Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	part_n	time_n	1,743	5	3.4636	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12517	A midnights trance wherin is discoursed of death, the nature of the soules, and estate of immortalitie. As it was written at the desire of a nobleman, by W.D.	Drummond, William, 1585-1649.	1619 (1619)	STC 7252.5; ESTC S117487	17,167	104

A MIDNIGHTS Trance Wherin is discoursed of DEATH the nature of SOVLES and estate of Immortalitie As it was Written at the desire of a Nobleman By W. D. LONDON Printed by George Purslow for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at the signe of the Greene-Dragon in Paules Church-yard 1619. A MIDNIGHTS Trance wherin is discoursed of Death The nature of Soules and estate of Immortalitie THough it hath beene doubted if there be in the Soule of Man such imperious and superexcellent Power as that it can by the vehement and earnest working of it deliuer knowledge to another without bodily Organs and by the only conceptions and Ideas of it produce reall effects yet it hath beene euer and of all thought infallible most certaine that it often either by outward inspiration or some secret motion of it selfe is augure of its owne Misfortunes and hath shadowes of comming Dangers presented vnto it a while before they fall forth Hence so many strange apparitions and signes true Visions Dreames most certaine vncouth languishings and drowsinesse of which to seeke a reason vnlesse from the sparkling of GOD in the Soule or from the God-like sparkles of the Soule were to make Reason vnreasonable in reasoning of things transcending her reach Hauing often and diuers times when I had giuen my selfe to rest in the quiet solitarinesse of the night found my imagination troubled with a confused feare no sorrow or Horror which interrupting sleepe did confound my senses and rouse mee vp all appalled and transported in a suddaine agony and sad amazednes of such an vnaccustomed perturbation and namelesse woe not knowing nor being able to imagine any apparant cause carried away with the streame of my then doubting thoghts I was brought to ascribe it to that secret fore-knowledg presageing Power of the Propheticke Mind and to interpret such an agonie to bee to the Spirit as a faintnes and vniuersall wearinesse is to the Body a token of following sicknesse or as the Earth-quakes are to great Cities Harbingers of greater calamities or as the roring of the Sea is in a stil calme a signe of some ensuing tempest Hereupon not thinking it strange if whatsoeuer is humane should befall me knowing how Prouidence abates griefe and discountenances crosses and that as we should not despaire of euils which may happen vs wee should not trust too much in those goods we enioy I began to turne ouer in my remembrance all that could afflict miserable mortalitie and to fore-cast euery thing that with a Maske of Horror could shew it selfe to humane eyes till in the end as by vnities and points Mathematicians are brought to great numbers and huge greatnesse after many fantasticall glaÌ„ces of mankinds sorrow and those incumbrances which follow life I was brought to thinke and with amazement on the last of humane euils or as one said the last of all dreadfull and terrible things Death And why may wee not beleeue that the Soule though darkely fore-seeing and hauing secret intelligence of that sharpe diuorcement it is to haue from the body should be ouergrieued and surprised with an vncouth and vnaccustomed sorrow And at the first encounter examining their neere vnion long familiarity friendship with the great chang paine and vglines which is apprehended to bee in Death it shall not appeare to be without reason They had their beeing together parts they are of one reasonable Creature the hurting of the one is the enfeebling of the working of the other what deare contentments doth the Soule enioy by the senses They are the gates and windowes of its knowledge the Organs of its delight if it bee grieuous to an excellent Lutanist to bee long without a Lute how much more must the want of so noble an instrument bee painefull to the Soule And if two Pilgrims who haue wandred some few miles together haue a hearts griefe when they part what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so louing friends as is the Soule and Body Death is the violent estranger of acquaintance the eternall diuorcer of Marriage the rauisher of the Children from the Parents the stealer of the Parents from the Children the intomber of Fame the only cause of forgetfulnes by which men talk of them that are gon away as of so many shadows orageworn Stories It is not ouercome by