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death_n	die_v	life_n	soul_n	23,154	5	5.3621	4	true

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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

Accident But that 's an Essence which is really That which it is in its kind remanent As by our humane nature's euident In Soule and Body Man is said to Bee But in his nature is his Essence pent But yet this Compound neuer can agree Though nere so subtle with Simplicity And though that This and That do seeme to show A mixture in the Things wherein they are Yet in this simple Essence t is not so Though This and That same person stil be there For al three persons but one Substance share If so then though the Persons diuers be Their Essence is as pure as it is rare As in the Sunne a Beame wee likewise see Yet both make but one light essentially Yet Sunne and Beame are diuerse sith they do In their subsisting differ really For both subsist then both must needs be two Yet differ nothing but respectiuely As do the Persons of the Trinity Then by subsisting in a diuerse kind The Persons differ in the Diety Which three In-beeings in one single Mind One simple Substance doth together bind Now sets the Sunne that lights our pen to write Then with him Muse set downe thy weary Pen And in the Sunne that lights thee to indite More Wonders marke till th' other rise agen And then with care divulge the same to Men. These Steepes haue made thy trauell hard to day That thou mayst hold out thy flight fauour then For nought they do that more do then they may Then Wit must rest when Wisedome bids it stay NOw Heaue'ns bright Eye awake by Vespers sheene Peepes through the purple windowes of the East While Night doth sinke beneath the Earth vnseene Fearing with lightnes to be sore opprest Then vp my wakefull Muse to worke for Rest. Thou shalt not soundly sleepe till thou hast view'd Thy iournies end wherein who ends are blest Then let thy course be zealously pursu'd To find the rest of true Beatitude Which is Eternall and alone is so Without Beginning and can haue none End Which hath nor First nor Last for that doth grow From First to Last so rise and then descend But this doth no such Motion comprehend For that 's Eternall that not onely Is But still is such and doth not paire or mend Then must he needs be First and Last by this Because Eternall is that state of his Our Mynd alone confusedly conceiues Th' unbounded compasse of ETERNITY It 's past conceit sith Notion none it giues Being as free from mutability As from beginning end or quantity It euer Was that was e're Time had roome To stirre it selfe by Heau'ns propulsity To which there is nought past nor ought to come But all is present in her boundlesse Wombe Our Soules and Angels are eternall too But their eternity with Time was made As were the Places where reside they do Which both Beginning and Succession had So seeme to vanish though they cannot fade But these created were Eternities Which Time from time to time stil forwards ladd And though Eternall yet Were otherwise But GODS Was euer Is and neuer dies He is the Author of Eternity Then was before it else it could not be He was before that made Eternally So is eternall in the highest degree Yet not the Author of his owne is he His owne Eternity and He are one Sith that 's himselfe that is his Property So could not be his owne creation And so vnmade eternal is alone Angels and Soules though they eternall be Yet either may by nature haue an end That of an Act consist and Potency Which Compound doth to disolution tend Did it not on Gods simple POVVRE depend The Compound is the Cause that so it may For nought is rent without a Cause it rend But there can be no Cause of his decay Who is the chiefest Cause and his owne Stay And by that Stay vn constant Man he staies From a relapse to nothing which he was Yet falling finally he still decaies But nere determines for he still doth passe From ought to nought yet nought is ne'rethelasse For as was said Man is eternall made Though heere he flourisheth and fades like Grasse Yet shall he rise againe and neuer fade To Ioy or Wo as he is Good or Bad. What! shall he liue in wo Eternally If heere he liue and die in gracelesse state So for a short bad life for euer die Or liue in death life still t'excruciate This seemes all Mercy quite to ruinate For all neede Grace sith seuen times sins the best Ere once the Sunne his Round perambulate But seuenty seauen times do the worst at least Then if Grace faile none die to liue in rest If for an hundred yeares offending here For that 's the longest date of our liues lease Millions of Ages we were plagued there with paines past paine yet that in time should cease And we for That in mercy haue release So Iustice might with Mercy sympathize But for a short time of our crimes increase Euer to liue in death that neuer dyes Ah! this makes Iustice seeme to