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
A08865	An epistle of sai[n]t Bernarde, called the golden epistle, whiche he se[n]t to a yo[n]g religyous man whom he moche loued. And after the sayd epistle, foloweth four reuelations of Saint Birget; Epistola de perfectione vitae. English	Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153.; Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, ca. 1303-1373. aut; Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Scala perfectionis. aut	1535 (1535)	STC 1915.5; ESTC S108404	15,857	48

reproue he must be sori for him and helpe hī with his prayers and with his ayde and dilygēce and that if nede be before the great men of the worlde for the trewe per fyte contriciō seketh nat that is his but that is his neyghbours And if the contemplatyue man be suche one that he is nat herde with prīces and that it profyteth nat that he go oute of his cell Than be shall pray hertely for them that be in trouble and almightye god that is the beholder of mannes herte for the charytic of hym that prayeth shall tourne the hertes of the people to peace and quietnesse of hym that is in trouble so that he shall either be delyuered out of his trouble or he shall haue pacience sent him of god to suffre it and so his reward shal be doubled Therfore suche clothynge that is to say mekenesse and compassyon muste be in the hert of the cōtemplatyue man for nothynge so myghtely draweth god in to the hert as mekenesse and compassyon of the neighbour doth Thirdly the contēplatyue man must haue mete and drīke for his ghestes for somtyme euyll ghestes do lodge in the herte of the cōtemplatyue mā that is to say whan the herte is drawen fro be holdyng of it self and coueyteth thīgꝭ delectable to se worldly things to haue possessyon of temporall goodes And whan the eares desyre to here his owne honour the flesshe desyreth to delyte in carnall thynges the spyrite leyth excuse of his fraylnesse and that synne is but lyght and whan ther cometh a painfulnesse and a hardnesse to do good bedes and a forgetfulnesse of thingꝭ to come And whan he thinketh his good dedes gret and forgetteth his euyl dedes Agaynst al such ghestes it is necessarye for the contemplatyue man to haue good counsayle and nat to dyssemble as though he were a slepe but that he armed strongely with trewe faithe answere to suche ghestes sayenge thus I woll haue nothinge of themporall goodes but barcly for the sustaynynge of my bodily kynde and I wyl nat spende no hour nor tyme but to the honour of god nor I wyll nat take hede what is fayr or foule in y e worlde ne what is plesant or dysplesaunt to the flesshe or sauoury or nat sauoury to the mouthe but to the pleasure of god and helthe of my soule for I wolde nat lyue one hour but to the honour of god Suche a wyll is meate and drike for the ghestes that come and that answere extincteth and putteth away all inordinate delytes and plesures of the worlde and of the flessh Fourthly the contemplatyue man must haue fyre to warm hys ghestes and to gyue them lyght this fyre is the hete of the holy ghoste it is impossyble any man to leaue his owne wyll or to forsake the carnall loue of his frendes or the loue of rychesse but through the instynte and here of the holy ghost Also the coutemplatyue man howe holy and perfyte so euer he be may nat of hym selfe beginne nor contynue in good lyf with out helpe of grace in the holy ghost Therfore that the cōtemplatyue mā may set a lyght before hys ghestes Fyrst let him thinke thus Almightye god hath created me that I shulde honoure hym aboue all thynges And in honourynge him that I shulde loue him drede him and he was borne of a vyrgyn to teache me the way to heuen and that I shulde folowe that way in all mekenesse And with his deth he opened the yates of heuen that I shulde wyth great desyre hast me thyder Also the contemplatyue man must examyn dylygently al his dedes all his thoughtꝭ and all his affectyons that is to say how he hath offended god and howe pacyently god suffreth man and howe many wayes he calleth man vnto hī such thoughtes and such gh●stes of the contemplatyue man be in maner but as they were a slepe but they be illumynate with the fyre of the holy ghost the whiche fyre than cometh in to the hert whan the contemplatyue man thinketh how resonable it is to serue god and whan he thynketh that he had leuer suffre all payne thā wyttyngly to prouoke god to wrath by whose goodnesse his soul is create and made and is also redemed with his precyous blode Than also the herte hath here of this heuēly fyre that is the holy ghost whan y e soule thīketh discerneth to what intente euery ghest that is to say euery thought cometh And whether it moue the mynde to coueyte ioye ꝑpetuall or transytory and that he leue no thought vndiscussed ne vncorrected wyth drede of god Therfore that this fyre may be gotten whā it is gotten that it may be safely kepte The contemplatyue man must ley to drie stickes that is to say he must dilygently take hede of the motyons of the flesshe that it rebell nat agaynst the spirite And he must put to all his dilygence that the workes of pytie and good prayers may be deuoutly encreased wherwith the holy ghost may haue delyte but he muste specyally knowe and consyder that where a fyre is made in a close vessel that hath no auoydaunce anone the fyre goth out and the vessell waxeth colde So it is wyth the contemplatyue man if he wolde nat lyue to no thinge elles but that he myghte do honoure to god it is expedyent that his mouth be opened that y e flame of his charite go forthe Thā is the mouthe opened whan by his spekīg whiche procedeth of feruent charitie he getteth spirituall children to god but the contemplatyue man must take good hede that he opē hys mouth to preche wher good men shal be made more feruent and where euyll mē may be a mended where right wysenesse may be encreased euyl customes maye be put away For the apostell Paule somtyme wolde haue spoken but the holy ghoste dyd prohibyte him and so somtyme he helde his peace and whan tyme conuenyente came he speke and somtyme he vsed softe wordes and another tyme more sharper wordes and alway he ordred hys words to the honour and glorie of god and to the confortinge and strengthuyng of the faithe And if the contemplatyue man maye nat preache but he hath good wyll and connynge to prech and lacketh good herers he must do as the fore dothe the which goth about many mountayns and sercheth with his fete in many places and where he fyndeth the softest place and most apte for hī there he maketh a denne to rest hym in So the contemplatyue man must assay with wordes with examples and with good praiers the hertes of many people and where he fyndeth the hertes most apte to here the wordes of god ther he must tary in coūsaylyng and in enducyng the people to god all that he can The contemplatyue mā also must labour al that he can that conuenyent auoydaunce may be had for his flame for y e gretter that the flame is the mo be illumyned and made hote therby Than