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	prayer_n	word_n	7,609	5	4.2667	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08463	A sarmon, of Ihon Oecolampadius, to yong men, and maydens	Oecolampadius, Johann, 1482-1531.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1548 (1548)	STC 18787; ESTC S104178	12,767	48

❧ A ❧ ☞ Sarmon ☜ of Ihon Oecolampadius to yong men and maydens ❧ To his harty freind Master segraue Iohn Foxe the translatour whyshyth grace and lyght of the holy spirit Sythen the tyme I fyrst perceiued in you your desire to the word of God and hys holy institution I haue not ceased to be sollycytus in mynd and prayers for you desiring the father and sender of our Captaine Chryst to encrease that thing in you whyche he hath begone And that inwardly you myght be replenyshed wyth plentuous spyryt and knowledge of the great glory and ryches which is geuen vs in Christ to th entent you myght be altered in the sence of your mind to a new mā And profesly forsak the vaine fruition of thys earthly world and to embrace the glorious vocatyon whiche we called to in christe The whiche I thynk is hard for you and us all to do The sence of our fleshe is so strong The temptyng spyrytt is so ready Neuerthelesse insomuche yet it is our partes wyth mutuall conferring one to exhorte an other And also for the brotherly affection I beare to you warde I cānot nor aught not I suppose but some thyng I say as concernyng your spyrytuall eadyfycation And bycause yow shall not take my exhortacyones whyche be but of feble weyght for you to styk vnto here I haue traunslated and sent to you a fruitfull adhortacion of a famose Chrystiane I Oecolāpadius desyryng you to accepte well in worthe thys labore bestowed and also to geue dilygent reding to his preceptis whose institutions yf you wyll attently mark and peruse I doubt nothyng but you shall receyue no smale fruyte thereatt beyng suffycyently instructed in all thynges you shall desire The liuing grace of chryst be with you So be it Thys thing which I shall speake here to young mene whiche must be fede fyrst wyth mylke and such tender meat I wold lykewyse yow that be elders and more auncyente in chrystes doctryne to practyse the same dylygently euery man in hys owne house at home for lytyll yt shal avayle thus openly to preache vnto you vnlsse ye vse the same in your housholdes the whyche pryuat and domestycall instructyone I thynke so profytable and necessarye in chrystes churche that wythout yt our open sermones though they be neuer so good and learneyd shall lytell synke or remane in younge mennes hartes by reasone theyr myndes and senses be so wanderynge and set vpon tryffles ratheyr than to marke anye good thynge suche thynges as be holsome and for ther soules healthe fewe of theme reygarde vnlesse they be broughte vp frome they re youth in the feare of god To you now there fore young men I speake that be chrystened Your parentes whethere they be alyue or deade brought you of a good and a chrystene mynde to be chrystenede that ye myght be dead frome thys world and synne Remembre wherfore god dyd call you to that lyfe not that you shuld liue here and hepe vp riches in this world but that you should inheryte the kyngdome of heauen The whiche kyngdome shal be geuen only to them that feare god worke rightuesnes yf we lyue wyckedly and cōtynue in synnes so as the fashion of yonge menne and maides is to doo perpetuall damnatione and fyer euerlastynge shall folwe for god is a iust iudge Agaynne yf we wyll walke in the commaundementes of the Lorde we shall fynde ioy and lyffe euerlastynge in heauen withe the Aungelles and all godly saynctes But yf you wyll not ceasse from your sinnes wickednes but still remayne and wallowe in your noughttynes loke for nothynge els but euerlastynge fyer withe the deuil You yong persons you be bound to be obedyent to your Parentes in all thynges saue onely such as perteynes to god and your soule ward in all other matters yf you lyue not obedyent to them ye haue no excuse before god the fyrste and pryncypal honor muste be to god the next after to our parentes what profyt is it yf thy parentes do tender the neuer so much make the ther heire of all they haue and pamper the vp with all maner of delycates And thow to lose the fauore of God with out the which there is no health no quietnes euen as though a man for one lyttell peace of lande full of wides and bryers shuld for sake all the whole ryches and treasure of the world And at lenght the lord shall also fynde these out whan he shall iudge the worlde All yought for the most part folow the commen sort of people hauing no dyfferenc betwixt good and badde and other not knowyng thynges sprytuall or els not regardynge them fyrste loke ye be obedyent to the word of God and harken to yt dayly and dylygently And if your parētes do grug theirwith or be offended do you rather feare and regard your heauenli father which hath both power of bodi soule thā your fleshli parēts whiche haue no pouer ouer you but onli inwardli thinges whiche is rather then to be esteymed God whyche is almyghty whyche hath promysed heuē or your parētes here whyche geue you but earthly thynges and suche as be transsitory casual to euery blaste of fortūe Truly god I knowe vndoubted some parēts whyche do all they can that there chyldren shuld not heare the worde of God O foules and peruerse people vnworthe to be named chrysten mē Mā must nedes here in this world haue some god to serue otheyr the god of heauen or els the deuyll the great aduersary of mākynd it must nedes folow for so sayth chryst that no mā cā serue two lordes at ons Thei whyche wyll not serue god do serue the deuyl be all the minysters of the deuil which do not lede a chrystiane lyfe And for thys cause chrystenmens chyldren whā they be christened be told to abrenounce al the workes of the deuil and so they promyse here after if the liue to lead a christiē life to folow what so euer Christ cōmaundeith to eschue what so euer god forbideth And this voue pleaseth god right well Periured and for sworune you be yf ye break your voue say not now I made no promyse at my baptyme Thy parents thy god fatheres promysed in thy be halfe whome also here I charge and warne that thys voue be performede and dyscharged It hath bene taken for an heygh matter of godlynes yf a yong man had voued him selfe into some monesteri there to remayne in seruice of God perpetuall pouerti but vnlese they had bene entyced in with promysys and fayere flattery wordes they wold neuer haue concented to that wycked madnes to bynd them selues in abbayes where as was nothyng lese thā the seruice of god excercised Now for the most part of yought they nether knowe what god what the deuell what good or what euell meanes Nether is god nor the deuill ani such thyng as the painters make them Yf you know how mercyfull god is