pride made meeke by flattery staied by Time Wisedome saue this can preuent help any thing nor Youth nor Vertue nor Beauty can make it relent and becom partial It is the reasonles breaker off of al actions by this wee enioy no more the sweet pleasures of Earth nor behold the stately Vault of Heauen Sunne perpetually setteth Stars neuer rise vnto vs all strength by this is tane away all comlinesse defaced Glory made ignoble Honour turned into contempt This in an houre robbeth vs of what with so great toyle and care in many yeeres we haue heaped together Successions of Linages by this are cut short Kingdomes want Heires and greatest States remaine Orphanes By Death wee are exiled from this excellent City of the World it is no more a world vnto vs nor wee no more People vnto it That Death naturally is terrible to be abhorred it cannot altogether be denied it being a priuatioÌ„ of Life a not-being euery priuation being abhorred of nature and euill of it selfe yet I haue often thought that euen naturally to a minde by onely nature resolued and prepared it is more terrible in conceite then in verity and at the first glance then when well looked vpon that rather by the weaknesse of our fantasie then by what is in it and that the solemnities and shews of it did adde much more vglinesse vnto it then otherwise it hath to auerre which conclusion when I had gathered my astonished thoughts I beganne thus with my selfe If on the great Theater of this Earth amongst the numberlesse number of Men this condition were onely proper to thee and thine then vndoubtedly thou hadst reason to repine at so vniust and partiall a Law But since it is a necessity from the which neuer an age by-past hath been exempted and vnto which those which bee and so many as are to come are thralled it being as common as any the most vulgar thing to sence why shouldst thou in thy peeuish opposition take so vneuitable and familiar a chance to heart This is the broad path of mortalitie our generall home behold what millions haue trod it before thee what multitudes shall after thee with them who at that same instant runne In so vniuersall a calamity if DEATH bee one priuate complaints cannot bee heard with so many royall Palaces it is no losse to see thy poore cabin burne Shall the Heauens stay their euer-roling wheeles for what is the motion of them but the motion of a swift and euer-whirling wheele which twineth forth and againe vproleth our Life and hold still time to prolong thy miserable dayes As if they had nothing to

thousands are they which share the remanent amongst them all this is but a point in comparison nothing to that wide wide canopie of Heauen For the Horizon that bounds our sight bindeth the Heauen as in two halfs which it could not doe if the Earth had any quantity compared to it More if it were not as a point the Starres could not still appeare to vs of a like greatnesse in respect of their diurnall motion for where the Earth raysed it selfe in Mountaines wee being more neere to Heauen they would appeare more great and where it were humbled in vallies we being farther distant they would seeme vnto vs lesse But on all sides the Heauen beeing equally distant from the earth of necessity wee must auouch it to bee but a point Well did one compare it to an Ant-hill and men the Inhabitants to so many Pismires in the toyle and variety of their diuersified studies But let it be granted that Glory and Fame is some great matter and can reach Heauen it selfe since it is often buried with the honored and endureth so short a time what great good can it haue in it How is not Glory temporall since it increaseth with Time Then imagine me for what cannot imagination reach vnto one could bee famous in all times to come through the whole World presen t yet he shall be for euer obscure and vncouth to those mighty ones who were only heretofore famous amongst Assyrians Persians Greekes and Romanes Againe the vaine affectation of Man is so suppressed that though his workes do abide the worker is vnknowne the huge Aegypttan Pyramides though they haue wrastled with time and worne vpon the vast of dayes yet their builders be no more knowne then it is known by what straÌ„ge Earth-quakes and Deluges Iles were diuided from the continent and Hils bursted forth of the low Vallies Dayes Moneths and yeres runne away and only obliuion remaines of so many ages past wee may well figure to our selues something but can affirme little certainty But Oh my Soule what ailes thee to be thus backward and fearefull at the remembrance of Death sith it doth not reach thee more then darknesse doth those eternall Lampes aboue rowse thy selfe for shame