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	sin_n	word_n	7,355	5	3.9910	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19519	A soueraigne salue to cure a sicke soule infected with the poyson of sinne. Wherein is contained, 1 The strength and force of the poyson of sinne. 2 How mans soule became poysoned? 3 How the soule of man poysoned by sinne may be cured, and restored. These parts are all authenticall, and comprised in a most short and compendious method, briefly to be read, that they may be effectually practised. Newly published by I.A. minister and preacher of Gods Word.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1624 (1624)	STC 595.4; ESTC S115221	6,369	22

medicine in time For common experience teacheth vs that Tempus est pretiosum breue irreuocabile Time is pretious short and irreuocable Qui non ost hodiè cras minús aptus erat He that is not ready to receiue this Heauenly physicke to day will bee lesse ready to morrow Let vs therefore take this time while wee haue it for we haue no time but this present time the time past is not ours it is gone and cannot bee recalled the time to come is not for beeing not come it may bee it neuer shall come Onely the present houre is ours let vs take and make good vse of it So that now euen now is the time to take this wholesome and brauenly phisicke to purge away our sinnes while wee are here in this life the time is in our hands Now the doore is open but after this life it will be shut Therefore now while the Gospell shineth now while Christ calleth now while he speaketh now while hee kneeketh let vs amend our former liues let vs now therefore heare Gods word let vs now obey him let vs make this day our day to returne vnto God And although we could neuer bee mooued by reading any booke heretofore or by hearing Gods word preached hitherto yet let vs now be moued at the last and with good Ezechias let vs be afraid of Gods threatning sorrow aforehand examine our consciences and mourne for our sinnes let vs clense and purge our hearts and soules from this poison and let vs neuer drinke nor taste that deadly dregs againe Let vs walke no more so inordinately in it wallow no more in the filthie mire of it obey no more the lust of it nor giue our members any more to be weapons to fight for it But with all our power let vs oppose it resist it and manfully with all our force fight against it Oh let vs shake off our sinnes banish them send our dearest darlings packing and neuer pittie them neuer loue them neuer be led by them for they would poison our soules most deadly vnto eternall destruction To conclude God grant that we may all and euery one of vs forsake our sinnes in time before it bee too late and as Physitions doe heale many sore maladies with sharpe medicines so giue grace O eternall and most gracious God that these my labours though they seeme vnsauery and sharpe to the wicked may yeelde such sound and godly Phisicke that they may become a salue to cure and preserue the soules of the godly in their zeale of thy glory And furthermore grant O swéet Iesus that it may offer and minister all such spirituall Physicke vnto the soules infected with the poyson of sinne that it may be a meanes to withdraw them from the same And that the salue which is here presented vnto such as are sicke and almost past recouery may worke so effectually one them that it may both strengthen helpe and heale them of that damnable poyson wherewith they are so deadly infected This GOD grant without whose helpe all the labour of man is in vaine And thus both from the poyson of sinne and the punishment due for the same the Lord deliuer vs all euen for his deare Sonne Christ Iesus his sake our onely Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour glory praise power and dominion both now and for euer Amen The Author to the Reader Gentle Reader I most humbly desire thee what so euer thou bee that gatherest any spirituall Physicke to cure thy soules mallady out of these my labours to pray vnto my Sauiour Iesus Christ for mee to direct me with his holy Spirit and giue mee his grace to vse it to salue and cure my owne soule that as I endeauour to cure thee in words I may also labour in deedes to raise and preserue my selfe from all my sinnes to the setting forth of Gods glory and the saluation of my owne soule which God grant for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS