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	lord_n	23,094	5	4.0162	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08274	The fathers legacie VVith precepts morall, and prayers diuine: fitted for all sorts, both yong and old, times and seasons: morning, noone, and night.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1625 (1625)	STC 18607; ESTC S119833	7,413	36

not onely please all men but shall get thee the name of generous 19 Let thy seruants bee so many as thou mayest imploy in honest offices such as will neither be idle nor ill imployd for thy house affaires choose aged well experienced men rather profitable then hansome but such as waite on thy person or thy friends gentle-men-like in body or mind neither let drudges as horse-keepers or labourers or such like come neere thy person or thy table for either their rude behauiour or ill smell will bee offensiue For thy maidseruants take this rule let thy house bee well deckt with them such I meane as be hansome for they grace a house more then all thy other furniture and let thy wife haue alwayes a couple of Gentlewomen to attend her person at the least and remember that sluts and foule sowes will haue alwaies sluttish conditions 20 Finally banish from thy house all rude and ruffian-like fellowes with ignorant and hypocriticall puritans A Morning Prayer O LORD God our most gracious louing and mercifull FATHER in Christ Iesus we thy poore and most vnworthy seruants do here prostrate our selues both soules and bodies before the Throne of thy heauenly Maiesty humbly acknowledging and confessing from the bottom of our hearts that we are most vile miserable and sinfull wretches conceiued in sin brought forth in iniquitie and so haue continued all our life time Not worthy O Lord of the least of all thy blessings but deserue iustly for our sinnes eternall death and damnation and to be cast for euer from thy presence Heauenly Father wee confesse freely against our owne soules that our sins are moe in number then the hairs of our heads or the sands of the sea or the stars of heauen and that we haue broken and transgressed al thy holy Commandemēts both in thought word and deed from our infancy to our youth from our youth to our riper age from the day of our birth to this present day The euil O Lord which we should not doe we haue done and the good which we should haue done we haue omitted We haue made no conscience of our wayes no regard of thy promises no feare of thy threatnings We haue made vs other gods in thy sight a god of our gold a god of our belly a god of euery affection we haue blasphemed thy holy name wee haue profaned thy Sabbaths we haue polluted thy Sanctuary wee haue despised thy Word we haue done all manner of euill in thy sight and the feare of thy Maiesty hath not beene before vs. Thy mercy hath not allured vs thy iudgements haue not terrified vs but with a high hand we haue heaped sinne vpon sinne and gone on still in all manner of wickednesse vntill wee haue made it too heauy a burden for vs to beare What then belongs vnto vs thou iust Iudge of all the world but eternall confusion both of soule and body Neuerthelesse appealing from thy iustice wee implore thy mercy and intreat thee in Iesus Christ to be reconciled vnto vs for his sake to pardon and forgiue vs all our sins to naile them on his Crosse to bury them in his graue and to warn them away in his most pretious bloud Wash vs O Lord and wee shall be clean clense vs and wee shall passe the snow in whitnesse Good Lord be mercifull vnto vs pardon and forgiue vs all that is past and giue vs grace to leade a more holy life then we haue done hitherto And to this end O blessed Lord God because our hearts are the sinkes of all our sinnes and the fountaines of all our vncleannesse sanctifie our vncleane hearts mortifie our sinfull affections pacifie our impure thoughts clense our wicked cogitations O Lord renew a right spirit within vs O Lord giue vs grace to conceiue aright of the wonderfull things of thy Law to practice the things that concerne thy glory And because O Lord wee should be the more vnworthy to receiue any good thing from thee if we should not be truly thankfull for those many good things which we haue already receiued we render vnto thy diuine Maiesty all possible praise and thankes for all those blessings which thou hast so mercifully from time to time bestowed vpon vs. We thanke thee O Lord for our election before we were for our creation and what we are for our redemption when we were lost for our iustification and sanctification in this life and for our assured hope of glorification in the life to come We thanke