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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67879	The life and death of VVilliam Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterburie: beheaded on Tower-Hill, Friday the 10. of January. 1644. I. Here is a brief narration of his doings all his life long faithfully given-out, first, that his sayings at his death may not be a snare to the perdition of souls. II. His doings and sayings being compared and weighed together, his sayings are found infinitely too light; yet of weight sufficient to presse every man to make a threefold use from all, of infinite concernment to his eternall soul. By E.W. who was acquainted with his proceedings in Oxford; was an eye and eare witnesse of his doings and sayings in his courts here at London; and other places under his dominion.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3496A; ESTC R6515	29,164	53

can do it But then thou must look to this as thou doest regard thine imortall soule That thou doest speake-out these words hartily intirely and indeed when thou sayest My God then thou canst say Whom I serve If that followes not no comfort followes But if thou canst say Whom I serve indeed then maist thou say My God indeed else not My God and My service to him must go together He tells us in the next place of the Imaginations which the people are setting up Then the people do as he and such blinde guides taught them the way to worship God after the imaginations of their owne hearts Then he tells us of following the Bleating of Jeroboams Calves An horrible Blasphemy But a very fit Paralel for of no Arch-Bishop it may bee said so truly as of him That hee as Ieroboam set up a Calvish worship and made all Israel to sin In the same page he acknowledgeth himsele a grievous sinner many waies and this he does in all humility All humility There is no humlity at all Where are the Actings of an humble spirit Where are the Breakings of his heart with sorrow Where is he condemning judging loathing himselfe for all his abominations Where are his thirstings after God! Reader beleeve the Word of God and what His Faithfull servants have said touching this which he calls all humility where all humility is there is all this forementioned where there is none of this there is no humility none at all No hee made an acknowledgment of his sins in all the pride of his heart not as a poore penitent as he calles himselfe but as a proud impenitent person who had an heart that could not nay would not repent Reader I speak this for thy profit therfore before I passe on I must bespeak thee again and I do charge thee before the living God and as thou dost tender thine immortall Soul read over those words again which I have said rather the mouth of God saith in Reference to his acknowledgement in all humility And adde thereunto That where humility is there all known sins are Confessed distinctly humbled for and repented of bitterly bitterly Where there is all humility sin will be as bitter hearbes indeed bitter in the mouth and bitter in the soul A man all humbled tastes sin now as the Gall of Aspes which was before as sugar under the tongue and whereas he gloried in his shame before now he loaths himlelfe for that shame What thiukest thou now of the Bishops aknowledgment of his sin in all humility Consider well on it and make answer here as before God and as thou regardest thine immortall Soule Now proceed and heare what he saies I have upon this sad occasion ransackt every Corner of mine heart and yet I thanke God I hawe not found any sins there deserving Death by any knowne lawes of this Kingdome These Lawes are not so well knowne to us But this wee know understanding in our Measure the Law of our God That this man was put to death by as knowne Laaw as all Judah put Mattan Baals Preist to death who was the Queenes Favorite in all probability 〈◊〉 to her Councells and had his hands and his head acting and contriving all her Murthers and severall Practices against the Peeres and Princes of Judah and complotting with her Her at that time how to divolve the Crowne of Judah to Israel that the Light of Judah might be quite extinct All this is more than probable But certaine it was This Priest was heart and Hand for Ahab had his house and the cursed waies thereof and hee had scattered his wayes His horrible Idolatreis as he could from Corner to Corner By the same known Law that this Mattan was put to Death this Archbishop was put to Death And the Law we read Full out Deut. 13. As for the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome we leave it to them that know them better than we do and are preparing to give the World a full and ample Satisfaction It is abundantly sufficiently for us to know the Law of our God toughing that matter Read on in the same Page where he saith though the Sentence lyeth heavy upon me yet I am as quiet within as I ever was in my life I did not beleeve him though yet it might be so For his heart was as Nabals was a Stone And the Devill like a Strong-man held his Habitation there till the last and there we read all things are at peace but it is a cursed peace If he had lifted up his voice and cryed for the Spirit of Christ to come-in unto him to convince him of his finnes to set them in order before his eyes in a way of mercy then there had been trouble and a blessed trouble though no rest had been to his flesh nor quiet to his spirit because of his sinnes Certian it is when Christ by His Spirit commeth into the Soule Trouble will be there as was when he was born King of the Iewes then 〈◊〉 was trubled and all Ierusalem with him The point is The spirit of God conuinceth of fin first and so causeth trouble before He convinceth of Righteousnesse so causing Quiet Rest and Peace I see my papers fill apace I will hasten yet we will examine his comfort in the next words An empty one God knowes That other Bishops were hanged and beheaded too before him That is true enough and yet not half so many suffered that most shamefull death as deserved the same We hope his Brethren in iniquity shall have their deservings anon But he did almost as presumptuoufly as he had done in the choise of his Text to make 〈◊〉 the Baptist and Saint Cyprian no Archbishop and the first Martyr Saint Stephen Saint Iames too Saint Paul also all these paralels now comparing them with himself That he doth not he sayes and God forbid he should so he sayes also he will raise a comfort to himselfe from those great Saints and servants of God who were laid-up in their severall times as he must be that is his comfort But now let the living man know for the time is passed with him That if he look for comfort from these mens sufferings at his death then he must suffer for the same cause the cause makes the Martyr and his life must be as theirs was and that is matter of comfort indeed for they were all for God His House and His Houshold and the Lawes thereof This man was full set and his hand and heart full bent against all these God and Gods House and Houshold and Lawes there In the same Page we may reade his mutterings against the Honourable Assemblies in Parliament now That they will bring-in the Romans i. e. Romish Religion by the same meanes they seek to root it out Well I like the proceedings so much the better because such a man as he the worst of a thousand hath scandalized the proceedings thereof casting

