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	part_n	soul_n	2,761	5	5.3627	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

argues imperfection But true distinction still the contrary Sith it discernes what 's proper to each One And so preuenteth all confusion Then God as Man was synlesse passionate And Man as God no passion can effect God suffered in the flesh in wretched state But Man as God is free from such effect For in Omnipotence is no defect True Miracles raisd hythe Godheads fame The Manhoods iniuries did quite dyiect God died in flesh as God reuiu'd the same Thus neithers Forme transformeth eithers Frame And of the whole Compound that 's said and ment That 's said of any one for the Man-Christ Is perfect God and so omnipotent And perfect Man so lower then the high'st Yet happy Thou that on the low'st reliest For if the Compound cannot parted be Thou diestin God who ere thou art that diest In Christ the Man sith God and Man is he But altogether God in high'st degree If so then so he must be euery where He is and is not so but sith this Straine May straine my wit I will the same forbeare While greater Clarkes about it beat their braine For Life or Deaths life-Blood lies in this vaine From questions of this kind sith questionlesse They endles seeme I willingly refraine And seeke a Pow'r expresseles to expresse That is to shew what God I do professe But some may say I cannot that effect Vnlesse I shew what God my Iesus is I grant no lesse confessing my defect Nay willingly confesse much more then this I am vnworthy the least grace of his Yet by his pow'r my silly strength I le straine To shew as he is God his properties And though they bee too high to be too plaine I hope I le touch with truth though try with paine Plato surnam'd Deuine for his deepe sight Though seeing by nature in Diuinity Put God into the world though most vnright But as the Soule thereof and yet his eie Espied withall a higher Diety Which he the first Mind stil'd or this Souls Sire But heer 's no Vnity in Trinity Her 's truth in part but not Faiths truth intire Then this Truth is not squar'd by Platoes squire He thought that as Mans Soule his Body swaid So God the World but heere he truth deformes And by her Test appeares too much alaid For our Soules rule our Bodies as their Formes But God as th'acting Cause the same performes How euer true an vniuersall Soule May sway the Vniuerse yet he informes That Soule with Skill who all in all doth rule Else Order faire would be disorder foule Then Hee 's the God of Order ordering All that doth Order keepe in all this All And yet most simple is in euery thing For nothing Spirituall or Corporall Into his Substance infinite can fall He is a Spirit so spirituall that he Of purpose doth himselfe Iehouah call The Letters of which Word all Spirituall be Sith from our Spirit or Breath alone they flee No Spirits are mixed then much lesse their Sire Our Soules are simple though by synne impure For were they mixt they should againe retire To their first Compound so could not endure Immortally and so were Faith vnsure And nought can mix or make it selfe for then It is before it is in act or pow'r Which cannot be in neither and agen No Time or Place were for it where or when For Place was made in time and Time was made By motion of the Heau'n the cheefest place And nought doth moue as Reason doth perswade That moues not by a greater Pow'r and Grace Which without blending doth All enterlace Yet there was Place e're Time where er'e it were For God was somewhere who doth both embrace But if Place compast him It should appeare More then most infinite which nought can beare Then was he no where No somewhere he was That is himselfe within that 's Place without So kept eternally his owne Compasse Where he with time brought Time Place about Whereof the Eye of Reason cannot doubt For past a boundlesse Compasse what can go Though it wer strong as Strength as Courage Stout No not Omnipotence and he is so Can past it selfe the least appearance sho And were he mixt eternall were he not For ere he could be ming'd he was vnmixt If so it be then Time hath him begot For as he is he was not euer fixt Sith Time must needs his compound come betwixt But He Prime Cause effecting all Effects From all eternity was thus confixt Three Persons and one God without Affects Bee'ng a Pure ACT that