Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	knowledge_n	understanding_n	wisdom_n	6,916	5	6.5948	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01506	The ioyfull receyuing of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie into hir Highnesse citie of Norvvich the things done in the time of hir abode there: and the dolor of the citie at hir departure. Wherein are set downe diuers orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now Maior of the same citie, and others: and certaine also deliuered to hir Maiestie in vvriting: euery of the[m] turned into English.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Wood, Robert, Sir, fl. 1578.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594, attributed name.	1578 (1578)	STC 11627; ESTC S105704	30,924	55

studium vitae inquam in alieno regno discrimen commisit vt non aliunde quàm à solo Dei nutu pendere visus sit sed quorsum ista In te ne haet ipsa aliaque consimilia ô Serenissima Regina regni tui ratione omnium oculis conspicua sunt Haec inquam esse ecclesiae Christi foelicissimum gaudium spirituale diadema summum decus huius vero regni verè Regium splendorem atque perennem gloriam quis nisi mente captus inficias ire potest Pijssime tu quidem singulari Dei bonitate animum Iosephi tum in regni tui conseruatione tum in regno Christi amplificando imitata es ô nutrix ecclesiae Dei fidelissima solius enim Dei est nunc per res prout hominum ●culis sunt subiectae secundasdisperdere illum autem per quaeuis tentationum genera rerumque discrimina extollere quos vt vasa suae misericordiae agnoscit ita etiam bonitate spiritus sui tum consolatione tum fortitudine ad aeterna vitae foelicitatem prosequitur Quod nostrum votum ratum esse Maiestatem tuam regnique ordinem spirituali prudentia ac sapientia stabilire camque in longam aetatem seruare tuae item Maiestatis subditos vera sui cognitione magis ac magis imbuere dignetur bonus ille clemens Deus per merita filij sui Domini nostri Iesu Christi Amen REgiae Maiestati post orationem oblati●● est monumentum aliquod in cuius superficie artificiose sculpta erat historia Iosephi e● Genesi In circumferentia verò hoc carmen Innocuum pietas ad regia sceptra Iosephum Ex manibus fratrum carnificisque rapit Carcere insidijs sic te Regina tuorum Ereptam duxit culmina ad ista Deus Inscriptio eras in ipsius capacitate scripta in orbem hoc modo Serenissimae Angliae Reginae Elizabethae ecclesiae Belgicae Nordouici ob religionem exulantes hoc monumentum pietatis posteritatis ergô consecrabant 1578. In interiore ipsus parte erat insigne serpentis in gyrum conuo●●ti cui media insidebat columba cum hoc Christi Elogio Prudens vt serpens simplex vt columba ¶ The minister of the Duch Church his Oration in Englishe THE Oratours most gratious Queene which liued in the age of them that won greatest renowme were highly commended for that they could transforme the Iudges mindes partly by eloquence and partly by setting downe before their eyes the calamitie of the thing and person they spake of into what disposition them listed the first part declareth vnto vs no common facilitie of men in that they were so willing in folowing and attentiue in hearing as they would suffer themselues to be lead by eloquence the last obteined great fauour amongest all nations whose common weale was gouerned in good order and far greater amongest the Christians but greatest of all with thee O most excellent Queene the nourse of Christ his church whose minde obedient to Gods worde the spirite of Christ and zeale of Godlinesse and not this profane kinde of speech hath instructed the verie calamitie of Godly men and teares of the afflicted the teares I say of faithfull Christians haue throughly moued thee to defende and protect the miserable and dispersed members of Christ obiecte to euerie kinde of iniurie before beaten in peeces by a thousand deathes with the safetie and preseruation as well of minde as bodie for these thy singuler benefits of Godlinesse towards vs and that wee liue vnder so good a tutor beeing magistrate in this the Citie of Norwich which thy maiestie hath of elemencie granted vnto vs for a mansion place which were banished for Christ his religion moreouer that we finde the mindes of the people fauourable towards vs first we geue immortall thanks not suche as we ought but such as we are able vnto God the father and the Lorde our only sauiour Iesus Christ and then vnto thee most mercifull Queene Moreouer it is our humble and yet our only petition to shewe vnto your maiestie the thankfulnesse of our minde behold therfore dedicated to your most excellent maiestie not any gifte but our minde no princely iewell but a monument of godlinesse and posteritie the which we hope will be so much the more acceptable to your maiestie for because the goodnesse of God towardes your maiestie is liuely drawen out of the historie of the innocent most godly Iosephus whom neither pollicie strength nor desire of bearing rule but constant faith godlinesse of a Christian heart and heauenly vertue by Gods singular mercie deliuered from the bloudie conspiracie of his brethren feare of death and brought vnto high dignitie and royal kingdome to whose brethren that prouerbiall sentence of the Hebrewes is verie fitly alluded Enuie being the desire of euill things and couetousnesse of transitorie renowne is often times the occasion of mans destruction but touching the minde of Iosephus the same was endued with suche temperance and fortitude that he might be thought no lesse vniust then wicked that would accuse him so much as with the least affection of reuengement so wholly did he commit him self and all the gouernement of his life his life I say put in hazard in a strange kingdom vnto the prouidence of God that he seemed to hang of no other thing then the onely will of god But to what ende speake I this Are not these selfe same things and others their like ô most excellent Queene by the eyes of all men cleerely beholden in thee and the order of thy kingdome What man I say hauing his wittes can deny these thinges to be the most happie ioy spirituall crowne and cheefest ornament of Christes churche and truely of this kingdome the princely beautie and perpetuall renowne Thou surely doest followe moste hollily the minde of Iosephus by the singular goodnes of God aswell in preseruing thy kingdome as in amplifying the kingdome of Christe ô thou most faithfull nourse of the churche of God for it is in God onely to destroy this man by prosperitie as it seemeth vnto man and aduaunce another by all kindes of aduersitie and humaine daunger whome he acknowledgeth as the vessels of his mercie and so by his goodnesse together with the consolation and strength of his spirite doth bring them to the happinesse of eternall life which our petition that good and mercifull God graunt may be ratified in establishing your maiestie and gouernance of your kingdom with spirituall wisedome and vnderstanding in preseruing the same for many yeres and in induing your maiesties subiectes more and more with true knowledge of him for his sonnes sake our Lorde Iesus Christ. Amen The Oration ended there was a certeine monument presented to her princely Maiestie in the vpper parte whereof was artificially grauen the historie of Iosephus out of Genesis In the compasse thereof was this verse To royall scepters godlinesse Iosephus innocent Doth take from brothers bloudie hands