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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	night_n	young_a	youth_n	12	3	7.4470	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44763	The vision, or, A dialog between the soul and the bodie fancied in a morning-dream.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3127; ESTC R11503	50,341	190

in glory and consequently the creatures that are within them Now they who please themselfs in this fancy adhere to their opinion who think that every Star in heaven is peepled with som kind of creatures which God Almighty hath pleased to place there for his honour and service it standing not with his providence that the concavities of those vast bodies whereof some are computed to be many hundred of times bigger then the globe of the earth should be empty and void therefore these Theorists frame a kind of scale of of creatures they place the Elementary lowermost as the most gross The Selenites or Lunary peeple are of a finer composition then they and as one Star exceeds one another in height and glory the creatures that are coloniz'd within them do so accordingly but the most immateriall the purest and the most intellectuall are seated in the Sphere of the Sun where the Almighty hath setled his Throne and they are his nearest attendants The Elementary Creatures have more matter then form The Solar have more form then matter the Inhabitants of the Moon with other Astraean colonies are of a mix'd nature and the nearer they approach the body of the Sun who is the fountaine of light and heat and the glorious Eye of the world the more pure and spirituall they are Soul All this is but fancy which although somthing of illumination and sublimity may bee in it yet there is allo an extravagance in the Idea nor is it any way consonant to the orthodoxal Faith therfore never fear that by assumption of any other I shall ever quite abandon that body of yours but I shall reserve not only an aptitude but a willingness to have you for my tabernacle again and to bee recompact I shall be desirous to be a soul again till when I shall be only a Spirit but that bulk of yours shall be refin'd and sublimated to the perfection of Celestiall matter which is the purest and most quintescentiall part of the whole body of matter It is the Region wherein we shall go in equal pace with eternity it self therefore as man while he sojournes among the Elements bears a body sutable congruous and sympathetique to them so when he is exalted and made free Citizen of the Heavenly Jerusalem which is the true Country for which he had a being he shall be purified and ad●pted to the temper of it wherein man shall not only return to his first state of perfection but to a far higher and greater exaltation of glory the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} shall be no more {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Body sh●ll be no more a Sepulcher which may be the Etymology of it here but it shall becom a perpetuall Temple for the Holy Ghost There his understanding shall not be subject to error nor his will to passion incertitudes and topiques shall be turn'd to de monstrations Faith to intuition provided that he prepare himself accordingly and in this School of nature make himself capable to remove thither provided that he make use of those means which his Creator hath prescrib'd him here and that he employ his thoughts words and actions to that end for man shall have degrees of happiness in Heaven according to his works though not for his works which makes me reflect upon a passage that happen'd in the reigne of Edilred one of our Saxon Kings who having chang'd his Crown for a Friers coule and his Court for a Cloyster went to visit a Favorit of his that had bin a licentious young man who telling the King that a vision had appear'd unto him the night before of two youths which hee had seen one at his beds head with a white book thinne written the other at his beds feet with a large black book blurr'd and very thick written The King answered that the meaning of this vision was that the little book contained all his good works the other his bad yet God was so infinitely mercifull that one good work would cover a multitude of bad ones for hee never desir'd or absolutely design'd any Creature of his for damnation c. Body Yet ther want not now adaies such busie and profane spirits who rushing into his secret Councels do affirm that he hath by his determinat will preordain'd such and such creatures will they nill they for perdition an opinion then which we cannot conceive worse of the Devill himself But my dear soul you solace me beyond imagination that you tell me I shall bee reunited unto you made fit to share of your future beatitude yet this under correction is a hard thing for humane capacity to apprehend that the very same entire body should bee found out and recompacted after such putrefactions after so many changes and revolutions where can all the splinters of a bone which a Cannon bullet hath shiver'd and shatter'd to pieces bee found again where can all the atomes which a corrasive hath eaten from our limbs bee found what cohaerence what rejoinder is ther ever like to bee between a leg lost in Turkey and an arm lost in India The Shark and other ravenous fish of the Sea the Tyger the Bear the Crocodile with other savage beasts of the land use to devoure to disgest and turn to chylus and so to blood the bodies of thousands of men and that blood goes to the generation of other such brute annimals the wormes do the like in the grave Burnt bodies are resolv'd into ashes those ashes are blown into the gutter that puddled water is carried by common-shores into rivers those rivers pay tribute to the vast Ocean which runs in and retreats by so many ebbings and flowings how can it enter into the brain of man that all the parts of these bodies can be retreev'd to make up the same Compositum again Soul I know that the most searching and sagacious wits that ever were were all at a loss when they meditated on this transcendent mystery nor can the common principles of philosophy herein be preserved by any strength of Reson for they are bones that Nature cannot disgest But as I told you before in the scanning of divine mysteries we must oftentimes inferr certainties out of impossibilities as also that God is omnipotent otherwise it were not just for him to require such beliefs at our hands Moreover to illustrat unto you a little this article of the Resurrection you must understand that as at the Creation ther was a separation of the Chaos that huge indigested lump which went to the making of all cretures so after the last fire hath reduc'd all to their first principles and calcin'd them to ashes ther shall be a separation of that confus'd mass of ashes by the same all powerfull hand ther shall be a kind of second creation and rallying of the individuall bodies which were formed at first and every soul shall enjoy her first consort though much more purified then it was