thee deare Father for whatsoeuer good concerns either soule or body for our liues and for our liberty for our peace for our plenty for our health and our prosperitie and aboue all for the sweet and inestimable iewell of thy holy Word Thou hast been more gracious to vs then to other Nations O Lord we were a people that sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death but thou hast opened our eyes and giuen vs a lanterne for our feete and a light for our paths let not our sins we beseech thee remoue this candle-sticke from vs. Wee thanke thee O Lord that thou hast sealed vnto our consciences the free and full remission of all our sinnes in Christ Iesus Wee thanke thee that thou hast kept vs from many sinnes which our fraile nature might haue committed and for sauing vs from many dangers whereinto we might haue fallen Lord keepe vs both from sinne and danger And because both of the weaknesse of our nature and the number of our enemies how busie they are to tempt how ready we are to yeeld Lord shield vs with thy grace and protect vs with thy Spirit against all the assaults temptations both of the world the flesh and the deuill Let not the flesh allure vs let not the world bewitch vs let not the deuill vanquish vs but grant good God that by the mediation of Christ and the assistance of thy blessed Spirit against all these we may be more then conquerours Wee thanke thee O Lord that thou hast preserued vs to this present houre and because the time of our pilgrimage here on earth is but short Lord giue vs grace to spend it in thy feare teach vs to number our dayes and that little time we haue to liue to bestow it wisely And for as much as thy Kingdome O Christ is not of this world neither consisteth in meat or drinke but in righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost grant O heauenly Father that we renouncing this world and crucifying the lusts of this sinfull life and being borne anew by thy Word and holy Spirit setting our affections vpon things aboue and hauing our conuersation in heauen may after this life ended obtaine the inheritance of eternall life and rest with thee and thy Sonne Christ in the Kingdom of Heauen for euer and euer Amen Our Father which art c. An Euening Prayer OH eternall and euer-liuing God most holy and iust most omnipotent gracious mercifull and louing Father and my only Lord and

Sauiour I a wretched and sinfull creature thy vnworthy seruant yea rather the seruant of sinne and bondslaue of iniquitie the sonne of Adam yet through Christ my Sauiour and his righteousnesse thy adopted childe and a member of his mysticall body Doe here humbly prostrate my soule and cast down my self before thy footstoole mercy-seate oh euer-liuing Redeemer acknowledging and confessing from the bottome of my heart mine owne vnrighteousnesse and manifold sinnes and transgressions my disobedience and rebellion this day committed against thy holy and sacred Maiesty my contempt of thy Word Commandements my vaine conuersation and corrupt affections my continuall breach of thy most holy and reuealed Will in thought word and deed whereby I haue deserued thy iust iudgements and wrathfull indignation to be poured downe vpon me vile and wretched sinner and vtterly to be cast out of thy sight and to be deliuered to Satan my deadly enemy who daily and hourely laboureth to win me from thee and to cast me into vtter darknesse where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth O Lord my deseruings doe astonish my heart and dazell mine eyes that I dare not looke vp to heauen my sinnes doe presse me downe to the depth and bottomlesse pit of hell my conscience doth challenge mee a thousand waies for offending thee so good and so gracious a God My ghostly enemie is a roareing and a ramping Lyon ready euery minute to deuoure me is busie with me day and night he casteth a mist before mine eyes that I cannot see thy holy Will reuealed in thy Word and still vrgeth my sins vnto my conscience driuing me into despaire of thy mercy in Christ Iesus and feedeth my fantasie with manifold visions he troubleth my minde with dangerous assaults deludeth my senses and striueth to draw me aside from euery good exercise and from the fellowship of thy Saints here militant vpon earth Oh Lord my God iust are thy iudgements great are my sinnes but thy mercy is far aboue all thy workes for thou desirest not the death of a sinner nor takest pleasure in the damnation of Soules thou hast ordained life and health and all saluation is from thee Oh God most high thou hast giuen vs thy dearely beloued Sonne Iesus Christ that who soeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting