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A66483	Mnemonica, or, The art of memory drained out of the pure fountains of art & nature, digested into three books : also a physical treatise of cherishing natural memory, diligently collected out of divers learned mens writings / by John Willis.; Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661	Willis, John, d. 1628?; Sowerby, Leonard.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2812; ESTC R24570	62,111	192

it properly relateth or if you had rather cause clean paper to be bound between every leaf to receive such Comments Or which is better have plenty of white Paper bound at the end of the Book in which write your Interpretation and relate them to the text by like numbers or letters prefixed before the Notes and Text. CHAP. V Of remembring long Speeches NOw lastly I will treat of Speeches A speech according to my acceptation is any large Treatise composed of many sentences of one kind such are Sermons Orations Declarations Heads or Sections of Books or finally any long Treatise or memorable Speeches are either such as are framed by our selves or by others Again Speeches of other men are either extant in Books or are delivered by word of mouth If the Speeches to be remembred are already extant in print it is sufficient to set down their Titles in your Common-place-Book under their proper Heads to advertise you in what Chapter or part of a Book this or that Argument is more largely handled As for example In the first Book of Calvin's Institutions and thirteenth Chapter the three persons of the Godhead in one Essence is proved by divers reasons to transcribe which Treatise though in Epitome would be very laborious Therefore it is better under the title of Trinity among other common observations pertaining to the same purpose to write down these words That three Persons are contained in one onely Essence of God Cal. Institut Lib. 1. Cap. 13. By which Citation you are directed to that place of Calvin whensoever you please If the Speech you desire to preserve be verbally pronounced you must take it in short-hand if you have skill otherwise in long hand with as much celerity as you can If you be at any time left behind through nimble volubility of the Speakers tongue it will be sufficient to write onely the essential words of every Sentence as for the most part are Substantives and Verbs leaving vacant spaces in which either words of less weight may be interposed which must be supplyed immediately after the Speech is ended Four things must be observed that speeches contrived by our selves may be deeply fastened in memory Method Writing Marginal Notation and Meditation the Method ought to be so disposed that every part of an entire Speech and every sentence of those parts precede according to their dignity in nature that is that every thing be so placed that it may give light to understand what followeth Such a method is very effectual to ease the memory both of Speaker and Hearer for in a speech methodically digested each sentence attracteth the next like as one link draweth another in a Golden Chain therefore Method is called the Chain of Memory For this cause let every former sentence so depend on the latter that it may seem necessarily related thereunto In writing a Speech let your first care be that your Lines extend not too far but that space enough be left in the Margent In the next place that your whole speech be distinguished into heads for a distinct mind apprehendeth better then one confused After you have compiled a Speech you are shortly to deliver do not transcribe it though it be both blotted and interlined lest you lose as much time in new Writing as would suffice to learn it Besides the blots and interlining do more firmly fasten in mind the sentences so blotted and interlined then if they were otherwise This is also to be noted that although it be necessary to write over the intire Speech or at least brief notes thereof before it be publikely pronounced yet ought that Transcription by no means to be seen publikely unless Memory languish and be weak For the mind doth better recollect it self in the absence of Notes and by united force is better prepared to speak Marginal Notation is when one or two chief words of every sentence is placed in the Margent which so soon as seen which is with the least cast of an eye revoketh the whole sentence to mind As if this ensuing small Treatise of the Resurrection were to be learned by heart I distinguish the sentences thereof by words placed in the Margent by which means they are speedily remembred That there shall be a Resurrection of the dead at the last day is confirmed by these reasons Because it is imperfect First that which is imperfect is uncapable of perfect felicity in its kind but the soul separate from the body is imperfect and therefore not capable of perfect felicity Thence followeth a necessity of the Bodies Resurrection that by the conjunction thereof with the Soul the Elect may enjoy perfect felicity How are they happy Tertullian saith Tertullian if they shall perish in part Seals of Salvation Secondly If the Body by Christs command ought to be as well partaker of the seals of salvation as the Soul then it shall as well participate of Eternal Salvation but the Body according to Christs institution ought to partake of the seals of salvation For the Body is washed with water of Baptism and nourished by Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper Ergo c. As Seeds Thirdly Like as Seeds cast into the Earth dye and revive again so humane bodies buried in the ground dissolved and corrupted shall rise again at the last day by the quickening virtue of Christ Paul brandeth him with folly 1 Cor. 13.35 who cannot conclude the resurrection of the dead out of the vivification of Seeds buried in the ground 1 Cor. 13.35 whence Augustine Augustine He which vivisieth dead and putrified Seeds by which men live in this world more facilely will raise you up to live eternally Revolution of things Fourthly The Revolution of all things is an argument of the Resurrection as Day followeth night Waking Sleep Rest Labor and Winter Summer so Life followeth death and Resurrection Sepulture That which Tertullian speaketh in his Book Of the Resurrection of the flesh Tertullian is pertinent hereto Day saith he dyeth into night yet is enlivened again with glorie all over the world Fiftly It is evidently proved by the Resurrection of Christ seeing Christ which is our head is already risen it is a testimony that we also who are his members shall live after death Where the head is thither will the members be gathered Christ our head 1 Cor. 15.20 in this respect Christ is termed the first fruits of the dead 1 Cor. 15.20 Resurrection of others Sixthly The particular Resurrection of some to a temporal life in this world was a sign of the general Resurrection to eternal life to be at the end of the world These were raised again after death 1. The son of the widow of Sarepta 1 King 18.22 2. The son of the Shunamite 2 King 4.33 3. A certain man by the touch of Elias bones 2 King 13.21 4. The son of the widow of Naim Luke 7.15 5. The daughter of Jairus Luke 8.48

