand and Vtile on the left holding hands still together Maiesty and Soueraignty might be seene and subsist both in Greatnes and Bounty by the Bounds of their Reuennewes namely Customes and Subsidies Customes of their owne by personall Right as wreathed to their Crownes by Necessity it selfe for their Greatnesse and Honor And Subsidies of their Subiects as Tokens and Effectes of Loyalties Free-will The First to demonstrate to the eie of the world that formall Distinction and ordinary obseruance that sets the true difference betweene Soueraignty and Subiection for reciproke Good of eyther The Second to expresse the frankenesse of Loue that ought to proceede from the hearts of their owne and peculiar People for Subiects weale In a word The First as Tythes due to Deity so Needefull of themselues as not to be defrauded much lesse denyde The last as Oblations of Denotions so tide to Free-will as may be required but none may compell And whereas moreouer Customes in this kinde and Subsidies both as honourable Effects of that waighty Cause Trafficke whose Actions being conuersant about no meaner Obiects thē Soueraignes Greatnes and Subiects Wealth require Collectors of absolute trust men truely Religious and honest indeede as Customers are euery way entended to bee And the Place of a Customer in that respect held a Function so Honourable or Honest at the least and a Charge of such import as none should obtrude on at aduenture or vndertake in Iest but such as Nature hath fitted and Authority admitted in lawfull manner All this notwithstanding most sacred IDEAS of MAIESTY and WISEDOME since contempt of their Persons Of the Rank Reputation which Publicans aliâs Customers belde among the ancient Romains euen when the Empyre was greatest and best goue●ned readbut 〈…〉 〈◊〉 where be