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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	sir_n	william_n	145,713	5	9.2043	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19905	Mirum in modum A glimpse of Gods glorie and the soules shape.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.	1602 (1602)	STC 6336; ESTC S109346	43,605	88

Mirum in modum A Glimpse of Gods Glorie and The Soules Shape Eyes must be bright or else no eyes at all Can see this sight much more then mysticall LONDON Printed for William Aspley 1602. To the most noble iudicious and my best beloued Lorde William Earle of Pembrooke the most honorable Sir Robert Sidney Knight Lord Gouernor of Vlishing and the right right worshipful Edward Herbert of Mountgomery Esquire my most honored and respected Friendes TO subdiuide Soules indiuisible Being wholy in the whole and in each part For me were more then most impossible Though I were Arte it selfe or more then Arte. Yet must I make my Soule a Trinitie So to diuide the same betweene you three For Vnderstanding Will and Memorie Makes but one Soule yet they three Virtues be The Vnderstanding being first I giue Unto the first for Order so doth craue And Will Good-will the second shall receiue Then Memory the last shall euer haue And as I part my Soule my Booke I part Betwixt you three that shares my broken hart All yours wholy and to you most humbly deuoted Iohn Dauies Mirum in modum A glimpse of Gods Glorie and the Soules shape Wlt yeeld me words Wits words Wisedome bewray My Soule infuse thy selfe in 't Same 's diuine The froath of Wit O Wisedome skumme away Powder these lines with thy preseruing Brine Refresh their saltnesse salt their freshnesse fine That Wits sweete words of Wisedomes salt may taste Which can from crude Conceit corruption stay And make the same eternally to last Though in Obliuion be buryed ay The skumme of Wit the witty Skummes repast Which like light skum with those lewd Skums doth waste O Thou maine Ocean of celestiall light From whom all Lights deriue their influence The light of Truth infuse into my sprite And cleere the eyes of my Intelligence That they may see my Soules circumference Wherein the Minde as Centre placed is Wherein thou restest Center of true Rest Compass'd with glory and vncompass'd blisse Which do thy Lodge with glorious light inuest Then lighten thy darke Inne O glorious Ghest The Soule of Man immortall and diuine By Natures light beholds the light of Nature Like as the Bodies eyes when Sunne doth shine Doe by the Sunne behold the Sunnes faire feature So by that light shee sees shee is a Creature Created to her faire Creators forme In Wisdome Knowledge and such goodly graces Which doe the Vnderstanding right informe To guide the Will aright in sundry cases Whenas the Sence deluded Reason out-faces For as the Uaynes the body ouer-spreds And to its vtmost bounds themselues extend So Science in the Soule from certaine heads In great varietie her vaines doth send To whatsoe're the soule may comprehend This is her Birth-right with the body borne Kinde Natures larges giu'n with hand displai'd Which doth the Minde illustrate and adorne To and from whom all knowledge is conuai'd That tends vnto the soule or bodies aide Which is deduced from pow'r more supreame Then in th' externall Senses doth reside This light proceeds from that infused beame Which in the Soules supreamest part doth bide The Bodies motions and hir owne to guide For though th'incomprehensible hath stampt His wisdome in his workes to prooue his Beeing Yet all saue Man from this Light is exempt By which the Soules eyes sees past sense of Seeing Celestiall sweets with hir sweete selfe agreeing For th' outward Senses Beasts with vs enioy Nay they possesse the same in greater pow'r But yet those Senses they cannot imploy To Reasons vse and Understandings cure But these effects doe flowe from Sense more sure Which from an vnderstanding Soule proceeds Yet nought that Understanding doth digest But first on it the outward Senses feedes Both which inuites the Will vnto their feast Those Senses beeing tastèrs to the rest Then if the Senses bee affected ill Or apprehend their Obiects with offence They wrong the Vnderstanding and the Will With false reporte of their experience But first they misse-informe th' Intelligence It giuing credit to their information Misse-leads the Will that way ward is by kinde Which moues the Members wih all festination Beeing instrumentall agents of the Minde To doe what ere the Senses pleasant finde But when we say the Understanding seazeth On nought but what the Senses first surprizeth It s meant of things that pleaseth or displeaseth And to the Senses sensibly ariseth Then herevpon the common Sense deuiseth And then transferres it to the Intellect Which by hir pow'r inherent doth discourse By Reasons rules from Causes to th' effect And beeing there runnes forth with greater force Till Iudgement with strong hand doth stay her course Herehence it is the Soule her selfe doth know Hir owne effects shee to hir selfe discloseth So to herselfe herselfe herselfe doth shew By powres which shee within hirselfe encloseth Whereof hirselfe not of hirselfe disposeth But are directed by a higher Pow'r Yet hath shee eyes to see and sence to feele The way vnto hirselfe though most obscure Which hirselfe virtues to hirselfe reueale Through which she wots what works hir woe or weale This knowledge of the vnknowne parte of Man Namely the knowen Soules vnknowen parte From Man is hid since he to sinne began For Ignorance of Sinne is the iust smart Which now doth hold enthrall'd his vniust hart But sith the Soule is such a precious thing As cost the price of past-price deerest bloud Then can no knowledge more aduantage bring Then knowledge of the Soule as first she stood Or since she fell from her extreamest Good For she enwombes worldes of varietie Of Sunne-bright Beauties and celestiall Sweetes Vnited all in perfect sympathie Whereas the Minde with diuerse Pictures meetes Which Fancie formes and from the Fancie fleetes From whence proceedes all maruellous Inuentions Which doe produce all Artes and Sciences That Doubts resolue and doe dissolue Dissentions Touching the vniuersall Essenses Subiect t' our inward or our outward Senses Then what Soule on the Soule excogitates But it is rapt with ioy and wonderment Sith when the Minde but her adumberates In Fancies forge it feeles such rauishment As yeeldes therewith a heau'n of high content Then sith all Weale or Woe that vs befall Flowes from the Soule as from their speciall Spring We should not to her Weale be neuterall But study to preserue that precious thing As that conserues the Soule and Bodies Being Wherein three Faculties still working be Animall Vitall and the Naturall The Animall diuided is in three Motiue Sensitiue and Principall The Principall hath three parts speciall Imagination Reason Memory The power Sensitiue includes the powres Of the externall Senses seu'rally The Motiue powre the Corps to stirre procures As long as Vitall faculty indures Which Facultie is seated in the Hart Infusing Spirites of Life through eu'ry vaine The vertues Animall doe play their part In all the seu'rall cauerns of the Braine The virtues Naturall the wombe containe Which doe consist of three essentiall partes