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
A02883	The seconde parte of the Domesticall or housholde sermons for a godly housholder, to his childre[n] and familie: compyled by the godly learned man Christopher Hegendorffine, doctor most necessarye for all faythefull housholders: now first translated out of laten in to English by Henry Reginalde.; Domestycal or householde sermons. Part 2	Hegendorph, Christoph, 1500-1540.; Reginald, Henry, fl. 1548-1549.	1549 (1549)	STC 13022; ESTC S113439	23,987	67

that the holy ghost is god as heauen all thyng whiche is in heauen was made by hym Psalme Cxxxviii Whyther shall I god from the spirite And whyther shal I flie frō thy face It is in no creatures power for to be in all places or to fulfyll all the world but that pertayneth only to God the creator Furthermore that the holie ghost is very god these places may satisfy you for this tyme of the Godhed of y ● holy gost Now I come to the belief in y ● whiche we say I beleue in the holy gost with the whiche woordes I saye that I professe to beleue not onely that the holy ghoste is god with true god y ● father and very god the sonne and for to come forth of them bothe but also maketh in me that thyng that his name doth sygnifye truely that he doth sanctifye me with what meanes that is done y ● nexte sentences of the belefe do declare But truely to beleue in the holy ghoste is to beleue that our hartes are led by hym are styrred by him are moued to beleue the ghospell of Iesu Christ and that by hym we are broughte to the knowledge of the father and Christ and by hym ●e folow Christ our lord and our defender from all kynde of bondage For no man ●●● beleue at any time eyther the gospel or can by any meanes beleue christ to be his lord onles it be geuē him by y ● holye gost Therfore y ● congregatiō s●●geth in a song Now we beseche the holy ghost y ● first he wil geue vs a true faithe that he wil kepe vs before we come to an end whē we cōehome out of this life full of misery Lordhaue mercy on vs where y● here deere childrē y ● right faith both in y ● gospel to be asked of the holy ghost and Christ Corint .xij. No man can say Lord Iesus but by the holy gost To be short the holy ghost is the same spirite by whō our heauenly father bothe woorketh all thyng in vs and doth quicken thē in vs. And here the congregation doth syngagayne of the holy ghost Withoute the holy ghoste there is nothyng in manne and nothyng is without synne Wherefore welbeloued chyldren when eyther ye wil heare the word of god or doo any thing pray ye to Christ y ● he would send vnto you y ● holy ghost y ● whatsoeuer ye shal here or do y ● ye may both heare it ● do it luckely and happily And first we must desire christ y ● the holy gost may not leaue vs so long as ●e be in this worlde ▪ but at all tymes he maye be chiefly present with vs that he may defend us from the manyfold snares of the deuell preserue our hertes that they beyng alway intente and beeholdyng onely Iesus Christ our sauiour may not bee troubled with any thing contrarye to his commaundement So be it The thirtenth domesticall sermon to their chyldren of Christes Churche IN the last sermon welbeloued childrē ye haue herd that to beleue in the holye ghost is nothyng els then to beleue that the holy gost is very god with verye God the father and very god the sonne and that he doth make us verily holye euen as his holye name doeth signifie and nowe ye shall heare how by the holy gost we ar made holy and what thynges appertayn vnto him from the first beginning of y ● world and what appertaineth to hym euen to the end of the world This foloweth in the belefe I beleue the holy churche the communion of samtes Here ye oughte to bee admony shed wherefore we saye here I beleue the holy church and not in the holy churche Saint Cyprian doth make aunswere here for this cause it is done that the creator ought to be separated from the creatures and holy thinges may be separated from humayne thynges Furthermore whē we professe that we do beleue holy churche we shew and set forth the holynes of the church whiche can not be set forth before our corporall eyes for those thynges which we beleue are not seene with our eyes and so is the holynesse of the churche hydden for god hath wrapped his churche with many kyndes of infirmities with sinne with errours and with a thousande maner of crosses he doeth oppresse it that it seemeth to be nothyng lesse then holye Therfore whosoeuer doeth not obserue and marke the maner of god bilig●tly seeth or beholdeth y ● errours sinnes and daily falles in those mē which be born again w t the water of regeneration haue both y ● word of god do kepe it in faith cannot but greatly be offēded thinke that those are not to be taken of the holy churche But here perchaunce thou wilt saye But what is the Churche Heare welbeloued children this word Ecelesia is Greke word and in ●aten it signifieth Societatem or Concionem or Coetuns populi in Englishe it signifieth a felowshyp an asse●●ble or a congregatyon of people And this is this holy churche called a certayne feloweshyppe of holye ●●enne uppon yearthe warrynge vnder Chryste by the holy ghost ●o beholde the offyce of the holy ghoste congregat●d in one fayth mynde and vnderstandyng and mdewed with manye gyftes Briefly the holy church is al those whiche beleue in Christ this thing signifieth these wordes I beleue the cōmuniō of samtes Whiche wordes as the holy fathers testifie with one voyce the holy churche is expoūded to be a communiō or a felowship or congregatiō of saintes And this is the th●g y ● ● August writeth in a sermon of al saintes Our holy mother y ● faithful churche being sured in all the world taught chafflictions of Christ in the hed Iesu Christ c. But here perchaūce also you thinke with your selues Behold how is it y ● holy church of christ which as I haue said a little before sōtime falleth hedlong into sinne I make answere The holy church is by faith ●● Iesu Christ whilest truly it doth beleue that by Christes bloud it is washed clene frō all sinne .i. Iohn n. chap. And y ● holy church of Christ is those that do abstain from the sinnes of the flesh and do exercise thēselfs with spiritual exercises Furthermore it is not so holy that vtterly it lacketh al euill desires may be oppressed with no wicked opinions For y ● church of god must confesse her sinne therfore she praieth y ● her sinnes may be forgeuē Wherfore she beeleueth to haue remission of her synnes So that now we perceiue that saintes do sinne do ●alle and are disceiued but unawares for they wil not willyngely forsweare Iesu Christ ▪ and renounce his gospell wherfore they do optayne the remission of their sinnes and if they do at any tyme erre from the doctrine of Christ so that neglygentely they be oute of the waye there is made ready for them forgeuenesse for why sōtyme and specially