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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	glorious_a	vile_a	2,633	5	9.7400	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16531	The vnbeliefe of St. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to belieue. Whereunto is added a comfortable treatise for all that are afflicted in soule or body. The first armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death; the second against impatience vnder the crosse. By Nicholas Bound, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. Treatise ful of consolation. aut	1628 (1628)	STC 3442; ESTC S113890	68,060	212

is sufficient that we haue had them therefore if we labour after them they will returne vnto vs againe when it shall please God And thus much for this that S. Thomas in this matter of faith addicts himselfe to his owne feeling THe fourth and last degree of his vnbeleefe appeareth in this Except I see in his hands the print of the nayles and in his side the print of the speare I will not beleeue it For why should he desire this not onely to see him and to feele him but to see in his hands the print of the nailes and to put his finger into them and to see in his side the print of the speare and to put his hand into it Did he not know that these wounds and skarres were proper vnto his bodie onely while it was subiect vnto infirmitie and weaknes and that after his resurrection his bodie was glorified And so he might haue thought that though it should be graunted vnto him to see him yet he could not by any reason or groūd frō the Scripture haue hope to see him thus yet he saith Except I see the print of the nailes c. I will not beleeue it he doth not say except I see him but except I see him with the print of the nayles and of the speare I will not beleeue it This is then the nature of vnbeleefe that when it will not profit by the ordinarie meanes that God hath appointed for the confirming of faith it desireth such things whereof there is no warrant either from reason or from Scripture As here S. Thomas neglecting what Christ had saide vnto him that when he should be put to death within three daies he would rise again and that also which was tolde him by the Apostles and diuers others namely that he was risen againe and had appeared vnto such and such he saith Except I see him my selfe with the print of the nayles in his feete and of the speare in his side I will not beleeue it Concerning which poynt though Christ did rise indeede out of the sepulchre with these markes in his glorified body and did retaine them whiles he taried on the earth that thereby it might more certainely be knowne that the same body of his that was crucified was raised vp againe yet Thomas had no generall rule to leade him to thinke that it should be so but rather according to the common condition of the bodies of all the faithfull in the day of resurrection so to conceiue of the body of Christ raised vp For that which is said of the resurrection of all the faithful the members of Christs mysticall body must needes be much more true of him the head for it belongeth to them onely by vertue of his resurrection Now of them the Apostle writeth thus to the Corinthians 1. Cor. 15.42 The body is sowne in corruption and raised in incorruption that is with nothing tending thereunto as wounds doe it is sowne in dishonor hauing no glory nor beauty on it as Christs body was most of all when besides that the life was gone out of it and so it looked pale and wanne it had also many deformites by the stripes of his whippings and the crowne of thornes the print of the nailes in his hands feete and of the speare in side it is raised in glory that is with all perfection excellencie of beauty without any blemish at all it is sowne in weakenes it is raised in power and therefore without marks and tokens of weakenes infirmitie for a body sore wounded euen vnto death as Christs was hath lesse power in it then it had before Therefore seeing he desired to see Christs body raised vp he should not haue desired to see it thus and with these markes And for the further confirmation of this we may remember what the Apostle saith touching the glorious state of our bodies to be raised vp Our conuersation is in heauen ●●al 3.20 from whence also we looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ who shall chaunge our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto himsel●e therefore as we shall be raised vp without skarres and marks of infirmity which many haue in these daies of their pilgrimage so he had no reason to thinke but that Christs bodie should be Therefore though he would not beleeue till he sawe him he could not looke to see him after this manner that he prescribeth And though he did at the last appeare with these markes in his body both to the eleuen first and afterwards vnto Thomas yet it was not because his bodie was properly and of it owne nature then subiect vnto them no more then it was to hunger when he did eate with them Luk. 24.43 but it was by a speciall extraordinarie di●pensation as when Angels that haue ●o bodies did appeare in the shape of men Therefore this could not be ●ooked for and it was in respect of the ordinarie course of Gods dealing somewhat vnreasonable to tie the Lord vnto that for the strengthening of his faith and to say Except I see the print of the nayles and of the speare I wil not beleeue it for others had seene him and not seene him with these Ioh. 20.15 as Marie Magdalen at the sepulchre where shee mistooke him to be the gardener or the keeper of that place where Christ was buried in a garden Mark 16.12 and the two Disciples in their iourney as they were going to Emmaus Therefore we must take heede how we yeild to our vnbeleef● for it will make vs looke for and desire such things at the hand of God for the confirming of our faith a● haue no ground either from Scripture or from reason though it pleaseth God of his infinite goodnes to beare with men sometimes this way and to yeild to them either to th● strengthening of their faith or to th● leauing of them without excuse in their vnbeleefe So that as the Apostle saith of couetousnes 1. Tim. ● ● They that will be rich fall into tentation and snares and into many foolish and noisome lusts which drowne men in perdition and destruction So we may say of vnbeleefe that it causeth men to desire many foolish and vnreasonable things and such as often tende to their owne hurt Thus in the Gospel our Sauiour Christ in the parable of the rich glutton and in his person noteth out the thoughts and desires of vnbeleeuers here in this world where he is broght in speaking vnto Abraham after this manner I pray thee father Luk. 16.27 that thou wouldest send Lazarus vnto my fathers house for I haue many brethrē that he may testifie vnto them least they also come into this place of torment Thus vnbeleeuers would haue dead men come from heauen tell them what is done there and what in hell but Christ