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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mind_n	affection_n	good_a	soul_n	1,502	5	4.5786	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00972	The historie of the perfect-cursed-blessed man setting forth mans excellency by his generation, miserie [by his] degeneration, felicitie [by his] regeneration. By I.F. Master of Arts, preacher of Gods word, and rector of Wilbie in Suff.	Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 11078; ESTC S105608	35,115	104

than true simplicitie Then what I know of his all-knowing worth With single heart I simply thus set-forth THE PERFECT MAN Setting-forth MANS EXCELLENCIE By His GENERATION Dum stetit innocuus stetit Omnipotentis Image Viva Dei primâ sorte statutus Homo MANS EXCELLENCIE BY HIS GENERATION The Argument Whiles Man once plac'd in Innocence so stood He bare the stamp of all th' All-Mighties Good ANd this I know and firmly doe beleeve That by his Word who made both morn eeve The spangled Heav'ns with Lights the great'st least The Ayre Sea Earth peopled with fowle fish beast Man and his wife 'bove earthly creatures blest Six daies for work the Sev'nth for holy rest That He I say which thus did ordinate All things of Nought and reall them create Must needs be God a Spirit all-sufficient All-knowing all-procuring all-efficient Vp-holding all things by his Word and Will Before and after Time enduring still Not subject unto change all chance disposing Maintaining Truth and Errours all opposing Rewarding right Avenger of all wrong Most wise most just most good to whom belong These and all Attributes of good pretence As well in abstract as in concreet sense As good as Goodness as just as Iustice So Infinite in all as that He is As able to reduce as earst to frame All reall things into the state and name Of Nothing late their prime originall So great He was He is and ever shall To us made knowne by th'Pers'nall Trinitie Of Father Son and Spirit of Vnitie This infinite Creator this was He That made and placed Man in that degree That he did shine with perfect glorie dight Having no spot in his Creators sight Framed of earthly mould a heav'nly creature Bearing the stamp of his Creators feature Beyond all earthly creatures having might To know to will to doe ev'n all things right With sov'raign pow'r th' whole World to over-sway Having like pow'r his Sov'raign to obey Free from all Ill to all Good likewise free To will or nill at perfect libertie Nor could have bin of these by Time bereav'd For into him Eternitie was breath'd Thus was he made of his Creators Deitie A living Image a quick Anatomie This is a truth which few conceive aright How Man was made in th' Image of th'Al-might Which only thus they labour to express In that he bare his Makers Holiness Set in the state of perfect puritie Without all blemish and infirmitie And this is all some care to understand Of that likeness Man had from h's Sov'raigns hand But as for Gods Essentialitie Exprest by personall proprietie This is a Truth acknowledg'd so transcendent As that of this they think no sparks resplendent In that likness wher-in Man was created Nor that thereto he was assimilated Wher-as I think and so dare here avouch As fair a spark ther-of in Man doth couch As of Gods other Pow'rs Essentiall Though made a Person individuall Which lest I seem to talk-of all in vaine Thou great Inspirer help me to explain The Dust once form'd the Spirit of Life was breath'd Both which to both by God were so bequeath'd That instantly one Person they became A Reasonable Creature Man by name And thus the Man was made Spirituall By reason of his Soule coelestiall Which doth enable him to represent Th'Essentiall Spirit of th' Omnipotent This Soule like Gods Essentialitie Containeth in 't a threefold facultie Whereby the Trinitie is figured That God-like Man might be more honoured First is the Minde which giveth pow'r and skill Wher-by we know we judge what 's good what 's ill Next is the Will begotten of the Minde For till we know to will we 'r not enclinde Then from the Mindes conceipt and Wills affection Proceeds an active Pow'r of Operation This Intellect or Minde conceiving rather Deriv'd from none resembles God the Father The Will Childe-like the Mindes election Doth rightly personate ev'n God the Son From Minde and Will proceeds apparant most A Pow'r to doe like God the Holy Ghost And as we know those glorious Persons three Essentially but one God only be So for undoubted truth we may it take These faculties but one Soule only make But as the Holy Father worketh not Without the Son who was of Him begot Nor yet the Son without the Fathers Minde The Holy-Ghost neither but all conjoin'd So neither doth the Minde nor yet the Will Nor yet the working-Pow'r seek to fulfill And