tyrranize But stay fraile flesh and bloud here Truthes reply Thou speak'st thus much as prompted by the Fiend But Truth this Iustice well may iustifie For had'st thou liu'd stil stil thou would'st haue syn'd And to thy passions euermore beene pynn'd Then sith thou sinn'st in thine eternity It 's iust thou should'st in Gods in Hell be Inn'd For he the Will for Deede takes commonly As well when it wills well as wickedly And synne's gain'st Goodnesse most-most infinite Are made most infinite in ill thereby Then no proportion hold paines definite To scourge the ill that hath infinity Which must be punish't in eternity Then O! what life ought mortall Men to lead That leads to endlesse blisse or misery Then liue w'in Hell for Heau'n as did our Head Not liue in Heau'n for Hell when we be dead O how it ought to make flesh freeze with feare Or flame in all deuotion of the Sp'rite Sith the Word EVER euer doth appeare So bottomlesse in length so infinite Euer in vtter darkenesse neuer light Ah! this is it that 's able to dissolue Both Soule and Body with eternall fright And yet to sinne some euer do resolue And EVER neuer in their thoughts reuolue Euer to dye and neuer to be dead Euer to Bee and neuer be at rest Euer in fire yet neuer minished Which EVER Patience neuer can digest Sith it 's most bad when it is at the best If euer we did thinke aright of this This Fire would neuer cease to moue at least And if we be not mou'd with endlesse Blisse Such paines will moue aright or most amisse Then fleshly wisedome no let can be more To let this motion stay a Spirit vnstaid For that Egeriaes doctrine deemes this lore And thinkes all holy fraud which Truth hath said That Lawes may so the better be obaid This wisedomes Eyes are dull yet sharply see To go past

doth rust Yet he to Wrath still goes with Leaden feet Sith his Wrathes hands are yron that bray to dust But he in mercy flies the Meeke to meet On feet that winged are to make them fleet When he proclaim'd his Stiles magnificence To him to whom he gaue his Lawes for vs He vs'd more words in number more in sence To note his Mercy then his Iustice Thus His Mercy ore his Wrath 's victorious But yet his Iustice to extenuate To graund his Grace is sacrilegious Both are most great and good and most do hate Comparisons vnequall breeding bate For as a perfect Circle doth containe Full as much length as bredth depth as height So in Him all things equall do remaine By his infinity and boundlesse might That in themselues do keepe on compasse right Then all in God is GOD sith he is all One and the same that is all infinite And of himselfe super-substanciall Being all one Cause of All in generall But with Truthes warrant we may this auouch That sith GRACE did his Iustice satisfie For his Elect it is contracted much Nay tane away at least made temporary Yet both doe meet in one infinity In the saluation of each chosen-One For iust he deemes it and most righteously To saue th'vniust made most iustin his Sonne Who is the Summe of all perfection Then heere is place great place for Hope and Feare But more for Hope then Feare and yet the lacke Of Feare through Hope doth make vs oft appeare As vniust Iudges that do Iustice Racke While they for it by it go quite to wracke To hope and not hate sinne most fearefull is As Feare is when no Hope no Sinne doth backe But when Loue feares to sinne Hop 's nere amisse Then kind are Hope and Feare when thus they kisse Then as the right vse of this knowledge hy The knowledge of the highest EXCELLENCE Is sweet and safe so the abuse doth lie Wide open to the spoiles of foule Offence Which doth his Iustice most of all incense The vse is not to know him as he is But him to loue and serue with reuerence Th' abuse is making his iust Propertis Vnequall while we liue and hope amisse For lesse'ning of his Iustice we presume Vpon his mercy most vniustly whence Come all the shapes of sin our Soules assume Worse then th' effects of too much diffidence For sinnes presumptious Iustice most incense To mind great mercy when great feares affright Is meet if meet be likewise penitence But when we weene such mercy is our right To mind great Iustice then doth mend our plight To hope and liue well fearelesse still we may To hope and liue ill 's worse then mortall Feare For it to death our Soules doth soon'st betray Then hope we well when well our selues we beare But when we fall let Feare with Hope vs reare To know if we be worthy Hate or Loue Doth not still easily to vs appeare Then still to know it doth vs still behoue Lowly to moue to Loue Hate to remoue For some haue made their nests the Starres among That soon'st haue downe bin ding'd to lowest Deepes And othersome from lying but in dung Aboue the Heauens are heau'd for low he creepes Strange Paradox that soonest climbe those Steepes When we do creepe though high we climbe withall VVe seldome slide for care our footing keepes