Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50439	Monarchia microcosmi the origin, vicissitudes, and period of vital government in man : for a farther discovery of diseases, incident to human nature / by Everard Maynwaringe ...	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1692 (1692)	Wing M1499; ESTC R19619	14,838	60

proper and requisite Temperature in their Formation maintaining that due Tone afterwards until changed by Age vita genus and Accidents And this is performed first upon the primigenious Spermatick Matter in the Womb afterwards by transmuting and modefying Alimentary Supplies in the whole course of Life And as this Vital Principle Senescit declines in Vigour and Vitallity the temper of the whole and every particular Part do change also The Temperament of the Body changeth eminently as the Vital Principle alters in the Three remarkable Stadiums of Human Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Childhood Manhood and old Age the Vigour of Vitality ascending and descending which does not fall out so by Accident but by the constant course of Human Nature And how can this proceed but from the mutability of the Principle of Life Temperaments do not result Ex mutua actione passione contrariarum qualitatum elementorum from Qualities of Elementary Matter according to common Doctrine but from the various state and condition of the Vital Principle which predominates over Corporal Matter and Elementary Mixtures subjugated under the Specifick Form That Principle which formed all the Organs giving to each their due Temperament ad justitium having Semenal Matter under its Plastic Power to dispose of and modefy at will Now also and through the race of Man's Life rules and supports the same maintains such Temperaments as sutable to its own designes and service in Vital Actions The Temperaments of visible Organic Parts shews the temper and distemper of the invisible Life And here by the way you may take notice that Febrile intemperate Heat is but the Aestuation of the Vital Principle offended and disturbed by Morbific Causes and not otherwise as is set forth by Authors But of this elsewhere more at large Ignota Febris c. But I have met with an Antithesis which stands in my way opposing this Doctrine of Temperaments diametrically That the Crasis of the Soul follows the Temperament of the Body Cujus contrarium verum est which is as much as to fay The Cart draws the Horse I might take Exceptions at the word Crasis but ' I le pass that by and only examine the Import of the Sentence This Assertion dethrones and devests the Governing Principle of its Regality and Ruling Power And to say the passive Body presides over leads or alters the active Spirit is contradictio in terminis directly opposite to the Nature and Conditions of Agent and Patient Omne Agens est actu Patiens verò potestate Ax. True it is the Body or Parts thereof do not always yield obedience to the Commands and Power of the Governing Vital Principle as sometimes by reason of their incapacity and instrumental unfitness to perform their Offices But they do not influence or have any enticing biassing or coercive Power in their natural State to dispose or change the Vital Agent to whom they are Vassals and readily obey save only their non-compliance in Duty with its ruling Energy by their preternatural incapacity As when the Organs are vitiated unserviceable and unfit for Action the Life grieves pines and is sick more or less as the Parts are in Office principal or inferior and the Ability of the Vital Principle more or less capable to retrieve the Injury And this may be observed in all Diseases how the Strength Briskness Complexion or Colour Temperament or Habit of Body c. are changed more or less as the Corporal Impediments are greater or less But all these Alterations proceeding from male Affectedness Condolence and Anguish of the Vital Principle provoked thereto and interrupted in regular Government by such particular Impediments and not otherwise seduced by following the Temperament of the Body which is mutable at the pleasure and displeasure of the Supream Ruling Power as being subjected under that Domination and Soveraignity Having shewed the Origin of Human Life by Generation the Progress by Instability and Variation I come now to inquire into the Causes of its Duration and Termination And here you may take notice that every Species of Animat Creatures have their several Durations of Life allotted for their natural Course longer or shorter according to and from the different specifick distinguishing Principles of their Life Quod dat esse dat breve vel longam esse The measure and extent of Human Life is taken from the Essence of the Principle of Life in the specifick Nature But the Duration of Individuals and their Term of Life is not so certain and adequate with the Specifick as being liable to various Accidents and preternatural Causes of Abreviation Notwithstanding by Nature's appointment Duration is reposited in the Vital Principle But there is an Opinion concerning Humidum radicale a Principle grounded in the Learned both Philosophers and Physicians from whom it is become popular and generally received That there is a Radical oleaginous moisture in human Bodies and this feeds the Life as Oyl maintains Fire in the Lamp which Oil being consumed the Flame extinguisheth Semblably the Life expires when Radical moisture is wasted This Analogy thus intended does not carry any Proportion or Resemblance and will not hold true Either in comparing the Efficients or Agents nor in their Matter upon which they work nor their Manner of Action nor in thier Ends to which they tend But in all these they differ much and are not analogous The two Agents Fire and Human Vital Principle are very dissimilar in thier Natures The one a Depraedator that acts by consuming the other a Reparator that works by repairing restoring Secondly they differ in the Matter upon which they operate The first requiring oleaginous fluid and a peculiar sulphureous Matter the other Terrene Aqueous Saline or sulphureous mixt Substances humid or dry of all sorts such as our Food is of various kinds Meat and Drink Thirdly They differ and are dissimilar in their manner of Action the one violently preying upon and devouring the Pabulum oily matter The other operating upon its Object deliberately and gently by Retexture transmuting and transmitting separating utile ab in utili and distributing to various Parts for necessary and particular Uses Fourthly They differ in their Ends the one terminates in wasting and consuming The other in replenishing repairing and restoring Human Bodies for noble ends and purposes Health Strength and prolongation of Life Thus we see the Similitude so intended answers not in any Respect does not illustrate the Life of Man but misrepresents darkens it is frustraneous and injurious and no such thing as flamma Biolychnii nor the Resemblance This learned Fiction if I may so call it against the Judgment of so many Sages and I can give it no better Title because it hath no Foundation nor Being in Human Nature I grant there is a Humidum primigenium an original Moisture in that Seminal Matter of which the Embryo is delineated and formed but this Succus is soon changed exhausted and spent being transformed by the Architectonic