Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	john_n	truth_n	7,355	5	5.9439	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83437	The casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Or, A treatise against toleration and pretended liberty of conscience: wherein by Scripture, sound reason, fathers, schoolmen, casuists, Protestant divines of all nations, confessions of faith of the Reformed Churches, ecclesiastical histories, and constant practice of the most pious and wisest emperours, princes, states, the best writers of politicks, the experience of all ages; yea, by divers principles, testimonies and proceedings of sectaries themselves, as Donatists, Anabaptists, Brownists, Independents, the unlawfulnesse and mischeif [sic] in Christian commonwealths and kingdoms both of a vniversal toleration of all religions and consciences, and of a limited and bounded of some sects only, are clearly proved and demonstrated, with all the materiall grounds and reasons brought for such tolerations fully answered. / By Thomas Edvvards, Minister of the Gospel. The first part.; Casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Part 1	Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing E225; Thomason E394_6; ESTC R201621	211,214	231

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praeconem_fw-la assignat_fw-la &_o leges_fw-la ipsas_fw-la in_o acta_fw-la sua_fw-la refert_fw-la sacrisque_fw-la suis_fw-la oraculis_fw-la annumerat_fw-la quid_fw-la a_o spiritus_fw-la sa●cti_fw-la &_o prophetae_fw-la elogio_fw-la laudatur_fw-la nebuchadnezer_n qui_fw-la very_fw-la dei_fw-la gloriam_fw-la pro_fw-la imperio_fw-la tutandam_fw-la suscepit_fw-la ut_fw-la ad_fw-la impiam_fw-la ejus_fw-la prophanationem_fw-la conniu●ant_fw-la sancti_fw-la magistratus_fw-la a_o non_fw-la potius_fw-la his_fw-la dominus_fw-la sub_fw-la profani_fw-la regis_fw-la persona_fw-la quid_fw-la agere_fw-la ipsos_fw-la deceat_fw-la praescribit_fw-la et_fw-la c●rte_fw-la quid_fw-la magis_fw-la praeposterum_fw-la quam_fw-la in_o ecclesiae_fw-la sinu_fw-la impune_fw-la foveri_fw-la fcelestas_fw-la in_o deum_fw-la c●nt●elias_fw-la quae_fw-la in_o babylone_a paena_fw-la capitali_fw-la sanitae_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la ☞_o ☞_o bull_v adversus_fw-la anabaptistas_n l._n 4._o c._n 5._o c._n 6._o osiandri_fw-la enchiridion_n c._n 2._o qust_n 41._o de_fw-fr magistratu_fw-la politico_n politico_n the_o error_n and_o controversy_n in_o matter_n of_o the_o second_o table_n upon_o the_o 5_o 6_o 7_o 8_o and_o 9_o commandment_n be_v the_o most_o exact_o sum_v up_o by_o danaeus_n in_o his_o book_n de_fw-fr haeresibus_fw-la of_o any_o author_n in_o that_o kind_n that_o ever_o i_o meet_v with_o index●_n tertius_fw-la de_fw-fr decalog_n legis_fw-la de_fw-fr quinto_fw-la praecepto_fw-la magistratum_fw-la damnant_fw-la &_o tollunt_fw-la manichai_n anabaptistae_n magistratus_fw-la ●utoritatem_fw-la in_o negotiis_fw-la religionis_fw-la negant_fw-la d●n●tistae_fw-la judicia_fw-la capitalia_fw-la à_fw-la christian●_n homine_fw-la exer●●i_fw-la posse_fw-la negant_fw-la tertullianiss●_n de_fw-fr sexto_fw-la precepto_fw-la seipsos_fw-la occiacre_n putant_fw-la licere_fw-la hominibus_fw-la patriciani_n circumcelliones_fw-la de_fw-fr septimo_fw-la praecepto_fw-la vxores_fw-la commune_v &_o promiscuas_fw-la ess_n debere_fw-la d●cent_fw-la simoniani_n nicolaitae_n carpocratiani_fw-la incestus_fw-la admittunt_fw-la &_o probant_fw-la catap●●yges_n de_fw-fr octavo_fw-la praecepto_fw-la propria_fw-la quaedam_fw-la à_fw-la christianis_fw-la poss●deri_fw-la posse_fw-la negant_fw-la apostolici_fw-la jesuitae_n anabaptistae_n de_fw-fr nono_fw-la praecepto_fw-la mentiri_fw-la homini_fw-la christiano_n licere_fw-la putant_fw-la messaliani_n priscillianistae_n ☜_o ☜_o whites_n way_n to_o the_o church_n pag._n 81._o 83_o 84_o 85._o neither_o can_v the_o jesuit_n assign_v any_o company_n or_o state_n of_o man_n whereby_o the_o church_n may_v be_v suppose_v to_o manifest_v her_o teach_n but_o the_o same_o may_v be_v subject_a to_o error_n and_o in_o experience_n have_v err_v as_o we_o see_v in_o counsel_n doctor_n and_o all_o other_o mean_n which_o she_o have_v use_v in_o teach_v we_o except_o that_o of_o the_o scripture_n only_o willet_n second_o general_n controversy_n concern_v the_o church_n second_o question_n whether_o the_o church_n may_v err_v pag._n 69_o 70_o 71._o amesii_n bellarm._n enervat_fw-la tom._n sec●nd_n cap._n 2._o de_fw-fr eccles_n visibilit_fw-la quaest_n 4._o a_o ecclesia●_n possit_fw-la errare_fw-la rivet_n catholic_n orthodox_n tractat._n 2._o quaest_n 3._o an_fw-mi ecclesia_fw-la possit_fw-la errare_fw-la cameron_n praelect_v de_fw-fr eccles_n de_fw-fr eccles_n infallibilit_fw-la 281_o 282_o etc._n etc._n ☞_o ☞_o chamier_n panstrat_n cathol_n de_fw-fr canon_n &_o summa_fw-la regula_n fidei_fw-la apostoli_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la infallibiles_fw-la ex_fw-la particulari_fw-la assistentia_fw-la spiritus_fw-la habuerunt_fw-la particularem_fw-la non_fw-la habitualem_fw-la assistentiam_fw-la spiritus_fw-la lutherus_n spirtus_fw-la sanctus_n non_fw-la semper_fw-la tangit_fw-la corda_fw-la propheta●um_fw-la propheta●um_fw-la whitak_n controv_n 3._o quaest_n 6_o a_o assertion_n of_o the_o government_n of_o the_o church_n of_o