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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44763	The vision, or, A dialog between the soul and the bodie fancied in a morning-dream.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3127; ESTC R11503	50,341	190

Pharoh and his army to a high spring tide The passing over of the Israelites to a low ebb and eddy water They admire not the raining of Manna in the wildernes because there is good store found in Calabria and other places They cannot believe that Lazarus was rais'd from the dead but they must be satisfied where his soul was all the while They censure the miracle of making the blind to see because he saw men walk like trees whereas he had never seen trees before having bin blind from his nativity They think it strange the● shold be a Tree in Paradise so soon in regard the text saies positively that the plants of the fields were not yet grown because it had not rain'd They question whether the handle of Goliath's spear was as big as a weavers beam and whether David had so many hundred thousand talents of treasure Moreover they cast blemishes upon Christian truth because general and great oecumenicall Councels did so clash one with another And that the Fathers of the Primitive Church in divers opinions were not only differing one from the other but dissonant to themselfs as among other positions in the computations which they make of the Yeers from the Creation of the world to the Incarnation wherin they are so discrepant Nay they wold derogat from the Dictats of the Holy Ghost himself touching som texts of Scripture because in the second of Kings we read Michal for Merah as may be perceived by comparing it with the first Book of the same History As also because St Matthew hath written Zachary for Ieremy chap. 27. Likewise that St Mark in the first chapter cites a passage out of Isaiah which is recorded in Malachy Moreover when he saith that our Saviour was crucified on the third hour whereas St Iohn saith Chap. 19. that he was but only condemned by Pilat the sixth hour So likewise where St Luke saith that Cainan was the son of Arphaxad and Salec the son of Cainan the place is contradicted in Genesis 23. where it is said that Salec was not Arphaxed's grandchild but his son no other generation intervening betwixt the two And when ●● is said Genesis the 11. that the Cave which Abraham bought was in Sichem being indeed in Hebron and that he bought it of the sonnes of Emor the son of Sechem yet Moses saith it was of Ephron the Hittite Moreover wheras he saith that Emor was Sichem's son it is said in Genesis 3● quite contrary that Emor was Sichem's Father and not his son Other supercritical spirits wold cast aspersions upon Christianity because Constantin the first Emperor of that Religion was a very lewd man Gildas accusing him to have bin a murtherer a perjurer the tyrannicall whelp of the unclean lionness of Dannonier's That likewise Clovis the first Christian king of France was as bad And that Henry the eight the first reformed king worse then either of Them Ther are others that have another kind of spiritual pride it being not only sufficient to Arrogat from the Holy Scriptures to pick ho●es in Christianity criticize so upon her but while they go about to magnify man they detract from the chiefest instruments of Gods glory and his principall attendants the blessed Angels by paraleling mans Creation to theirs and that they were made as all things els for man whom they cry up to be the Epitome of the world and that the principal ministerial function of the Angels is to gard him Such as these may be said to be possessed with a giddy kind of spiritual drunkeness or madness rather and touching those of this last conceit they are like the Cobler who drunk himself into a kingdom and thought himself a king while he continued in that humor Nor is Religion only troubled with such Critiques and Detractors but these times afford such in all sciences to magnifie their own fancies they slight all Antiquity they will not stick to call Plato a dotard and Hippocrates a quack-salver thinking that they have more sublime notions then any It is true that in some sense restraining it to saving knowledg a child that understands his primer may be said to be more learned then all the Philosophers that ever were as the least fly in regard she hath a sensitive soul within her may be said in som respects to be more noble then the sun because he is inanimat Soul It is too tru that the present times do swarm with such arrogant and over-curious spirits though they be full of doubts and still at a loss going after nothing els but more teaching still yet they seem to have such a peremptory certitude of their salvation as if they had seen their names registred in the book of life expunging thence all other but their own They cannot modestly beleeve the Creed but they must know the very track that our Saviour went to Hell they wold string the rainbow and be satisfied what kind of wood it is that the man of the moon carrieth on his back c. With a spirit much like this was Scaliger possessed who while he went about to amend the times and correct errors committed as gross ones himself as any one Author he condemns he makes Dagon a woman the Emperour of Habassia Prester Iohn what shallow conceits hath he of the depth of the sea and how poorly was he vers'd in Cyclometria how scurrilously he railes against whole nations and would understand nothing but what he liked Body Truly I have bin ever averse to raise frivolous quaeres in any thing specially in the essentialls of faith or enter into disputes and altercations or heat touching matters indifferent I was never of their mind that against a Cap and a Surplis would put on a Helmet and Armor I have bin contented to follow the first road I was put in towards heaven moving after the motion of the superior orbs that were plac'd in the firmament of the Church though not altogether in an implicit way I have always made Reson and other sciences to truckle under Divinity their mistress I have taken as much spirituall delight let all this be spoken without vanity or any scandall to other souls in other offices and holy duties of the Church as in Sermons which makes me reflect upon a saying of S. Lewis the French king to Henry the third of England who asking him in those times of implicit Faith whether he would go sooner unto the Eucharist or to a Sermon he answered I had rather see my friend then hear him only spoken of I have always inclined to love Order and degrees of respect to abhor confusion to love decencies rather then slut●isness nor I hope shall I be ever of their gang who to avoid superstition do fall into palpable prophaness Soul I like you humor well touching all these particulars nor will they offend I beleeve any one that is of a s●ne sober judgment concerning the last thing you spoke of it makes the

