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	world_n	7,078	5	4.3901	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68054	Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted vpon an arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris. Together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus: concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone. Faithfully, and (as the maiesty of the thing requireth) religiously done into English out of the French and Latine copies. By Eirenæus Orandus, qui est, vera veris enodans; Figures hierogliphiques. English	Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae.; Pontanus, Joannes, d. 1572. Epistola de lapide philosophorum.; Orandus, Eirenaeus.	1624 (1624)	STC 11027; ESTC S102276	53,157	276

into the heart of liuing man I aske it of thee for our Lord Iesus Christ they welbeloued Son his sake who in the vnity of the holy Spirit liueth with thee world without end Amen The Explication of the Hieroglyphicke Figures placed by mee Nicholas Flammel Scriuener in the Church-yard of the Innocents in the fourth Arch entring by the great gate of St. Dennis street and taking the way on the right hand The Introduction ALthough that I Nicholas Flammel NOTARY and abiding in Paris in this yeere one thousand three hundred fourescore and nineteene and dwelling in my house in the street of Notaries neere vnto the Chappell of St. Iames of the Bouchery although I say that I learned but a little Latine because of the small meanes of my Parents which neuerthelesse were by them that enuie me the most accounted honest people yet by the grace of God and the intercession of the blessed Saints in Paradise of both sexes and principally of Saint Iames of Gallicia I haue not wanted the vnderstanding of the Bookes of the Philosophers and in them learned their so hidden secrets And for this cause there shall neuer bee any moment of my life when I remember this high good wherein vpon my knees if the place will giue me leaue or otherwise in my heart with all my affection I shall not render thanks to this most benigne God which neuer suffereth the child of the Iust to beg from doore to doore and deceiueth not them which wholly trust in his blessing Whilest therefore I Nicholas Flammel Notary after the decease of my Parents got my liuing in our Art of Writing by making Inuentories dressing accounts and summing vp the Expences of Tutors and Pupils there fell into my hands for the sum of two Florens a guilded Booke very old and large It was not of Paper nor Parchment as other Bookes bee but was onely made of delicate Rindes as it seemed vnto me of tender yong trees The couer of it was of brasse well bound all engrauen with letters or strange figures and for my part I thinke they might well be Greeke Characters or some such like ancient language Sure I am I could not reade them and I know well they were not notes nor letters of the Latine nor of the Gaule for of them wee vnderstand a little As for that which was within it the leaues of barke or rinde were ingrauen and with admirable diligence written with a point of Iron in faire and neate Latine letters coloured It contained thrice seuen leaues for so were they counted in the top of the leaues and alwayes euery seuenth leafe was without any writing but in stead thereof vpon the first seuenth leafe there was painted a Virgin and Serpents swallowing her vp In the second seuenth a Crosse where a Serpent was crucified and in the last seuenth there were painted Desarts or Wildernesses in the middest whereof ran many faire fountaines from whence there issued out a number of Serpents which ran vp and downe here and there Vpon the first of the leaues was written in great Capitall Letters of gold ABRAHAM THE IEW PRINCE PRIEST LEVITE ASTROLOGER AND PHILOSOPHER TO THE NATION OF THE IEWES BY THE WRATH OF GOD DISPERSED AMONG THE GAVLES SENDETH HEALTH After this it was filled with great execrations and curses with this word MARANATHA which was often repeated there against euery person that should cast his eyes vpon it if hee were not Sacrificer or Scribe Hee that sold mee this Booke knew not what it was worth no more than I when I bought it I beleeue it had beene stolne or taken from the miserable Iewes or found hid in some part of the ancient place of their abode Within the Booke in the second leafe hee comforted his Nation councelling them to flie vices and aboue all Idolatry attending with sweete patience the comming of the Messias which should vanquish all the Kings of the Earth and should raigne with his people in glory eternally Without doubt this had beene some very wise and vnderstanding man In the third leafe and in all the other writings that followed to helpe his Captiue nation to pay their tributes vnto the Romane Emperours and to doe other things which I will not speake of he taught them in common words the transmutation of Mettalls hee painted the Vessels by the sides and hee aduertised them of the colours and of all the rest sauing of the first Agent of the which hee spake not a word but onely as hee said in the fourth and fifth leaues entire hee painted it and figured it with very great cunning and workemanship for although it was well and intelligibly figured and painted yet no man could euer haue beene able to vnderstand it without being well skilled in their Cabala which goeth by tradition and without hauing well studied their bookes The fourth and fifth leafe therefore was without any writing all full of faire figures enlightened or as it were enlightened for the worke was very exquisite First he painted a yong man with wings at his anckles hauing in his hand a Caducaean rodde writhen about with two Serpents wherewith hee strooke vpon a helmet which couered his head he seemed to my small iudgement to be the God Mercury of the Pagans against him there came running and flying with open wings a great old man who vpon his head had an houre-glasse fastened and in his hands a hooke or sithe like Death with the which in terrible and furious manner hee would haue cut off the feet of Mercury On the other side of the fourth leafe hee painted a faire flowre on the top of a very high mountaine which was sore shaken with the North wind it had the foot blew the flowres white and red the leaues shining like fine gold And round about it the Dragons and Griffons of the North made their nests and abode On the fifth leafe there was a faire Rose-tree flowred in the middest of a sweet Garden climbing vp against a hollow Oake at the foot wherof boyled a fountaine of most white water which ranne head-long downe into the depths notwithstanding it first passed among the hands of infinite people which digged in the Earth seeking for it but because they were blinde none of them knew it except here and there one which considered the weight On the last side of the fift leafe there was a King with a great Fauchion who made to be killed in his presenc● by some Souldiers a great multitude of little Infants whose Mothers wept at the feet of the vnpittifull Souldiers the bloud of which Infants was afterwards by other Souldiers gathered vp and put in a great vessell wherein the Sunne and the Moone came to bathe themselues And because that this History did represent the more part of that of the Innocents slaine by Herod and that in this Booke I learned the greatest part of the Art this was one of the causes why I placed in their Churchyard these Hieroglyphick Symbols of