Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01647	A relation of the fearefull estate of Francis Spira in the yeare, 1548.	Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660.	1638 (1638)	STC 1178.5; ESTC S118976	22,974	142

himselfe up Behold said he I am strong yet by little and little I decay and consume and my servants would faine preserve this weary life but at length the will of God must be done and I shall perish miserably as I deserve rejoyce yee righteous in the Lord blessed are you whose hearts the Lord hath mollified Then after some pause It is wonderfull I earnestly desire to pray to God with my heart yet I cannot I see my damnation and I know my remedy is onlie in Christ yet I cannot set my selfe to laie hold on it such are the punishments of the damned they confesse what I confesse they repent of their losse of heaven they envie the Elect yet their repentance doth them no good for they cannot mend their waies As he was thus speaking hee observed divers flies that came about him and some lighted on him Behold said hee now also Belzebub comes to his banquet you shall shortly see my end and in mee an example to manie of the justice judgement of God About this time came in two Bishops with divers Schollers of the Vniversity one of them being Paulus Vergerius having observed Spira more then any other beeing continually conversant with him told him his estate was such as rather stood in need of Prayer then advice and therefore desired him to pray with him in the Lords Prayer Spira consented and he began Our Father which art in heaven then breaking forth into teares he stopped but they said it is well your griefe is a good signe I bewaile said he my miserie for I perceive I am forsaken of God and cannot call to him from my heart as I was wont to doe yet let us goe on said Vergerius Thy Kingdome come O Lord said Spira bring mee also into this Kingdome I beseech thee shut mee not out Then comming to those words Give us this day our daily bread he added O Lord I have enough and abundance to feed this carkeise of mine but there is another bread I humbly begge the bread of thy grace without which I know I am but a dead man Leade us not into temptation seeing Lord that I am brought into temptation helpe mee Lord that I may escape the enemie hath overcome helpe mee I beseech thee to overcome this cruell Tyrant These things hee spake with a mournfull voyce the teares trickling down abundantly and expressing such affection and passion as turned the bowels of those there present with griefe and compunction they then turning to Spira said You know that none can call Christ Iesus the Lord but by the Holie Ghost you must therefore think of your selfe according to that soft affection which you expresse in your prayers inferring thereby that God hath not wholly cast you off or bereaved you of his Spirit utterly I perceive said Spira that I call on him to my eternall damnation for I tell you againe it is a new and unheard of example that you finde in me If Iu das said they had but outlived his dayes which by nature hee might have done hee might have repented and Christ would have received him to mercie and yet hee sinned most grievously against his Master which did so esteeme of him as to honour him with the dignitie of an Apostle and did maintaine and feed him Hee answered Christ did also feed and honour mee neither yet is my fault one jot lesse then that of his because it is not more honour to bee personally present with Christ in the flesh then to bee in his presence now by illumination of his holy Spirit and besides I denie that ever Iudas could have repented how long soever he had lived for grace was quite taken from him as it is now from mee O Spira said they you know you are in a spirituall desertion you must therefore not beleeve what Satan suggests hee was ever a lyar from the beginning and a meere Impostour and will cast a thousand lying fancies into your minde to beguile you withall you must rather beleeve those whom you judge to be in a good estate and more able to discerne of you then your selfe beleeve us and wee tell you that God will be mercifull unto you O here is the knot said Spira I would I could beleeve But I cannot Then he began to reckon up what fearefull dreames and visions hee was continually troubled withall that hee saw the divels come flocking into his Chamber and about his bed terrifying him with strange noises that these were not fancies but that hee saw them as really as the standers by and that besides these outward terrours hee felt continually a racking torture of his minde and a continuall butchery of his conscience being the very proper pangs of the damned wights in hell Cast these fancies said Gribauldus these are but illusions humble your selfe in the presence of God and praise him The dead praise not the Lord answered he nor they that goe down into the pit wee that are drowned in despaire are dead and are already gone downe into the pit what hell can there be worse then desperation or what greater punishment the gnawing worme unquenchable fire horrour confusion and which is worse then all desperation it selfe continually tortures me and now I count my present estate worse then if my soule separated from my body were with Iudas and the rest of the damned and therefore I now desire rather to be there then thus to live in the body One being present repeated certaine words out of the Psalmes If thy children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments I will visite their transgressions with rods and their iniquities with stripes neverthelesse my loving kindnesse I will not utterly take from them nor suffer my faithfulnesse to faile Marke this O Spira my Covenant I will not breake These promises said Spira belong onely to the elect which if tempted may fall into sin but are againe lifted up and recovered out as the Prophet saith though he fall he shall not be utterly cast downe for the Lord uphouldeth him Therefore Peter could rise for he was Elected but the reprobate when they fall cannot rise againe as appeares in Cain Saule and Iudas God deales one way with the Elect and another way with Reprobates The next day hee prayed with them in the Latine tongue and that with excellent affection as outwardly appeared blessed bee God said Vergerius these are no signes of eternall reprobation you must not O Spira seeke out the secret counsels of Gods election and reprobation for no man can know so long as hee lives whether by his good or bad deeds hee bee worthy of Gods love or anger doe you not know that the Prophet David complained that God had cast off his Soule I know all this quoth Spira I know the mercies of God are infinite and doe surpasse the sinnes of the whole world and that they are effectuall to all that beleeve but this faith and this hope is the