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	know_v	soul_n	7,408	5	4.7811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49874	The wounded-heart, or, The jury-man's offences declared and ingeniously acknowledged for the satisfaction of those who were thereby troubled by Thomas Leader.	Leader, Thomas.	1665 (1665)	Wing L793; ESTC R11077	8,130	12

Judge did inform us was to prevent Insurrections by meeting together under a Pretence of Religious Exercise but as unto these People they could not be made guilty of the breach of that Act because there was not any Witness to prove that they were there upon pretence but as they confess really to worship God or upon the account of any Insurrection and as far as ever I could hear were not the people that ever had hand in any such thing 5. Fifthly I minded this unto them That the hand of God hath been seen in an extraordinary manner by them that had of late been transported Therefore did advise that they would not be rash but consider what it was that they were a going about to do These Reasons I did use as that which did satisfie me and I thought might have satisfied the rest of the Jury that the Prisoners were not guilty of the crimes charged in the Indictment But all would not signifie any thing Now in the consideration of these things the Officer came and said My Lord hath sent to know whether you are all agreed word was sent No. Many of the Jury said That they had confessed so much therfore they could do no less than carry them in guilty I told them often that I could never agree unto it The Officer comes again yet we were not agreed and goes and comes again and said My Lord hath sent me for to lock you up At this many of the Jury were troubled and how to help we could not tell but at last we did begin to consider how far we could agree together and about four of us came to this conclusion that we could carry them in thus That they were at the Bull and Mouth and upon a Religious account and no further and no more had we either from the Witnesses or themselves But here all parties were not agreed and about this time the Officer comes again and said My Lord hath sent me to know the Names of those that are not agreed I then told him my Name and told him that I could not agree to the bringing of them in guilty of the Indictment And in this condition we were in for about two hours about which time those that were for not bringing of them in guilty of the Indictment did begin to be of another mind and not only so but did also use Arguments for to perswade me so that with what the Judge told us That we had nothing to do but to find whether they were there or no and also with the Officers often coming unto us and about eight or nine of us that were never upon such a Jury before and as to my own part I underderstood but little in such things and so being in a great strait and reasoning with my self and others I was over-perswaded and deeply surprized so far as to hold my peace at the Bar notwithstanding when that we were a coming out of the room where we were together I told them that I was not agreed any further than is before-mentioned and to this some of them are my witnesses and the Lord of Heaven that knows all hearts is also Witness to the truth of this Now this I have to say and do before the Lord his People and the whole World declare That herein I was surprized and became an Instrument of great dishonour unto the Name of God and a trouble unto his People and the more I consider of it the more I do see the wickedness of it and the lowness and baseness of my own spirit that I should be silent at such a time and in such a case of so great concernment that was directly against my own understanding which giveth me great cause of grief and sorrow of heart and doth even cause my soul to bleed and the Lord knows it doth disturb me of my peace by day and of my rest by night That God should give me a Tongue and yet I should not have a Heart to make use of it in such a case and at such a time And it hath been often in my thoughts that if God should deal with me as I have dealt in this case he might deprive me of that member for whereas I have been a dishonour unto God a grief unto the Righteous a trouble unto my own Soul and a means of sorrow and affliction unto many innocent Souls for want of bearing a Publick Testimony when the Lord had put it into my hands the consideration of which makes my soul to cry out O Lord God what may be done in this case Sos being under this trouble and sorrow of heart for which I may a I have just cause to mourn all the dayes of my life it came into my heart to write these things following to the end that it might be a Warning unto all men in the like case that when they are called unto such a work as this was that they may have a care how they are either perswaded against their own understandings which as I conceive no mortal man will require and also to know when to speak how to speak and when to be silent Again That all men may know I never consented unto any other Verdict to be brought in against those people called Quakers no otherwise than by my silence at the Bar which for the want of a good understanding in the work I was then upon with the Arguments used by others and by often sending to and threatning withal I was surprized and led into a snare but yet I thank God that it was not done with premeditation as Judas betrayed his Master yet I dare not excuse my self but say I have sinned and as Eve was surprized by the subtilty of the Serpent yet it was sinful in her and the sin lay heavy upon her Peter was brought into a snare to deny his Master yet was not to be excused from sin in that case David was tempted to number the People of Israel yet he was not excused from sin notwithstanding he was provoked and tempted unto it and indeed this instance of David hath la in heavy upon me that as David did number the People of Israel 2 Sam. 24.1 10. it 's said that Davids heart smote him and his heart smiting him was a plain discovery that he had not done well Our hearts do not smite us when we do those things that are good and right in the sight of God And at that very time in which these things were done I was not without a smitten heart and great jealousies I had that I had not done well and yet deprived of that reason and courage as I ought to have had to say those things which was really my Judgment before I shall not make it my business to say any thing of the faults of others having too much to say of my own and because I would not be teadious nor burthensom I shall for the instruction of the Christian Reader comprise what I have to