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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
A56745	The mystery of the Christian faith and of the Blessed Trinity vindicated and the divinity of Christ proved in three sermons preach'd at Westminster-Abbey upon Trinity-Sunday, June the 7th, and September 21, 1696 / by the late Reverend William Payne ... ; in the press before his death, and by himself ordered to be published.	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1697 (1697)	Wing P906; ESTC R35097	36,960	108

and Substratum of these accidents and qualities we know nothing of How the parts of Matter are united what makes them so close and inseparable in a solid Stone or Diamond more than in a heap of Sand whither rest and juxta position or what hooks and fastnings tyes them together is unknown to us whether the parts of matter are divisible or indivisible is such a puzzling Problem that both sides have a Demonstration though it be for a plain Contradiction Light is the clearest object of our Senses and yet our Knowledge of that is very dark and obscure we know not how it darts it self in a moment from Heaven to Earth and how it causes Vision in the Eye and how so vast a number of Objects are received into that small Room at once and make their several motions and draw all their Pictures there indeed how any of our Senses perceive these Objects and how we have such Conceptions and Phantasms raised in us by them which are not in the Objects themselves for Bitter and Sweet Pain and Pleasure Heat and Cold is not in any of them nor any thing like them but only in our selves and by what secret Powers they excite those Sentiments is as unaccountable as it is obvious We must resolve all these things and all the Phoenomina of Nature into the will and appointment of the first cause thither we must bring and there we must leave all the Laws of Matter and Motion We can trace them all thither and we can go no farther but must stop at these incomprehensible bounds and limits of all our Natural Knowledge 2. If we rise higher and look beyond Matter and consider what we know of Spiritual Beings and of the Intellectual World we shall find that to be a dark Hades and as unintelligible to us We know indeed that there must be something above Matter and that Wisdom and Thoughts and Contrivance which every where appear in the Fabrick of the World and in the Structure of our own and every Animals Body must proceed not from rambling Atoms and from senseless and heedless matter but from a Wise Mind and an Understanding Being and we feel and perceive in our selves something that is above body that thinks and reflects and considers that reasons and discourses and deduces one thing from another and determines it self and acts freely and moves our Bodies as it pleases and stops their motion and has an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is sensible of Pain or Pleasure from things past or future which Body and Matter cannot be and this is what we call our Soul and we know it by these Properties and have as much an Idaea of it as of Body Thinking being as certain and well known to us as Extension but what is the Essence or Substance or inward Constitution of what thinks or is extended this we are equally ignorant of and how this Spiritual Substance came into the Body whether it was infused by God upon an immediate Creation or Emaned and propagated from the Parents Soul which was an old Opinion of the Easterns the Syrians and Arabians and of many others and does no way infer its Corporeity by what Vital Charm or Congruity it is united to it by what nexus it is so joyned and fastned to Matter as not to be released from it when it pleases this is unconceivable and unintelligible to us Why are we therefore so afraid and unwilling to believe the Mysteries of the Divine the highest Spiritual Nature when we have so many in our own which is the lowest Why is the Divine Generation of the Son so incredible when so many Wife and Learned Persons * As St. Hierome tells us Tom. 2. Ep. 82. have been of Opinion that even Humane Souls are generated and this without any discerption or division of parts which belongs not to Spiritual Beings Why is the Incarnation of Christ or the Divine Natures being united to the Humane thought more unintelligible than the Soul being United to the Body without any commensuration of parts or equal Extension And why is the Sacred Trinity Condemned as so absurd a Mystery or three Divine Persons so inseparably united together when so many Philosophers of old have thought that every Man had three Immaterial Principles or Souls in him the Rational the Sensitive and the Vegetative though of late we have held that these Three are One. Is not the Mind one pure Act or Energy and yet it has three Faculties in it of Understanding Will and Memory which are not the same and yet belong to one Soul 3. There are a great many things in Arts and Sciences which are Unconceivable and Unintelligible to those who are the best skilled in them and especially to others who are not Thus in Physicks in Mathematicks in Chymistry in Astronomy in Navigation and other Sciences how many strange and extraordinary and wonderful things are there which those who are ignorant would hardly believe and to those who know them they are Incomprehensible I might produce a great many Instances from all of them but shall only touch upon a few Who would not have thought the Loadstone a very Mysterious thing and the Pixis Nautica when first found out and who does not think them so still and who can give a full account of them by striate Particles and the Magnetism of the Earth which is going very little further then to an occult quality And a great many such occult qualities and unaccountable Appearances there are in Nature and Phylosophy which are much like Mysteries in Religion and in Revelation which when our knowledge is improved we shall know better The Flux and Reflux of the Sea continues to be so still for any Hypothesis that can perfectly solve it The Circulation of the Blood through the whole Body was not long ago thought to be so and the Periods of Agues and Feavers is still acknowledged to be one The believing there were Antipodes was not many Ages ago thought to be Heresy Aventin Annal Anno 745. and Virgilius a Bishop in Germany was condemned for it by Pope Zachary in the 8th Century The Phylosophers Stone has been greatly talked of and will be acknowledged a Mystery though so many have pretended to it and even though it were found out And to one who has lived always in the Hot Countreys and under the Torrid Zone the having Water turn'd into Ice and a River congealed into a Solid Rock will be as Incredible a Mystery so likewise to have a Transparent Glass made out of Sand and an opac Body and a Plant as they say raised out of its Ashes by the Power of Chymistry The Power of Numbers and the performances of Algebra and many Problems in Mathematics may pass for Magical to a great many as they have done always to the ignorant and some of them are unaccountable and Incomprehensible to those who know and can demonstrate them as the