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_v	worshipper_n	8,590	5	12.6710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95878	Babylons beautie: or The Romish-Catholicks svveet-heart. Containing a most lively and lovely description of Romes cardinall vertues and rarest endowments, with her apostolicall benedictions on kings and kingdomes, under her tyrannicall subjection; briefly and bravely depainted, in their native-splendour. A worke most seasonably composed for the revived eternall shame of all the mad-maintainers and idolizers of Romes great Diana, so cried-up and fought for, now a daies, by papists, atheists, and formall malignant Protestants. / By John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1644 (1644)	Wing V293; Thomason E44_9; ESTC R23310	32,354	40

satisfaction to all truly religious Christians and pious Protestants I rest Thine in the Lord John Vicars BABYLONS BEAVTIE OR The Romish-Catholicks Sweet-heart THis faithlesse faultring and backsliding world hath now for about 14 or 1500 years been haulting and staggering between not only 2 but many distracted opinions both touching the true God as it was between the heathens and primitive Christians and also as now it is and long hath been between Protestants Papists and other Sectaries Concerning the pure and sincere worship of the true God whether Christ or Antichrist Simple plaine and pure worship or miserably mixed idolatrie and superstition should stand or fall be loved or disliked And from this ground and bottome have all the flames of Contention and bloudy broyles over the whole Christian World even for these many hundred yeares been raised and blazed abroad even to the utter depopulation and ruine of many Countries and Kingdomes And although the Lord God of Heaven and Earth may be said to have taken that most wise Course which once he himselfe dictated and directed to his Zealous and pious prophet Elijah inspired with heavenly wisedome and Courage to prove and clearely demonstrate to his apostatizing faithlesse and faultring Israelites in wicked Ahabs time the true God from false and abusive Baall even by miraculous fire from heaven And as the false god Baal was most notably discovered by his false-prophets notwithstanding their vehement calling and crying on their blockish god yea and that with cuttings and slashings of their flesh to move him to heare them and to answer them by fire also which hee could not to be a false-god or indeed no god at all Even so I say our most wise God the onely true God hath after a certaine manner taken the same course even by the true heavenly and supernaturall fire of sound Faith which workes by Love Zeale and true holinesse of life and conversation in his Saints and Servants from time to time most aboundantly and evidently hath manifested to the world in all ages that as hee is the onely true God and a most pure and incomprehensible Spirit so hee will be worshipped in plaine Simplicity in Spirit and truth of all his true worshippers And that Antichrict and all his foolish and faithlesse not praying but prating Priests and babling Baalists mumbling and muttering over so many Paternosters and Ave-Maries together with all their Good frydayes whipping-cheer lashing and gashing their flesh just like Baals Priests are but very lyers and abhominable impostures and deceivers and that God hates and abhorrs all their rotten painted and polluted idolatry and Superstition which Antichrist that most audacious and brazen-fac'd Whore of Rome hath by her Ignatian and truly igneous flaming Iesuites and Popish proselites endevoured and strenuously striven with fire and sword with juglings and delusions to uphould and maintaine but all in vaine to this present time though I must confesse with much misery ruine and desolation to Gods Church and Children in all those foresaid many hundred yeares even ever since Antichrist the Baal and Belial of Rome grew up to such an ungodly growth and pernicious power by the too great lenity indulgence and over-honest affection and favour which the primitive Christian Emperours Constantine and others exhibited to those Patriarkes and Popes of their times who afterwards in short time most grossely abused their honest love and liberality unto extreme and excessive pride and insolencie even till at last they grew to that highth that they proved not only intolerable but untameable to posterity all along Now although as I touched before our most wise and patient God had from time to time in all Antichrists insulting and usurped authority and tyranny let the world see if at least it would have seen that his will and worship revealed only in his Word not Antichrists unwritten rotten trash and traditious Decrees and Decretals was the old way and the good way to be walked in yet such hath been the unexpressible knaverie impostures and juglings together with unsufferable cruelties and tyrannies exercised on Gods people by the Popes and their most nefariously pestilent and pernicious Jesuites Fryers and lyars those croaking Froggs ascending out of the foggie fumes and black smoake of the bottomlesse pit of hell that either by force or fraud they have wonderfully wrought upon the spirits of men to be misled by them and sillily and sottishly driven or drawne them to beleeve and imbrace Romes either lying wonders or frying furies and cruelties Now then I say this being the maine and mightie ground and most bainfull bottome of all the warres and jarrs that are now in the Christian world namely whither Romes usurped rule and regiment or Christs evangelicall Truth and Testament shall stand and prevaile whither Christs pure and precious Comelinesse or Romes inwardly rotten though outwardly specious and painted Beauty or rather Bauderie is fittest to be followed and affected In short whither Christ or Antichrist shall be King and sole Lord and Soveraigne I have therefore in this short Treatise undertaken to set forth in her proper and most genuine and native deepe-died colours in graine the great Diana of Rome so cryed-up admired and adored by almost the whole world at least of sottish and senslesse onely nominall Christians and perishing sonnes of disobedience who give themselves up to believe lyes that they all may be damned who will not receive the love of the truth in righteousnesse as the Apostle Paul most notably shewes yea and to limn and delineat Romes most lively picture and faire or rather infamous figure and feature most unquestionably knowne to all knowing and ingenuous Christians to be most properly and peculiarly hers and only or mainly hers as all Ecclesiasticall Histories and Historiographers both ancient and moderne besides the sensible experience of pristine and present suffering Christians in all ages have and doe decipher and set her forth and without all cause of controversie most faithfully prove and testifie And because all these things which I now intend in this Treatise to deliver and that with all historicall fidelitie and convenient brevitie are so well knowne to all learned and intelligent Christians I have resolved for the avoiding of tediousnesse and intricate prolixitie to the ordinary sort of Readers who are like to be the greatest number to set downe most succinctly the Histories themselves barely and plainly without much or almost any marginall notes or quotations of authours that so my honest and plain Readers may with more full delight and content see and seeing admire and admiring be amazed at the egregious madnesse and stupid sottishnesse of our Popish admirers and adorers both Princes and people of such a rotten ramish Whore and most bold and brazen-fac'd a painted Strumpet Who dares so audaciously abuse and intoxicate them with such deepe drafts of her golden-cup of mortiferous poyson of Romish fornications to the fatall and finall ruine and perdition without