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	new_a	stony_a	5,787	5	13.2107	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75464	The anti-covenant, or a sad complaint concerning the new Oath or Covenant: presented in a letter to a dear and intimate friend, with earnest request for his advice and prayers. By a true loyall subject, and lover of the Parliament.	True loyall subject and lover of the Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3489; Thomason E60_10; ESTC R23546	44,797	58

God spake to Moses and doe it that they would feare me and keepe all my commandements alwaies that it might be well with them and with their children for ever and oh that there were now such an heart in us all of this Nation will all good men wish that we would all in earnest be heartily sorry for our owne sinnes and the sinnes of this Nation and that wee did really intend an amendment of our owne wayes for then to bee sure it would be well with us and with our children after us But for so many thousands nay the most of us to declare and sweare this in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts when both God that searcheth our hearts and our own hearts themselves know that it is not so what will this doe but infinitely adde to our sinnes and provoke God to adde to our calamities and judgements both personall and Nationall How many fowle abominable crying sinnes are there whereof you and I know multitudes I would we could exempt the Imposers of this new Oath to bee deeply guilty which the most of them will not acknowledge to be sinnes but justifie themselves in them so far as they are from being heartily sorry for them or intending any amendment of them As for instance uncharitablenes lying slandering rapine oppression disobedience blooshed and rebellion and yet they that are most conscious of such crimes will t is likely with the first declare or sweare in the presence of Almighty God and as they will answer it at the great day c. that they are heartily sorry for their owne sinnes c. and intend amendment Thus whilst we professe to enter into a sacred covenant and by that to binde our selves to bewaile and forsake our sinnes the acknowledged causes of our present calamities and judgements we doe but mocke God speaking words and swearing falsly in making a covenant which makes our judgements to grow the more springing up like hemlocke in furrowes of the field Hosen 10.4 Let us then pray and that earnestly that God would bee pleased according to his promise Jerem. 31. to make a new covenant with us and to put his law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts or as the Prophet Ezekiel expresseth that covenant Ezek. 11. 19.20 that he would give us one heart and put a new spirit within us and take the stony heart out of our flesh and give us an heart of flesh that we may walke in his statutes c. But let us take heede how we sweare or declare in the presence of God that our stony heart is taken from us and that an heart of flesh that is a softened mollifyed penitent heart is given us when our hearts assure us that there is no such worke wrought in us as also that wee intend an amendment of our waies for the future when wee intend nothing lesse 2. Quaer What sinnes are to be accounted the sinnes of the Nation that so we may swear in judgement knowing what we swear And to this purpose it may be questioned whether the late superstitious practises and innovations against which there have beene so many Declamations are to be reputed sinnes of this Nation and how many are or will be heartily sorry for them though they have beene no little cause of our present sorrowes as also whether Anabaptisticall Brownisticall and other Separatisticall practises and positions connived at if not countenanced by those who ought to suppresse and punish the Authors and Fautors thereof and to bee esteemed sinnes of the Nation and how many will declare their sorrow for them though our present sorrowes are fomented and continued by them as further whether plundering robbing and spoyling whether speaking evill of Dignities and slandering both the footsteps and person of the Lords Anointed whether false swearing and perjury whereof our oathes of Allegiance Supremacy and late Protestation are pregnant witnesses are to be numbred amongst the sinnes of this Nation and how many will declare their hearty sorrow for them though like to increase our sorrowes to our being overwhelmed by them Or whether only those sinnes not long since Declared by publique Order of the Lords and Commons Feb. 15. 1642. and appointed to be read in all Churches and Chapels c. be the sinnes of this Nation viz. The high contempt of Gods holy Ordinances c. Multitudes of oathes and blasphemies c. envy contentions and unnaturall divisions oppression fraud and violence as also whether the blood shed in the dayes of Queene Mary and Idolatry then and since are to be adjudged the sinnes of this Nation and our sorrowes to be terminated in lamenting them This I humbly conceive were fit to be declared before we sweare or declare in the presence of God and as we will answer at the great day c. that we are heartily sorry for the sinnes of this Nation What wee doe declare our hearty sorrow for in private every mans owne conscience regulates him in but when we make a publique solemne declaration of our sorrow for the whole Nations sinnes and enter into a sacred covenant with God not to commit the like sinnes againe it is but reason that as many sinnes of the Nation as can be thought on at least the most notorious should be publikely named that so the people may know what sinnes in speciall they professe themselves sorry for and promise amendment of This hath beene observed in making covenants which were sacred indeed concerning Nationall sinnes as in that covenant which Joshua called upon the people to make Josh 24. that appointed by Asa 2. Chr. 15. that appointed by Josiah 2. Chr. 34. and that appointed by Ezra Ezr. 10. In all which covenants you shall finde the principall Nationall sins of which they declared their detestation and promised amendment particularly Named But indeed every one of those covenants were entred into by the command and authority of the supreme Governour and it is not to be found in sacred Writ where ever there was any sacred Nationall Covenant enjoyned by any save by the King or supreme of that Nation or by the expresse authority derived from Him But no more of this first part of the Covenant it being as I verily beleeve the least part intended by the Contrivers of it only it is set in the first place that looking upon that our eyes may be so dazled with the glorious specious religiousnesse of it as not to bee able to discover the foule abominable iniquity of the rest The second thing required in this oath is That we sweare or declare in the presence of Almighty God that we doe abhorre and detest the said wicked and treacherous designe lately discovered and that we never gave nor will give our assent to the execution thereof but will according to our power and vocations oppose and resist the same and all other of the like nature concerning which I make these foure Quaeres 1. Quaer How is it