bring to act the easiest work alone Till all agree ev'n joyntly all in one Yet as we attribute the great Creation To God the Father to the Son Redemption And to the blessed Sp'rit the sweet effect Of working holiness in Gods Elect So we refer to th' Minde all understanding Election to the Will to th' Pow'r of working The work that 's done and so these faculties Are all employ'd in sev'rall offices Besides as in that glorious Deitie Of sacred Persons there 's a Trinitie And yet in time or any kinde of worth No inequalitie's in them set-forth If any seem it only seems we know By order of some sweet externall show To us who only judge things outwardly Not able to discerne them inwardly So in the Soule the sev'rall Faculties Admit not of any priorities Among themselves for Soule no sooner 's nam'd But Minde and Will and Pow'r to doe are fram'd Withouten which or all or any one Man is not Reasonable Soule is none And further yet touching the Deitie Who doth create redeem and sanctifie We answer God at every demand When we not three but one God understand So touching Man if any would perceive What Pow'r it is that makes the Minde conceive Or what wher-by the Will to Choosing's led Or what wher-by to doe He 's enabled To all of these one answer we doe make It is the Soule whence they their Powers take And yet in Man one Soule not three exist In which one Soule all Faculties subsist There 's yet one knot in this Divinitie How Man resembles Gods Infinitie In h's little Soule so great varietie's That in it 's stampt all Gods Proprieties As God is Infinite all-comprehending Both past and present and without ending So doth the Soule of Man in ample sort Discern all these and of them make report His Memory retaineth things of old Things present Vnderstanding doth behold And things to come by th' eye of Providence He doth fore-see so clear's his inward Sense Thus as in these so great is Gods Goodness So in all else Man bears the Lords likness Which rests not barely in the qualitie Of outward or of inward sanctitie Though this be all that usually is said T' express the Image in which Man was made But in those reall Faculties of his Wher-by He rightly works in Holiness Ruling all things with supreme Domination That are within this sublunary Nation Enjoying eke to bring full joy to h's Life The joyfull consort of

all joyes in One conjoin'd Which fulness join'd to Him Him nere accloies And yet such fulness alwaies He enjoyes His Senses all on perfect objects feed His Faculties aright their actions speed His Appetities are all acquieted His Parts his Pow'rs are all engloried His Bliss is this He 's endlesly emploi'd In blessing Him Destruction hath destroy'd And op'ned-wide Heav'ns narrow gate to those That in Christs Death their hope of life repose No other Heav'n no other Help He hath To scape the Hell of Gods eternall wrath But to beleeve and by his life disclose That for Him Christ did dye and for Him rose In which Beleefe He lives and living dies And dying lives his life t'immortalize And in this Faith He 's confident to plead When He at Gods Tribunall shall hear read The Bill of his Indictment for h's offence Not guiltie Lord thy dear Sons Innocence And his most perfect-perfect observation Of all thy Lawes his upright conversation His bitter-bitter Passion on the tree O these ô these have paid Sins debt for me T is true indeed my Sins thy Wrath provoked Most dreadfull Iudge and I with guilt stood yoked To feel the smart of horrid Death and Hell But such sweet gladsome newes thy Truth doth tell That in thy Son sith Wrath and Mercy kist Wrath hitting Him in Iustice I am mist. Which double Iustice may be equall rang'd 'Cause Sin for Grace and Grace for Sin we chang'd Thy Son my Lord was perfectly so pure As had not I on Him my Sins fixt sure And clad my selfe with his bright-shining Grace Not Him but Me Death had had pow'r t' embrace Then stead of me sith Wrath seaz'd on thy Son He ther-by Death I ther-by Life have won This is my rest I rest upon my Lord Lord let me live according to thy Word The Man in this strong confidence of his In Life in Death no whit deceived is For God on Him in Mercy doth bestow What he to him for his Christs sake doth owe. First Life of Grace with some false woes opprest Next Life of Glorie with all true joyes blest Which woes are truly called false for why They vanish straight like mists or cloudy Sky And then come-in to make od reck'nings eav'n Th' eternall true substantiall joyes of Heav'n In th' Interim whiles He is militant In honest labours He is conversant Vsing the things with sober moderation That God affords Him for his Preservation Abusing nothing ord'ring all aright As alwayes being in his Makers sight If God give much He thanks the Giver much Or if but little yet His Heart is such As He 's content for