mixture still reiects Mixion vnites Things mixible by change Or intermingling of their Substances Things mixible are they which though they range Are yet contain'd in eithers Essences Suff'ring of other in their passages As th' Elements each one by other do And may be seuer'd through their diffrences Then were it so with God it might vndoe That vndeuided ONE and make him two For if his Substance were deuisible A Body it were for so is eu'ry such But were it so then t' wer not possible But PLACE should hold it were it ne're so much Sith Nature there of force the Same must couch For then t 'had Magnitude and Quantity Whose vtt'most bounds PLACE should containing If so it could not haue Immensity touch And if not That it cannot Diety Sith God is then so simply infinite Filling each place incomprehensibly What need Saints feare by death their Spirits flight Sith in the Spheare of his Vbiquity They needs must fall to rest eternally In him in whom before they liu'd by grace To him in whom they shall liue gloriously Beeing Center to the Soules he doth embrace And of the highest Rest thelowest Base Seeing then hee 's pure and purely eu'ry where We him as much as in vs lies defile When we do sinne sith in him we do steere And haue our beeing though we sinne the while And so in greatest Goodnesse are too vile Yet sinne distracts vs from his Grace at least Did not that Grace againe vs reconcile So Grace being wrong'd the iniury doth wrest To humble vs so makes our worst our best He is in all alike essentially Or else he could not eu'ry where remaine But not in all alike effectually For then the good should nought by goodnes gain More then the ill by ill So grace were vaine But where so e're he absent is by Grace He present is by Iustice and by paine So he is present still in euery place Then blessed they that do him best imbrace But to returne to his simplicity To answere one Obiection which some make Who say that he must needs compounded be Sith that his Beeing Essence doth pertake Then composition he cannot forsake Beeing and Essence they distinguish then As well they may for fowly they mistake Which weene them one though they be Brethren Whose diff'rence Reasons Eye doth clearely ken For that which actually Is is said to Bee Be it a Substance or an

yea for euer liues Is yesterday to day and ere the same Which constancy of state a diff'rence giues Betwixt the Pagan Gods which he did frame To be but halfe Gods that is Gods in name The neerer then to this true God we draw The more his Sonnes-beames feede our vitall flame Which frozen in our dregs that frost doth thaw And make vs hot with loue and cold with awe Thus no lesse good is he he then is great VVhich are past Qualitie and Quantitie Both bee'ng much more then more then most com For so they must by his Immensitie pleat VVhich is the cause of his Vbiquity For nought but Greatnesse simply infinite Can fill and ouerfill All really That is aswell in Essence as in might Sith either are alike indefinite And say'ng he fils all who is all in all I meane not onely all his hands haue wrought As Heau'n Earth Hell in part or generall And all they hold but all that may be thought If Thought may reach it that haue further raught Either in deed or possibility For He that in his Compasse all hath brought Not onely fils That Vninersity But ouerfils farre more Capacity The Creatures finite are sith they may be Drawne to a generall or speciall Head By eithers Forme or their Diuersity But no Predicament ere compassed His Largenesse that is still vnlimitted The Heathen Sages led by Natures light Held the first CAVSE could not be measured Sith it in greatnesse was most infinite But what it was they could not tell aright So hee 's each where in Essence and in Pow'r Sith all is One in Him the onely ONE Like as the Soule though in the Head her Tovvre She cheefely sits yet is she in that Throne And euery Member totally alone Then in each Part her Povv'r with her appeares T' inspire those Organs vvhich she plaies vpon Yet from the filthie Pipes no filth she beares Nor vveares she euer as the Organ vveares So in a sort but farre more excellent Is God in his vvhole Essence povv'r and all In all that is in this ALL resident And ouer all that ALL in generall VVithout bee'ng toucht vvith Matter corporall Though so me grope for him hee 's not tangible Bee'ng a Sprit most simply