Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	fire_n	ghost_n	holy_a	6,369	5	5.6726	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00819	A sermon preached at the Court at Greenewich the XXIIII. of May, 1591. By Geruase Babington Doctor of Diuinitie	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1591 (1591)	STC 1094; ESTC S100575	18,010	44

all the world but in Israel In déeds that he would thence forth offer neither burnt sacrifice nor offring vnto any other God saue vnto the Lord. Both words and déeds a duetie swéete performed as it should be in any man For what may the Lord more iustly require for his mercies and benefits then a thankfull heart Performe this and performe but duetie yet performe this and performe what God estéemeth highly and what godly men haue euer performed zealously Iacob the great Patriarch when he considered what he had béene and what he was and by whose meanes he was what he was how brake out the flame of such swéete féeling into praise and prayer saying O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac c. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant for with my staffe came I ouer this Iorden and now haue I gotten two bands c. God make them that haue gotten two bands with Iacob beginning but with their staffe as thankfull to the giuer as Iacob was What felt Dauid when he cried Quid retribuam What shall I giue what shall I giue to the Lord for his benefites bestowed vpon me When againe he cried O my soule praise the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name O my soule praise the Lord and forget not forget not forget not his benefites which gaue thee pardon for thy sinnes c. That is which hath done this and done that and done a thousand things for thée When againe he cryed O Salomon my sonne know the God of thy father That is that preserued thy father exalted thy father set vp thy father so greatly so graciously so mercifully and so bountifully as euer man was Know him I say my sonne and serue him with a perfite heart and a willing minde c. What felt the blessed virgine Marie when she cryed My soule doth magnifie the Lord c. with thousands mo I might name euer féeling and euer thankfull for mercies receiued The contrarie to wit a dull and dead heart in this behalfe is as odious on the other side and as damnable as this is swéete and acceptable witnes the Lord Iesus one for all and once for all when he said Were there not tenne clensed where are then the other nine Behold there is not found that returneth to giue thankes but this one As if he should haue said O sinne of sinnes vgly and monstrous so manie cleansed and so few thankfull One writeth a Commentarie vpon the booke of Wisdome and there in the end telleth certaine stories moralizing vpon thē amongst which this is one That a certaine woman named Nephastes being with child went into the Temple of the gods to aske what it might be that she went withall Vnto which desire of hers one of the gods answered Faetus tuus filius est dabo pulchritudinem Thy child is a sonne and I will giue him beautie Another Faetus tuus filius est dabo fortitudinem Thy child is a sonne and I will giue it strength The third Faetus tuus filius est dabo diuitias Thy child is a sonne and I will giue him riches Thrée great gifts beautie fortitude and riches yet saith the storie the mother made a truth at all these because her hart wished somwhat else that was not named to wit fauour of great personages and long life Which when the gods saw to reward vnthankfulnesse with a condigne punishment they chaunged their giftes and he that said he would giue beautie gaue the child when it was borne the head of an ape he that said he would giue strength gaue it for hands goose féete and for armes goose legges the third that said he would giue riches Dedit excoriatum gaue it so bare that it had not so much as any skin vpon it Thus was vnthankfulnes punished and be if storie or fable or whatsoeuer the drift of it is Gods truth as true as God that vnthankfulnes is odious to the Lord. Naman therefore a blessed man that had such a féeling heart of Gods goodnes towards him But was he onely thankful No I say but with an edge he was thankfull that also is to be noted His words haue an emphasis in them and a vehemencie No God no God no God but the God of Israel I wil neuer sacrifice to any else neuer neuer Yea God be mercifull vnto me when I shall but bow downe in the house of Rimmon by reason of the king my master leaning vpon my shoulder God I say be mercifull vnto me and forgiue but euen thus much declining from this my God that hath thus healed me c. All which words we sée haue heate in them and procéede from a heart that is throughly touched Away then saith this example with all formall and frosen thanks such as commeth not from the hart and therfore hath scarse power to come out of the mouth but halfe cleaueth in the téeth Such neuer God loued such neuer Gods children vsed or liked Mad Machiauel talketh in this as in other dueties of religion of a séeming and not a being but as good a politician as he and farre better saith O dogma ad principis perniciem pariter subditorū O rule tending to the subuersion both of Prince and people Whatsoeuer men say the truth of God saith thankfulnes to God is to be perfourmed not in shew but in truth not for forme but with féeling as here did Naman For what is that fire that the Lord Iesus baptizeth with all is it colder then water Why came the holy ghost vpon the Apostles like tongues of fire Surely these places tell vs that heat in heart and heat in tongue is whersoeuer Gods spirite ruleth and if where there is some warmth that is a lukewarmnes yet there the Lord threatneth destruction and confusion saying He will vomit such out of his mouth how much more where there is none at all no not euen so much as a lukewarmnes but onely a séeming to sooth the world withall and no more Far therefore from all Gods children be this wicked paradox and in stéede thereof this example of Naman thus vehemently féeling speaking togither with that most certaine and sure truth that Religiosa pietas solum immobile fundamentum Religious pietie not seeming pietie is the onely immouable foundation euer to any man Thus was he thankfull towards God Lastly is to be considered his thankfulnes also towards the Prophet togither with the earnestnes thereof againe and so to end His thankfulnes to the Prophet is set downe in these words I pray thee take a reward of thy seruant testifying thereby that his heart felt with a swéete tast the benefite done vnto him by his ministerie a thing which likewise God euer required and men of vertue haue euer perfourmed as