Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	affection_n	heart_n	soul_n	1,196	5	4.7627	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26401	An address to the hopeful young gentry of England in some strictures on the most dangerous vices incident to their age and quality / by a perfect honourer of their worth.	Perfect honourer of their worth.	1669 (1669)	Wing A565; ESTC R36717	48,627	162

setting his composition nor capacity judge of those things which as infinitely transcend our comprehension as Nature and could be no longer adorable if not perfectly mysterious shall shallow we lost in diving but to the bottom of every sensible hope to fathom the immense Abyss of all power knowledge goodness Would you any longer worship love or fear God if you had an apprehension of his being which you could any where terminate in finite limits This would be to heathenize the Earth again and reduce such a slight and formal veneration as heretofore was bestowed on their race of Gods that once grew among themselves and on the Idols they shaped according to their own phansied Images I need not say it is necessary for it is impossible we should here have any more plain notions of our Maker than those in which He is pleased to reveal himself to us All of the knowledge of himself is mysterious adorable admirable but most consummate All of our Duty plain easie and most necessary I say enough for the reasonableness thereof that if it had been no Tryal of the will and affections to renounce the world and our selves God would never have propounded it in the middle between an Eternal Glory and Misery But it is a vain Curiosity which first made the breach upon Man in the mass which will not be confin'd to its duty under our present possessions and hopes greater than man can raise his vast soul to contrive The state of which happiness because entring upon no avenue of our senses nay above all the reaches of our what not amplifying Heart and almost powerfully creating Imagination confounds our conceptions and belief of it But doe I believe God the maker of this fair fabric of this visible Creation wherein every one phansies he could carve out portion large enough for his most importunate desires and in the poor pittances fragments and Atoms whereof we every day see many reposing their utmost felicity and could be content to sing eternal Requiems to their Souls over them Do I not herein also admire the wonderful delight beauty use and harmony resulting from every part of it and concentring within my self in fullest pleasure and content from my contemplations and fruitions thereof And shall I not now be confident that the most wise Creator that raised this glorious frame but as a Pavilion to be spread over Pilgrims or a stately Theatre for some few daies exhibiting the various Scenes and Actors upon the world and then be taken down has a Palace of infinitely more excelling workmanship and entertainment that the happiness reserv'd must transcend what soever I can see lovely and desirable here in my passage and therefore must be Heaven Where the yellow clay glasse beads and pebbles we reckon our selves and riches by in our Sanguine dreams here which we fear under our keeping and bitterly bewail being lost All these will be contemptible to the diaphanous yet solid Sun of the metals pearls and truly precious starry Gems which are not to be the treasures but materials of the Caelestial mansions The satisfaction I now take in one good word or work virtuously accomplisht will then pass into a festival of Joy by being asserted into a blissful activity of all goodness to the utmost of my enlarged powers The refined pleasure my Soul now takes in with every fresh gleam and discovery of New found knowledge and embracing a truth consentaneous to the principles of my own reason shall then be the quickning it still to move on the inexhaustible deeps of Science and wisdome with free expansions and heliotrope conversions to that eternal light that will irradiate and inform the intellectuals with the Spirit of all understanding The affection of love which here at some time carrys me out to a delight and union with any attractive amiableness and my ravishments in the harmonious repercussions of a Beloved shall there transport me ●●●o one endless Extasie of Love where I shall enjoy what can alone without grating on any one affection perpetually invite out and meet the Soul in its purest ardencies and zeal with inextinguishable freeness and fulness of divine goodness and bounty so that this inconceivable energy the soul shall feel will carry it wholly forth to the Vision of Beatitude and pass it into the Glory it sees adores and loves with endless Delectation Now then if I may have leave to call the will of the Blessed Souls purity their understanding all eie all their affections Love You will think the world you now live in a sink of Vice a Cavern of dark ignorance and a den of monstrous and salvage malice and cruelty Could I here also pourtray the horrors a dejected guilty astonished broken despairing and self-torturing spirit which way soever it turns feels and fears I should from our own senses which are often sabled with melancholy from the ravings of a Feaver the pangs and groans of acute pains and deathbed agonies and struglings say enough to confess though not constitute the misery of an Hell Both these states with all the notions our narrow conceptions form of them having all the demonstrations our understanding and the nature of the thing can admit nothing being wanting to convince and support the most penetrating and cautelous Reason let us no longer deny their being and certainty because so incomprehensibly above us and ours For I am perswaded as to a distinct and clear apprehension of them we are as incompetent as the Embryo is in the close and dark womb to conceive of the vastness order and beauty of this larger nest of Nature wherein the comparison you will also find to be more streightned From your enjoyments here only consider whether you think the Author of them could not have heightned and perpetuated them had it seemd good to infinite wisedom We in all these behold a continual vicissitude various interchanges and successions of all things sublunary And it may not be amiss to grant such a rotation of States and families as may suppose that they have all had their equal portion of prosperity and adversity so also that the very highest and lowest pitch and fall of either have in some age or other made some of the same stock most eminent in both conditions that in every line some may be accountable for the trust of Princely power and tryal of meanest debasement However in all the variations of our affairs here below we may easily see and admire a Providence disposing them and bearing up a most constant tenour of unerring regularity That days and seasons have their unalterable returns the minds and shapes of each man their proper sentiments and impresses every nation its particular distinct genius the levity and excellency of each so counterpoiz'd even to the turning with the two hundredth part of a grain by some other defects and virtues of a neighbour Countrey to the setting of due bounds to all For the wilyness of that ballanceth the strength of