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	lord_n	17,551	5	3.7649	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88802	A lawfull league and covenant To bee entred into, and taken, by all men that have eyther religion, loyalty, or honesty : for the freeing themselves and their posterities, from tyrannie and slaverie. with an exhortation for taking the same.		1648 (1648)	Wing L646; Thomason E446_6; ESTC R204827	5,759	11

thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to bee divided and withdrawne from this blessed Union and conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or give our selves to a detestable indifferency or newtrality in this cause which so much concernes the Glorie of God the Good of the Kindomes and Honor of the King But shall all the dayes of our lives zealously constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all letts and impediments whatsoever And what wee are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome wee shall reveale and make known that it may bee timely prevented or removed All which wee shall doe as in the sight of God And because these Kingdomes are guilty of many sinnes and provocations against God and His Sonne Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof wee professe and declare before God and the world our unfeined desire to bee humbled for our own Sinnes and for the sins of these Kingdomes especially that wee have not as wee ought valued that enestimable benefit of the Gospell that wee have not labored for the purity and power thereof and that wee have not indeavored to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walke worthy of Him in our lives which are the causes of others Sinnes and Transgressions so much abounding amongst us and our true and unfeigned purpose desire and indeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publique and in private in all duties wee owe to God and man to amend our Lives and each one to goe before another in the example of a Reall reformation that the Lord may turne away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes in truth and Peace And this Covenant wee make in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to Performe the same as wee shall answer at the great day when the secrets of all hearts shall bee disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy spirit for this end and to blesse our desires and proceedings with such successe as may bee deliverance and safe-to the King and People and incouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoake of Antichristian Presbyterie and Tyranny to joyne in the same or the like association or Covenant to the Glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdomes and Common-Wealths The Exhortation to the taking of this Solemn League and Covenant for the Restauration and Defence of Religion the Honour and Happinesse of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms IF The Power of Religion or solid reason if Loyalty to the King and piety to their Native Countrey or love to themselves and naturall affection to their posterity if the example of men touched with a deepe sence of all these or extroardinary successe from God thereupon can awaken an imbroyled bleeding remnant to imbrace the Soveraigne and onely meanes of their recovery there can bee no doubt but this Solemne League and Covenant will finde wheresoever it shall bee tendered a People ready to entertaine it with all chearefullnesse and duty And were it not commended to the Kingdome by the concurrent incouragement of the renowned city of London the County of Essex the Principality of Wales and multitudes of persons of eminent ranke and quality in this Nation And the whole Body of the Kingdome of Scotland except the Assembly of Presbyters who pretend Jure Divino to governe Kirke and Kingdome with the Kingdome of Ireland who are all ready to joyne in it with rejoycing at their undertakings so graciously seconded from Heaven already by blasting the Councells and breaking the power of the enemy Yet it goes forth in it's own strength with such convincing evidence of equity truth and righteousnesse as may raise in all not wilfully ignorant or miserably seduced inflamed affections to joyne with their fellow Subjects in this happy Bond for putting an end to the present miseries and for saving both King and Kingdome from utter ruine now so strongly and openly Labored by the two factions of Presbytery and Independency and such as have beene bewitched and besotted by those bloody and viperous Traytors For what is there almost in this Covenant which was not for substance either expressed or manifestly included in that solemn Protestation of May the fifth 1641. wherein the whole Kingdome stands ingaged untill this day The sinfull neglect whereof as wee may justly feare opens one Flud-gate the more to let in all these Calamities upon the Kingdome and cast upon it a necessity of renuing Covenant and entring into this And if it bee said the extirpation of Presbytery which hath not so much as the face of a Law to countenance it nor any colour to introduce it in this Kingdome but certaine scandalous petitions preferred to the Parliaments in Queene Elizabeth and King James His time by factious and seditious persons that neither feared God nor his Vicegerent but were wholy adicted to change and who by the wisdomes of those Parliaments received their just rewards is unwarrantable or not necessary The assertors thereof will not onely appeare to bee defective in their own Judgements but lay an aspersion upon the wisdome and temper of the Parliaments of those times by the moderation and Justice whereof under God wee reaped those blessings of Peace and Plenty which wee injoyed untill wee were deprived thereof by the industrious malice of these pretended Reformers And as for those Clegy-men and others who may pretend that they cannot Covenant to extirpate that government which themselves have sworne to set up They can tell if they please that they that have sworne obedience to the Lawes of the Land are not by any voluntary or inforced oath or Covenant to bee after taken bound to extirpate those Lawes though they bee inconvenient And if any Minister or others have entred into any such oath or Covenant not warranted by the Lawes of God and the Land In this case they must teach themselves and others that such oathes call for repentance not pertinacy therein That scruple that this is done without the Kings consent will soone bee removed if it bee remembred that the Protestation of the fifth of May before mentioned was voted and executed by both Houses and after by order of one house sent abroade to all the Kingdome His Majestie not excepting against it or giving any stop to the taking of it all be it he was then resident in person at White-Hall But now his Majesty being imprisoned and it being voted that no addresse shall bee made unto him the People are discharged before God and Man if of themselves they enter into a Covenant to restore this Religion and to free their Soveraigne themselves and their posterities from Tyranny and Slavery Therefore however some men hoodwinckt and blinded by the Artifices of these Jesuiticall Engineeres who have long conspired to Sacrifice our Religion Lawes Liberties and persons to Arbitrary slavery and our Estates to their insatiable avarice may possibly bee deterred and amused with high threats and Declarations flying up and downe upon the wings of the Priviledge and power of Parliament now captivated and prostituted to serve all their lusts to proclaime all Malignants Incendiaries and enemies to the State who take This Covenant Yet let no faithfull English heart be afraid to joyne with their loyall fellow Subjects of the three Kingdomes in this Solemne Lawfull League What though those tongues set on fire by hell doe raile and threaten That God who but even as yesterday vouchsafed to disperse those darke Clouds and Foggs which overshaddowed the Kingdome of Scotland and made their Loyalty appeare as cleere as the Sunne at noone day in the very eyes of their purblinde brethren And hath so miraculously turned the hearts of those that fomented the disloalty of our fellow Subjects of Ireland will doubtlesly stand by all those who with singlenes of heart a due sence of their own sinnes and a necessity of restauration of Religion shall now enter into everlasting Covenant with the Lord never to bee forgotten to put an end to all these unhappy and unnaturall breaches betweene the King and his People causing his righteousnesse and praise to spring forth before all the Nations to the terror and confusion of those men of Blood the confederate enemies of God and the King who have long combined and have now raked together the dreggs and scum of many Kingdomes to bury all the Religion Glory Honour and Liberty of this Nation in the eternall grave of dishonour and Destruction READER I desire thee to compare this Covenant and the exhortation for the taking thereof with that which was with such violence imposed upon these Nations in the yeare 1643. and is now againe threatned and thou shalt finde the reasons heere given to bee really the same that were then pretended for the obtruding that upon us But the legallity and necessity of this to bee so great and just That it needed no reasons to perswade any man to enter into it but if yet thou wantest reason Reade over a booke lately printed intituled Good English and if that give thee not satisfaction that there can be no setled Peace but this way I shall conclude that thou art willfully blinde or deperately wicked to thine own destruction Luke 19.27 The King said moreover those mine enemies which would not that I should reigne over them bring hither and slay them before mee Sam. 10.24 And Samull said see you not him whom the Lod hath chosen that there is none like him And all the people shouted and said GOD SAVE THE KING