that his little serves To let Him know 't is more than He deserves 'Mongst whom He lives He lives with warie eyes That He nor envie Rich nor Poore despise And with his Equals He just equall waighes Nor up nor down for fear or favour swaies To all He 's friendly humble charitable Iust constant chearfull patient peaceable And waits all turns when with heart hands voice He may or work or rest sigh or rejoice As turns and returns turn Him many waies So still He turns his heart to pray or praise The great All-turning God who for Mans good Turn'd Death to Life hard Rocks into a flood Whose Greatness is so good Goodness so great As Mans most worthy praise when most complete Is all-unworthy the all-worthy fame To blazon-out of Gods most worthy Name Nathles to doe his best Man stands resolv'd But wishes daily that He were dissolv'd That so He might send-forth some perfect strains Of perfect glory 'mongst the glorious Trains That spend their nere-spent time in holy layes Chanting-aloud their Alleluiahs Till when 'mongst Saints on earth assembled thickly He cryes to Heav'n ô come Lord Iesus quickly Lord Iesus come the end of all I crave I crave the end of all my Soule to save To save my Soule Lord Iesus no time spend Spend though to 'gin that time time cannot end FINIS Triumphans Eus tumidus tenuis fulsi cecidi resilivi Dives inops ingens sorte dolore fide The Light and glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Isai. 60. 1. As Man aspiring penitent I stood I fell I ris ' Most rich most poore most eminent In state through woe to Bliss The Creation of Man by God who is a Spirit Omnipotent Mans perfection being made in the ●mage of God rarely understood The image of God in Man expounded The 3 persons of the Trinity resembl●d by 3 faculties in the soul. Minde Will A Power to do● As 3 Persons and but one God so divers faculties but one Soule As no priority of Persons in the Deity so neither of faculties in the Soule The image of Gods infinitie in man Memorie Vnderstanding Providēce Mans Soveraignty The excellency of the Soule● facultie● Minde Intellect Reason Will. Wit Heart Consciēce Affections Inward Senses Common-Sense Fantasie Memory Outward Senses Touching Seeing Hearing Tasting Smelling Body Head Speech Face Hands Feet Man asp●ring ●verthrew Himselfe and his posteritie The entrance of Sin The guilt and reward of Sin The effects of Sin in his Person In his Soule In his Body Manifested in his actions The wages of Sin Death temporall eternall wher-upon Man fleeth feareth God findeth him examineth his fault and proceeds to censure Satan The Serpent The Woman The Man for whose sake God curseth the earth the living creatures and all other creatures Man punished in his person by the creatures coelestiall accidentally intentionally By his Wife By his Children By his Neighbours Mans miserable condition Mans Redem●tion p●opounded and discust by the Heavenly Powers moved by Pitie granted by Mercy resisted by Iustice. They appeale to Truth Truth resolveth against Mercy and sideth with iustice Wherupon Mercy complaineth expostulateth prayeth Wrath interrupts Mercy and joineth with Iustice and Truth exalteth Gods zeal and threatneth Mans punishmēt Peace mitigateth Wrath pacifieth Iustice and Truth cheareth and animateth Mercy and admonisneth to refer the cause to Wisdome They applaud it Wisdome undertaketh it openeth it decideth it and ascribeth to every one their due Her decision is applauded Reasons Quaere to which Goodness answers Truth replieth that Reason is not yet satisfied for one alone cannot make satisfaction Whereupon Charity inciteth all the divine Powers to joyn in one for the business They all meet and promise assistance God approveth their consent and declareth how Mans Redemption shall be wrought by his Word incarnate to fulfill righteousness and to suffer punishment for Man For which work He promiseth to enable the Messias This promise was found effectuall upon the revealing of it both to Iew and Gentile CHRIST conceived and born Being one Person He is joyntly described in his Divine and Humane Nature His works His intertainment What the wo●ld thought of Him few well most ill How dearly He was affected of those ●ew How the great ones band against him The Multitude at first applaud him but after to humour their great ones deride Him They watch attache arraign condem● and kill Him The end of his death Their manner of killing Him The effects of his death His Resurrection Ascension and Glorification His comming to Iudgment Mans Naturall parts refined Mans corruption Sin ab●l●s●ed by Baptism and the Lords Supper The miseries of this life sweetned His death is made the way to eternall life where He is rewarded with joyes privative positive Hi● emploiment in Heaven His plea at the bar of Gods Iudgement The issue of his plea.