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	soul_n	13,711	5	5.0030	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09120	Englands ioy, for the kings gratious proclamation for the banishing papists		1640 (1640)	Wing E2988.3; ESTC S116764	8,796	19

and danted their hearts that wished well to the peace of Sion So played these imposturing spirits charming all men with such subtilties What the house of Austria to be checked and the Emperour of Germany to be affronted What Spain to be threatned with warre and intrusions of hostility Who is able to cover the Vienna as Xerxes once did the Hellespont with a numberlesse and invincible Armado to set upon the Iland of Brittany as a Conquerour and to make England to tremble with the multitude of his forces and yet dare you talke of warre and assisting the Low-Countries But now God be thanked Papistry shall be suppressed the Priests and Iesuits banished and these mighty Buls of Bashan either have their hornes sawed off or their chaps musled and what an alteration is heere Oh let us then give thankes unto God and confesse his mercy is beyond our apprehension and his benefits are Ocean in comparison of our duty or standing poole of deserving And seeing the King is so gracious to looke upon us like a faire moving Planet in a conspicuous Orbe from whose influence can proceed nothing but sweet presages Seeing our Parliament is so religiously Honourable to sound the foord of Spaines projects and their countries hazard by collusion and halting betweene two opinions with the plummets of true Wisedome and zeale to the Gospell of Iesus Christ Seeing that they are so indulgent and will not suffer either the wild Bore of the Forrest to trample downe the hedges or little Foxes to destroy the Grapes but are willing that Iehojadas filthy garments may be taken away and a Crowne of pure Gold set upon his head seeing the people are prepared to call and hasten one another to goe vp to the Temple of the Lord and rather then Ruben shall rayse a heape of stones like an Altar to put the people in feare of Idolatry they are ready to arme with their brethren and examine how the matter stands let every man exhilarat himselfe and cry out Why art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him he is the health of my countenance and my God So then if Paplstry shall be suppressed the Priests and Iesuites banished and our enemies both Forraine and Domesticke over-reached let God have the glory the Prince the honour the Parliament the commendation the people the comfort the Country the benefit and every true hearted Christian sing Iopaean and Epithalamions to Iehovah Marke the difference betweene flourishing Kingdomes through the blessing of reformation and advise of good governours and the fearefull distraction of Common-wealths where irreligion and indirect courses over-maister While the ambition of Athalia was predominant over her affection and drive her head-long to all obscenity tyranny she cōmitted idolatry she neglected the house of God she defiled the Altar she destroyed the seed royall she usurped the Diadem and disturbed the peace of Iuda and Israel But when Iehoash was miraculously preserved and instructed by Iehojada Athalia is slaine Iehoash doth that which is right in the sight of God the Priests repaire the Temple the Altars are cleansed the Common wealth reformed and the whole Country resetled in order and was not this a great alteration In the story of Manasses and Ammon his Sonne you shall finde these imputations of wickednesse cast upon them by the holy Ghost Hee did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord he lived after the abominations of the Heathen he reared up Altars for Baal he offered incense to the Host of Heaven he made his Sonnes passe through the fire he used enchantments observed times and dealt with familiar spirits and wrought much wickednes before the Lord But when Iosiah came to raigne and was instructed how he feared God and lived uprightly he cleansed and repaired the Temple he commanded the booke of God to be read he rent his cloathes as strucken with compunction of soule he made a covenant with God to observe his testimonies he put downe all the Offices of Baal and the groves dedicated unto him He slew his Priests he solemnized the Passeover and he performed the words of the Law which were written in the Booke and was not this a great alteration Thus it is betweene the government of Spaine and England especially the contrariety of Religion and diversity of serving God betweene Papists and Protestants the Papists both in Spaine and in England commit blasphemous idolatry are polluted with incests and fornication derogate from the honour of God to attribute adoration to creatures pacifieth himselfe in the Labyrinth of aequivocation Dissemble with God their owne soules and all that deale with them care not by what meanes or treachery they compasse their owne ends deny Christs presence in Heaven a maine article of Faith extenuate the power of the God-head by allowing a deity to Creatures and invocation to Divells First they have made many Saints that are passed downe to Hell Allow of murther and monstrous impiety and in a word are poysoned with the dregs of abomination wherewith the whore of Babylon hath filled her cup. The true Protestant and zealous Christian alloweth God the preheminence of all adoration will by no meanes blaspheme with idolatrous exorcismes detesteth whoredome and all incestuous Leprosie defieth the participiation of Gods glory to murther simply and plainly contriveth his affaires and keepeth his word though it be to his owne hinderance intermeddles not with matters of state except he be called to place of eminency is with Anna praying in the Temple and continually rejoyceth in the conversation of Gods servants and maketh the Church the sanctuary of his soule in a word is ruled by the directory of Gods word and neither dare abuse the Majesty of Princes by inter jecting a Jealousie and suspition betweene the Prince and the Subject nor runne away with the deceit of his owne heart in presuming to be more holy then his brethren or prejudging others either maliciously or foolishly And is not this a great alteration And is not this cause enough to induce us to thanke God and acknowledge his mercy and kindnesse that our King and Parliament would goe and buy eye-salve without money perspicuously to looke into the enormities of the Church and Common wealth and not onely with Nehemiah to abridge the extreamity of usury compell a relaxation of debts and oppression keepe and sanctifie the Sabbath drive the Marchants and Sellers of meate out of the City and at last put away their idolatrous wives but also will not suffer the Ammonites and Moabites to come into Gods Temple but enforce them to banishment out of Ierusalem For as you read how Iacob after his return from Laban cleansed his house of the idols so did Nehemiah in despite of Eliashib the Priest who had allyed himselfe to Tobiah a stranger and idolater put him from his lodging and cast out all the snuffe out of his chamber which