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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
A96264	A sermon touching the divine right and due observation of the Lords day Preached before the Lord Deputy, and the Lords Spiritual & Temporal of the kingdom of Ireland; in time of Parliament. At Christ-Church Dublin. On Sunday the 6th. of October, 1695. With a preface humbly address'd to the whole body of English Protestants: especially those inhabiting the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1520A; ESTC R229732	26,838	68

But will some say there were in our Church who have taught otherwise who have justified Sports and Revels on this day Yes and there are too many at present who practice otherwise but I fear not to say both the one and the other were and are I will hope not intentionally yet in reality and effect in this part the depravers of Religion the corrupters and disturbers of our Church It were easy to take off that thin vail of learning with which such liberties have been set off but I must not divert thereto Section XIX A word I ought to speak to that temper of mind with which we are to attend holy duties which ought Of spiritual Temper indeed to possess us every day but more especially on the Lords day That I called a spiritual temper The term I ground on those Texts Jude 26. Praying in the Holy Ghost And Ephes 6. 18. Praying always with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit by which term Spirit no doubt both the Apostles meant not praying with any such imaginary spiritual gift of Prayer as is cryed up for absolutely necessary by many but praying with a devout holy temper of mind a temper consisting in the union of those several Graces of Gods Spirit which ought to be exercised in Prayer In short praying with a heart full of Faith and of Love towards God and Mankind of the hopes of Glory and so of contempt of this World I may not now take time farther to open this Temper but with such temper as this should we this day perform all those parts of worship which we any where offer And to be employed in prayer and praise and in like offices mentioned with such temper is to be as much in the Spirit on the Lords Day as in the present state of things we can be But I must draw to a conclusion Sect XX You have heard beloved how the antient Christians kept the Conclusion Lords Day and how we may and ought to spend ours Now give me leave to ask you or will you be pleased to ask your selves how you spend yours In the Morning if you can many By way of Reprehension of you dress your selves more Vainly and Phantastically than you do all the Week that 's your first labour Then some of you get a better Breakfast than on other days Then to Church and shew your selves where if you are a little demure in part of the Prayers that 's the summ total of your Devotion At other times you Gaze one while you Whisper Talk and Laugh another while some compose themselves and Sleep How small is the constantly-Serious Devout and attentive Part How strange a body now now adays is a Christian Assembly Then when the Morning Offices are done a more liberal Dinner than on other days and what diversion we can find within doors or without as the weather serves entertains the generality of us the rest of the day Good Lord forgive Good Lord amend this Wherefore In a word let what has By way of Exhortasion been said prevail with all for a more reverend esteem strict observation of the Lords Day Let us distinguish it from other days by something else than Holy-day Cloaths and Holy day Fare and Holy-day Liberties I must stand to it the keeping up amongst us not only that small remain of the power of Godliness which is yet left but the very face of the Reformed Religion which God be blessed we have fairer than our neighbours depends very much hereon Works of mercy may be and ought By way of Caution to be done on this day as well as on any other When they come from a pious heart they are Acts of Devotion in his esteem who hath said I will have mercy and not sacrifice And works of necessity or grand conveniency such as securing necessaries of life when perishing dressing fit food or the like forasmuch as they are neer a-kin to works of Mercy are not on this day unlawful to Christian People St. Ignatius in the place before mentioned taxes the feeding on cold Meat this day as a point of Judaizing And there is an antient Canon amongst those called Apostolical against fasting on the Lords Day Wherefore certainly such refreshment of our Bodies and regard to their vigour as may keep up our Spirits in the service of God is not to be neglected We ought this day if any day to eat our meat with gladness as well as singleness of heart But in all these things we must be faithful to God and our selves not framing necessities of business where there are none and taking care we in such sort use not the succours of Nature as to turn them into burdens and hindrances I have done and beseech God what I have thus plainly though too precipitantly and briefly said may effect in all or some of us at least a more constant conscientious and spiritual discharge of our Publick Private and Secret duties on this day By this means a vein of intelligent and serious Religion will soon run through Families and by them through Parishes through City and Country And this will soon settle and secure Religion to us and Religion settled will certainly settle and secure the Nation At least if God see not fit to settle any of us here in this World it will prepare and lead such of us who are spiritual Worshippers of him to an eternal settlement to a better Country and therein to that glorious Sabbatism which remains for the Children of God To which our Heavenly Father bring us all through Christ Jesus Amen FINIS