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	temple_n	7,031	5	7.9574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23681	The desire of all men a sermon preach'd at Daventry in Northamptonshire, March 5, 1694/5, (being the day of the interment of our late Most Gracious Queen), before the bayliff and burgesses of the said corporation of Daventry and other gentlemen of the country, and published at their request / by Charles Allestree ...	Allestree, Charles, 1653 or 4-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing A1080; ESTC R8239	11,013	30

and Deportment in his Sickness or upon his Death-Bed As the Temperament of the Body has a great influence upon the Operations of the Soul so it happens that there is a kind of Sympathetick Motion betwixt them and when the Soul is in disorder the Body suffers too All the Passions have had their Martyrs and without any Affection or Pain to the Body there have been frequent Instances of Men that have been sacrific'd to the sudden Transports and Eruptions of Joy as well as overwhelm'd with the oppression of Sorrow For the Spirits being not able to contain that excess of Joy or Grief which sometimes arises from the Contingencies of this World are suffocated and depress'd by the Weight and the Soul seems rather to be extinct than the Body Now if the Operations of the Mind when they are only fix'd upon an Earthly Object and excited from a disappointment here are so intense and violent as to change the Constitution and alter the whole Mass of Blood if they do not only help forward a Disease but are sufficient to begin and complete it with success surely when our Grief is rais'd from the Fear of being disappointed of Heaven the Operations of the Mind will be more precipitate and swift the Agonies of the Soul will be more acute Despair will then prey upon the Vitals and encrease the Malady When we have the Scene of all that is dear to us render'd for ever miserable in the most exquisite Torments when we contemplate the Resurrection of the Dead where the Graves are open and return their Trust where all the Particles of Man are reunited and the scatter'd Limbs knit together into Shape and Form and all this to make the Soul and Body that have been Companions in Sin to be so in Woe and Affliction and to roul upon Flames to all Eternity when I say we have all these things in our apprehensions we cannot think that the Soul being entertain'd with such dismal Objects will be at leisure to perform the common Functions or Offices of Life So that this being the Case of all wicked Men upon the prospect of their leaving the World it must be agreed that there is generally such a horrour of Mind upon them at the fearful expectation of these things as will aggravate their Distemper and defeat all the methods and application of Physick for their Remedy or Recovery For the Sins which they have all their Life-time been Slaves to will then turn Vassals and be Obsequious in their Attendance they will then croud the memory but it will be to no other purpose but only to distract it Now though at all times and more especially at the Hour of Death a just survey of the Actions of a Man's Life and a particular Reflexion upon all the Sins we have been guilty of here is very necessary as it tends to Abhorrence to beget Repentance and procure atonement for them yet so it happens that where there is no Provision made against them before-hand and they are not satisfied for by piece-meal they come in a full Body like Flocks of Creditors upon the miscarriage of a Debtor without any appearance of receiving satisfaction there but only to set the Sinner's shame and inability of discharging all their claims before him But the righteous Man who brings all the Actions of the Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Hierocles expresses it who brings all the Actions of the Day to the Tribunal of Conscience and makes things even betwixt his God and Him as he cannot have such a multitude of Sins to account for when he comes on his Death-Bed so when he falls into any Sickness he has no distracting Thoughts to afflict him neither is his Distemper aggravated by Impatience nor increased by Choler He submits to Death as it is the condition he accepted Life with as he is the Son of Adam he knows he must die but as he is the Son of the Second Adam he knows he must be made alive again And this consideration is the greatest inducement for us to wish to die the Death of the Righteous III. Namely The Certainty he has of a joyful Resurrection and the full assurance of enjoying Heaven and securing himself of Happiness to all Eternity This is the Joy and Hope the Crown and Ornament of a Christian and the Righteous Man that has this Hope is prepared and fortified against all Events He is inwardly assured that Heaven is his Portion and his Lot and design'd for his Inheritance from the Foundation of the World For as it is said that seldom any Man dies but he has some intimations of his approaching End within some secret Presages and Bodings of his final Dissolution in his Mind so certainly there is no Person upon the Confines of Death but either from his own management of himself in this World he can make a Judgment of his Future State or else from some Inspiration and Revelation within he can take a certain measure of it The Holy Ghost will not be wanting in gentle Breathings and Whispers to the Conscience to support the Just Man under all the pressures of Sickness as he did our Glorious QUEEN and to fortifie his well-grounded Expectation of Heaven That Spirit will diligently wait and attend to strengthen the Righteous Man's Hopes of a Resurrection to Glory there will in him be a Calm and certainly and an assurance of Heaven a Glory will incircle his Temples here and the Rays of Divinity will be shining round his Head But the Righteous Man's Death though every one covets it is not attainable barely by a lazie wish or an empty Desire there must be something of action on our parts to go along with it and our vigorous endeavours must be used as a necessary ingredient to attain it This the Saint of this Day knew and practis'd whose constant care it was to work out Her Salvation with Fear and Trembling who past through all the Mortification and Discipline and severity of Religion and by those Austerities which She inflicted upon her Body made her Soul more susceptible of good Impressions and sensible of the Charms of Goodness and by these Holy Exercises at last She arriv'd to the highest Perfection of Virtue that her Nature was capable of for the Eminency of her Piety was such as was sufficient to entail a Happiness to a Nation and leave a Blessing behind her and not all the Libellous Tongues united in one common Mass of Poyson ever had the Impudence to attack her Virtue or blemish her Innocence They had no Fault to object against her Conduct but only this that She durst be so generous with her Royal Partner to undertake the Protection of a Sinking Nation and to vindicate our common Rights Religion and Liberties which were all Invaded and just ready to be swallow'd up in Tyranny for which Act her Name will be for ever blessed amongst all Generations of Men and After-Ages will celebrate her Praises to the