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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
diversity_n	faith_n	spirit_n	word_n	561	5	5.0589	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44824	Examen de ingenios, or, The tryal of wits discovering the great difference of wits among men, and what sort of learning suits best with each genius / published originally in Spanish by Doctor Juan Huartes ; and made English from the most correct edition by Mr. Bellamy.; Examen de ingenios. English	Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.; Bellamy, Mr. (Edward)	1698 (1698)	Wing H3205; ESTC R5885	263,860	544

this not being to be done our Work appearing in Public to all the World it is impossible but I must needs leave you somewhat Surprized for if your's is a common and Vulgar Wit I doubt not but you are perswaded that the Number and Perfection of the Sciences has been by the Antients long since determined guided by a vain Reason that since they could find out nothing more to say 't is a sign that there is nothing new and if you happen to have such Sentiments go no further nor read any longer for it will but vex you to know what a wretched kind of Wit you are Master of but if you are deliberate and discreet I have three very true Conclusions to propose to you which for their Novelty are not a little to be admired The first is That of all the different Wits of Men there is but one as predominant can fall to thy share unless Nature straining hard as it were to form two or three Excellencies more in thee and being unable to effect what she designed has left thee off unwrought in haste as a rude Essay of an unfinish'd Piece The Second that to each different kind of Wit corresponds one Science only transcendently and no more for which reason if thou art not well assured in the Choice of what suits thy Talent thou wilt find thy self very short in the rest with the most assiduous Application The Third that after thou hast found out what Science corresponds best with thy Wit there remains if thou wouldst not err another greater difficulty which is whether the Practic or Theory suits best with thy Genius for these two Parts in all Sciences whatever are so opposite to each other and require Wits so diverse that they may be set one against the other in the place of Contraries A hard saying this I own and yet hard as it is what is yet the hardest of all is there is no Writ of Error or Appeal for who can say that he has received any Wrong for God is the Author of Nature who dispenses to each Man but one kind of Genius as I said but now notwithstanding the Opposition and Difficulty that lies in the uniting them he accommodates himself to her and of the Sciences he distributes Gratis amongst Men in a Miraculous way he gives no more than one in an Eminent Degree There are diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit And there are diversities of Administrations but the same Lord And there are diversities of Operations but it is the same God which worketh all in all but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal for to one is given by the Spirit the Word of Wisdom to another the Word of Knowledge by the same Spirit to another Faith by the same Spirit to another the Gift of Healing by the same Spirit to another the Working of Miracles to another Prophecy to another the discerning of Spirits to another divers kinds of Tongues to another the Interpretation of Tongues But all these worketh one and the same Spirit dividing to every Man severally as he will Upon the whole Matter you see that even the Graces Men possess in the Church are very different yet are they all distributed by one and the same Spirit who is the source of all The Ministerial Employments are divers and yet 't is one and the same Lord who calls both the one and the other to his respective Function Neither is the Power of working Miracles equal and alike in all though it is the same God who produceth those Miraculous Acts which are performed by those to whom he has given that Power Nor are you to think that the Distribution of these Gifts which proclaim the Holy Spirit 's dwelling in him who possesses the same is without reason unequal Since in their distribution God has regard to what is of more Use and Advantage either for the farther Confirmation of those who already are Believers or for the Conversion of such as are yet Idolaters Whence it comes that one receives from the Holy Ghost the Gift of Wisdom to uncypher Divine Mysteries and another the Gift of Knowledge from the same Spirit and that also one has Faith by virtue of which he works a vast number of Miracles and heals all incurable Diseases another is armed with a power of Miracles of another kind as of foretelling many things to Come of Penetrating into the Breasts of Men and discerning the several secret Springs of all their outward Motions Hence is it one speaks many Languages unlearned and another is the Interpreter to understand them all because as I told you before it is one and the same Spirit who is Author of all these Gifts and who distributes them according to his good Pleasure I question not in the least but God made that distribution of Sciences with regard to each Man's Wit and Natural Genius seeing the Talents he bestow'd in St. Matthew says the same Evangelist that he distributed them to each according to his own Virtue For 't is a very gross Mistake to fancy that these Supernatural Sciences require not certain previous Dispositions in the Subject before they can be infused For when God Form'd Adam and Eve 't is certain that he first filled them with Wisdom in Organizing their Brain after such a manner as was every way becoming an Instrument appropriated to Reason and Discourse To this purpose speaks Sacred Writ He has filled them with the Spirit of God in Wisdom in Knowledge in Vnderstanding and in all manner of Workmanship And according to the difference of each Man's Wit one Science was rather infused than another and more or less of each of them which may be understood by the same Instance of our first Parents for when God fill'd 'em both with Wisdom 't is agreed on by all hands that he gave less to Eve which was the Cause say the Divines that the Devil undertook to seduce her not daring to tempt Man as being in awe of a Superior Wisdom The reason of this as we shall prove by and by is that the Natural Composition of Woman's Brains is not susceptible either of much Wit or great Wisdom We shall find the same thing in Angelic Substances that God to raise one Angel to greater Degrees of Glory and more elevated Gifts gave him first a more delicate Nature And if one should ask the Divines of what use is that Delicate Nature they answer That an Angel who is of a more Elevated Understanding and refined Nature more readily inclines to the Will of God and more efficaciously employs those Gifts the self same Thing happening even among Men. Whence may manifestly be inferred that seeing there is a difference of Wits for Supernatural Sciences and that all kind of Capacities are not fit Instruments alike for them by far greater reason Humane Learning requires it because what Men learn is purely by force of their Wit The