Selected quad for the lemma: body_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	nature_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,882	5	9.6339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51724	Il Davide perseguitato David persecuted / vvritten in Italian by the Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; and done into English by Robert Ashley, Gent.	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing M358; ESTC R37618	56,199	263

littlenesse of that member commeth through defect of matter in the bony and fleshy parts which being but small produceth the thinner and more delicate Organs which do not obstruct or hinder the operations of the braine The little man having a great head is an argument that it is full of braine especially if he bee but slender for it cannot be ascribed to the thicknesse of the skull because that Nature would rather have imployed that matter to have made the man taller or greater I am excusable if I seeke by reason to overthrow this doctrine because I am willing to verifie it by the example of mine owne stature The Lord willeth Samuel not to regard the countenance of Eliab nor the talnesse of his stature but hee had refused him judging not as men doe by the outward appearance but beholding the Heart LOe here the vanitie of Metoposcopie and Physiognomie is pointed at Beauty or Comlinesse is a most perfect consonancie arising out of the symmetrie and proportion of the first Qualities It gets in the eye because it is faire It attracts the will because it is good it moves the vnderstanding because it is true The Poets in the vanity of their fables have haply come neere vnto the truth calling beautie by the name of the Sun of the Stars of Heaven It is certainly a peece of that Harmony which the motions and aspects of the Heavens of the Sun and of the starres doe incite and hath such a radiant light in it selfe that though wee know not why it doth if not inforce our minds yet certainly incline them strongly The Providence of God hath seldome informed the fairest body with the fairest mind that men might not beleeve that from the same Harmony of temperament of the starres from which proceeds the Beautie of the one that of the other did proceed likewise Ishai having finally brought forth his sonnes before Samuel to the number of seven hee refusing them all asketh whether he hath no more Ishai answering there is yet one which is feeding of the sheepe the Prophet causeth him to be sent for and annointeth him in the midst of his Brethren being the same whom the Lord had appointed in the stead of Saul GOd having at first chosen for King the tallest that was in Israel chuseth the second time the least that was in the house of Ishai The first shall be last and the last shall bee first saith the Lord who then chose the last to bee the first There is no difference of time with God in whose eternitie there is neither first nor second The eldest may be stoutest but are not usually the wisest That tendernesse that commonly enfeebleth the Children of our old Age maketh the organs of their understanding more tender and delicate The cold of him that engendreth gives them the more wisedome and his organs the better discourse whence it comes that if the last begotten be commonly the weakest yet they are oft and many times the wisest He that bringeth David from the sheep-hooke to the scepter and exalteth him from the stable to the Kingdome it is hee that humbled himselfe from his Kingdome to the stable Hee that is both a sheepheard and a King maketh him a King who was but a sheepheard There is a kind of Analogie in all sorts of Commands He that said that to know well how to order a table was a signe that hee knew also how to marshall an Armie might as well say that hee that could well keepe a flock of sheep had the skill how to governe a people well God from the fold hath taken Kings from husbandry and hunting Tyrants The husbandman will have the earth to produce that which naturally it doth not and that it should produce hee wounds it The hunts-man by shedding the blood of poore innocent beasts groweth to bee delighted in Crueltie But the sheepheard conducts his flock to pasture brings it back to the fold preserveth it from maladies and defends it from wolves his taking their milk their wooll is a disburthening of them not a wounding Let Kings learne to take their Ministers sometimes even of the sheepfold The best men are not alwayes in the greatest Palaces a lowly Cottage oftentimes incloses a high spirit and a ragged rock a very cleere diamond The good spirit departeth from Saul and the evill one entreth into him GOds refusals are the devils purchases where the one departs if the other enters not hee at least drawes very neere either to perturb or to possesse Let us seeke out one that can play well say the servants of Saul that the King may bee eased when hee is molested by the evill spirit THey beleeved peradventure that the Melancholick humour being stirred up they that are oppressed by it might bee eased by melodie There have beene some of opinion that Melancholie is produced of the devill The wiser sort if they did not beleeve that it is of his production yet judged that it may easily prove to be of his introduction and therefore termed it the Bath of the devill because it is the Lees because it is black because it hath an Analogie with the darknesse of sinne The occasion of their beleefe was the seeing sometimes how by the fixation thereof men were lifted up or elevated in an extasie Yea and sometimes how the sharpnesse thereof irritating the braine and stirring the Images therein hath made some to speake things whereof before they were not held capable whence I thinke it came to passe that many oppressed with the greatnesse of the effects produced by this humour have often judged the animall spirits to be infernall spirits I deny not there are found some melancholicke persons possessed with devills or that melancholy is an apt bath for the devill but I affirme it not only of the grosse thick and dark melancholie but even of that also which produceth the subtilest and lightest spirits He hath need of active bodily instruments for his operations in the body Hee joynes himselfe therefore gladly with the subtilest and finest spirits because they being in some sort of a middle nature being corporeall and incorporeall are a more proportionate receptacle for a spirit to unite himselfe to a thing that is meerely corporeall An ancient Sage beleeved that our soule which hee imagined to bee at first clothed with aire had need of the like organs to joyne it to the body whereunto hee thought it not united but assistant neither are there wanting among the Divines those that have conceived the Angles to be clothed in like manner They tell Saul of David that he is strong a valiant man of war can play well is a wise and a comely person and that God is with him HOw should the devill continue his possession being to bee assailed with so many prerogatives but that finding in them some rayes of the glorious Archangell Michael hee must needs slie and hide himselfe in the bottomlesse pit of hell Saul sendeth to Ishai for his