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	speak_v	word_n	18,876	5	4.5025	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01469	A letter of a yonge gentylman named mayster Germen Gardynare, wryten to a frend of his, wherin men may se the demeanour [and] heresy of Ioh[a]n Fryth late burned, [and] also the dyspycyo[n]s [and] reasonynge vpon the same, had betwene the same mayster Germen and hym.	Gardynare, Germen.	1534 (1534)	STC 11594; ESTC S110810	25,103	84

wordes were so playnly spoken of the very substaunce that they coulde not be referred to the mystery turne them to his incarnacyon thoughe the wordes were precysely wryten of the sacrament And that good holy fathers preuentyng by the spirite of god the malice of the deuyll though none heretyke had yet ben so shamelesse as to holde the contrary had neuertheles moste playnely and apertly deuyded the mystery from the thyng selfe and yet shewed both twayne to be in that blessed saccament whyche thynge myghte I sayd vnto hym yf he lyste not to blynde hymself clerely appere vnto hym by many other places and by thys also of Chrysostom whyche I hadde brought vnto hym where folowed But that not onely by loue but also in very dede we myghte be torned in to that flesh that is done by the meat whych he hath geuen vnto vs. Here he sayth sayd I that by the meate whych he gaue vs we be tourned into that fleshe and not by hys byrth not onely mystycally by loue but also in very dede Howe canne you wyth all your gloses inuerte thys from hys corporall presence wyth eyther of your gloses He answered yt was trouth that receyuynge the mystery and sygnyfycacyon in dede we were by fayth tourned into hym and that the mysterye there bare the name of that whych yt ●●th sygnifye as it doth in many places elles in scrypture And beyng asked than why he put this artycle that vnto the name of flesshe yf it were not to declare not a bare sygnyfycacyon but y e very fleshe whyche he spake of before he made no answere but desyred he myght be suffred to reade forthe shakynge of this mater with a certayne gyrnyng laughter after his fashyō as though yt had ben nothynge to the purpose whyche made me euen then almoste despayre of any good effecte and suffred hym to reade forth when he came to this place whych Chryste dyd bycause he wold bynde vs wyth more charyte and because be wolde she we his desyre towarde vs not onely sufferynge hym selfe to be sene vnto those whyche desyred him but also to be touched and eaten the teth to be set in his flesh and all men to be fulfylled with the de●yre of hym Here he thought to haue hadde me in a ioly snare asked yf that place as precysely as it wrote were not spirytually to be vnderstanden whyther in dede we dyd tere the fleshe of our sauyour wyth our teth or not I tolde hym that I beleued in very dede as the wordes were y t we set our teth in his blessed bodye yet tere yt not For in what parte of the hoste so euer we set our teth in that same parte is his whole very bodye As I byleue that whan the preste brake the hoste he tare not the body of our lorde for that were to put hym euery daye to a new passyon but that euery parte of the hoste was his hole bodye and that he who made all thyng of nought coulde compasse this to Here he laughed and rede forth wyth many gloses by the wayelytell to the purpose tyll he came to the place were he compareth the lambes blode in tholde lawe to his bloode whyche was therby fygured sayenge thus But yf the fygure therof hadde so great strengthe in the temple of the Hebrewes in the myddes of Egypte sprynkeled vppon the threshold mych more the trouch This trouth he sayde was referred onely to the passyon of our sauyour and the shedynge of his blood and not to the sacrament of thaultare whan I replyed that in this place saynte Chrysostome treateth of the sacrament and not of the passyon he answered magno supercisio wyth a solemne contenaunce that this was nothyng to the purpose and that I wys he hadde loked red ouer that place whan he was at his lybertye And therewithall he shyt the boke and be ganne to comen where fyrste he began to induce me y t all were to be vnderstāden in mistery by a place of saynte Chrysostome in a homilye whyche my lorde hym selfe hadde giuen hym before And hereby ye shall se the symplycytie and the playnes of this euangelycall man and howe wyth false dissymulacyon he labored to haue gotten me to hys opynyon Saynt Chrysostome sayth he wylleth y e peple to call away theyr wittes from the wordes as they be spoken and vnderstande theym spiritually tellynge them y t elles they lyed whan the preste sayde vp with your mynde and your hartes and they answere we haue to our lord where as in dede saynt Chrysostome in that place onely blamed them whyche not consyderynge howe reuerently they oughte there to behaue theym selfe spent in babelyng of other maters that tyme wherin they sholde haue prepared them for the holy worde Se the myscheuouse mater of this wicked wreche how deceytfully and how lyke hys father the deuell wyth lyenge and false alledgynge he went aboute to trappe me trustynge so to haue deluded me and to haue shaken me of therwithal bycause he thought I had not redde that place before who can doubte knowynge herin hys wylfull and malycyouse peruer syte of what deceytfull mynde he offered to condescende vnto the authoryte of the catholyke doctours For yf he had faythfully intended to folowe theyr doctryne he wolde neuer so malycyousely and wyttyngly for he had dylygently as he sayde hym selfe studyed that place haue falsely alledged that author for suche purpose as he knewe well he ment not nor no man redynge the place coulde so haue taken it These are saynte Chrysostoms wordes O thou man what do●… thou hast thou not m●de a promyse vnto the preste who sayd vp with your minde and your harte and thou dydest answere hym agayne we haue to our lorde Doste thou not feare and arte thou not ashamed Thou arte taken wyth a lye euyn at that same tyme. Oh the borde is furnyshed wyth the sacramentes the lambe of god is offered for the the preste is in care and anxiete for thy sake spyrytuall fyre flameth from the ●wter the Seraphi●s also are there present cou●● theyr face with syxe wynges all bodyles powres make intercession with the preste for the spyrytuall fyre is come downe from heuyn the bloude is receyued in the chalyce out of the immaculate syde for thy purifycaciō And arte thou not thanne ashamede Fearest thou not arte thou not confunded nor doste thou not reconcyle thy self to god O thou man doth not thy cōscyence pryche the The weke hath viii score viii howres of thē god hath for hym selfe taken out but one howre and that thou spendest vppon seculare businesse and lawghyng maters and in kepynge company wyth what truste shalt thou than go to goddes borde O wyth how polluted and foule a conscyence If thou haddest stynkyng dyrt in thy handes durst thou approche nyghe vnto the hemme of a kynges garment Doest thou se brede or wyne whyther be they voided into y e drawght as