Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	hymn_n	love_n	pierce_a	24	3	16.2788	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52444	A forest of varieties ...	North, Dudley North, Baron, 1581-1666.	1645 (1645)	Wing N1283; ESTC R30747	195,588	250

contemperament and heat strength goodnesse and sweetnesse of nature and supernaturall grace excited and maintained I finde the best companions and Physitians of body and soule you are witnesse how necessary they have been of late unto me in the sorrows and troubles I have undergone I thank you for your visit and spirituall comfort you imparted to my relapsed Son hee still needeth it hee hath not wanted naturall heat and courage temper moderation and a well concocted discourse as well as a thorow digestion to some peccant humours of his body I feare he doth Time and conflict with evills have not confirmed and wrought upon him exchange of liberty health and pleasures for disease restraint and paine with an apprehensive contemplation of imminent death this mortall yeare work a melancholick dejection upon his minde and meeting with his infirmity appeare at this time his greatest danger A little ease strength and alacrity of spirits animate his naturall presumption to his harm and a little cloud overcasting him as much exanimates If God had not furnished me with as strong a resolution to flight as I have ever been apt to apprehend the worst events I had a thousand times miscarryed there is no slavery like the feare of death no bravery like the contempt of the world and fortune I have lost possessions friends brothers children but I have found God and have not lost my selfe I have sowed kindnesse and reaped dis-respect my good intentions charity resolution and the grace of God are my reward and ever-relieving cordials I seek not my self abroad nor judge my self or others by the successe others weaknesse and distempers shall not be mine it shall rather fortifie and recollect mee if my exuberance of naturall heate and fancy breed my inconvenience I can make an oyle of the same Scorpion to help me not to have too much is not to have enough Aliquid amputandum is the best constitution luxuriance of Nature is the longest laster at least if violence accident and over-bold indiscreet adventure intercept it not heat is the vehicul●m of vertue hot natured plants have the strongest faculties and braveliest resist the vigour and extremity of weather and Winter Thus I play the Pedler with you to you I open my pack of small wares to the world I durst but will not they would but pry and smile and scorn not buy to use to weare and make their own You finde here a great deale of trash but no trumpery many bables and toyes yet some Gloves to weare Knives to cut Linnen to adorn cover and keep warme Looking-glasses to see and order your self Pedlers are not ever unwelcome sometimes they are required at least let my good will make not unwelcome unto you this my good morrow Yet to goe a little further and end where I begun There is a happy and just use to be made of naturall heate of our selves and of Gods creatures instituted as Oyle for cheerefulnesse of countenance and Wine to rejoyce the heart of man that use to finde that to practise without declining either to excesse or fantasticall superstition and rigidity of humane Sophistry prevarication and errour is that wee ought to endevour and pray for in the discreet exercise of a good conscience which God grant us Amen November 17. 1638. THus you see Animal vigilans semper laborat some more remisse some more intense according to the activity of their spirits and occasions but my voyage is well past over and I will not spread my sayles to every winde I will be a stone to my self against the wings of my thoughts sedation shall be my affectation I will spare my fuell and rake up my fire let them make publique bonfires and ring their Bells to warme and sport the world who finde matter and joy to publish mine is inward and shall serve my self till opportunity concurre accept in good part with your wonted favour this my pastime account and register never intended for a work or piece of worth Farewell SOules must have objects strong high-relished The strongest filling fair and permanent Such is Gods love wherewith not nourished Earthly and base must be their nutriment No other love can defecate a soule From wallowing in delights base empty foule THou Lord who first didst nip me in the bud From time to time dost humble mee Lest I should sin by heighth of blood And love the world more then the love of thee I gratulate thy favour confident That so thou doest my soule preserve To bee a well-tun'd instrument To sound thy praise and thy decrees to serve Nor will I envy this mans wantonnesse His honor or the others wealth Esteeming nothing happinesse But to possesse a soule in heavenly health All other joyes infatuate the minde Feeding it with a false content Oh let me still thy favour finde To keep me thine I grudge no chastisement Moderate health and fortune are the best A little fire close set unto And heat sufficient to digest Doe the same things that more abounding doe The more wee have the more we still presume Disordred mindes good states abuse The highest spirits most consume May I have nothing more then grace to use Great Farmes are seldome duely husbanded Ranke grounds abound in noysome weeds Wolves Foxes Goates in wastes are bred He feeds more foes then Friends who many feeds THough Friends be absent conversation lost My bating Soule oft labouring in it self By winds and fortune on the black Sea tost Thou present Lord I feare nor wave nor shelf Thou Father Brother art and Friends to me Be the world whose it list so thou be mine They ne're miscarry who rely on thee Grace storms dispels more strong then they combine All thrives where thou the pruning Gardner art To thy Plants blastings frugall blessings prove Though Summer heighth and flourishing impart Winter gives strength and Timber to the Grove To thine all sufferings end in joy and rest And th' absence of a wicked world is best EAse handsomnesse nor profit 't is to tread Your shooe awry like may of vice be said T is ever best to live and walk upright Things crooked grown hardly return to right May I enjoy a faire and quiet minde Soules work like troubled Seas long after winde GOdly content and quiet of the minde Constitute happinesse resembling Heaven Where soules nor strife nor thirst of action finde Reluctancy is conquer'd all goes even Vertue it self untroubled must proceed Howe're its Acts miscarry or succeed Devotions Et quoniam Deus ora movet Sequar ora moventem Introduction DIvinest Herberts Soule daign that I joyn In Hymns accorded to the heart by thine Unto our Masters glory and admit Mee for a Rivall in thy heighth of love For though thy lofty flight bee farre above My creeping Muse in spirit verse and wit My love both may and ought thy love exceed Since greatest pardons greatest love doe breed Thus living sing we Swan-like singing dye His Panegyrick our own Elegie Others I

