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
A45250	The great mystery of godliness laid forth by way of affectuous and feeling meditation : also the invisible world discovered to spirituall eyes and reduced to usefull meditation in three books / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1659 (1659)	Wing H384; ESTC R28688	24,922	96

the East for their adoration Is not this he whose birth declared by one glorious Angell was celebrated by a multitude of the heavenly host with that divine Anthem of Glory to God in the highest and on earth Peace good will towards men Is not this he that filled the world with his divine and beneficiall miracles healing all diseases by his Word restoring limbs to the lame giving eyes to the borne blind casting out Devils raising the dead commanding windes and seas acknowledged by an audible voice from heaven Is not this he whom the very ejected Devils were forced to confess to be the son of the everliving God whom the heaven and al the elements owned for their almighty Creatour whose sufferings darkened the Sun and shooke the Earth and rent the Rocks in pieces and justly whom the dead Saints and the heavenly Angels attended in his powerfull Resurrect on and glorious Ascension O Saviour abundantly justified in the spirit against all the malignances of men and Devils SETC. VIII If thy malicious persecutours whose hand was in thy most cruell crucifixion shall for the covering of their own shame blazon thee for a Deceiver of the people How convincingly wert thou justified in the spirit by the dreadfull and miraculous descent of the holy Ghost in the cloven and fiery tongues and that suddain variety of language for the spreading of the glory of thy name over all the Nations of the earth If the unbeleiving world bewitched with their former superstition shall furiously oppose thy name and Gospell in the times immediately succeeding how notably art thou justified in the spirit by the suddain stopping of the mouths of their hellish Oracles by the powerfull predications of thine holy Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors and Doctors seconded by such undeniable miracles as shamed and astonished if not won the gainsayers But O Saviour being thus clearly instified in the spirit against the old spight of hell with what shame and horrour do I see thine eternall Godhead called into question by the misgoverned wits of certaine late mis-named Christians who as if they would raise up cursed Arrius from his hatefull grave have dared to renew those blasphemous cavils against thy sacred person which with so great authority and full evidence of the spirit were long since cryed downe to that hell whence to the great contumelie of heaven they were most wickedly sent up into the world Woe is me their damned sounder did not send down his soul into that fatal draught in a more odious way then these his followers vent themselves upward in most unsavoury and pestilent contradictions to thee the Lord of life and glory But even against these art thou justified in the spirit speaking in thy divine Scriptures whose evident demonstrations do fully convince their calumnies and false suggestions and vindicate thy holy Name and blessed Deity from all their devillish and frivolous argutations Is there any weak soul that makes doubt of thy plenarie satisfaction for his sinne of the perfect accomplishment of the great work of mans Redemption how absolutely art thou justified O blessed Jesu in the spirit in that thou raisedst thy selfe from the dead quitting that prison of the grave whence thou couldst not have come till thou hadst paid the utmost farthing wherein we stood indebted to heaven O Saviour not more concealed in the flesh then manifestly justified in the spirit for my all-sufficient Redeemer not more meekly yeilding to death for our offences then powerfully raised up again for our justification how should I blesse and praise thee both for thine humble self-dejection in respect of thine assumed flesh and for thy powerfull justification in thine infinite and eternall spirit that holy Ghost whereby thou wert conceived in the womb of the Virgin justified thee in thy life death resuscitation Now then how confidently can I trust thee with my soul who hast approved thy self so compleat and almighty a Reedemer O blessed Jesu with what assurance do I cast my self upon thee for thy present protection for my future salvation how boldly can I defie all the powers of darknesse whiles I am in the hand of so gracious and omnipotent a Mediator Who shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifieth Even thou the God who wast manifested in the flesh and justified in the spirit shalt justifie and save my spirit soul and body in the day of our appearance before thee SECT. IX O Saviour it is no mysterie that being manifested in he flesh thou wert seen of men but it is no small part of the great mystery of Godliness that thou who art the God of Spirits wert seen by those heavenly spirits cloathed in flesh It could not be but great news to the Angels to see their God born and conversing as man with men For a man to see an Angell is a matter of much wonder but for an Angell to see God become man is a far greater wonder since in this the change concernes an infinite subject in the other a finite though incorporeall But pause here awhile O my soul and inquire a little into these strange spectators Seen of Angels who or what might those be Are three any such reall incorporeall permament substances or are they onely things of imagination and extemporary representations of the pleasure of the Almighty Wo is me that no errour may be wanting to this prodigious age do we live to see a reviction of the old Sadduci●●● so long since dead and forgotten Was Gabriel that appeared and spake to Daniel nothing but a supernatural ph●ntasme And what then was a he Gabriel that appeared with the happy newes of a Saviour to the blessed Virgin What are the Angels of those little ones whereof our Saviour speakes which do alwaies behold the face of his Father in heaven What were those Angels that appeared to the shepherds with the tidings and gratulations of the Saviour borne at Bethlem What was that beneficent spirit that visited Peter in the Prison smote him on the side to wake him from his sleep shook off his chains threw open the iron gate and rescued him from the bloody hands of Herod What are those spirits who shall be Gods reapers at the end of the world to cut down the tares and gather the wheat into his barn Shortly what were all those spirits whereof both Testaments are full which God was pleased to imply in his frequent missions to the earth were these phantasms too Certainly though there may be many Orders yet there is but one generall condition of those Angelicall attendants on the throne of the Almighty Even in the old Testament was it a supernaturall apparition of fancie that in one night smote all the first borne in the land of Aegypt was it a supernaturall apparition of fancie that in one night laid an hundred fourscore and five thousand Assyrians dead upon the ground Could these be any other then the acts