6. Lazarus John 11 43. 7. Tabitha Acts 9.40 8. Eutichus Acts 20.10 Who though All which though they dyed again after their Resurrection yet may we not think those Saints dyed any more of whom mention is made Matt. Saints cut of their Tombs 27.52 who rose out of their Tombs after Christs Resurrection that they might passe to eternall life with him by vertue of whose Resurrection they were raised Finally there are almost innumerable places of Scripture Places of Scripture which may be produced to evince to the certainty of this Article of which I will onely cite a few at present Job 19.25 26 27. For I am sure that my Redeemer liveth Job 19.25 and he shall stand the last on the earth and though worms destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh whom I my self shall see and mine eyes shall behold and none other for me Isaiah 26.19 Thy dead men shall live Isai 26.19 even with my body shall they rise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead Ezek. Ezek. 37.5 37.5 6. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones behold I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live And I will lay sinews upon you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you that ye may live and ye shall know that I am the Lord. These quotations were indeed spoken to the Prophets Isaiah and Exekiel of the Restauration of the people out of Captivity neverthelesse thereby the Resurrection is evidently confirmed Tertullian as Tertullian saith that must be necessarily first which illustrateth another a Similitude Comparison Metaphor or Allegory cannot be deduced out of nothing Dan. 12.2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth Dan. 12.2 shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and perpetual contempt John 5 28 John 5.28 For the hour shall come in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and they shall come forth that have done good unto the resurrection of life but they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation 1 Cor. 15. Paul in that whole Chapter 1 Cor. 15. treateth of the Resurrection of the body and establisheth the same by many reasons which I will not presse further but onely reply to a common argument of Atheists wherewith they do stubbornly seal up their hearts against this truth They Object Object Resolution of bodies that oft times the bodies of many are buried in one and the same monument whose carcasses must inevitably be commixed by corruption that the bodies of some are burned to ashes that others are drowned in the sea and devoured of fishes those fishes perchance of men and those men of beasts and ravens lastly that there are men in some Regions who eat humane flesh by which means the substance of one must be necessarily converted into the substance of the other How then say they is it possible that every mans proper body should be restored in fire I answer Ans Above our capacity that the Resurrection is a work above mans capacity whereof we are no more able to assign a certain reason than of the worlds creation wherefore though the above recited things seem impossible to us to be done yet all things are possible to God You may ask saith Tertullian upon the Apocalyps how matter when it is dissolved may be restored Tertullian I reply you who once were not are made and so when you cease to be shall be made again Furthermore we see that a skilfull Alchymist Alchymist by his Chymical art can seperate and extract Gold Silver Tinne c. each severally apart out of the same masse cannot God then produce out of the Elements humane bodies how many alterations soever they undergo seeing the bodies of the dead are onely changed never reduced to nothing God created light out of darknesse ill things out of nothing Light out of darknes power out of weaknesse grace out of sinne and procured us a blessed life out of our Saviours cursed death Shall not any thing be possible to him It is impossible Conclusion a secret part I conclude At the final Resurrection every person shall have a secret portion of his body out of which by operation of Divine Omnipotencie it may be formed a new intire Of the Rib. so that a man may be perfect He which created the woman of the mans rib and cause a grain of Mustard-seed to become a stately plant can also compose an intire body of the least part of one Like as in the seed of plants there is some hidden thing by which they dayly gain vigour and grow As in the seeds of Plants so there is some hidden thing in every humane body out of which the body dissolved will be again new made Aquinas Thomas Aquinas thinketh it is the primary being of each person which being restored to every one in the Resurrection will be dilated in an instant as Adams rib in the womans creation and the loaves of Elizeus and Christ Loaves with which so many were satisfied What nature produceth by long intervals of time God can effect in an instant Thus having dispatched Marginal notes I descend to Meditation concerning which take these following Canons Can. 1. After you have copied over your whole Speech or Sermon aptly divided into heads and marked the principall words of each sentence in the Margent go diligently to meditation trying whether you can repeat all the Sentences in their order by bare sight of the Marginall notes You need not be sollicitous of every word so that you do accurately remember the sense or scope because the minde esteemeth it an unworthy thraledom to be obliged to every conceived word Horace hath most truly said Rem bene praevisam verba haud invita sequentur The scope foreseen words readily occur But if you stick at any place read over the sentence which the Marginall note doth not suggest with no lesse diligence and attention of minde than if you had never seen the same I dare promise such manner of proceeding in Meditation will produce more happy success then Opinion can readily conceive If you do not benefit your self by Marginal notes either in Learning a Speech or Sermon you will make slow progress and be sensible of very great trouble in Meditation whereas by their help you may fix sentences in Memory with great celerity not to say with pleasure as you may make an experiment if you please in the foregoing Tractate Can. 2. The manner of Meditating is to learn by parts That is First to commit the first Section to Memory then the Second afterward the Third and so forth the rest in their order When you have dispatched all the heads severally apply your self to repeat the