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
A62015	To the nobility and gentry lawyers and physicians, sea-men & trades-men, magistrates subordinate and supreme, &c. By Tho. Swadlin D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6229A; ESTC R220646	17,046	127

mercy upon me The Ship that I am now in is but a vain thing to save a man and that Pyrates may not board us that windes and waves may not drown us that Infidels may not captivate us Have mercy upon us That th● Devil may not infect us That we may be constant in our Religion That we may be true and just in our dealings That in all places we may demean our selves as the Professors of Christ and give no occasion to the Adversary to speak evil Have mercy upon us That the great Leviathan may not seize upon our souls as the Whale did upon Jonas his body for sins we stand guilty of Have mercy upon us and blot out all our offences In a Storm O God! who didst save Noah and his Family in the A●k from perishing by water Help us or else we perish O God! who didst hear the prayer of thy Prophet from the bottom of the Sea and our of the belly of Hell Hear us and help us else we perish O God! who hast commanded and raised the stormy winde which lifteth up the waves of the Sea Help us else we perish O God! these winds and these waves mount us up to Heaven and bring us down again to the depth and melt our souls Help us else we perish O God! we reel to and fro and stagger like drunken men and are at our wits end Help us else we perish Our sins have raised thy Anger O God! and thy Anger hath raised these storms In justice thou mayest deal with us as thou didst with Pharaoh and the Egyptians but we beseech thee to deal with us in mercy as with Moses and the Israelites in the red Sea Cast our sins into the bottomlesse Sea of thy mercy Drown them in the red Sea of Jesus Christs blood and as he did rebuke the waves and the Sea so doe Thou turn this Sea into a Calme and bring us to our desired Haven Spare us a little longer before we goe hence and be no more seen Guide us in this whole voyage by thy Power Govern is with thy Mercy Return us with thy Grace that we may give up our lives in the Land where we received them Or if thou hast 〈◊〉 appointed us unto death● prepare us for death in the full remission of our Sins in the free justification about Persons in the frui●full sanctification of our remaining Dai●s and in the future glor●fication of our Souls through Jesus Christ Amen In whose Name c. After the Storm That thou hast heard us from above and drawn us out of many waters My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That thou hast delivered us from all our Fea●s and hast not suffered the water-floods to over whelm us nor the deeps to swallow us up My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That thou ●ast shewn us thy w 〈…〉 in the deep and 〈◊〉 delivered us from death by preserving us in the ship and commanding the waves to be quiet and the winds to be still My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That 〈◊〉 hast brought me 〈◊〉 to the shoar comforted me with the sight and life health if my friends My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord At thy Return And now what shall I render unto thee ô Lord for all thy benefits My soul and body I dedicate unto thee and beseech thee to consecrate them unto thy self They have been washt in the waters of the Sea oh now wash them in the laver of Regeneration They have tasted the saltness of the Sea oh let them now taste the Merits of my Saviour and then my soul shall never consent again to sin my body shall never again commit sin And that this may not prove presumption but that I may bring my promise into performance Be 〈…〉 O God! with the earnestnesse of my soul upon the k●ees of my body I beg thy assistance ●nd th● graces of 〈◊〉 holy Spirit that I m●y conq 〈…〉 s in he commanding power of sin and never again obey it the condemning guilt of sin and never despair under it And this for the bitter Agony and precious death ●f my Lord Saviour Jesus Christ Amen In whose blessed Name and words I further call upon thee saying Our Father c. The Sea-mans Character IN him I see a warrantable a dangerous a gainful and an honourable Calling so warrantable that Christ of his twelve Apostles chose four Sea-men Andrew Peter James and John so dangerous that there is never above a foot and half betwixt him and death which made one Poet say Ille robur c. He had an heart of oake that first adventured to Sea and another Aut insanit c. He is either a mad-man or a begger or desirous to die that goes to Sea onely they are so happy in this danger that they see Gods wonders in the deep and give him thanks when they are by him brought unto the haven so gainful that Solemons good huswife is compared to a Merchants Ship that brings riches from a far Countrey so honourable that of old the merchants of Tyre were called Princes and of late years those of Genoa Venice and the Low-Countries are arrived so high that a great part of the world envies them the rest admires them to them we are beholding for Balme from Gilead for Incense from Sheba for Gold from Ophir for Cedar and Firr from Tyre for Gumms and Spices from India and somewhat more than ordinary there is in this Calling since Christ hath graced it with the immaterial letters of his own name The Travailer I Am now taking a journey by land whether for the necessity of businesse or the visiting of my friends or the wooing of a wife I need not scruple my self so I am sure it is not for vanity or sin I may pray God for his protection and thus I addresse my self to his Throne of Grace O most gracious God! who didst protect thy servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob in their several journeys and gavest thy servant Tobias a convoy of Angels to conduct and bring him back again conduct me also in this my journey by thy Angels that I may be safe from the violence of Thieves and guide me by thy spirit that I may be safe from the assaults of those great Thieves of my Soul the Flesh the World and the Devil against the World give me the staffe of faith against the Devil give me the bag of charity against the Flesh give me the bottle of tears that as a Pilgrime I may not be cumbred with any thing of impediment but only furthered with all things of emolument and in every step of this journey remember my great journey from Earth to Heaven and keep such an even pace in the path of Grace that thou mayest return me back from this journey to my home receive me at the end of that journey to thy City of Glory for his sake who is the way the Truth and the life Jesus Christ In