Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	light_n	rule_v	3,304	5	10.4231	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60482	Gērochomia vasilikē King Solomons portraiture of old age : wherein is contained a sacred anatomy both of soul and body, and a perfect account of the infirmities of age, incident to them both : and all those mystical and ænigmatical symptomes expressed in the six former verses of the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes, are here paraphrased upon and made plain and easie to a mean capacity / by John Smith ...	Smith, John, 1630-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing S4114; ESTC R22883	124,491	292

been capable to receive them yea then it might accompany us beyond our pilgrimage remaining in the body even after dissolution and taking care for our burials But the Case is far otherwise it is sent to inform the matter and together with it to make up one Compositum the man being not the one nor the other but most properly that which doth arise from the perfect union of them both and whatsoever is predicable of the whole is predicable of the parts united whatsoever may be said of the man may be said of the body and soul united and as they are throughly joyned together so they do intimately participate one with another they are cleansed they are defiled together they are bound they are loosed together they are well they are ill together If the flesh upon him have pain the soul within him shall mourn they grow up together they stand together they decay together How often are persons in Scripture said to grow both in mind and body and eminently concerning our Lord which is instar omnium he encreased in wisdom in stature in favour both with God and man The soul is as weak as the body both at first and last Senes bis pueri is a known maxime and dayly experienced and by all men understood of the feeble understanding Anima comes into the world tanquam rasa tabula and it goes out tanquam derasa The soul appears at the first as an unwritten Table-book and when it disappears at the last it becomes blanck as it was before Jobs pious and patient exclamation Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked must I return may be wel extended to a separation not only from the goods of the body and estate but from those also of the mind which hath nothing at best but the begining and ground-work whereof at the least is picked up from the Communication of the outward senses and when those publick Intelligencers fail so also doth this their Lord and Master And therefore by the Sun Light Moon and Stars being darkned we do positively assert to be meant the most inward powers of the mind in this state do together with the outward members of the body weaken and decay But it may be here said is the whole inward man liable to this decay Is there not something in man while in this state altogether independant of the body and perfectly free from the frailties of age Doth not the Scriptures in many places seem to speak of renewed strength in this state of weakness and plainly prove that while the outward man decayes the inward man may be renewed day by day for the right understanding of this and several such places as these are we must of necessity distinguish of the inward man There is the inward man of the head as I beg favour to say since the soul of man there chiefly doth exercise its principal faculties and since the other contradistinct term is so appositely given in Scripture viz. the inward man of the heart plainly there is the inward man of nature and the inward man of grace there is the inward man of the first birth and the inward man of the second birth or of Regeneration Now I speak here concerning the former of these that hath its decayes as age comes on not at all concerning the latter And as I have before excluded a state of sin from the Text so I do here wholly exclude a state of grace The partial falling from divine grace is not so much as aimed at in this place of Scripture as the total not in any Most certainly true it is that the work of grace stands upon its own foundation not at all depending upon the principles of humanity either for its Creation or Renovation forasmuch as the holy Spirit of God who is as much at liberty as the wind is both the begetter and the strengthener And as a man may be born when he is old contrary to the reason of Nicodemus so also may he be fresh and flourishing in his old age Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God they shall bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing David prayes O Lord when I am old and gray-headed forsake me not spiritual desertions and spiritual manifestations are immediately handed out from God and do not at all depend upon the mutability of the nature of man nor accompany him in his several changes They are only the several lights of nature which as age comes on fall to decay without remedy Now as God in making of the greater world said Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to devide the day from the night And he made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also So also hath he done in the little world of man he hath made two great lights as they are set down in this verse the one viz. the greater to rule the day of man which is that clear shining part of man whereby he is differed from all other created beings whatsoever and discerns himself so to be and this I understand by the Sun and the Light And the other viz. the lesser light to rule the night of man which is that darker discerning part of man that hath very little or no light in it self neither doth distinguish him from irrational Creatures And this I understand by the Moon he made the Stars also as it followeth yet more plain The Sun By the Sun I understand here the most superiour power of the rational part of the soul of man that primary light of the understanding that doth at once both receive the species as they are communicated from the Imagination and also render them intelligible to the mind that pure innate light of the mind without which no man that comes into the world can either apprehend what is from without transmitted to him or actuate any of those phantasmes which are already impressed This we may see illustrated by the light of the body which is the eye For in the eye there could be no perception of any outward object unless there were an inward implanted light in the proper Organ which doth both dispose it to receive the visible species and render them proportionable to the Organ giving them thereby actual representation Now that which this implanted light of the eye doth in vision the same doth this Sun of the soul in the understanding This is that which in Scripture is so often called the Spirit or the spirit of the mind And sometime in a distinction from the soul as where it is said I pray God your whole spirit soul and body may be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Now because this is a difficult poynt and hath gravelled most undertakers I will give one Essay more and