Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	natural_a	soul_n	9,727	5	5.7294	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61333	Via ad vitam, being a short and sure vvay to a long life, or, Helmont justified, and the excellency of chymicall medicaments vindicated by George Starkey ...; Natures explication and Helmont's vindication	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5290A; ESTC R13401	111,290	408

this whole mysterie Hereupon concluding what I had proved that the thing was fecible I wrote a Congest of methodical Arguments which might unfold how and here I found my self in a wilde labyrinth for I was soon by these studies brought to see the rottennesse both of Logick and Philosophy and found that he who sought truth of things there might soon lose himself This put me upon desire of a more secure path for now I apprehended before years and titles had engaged me that besides what I knew in Tongues my skill in Logick and Philosophy was not worth contemning yea nothing was in mine eyes more vile I therefore rejected Aristotle and all his fictions against whose fallacious shew I wrote with a pen dipt in salt and vinegar yet without gall a Treatise called Organum novum Philosophiae but before I could pitch on what way to turn for knowledge I desired too too immoderately I wandred through many pensive hours and waking nights till at length I got som Chymical Authors Those then I perused and noted with much diligence not so much out of desire to rifle their Hesperion Garden as to suck out of their principles some solid truth for truth I knew was uniform Wherefore as many experiments as I could try I tryed and took nothing upon any mans trust so as to build any thing on it or to draw any conclusion from it I invented many sorts of Furnaces procured what Glasses were possible with all manner of Simples Mineral and Metalline especially which I most esteemed in these I spent my time for several years and I may say without boasting that if ever any in the world were an infatigable prosecutor of experiments I was one In the mean time the Lord was pleased so far to be propitious unto my labours studies and many watchings that he let me see so much of truth as to make it lovely to me for which cause next to the glory of God I shall prosecute the same during my life Nor was this an imaginary content only but real for there is so great variety of objects in Nature which are exceedingly delightful to be understood that the discovery of any of them which is usually the crown of serious searches is more content then finding of sought treasure can be to him who in hopes of it digs the earth And although the wise man by an unerring Spirit hath laid all these things under vanity so that in much knowledge there is much vexation of spirit yet withall the Scripture teacheth us that the works of God are wonderful sought out by all that have delight in them yea and if a mans heart be not exceedingly out of frame a man connot behold the excellencies of the Creature without a contemplation of the super-transcendent glory power and wisdom of the Creator of which all things visible are but Emblems Yet do I not deny but that the spirit may be carried forth with too much eagerness after things of this nature which I have often suspected to be mine own fault but this is the fault of us that so immoderately affect the outside as to neglect the inward glory and so much admire the apparent glory of things visible as not enough to adore him who dwelleth in light inaccessible of whose beauty these are but a shadow and of whose fire but sparks There is then an unspeakable benefit may arise to a painful enquirer after the mysteries of Nature in reference to the spiritualizing of the affections since as Cicero said of Virtue that if it were to be seen with eyes corporal it would enamour the beholders it may most properly be applyed to this case For who is he who when he beholds Gods wonderful wisdom power goodness c. which all are most obvious in the study of Nature which is one of the Books in which the Almighty is discovered that will not cry out with Job I have heard of thee by the ear but now mine eye seeth thee and with David O Lord how wonderful are thy works the fool conceiveth them ●ot nor the unwise understandeth ●hem c. But considering that God hath endowed us with a Body 〈◊〉 which our Soul which is the Di●ine Image is caged as it were by ●neans of which we have our place ●ere among natural things And ●orasmuch as our life is laid un●er vanity of which our diseases ●o which our body is subject which ●re to us the Heralds of death is no ●mall part Also since man being by the Crea●ors ordaining made Lord of the other Creatures and these are made ●o serve him insomuch that there is ●carce a concrete which hath not its ●mmediate use applicable to man ●either for his necessity or conveni●ency And therefore all things are given into his hand that of them he may take for meat and drink what nature craveth for raiment what necessity and modesty and decency call for and likewise for the repairing the defects of decayed nature what is needfull therein God like a tender Father having provided for man in every respect and on every occasion I think it a great sottishness in them who cannot see both the nobleness and usefulness that the contemplation of Gods works carrieth with it insomuch that he who shall neglect it doth neglect in mine opinion a great part of the task for which he came into the world and is not to be pityed if he fall short of the comfort content or benefit that he might reap in the knowledge of the same Now that all creatures have in them a spiritual Celestial virtue I suppose there is none moderately versed in Philosophy that will deny and we shall in its place sufficiently discover which in concrete Bodies is more hidden most of all in such which are of the most exquisite composition This Celestial Spirit is that which is the life excellency and perfection of all things in which it is and though it have received in all specificated subjects a determination or bounding of its virtue yet the Spirit it self is free to operate upon other subjects and its operations are received per modum recipientis Now here is the grand fault or defect of those whose office it is more peculiarly to enquire into these things that they supinely neglect the search of the hidden spirit which is in all things by so much the more straightly sealed by how much it is in virtue more noble and excellent Contenting themselves with an overly view of the outside of things although yet they have the care of lives committed to their charge which fault as it is of high concernment so it requires a most sharp reproof For there are in Nature most noble and powerful medicines made by God for the use and relief of the afflicted which yet are neglected by such who undertake the care and cure of them and all because they are not without pains and industry attainable But go too my good friends hath not God laid this burden upon mankinde