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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27472	A mirror that flatters not, or, A looking-glass for all new-converts to whatsoever perswasion, Roman-Catholicks, Conformists, or Non-conformists : that is, certain sermons of St. Bernard translated into English ... : together with a preface of the translator to all new-converts ...; De conversione ad clericos. English	Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1982; ESTC R5454	46,594	72

forth and feed thy Kids or that it may know how vain and frail all those things are which it desires To Consent he opposes Fortitude lest Councel should come to consent to Custom because when it shall be come to Custom then truly there is need of Councel to Contempt the Holy Ghost opposes Understanding because now the Councel of men being contemned unless by it self the Soul understand its own danger its Case becomes in a manner desperate to Malice Wisdom because Wisdom only overcomes Malice Now the Holy Ghost by its seven-fold Grace destroying in the Soul of man this seven-fold Misery he instantly builds in it a seven-fold Beatitude by the Spirit of Fear making happy the poor in Spirit by the Spirit of Piety making happy the Meek by the Spirit of Knowledg making happy those that Mourn by the Spirit of Fortitude making happy those that hunger and thirst after Justice by the Spirit of Councel making happy the Merciful by the Spirit of Understanding making happy the Pure of Heart by the Spirit of Patience making happy the Peace-makers when Wisdom overcomes Malice and that Peace of God which surpasses all understanding exults in the Heart and this is the Perfection of the Servants of God SERM. II. BEtwixt Babylon and Jerusalem there is no Peace but a continual War Each City has its King The King of Jerusalem is Christ our Lord the Devil is the King of Babylon And now because one of them delights to Reign in Justice the other in Malice the King of Babylon draws such Citizens of Hierusalem as he can into Babylon and by his Ministers unclean Spirits seduces them to make them serve iniquity to iniquity Rom. 6. Hence a Watchman or Espial upon the Walls of Jerusalem seeing one of her Citizens made a prey of and leading Captive into Babylon he gives notice of it to the King Now the King of Jerusalem calling to him the Spirit of Fear a notable Souldier in such occasions Go says he and rescue our Prisoner He as one always ready at all the commands of the King with all speed pursues the enemies and on the sudden there was made in their ears a sound as it were of a vehement wind coming towards them For Fear thundred over them and at the voice of his Power all the strength of his enemy trembled whom now put to flight Fear did not far pursue them but endeavoured to carry back to his own City his rescued fellow-Citizen But one of the adversaries the Spirit of Sadness was not with them when Fear assailed them He seeing his Companions on the sudden flying rises out of the ambush in which he had hid himself makes to them with all speed All this is done say they by Fear alone and it is a disgrace to us all But he be not afraid of that Fear for I know what 's to be done I will go and I 'll be a lying Spirit in the corners of the ways and will feign my self to be a friend of Fear For I know the man and he is not to be dealt withal by force but by craft But do you wait the issue He did as he had said and taking the neerest way got before Fear And returning back upon the way by which Fear was going he met him and entertaining him with kind but very mischievous discourses began to seduce him so that Fear ignorant of his designs confidently follows him And he was now just upon the point of precipitating him into the ditch of Despair But the Spial signifies to the King what was a-doing The King makes one of his Souldiers Hope to be called and commands him to make haste to the succour of Fear carrying with him the Horse of Despair and the Sword of Joy The faithful Souldier going forth at the word of command when he was come to the place brandishing the Sword of Joy he put Sadness to flight And so having delivered his fellow-Citizen and put him upon the Horse of Desire going before he draws him forward with the cord of the Promises and Fear following behind lashes him on with a little whip made of the small cords of his sins The free Horse goes on a-main drawn before and urged hehind but in so rapid a course there was reason to fear an incursion And indeed the Souldiers of Babylon gathered together a Councel saying What do we when he has so escaped whom but now we possessed with security How is the jubilation of Hell turned into mourning and joy made in the Heavens for the delivery of their fellow-Citizen by only two Souldiers How is it that the cunning of the Diabolical fraud has perished But one of them more wicked than the rest suggested profane and wicked counsel saying You know nothing nor do you understand how that now he is more easy to be taken and if he be taken more hardly will he be taken from us again Do you therefore follow a-loof off and I 'll transfigure my self into an Angel of Light and under a shew of teaching them as strangers and ignorant of the way will deceive them The Trapan being thus ordered the Scout-watch signifies to the King that indeed the Captive is returning and upon the Horse of Desire but that he makes too much haste for want of a Bridle and Saddle The enemies says he pursue him a-far off and some of them inveterate in evil cut the way short But and just now I see one who seems to wear our Arms but I am sure he 's gone out from us It 's needful somebody should go and ask him are you ours or do you belong to our adversaries Moreover the King whose mind is continually solicited with the care of Souls sends forth two of his Councellors Prudence and Temperance One of which Temperance puts upon the Horse the bridle of Discretion and perswades Hope to go a more moderate pace But Prudence chiding Fear and accusing him of headiness admonished him of the future and set upon the Horse the saddle of Circumspection that his Rider might not fall backwards but might rest behind on confession of Sin past before on meditation of Judgment on the left-hand on Patience and on the right-hand on Humility Moreover Hope and Fear gave spurs Hope on the right-foot the expectation of Reward Fear on the left the dread of Punishment And delay being made it now growing towards evening and the day being far spent the enemies are gathered together again in multitudes to fight them Fear trembles Hope accelerates but scarce at length Prudence and Temperance makes them hear councel And Prudence you see that the day is gone and the night has overtaken us and he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes Moreover you have a great way yet to go nor is the number of your enemies small But our King has a very faithful Souldier whom I know very well and he has a Castle here hard by and a very strong Habitation because he has made his nest

that entring in she might see good things and visit that place For here she shall find abundant rest and shall also so much the less disquiet me as her self shall be quieted For he is no lier who has said Take my yoke upon you and you shall find rest for your souls In the Faith of this Promise let him speak to her now exasperated very lovingly and simulating a certain cheerfulness convening her in the spirit of meekness let him say to her Let thy indignation wholly cease I am not one that can offend thee my body is thine and I my self am thine thou needst not fear there is no cause thou shouldst be afraid Nor is it strange if perhaps she has returned but a froward answer so as to have even told him that many thoughts have made him mad but let him bear all patiently and dissemble what he is a doing of whilst amidst discourse bringing in one thing after another he may at length opportunely infer and say I have found a very fine Garden to day and a most pleasant place it would be good for us to be there for it must needs do thee hurt to toss and turn to be compunct with sad grief of heart in this thy Bed of sickness in this Couch of sorrow Our Lord will be present to him that seeks him to the soul that hopes in him he will hear his humble supplications and will give efficacy to his words The Will shall be moved not only to desire to see the place but also by little and little to enter into it and to make its abode there CHAP. XXI That the Soul ought to take up its rest in this Contemplation BUT you must not think that this Paradise of internal Pleasure is a corporeal place We go into this Garden not by our feet but by our affections Nor is here recommended to thee a plenty of earthly Trees but a pleasant and lovely Plantation of Spiritual Vertues 'T is an enclosed Garden where a sealed Fountain is derived into four Heads and out of one only vein of Wisdom does a quadrupartite Vertue proceed Fair white Lillies also flourish there and when the Flowers appear the Voice of the Turtle too is heard There Spikenard sends forth a most fragrant odour and other Spices too exhale their Perfumes The Southern Air breaths gently there but Northern Blasts are quite banished thence In the middle stands the Tree of Life that Apple-tree of the Canticles better than all the Trees of the Woods whose shadow refrigerates the Spouse and whose Fruit is sweet unto her Palat. There the nitid luster of Continency and the intuition of the plain sincere Truth irradiates the eyes of the heart and the sweet Voice of the interior Comforter gives joy and gladness to the hearing There by certain nostrils of hope is drawn in the most pleasant odour of the plentiful Field which our Lord has blessed There greedily are foretasted the incomparable delights of Charity and the Briers and Thorns being cut up which formerly galled the mind now superfused with the Unction of Mercy it happily rests in a good Conscience Which things in good sooth are not the rewards of Eternal Life but the wages of this Temporal Warfare nor do they belong to the Promises of the future Church but of that which now is for this is that hundred-fold which in this World is given to the Contemners of this World Nor must thou hope that this is to be made commendable to thee by my speech 't is the Spirit alone which reveals it in vain doest thou consult Books seek rather Experience 'T is a Wisdom whose value man knows not it is learnt in secret nor is that delicious sweetness to be found in the Land of those that live deliciously For it is the sweetness of our Lord unless thou taste it thou shalt never see it Taste says he and see how that our Lord is sweet Psal 13. 'T is an hidden Manna 't is a new Name which no body knows but he that receives it Not Learning but the Unction teaches it nor does Science but Conscience comprehend it 'T is an holy thing 't is a Jewel nor will he who began to do and to teach do that himself which he forbids us to do For he does not look upon them as dogs or hogs whom renouncing their former Wickednesses and Villanies he comforts by his Apostle saying Ye were indeed these things but ye are washed but ye are sanctified 1 Cor. 6. ver 11. only have a care that you do not return with the Dog to his vomit nor with the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire CHAP. XXII That being refreshed with the taste of Contemplation he is made to understand Divine things IN the door then of this Paradise the Voice of the Divine Whisper is heard and the most sacred and most secret Councel which is hidden from the Wise and Prudent is revealed unto little ones The hearing of which Voice reason now does not only conceive but also gratefully communicates it to the Will Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after Justice because they shall be satiated Mat. 5. v. 6. A profound Councel this indeed and an inestimable Sacrament A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation which is come to us from Heaven from the Royal Seats There was made a great Famine on earth and we all began to be in want yea were even come to extreme penury In fine we were compared to the Beasts without understanding and were made like unto them we insatiably hunger after even the very husks of Hogs He who loves Money is not satiated he who loves Lasciviousness is not satiated he who seeks Glory is not satiated In a word he who loves the World is never satiated I have known men who were satiated with this World and that even nauseated every memory of it I have known those who were satiated with Money and satiated with Honours satiated with the pleasures and curiosities of this World nor moderately satiated neither but even unto loathing of them And it is easy for every one of us through the Grace of God to obtain this satiety or fulness for abundance does not breed it but contempt So ye children of Adam by greedily feeding upon the food of Swine ye do not feed your hungry Souls but the hunger of your Souls For by this kind of food your needy appetite is only nourished with this unnatural meat your hunger only is fed And to speak out taking for example one of those many things which human vanity covets and desires I say Mens bodies shall as soon be satiated with Air as their hearts shall be satiated with Gold Nor let the Covetous man take this ill I say the same concerning the Ambitious the Luxurious and other vicious Persons And if perhaps any one does not believe me let him credit his own experience and the experience of many Who is there amongst you Brethren that would