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	receive_v	18,187	5	5.7163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56029	Proposals for a national reformation of manners humbly offered to the consideration of our magistrates & clergy : to which is added, I. the instrument for reformation : II. an account of several murders, &c. and particularly a bloody slaughter-house discover'd in Rosemary-lane ... : as also the black roll, containing the names and crimes of several hundreds persons, who have been prosecuted by the society, for whoring, drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, &c. / published by the Society for Reformation.	Societies for the Reformation of Manners.	1694 (1694)	Wing P3725; ESTC R4427	27,307	37

fear that after all his infinite goodness and patience abused will turn into fury against us and that his anger for all this will not turn away from us unless we bring forth such fruits as are meet for repentance you have I known of all families of the earth therefore will I punish you for your iniquities that is to say unless you bring forth the Publick or National fruits for these National mercies I have shewn you from time to time But what shall we all say who will plead for us or mollify and bind up our wounds What cause have we to fear least our iniquity is marked out before the Lord O how dreadful it is to relate our deplorable case Where are the Mourners Would to God England England more especially could weep day and night and be in bitterness of grief and that all our eyes might send forth streams like many Rivers and make our barren unfruitfull Earth a Bochim We have been planted a noble Vine a Vineyard of God's own watering and defence from Age to Age But how have we degenerated into the Plant of a strange Vine even since our late miraculous EXODUS Have we not brought forth Apples of Sodom and sour Grapes of Gomorah Thorns and Thistles instead of Figs What monstrous ingratitude and forgetfulness of all our eminent mercies What high discontents complaints murmurings seditions blasphemies yea and Rebellions against the LORD himself We are looking unto Egypt again as it were in contempt of the most high God who hath wrought out our great salvation and appointing us a King under whom to return back into greater bondage and misery than what was felt under the Iron Furnace from whence we came forth Plenty of heavenly Manna we have now scattered round our Tents but do we not loath it and are we not always filled with complaints and sinful reflections on God himself The History of the Jews in the Wilderness exactly resembles us at this day Are we not a generation of backsliders presumptuous and self-willed people And have we not turned the grace and love of God who hath redeemed us out of the house of Bondage into sinful wantonness Are we not Jeshuron like and do we not kick against the Lord Do we not harden our selves against the Almighty and set up our Thorns and Bryers to oppose him in the footsteps of those eminent Providences wherein he hath been walking in the midst of us in an extraordinary manner and waiting on us to compleat our deliverance whither we desire to be saved or no But instead of a thorough amendment of our ways and turning to our provoked Father who in this gentle manner warns us out of his tender love because he is loath to destroy us not so much for our sakes as for his own Glory and the honour of his great Name least that should be profaned by the adversaries of the Gospel the Heathen who are called by his name as Amos 12.9 yet instead of returning unto God with our whole heart and soul May it not be taken up for a lamentation against us that we grow worse and worse and have sinned as we could and have hardened our selves yet more and more against the many judgments and mercies wherewith God hath been dealing with us from time to time May it not be complained of against our Christian Judah and Jerusalem as of old the Prophet did against the Church of the Jews under their great Degeneracy viz. That Prophaneness is gone forth through the whole Land Look we on Professors in general How do the Vitals of Religion languish What Wounds hath She received even amongst Her Friends Universal Corruption and Degeneracy overspread the Church even in this Age altogether as much as in Jeremiah's days The Prophet was in a great strait what to do and whither or no he had not best withdraw himself and leave them Jer. 9.1 2 3 4 5 6. O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men They bend their tongue like their bow for lies they are not valiant for the truth Take ye heed every one of his neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor will walk with slanders They will deceive every one his neighbor and will not speak the truth c. Compared with Micah 7.4 5 6. The best of them is as a bryar the most upright is sharper than a thorn-hedge Trust ye not in a friend c. Is not the quickning illuminating converting sanctifying Presence of the Spirit driven away from us How many Hundred Sermons are preached and not one Soul turned from the power of Sin and Satan unto God even throughout the whole Land nay throughout this professing City Several indeed are thereby brought into this and the other Party or Sect and espoused to Opinions c. especially of those who were the Means of awakening their benumbed Consciences into a serious frame taking up with their External Way or Mode of Religion as in a most safe Sanctuary when Strangers perhaps to the Foundation-Principles of true Godliness and almost totally negligent of the true Power and Practice of Christianity Hence so many are of Paul and of Cephas and Apollos and hence such vain offensive wranglings and scandalous janglings in Matters of lesser moment whilst Religion hereby hath received almost her mortal Wound at the Heart with respect to the pure and holy Principles thereof or that practical Piety wherein all true Christians are agreed and Her languishing Vitals are in a manner giving up the Ghost And the Spirit of God being hereby grieved and vexed and quenched hath in a great measure left us to our own distemper'd Minds and a Spirit of Giddiness hath seized many Heads and we may read ICHABOD on the Doors of almost all our Churches and Assemblies whether publick or more private and The Glory of God is departed from us Little is left us besides the Mantle of Elijah and that also much rent like the Vail of the Wounded Spouse Cant. 5. ver 7. And were it not for the Common Gifts and Graces of the Spirit the external Form of Godliness would in a great measure vanish out of our sight And instead of the Presence of the Angel moving the Waters of the Sanctuary hath not a great smonk filled the Temple Isa 6.4 compared with Apoc. 15.8 And are not the Word and Sacraments Sabbaths and Ordinances c. become to many God forbid it should be to All we now speak only of the generality of Degenerate Professors the savour of Death unto Death And are we not daily growing worse and worse That holy and honourable Communion of Saints wherein the brightness of true Christianity in the encreasing lustre of