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	lord_n	soul_n	18,529	5	5.0289	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66403	A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1672 (1672)	Wing W2711; ESTC R38653	30,581	162

A MANVAL OR Three SMALL and PLAIN TREATISES VIZ. 1. Of Prayer or Active Divinity 2. Of Principles or Positive Divinity 3. Resolutions or Oppositive Divinity Translated and Collected out of the Ancient Writers for the Private Use of a most Noble LADY to preserve her from the Danger of POPERY By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Arch-Bishop of YORK LONDON Printed for William Garret and are to be Sold by Joseph Clark and Ralph Needham in Little-Britain 1672. Certain PRAYERS AND Short MEDITATIONS Translated out of the Writings of St. Augustine St. Gregory St. Bernard Joannes Picus Mirandula Ludovicus Vives Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the private Use of a most Noble Lady Morning Prayer MY Soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning Watch I say before the morning Watch. O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee O Lord assist me with thy Holy Spirit in my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins REceive O Lord in the arms of thy mercy thy distr●●sed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returns unto thee from her sins Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighs and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy dear Son's sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God our heavenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect me still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that my thoughts words and deeds may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name and the eternal comfort and salvation of mine own soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Another O Most sincere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sun fetcheth his begining Thou which enlightenest every man that cometh into the World Thou Light whom no night or evening can obscure but continuest ever in thy High-noon brightness Thou Word and Wisdom of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soul and understanding that thy weak Hand-maiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the World and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing unto thee and leading to the waies of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Jesus that art not only righteous but righteousness it self and art my Advocate with God the Father justifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of judgment because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of injustice and pollution For it is not upon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soul relies but only upon a faith assurance and bold confidence in thee mine Advocate who livest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIve me thy Grace O Almighty God so to vanquish and overcome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee over the Devil and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that his desire of reading and ●earing thy sacred Word which by thy Holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercy be daily renued and augmented unto a perfect fire of zeal and devotion to the honour of thy Name and salvation of mine own soul in Christ Jesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman O Lord Jesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobility of birth that thy Evangelists have diligently searched out and recorded thine own genealogy give me thy unworthy Hand-maiden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy favour and mercy But rather as it was first acquired in my Ancestors let it still be preserved in my Person by my continual serving of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all works of Charity to my Neighbours Give me grace that as thou hast plac'd me in Birth Rank so I may be found in devotion piety lowliness of mind weekness and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous above others And if it be thy gracious Will to make me a Mother of Children and Mistriss of a Family let me appear a pattern and ensample of Devotion and Piety to all that are about me And make me and them so to live in thy fear that we may dye in thy favour through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Wife ALmighty God which hast given me to be a comfort and an helper unto my Husband endue my soul with those Heavenly Graces wherewith I may be most enabled to serve thee and please him Knit our minds as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of sincere affection Give either of us sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankful towards our Soveraign sincere loving one towards another Crown withal if it be thy will these chast intentions with thy fructifying grace that we may become the happy Parents of such Olive branches as may one day advance thy Glory in the Church and Common-wealth In a word so incorporate us both by faith in Christ unto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attain unto thy kingdom of Glory Amen A Prayer for one attendant neer the person of a Prince ALmighty God by whose gracious providence it cometh that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that nearness of attendance upon His Royal Majesty give him grace so to serve thee that he may the better serve him and by making him thy Saint continue him his servant Fill his mind with all wisdom knowledge and other virtues befitting his rank and calling that he may seem no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant careful and industrious in his Masters affairs Make him to accompt it his only happiness to serve thee his only virtue to observe him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soul may be carried by the Angels unto thy Court where one day is better than a thousand Crant this for thy dear Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDULA his twelve Thoughts or Weapons against all the Temptations of Sin Think 1. THe pleasure thou art tempted unto but short and momentary 2. And even this is attended with loathing and anxiety 3. And yet that for this thou must lose Heaven 4. That thy life is but as a dream and shadow 5. Thy death is suddain and at thy door 6. Thy time of repentance casual and uncertain 7. Thy reward or punishment endless and eternal 8. That thou art a creature of an