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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
A96372	A treatise of the power of godlinesse: consisting of three parts. 1 wherein it consists. 2 cautions against, and discoveries of, several mistakes and hinderances, most common to the people of God. 3 several means and helps for attaining of it. / By Thomas White, preacher of Gods Word in London.	White, Thomas, Presbyterian minister in London.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1848; Thomason E1848_1; ESTC R209711	168,479	438

assisting and supervening act of the Spirit to be enabled to give our consent to the conclusion for as in natural actions as in moving ones hand walking c. if we have the will we have the deed also but as for Spirituals it is God that gives both the will and the deed of his good pleasure not the will of his good pleasure and the deed of our good pleasure or the deed of common providence and the will of free-grace but both of free-grace or which is all one of his good pleasure and as God keeps both our will and deed in his own hand and dispenseth them severally so that when he hath given us the will he keeps the deed still in his hand that we may know that we have not a power to do good even when wee have a will so that the good which wee would wee do not and the evill which wee would not that wee do that free-grace may have all the glory so as to our faith the Spirit of God gives light and satisfaction as to the premises and yet keeps our assent to the conclusion in his own hand as it 's evident in divers that are in desertion though they confess whosoever love the brethren are past from death to life and that they do love the brethren yet cannot yeeld to the conclusion viz. that they are past from death to life For as God did by his power cause his fire to burn their cords Dan. 3. and yet not to singe a hair of their head or as he made light in Goshen and darkness in Egypt So many times God gives light to premises and suffers his children as in Egyptian darkness to the conclusion and yet abundantly satisfied as to the premises but to return because convictions may be communicated as to the grounds of them and those grounds upon which one is convinc'd another may be convinc'd also therefore I shall set down one of many reasons which may convince one of the excellency of Christ as for experiences in many cases it is not lawful and in none possibly fully to be exprest therefore thus That Christ was God and Man I take it for granted for if the devil should say it were so and I know him to be the Father of Lyes yet I hope I should not doubt it and though the Socinians say it 's not so yet I lay this as a foundation having recourse to experience finding those precious joyes that grow from the high prizeings of Christ and thus build upon it I see and clearly perceive what singular beauty comeliness and activity and rare operations the Soul that is but a creature gives unto the body so that the eye sees and hand works and feet walk the hand and tongue make rare musick and body lives and moves and continues in health and strength fourty eighty yeares and when I see the self-same body dead and observe what gastly look instead of beauty and that it neither moves hand nor foot and how quickly it putrifies and rots when the Soul is gone I conclude all these excellencies that the body had when living were communicated to it from the Soul For as if I should hear some rare musick and yet when I came into the room should see a Lute lye on the Table but not see any one in the room I should conclude that this Lute did not make the musick of it self without a hand to move it and that the Lute did not give skill to him that plaid for let one that hath no skill have never so well a tuned instrument he can make no musick therefore if the Soul that is but a poor creature can inable the body to do what of it self it is so unable to do and this by its union with the body what must we think what rare excellencies must necessarily be imparted to the Humane Nature of Christ by that union which the Deity hath with it and doubtless as much as a living body as to beauty and operations doth exceed a dead so and much more did Christ as man exceed all men being united to the God-Head especially the union of the Deity with the Humane Nature of Christ being neerer than that of the Soul with the body I leave these things to the consideration of any spirituall understanding Christian but this I shall adde that one never shall be satisfied fully unless to that conviction which wee have from arguments wee have that also which is to bee had from experience CHAP. III. In living contrary to Providences 3. THe third thing wherein the Power of godliness consists is living contrary to providences I mean not only above but contrary to the temptations which accompany Providences So wee read in Job when God had taken away from him all that he had the temptation that was natural considering our corruptions which Satan pretended and he doubted not but would certainly follow upon this Providence was that Job would curse God but Job did not only not curse God but he blessed him which was quite contrary to Satans expectation and to the temptation that was incident to that Providence if Job had been only patient under his affliction it had been different but not contrary to that carriage which in such a Providence one is generally tempted to blessing and cursing are the two extremes not to murmure or repine if one goeth no further is not to curse nor yet to bless but of a middle nature and a Christians aimes should bee higher than onely not to repine and murmure when God afflicts or not to revenge whenmen injure or persecute us it is not enough not to curse but wee must bless them that curse us it is not enough not to dispair in the time of persecution but we must rejoyce in tribulation and bee exceeding glad when wee suffer for righteousness sake The Apostle bids us to add to our patience godliness if that with which our patience is exercised be afflictions if injuries from men brotherly kindness It was a rare carriage of a good woman who taking up her childe dead whom she had laid down well instead of murmuring fell a blessing and admiring the goodness of God that all her children were not so this was quite contrary to the carriage of carnal men in such a Providence that was also a singular carriage of one who having had extraordinary joyes in her sickness finding that she was a recovering fell a trembling exceedingly and being ask'd whether her joyes were gone she answered no not so much as abated but that she trembled to think that she should live to dishonour her God that gave them CHAP. IV. In mortifying Temptations 4. THe fourth thing wherein the Power of Godliness consists is in this that we mortifie temptations if I may so call it when few things are temptations not that a growne Christian has fewer temptations yet fewer things are temptations to him 't is one thing to conquer a temptation so as to put it to