Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	truth_n	worship_n	worship_v	19,034	5	9.4594	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00384	The praise of folie. = Moriæ encomium a booke made in latine by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight.; Moriae encomium. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1521-1565.	1549 (1549)	STC 10500; ESTC S101685	94,709	162

hundred conclusions driuyng me to rec●●● that in case I refused so to doe than wolde they by and by denounce me for an heretike For that is the thunderbolt wherwithall they threten suche as stande not best in theyr fauour But surely although none other sorte of men dooe with lesse good will than these acknowlage my goodnesse vnto theim Yet can I proue these Doctours also to be more than one or two waies in my daunger beyng so propped vp with theyr owne Arrogance and Selflikyng as if thei dwelled amongꝭ the sterres or loked downe from aloft and in a maner toke compassion vppon other seely men lyke wourmes crepyng by the grounde Namely whiles thei are hedged in on all sides with suche a gard of Magistral diffinicions conclusions corollaries explicite and implicite proposicions with so many startyng holes as not Vulcanes nettꝭ were hable so fastly to holde theim but they wolde wynde theim selues out againe with Distinctions wherwith thei carue al knottes asunder as smothely as a rasour dooeth the heares of a mans beard Suche a noumbre of newfounde monstrous termes haue they thicke and threefolde inuented Also whiles thei expounde the secrettꝭ of scripture at theyr pleasure disputyng how the worlde was fyrst create and proporcioned by what chanels sinne was deriued into Adams posteritee what waies by what measure and in how short space Christ was complete in the wombe of Marie the virgin And how in the sacrament of the altare the accidentes of breade and wyne remaine whan the substance is goen but these questions are for euerie young beginner Other haue thei more mete for great and illuminate doctours whiche if at any tyme in disputacions or talkyng after diner they doe stumble vpon straight thei shake of theyr slepie noddyng and doe rowse theim selfꝭ As whether any instant was in the generacion of god the secounde person whether in Christ there be more filiacions than one whether this proposicion be possible God the father hateth the sonne or whether Christ might possiblie haue taken to hym the likenesse of a woman of a feende of an asse or of a goorde Or how that goorde shoulde haue preached doen miracles or been ●anged on the crosse Or what shoulde Peter haue consecrated if he had consecrated what time Christes body hunge on the crosse Or whether Christ beyng transformed so into a goorde might at the same tyme be called man also Or whether after the resurrection it be leefull for men to eate or drinke as who saith prouidyng for hungre and thurst afore hand Innumerable suche fine toyes haue they muche more subtile than these of Instantes formalitees quidditees and Ecceitees whiche no man I beleue could espie out vnlesse he were so clere eied as to see out in a deepe depe darkenesse those thingꝭ that be no where I maie adde also here to their sentences or sawes whiche are so estraunge and beyonde all expectacion as the verie Stoikes sentences called Paradoxes beyng compared to theyrs seme grosse and more than vulgar For exemple Lesse sinne is it saie they to slea a thousande men than one 's on a sondaie to clowte a poore mans shoe Or rather shoulde we let all the worlde goe to wreke bothe with dogge and catte as thei saie than ones to make a lesyng be the mattier neuer so lyght Now againe these theyr subtile subtilties doe 〈◊〉 make yet more subtile through so many sortes of Scholemen as thei haue So that easier you shall finde it to wind out of a mase then out of their intricate names of Reales Nominales Thomistes Albertistes Occanistes and Dunsmen yet these be not all but the principal onely But turne you to whiche sect of thē ye will and ye shall proue the same to be so cunnyng so difficult and so full of hiegh Misteries as I wene the apostles theim selues had nede to be enstructed by a new sprite in case vpon these matters they were compelled to argue with this new kynde of doctours Paule coulde expresse what faieth was yet whan he saied thus faieth is the substance of thynges to be hoped after and an euidence of thynges not yet appearyng This Diffinicion saie they was not Magistraliter idest doctour like sette foorth by hym And as Paule coulde verie well teache what was Charitee so did he not yet saie thei halfe lyke a Logicien either diffine or deuide the same in the fyrst epistle and .xiii. chapitte to the Corinthiens The apostles likewyse did holily and deuoutly enough consecrate the sacrament of Christes bodie and yet who so had apposed them in terminus à quo and t●rminus ad quem or in transubstanciacion or by what meanes the selfe same body of God may be in diuers places at ones or of the difference thei put nowe betweene Christes bodie as it is 〈◊〉 heauen as it was on the crosse and in the sacrament of the altare Or at what instant the transubstanciacion is made seyng the praier by vertue wherof it is made is euer passyng ouer as it is on saiyng These quaynt questions wene I the apostles woulde neuer haue soluted with lyke quickenesse of engin as our Dunsmen do●e bothe argue and diffine 〈◊〉 the same The apostles knew the virgin mother of Iesus● but whiche of them did euer expounde so clerkly how she was preserued from Originall sinne as our doctours doe Peter receiued heauen keies yea receiued theim at his handes saie they that woulde neuer haue committed the same to one vnwoorthie theim Now whether he knew so muche or no I can not tell but this I am sure of that he neuer touched this narow poinct how it cometh to passe that he also maie haue the keie of science who hath no science at all The apostles Baptized euery where and yet thei neuer taught what is the formal material efficient or finall cause of Baptisme nor euer made mencion of the character delible and indelible The apostles praied but praied in the sprite folowyng that saiyng of the gospell God is a sprite and who so woorship hym must worship all in the sprite and in tr●uthe But now it appeareth that it was not than reueled vnto theim how we ought with all one praier and lyke reuerence woorship an Image drawne perhaps with a cole on the wall as if the same were Christ hym selfe So it be made with .ii. blissing fyngers of the right hand streched out and a ball in the other with longe heare sheded and a coronet in maner of a platter vpon his noddle decked with thre sonnebeames For who is he so pregnant witted that might euer grope out these misteries vnles he had spent whole xxxvi yeeres togethers in studiyng the Physicals and Vltramundans of Duns and Aristotle The apostles also preached grace vnto the people but yet they neuer made so narow distinction betwene gratia gratis data and gratia gratificans They exhorted men to good woorkꝭ yet neuer put difference betwene opus operans and opus operatum Thei bydde vs in