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	nature_n	soul_n	2,893	5	5.2542	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55474	Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.; Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Hooker, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2968; ESTC R8838	181,392	278

it the ground whence it proceeded the manner how it was brought forth and the end for which it was produced which are the same with those which are mentioned in the Element of Fire The essential properties of this Earth are Ponderosity Corporeity and Transparency For you must know that this Eternal Earth is not like the outward Elementary Earth so gross and opacous but it is a transparent Crystalline Earth yet it gives essentiality and Corporeity to the three forementioned Elements and it was therefore created by God to make Eternal Nature's Essence substantial For Fire Water and Air must have one ground or substance to subsist in and to move in and through one another which substance is the Element of Earth This Element Behme makes the seventh property in which he saith all the six do move in one only ground as the Soul in the Body which is very well expressed by him And thus much concerning the matter of which Eternal Nature doth consist viz. Fire Water Air and Earth XVIII Concerning the formal Cause of Eternal Nature The formal Cause of Eternal Nature's Essence is nothing else but the mixture and harmonical composition of the four Eternal Elements for they are one in another and flow one through another Let us now consider who is the mixer of these Eternal Elements and their properties for they would never mix of themselves to all Eternity becaus of the Contrariety of their Natures wherefore we must conclude that the Divine Wisdom is the Artist who mingles these Elements together XIX In the mixture of these Eternal Elements observe with me these following Particulars First Wisdom's Art appears in the manner of their mixture they are mixed one with another and one thro●gh another Fire with Water Light with Darkness and penetrate through and through one another neither can their contrariety hinder or oppose the Art and Power of Wisdom Secondly The Art of Wisdom appears not only in mixing them but in reducing them to a harmony and equal temperament she doth proportion them to an equality in Number Weight and Measure Thirdly Wisdom's Art appears in that being thus proportionally tempered together they qualifie act and move in and through one another and that in the greatest harmony and friendship as the members of one body the fierceness of the fire is mitigated and allayed by the Water the harsh astringency of the Darkness is dissolv'd in the meekness of the Light and so of the rest Fourthly Wisdom's Art appears in this that in the harmonizing of these four Eternal Elements she hath made all their contrary properties to be useful one to another The Harsh Darkness is serviceable to the Meek Light for Darkness is the subject through which Light displays it self were there no Darkness there would be no Light the fierceness of the Fire gives strength to the Meek Water-Essence and meekness of the Water allays the fierceness of the Fire so Air is very useful to the Fire to keep it from being suffocated and the Earth is useful to them all becaus it gives them a Body to act and move in We may yet further consider the usefulness of the Elements to one another as they stand harmonized and tempered together by the Hand of Wisdom The Fire gives Life Mobility and Strength to the Meek Wat●r and the Water gives Food and Nourishment to the Fire● and thereby allays the fierce hunger of the Fire so that Darkness subsists in the Light and the Light in the Darkness and satisfieth the harsh bitter hunger of the Darkness being as food unto it and in this their serviceableness to one another consists their Natural Goodness for how can any evil be in them since they all serve the Will of their Creator and are useful to one another the Darkness is as useful as the Light and the Fire as the Water and consequently they are all good their contrarieties being harmonized and reconciled by the skilful hand of omnipotent Wisdom Fifthly Wisdom's Art appears in that in this temperature of the Eternal Elements she makes them qualifie and serve one another in triumphing joyfulness and to rejoyce in each other 's qualifying for though these Eternal Elements are not understanding Spirits yet they have an innate hunger in themselves which is their intrinsecal form which makes them desire each other thus the Fire-Essence hunger's after the Meekness of the Water as its dayly food wherewith its ravenous fierceness may be satisfied and allayed and again the Water hunger's after the Fire as its Life Strength and Motion The astringent Darkness hunger's after the Meek Light and the Light after the Darkness that it may shine through it and subsist in it And from this inbred Hunger it is that they rejoyce to qualifie one with another it is as their sport and past time to penetrate one through another and to be sometimes above and sometimes under another in this wrestling wheel of Nature For you must know that all these qualifyng powers of Nature have sensibility and mobility in themselves whereby they can feel and taste one another's properties and are sensible of the pleasure and satisfaction they receive one from another which continually awakens the hunger in every property to qualifie one with another So the Fire is sensible that the Meek Water doth allay its fierceness and therefore it doth hunger after it the anguishing Darkness is sensible that the amiable pleasantness of the Light is a refreshment to it and thus each property feels and taste's the other's goodness and this makes them still to hunger after one another and to penetrate one another with all triumphing Ioyfulness Oh let us for ever admire this unsearchable Art of the Divine Wisdom who alone can pe●form this Masterpiece Sixthly Wisdom's Art appears in nothing more than in the orderly placing of these Elements for Wisdom makes the Fire with all is Harsh Bitter Dark Anguishing and Brimstony properties to descend and makes it elevating pride to buckle bow and become a Servant to the Water-Essence and causeth the Water with it Meekness Gentleness and Ponderosity to ascend and command the Fire the Light to rule over the Darkness the Meekness over the Fierceness and the joyfulness of the Light over the Anguish For Divine Wisdom well understood the force of self elevating Fire and therefore she caused it to sink down and become a Servant to the Meek Light she foresaw that the Fire-life with its fierce properties would be but an ill Governor therefore she made the elder viz. the Fire-Spirit ●o serve the younger viz. the Water and Light-Essence which could be done by no other Hand but that of Omnipotent Wisdom If we proceed to consider of this order how incomprehensible will the Skill of Wisdom appear For the Darkness was hid in the Light and though it was there with all its properties yet nothing of it was to be see● or felt for it was swallowed up of the Light as the night is swallowed up of