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	lord_n	work_n	7,405	5	5.2371	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07778	Three meditations vpon these three places of scripture, 1 Cor. 2.2 ..., Psal. 6.1 ..., Prov. 3.11,12 ... by Iohn Bulteel.	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1627 (1627)	STC 18156A; ESTC S916	33,704	172

in this life And so to weane our children to set them forwards to vse them to a better food we vse to 〈◊〉 Orpin on the nurses brest A while after thy wife melted with griefe wearied and tired with anguish cloyed with daies desirous of a better life God tooke her away from thee and that before thine eyes thy selfe thy soule thou wilt say and thine owne entrailes But wouldest thou not haue made conscience for thy contentment rather than for hers to see her endure not able to dure vnder such a torture But seeing we must all part from hence louing her so tenderly wouldst thou haue preceded her decease And knowest thou what yeeres remaine thee after her and with what loue then wouldest thou haue surcharged her ouerwhelmed her with such griefe to see thee die before her yea if thou wouldest but consisider thine interest what greater good yea almost what other good ioyned with hers couldst thou draw than from the death of thy wife who after hauing beene giuen thee thirtie yeeres and more for an helpe to liue well thou hast had her as an example to die well dying vertuously Christianly for others to take example by to learne of her and in her a liuely lesson at the very stroke of death to crowne to conclude thy life But in stead of replying thou redoublest thy complaint why could not God take mee some other way and whether it hath beene to chastize mee or to proue mee had hee no other meanes but hee must needs come to extremities But whether it be to make thee feele his rod or to put thy faith in euidence what could he doe more His goods giuen thee by his mercie and worldly honours how often hadst thou spurned at them trod them vnder foot made vile account of them what had it been then else than to haue strucke thee vpon thy cloaths to try the valour of a Souldier in a pettie game the constancie of a Senatour in a pupper In that one therefore which remained to thee whereof thou wert sensible hee hath strucken thee who knoweth thee better than thy selfe doth elsewhere it had beene vnprofitable yea ridiculous He hath strucke thee but in his mercie to thy saluation Iob 5.17 18. for happie is the man whom God correcteth for hee maketh sore and bindeth vp hee woundeth and his hands make whole And therefore learne to say more and more to God with Iob neither be weary therof Iob 13.15 though he slay me yet will I trust in him And notwithstanding protest holily with him euen vpon that point but I will maintaine mine owne wates before him all these temptations shall not slacken my course but rather shall settle mee in his seruice frame me and resolue me thereto And then doe not doubt Iob 42.12 but that God will blesse thy latter end more than thy beginning That hee will restore vnto thee not the double as to Iob but an hundred fold when hee shall restore vnto thee those whom thou bemoanest and thee to them but glorious but in his glorie 1 Cor. 15. when these sensuall bodies sowen in corruption in dishonour in weaknesse shall rise spirituall bodies in incorruption in glorie in power when all together at the voice of the Arch-Angell 1 The. 4.16 at the trump of God wee shall rise out of the dust wee shall meet the Lord in the aire to dwell liue reigne and triumph with him for euer Amen These wholesome simples O Lord doe I gather in thy Garden in thy holy Word and doe compound them and dispose of them but vnprofitably this flesh doth so much repugne if thy Spirit doth not apply them vnto me Therfore O Father God of patience and comfort effect in mee this thy worke behold my wounds powre therein the sweet balme of thy Word giue it vertue and efficacie let this paine turne into conuersion these medicines into comfort vnto my soule That I may haue matter to cry out with the Prophet O Lord Isai 12.1 2. I will praise thee though thou wast angry with me for I acknowledge it I had need thereof I adore thy mercie in the scalding water of thine anger but I adde also with one tenour in full confidence Thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me behold the Lord Iehouah is my strength and my song he also is become my saluation for his holy name sake in his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS