Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	6,912	5	11.1562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52396	The Norffs president of persecution (unto banishment) against some of the innocent people call'd Quakers, for meeting in the name and fear of the Lord, or, A relation of the proceedings of the court at the quarter sessions holden at the castle in Norwich the 20 day of the 12. moneth call'd February, 1665 where Francis Cory, Recorder of the city of Norwich sat for judge with John Crafts, Dean of Norwich, with other justices of the peace (so called), upon Henry Kittle Jun., Edmund Rack, Richard Cockerel, and Robert Elden, call'd Quakers.	Kittle, Henry, defendant.; Rack, Edmund, d. 1682, defendant.	1666 (1666)	Wing N1229; ESTC R15877	12,032	15

you will not hear us the Lord judge between you and us and remember the eye of the Lord is upon you and seeth the intent of your hearts and if you pass upon us thus and condemn us the Lord God will assuredly require it at your hands The Jurymen went forth and in a little time returned Clerk Are you all agreed of your Verdict Jury All but one Man Judge Why do not he agree Jury He desires to give his Reasons to the Court. Judge No no you must all agree Judge Swear them another Bailiffe and let them be shut up and have neither meat drink fire nor Candle till they be agreed Some in the Court said to the Prisoners when the Jury was gone out why did you not answer wherefore you were met he have askt you several times and you will not answer Pris I was not aware of his Asking me so often if I had I should have given him an answer I can give him an Answer yet if he will hear me Judge Well what is it Pris We are Christian men and the Lord hath begotten us into one life and we love one another and desire often to be together that all Men may know and see that we love one another The Jury went forth again and soon after the Court sent after them to hasten them to agree and shortly the Jury return'd again and brought them in all Guilty Pris What of the whole Inditement Clerk Yes yes of the whole The Prisoners were return'd to Prison again and about half an hour after were commanded again to the Bar. Pris All Honour and Glory be given to the Lord. Judge beginning a long Oration of the Mercyfulness of the Law Pris The Law of God is a Mercyful Law It was in another Prisoners heart to say but the Executioners of the Law are very unmercyful And when the Prisoners perceived the Judge crept in to sentence one cried hold hold I have something to offer before Sentence be past as to arrest of Judgment but the Judge went on Then the Prisoners cried again hold hold if you will not hear me take my Exceptions and read them and so held his Paper forth but the Judge went on and passed Sentence that they should be carried from this place to Yarmouth and from thence to be Transported to the Barbados for seven years Then one of the Prisoners said But where shall the Lyer and the Drunkard go And when he had passed Sentence askt a Prisoner saying Come what have you now to proffer Pris I had something to offer before Sentence was past as to arrest in Judgment but thou wents on and would not hear Judge Now it is too late Judgment is past Pris I call'd before and offered my Exceptions but thou wouldst not stay Judge Let us hear what they are Pris First that the two first Offences were not Recorded under the Hands and Seals of the two Justices of Peace before the 29th of October last the time mentioned in the Inditement for the third offence but since this present Sessions namely upon Friday last so that the persons concerned did not stand convicted of the two first offences urged against them at the time limited for the last offence Secondly That the Inditement upon which they went was not the same to which the Prisoners did plead Thirdly That the Prisoners ought not to be punished for any offence against the late Act because above three Moneths are passed Judge But you were committed presently in order to your Prosecution Prisoner But we were to have been Prosecuted and not Prosecuting Clerk Your Commitment was your Prosecution Pris That could not be by the Judges own words for he said we were committed in order to Prosecution and if in order to Prosecution then it could not be the Prosecution its self A POSTSCRIPT AS to the Courts proceedings against the Prisoners The unreasonableness and unjustness thereof is so apparent and will so plainly appear to every indifferent and impartial Reader that little need be paraphrased upon it to manifest that spirit of envy and persecution which thus rigorously and cruelly shewed it self against innocent Persons even to banish or separate them from their Native Countries and Relations We never yet knew any Law extant or in being that Men should be reckoned such deep Offenders for meeting together in a Christian spirit singly and spiritually to wait upon and worship God as the intent of our Meeting is And where the evidence was that they were neither saying nor doing any thing and yet for this thus severely to be sentenced by the Judge whose prejudice and enmity against divers of our Friends in Norwich in persecuting of them has so much appeared that little better then what he has done against the Prisoners could be expected nor yet from the Deane who is so deeply concerned with his Bretheren of the Clergie who make use of the Magistrates as their servants to terrifie and compell People to come under their worship and Ceremonies and to worship by their Liturgie but many are gathered out from them by the Power of the Lord God and come to worship and serve him in the newness of the spirit and the spirit of Prayer and Supplication being poured forth wherein the People of God pray to him and which Spirit sometime intercedes with sighes and groans which cannot be uttered so this is not to be limited to an imposed form of prayer nor to Mens wills who in Anti-Christs spirit go about to hinder and limit the spirit of truth and to keep the Creature from the freedome of it as the Deane in his asserting that the Common Prayer does not allow People to worship but by it which is a very strange and unreasonable doctrine and appeares both contrary to the Common-Prayer-Book and the Priests practise for the Common Prayer-Book or allowance of the Liturgie extends further then the Bishops and Deans allowance for that it allows of the Scriptures and that they are written for our Learning and so are to be practised and fulfilled by us and of the Worship of God at all times and in all places and therefore they had need to consider their Liturgie a little better and peruse the several Collects and Epistles in it and see how the Scriptures is both allowed of and made use of therein and consequently how that way and Worship which the Scriptures own which was before the Liturgie was is allowed of by the Liturgie which how the Deans Assertion and the Liturgie herein should hang together does not appear whiles he would make the Common-Prayer allow of no Worship but by it self which also does contradict and disallow of his own Generation the Priests when they use a long Prayer before Sermon which is not exprest in the Common Prayer-Book and besides divers particular occasions of Praying to God many times do and have fallen out which are not mentioned in the Common-Prayer as also it doth not follow that the