Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	holy_a	let_v	7,137	5	4.4451	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10719	A short suruey of Ireland Truely discouering who it is that hath so armed the hearts of that people with disobedience to their prince. With a description of the countrey, and the condition of the people. No lesse necessarie and needfull to be respected by the English, then requisite and behoouefull to be reformed in the Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gentleman.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1609 (1609)	STC 20999; ESTC S115962	34,330	68

sale and would not suffer the buyer to looke vpon it in the light but he must buy it in the darke keepe it in the darke weare it in the darke and neuer bring it to any place where it might be perfectly seene and examined Now who would not suspect him for a cousening companion that would offer such a thing and can there be a greater suspition of cosenage then for men to offer a kinde of religion that cannot abide the light of Gods word and would inforce men to receiue such a doctrine as they might not examine by the scriptures to see how it would stand with the doctrine of Christ who but cosening wretches would offer it but what ignorance in those men that would receiue it Beleeue not euery spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God At what time Achab would not beleeue the answere which the Prophet Micheas made him there came forth a spirit and stoode before the Lord and said I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouths of all his Prophets Take heede you bee not deceiued by any of these spirits which shall seeke to abuse you by pretence of reuelation by visions by dreames by shew of holinesse such spirits are walking and daily conuersant amongst vs in Ireland Woe be to you Scribes and Pharises hypocrites saith Christ for you deuoure widowes houses vnder the colour of longe prayers but our hypocrites rob not widdowes onely but they spoile married wiues make hauocke of Esquires Knights and Lords they spoile all men women and children arming them with grudge with murmure with contempt sometimes setting them in open rebellion against their Prince And who are the inducers of these and many other mischiefes but your Iesuites your seminaries your vngodly massing Priests these are they that are the common disturbers of the Countries quiet that haue stirred vp and set on foote many rebellions these are they that haue blinded your vnderstanding abused your zeale and led you into ignorance vnder A counterfeit pretence of holinesse They will you to pray and they teach you to trust in your prayers they bid you to fast they say you shall merit by your fasting but be no longer deceiued look into the fruits of this prayer and this fasting that they haue so long taught and wherewith they haue almost infected the whole realme of Ireland but especially in the most remote places letting slip persons of greater worth whose eies I hope God wil open to see their owne faults in beholding other mens follies we will take but for our example the base barbarous Kearne the very drosse and scum of the Country yet what Iesuite what Seminarie what Priest or what other member of that rascall rabble that are more precise in their popish obseruations more abstinent in their prescribed fasting daies and that are more scrupulous in any point of Poperie then they bee and yet that very day houre or minute when they will nor touch any flesh butter cheese egs milk or such other like for defiling of themselues they will make no conscience to murther to kill to rob to rauish to spoile or to commit any other villany whatsoeuer You know this to be true be not then any longer enemies to your owne discretions let these Balam●tes no longer deceiue you with their lies with their visions with their wonders and myracles Christ hath prophesied that there shall many false Prophets a●i● shall shew signes and wonders and shall deceiue if it were possible the very elect Many will say v●to me n that day Lo●d ha●● we not in thy name prophesied and by thy name cast out Diuels and by thy name done many good workes and then will I professe vnto them I neuer knew you depart from me you that worke ●●iquitie And Paul hath long agoe foretold vs that which at this day we may behold with our eies In the later time same shall giue heede vnto spirits of errou● take heede ther●f●re and when thou hearest tell of visions or myracles for by these delusions the poore people of Ireland ●re most deceiued bring them to the touchstone compare them with the word of God if thou findest they intend nothing but the aduancemet of the Gospell of Christ and the glorie of God thou maist receiue them as sent of God if otherwise they pretend the aduancement of creatures or of superstitious workes or working beware of them for without doubt they are either lies or delusions of the Diuel or some of his ministers practising to deceiue thee for open the Bible and in the very first lease it is written In the beginning God created heauen and earth and all that is contained therein immediately excluding all other Gods made or deuised by man onely to keepe man to the true God that first created him open the Booke still further forth at all aduentures and so peruse from line to line euen to the latter end of the whole booke and you shall meete with nothing but the praises of that God or with fearefull denunciations thundrings threatnings against those that follow strange Gods or giue his glory to creatures stocks blocks or stones Let vs take heede then and beware of these deceipts we haue tasted the word of God a long time we haue receiued the comfort of the gospell let vs not despite it or be wearie of it but let vs build our selues of that corner stone which the builders haue cast off let vs lay our counsels to the square of his truth let vs measure them with the plummet of his righteousnes What eie would not behold the brightnes of that sun what eare would refuse to heare GOD speake Despise not then the wisedome of the spirit refuse not his helpe but seeke the same that we may be strengthened let vs comfort our selues in the testimonies of our adoption let vs not quench the light he hath kindled in our hearts let vs not slenderly account of his mercie nor abuse the time of our saluation God giue vs his holy spirit that wee may discerne the trueth from falshood and know the blessed and gratious will of God that we may feele our darke and clowdie vnderstanding which shineth not but as it pleaseth him to inlighten that we may walke in his waies and serue him in reuerence and feare all the daies of our life FINIS Iohn 1. Ionn 3 Mat. 11. Mat●h 2● Math. 2● Rom. 3 ●am 2 S. Iohn 4. 〈◊〉 Tim ● Math. 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Tim. 2. Mat. 4. Math. 14 Mark 13. ● Thes 2. 2 P●● 2. Rom 3. Phil. 2. Matth. 11. ● Thess 5

