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	prayer_n	7,724	5	6.1286	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65154	A healing question propounded and resolved upon occasion of the late publique and seasonable call to humiliation in order to love and union amongst the honest party, and with a desire to apply balsome to the wound, before it become incurable.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V69; ESTC R38388	16,135	28

unsubdued And therefore the Lord thinks fit by this meanes to shew them the need of being beholding to their spiritual part to restore them again and bring them into their right temper and healthful constitution And thus whilst each dissenting part is aggravating upon it selfe faultinesse and blame and none excusing but all confessing they deserve in one sort or other reproof if not before men yet to Gods sight Who knowes how soon it may please God to come into this broken contrite and self denying frame of Spirit in the good people within the three Nations and own them thus truly humbled and abased for his Temple and the place of his habitation and rest wherein he will abide for ever of whom it may be said God is in the Midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early or with his morning appearance At which time he will sit silent no longer but Heaven will speak again and become active and powerful in the spirits and hearts of Honest men and in the works of his providences when either they goe out to sight by Sea or by Land or remaine in counsel and debates at home for the publique Weale and againe heare the prayers of his people and visibly own them is a flock of holy men as Jerusalem in her solemn ●easts I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel saith the Lord to doe it for them And then they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them and that they are my people and that ye my flock the flock of my pasture are men that have shewed your selves weak sinful men and I am your God that have declared my self an all-wise and powerful God saith the Lord God Postscript Reader UPon the perusal of this Discourse thou wilt quickly perceive that these two things are principally aimed at in it by the Author First to answer in some measure that which is called for by those in power when they publiquely professe they desire nothing more then conviction and to find out the hidden provocations which either have or yet may bring forth the Lord against these Nations in the way which at present they are in Secondly To remove out of the minds and spirits of the honest Partie that still agree in the reason and justice of the good Old Cause all things of a private Nature and selfish Concern the tendency whereof serves but to foment and strengthen wrath and divisions amongst them and in Place thereof to set before them that common and publique interest which if with sinceritie embraced may be the meanes of not only procuring a firm union amongst them but also of conserving them herein In order to this the Author hath not been willing much to declare his own Opinion or deliver any Positive Conclusions as to discusse the business by way of question and answer and thereby make as neer a conjecture as he can of that wherein the several dissenting parts may with better satisfaction meet together and agree upon a safe and righteous bottome then to remaine at the distance they doe to the apparent advantage of the Common Enemie the approaching ruine of themselves and needlesse hazzard if not losse of the Cause they have been so deeply engaged in Especially considering that when once they shall be found beginning to come forth to one another in such a condiscending self-denying spirit cleansed from the stain of hypocrisie and deceit they may be well assured that light will spring up amongst them more and more unto a perfect day and then those things which at present we have next in view will prove as shadowes ready to flee away before the morning brightnesse of Christs Heavenly Appearance and second comming through which they will be heightened and improved to their full maturitie to the bringing in that Kingdome of his that shall never be moved And because an Essay hath been already made in a private way to obtain the first thing that is to say Conviction which chiefly is in the hand of the Lord to give the same obligation lies upon the Author with respect to the second for the exposing of it as now it is unto Publicke view and therein leaving it also with the Lord for his blessing thereunto LONDON Printed for T. Brewster at the sign of the three Bibles at the West-end of Pauls 1656.