Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	world_n	6,961	5	5.3573	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31477	The innocent lady, or, The illustrious innocence being an excellent true history, and of modern times carried with handsome conceptions all along / written originally in French by the learned Father de Ceriziers of the Company of Jesus ; and now rendered into English by Sir William Lower, Knight.; Innocence reconnuë	Cerisiers, René de, 1609-1662.; Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing C1679; ESTC R37539	69,822	175

thy admonitions if they had not been necessary nor thy motions if they had not been violent I am infinitely indebted unto thee for doing me this favour notwithstanding my obligation appears unto me yet greater if I consider that thou hast constrained me to be happy against my will framing to me in my solitude an image of Paradise where all felicities are necessary Whilest our Saint lost her self in the pure and innocent joyes of virtue Sifroy had neither repose nor contentment amongst the joyes of his house the night presented him nothing but black shaddows and sad phanotsmes The day cleared not but to make him observe the absence of Genevievia his spirit rouled continually sullen and melancholly thoughts often times he was seen to wander upon the brink of the river observing in the inconstancy of the floods the agitation of his spirit and then as if this humour had rendered him savage he rid himself of his servants to give more liberty to his sighes in the horrour of a wood being angry with his own shadow if the obscurity obliged it to follow him Who can figure to himself the despaire and fury whereinto he entered when his memory said unto him Thou hast killed Genevieva Thou hast massacred thy sonne thou hast taken away thy poor servants life whose pale shadows pursue thee incessantly Genevieva where are you where are you my dear girle where are you It was to be believed that if he had had Golo in this humour he had brought back the custom of sacrificing to ghosts but this perfidious man feigned very fitly a journey when he perceived the temper of his master changed if his misfortune had staid him in the Palatines house there had been an end of his life principally after the horrible and fearfull vision of Drogan I will not say that it was an illusion of his sick spirit for I know that God permits sometimes souls to come again for the good of some persons Examples make sufficient proofs of this truth which is passed even unto hell since that the rich man in the Gospel who was alwayes cloathed with the colour of fire demanded of the father of the faithfull to return unto the world to avert his brother from the punishments of the other life One night as the Palatine was laid to sleep he heard about midnight some one that walked with great paces into his chamber forthwith he drew the curtains of his bed and having perceived nothing at the glimmering of a little light that remained in the chimney he indeavoured to sleep but a quarter of an houre after the same noise began again insomuch that he perceived in the mid●st of his chamber a great man pale and gashly who trained after him a great bundle of chains with which he seemed to be tyed this horrible vision appearing in the obscurities of the night was capable to overthrow the spirits of a man less● hardy than Sifroy but being couragious and assured he asked him what he would have without witnessing much fear thinking it unworthy of him to tremble for shaddows who had not apprehended death it self Yet could he not forbid a cold sweat which diffused it self through all his body especially when he saw that this spirit made him signes to come to him which he did notwithstanding following him a thwart a low Court and from thence into a little garden where he no sooner was but it vanished away leaving the Count more astonished with his flight than if he had cōtinued him yet a company so little delightful The Moon aided much his fear for having shewd him until then where he was she withdrew all her light leaving him to seek amidst the darknesse the doore of his chamber Being laid again in his bed he began to imagine that he had this great man all of Ice at his sides who pressed him between his arms this made him call his servants who found him more pale than a dead man he dissembled notwithstanding his fear untill the morning Scarce began the day to break but he commanded his servants to open the Earth at the place where the spirit vanished they had not digged above two foot deep but they met with the bones of a dead man loaden with irons and chains There was a servant who told the Count that Monsieur the Intendant had caused the body of the unfortunate Drogan to be cast into this very place where they had found this carcasse Sifroy ordained that they should cause him to be interred and that Messes should be said for his repose Since this time there was no more noise heard in the Castle but the spirit of the Palatine served him for vision giving him all the horrible imaginations that men provoked with fury can figure to themselves It was then that he acknowledged his frights and his fears were the effects of his crime Nothing could divert him from his black and deep imaginations he had continually before his eyes the images of those three Innocents whom he believed to have destroyed These words were often heard to proceed from his mouth O Genevieva thou tormentest me his friends indeavoured to draw him from this melancholly but the hand of God pursued him in every place and the image of his crime never abandoned him The devils carry their hell wheresoever they go and a wicked person trains alwayes his executioner with him Sifroy had sinned through a sudden precipitation and God clean contrary in his proceedings would punish him with a slow and lingring pain to the end to make him feel how dangerous it was not to take counsel of reason upon the accidents that arrive unto us Whilst we amuse us in the horrours of the Count we lose the good discourse of Genevieva It was well forward in the seventh year of her solitude that the little Benoni began to have with the sense of his miseries the full and perfect use of reason His mother forgot nothing of all that which might serve to his instruction having not the means no more than the desire to leave him the goods of fortune she would not leave him unprovided of those with which poverty can make it self rich all her care was to teach him to know God the love and reverence which we ow unto him and that he was not like unto those beasts that played with him for asmuch as he had a soul which should never dye and that these animalls lived not but for a time Morning and evening before he reposed himself she made him kneel down before the Crosse and she never permitted him to suck his hind before he had prayed to God This little Infant shewed so much inclination unto good that his mother was transported with joy thereof He made her thousand petty questions which shewed enough the sweetnesse of his nature and the goodnesse of his wit This made sometimes the poore mother to weep considering that her son deserved well to be brought up in another School than amongst the beasts