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nature_n	body_n	person_n	unite_v	3,343	5	9.7470	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29667	The nature of truth, its union and unity with the soule which is one in its essence, faculties, acts, one with truth / discussed by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, in a letter to a private friend ; by whom it is now published for the publick good.	Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4913; ESTC S103446	48,160	214

in God I confesse there are three persons in one Godhead and that is the mysterie and yet but one God And more there could not have beene for this God is infinite eternall c. and onely one can be so there cannot bee two Infinites two Eternities And againe this one cannot not be otherwise for if hee could have been something else hee had not beene infinite If then unity bee such a necessary give us leave to speake as wee can accident as without which God could not have been what hee is may it not bee said that unity is co-essentiall to him seeing that the Deity admits of no accidents And if of his Essence then unity is in him all for the Essence of God is all in God and God in his Essence is but one Divinity Ob. But so infinity power c. all attributes are in God his Essence as well as unity Answ. All other attributes are at length resolved into this of unity Of this can be given no accompt but only negative All explications flow from this returne to this that God is one What is it to be infinite Ficinus answers to have nothing of privation mixt to be plenus sui which is to be One The power of God is the unity of all Being in one point What is this I am that I am but this I am one The same we may say of all other the names of God When we survay the nature of spirituall Beings we shall find them in Scripture stiled one For God reduceth all the commandements to love And the Saints who are quatenus Saints spirituall Beings for their Saintship is a spirituall excellency are stiled Rom. 12.5 one body and Gal. 3.16 they are all one in Iesus Christ Christ and his Church are but one body Now this union carrieth certainly something with it more essentiall than a figure When the three persons are united in one deity the union is more close than a figurative union The conjunction of the humane nature and the second person in the Trinity is a very entire conjunction and so is that of the Saints with Christ There is the union of the whole humane nature with one person Here is the union of divers persons to the whole divine nature And we may easily allow a neare union to these Metaphysicall Beings seeing even in naturall things there is as it were an unity even of two Physicall existences For GOD saith You two shall be one flesh he saith not one but one flesh But these are aenigmata while we see through glasses of flesh Seeing Morall Beings are by generall consent of fraternall alliance to spirituall both in nature and operation I shall not say any thing of them but onely what is said by all that virtutes sunt concatenatae I shall therefore minde you but of this how in Physicall Beings every thing doth delight in unity And this is very plaine in the stillicids of water which if there be water enough to follow will draw themselves into a small thred because they will not sever and when they must disunite then they cast themselves into round drops as the figure most resembling unity Whence is that Sympathy in nature betweene the Earth and the Adamant but from hence that they being of one nature desire to improve their unity by mutuall imbraces When have the Sun-beams their vigor and efficacy beating upon the burning glasse but when the glasse hath gathered them all into one Where is the power of our five senses which are in their nature so honourable that nihil cadit in intellectum quod non prius cadit in sensum Where is their vertue but in communis sensus Nay if I durst be so bold but this I may not now dispute I conceive all the senses are but one and that is * Tactus For their Energie is nothing till the ray from the object to the organ and from the organ to the object touch in one It is most happily expressed by Sir Iohn Suckling Who having drawn the brests of wit and fancie drie May justly now write Man must not a Suckling die When he saith The circumambient aire doth make us all To be but one bare Individuall What are the Mathematicall sciences but Vnity turning it selfe into severall formes of Numbers and Figures yet still remaining entire Harmony proportion proportionality which are the subject the soule of all Knowledge here are so many severall names of the same unity Beauty is but one act of grace and sweetnesse which seemes to us composed of various parcels * Musick is one forme resulting from many different sounds This is that mystery which unknowne hath confounded the Schools in that Question whether quantity be divisibilis in semper divisibile All things are certainly at last reduced to an Vnity yea all things appeare to us cloathed with one forme yet are we never able to search out the perfection of this when we most accurately pursue it The glory and majesty thereof is such that it rendreth our minds uncapable of any more than a grosse view like that of the Sunne in his splendour Democritus his definition of Being is very considerable * Est aliquid differens à se quod sibi convenit and indeed all Being is but one taking various shapes sometimes discovering it selfe under one sometimes under another whereas it is but one Being and this is light truth that as I said before beame of divine glory which is the spring of all Beings To close this discourse give me leave thus to set forth that Majesty whereby Unity wrappeth up all things within itselfe There can be no recedence from Unity unlesse by addition of a new distinct Unity But where will you finde This A simple Unity must be entirely one with the First if you adde any thing to Unity whereby it may differ it remaines no more One but becomes a Duality Yet doe I in no wise reject that division of Being left us by our Masters when they teach us that there is first a Being which is knowne to Be but it selfe in its Being is insensible Secondly another that is sensible but knoweth not its owne excellency Thirdly that which knowing its owne excellency can reflect upon it selfe For I say this which is called vegetative sensitive and rationall is all of one nature CHAP. VIII The nature of Habits ANd whilst I affirme that the soule is nothing but this Truth I doe not refuse the doctrine of Habits either Infused or Acquisite For when the soule by vertue of its Being is cleare in such a truth it is said to be an infused habit When by frequent action such a truth is connaturall to the soule it may be stiled an habit acquisite though indeed all is but light more or lesse glorious discovering it selfe frequently or rarely and by divine appointment at such a conjunction of time and not any other not that