Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	lord_n	soul_n	7,158	5	4.8741	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44815	The vision of the Lord of Hosts faithfully declared in his own time, and the decree of the Lord God also recorded, which is nigh to be fulfilled : also a few words to friends of truth, whom the Lord is trying in this day, and smething to those that remain of that generation of men who improved not their day, but were rebellious aganst the Lord, and treacherous to his people : with a few words to the magistrates of this land now in authority / by a handmaid of the Lord, M.H.	Howgill, Mary.	1662 (1662)	Wing H3192; ESTC R6705	3,974	8

THE VISION OF THE Lord of Hosts Faithfully declared in his own time and the DECREE of the LORD GOD also Recorded which is nigh to be fulfilled ALSO A few WORDS to FRIENDS of TRUTH whom the LORD is Trying in this Day And something to those that remain of that Generation of Men who improved not their Day but were Rebellious against the Lord and Treacherous to his People With a few WORDS to the MAGISTRATES of this LAND now in Authority By a Handmaid of the Lord M. H. Printed in the Year 1662. The Vision of the Lord of Hosts faithfully declared in his own time and the Decree of the Lord God also Recorded which is nigh to be fulfilled c. IN the year 1660 in the second month thereof I was at the Town of Colchester at my Friend's house and in the evening season I went to my Bed to take my rest in God where refreshment from him I did receive to my soul and also to my naturals having at that time but little strength as to my natural life And so according to God's will and the mind of the Lord I gave up my self and lay down upon my Bed in God's Will and Word in which Word I was kept and preserved After a little season sweet sleep came upon me and I was some hours in a deep and a calm sleep which did refresh my naturals and I was in the Word of the living God which did keep me and refresh my soul and after a season did awake me And the living God did appear unto me by Vision and shewed me the dark horrible and miserable estate that would come on this Land of England and on the People therein he shewed me a great Cloud that spread over all the Nation and many violent and bloody men the Lord shewed me in the Cloud And as he shewed me that the Cloud should come upon the Nation so he shewed me that it should break upon the Nation and the men of blood should fall in great fury and rage upon many and do great violence unto many And further the Lord appeared unto me in Vision and he shewed me a great and dark Wood in these Southward parts and in the Wood were many Pits and in the Pits were many Beasts which had many horns and sharp and great jaws and great paws also There was among them one great Beast in bigness and fury above them all These Beasts had been long chained and fettered in the Pits and Wood of Darkness and they roared to be at liberty It was shewed unto me that they would be greedy of their prey even to the shedding of innocent blood which they had long thirsted for And when the Lord had shewed me these things in the Vision of the Cloud and that it should spread over the Nation and should break on the Nation and that the bloody men therein should fall upon many with cruelty Then did sorrow seize on my heart and great grief upon my soul and a great weight upon my body which caused my lips to quiver and my belly to tremble and a Cry ran rhorow me O Lord what wilt thou do with this Land or with thy People therein unto whom thou hast so largely manifested thy Name O Lord wilt thou hide thy Face from us or take the light of thy Countenance from us that hath in so large a measure shined on us Or wilt thou suffer these men of violence to bruise and destroy the bodies of them that bear thine Elect Seed Wilt thou suffer the Beasts to come out of their Pits their Chains to be broken and their Fetters to be unloosed they being so greedy of prey Then the Cry was in me O Lord slay not the Righteous with the Wicked And a great Earthquake was upon me and I was in great travel in spirit soul and body for the whole Land of England and little or no comfort had I until I heard the Lord's voice who spake unto me and said Fear not thou my Daughter none of these things which I have shewed unto thee but believe in my Name made known unto thee Then I said O Lord who shall stand for thee or who shall declare thy Name or speak of thy wonderful Works or of thy large Salvation whereby thou hast wrought and brought wonderful and great things to pass as in the years past If thou suffer the Cloud to come upon all who then shall declare of it Or if thou suffer the Night of Darkness to spread over all who then shall be able to work or who shall speak of thy mighty Truth Wherefore there being upon my Spirit a deep sence of the cruelty of those Beasts which where to be unchained and to come out of the Pits of Darkness I said Arise O Lord and avenge thine own Cause suffer not thy Name to be troden down or rooted out of this Land of England in which even above and beyond all other Lands thou hast so largely made thy self manifest suffer it not to be rooted out by the Dragon and his followers And these were my Cries unto the Lord in the hour of deep sufferings And the Lord who shewed me these things he heard my Cries also and he said to my great satisfaction Keep these things in thine own breast and seal these words in thy own heart and wait upon me said the living God until I shew thee further and until my appointed time that I bid thee to publish them abroad And further the Lord said to my great satisfaction I will suffer this Violence to come and the Chains of the Wild-beasts to be broken that they may bow down a stiff-necked and a gain-saying People against me and against my Name I will harden Pharaoah's heart that I may shew my Power upon every man and woman and I will suffer the Violent to go on in their Violence for the tryal of the Faith of my own People unto whom I have made known my Kingdom and entrusted them with my Secrets upon whom in the Light of my Countenance will I shine and they shall see the Glory of my Throne and they shall magnifie my Name And after the night of Apostacy and after the Dragon's Rage my People shall bear a further Testimony of my great and glorious Name and they shall leave a more clear and heavenly Declaration upon record than my Servants heretofore have done and it shall stand to Ages and in Generations to come that they may see how God manifested himself unto his People in a day of great suffering Blessed Blessed are all who wait upon the living God and hear what he saith unto them either by Revelation by Vision or by Prophecy and blessed are they that in the Lord's time either speak or write by Revelation by Prophecy or Vision And the time is already come wherein many Prophecies Visions and Revelations are already fulfilled and are sealed up in him who hath revealed and made known himself by Vision as I have