Spirituall VVhich to the Soule alone is sensible But of the Sence incomprehensible And Things are said to Bee that be in Pow'r In any thing wherein their pow'r hath port Our Caesars so are chiefely in the Towre Which CESAR built as in their cheefest Fort But God is all in all in other sort For in his Substance totally intire Hee is in al that 's liuing or amort Bee 't great or small Earth water Aire or Fire Or what els is or can haue Beeing hier Looke what our Bodies by our Sences know Our Soules but by one Pow'r perceiue the same Which sowed in our Vnderstanding growes More purely there then in out Bodies frame Although our Intellect may bee too blame For it doth purge the Obiects of the Sence And make that vpright which the Sense made lame Eu'n so in GOD Things haue more excellence Then in our dul and base Intelligence Thus is his Pow'r where ere his Essence is VVhich Pow'r is two-fold as some Doctors teach That 's Absolute and Actuall by this He doth what ere he will within his reach Then doth he All sith it past all doth stretch By his Pow'r absolute he can fulfill VVhat may be done without his Natures breach And so his Pow'r extends beyond his Will VVhich could saue All yet some it saues to spill That which he doth is no lesse definite Then it is certaine but what he can do Is as vncertaine as it 's infinite For he can make more Heau'ns and fill them too But that he will not so his Word vndo Who by his Actuall powre can nought fulfill But what his cleare Fore-sight did reach vnto But his Pow'r absolute beyond his Will Is able to do all that is not ill Then if his Will and Povv'r vnequall be How shall we equall make his Properties Here is a Cloud through which I cannot see With Humane Reasons most vnequall Eyes Which make such Equals Inequalities But light me Lord of light the Truth to view Which in this Mistery ecclipsed lies And let me in thy Paths this Truth pursue Till it I find for all thy Waies be true Thy Will and Povv'r are equall as thou art Both alike absolute in their true kinds Yet hast thou bound them both by heau'nly Art To Will and do no more then WISEDOME finds Within her Bounds which both the other binds There they are Equall sith that each extends To Wisedome vtmost Compasse and that winds About all Workes that haue all holy Ends And so thy Will and Povv'r are equall friends And where thy Povv'r doth ouer-reach thy Will There onely Wisedome wils it should do so That 's in some Cases by Her bounded stil That 's when thy will doth let thy Creatures know What thy Povv'r could did not thy Will say no. But thou canst make thy Will to match thy Might If so thou would'st but Wisedome cryeth ho In thy Wils motion it to stay aright And so thy Will and Povv'r haue equall height Now downe the Daies Eye goes though yet it lookes All firy redde as chaft with Nights approach For Lîght could neuer vgly Darknes brook No more then bright Renovvne can black Reproch Then halla heere my Muse with Phoebus Coach This day too much thou hast bestow'd thy winges Too much thou dost on Secrets darke encroch Fly high yet not too nigh too lofty Things Which nought comes nere for Clouds and Glitterings NOw mantle Muse sith now thou straite must Tow'r For lo the modest East doth blush for shame That shameles Night on it should haue such pow'r To lie'with It till Phoebus sees the same And partes them with a farre more blushing flame By which our Hemisphere Inhabiters May see to toile in Ernest or in Game Then vp betimes aboue the pale-fac'st Stars Fear'd with that flame to find their * Gouerners Which is that blessed Essence Three in One Blessed I well may call it for the same Is truely blessed past comparison For what Blisse can the highest Wisedome name But is most perfect in his formelesse Frame Al that delights the Soule or ioyes the Sense Or makes Selfe-loue refinde in him to flame yea all that can excell Selfe-EXCELLENCE Is truely in his ALL-SVFFICIENCE Ist't health of Body which thou dost desire He is the Fount of al Salubritie I st ' strength or Vallor Hee is both intire I st ' Fairenes Then hee s selfe-FORMOSITY To see whose face is high'st FELICITY I' st Pleasures They as in their Center in Him rest Or Glory i st Him Angels glorifie I st Riches More then All is his at least For he hath more then can be all exprest Kings of the Earth seeme blessed in their Crovvnes Yet they but onely seeme