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
A10627	The returne of the knight of the poste from Hell with the diuels aunswere to the supplication of Pierce Penilesse, with some relation of the last treasons.		1606 (1606)	STC 20905; ESTC S101542	27,376	45

nothing but chiefly of this that it is not vertuous nay so farre shall Pride exhale and draw them vppe vnto omnipotent ilnes that when they shall with their owne euilseeing eyes behold the vilnes of their wicked passages yet shall they seeke to glorifie themselues in their deathes strangenes which how euer it be odious to God and his Angels yet shall it bee to them pleasant in that the like wickednesse hath not beene before repeated insomuch that like the dying Frenchman neyther looking backewarde to sinne nor forward to saluation they shall in their last gaspe expect nothing but a tumultuous Funerall Besides to such weakenes shall the Pride of their own thoughts bring them that like him that excéedinglie troubled with the stone beeing forbidden the taste of sli●●y and grosse meates in the extreamitie of his worst fittes sound ease in rayling against milke cockles and carbanadoes so they for aspiring to darte mountains against the heauens shall finde no comfort but the acusing of their owne consciences how euer formerly they had resolude vpon this principle That Fury wanting a Subiect on which to be furious is Fury of no estimation Thus shall their soules loose themselues in themselues and not being content with those reasonable Obiects for which it was created loose both the worke of aduancement and the fast holde of saluation Pride shall make these ouer wéening great ones resemble fantastique Ladies whose affections being estraunged from those lawful and honourable obiects on which they ought to be imploied rather then they should perish in idlenesse to bestowe them too excessiuely on Monkeis dogs parokitos deceiuing the passions of the soule by a false and vncomely obiect so they estranging their labours and studies from moderation and iustice shall imploy them vppon building Castles in the ayre conforming states and ouerthrowing Kingdomes like brute beastes bitting the stone that hurt them or appeasing theyr woundes by new woundes of theyr owne making they shall with the Persian whippe the Sea and challenge mountaines to combat they shall besiege riuers and seeke reuenges against mightie houses nay in the ende when their actions shall bee opposed by diuine prouidence they shall with the prophane King vow hate against the Almightie binde their thoughtes from adoring their tongs from speaking and their harts from beléeuing the truth of the tryple Deitie These are the vpstartes of this last age who hauing all the ornamentes in which any deceite can bee couered shall so much deceiue wisedome with her antique and painted garments that truth shall not be respected albeit he goe clad in neuer so great plainnes Next this vpstart thou placest the beggerly and counterfeite Politician as a cumber to the common-wealth whose knowledge is but a sulien Pride and his discontent a beggerly need●nesse who being but a foole by nature and a knaue by practise commonly bee pernicious to none but men of lesse and weaker vnderstanding but there bee Politicians of an other moulde of an other spirite and of an other vnderstanding Fellowes that hauing gotte experience by obseruation and vnderstanding by much reading that with labour hauing attaind wisedome and with well spent howers that good which might do good to their country being ready to deliuer up a fruitfull haruest of their toyles shal be so corrupted with pride that disdaining any vertuous scale whose straite steps shall renowne the aduanced they shall hold in contempt and derision all manner of promotion if at one iumpe they may not sit cheeke by ioule with the highest maiesty as if princes eies could in this tumultuous world behold and vnderstād mens desarts by their outward apparances hence shal issue the damnable proiects of treasons murders and subuersions and hence shall men forsake to be maisters of their owne goods so they may be slaues to forraine ambitions from hence shall come the marchandise of crownes the sales of cities and strong fortes the exchange of gouermēts the shipwracke of soules and alterations of religions these are they that shall maintaine oppositions hold intelligence with the factious and discover the weakenes of their owne cradles and in the end hauing sworne themselues the hangmen to execute all damnable iudgments shal like old hangmen bring their owne necks to the cord and dye with confusion What shall I do speaking of these prodigall heyres who like filthie weedes are no sooner sprung vp but the sithe is readye to crop them doth not their lasciuiousnesse poyson their bodyes as fast as their prophanes their soules or can the world say he sees them ere the graue saith he hath them tut they are but bubbles in water and records in sande And albeit the gates of hell are made much wider then they were for entertaining there multitudes yet doth their riotes their lustes their periuries and their blasphemies bring none into hell but those of their owne damned qualitie the yong maisters that shal be of the worldes last framing shal be at least of the age of three score or vpwarde Fellowes that hauing par●im●●iously basely and greedily heapt vnto themselues great masses of wealth by vsurie extortion and all vnlawfull exactions shall in the end with the ticklings of pride haue such an itch in their soules that what with the searching of the old records of gentrye to finde a name that should sound somwhat neare to their predecessors what with bribing of ●erraulds to confirme and linke together their genealogies what with riotous expence to gaine a little vulgar worship amongst their neighbours what with building princely houses for the monuments of their magnificence or els what with braules and controuersies in lawe about the precession meare of the next Lordship they liue to consume their owne hoardinges and in the end dying miserably leaue a forlorne issue which retaining the blood of their parents ambitions become either amongst their neighbours theeues or amongst strangers traitors to their King and country these are gallants that we are somer garments on winters body who hauing ten moe diseases then can be reckoned by a horselieche thinke of their liues as of their sinnes that they shall neuer be cald in question Next these thou placest the pride of the learned whose combates and controuersies troubles all the worlde with their franticke disputation Why where were the Diuells kingdome if they were brought either to a peacefull vnitie or a charitable conformitie tut there be new seditions inuenting to keepe them at an eternall enmitie so that the weake being confounded and the ignorant missed there shal be both a doubtfulnes of the truth and a defence of false opinions how absurd vilely soeuer it be grounded they shall suggest scriptures to maintaine heresies and cite the old fathers of the primitiue church to defend a new sinagogue neuer before this last age harde of or imagined they shall spurne at magistracie and go about to confound authoritie which being too strong a bulwarke for their vndermining they shall what their