But when we stand on Tip-toe on a Ball Though sliding still we finally must fall But heere my Muse repose thee with Apollo That now is fallen asleepe in Tethis Bed That as he doth so thou thy worke maist follow Then sleepe with him while Angels hold thy head And heauenly visions may therein be bred Go soft and faire thus much at once is much In wayes that Mists and Brambles ouerspred VVhere hast makes waste for Briers intangle such That there would post and make their Souls to gruch NOw rouze thee Muse preuent Apollos rising And ruminate on that which thou hast seen Thy Waie is old then shun new waies deuising For all deuises from this way haue beene The waies to wracke though nere so gaudy greene And though it be obscure as it is steepe And thou in it maist soone be ouerseene Yet Snaile-like cling to it and climbing creep But fall not off it for the fal is deepe This soueraigne NATVRE nature Stil'd is he VVhen that first Person oft is vnderstood That is the Fountaine of the Trinity The substance cannot share of his Godhood But to his Sonne and to their Spirit his brood Nor can he to his Sonne as he is Man His essence giue in truth or likely hood For he that is Eternall neuer can His Beeing giue to that which once began Nor yet can he beget another Sonne Of his owne substance for if so he could He should be mutable by generation And so could Diety no longer holde For that nere changeth as the other should Or could two Spirits come from the Sire ' and Sonne As they are God then God were manifold But he is meerely singly-simply One One Trinity in perfect Vnion And if he could himselfe to ought impart But them in part or whole it needs must be In part he cannot for he hath no part And much lesse wholy for he then should see His Creature wholly God aswell as he And were our Soules that he made to his Forme Part of his Forme it sinnes as wel as we But sinne he cannot nor himselfe deforme To share himselfe to man a sinfull worme And though we are his Generation And are partakers of his Nature to Yet are we not so of that only One. As of his Substance so to make him two But we are borne of him when well we do That 's of his grace by his vniting Sp'rite And when our Soules that Spirit is come into He makes vs act his Motions with delight And so are said to haue one Nature right But where some say GOD is Man really And Man is God thence falsely gathering That the whole Essence of the Diety Is grow'n to Man though it from God did spring As if the personall-Vnion wrought the thing But though that God and Man one person be Yet they to either no confusion bring But are so bound as they are euer free From all confusion in their vnity Mans Body hath a Soule both make one Man Yet each in each doth not themselues suffuse His Soule 's immortall though it once began His Bodie 's mortall which the Soule doth vse And in the seu'rall parts doth life infuse So Man and God one compound person make And yet their compound doth not them confuse For neither ●eithers Essence doth pertake Yet eithers Essence neithers can forsake For though the persons of the God-head are Distinguish't It must not diuided be So doth it with that Man-Gods natures fare Which we diuide not for diuersity But them distinguish for their vnity Diuision

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

Truth for Errours greater ayde For like old Eyes at hand they blinded be But farre off falsely graunds each quantity After this wisedome comes presumption After Presumption blindnesse of the mind And after all these foule Affection Then Custome comes insensibly behind And makes these ils vnfelt with craft vnkind So haue the lewd no feeling of offence Their pow'r of feeling Custome so doth bind Thus fleshly wisedome is the Roote from whence Spring greatest Synnes withall impenitenee These thrust out Reason of her Signiorie The Braines where erst she sate in Siluer Throne Ruling with Scepter of pure Iuory That is Commaunding nought but Right alone For right is cleare from all corruption Vpon which Scepters Top an Eagle's fixt To note that Reason bee'ng her Wings vpon Transcends the Spheares to see the world vnmixt With Eyes that see the subtill'st parts betwixt If Reason then retaine her Pow'r and Place Shee doth aright informe the Intellect VVhich counsels well the Will in eu'ry case That it commaunds the Members with effect To do as she by Reason doth direct So wild Affections truely tamed be For by the Raigne of Reason they are checkt Then the Minds Kingdome is as fast as free Being a VVorld of all Felicity Yet when all Vice is brought in Vertues Bounds Ah! see how Man is here still millitant Hydra-like hath strēgth from her own wounds So growing an vnconquered Combatant Doth make the Soule with endlesse strife to pant Vnlesse she seares Prides euer-springing Heads With the hot Iron of the Law to dant Her haughty hart which with that Sharpnesse bleeds For she is