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
A01869	A rumor of warres among the times and signes of peace A sermon preached at Hamsted, in Middlesex, the 6. of September 1608. By William Bailey.	Bailey, William, of Stapleford Abbat, Essex.	1608 (1608)	STC 1201; ESTC S117269	13,582	57

Drawers of water at the least or rather because wee are not ty'de to keepe our othes and couenants with sinnes let vs take them and their children by the heeles and dash out their braines against the stones Exo If Moyses had not slaine that impure Egyptian d. 2. the poore Ebrewe had had no rest If those fiue wicked Nations had not beene destroied before the Iewes had seated themselues in the Land of Canaan where had beene their peace Saul fauored Agag but it was with the losse of his kingdome Seeing therefore the case is so dangerous let Agag bee slaine yea let Achan bee slaine expell the Canaanits kill the Epyptian Let vs slaie our lusts and concupiscence mortifie our flesh resist the diuell destroie the wickednesse of our gain-saying and rebellious hearts Oh how blessed shall wee bee if wee doe thus doubtlesse wee shall possesse our soules in peace whiles we liue and end our daies in the ioy of the Holy Ghost The portion of time that is cut out for vs in this world is but short and vncertaine And what a follie is it then to liue in such a sort in which wee dare not die The house wherein our soules dwell Ecelesi 12. threatneth our ruine on euery side The a Hands keepers thereof do tremble and the b Legges stronge men bowe themselues the c Teeth Grinders cease because they are few and the windowes of the eyes grow dimme seeing therefore it cannot long continue but fall it will and must let vs bee carefull to prouide for our selues an other house euen the house of a quiet and good conscience Our bodie is but as a Tent or Tabernacle which must bee pitched 1. Cor. 51. heere and there and remooued from place to place in the war-fare of this life but our conscience is our house and palace in which when the troublesome war-fare of this life is at an end wee must take our rest Ber de interiori Domo therefore hee warreth well indeed as Bernard speaketh that so fighteth in his body against sinne that hee also build vp an house of peace and comfort for his soule Thus haue I drawne and presented my waters vnto you and if you desire to drinke of any besides those of the Well of Beth-lehem I hope you will taste of these also I compare not the droppes of my smaller Springs with the streames of those profound and Christall Fountaines of Bethel questionlesse they are drawne with great labour and paines 2 Sam. 23.16 and many times with the ieopardie of their dearest liues for which cause perhaps yee powre them with Dauid vpon the earth and yee drinke them not These are none such therefore they desire though they deserue worse a better entertainement Courser fare amongst your dainty delicates sometimes may gette a welcome and grosser meate may prooue profitable now and then at least thus farre vt cum pro fastidio sumitur saith Gregorie ad subtiliores epulas auidiùs redeatur Gre. in prefatione in Hom. super Ezechiclem that when you haue fedde on them vntill you loath you may returne with a better appetite to the dainties you loue The Lord in his mercie grant that our soules may still bee fedde with the wholesome bread of the simple and sauing word of God not made sowre with the leauen of mans witte an offering not to be offered to the Lord but seasoned and sweetned with the blessing of his sanctifying Spirit Leuit. 2.11 that it may become a sauoure of eternall life vnto euery one of our soules for Iesus Christ his sake to whome with the Father and the holy Ghost three persons but one onely God let praises be giuen by Angels and by men and by all his creatures in heauen and in earth for euermore Amen