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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	body_n	vital_a	2,040	5	10.4566	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56385	A demonstration of the divine authority of the law of nature and of the Christian religion in two parts / by Samuel Parker ...	Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.	1681 (1681)	Wing P458; ESTC R7508	294,777	516

of the Society and the Safety of every Man's Life and the Quiet of every Man's Mind So that these things being thus apparently tied together by such an inevitable train of Causes and Effects and their connextion being so obvious and so palpable to every Man's notice what can we imagine the Divine Providence could have done more to recommend their Practice and enforce their Obligation and for a farther proof of this I might resume all the Heads of Discourse that I have already represented to discover the Sufficiency of the Publication of the Law of Nature and shew what particular Rewards are entail'd upon the performance of particular Duties and what Punishments are in the course of Nature inflicted upon their Neglect But what I have performed in the former part of this Discourse supersedes the necessity of any distinct account of it here because I have all along as I have proceeded demonstrated together with their subserviency to the publick Weal their serviceableness to every Man 's private Interest and that includes as well the Sanction as the Declaration of the Law And therefore without descending to all Particulars I shall onely in general treat of those Enforcements that Nature or the Authour of it has added to all his Laws and they alone will give us a sufficient account of their Obligation in that they are so many and so obvious to the most vulgar Experience and most easy Observation that there is nothing else that concerns the Life of Man the knowledge whereof is more familiar and more unavoidable § XII The first Reward of Vertue is its own natural and intrinsick Pleasure Acts of Love and Kindness are in themselves gratefull and agreeable to the temper of humane Nature and all Men feel a natural Deliciousness consequent upon every Exercise of their good-natur'd Passions And nothing affects the Mind with greater Complacency than to reflect upon its own inward Joy and Contentment So that the Delight of every vertuous Resolution doubles upon it self in that first it strikes our Minds with a direct Pleasure by its suitableness to our Natures and then our Minds entertain themselves with pleasant Reflections upon their own Worth and Tranquility And this is made so apparent from the plainest and most easy Experience that it cannot possibly escape any Man's Animadversion There is no Man that does not perceive more satisfaction in the Affections of Love and Joy and Good-will than in the black and unquiet Passions of Malice Envy and Hatred that do but torment the Mind with Anguish Restlesness and Confusion A base and ill-natur'd Disposition frets and vexes it self with perpetual male-contentedness and the Man that gives himself up to any spite and rancour of Mind is not so much as within the capacity of Happiness at least in the same proportion that good or bad Passions prevail in the Minds of Men in the same are they affected with Joy or Misery Now this being made so plain and visible in the whole Entercourse of humane Life it must needs lay a mighty Enforcement and manifest Obligation to a suitable Behaviour for what Motive can we conceive of nearer concernment than when the Action it self is its own Reward or Punishment And as the kind Passions are most agreeable to the temper of our Minds so are they most healthfull to the Constitution of our Bodies and have a natural Influence upon the Cheerfulness and Preservation of our Lives The Affections of Love and Hope and Delight cherish our natural Heat sweeten our radical Moisture beget gentle and vigorous Spirits promote the Circulation of the Bloud and make the Heart and all the vital Parts more brisk and lively Whereas on the contrary Hatred and Envy and Discontent stifle the motion of the Bloud oppress the Heart damp the Spirits and hinder the functions of the Brains and Nerves and breed Diseases and Obstructions of the Spleen For when the briskness of the vital Heat is checkt and the contraction of the Heart weakned the Bloud grows thick and cold in the Extremities of the Vessels and is not able to thrust it self forward through the remoter Branches of the Arteries into the Fibres of the Veins but stagnates in all the more narrow Passages of the Body especially in the more curious and delicate Vessels that are every where spread up and down through the substance of the Brain from whence proceed tremblings in the Heart paleness in the Face and if they are strong and inveterate scorbutick Distempers through the whole habit of the Body So that as a Man desires length of Life and preservation of Health he is obliged to shun all bitter and unkind Passions in that they are in the constitution of Nature necessary causes of Discrasies and Diseases and though their Symtoms unless they are very vehement are not so obvious and palpable yet are they certain from all the Experiments and Observations in natural Philosophy and in what proportion soever they prevail over Mens Minds in the same do they disorder and disturb their Bodies So that the Law of Nature is recommended to the nature of Man in all its Capacities and is suited to the satisfaction of all its respective Faculties of Body and Mind and by consequence is design'd to make up the completest and most entire Enjoyment of Pleasure and Happiness But besides this as it extends its Delight to all our Appetites so does it make the sense of their Felicity more intence and affecting and entertain the Mind with the most vehement and transporting Joys For there are but two things requisite to raise Pleasure up to the height of Beatitude and they are the spriteliness of the Act and the excellency of the Object Now the Good of all Mankind which is the general notion and scope of all Vertue being of the largest and most diffusive extent and the biggest Design that we can either desire or propose to our selves it calls forth all the vigour and earnestness of our Minds and employs the utmost force and vehemence of our Passions and transports us with perpetual Delight and Satisfaction Every Man enjoys a sensible Complacency in every act of Kindness his Good-will reflects back upon himself and when he is concern'd to procure anothers Happiness he thereby increases his own but when the Object of his Affections is so vast and unbounded a Good it excites a force and quickness of Mind proportionable to its own greatness it equalls the utmost capacity of all our Powers and we can never outdoe its worth it is sufficient to entertain all our Thoughts and to employ all our Actions and the Man that propounds this to himself as the delight of his Soul and the design of his Life never wants for objects or opportunities of Content but enjoys a complete and continual Felicity from the exercise of his own good-will and the reflections of his own Mind And though no Man can be capable of so pure and unmixed a Satisfaction in this Life there being