And how can it be but with him thou shouldest giue vs all things necessary for this life and the life to come In him and for his sake I thy poore afflicted creature groaning vnder the burthen of my sinnes and altogether tyred through the manifold temptations of Satan and this wicked world doe most humbly intreat thee to forgiue and pardon all my iniquities and sinnes whatsoeuer committed against thy diuine Maiestie Most mercifull Father for Christs sake lay them no longer to my charge for I am not able to beare thy threatning hand against mee Suffer not Satan to delude me any longer nor abuse my weakenesse not to deceiue my senses and fantasie suffer him not O Lord to deuoure my soule Oh sweet Sauiour Christ thou fountaine of liuing waters and that true brazen Serpent that healest all infirmities and the sting of that fiery Serpent that hath wounded my conscience thou which callest vnto thee all those that trauell and are heauie loaden with the burthen of their sins and feeling of their infirmities promising them ease in Conscience and Rest vnto their soules I most wretched and vile sinner meekely beseech thee euen for thy promise sake that thou wilt receiue me and ease my burthen which is too heauie vpon me day and night Oh thou sweet Samaritan poure thy Wine and Oyle of gladnesse into my wounded heart giue me to drinke of the water of life that whoso drinketh freely shall neuer thirst againe euen of the fountaine of euer-liuing waters Oh sweet Iesu thou Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda preserue my soule and deliuer it from the mouth of the rouring Lyon Oh holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Sonne thou Comforter of Gods Elect worke in my heart a true and liualy faith whereby I may quench all the fiery darts of the deuill and may with-stand all his assaults Oh Lord I doe confesse it is my weaknesse that maketh him so strong my cowardlinesse that maketh him so ventrous my bashfulnesse that maketh him bold And therefore O Lord I humbly poure out my soule before thee this night praying thee to increase my faith to strengthen me in the inward man to arme me with thy spirituall armour giue mee strength and power I beseech thee most blessed Trinitie to fight valiantly against Satan and wisely to preuent all his practises against me And here O Lord according as I am bound I render vnto thee all possible praise and thankes for all those blessings and benefits which thou so graciously and plentifully hast bestowed on my soule and body for this life and that which is to come namely for my Election Creation Redemption Vocation Iustification Sanctification and continuall preseruation vntill this present day and houre and for the firme hope of Glorification and likewise for my health wealth foode raiment and prosperity more especially for that thou hast defended me this day now past from all dangers both of soule and body defend me O Lord this night and likewise all the rest of my daies and nights I haue to liue in the pilgrimage of this sinfull world that so hauing victory through Christ I may sing vnto thee the blessed Trinitie All Honour Praise Glory Power Might and Maiesty be to the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost both now and for euer Amen Our father which art in heauen c. And so my soule this night into thy hands I commit The Fathers Repentant teares 1 IF that a sinners sighes be Angels food Or that repentant teares be Angels wine Accept O Lord in this most pensiue mood These hearty sighes and faithfull teares of mine That went with Peter forth most sinfully But not as Peter wept most bitterly 2 If I had Dauids Crowne to me betide Or all his purpled clothes that I might weare I would lay then such honor all aside And onely seeke a sackcloth weed to beare His Palace would I leaue that I might show With him in cell for such offence my woe 3 There should these hands beat on my pensiue brest And sad to death for sorrow rent my haire My voice to call on thee should neuer rest Whose grace I seeke whose iudgements I doe feare Vpon the ground all groueling on my face I would beseech thy fauour and thy grace 4 But sith I haue no meane to make the show Of my repentant mind and yet I see My sinnes to greater heapes then his doe grow Whereby the danger more it is to me I put my trust in his most pretious blood Whose life was sold to purchase all our good 5 Thy mercy greater is then any sin Thy greatnesse none can euer comprehend Wherefore O Lord let mee thy mercies winne Whose glorious name no time shall euer end Wherefore I say all praise belongs to thee Whom I beseech be mercifull to me FINIS