shall easily be seene effected from a harsh and rude though never so witty an expression for as in persons so in Verses some let them meane never so lovingly shall yet by their naturall verjuyce be ever out of the way of Bacchus and Venus But in point of obscurity in some sort to excuse my selfe with others I feare wee all often unwillingly incurre the errour of it by thinking our meaning as open to others as to our selves when indeed the Characters of our expression are fully supplyed by our owne understanding to our selves whilst to others they are lamely contracted and imperfect Thus much I have been bold to write not onely to excuse a poore Mother wit but somewhat to give a passe upon their strange and uneasie habit who I doubt not but they will have many a gird at my easie and naturall nakednesse I meane those lofty dimme shooting Archers whom I wish to remember that hee who shootes highest shootes not ever nearest the marke and hee that may walke in the light is to bee suspected for choosing the darke Now Madam I grant that all I can write especially what these lines containe is but vanity and a most idle vanity yet thus farre I will excuse both the writing and the reading that all the world is little better wee often condemn vaine pleasures and remember not that the most things the best of us most seriously doe have indeed no other end For God being served and nature sustained what fruit proceeds from our authority learning wealth policy and earnest intent to profit but to satisfie our impulsive affections which either propound to themselves a felicity whereof they faile in the possession or seeke to divert by such imployments the dulnesse and otherwise obtruding miseries of their condition which if you please to consider you will the more excuse many pursuers of lawful and naturall delights and value those pleasures at the better rate which are most perdurable and communicable May the following wanton but as modest Babes as their Mother Venus could produce though they cannot profit yet afford some delight light to that your Worthy well furnish't mind to which I wish all happinesse that ever Noble nature possest or can possesse I must yet bee so much longer as to crave pardon for my unintended and I feare unpleasant length it is the vice of writing to bee endlesse thus hath my enmity to obscurity brought forth tediousnesse yet not so much but that all this may bee sooner read then some one passage of our Night pieces understood they had need afford profitable stuffe who utter it at so hard a rate I wish your Ladiships authority would so abate the price that our poorer abilities might hold trade without straining And seeing I am upon the Theame of verses whither I meane not shortly to returne I humbly crave your favour after my fashion disorderly to say thus much more that howsoever some of the stricter sort approve onely of verses so close usefull and substantially woven that there must bee neither list loosenesse nor the least superfluity of words for my part I am not of that strict order nor ever yet saw it observed in any Author Nature hath mingled stalkes with flowers and Huskes with Corne and hath raised ornament from our excrementiciall haires conceits and matter over-crusht afford commonly as little grace as pleasure and to write all in abbreviations would take indeed les●e room but much more time and trouble A Geneva print weakens the sight nor is it good to hold your bow ever bent or your horse streight rained Sometimes amongst pithy and tough lines I thinke it not amisse to interpose one of an easie ●traine like resting places in lofty staires to ease the Reader Some fluency of weak water helpes the better in nourishment to convey what is more solid Lamp-oile yeelds no good savour nor in sallet nor verse Difficilia quae pulchra is to bee understood of the attaining and not the exercising of faculties You know how it is said of Poems that they should bee such ut sibi quivis speret idem sudet frustraque laboret ausus ide● Strong lines may bee drawne on with Cartropes but the fairest have generally an easie birth It is rare for anything to be well and hardly performed The French expression A Deliure implyes as well perfectnesse as facility and dexterity There may bee imployed such an extraordinary yet gentle finenesse of conceit and Conclusions so designed wrought limned and coloured touches so bold covert allegories and subtilties so neat Epithets so materiall Metaphors and ambiguities so doubly fine as shall bee more masterlike then more sententious sublime abstruse and strong appearing lines Worth of matter and conception supposed nothing more commends a piece then termes well chosen proper lively and significant with a free comming on and as free a close and conclusion Also a faire cleare and even thorough carriage with well wrought joints and connexions gives credit to the workman I love as much a great deale of force and depth couched in one word as I hate little in many VVe ordinarily write and speake the same things and notions and to the same purpose but infinitely differ in the delivery and expression some proceed in a stuttering confused obliquity groping as in a mist or darknesse some goe more directly and exhibit their Idea's and conceptions with so cleare and distinct a light illustrations instances demonstrations enforcements and arguments so pertinent perspicuous and concluding that the understanding and assent are captivate beyond evasion or subterfuge Sophistry and figures may appeare fine and witty but prevaile little upon the best judgements Reason must convince the intellectuall soule May I write clearly and strongly rather then finely and artificially hence is the difference of elocution hence of perswasion the one is light and aery the other weighty and solid most lovely and commanding is the beauty of a faire ingenuous and rich soule fairely mounted and armed upon well shaped and unanimously received vertue goodnesse and reason Verses are then good when turned to prose they hold a faire and currant sense and when translated into another language there is such mastery found in their conception by the advantage of what is genuine unto them that there will bee either more words or lesse conceit and matter The priviledge they have over common phrase consists in the warranted becomming ornament of a lofty well ordered spirit and wantonnesse such as shall make toyes passe for Jewels and give to what of it selfe is precious an acquisite lustre of workmanship beyond what prose can beare and that in little room Their voice is more constrained and consequently more shrill and piercing Nor is it in writing the least perfection howsoever it hath found little observation so to order and contract our expressions that one well adopted word may run into and govern many of diverse and strong sense for nothing gives more pleasure and satisfaction to a diligent