Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	sin_n	soul_n	7,400	5	5.2096	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07774	Philip Mornay, Lord of Plessis his teares For the death of his sonne. Vnto his wife Charlotte Baliste. Englished by Iohn Healey.; Lachrimae. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1609 (1609)	STC 18153; ESTC S112901	15,449	72

himselfe and is he not now seized of that reall inheritance where thou wouldest share with him with all thine heart hath hee not left thee his countrie and the church possessed with as plentifull and as pleasant fruit as such a greene stock as his could possibly bring to perfection yes and GOD himselfe hath layde it vp in his Granary that I thinke makes thee most melancholie because thou thinkest that God hath lost the more absolute vse that thy sonnes farther yeares might haue affoorded him Goe to keepe thy selfe content and let Gods losses lye vpon his owne hand it is in his power out of this heape of stones to rayse himselfe seruants the country souldiers and the Church supporters cannot he fill the heauens with legions of Saints the earth with hoasts of Protectors and his Church with millions of assistants but hee must bee faine to take a corruptible mans direction and stand drawing out the life of this man or that longer then his eternity liketh ah farre bee it from true sence to bee so beesotted Why so then I am satisfied giue mee leaue I will now take the bitte out of my mouth my selfe and plead the cause of the all-sufficient Creator euen against mine owne soule Why doost thou not see then deere wife how all the worlde like a Bowle is ouer-swayed by the ouer strong byas of iniquitie bends despite all opposition to black corruption oh how seculent how pestilent a vapour of sinne drawes euery man in with the first breath hee takes attracting vices as innumerable as Attomes euen in his first moment of respiration and the longer hee liueth to draw his breath the surer foote-hold hee giueth viciousnesse in his foule bosome and settleth the contagion in his soule which the deuill is sure of though he be sencelesse of Sathan hath a beadroll of those impious and daily increasing inhabitants though the poore Land-lord taketh no note of their entrie to possession nor receiues any rent of them but ruine happy hee too few so happy that can bring his action against them before GODS bench or in that celestiall starre-chamber and remooue them from possession by a bill of repentance but few such suites go forward the world comes with one bribe and the flesh with another either too easily GOD knowes can perswade the poore plaintiffe to let his action fall for this flesh let the soule let the spirit come neuer so fresh neuer so zealous neuer so hot in that zeale frō the hand of God it will finde one angle or other in wherein it may sow the seed of sin plant a too fruitefull infection And when the soule is once dipped in worldly delights what should deliuer it from being drowned therein What hold hath any one that is once ouer the shooes in iniquity vpon any thing that may saue him from slipping in ouer the shoulders what priuiledge had the court of heauen granted our sonne more then another had he a lease of his soules life letten him none And wee see and might learne by sight of it that vertue when it is exalted and eleuate if it begin once to drawe damnation in it becometh graduate in the most extreame degree of viciousnesse Yes yes when goodnesse once misseth the true tract and lights into the broade way of blacke destruction it will hardlye heare of any reclaime but maketh the more speede to mischiefe and runnes headlong to euident ruine So then was it not better for our sonne to haue taken paye for a little space in the Campe of Vertue then to haue beene enranked as an olde attendant in the Court of vice and had hee not better haue beene exposed to an houres sharpe toyle then to a yeares subtle temptation Thinke but of him as hee was indeed A youth of an egregious alacritye a penetrating spirit and an vnbounded ayme His vigorous vertue would enter vpon any enterprise and generally the effect would answere his endeauour his valour found no obstacle so obstinate but it would through it and bring glorie through it againe breaking the squadrons of the most sollid oppositions and mounting his honor vpon the rubbish of their ruined forces Now beeing such an one and such hee was indeed his heart lay open to all the assaults of affect of glory desire of renowne you know might soone haue put him out of the pace that vertue had taught him ambition is a great fowler and of exceeding cunning in her baytes why might not hee haue start out and haue slipt into one of her sprindges might not that holy hunger after honor haue turned his wrong side outward and haue led him cleere out of the sight of sobriety in affection yes and this hunger is most commonly an vtter enemie to the temperate diet of vertue and cannot endure to eate any thing that moderation prouideth Besides lofty spirits if they bee really eleuate can neuer brooke the horrible decay of honorable worth in these declining times and this Sunne-set of the world but will sometimes flie out and aduance their spirit in his ful freedome against these ages neglect of the deseruing worthie and then comes porte and power together with their appendants or hangbies and treades out the light of their most glorious lustre Ah this is too true and thus might our sonne haue beene lost had hee liued any longer But indeede true sorrowe will alwaies build vpon false grounds to augment it selfe if it bee not taken vppe in time and if it once gette heade it will haue a reason to shewe for any vnreasonable passion that it shall entertaine In truth it is true For hee that greeueth vnfainedlie greeueth also that any one should hold his griefes cause not sufficient to procure a greater affect of sorrow then hee endureth But tell mee now I pray thee louing wife wouldst thou not haue lost thy sonne no wouldst thou not haue had him transported from this ruined state that earth standeth in vnto that excellence of eeternity that heauen affordeth yes Why now then seeing that thou seest hee hath preuented thine expectation and is gotten vp thether long before thou thoughtst hee should why hast not thou reason to say with the wise man He pleased God and was beloued of him so that where as hee liued amongst sinners hee translated him This was Henock wife a man that was full of the feare of God And hee was taken away least wickednesse should alter his vnderstanding and least deceite should haue beguiled his minde And thus and no otherwise but thus hath our glorious GOD taken away our Sonne like a good Father who seeing his Sonne placed in the broadest beeach of peruersenesse takes him out of danger in time least hee should bee drawne into too euident danger and bee strucke downe by one shot or other from the assaylant enemy The deluge of wickednesse hath almost couered the highest mountaine of Godlinesse and good manners and therefore blessed be God that hath set our son in a