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
A85117	A new letter, to all drunkards, whoremongers, thieves, disobedience to parents, swearers, lyers, &c. containing a serious and earnest exhortation, that they would forsake their evil ways. Shewing also, how many inconveniences the practice of these vices brings upon them, as impairation of good name, destruction of health, ruin in estate, making themselves worse than beasts; rendring themseves clowns and fools, and edious to God and all good men, bringing themselves to untimely ends, and many more inconveniences; but, what is worst of all, ruin both of soul and body in the world to come unless repented of. : To which is added, some rules how to lay the foundation of repentance aright, and how, by the grace of God, to perfect the same. : With exhortations to put all in practice. / By J.F.	J. F.	1696 (1696)	Wing F42A; ESTC R202507	8,650	18

your own mad Crew no body else esteems you A Drunkard is a Clown and his practice is rude and ill bread not agreeable to that good Manners that is used in Conversation For if a drunken Man were to go make a Visit with Company would not his Company be ashamed of him Yes they would though perhaps they could not in Civility get rid of him Or if a Man were at a Feast or at a publick Assembly either of Church or State and were Drunk is this good Manners Why then as I said before 〈◊〉 Drunkard is a rude ill-bred Clown Fifthly You bring Sickness on your selves How many hereby have destroyed their Healths Those good Creatures which we ought to receive ●ith thanksgiving are basely abused to the dishonour of God and the destruction of our selves Sixthly You ruin your Estates what it may ●e your Parents have painfully got and in get●ng it too may be have done many good ●orks you use it to bear your Charges on the ●ay to Hell and it may be use great endeavours ●●at it may last to your Journeys end Men that ●●rhaps are void of the grace of God yet com●on Frugality teaches them others things Seventhly That which is worst of all You destroy y●● Souls for be not deceived you shall not inherit the Kingd●● of God For nothing that doth not bear his image sh●●●● come there and I am sure to be Drunk doth not It is 〈◊〉 ugly deformed Image the very Image of the Devil A Pa●ter cannot assume a better humane shaps for the Devil th● these two to wit a drunken Man and a malicious furi● Man A Whoremonger or any thing else will not make h●● so bad a Picture besides it is an in-let to many other sins I pray God incline you to leave it And now a word or two to all disobedient to Parents Though I am very brief pray give never the less heed it but rather it being short you may with more ease ●●member it and put it into practice You find it commanded not only from God by Men whi●● is Authority enough for it but by his own mouth in the Mou●● saying Exod. 20.12 Honour thy Father and Mother th● thy days be long in the Land the Lord thy God giveth thee In these words Honour thy Father and thy Mother th● Duty is positively commanded and for thy encouragemen● Length of Days is promised thee and no doubt but all prosperity shall attend thee But on the other hand it is as positive in God's Word th●● shalt be miserably cursed for it says Cursed be he that despis● his Father and Mother wherefore look to it for God's Wor● is as certainly true as himself is true who is Truth it self And now concerning Fornication and Uncleanness which ought not to be named much more practised among Christians Your Bodies ought to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost and not joyned to an Harlot If it were well considered it were enough to consider the weight of that punishment God sends for this sin To perticularize in any of those numerous and dolorous tortures would hardly be modest If a Man were to apply himself to one who hath endured it he may no doubt receive so good an Exhortation as not to engage therein except he hap to light on a very Monster in Impudence and Villany But a further inconveniency is it blasts the Reputation so tender whereof are many that they would willingly suffer much more so they could but conceal it ●d oh that all Men would have such that act this and ●her Debauchery in much more derision that they might ●ss incouraged to act it 〈◊〉 Paul advises 1 Cor. 5.11 Not to keep Company with ●an one no not to Eat ●nd how in the next Chapter doth he argue and exhort from 〈◊〉 Cor 6.15 16 17 18 19 20. where he says ver 15. 〈◊〉 ye not that your Bodies are Members of Christ I doubt ●ut many flatter your selves ye are Members of Christ ●h cannot be He then proceeds Shall I then take the Mem●● of Christ and make them the Members of a Harlot God ●d Here you may see to do it is a horrible wickedness ●t cuts you off from being united to Christ Then it follows ver 16. What know ye not that he that is join 〈…〉 a Harlot is one Body For two saith he shall be one flesh Ver. 17. But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit Then ver 18. he exhorts saying Flee Fornication and 〈◊〉 for many reasons which follow to the end of the Chap●● which ought to be great Motives to you The first of ●ich is Every sin that a Man doth is without the Body 〈◊〉 he that commits Fornication sins against his own Body Ver. 19. What know ye not that your Body is the Temple the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and are not your own Ver. 20. For ye are bought with a Price therefore glorifie ●d in your-Body and your Spirit which are God's Consider what little has been said I might have been ●ger as to set down that sin also destroys your Estate ●d more Inconveniencies but I study to be Brief and the ●ord incline you to learn to po●iess your Bodies in Sanctifica●on and Honour not as the Heathen which know not God ●t as Christians And as you profess that holy Name so I ●seech you walk worthy of that holy Calling free from spot ●nd defilement here that you may be made meet to enter ●nto that pure and undefiled place hereafter into which ●o unclean thing shall enter Come I now to Swearers that belch out and dart up Oaths ●gainst Heaven but in effect pull down a Curse upon ●hemselves from Heaven It is madness and folly For 〈…〉 It is disgraceful and ill-manners as I said before of a Drunkard so I may say of this too were you at a Visit and there Swear and Curse and Ban in common Discourse if they were sober People would they not think you to be mad and ill-bred Or an Assembly or in any other Company that loves Sobriety is it not despisable But in conversing with your own Hellish Crew nothing is more glorious a goodly glorying indeed or which ought rather to be your shame It is most unaccountable also For A Whoremonger may alledge he was drawn away by Delight though when he has done it will not excuse him but the Swearer what can he say The Drunkard may say the Delight of Taste entic'd him and prevail'd the Worlding may say the Desire of Riches overcame him the ambitious Man may alledge the golden Bait of Honour But the Swearer can plead no excuse He does it because he will be like the Devil He must not expect Mercy at the Bar of God nor indeed so much as crave it but go to Hell directly from thence For if these Men fall short of Mercy there how much more shall he Furthermore it is monstrous wicked It is the very Language of