Peace to thy Ghost, and yet mee thinkes so indefinite a spirite should haue no peace or intermission of paines, but be penning Ditties to the Archangels in another world.
Husband, He be thy wife in heauen: let not thy pure deceasing spirite despise me when we meete, because I am tyrannously polluted.
It is the spiritethat quickneth, the flesh profiteth nothyng, (John.
If you be reproached for y^e name of Christ, hapy are ye, for y^e spirite of glory and of God resteth upon you.
The spirite of a man (sustained by y^e spirite of God) will sustaine his infirmitie, I dout not so will yours.
What could now sustaine them but the spiriteof God & his grace?
I pray God directe us, and give us that spirite which is fitting for such a bussines.
So to haue a quantitie, is so proper to a solide bodie, that as all Philosophers conclude, it cannot be any more without one, then a spirite can haue one.
For he dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither can the spiriteof the defunct returne to his friend, or yet an Angell vse such formes.
And if they enter as a spirite onelie, anie place where the aire may come in at, is large inough an entrie for them: For as I said before, a spirite can occupie no quantitie.
I say that, euen as I said before of that imaginar rauishing of the spirite foorth of the bodie.
How then should I, without another wit, Thinck ever to endure so tedious toyle, Sith that this one is tost with troublous fit Of a proud Love, that doth my spirite spoyle?
Doth vex my spirite with perplexitie, Thus in a moment to see lost and drown'd So great riches as like cannot be found.
Bold sure he was, and worthie spirite bore, That durst those lowest shadowes goe to see, And could beleeve that anie thing could please Fell Cerberus, or Stygian powres appease.
This goodlie bridge, one foote not fastned well, Gan faile, and all the rest downe shortlie fell, Ne of so brave a building ought remained, That griefe thereof my spirite greatly pained.
Wherewith enrag'd, he fiercely gan upstart, And with his hand him rashly bruzing slewe 290 As in avengement of his heedles smart, That streight the spirite out of his senses flew.
Immortall spirite of Philisides, Which now art made the heavens ornament, That whilome wast the worldës chiefst riches.
In whom dyd appeare sutch signes, as if death had ben at hand, or els that he had ben attached wyth the Spirite of phrensie.
Loue pricketh and prouoketh thespirite to do well, I do confesse, but that affection ought to be addressed to some vertuous end, tending to mariage, for otherwise that vnspotted Image shall be soyled wyth the villany of Beastly pleasure.
If the amorous Lamia had a good Spiriteand mynde, Lais truely had no lesse.
Hereby shall ye know the spirite of Godd: Euery sprite that confessith that Iesu Christe is cõme in the flesh / is of Godd.
And this is that spirite of Antichriste / of whome ye haue herde / howe that he shuld comme and euen now alreadi is he in the worlde.
Christe is become but in vayn to yowe / as many of yow as are iustified by the lawe are fallen from grace / we loke for and hope in the spirite to be iustified thorow faithe.
Here he speaketh not of spirites which falsly affirme themselues to be mens soules, but of those teachers whiche boaste of themselues that they haue the spirite of God.
Sometimes a shadow hath onely appeared: sometimes a hand, sometimes an instrument, as a staffe, a sworde, or some such lyke thing which the spirite helde in his hande.
Now therefore beholde, the Lord hath put a lying spirite in the mouth of all these thy Prophets, and the Lorde hath appointed euill against thée.
Esay=, it is written: If they say vnto you, enquire of them which haue a spirite of diuination, which whisper and murmure softely in youre eares to deceiue you.
Of a counterfaite and deceiuing spirite at Orleaunce in France.
Euery spirit that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God, and euery spirite whiche confesseth not, that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God.
And he saide, I will goe out and be a false spirite in the mouth of all his Prophets.
The Spirite aunswered, that it was in his and his brethrens power to deliuer him out of this miserie, if he would suffer himselfe for the space of viij.
Chapter saith: The spirite shall returne to God that giueth it.
But if the beautie of her mind ye knew, 6 That is her bountie, and imperiall powre, Thousand times fairer then her mortall hew, 8 O how great wonder would your thoughts deuoure, And infinite desire into your spirite poure!
And it being asked of this examinate why the spirite did looke vpon her, shee said it was hungrie'.
All this time the Duchesse who had both iudgemente and spirite so good as any Princesse that raigned in her time, suspected by and by the treason of the Earle.
Alas, what blindnes is that, which captiuateth the wittes and spirite of him, that feedeth himselfe of nothing els, but vpon the rage of fantastical despite and vpon the furie of dispaire.
For as this spirite is a bening and liberall spirite, and wyll be easyly founde of them which wyll early in carefulnesse ryse to seeke hym, [Sidenote: Sapi i.
Search the scriptures=: of what spirite can it proceede to forbid the reading and studying of the scriptures?
And at the first time when he had the Spirite, hys sayd maister did cause him to deliuer him one drop of his blud, whych bloud the Spirite did take away upon hys paw.
The erth was voyde and emptie/ ad darcknesse was vpon the depe/ and the spirite of god moved vpon the water Than God sayd: let there be lyghte and there was lyghte.
And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not all waye stryve withe man/ for they are flesh.
But the Sainte Spirite had not come whole out of her struggle with the powers of the abyss.
Thinking of the hard sea-bitten faces of the galley-slaves Nicholas rejoiced that rather than live so the crew of the Sainte Spirite would every man of them choose a clean death at sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spirite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
