Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	grace_n	holy_a	lord_n	14,167	5	3.6878	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81556	Distracted Englands lamentation, dangerously lying upon her sicke bed: with her last refuge for cure, unto the wholesome physicke of repentance and humiliation. Iuly 14. 1646. Imprimatur, Iohn Downame.		1646 (1646)	Wing D1695; Thomason E510_9; ESTC R205612	5,533	10

is nothing now left unattmpted not unperpetrated which the malice of this cruell and unjust Warre can reach unto All Grace all Vertue and Goodnesse whatsoever wee see brought to the battery and subdued by their Opp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Modesty is expulsed by the strength of Impudence Coveteou●●●●●●ath mastered Liberallity Pride insulteth over Humllity Falsho●● 〈◊〉 beaten Truth out of the field Errour maketh Religion her quarry These are the Conquerours of the times These are they that have set up Liberty in the Throne of discipline By whom all good Laws both divine and humane are violated All holy engagements and Covenants of Religion are broken All obligations of amity and friendship are made voyd and even the neerest bonds of nature cancelled O lamentable Times O execrable manners It were misery enough to see such impleties such hellish wrath und cruelty in the hearts of any Christians whatsoever For they ought to be of a Celestiall and Divine temper But much more in the hearts of Christians and Country-men in the hearts of Kindred and Alliance of Friends and Acquaintance That such hearts should differ or have that hardnesse and stony rancor as to oppose and injure one another so inhumanly filleth with amazement and wonder What then shall wee never recover reason shall wee still persever in our frenzies and madnesse under the protection of wilfull ignoranc● and misunderstanding one another after so great a draught is it not time to close the veine wee have gone out Tigers hitherto shall wee never returne men doe wee find so much sweetnesse in the game that wee cannot forsake the sent it is the nature of houndes never to bee reclaimed from bloud that they are once flesht in Are wee gone so farre a field in heate of bloud so much astray from humanity that wee can find no passage backe O unhappy England what remedy then must thou fly unto what physick must thou take to purge away this malignant fever what antidote is the best to expell the banefull humours from thy sick heart nothing but Dens-Gordium God only who is the King of hearts t is hee must doe it This is an evill which none but that King can cure And therefore since the meetings and Councells of earthly Physitions can doe no good nor afford one proposition of comfort nor minister any case unto thee Thou must have recourse to him Thou must referre the whole cure to him who knows thy frame and constitution and is too much acquainted with thy disease Prostrate thy selfe before the Synod of his Divine Wisdome and beseech him for his mercy sake to help thee For hee will surely and infallibly prove thy Friend so soone ●s thou hast taken thy potion of repentance into the bottome of thy heart according as he hath perscribed And not only a Freind to thee but unto all that come so prepared to aske his help Say therefore unto him Have pitty on mee O God according to thy great mercy heale me 〈◊〉 Lord for I am sick I am indeede heart sick grieveously distem●●●●… 〈◊〉 my head and all my members I am sick to death I have a disease th●●●●…ence of which will ruine mee It is desperate it rageth in all part● 〈◊〉 ●●leaguereth my very heart My life-bloud is in danger It bruseth and mortifieth my flesh even into my marrow it searcheh causeth a disturbance in all my bones It straineth my sinnewes and breaketh insunder the strongest ligaments of my body My reeme is broken my navill uncloseth my bowells appeare O all yee that passe by the way attend and see if there be any griefe like my griefe attend you that stand aloofe you that are my neighbours and behould my miseries behould in what a dangerous case I am through mine owne depraved and perverse humour observe my troubled state a good warning peace see how I lie a bleeding what a stux of bloud hath issued from me and yet for all this I feare the plurisie will choke mee I am faint Let mee bleed no more I have lost too much bloud allready and that of the purest of the noblest and good bloud and innocent bloud Such as the butcher Cain drew from Abel Physick more mild and gentle hath beene offered mee but I would take none I would digest none I have wrested too much with my selfe I have built too much upon the strength of mine owne body A sick body A severish body A very fowle body A body without all symetry naturall disposition or temper My veines are on fire my pulse is out of order My temples burne and beate into the plamater of my braine which makes mee groane and sigh deepe in jealously that I am past cure And therefore it is indeed high time to change my Physition To repose no more in earthly Councells but with an camest heart and syncere intention to lift up my hands and voyce to Heaven from whence all help commeth and say heale mee O Lord for I am sick Lord in this hot fitt and bitter conflict drawe the curtaine of thy mercy and refresh mee with the comfortable ayre of thy holy Spirit before I utterly perish open the Casement of thy Divine Providence and send into my heart the Dove of Peace for there is no physick else can doe mee good No ballam is agreable to my disease as that Death and miserable confusion is the object of warre Of which I am made allready too sadd a spectacle but peac●●●…s health and all effects contrary what warre turneth to malice peace ●●●verteth to love what warre woundeth peace healeth what warre ru●●●●●n peace repaireth what warre taketh peace restoreth If I had peace I should be well If I had peace yet I should perfectly recover my head would leave aking my heart would receive comfort I should tak●●●st in all my members Lord thou hast do●●●reater cures in Israell there is nothing impossible with thee thou ●●●west all thou canst doe all And therefore Lord if thou take mee in 〈…〉 I will not misdoubt my cure If I were dead thou canst raise me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were blind thou canst restore mes unto true and perfect sight if I were deafe thou canst renew my hearing if a Leaper thou canst cleanse mee if I had Divells in mee thou canst cast them out No heart so hard but thou canst soften no will so perverse and stubborne but thou canst breake and master no minde so high and puffed up but thou canst humble All things are confin'd to thy power And there is not any that can resist thy will I doe confesse Lord that I am guilty of all I am dead with sinne I am blind with errour I am deafe which obstinacy revive mee with thy grace enlighten mee with thy truth and reconcile mee to thy holy Spirit I am grievously defiled with the leprosie of all unrighteousnesse but Lord who dare presume of righteousnes before thee the heavens are not cleane in thy sight Much lesse I that am a sinfull nation given to all manner of lewdnesse and excesses I am full of Devills and factious spirits that have raised this civill tempest that have caused all these rumours and combustions in mee Vouchsafe O most mercifull God to lay and suppresse them with the power of thy opposite grace and vertues suppresse pride with humility envy with patience wrath with meeknesse and malice with charity Be exquisite in thy cure as thou art exquisite in all things Thrust thy tent into my broken and contrite heart and search what is amisse heale that which is wounded cleanse that which is fowle refresh and water that which is withered Nourish that which is cold move that which is slowe soften that which is hard reduce and bring home that which is wandring And graunt Lord that all stubbornes and worldly respects being layd aside I may make a full and perfect resignation of my will to thine That I may henceforward cover nothing that is unlawfull nor usurpe nothing wrongfully But that all my conversation and traffick be in thy businesse and for thy glory And finally that I may be truly penitent and sorrowfull for all my misdeeds and repent mee sore for the innocent bloud that I have spilt for the families that I have ruin'd for the Townes that I have demollisht for the houses that I have subverted for the plenty that I have destroyed and wasted and the famin that I have made way for That so by true sorrow and humiliation recovering p●●●● with thee I may have peace with my selfe Amen Amen FINIS