why shouldst thou feare to bee without a body since thy Maker and those spirituall and supercelestiall Inhabitants haue no Bodies Hast thou euer seen any Prisoner who when the Iayle-gates were broken vp and hee enfranchised and set loose would rather plaine and sit still on his fetters then seeke his freedome If thou rightly thinke on thy self thou hast no cause of sorrow for if there bee any resemblance in what is finite of that which is infinite if thou bee not an Image thou art a shadow of that eternall Trinitie in thy three essential Powers Vnderstanding Will Memory which though three are in thee but one and yet abiding one bee distinctly three But in no thing more commest thou neere that Soueraigne good then in thy Immortality which who seeke to improue by that same it proue like them who arguing themselues to bee vnreasonable by the very arguing shew that they haue some Nothing in this visible world is comparable to thee thou art so wonderfull a beauty and beautifull a Wonder that if but once thou couldst be gazed vpon by bodily eyes euery heart would be inflamed with thy loue eleuated froÌ„ their groueling earthly desires What God is in the World thou art in the body abiding on the Earth thou measurest the Heauen thou makest the Seas and VVinds to serue thee thou many things foreknowest before they fall forth thou art not content with the sight of all within the spacious bouÌ„ds of this large Cloister of the VVorld vntill thou rayse thy selfe to the happy contemplation of that first illuminating intelligence transcending time and euen reaching Eternity it selfe into which thou art transformed for by receiuing thou beyond all other things art made that which thou receiuest By thy three faculties thou participatest with the three parts of Time by Memory with that which hath passed by Vnderstanding with that which is present by VVil with that which is to come Man by thee is that Hymen of celestiall and terrestriall things without whom the vniuersall frame and great Fabrick of this world would remaine vnperfect Thou only at once art capable of contraries thou knowest thy selfe an immediat master peece of that eternall artizan acknowledgest thee so separate absolute and diuerse an essence from thy Body that thou disposest of it as it pleaseth thee for there is no passion in thee so weake which mastereth not the feare of leauing it The more thou knowest the more apt thou art to know not remayning enfabled by thine object as sense by obiects sensible Thou shouldst bee so farre from abhorring this separation that it should be the first of thy desires it being thy perfection Thou art here but as in an infected and vncleane Inne or a liuing Tombe oppressed with cares suppressed with ignorance Most of thy knowledge commeth by thy fine intelligencers of sence which being often deceiued deceiue thee small things seeme here great vnto thee and great things small Folly Wisedome and Wit Folly freed of thy fleshly care thou shalt rightly know thy selfe and haue perfect fruition of that full and filling happinesse which is God himselfe God and happinesse are one for if God haue not happinesse hee is not God because happinesse is the highest and soueraignest good then if God haue happinesse it cannot be a thing different from him for if there were any thing different from him in him hee should be an essence composed and not simple More what is different in any thing is eyther an accident or a part of it selfe in God happinesse cannot be an accident because he is not subiect to any accident if it were a part of him since the part is before the whole wee should be forced to grant that something was before God Bedded and bathed in these earthly Ordures thou canst not come neer that soueraigne good nor haue so much notice of him as the Owle hath of the Sun Thinke then by Death that thy shel is broke thou then but eueÌ„ hatched VVhy shouldst thoube feare-stroken and brought vnder for the parting with this mortall Bride thy Body Sith it is but for a time and such a time as she shall not care for nor feele any thing in nor thou haue need of her nay since thou shalt receiue her againe more goodly and beautifull then when thou leftst her Being made like vnto that Indian Christall which after some reuolutions of ages is turned into purest Diamonds If the Soule be the form of the Body and the forme separated from the matter of it caÌ„not euer remain but hath a natural appetite and desire to bee vnited thereunto what can let and hinder this desire but that one time or other it be accomplished and haue the expected end adioyning it selfe to the

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