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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	lie_v	soul_n	4,309	5	5.1460	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19292	The mysterie of the holy government of our affections Contayning their nature, originall, causes, and differences. Together with the right ordering, triall, and benefit thereof: as also resoluing diuers cases of conscience, incident hereunto. Very necessarie for the triall of sinceritie, and encreasing in the power of Godlinesse. The first booke.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 5700.5; ESTC S113515	32,207	168

heart made more pure and tempera●e more conformable to the will of God more fitted to the right end Secondly vnto which if wee adde that it is the Grace of God only whereof the Soule is only capable that altereth and purgeth our affections of their corrupt and pestilent qualities and so turneth them to their contrary and proper Obiects as Slauish Feare into Filiall Feare Carnall loue into the loue of God and goodnesse c. By this it necessarily followeth that our Affections proceed immediately from the Soule and haue their residence therein Thirdly if wee shall consider that our most principall and noblest Affections of Loue and Ioy are not determined and perfited in this life but doe accompanie vs after death as whereby we expresse our enioying of eternall Happinesse euen when the body lyes rotten in the Graue this is a plaine euidence that they arise out of the Soule as their proper Fountaine CHAP. IIII. Of the wise gouerning and triall of the Affections ANother speciall helpe to constant Obedience Here obserue First these generall Rules concerning Affections in regard of iudging thereof That they are not simply to bee discerned by themselues as being in themselues for the most part not simply good or euill but as they depend vpon their true Grounds affect their proper Obiects and ayme at their right Ends. And therefore Know wee that the true ground of all holy Affections is sound Knowledge of the thing wee affect and of our estate and right to and in the thing wee doe affect so that no Knowledge no sound Affection no Right therein no Hope for well-ordering of them Secondly obserue wee That all holy Affections haue generally one maine Obiect namely Our God in Christ Iesus and so subordinate The saluation of the Soule But particularly each of them hath it seuerall and proper Obiect whereon it is bent and conuersant therein so that here the Rules are That the particular Obiects must be subordinate to the generall and included therein both for direction and Limitation also all must bee from the Lord in him and for him Rom. 11. for the obtayning of saluation The particular Obiects must bee the Bounds to each particular Affection as shall appeare afterward Our hatred must properly be against sinne not goodnesse our loue to Good and not Euill c. Our Affections must so bee squared to the Obiects as that it onely leuell therein at that which is proportionable thereunto That whereas there is in the Obiect the person or thing wherein the qualitie is and the Qualitie it selfe and the person or thing is to be diuersly affected in regard of the different qualitie thereof Therefore the sinceritie of the Affection appeares in ayming at the Qualitie and so for it respecting the person or thing As to affect a thing for it goodnesse to hate it for the euill And yet so as whereas the substance is of God and the qualitie of Satan Therefore heere may be a concurrence of contrarie Affections in one maine Obiect As that the person of a sinner being Gods workmanship is to be beloued though wee hate the sinne of the person the good of the same person may bee loued though we hate the contrarie euil in him And therefore whereas the Ground next vnto Faith as of our worship of God and dueties vnto Men is Loue howsoeuer our affections are different in themselues yet they must all be deriued from this principall affection of Loue Wee must hope grieue reioyce c. because wee loue and loue must be the end and ayme of ●ll Therefore wee are angrie we feare we hope we ioy that we may still loue and make better way for the manifestation thereof And so as loue is an affection that is the ground and end of all other affections and therefore all must be subordinate therunto so also is there a subordination of other contrarie affections one to another that they may end in this loue as hatred is subordinate to loue griefe to ioy feare to hope c. as being not contraries in diuers subiects but all the same generall as no otherwise respecting diuers subordinate Obiects but that they ayme at one Principall as furthering each other in their particular contrarie and different Obiects to that one Principall namely the glorie of God and saluation of the Soule Hereby shall we know the sinceritie of our Affections if they are proportionable to the Obiect and measure thereof as If the sinnes of the Times be grieuous and extraordinarie so our griefe be sutable If the mercies of God and his deliuerances be wonderfull so our Ioy and Thankfulnesse be answerable And this may serue for the iust conuiction of our Times First In that though there be some feare of God yet it is not proportionable to the meanes Wee haue beene better taught then to feare God so little Wee haue had greater Iudgements then that we should be so secure Secondly In that wee set not our Affections high enough in good things and yet racke them too farre in euill things Wee feare not God enough and yet feare the World too much We loue the World too scantly and loue our profits too excessiuely And so there is a iarre in both Our Feare in spirituall things is defectiue in worldly things excessiue So in this proportion if wee loue God without limitation as the most excellent Obiect and our Neighbour as our selues this is to proportion the Affection to the Obiect Our Affections are good Seruants but bad Masters that is they must not beare rule but still be in subiection to their seuerall Limitations of the Word our Callings the common Good without which the best Affection euen of Zeale and Loue may be euill Not onely ●ill Affections or such as ●re more inclinable there●o but euen the best must ●hus be tryed if they make ●s fitter for Gods seruice ●s Anger if we can fall to ●ray Zeale if we can re●it priuate Offences c. First I say our Affections must be informed and ●imitted by the Word that is Whereas the Lord hath giuen vs a sure Word both as a Light shining in a darke place to enlighten the darkenesse of our nature and so as a Guide to the well-ordering thereof If our Affections now follow and not runne before our Knowledge We first know what to loue and then affect the same and if our Affections are proportionable to our knowledge we affect so farre as wee are informed and perswaded of the truth and according to the particular truth we know so our particular affection is leuelied at and confined thereunto This is a certain euidence of the true light and ordering thereof Hereby wee shall hold out and continue therein Whereas otherwise if wee affect what wee know not this may eyther arise from some tickling delight of the flesh from Vaine-glorie and such like or else from some outward