was falling into the pit himself had digged to the height of arrogancie impudencie c He laid the shame upon the Worthies of the Lord whom he calls the people that he might call them Egyptians and might be believed That the people hurried him into the Red Sea of bloud as once the Egiptians did the Israel of God But I prevent my self I have concluded too briefly the History of his Life what his Doings were all along Now I come to his sayings at the houre of his Death which every man has heard or read and some are 〈◊〉 by it to the perdition of their soule Simple men indeed and very ignorant who can be taken with such sayings which argue nothing but impudencie and arrogancie with eyes and eares and an heart shut-up and a conscience scared all which will appear presently through-out his whole Speech when wee have pondered it in our own hearts But I must tell you as my eares told me what the simple and ignorant people said at the hearing of his words and satisfie them if I can They say A. 1 They will believe a Dying man addressing himselfe to give-up his Account to God He will be serious now and lay-open his conscience before the world which he must open presently before the Lord God Almighty B. 1 Probable so and but probable for certain it is some men not serious have died as he died with an horrible lye on his tongue It is a serious thing to die for then the soul lancheth forth into the Ocean of Eternity and if the thread of life be cut off in wrath life runnes forth into an everlasting bottome there to abide under Wrath for ever And yet all men are not serious at the point of death Nor could this man be so who all his life long was serious in this how he might cast dishonors upon God and good men And secondly 2 For his conscience we heard what that was pastfeeling But let this be remembred too 1 That it is the manner of a stout and proud sinner such was he so to tender his honour with men and his name that it may not Rot and be left to posteritie for a curse as to justifie himself to the death that men may not say he died as a foole dies Though now so they will say indeed And so I could retort his own words he spake to another purpose veniunt Romani for that which he feared and would have prevented is come upon him 2 That it is the glory of the Divell to hold fast and full possession of a man to the last period of his time and render his faithfull servant as he can himselfe a seeming Angell of light at his Death Such like proud sinners were Becket an Arch-Bishop or rather as this was an Arch-Traitor And Garnet an Arch-Traitor too against God and His King for he was a Iesuit A. 2 It is said The man is faln now to his own Master let the Dead alone and his words die with him B. It were more than injustice so to do it were impiety To let such words die which fret and corrupt like a Gangrene Besides it is impossible for as our doings are as seeds cast into the ground which dye not there but to live again and we must look upon them and these look us in the face in after time So our Actions or doings and so our words or sayings also these cannot dye specially not the words of a Dying man his Death gives them life so as they have the quickest touch upon the Ear and the more quickening power in the heart because he that now speakes shall speak no more for ever And this the Dying man knew very well and accordingly had prepared himself probably more at that time to preach after his manner than to die I was an eare witnesse how effectually That dying mans Sermon as we call it wrought upon the hearers who counted themselves Discreet men But sure I am in such a concourse of people the greatest number are not so discreet And for their sakes as I have set down his Doings so shall I his sayings that the Reader with me may ponder them together and may not be deceived in a matter of so high concernment relating to an eternall condition either of happinesse or woe forever I know some looked upon upon him as the saddest object that ever they beheld And truly I think my selfe was one And some looked him as an humble penitent for no other reason but because he said so and so they were infinitely mistaken as will appear by and by These things premised I come to his speech which some mis-call a sermon Call it so if they will a Bishops sermon Such as I have ordinarily heard at the Court not a word to the Text but after the old manner turning head upon the Scriptures of God This strikes terrour to the hearts of Court-Parasites Preachers I must not call them whose manner is to chuse a Text and then abuse it fearefully as this Arch-Bishop did at Court I know not how often But looke upon his Text now it is his Text and his Pulpit and the Preacher too and with all these Remember O thou Amaziah thou living man who hast taught thy mouth to flatter and Blaspheme so did this Arch-Bishop at the Court And so he did upon the Scaffold taking this Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 1 2. And making it a Paralel that the standers-by might beleeve that hee had the same ground of comfort his Lord-Christ had in induring the Crosse and might as his Lord did despise the shame for the joy was set before him An horrible presuption The like cannot be paraleld in any story Proceeded to the context Iesus despised the shame for me God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him For him Reade his life he was put to that open shame and yet not shame enough for his horrible sinnes impieties and iniquities and Blasphemies against God and good men Notwithstanding read his confidence My God whom I serve It was Pauls confidence upon the great waters that the mighty flood should not hurt him It was this mans confidence also in appearance That he should be delivered from this sea of blood whrerinto he hurried himselfe for God is his God and Him he served saies he Reader that you may not be mistaken read his life now and how he served God Then enquire of every man you meet whether he can tell you any piece of good service which he did to God or his Church all his life time What discervices he did every man can tell Reader though I passeon yet stay thou upon these words My God whom I serve These will be thy Stay and thy Staffe when thou art falling into thy grave and addressing thy self to make thy appearance before the judge of all the world These words will bear up thy Fainting spirit then as upon the wings of an Eagle else nothing