bring them out of the way but the Elect shall be kept by the mightie hand of God against all naturall possibili●ie so that the elect and chosen of God shall neuer be without persecution and temptation of their faith not as those that are vnder the Pope for they present but suffer not and those which the Pope calleth heretikes shew no myracles by their owne confession neither ought they in as much as they bring no new learning nor any other thing then only the scripture which is already receiued and hath beene confi●med by Christ his Apostles with wonderfull myracles many hundred yeares sithence This is then to be noted that euen as Christ at his comming altered the state of the Church from the corruption of the pharises and confirmed his doctrine with myracles so Antichrist at his comming seeketh to alter the Church from that puritie which Christ and his Apostles had left it in and worketh myracles to o●erthrow the Gospell new doctrine must be confirmed with new mytacles Antichrist seeke●h to deface what Christ hath builded long agoe Christ hath fortified his building with miracles Antichrist seeketh to vndermine the whole foundation which Christ hath laid and to build a new for himselfe by my●acles and this was prophesied of aforehand by Christ and this was prophesied on a forehand by Paul Christ saith Antichrist shall come with signes and wonders to deceiue S. Paul saith He shall come with lying signes and lying wonders to deceiue and what miracles be those that the Pope hath brought to confirme his doctrine withall looke through their golden legend and tell me how many true myracles be in the whole booke what apparitions of Saints and isions of angels haue beene forged to come from heauen what yelling of spirits and crying of soules haue beene faigned to come from purgatorie these be myracles signes and wonders wrought by Antichrist his ministers but as S. Paul saith lying miracles both themselues deceiptfull and pretending to deceiue deceiptfull in themselues for that they were but lies and popish practises counterfeitly forged whereby to deceiue the simple and ignorant people to leade them into errours and to cosin them of their money in purchasing of pardons dyrges and masses And were not these miracles to heare it told that Roodes could speake Belles could ring alone Images could come downe and light their own candles Blocks could turne their eies and wag their lips shake their heads moue their hands and some of them could knit sinues sette bones heale the sicke giue sight to the blinde make the lame to goe but are not these practises discou●red long agoe and ●ound out to be no other then slights and meere deceipts These are called miracles and are indeede but lies and there are none but Papists that would be mocked with them CHAP. XV. What signes and wonders they should be that are brought in by Ant●christ SAint Paul saith The comming of Antichrist shall be by the working of Sathan with all power and signes of lying wonders and all d●ceiueablenes of vnrighteousnesse amongst them that perish because they receiued not the loue of the trueth that they might bee saued and therefore God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeue lies that all they might bee damned which beleeued not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes Can any thing be spoken more plainely these shall be the workes of Antichrist which hee shall bring to passe that is to say lying wonders this shall he worke with all deceiueablenesse that is he shall come with all kinde of shifts and deceipt and with whom shal he preuaile and who be they that shall bee deceiued Those that perish because they loued not the truth that they might be saued and therefore God shall send them strong delusions to beleeue lies This text must also pertaine to a multitude gathered together in Christs name which for lack of loue vnto the trueth shall be led into all errour to beleeue in crosses to beleeue in visions to beleeue in welles and to giue credit to all maner of fables but the truth they shall not beleeue That they might be damned for not beleeuing but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes If these things had not beene thus sensibly foretold vs long agoe by the holy ghost it might haue beene thought a strange matter that so many should be thus still led away from the pure and vndefiled word of God and to giue themselues ouer to follow dreames fantasies but it is an euident token that their harts are not marked with the spirit of God but are led by strong delusions to beleeue lies CHAP. XVI The sixth marke whereby to know Antichrist YEt one other note is giuen vs by Saint Peter whereby to know Antichrist and saith hee There shall bee false teachers amongst you which shall secretly bring in damnable sects denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their damnable waies by w●om the way of truth shall be euill spoken of with faigned words they shall make marchandice of you now saith S. Paul The lawe speaketh to them that are vnder the lawe and euen so this is spoken to them that professe the name of Christ There shall be false teachers that shall bring in damnable sects Histories make mention of one Anthony who liued in the wildernesse of Thebais in Egypt in maner of a Hermer Anno 361 he had three disciples Darmatas Amat●s and M●charius these liued solitarily and in strictnes of life but it was in the time of persecution whereby to shift them from the hands of tyrants and proceeded at the first of a good zeale to godlinesse but the diuell the peruerter of all things did so impoison the hearts of them that followed that they had more trust to their owne workes then faith in Christs blood and after that men began new rules of works to be their owne sauiours Benet he succeeded Anno 524 and in the time of Iohn the first and he pre●cribed institutions to a certain order of Monkes In Anno 850 and in the time of Sergius the third sprung vp a new sect of Camaldimenses a holy company that kept perpetuall silence they fasted went barefoote and vsed to ly on the ground In Anno 1060 vnder Gregorie the sixth there sprung vp a new sect of Monkes calling them selues the order of the shadowed valley The Monkes of Oliuet sprung vp as a fruit of disorder ina time o● strife betweene three Bishops in Anno 1047 vnder Gregorie the twelfth The sect of Grandmontensis sprung vp vnder Alexander the second in Anno 1076. Innocentius the third admitted the Humilitates in Anno 1166 and a little before that in Anno 1098 vnder Vrbane the second began the order of the Cistercians Celestinus the first founded the Celestines in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred eighty eight Here followeth now such a ●abblement of others as Gilbertines Lustinians Hieronimians Augustins the order of