Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	body_n	soul_n	1,426	5	5.4689	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69163	Paradise within us: or, The happie mind. By Robert Crofts	R. C. (Robert Crofts)	1640 (1640)	STC 6043; ESTC S116646	41,645	221

and to enjoy all the felicities thereof both earthly 〈◊〉 heavenly Let us therefore by all meanes seeke to preserve the welfare of our bodies since the same is so great a furtherance to the felicity of the mind And the rather because otherwise if the body be unhealthy and distempered the same will bee a burthen to the mind whose Instrument it is and so hinder it in the performance of all excellent matters and in the possession and enjoyance of all delights and happinesses both earthly and heavenly and instead thereof cause therein much distemper perturbation discontent evill and misery Because this matter is of great consequence I shall briefely endeavour to shew how the body thus worketh upon the mind That the humours of the body are an occasion of Passions and perturbations of the mind is a received ground among all Physitians and Philosophers It is well knowne in Philosophy that the affections of the mind doe follow the apprehensions of the phansie And Physitians doe well know that the apprehensions of the Phansie are conformable to the dispositions of the body and the humours that are predominate therein They tell us and Experience also teacheth us that the Cholericke humours if excessive being fiery and impetuous make the ●pprehension to bee swift and violent exciting to Anger and Rashnesse The Melancholy being cold and dry bring feare sorrow and darke thoughts Phlegme being cold and moyst maketh the apprehension to become dull slow and without vigour And too much bloud being hot and moyst excites to sensuall Lusts Prodigality Riot and the like A mixture of excessive inflamed and corrupted Choller Melancholy and other humours causeth the Phansie to apprehend things as having enmity excites to hatred Revenge Frowardnesse and to desperate mischiefes and miseries So that it is apparant the body workes upon the Mind and the excessive distempered humours thereof doe also annoy and distemper the Mind But how Not by depriving it of any power or faculty given it of GOD as some say which remaines without diminishing but by corrupting the next instrument whereby the mind worketh and consequently the action it selfe which commeth to passe by reason that the evill humours of the body do send up grosse and maligne fumes into the braine annoying the animall Spirits which are most thinne and subtill vapours proceeding from the bloud and the Instruments whereby the mind worketh and performeth the actions thereof Those Spirits are a medium betwixt the mind and the body as some say Others that they participate of both and being refined enlivened and quickned by the reasonable and divine Soule they become of a middle nature betweene Ayre and Flame being pure and undistempered they cause in the mind Tranquility Joy and good desires The Ayrie part raising quicke pleasing and delicate conceits in the Phansie and the Flame inciting noble and active desires in the soule But these Spirits being distempered dulled and corrupted by the maligne fumes proceeding from ill humours The dispositions and actions of the mind also by reason thereof will become corrupt and evill for these animall Spirits being the medium betwixt the body and the mind participating of both and the next instrument whereby the mind and body worke upon each other being corrupted and distempered the mind therefore grieveth and distempereth it selfe at the distemper of these Spirits and so of the body And therefore cannot please it selfe or effect any excellent matter having such distempered corrupted Instruments to worke withall So that although the Spirit be willing yet the Corruptions and weakenesse of the flesh will pervert the actions thereof and the dull distempered body cannot bee capable to effect or know the good dictates operations and Inducements of the soule But both being annoyed by evill humours and those distempered Spirits become out of Temper and Corrupted It being apparant that the body thus workes upon the mind it is of very great Consequence that we take diligent care of the good temper health and welfare of our bodies The usuall directions prescribed to mainetaine our bodies in good health and due temper are a convenient proportion and moderation in these which Physitians call the sixe non-naturall Things according to Galen's Division Which are 1 Ayre 2 Meate and Drinke 3 Sleepe and watch 4 Labour and rest 5 Emptinesse and Repletion 6 The affections and passions of the mind All which are by divers Authors at large treated of and described But for asmuch as neither the matter of Diet nor the quantity thereof nor the use and observation of those other non-naturall things ought to be the same in all sorts of people but very different according to the diversity of Ages Complexions Constitutions and the like It is therefore good that every man be well skilled in the Temperament of his body and mind that he may be a Rule unto himselfe in that which is best for him Hence that Proverbe hath its probability Every man is eyther a Foole or a Physitian Let therefore every man survey himselfe and if he find the plight and state of his body to be in equability and of a perfect Temper Let him cherish and preserve himselfe in this good estate which is to be done by a due order apt proportion and convenient moderation of these things before mentioned Namely with little alteration according to that in Hippocrates Aphorisme Ayre Meat Drinke Exercise Sleepe Venus and affections of the Mind But if our bodies doe any way decline from a good Temper and Disposition Then had we need to recure the same by all good endeavours and Remedies To rectify therefore and remedy the ill Temperament of our bodies Let us observe these directions First to forbeare and disuse such things as are an occasion of the distemper or any way hurtfull Secondly to enjoyne our selves to a contrary order of Usage and Diet. Thirdly to evacuate and empty the body of ill humours and of such things as are an occasion of the distemper Of all which I intend briefly to discourse in the ensuing Divisions in a mixt way according to the foure severall Complexions together with directions concerning the divers passions and affections of the mind incident to each Complexion or humour abounding tending to the eschewing of the infelicity or misery of the mind and to encrease the felicity thereof But in the observation of the following Physicall directions we are to observe this Caution That seeing the many and severall Rules and observations therein though briefly prescribed we doe not too scrupulously and precisely tye our selves to such a multitude of particulars nor perplexe our selves in the observation therof for why those good effects for which they are severally prescribed may be happily effected if we doe but observe some part of those directions so much onely as wee may with conveniency And J have the rather collected and mentioned so many and divers particulars and many such as are very common and easie to be attained and observed to the intent we may