you and to partake with you of that knowledge and blissfullness which so far surpass all my senses and your Imagination I believe as yet Soul I do not say you shall rise but you shall be raised for solus Christus resurrexit alii suscitati Christ only did rise again by the power of his Godhead all others shall be raised that same body of yours shall be rais'd the same in substance not in quality for it will be made purer and freer from Corruption as I during the time of my separation on I shall not change my nature but my state I may be said to have no integrity but remain as a part of you till our reconjunction wherunto I shall still incline and propend because you were the instrument wherby I became first a soul which may be the cause that all the Saints in Heaven do so much long after the day of Judgement because they may bee reunited to their bodies and by that consortship have a fuller fruition of bliss Those eyes of yours shall then receive their reward for their liftings up to Heaven those hands of yours for being instruments of charity those eares of yours for their attention to holy duties those knees of yours for their bendings in Gods holy house that mouth of yours for receiving the blessed Sacrament in such humiliation that tongue heart and brain of yours for their praises and ejaculations and all other parts of yours that were the interpreters of your piety shall all then receive their reward in the Temple of Eternity Body But after your recesse and separation from me let it not bee esteem'd a too overbold curiosity if I desire to know whether you will give then a finall farewell to Earth and bee seen no more in the Elementary world because ther be so many stories told of spirits that walk to discover hidden tresures to detect murthers c. As also that they have appear'd in Churchyards and Charnell houses Soul Touching this speculation and doctrine of walking of Spirits it hath gravel'd the highest wits both in Divinity and Philosophy they are all put to a nonplus concerning the latter they would produce naturall reasons why in Cimitiers and other places they somtimes appeer and one is by the example of a vegetall body which being burnt and reduc'd into ashes the form of the same numericall plant by a curious Artist may be reviv'd visibly to the eye of the beholder and made to start up out of those ashes being shut u● in a glasse and heated in the bot●tome in regard that the fixed fa● though much of the volatil hat● flown away remaines there still so a humane body or cadaver bein● reduced to ashes in the grave b● the heat which the penetrating beams of the sun insuseth therinto the shape of the said body may be exhal'd up and made to appeer in the air Now touching the Theologues the common opinion is that it pleaseth God Almighty to give the Devil a priviledg and permit him to assume any shape that of man not excepted wherby he deludes and makes compacts with the weaker sort of peeple to destroy their souls for ther is no Creture that the Devil maligneth and hates more then mankind in regard he succeedes him in the beatitude that he lost which makes som Divines hold that when that number of Angels which fell and were tumbled down to Hell is filled up by humane souls the day of judgment will come But as I said before the ill spirit hath power by Gods permission to transform himself to sundry shapes and to transfer that power to his petty cacodaemons and imps to beguile and inveagle the simplest sort of mankind and most commonly women the weaker vessels who somtimes out of a desire of revenge and to wreck their malice somtimes for lucre and som petty supplies of money use to indent and make pactions with him though alwayes without a witness And hereof these times affoord more instances then ever any age did therefore whosoever denieth ther are such kind of actuall delusions and ill spirits sheweth that he himself as was said elswhere is possessed with the spirit of contradiction and obstinacy For ther are no nations new or old but have published laws against such who adoperat and make use of the devil for the ends afore mentioned as also for other curiosities and predictions 〈…〉 against them Ther are Edicts in France and Acts of Parlement in England against such who invoke ill spirits make any contracts with them wherof the very instrument and deed hath bin discover'd in divers places with the Devils claw for his signature together with the injunctions that he layed upon them before hand which in the Romish Countreys are that they must first renounce Christ and the extended woman meaning the blessed virgin they must contemn the Sacraments tread on the Cross spit at the Eucharist c. As I have noted els where Therefore without any controversy ther are airy spirits that hover up down perpetually about us But when I shall become a spirit which will be immediatly upon my dissolution from that body of yours I hope I shall appeer no more in this Elementary world till I attend my Saviour at the day of judgment to fetch you up also to Heaven as soon as we part from one another here you shall return to earth whence you first came and I to God that gave me you to your common Mother and I to the Father of lights whence as a beam of immortality I was sent to quicken organize and inform that body of yours and make it capable of heavenly beatitude in time being refin'd and fitted first for that purpose I thank my Saviour I have that within me which assures me hereof I am not left to such incertitudes anxietie that have any thing of despair in them such that an Italian Prince expressed when being upon his death bed and comforted by his friends touching the joyes of the other world whereunto he was going he fetch'd a deep grone said Oh I know what 's pass'd but I know not what 's to come much like another in the same condition who said Dubius vixi anxius morior quò vadam nescio I liv'd doubting I die anxious I know not whither I go To these may be added an odd speech of a French Baron not long since who meeting two capuchins going barefoot in cold frosty weather with their scrips upon their backs a begging knowing them to be gentlemen of a good family He said How grosly are these men cosen'd if ther be no Heaven That of Rablais was not so bad as this who being upon his death bed and the extreme unction applied unto him a friend of his who had come to visit him among other passages of consolation wish'd him good speed for he was upon his journey to a good Countrey viz. to heaven He answer'd so it seems that I am upon a journey for you see they are