conquer'd by her owne misdeeds Thus when we haue subdued eu'ry Synne The Conquest doth beget sinne to subdew So lose we more by how much more we wyn To gaine which losse we must the Fight renew Or else lose all that should to vs acrue For not a moment may we cease to fight Lest mortall Sinne to death should vs pursue Sith Hydra-headed Synne gets greatest might When we haue brought her to the weakest plight Shee 's strongest to destroy when we suppose We haue destroy'd her by our hardynesse So worst we fall by her worst Ouerthrowes Because we glory in our great successe So make it not so much or nothing lesse O Synne damn'd Nothing that dost all things dam'n Which thou dost touch where lies thy mightinesse If in thy Head our Head hath bruz'd the same Yet liu'st thou in his spight who thee or'came If maugre him thou liu'st that 's Lord of Might Whose onely frowne can Hell it selfe confound How shall we froth of Frailty foyle thee quite Who art more whole the more we thee do wound And mak'st vs sore by making thee vnsound O help vs Weaklings Lord of Hoasts to fight Else we to Nothing must be captiue-bound For Nothing Synne doth nothing day and Night But make vs worse then Nothing by her spight The Fount of Goodnesse goodnesse makes to flow from out the worst of Ils which we fulfill For he thereby makes vs our selues to know And humbles vs in goodnesse by that Ill So thereby betters both our Works and will But the curst Cause of all impiety Out of our Best the Worst extracteth still VVho drawes high'st Pride from low'st Humilitie So drawes most ill from Ills most contrary Thus from the high'st intire ETERNITY Our Muse hath stoopt vnto the low'st Ills Thereby to show their inequality Yet each is such as fils yea ouerfils The Soule with weale or wo so saues or spils But Phoebus Horses now their swift Careere Haue staid for this day on the highest Hils And fal'n to rest beneath our Hemyspheare Therefore with them tir'd Muse thy toile forbeare LO how Apollos Pegasses prepare To rend the ring-hedge of our Horizon Be ready Muse sith they so ready are To flee with them in such proportion That both may moue by heau'nly motion And yet their Mouer moues not but doth rest In restful-restlesse perfect Action By which the worst still fals out for the best For him and them that by him still are blest He changeth not that truely euer Is Sith what Is truely cannot changed be For what is sometimes That and sometimes This Is mixt of Simples which do disagree But he is simply selfe Simplicîty Then That Is not that is not simply so Sith in an Instant It from Is doth flee And as the restlesse Seas do ebbe and flow So that twixt Was and Is doth come and go But hee 's ne're mou'd and so can neuer change For what should moue him in whom all do moue He fils each Place then can he neuer range And so is fixt all Time and Place aboue So still I AM he doth himselfe approue I AM that Is which is That which He is Euer the same as firme in hate as loue Who could not be immortall but for This For who doth change dies throgh that change of his Each Essence changeable is said to die To what it Was when it Is otherwise So may mans Soule in immortality Be said to dy when it from Vertue flies And liue aright when it to Vices dies So may immortall Spirits Augelicall Dy through such change and tumble from the skies As some haue done and so no doubt may all But that a Pow'r still fixt preuents their fall For what may sin may die and die they must That sin if Grace do not their death preuent If any Creature cannot be vniust That Iustice is not his it is but lent Onely the Lender's iust of his owne bent Who by no change can possibly offend And much lesse dy for Hee 's still permanent The Fount of Grace and Life on whom depend Al Changes sith hee 's changelesse without end But if he might be chang'd it needs must be By actiue pow'r of some himselfe without Or by himselfe through passiue Potency But nought can euer bring this change about For nought's more strong then Pow'r most absolute Nor can a simple Act be passiue so It puts the question clearely out of doubt That neither can another Agent no Nor he himselfe himselfe change too and fro For that is chang'd that not remaines the same But hee 's the same he was and euer is And That stil Is that neuer alters frame But such alone is that firme state of his That changeth all yet changeth not by this Hee 's Glories Sunne whose Shade is constant sight Then can no Shade of change eclipse his Blisse In whom's no darknes for he blinds the sight Of bright-Ey'd Angels with his glory bright Though he assum'd our Shape so seem'd to change Sith what he is he was not yet the same He was he is and though the case be strange Yet is it true in nature though his Name Be doubl'd by his confixt double Frame He came to take our Nature to his owne Yet ours into his nature neuer came But ours from His by eithers Acts is knowne Then by that