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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
opinion_n	body_n	part_n	soul_n	2,097	5	5.4917	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13314	The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors.	I. T.	1597 (1597)	STC 23621; ESTC S1650	98,226	170

City blest He that an others life doth like must needs his own deteft And both these folks without desert do fondly blame the place When both their minds are in the fault which chāge in euery case Very truly in mine opinion doth the Poet blame mans minde and laieth all the fault vpon his rashnesse and vnconstancy for when it is led by worldly affections and not by reason it is tossed no otherwise then a ship in the rage and storme of the sea which is euery moment subiect to change Whereby it commeth to passe that what kind or trade of life soeuer he embraceth doth not constantly continue therein to the end but museth which way he may cōpasse another which he hopeth wil be more profitable to him whereas 〈◊〉 chā ging his state of life altereth not his affections nor taketh away his cares because these things consist not in affaires of his calling but do only rise from the motiōs of his mind For whether a man change his solitarines to company or alter pouerty to riches and plenty his mind is neuer the quieter because hee hath not put away those troublesome motions which are altogether repugnant to reason It hapneth to these men as Plutarch and Basile affirme Ad Lucap 1 as it doth to those that commit themselues to the main ocean sea to the end they may come to some wished porte for they are no lesse troubled with sea sicknesse lightnes of the braine and vomiting in a tal ship thē if they had gone in a slender barke So that their sicknesse is alike in both because flegme choller do accompany thē in both So those that would change their state of life cannot obtain trāquility of minde vnlesse they wholy shake off their affections and gouerne all their actions with the rule of reason Therefore Seneca saith very wel I take the first argument of a staied mind to be ability to stād at a stay with it selfe wherfore I am glad Lucillus quoth he that thou dost not run about and wander here and there For that man that would be euery where is no where So that it will nothing auaile to go beyond the sea to change from one city to another nor to followe somtimes this and somtimes that kinde of life For if thou wouldst auoide those discommodities 〈◊〉 trouble thee it behoues thee not to absent thy selfe from that place where thou art but to alter thy selfe from that which thou art pacifying thy mind shaking off naughty affections and guiding al thy actions studies with reason counsaile and wisedome For Coelum non animum mut ant qui trans mare currunt They change the aire but not their minds which go beyond 〈◊〉 sea And we must fight against these troubled affections which do distract our minds into so many sundry opinions 〈◊〉 leapeth backe from his intended profession vp on euery light occasion with the word of God and his healthful doctrin because it only maketh a staggering and wauering mind to become constant yea andc on tent also with a mans state and calling so that we shall neither forsake it nor loath it nor yet ambitiously or couetously enter into any other Flie the company and fellowship of the wicked Chap. 36. FLie the fellowship of 〈◊〉 wicked as a most dead ly pestilence Lib. 3. de ira for maners as Seneca saith are learned of our companions and as the bodie catcheth diseases so vices by lewd speech do possesse the mind and infect it in such sort that the aire is not more healthful for the first then honest company is for the latter Brute and wilde beasts may serue vs for a lesson for they being vsed and acustomed to the companie of men become gentle and tame and as the nature of honesty indueth hir followers with vertue so the condition of naughtinesse and dishonestie doth corrupt and desile her louers with vice 2 Cor. 15 Wherfore Paul the Apostle least any one should bee seduced from the truth the hope of saluation the trust to obtaine immortality and from the sowndnes of maners diligentlie warneth the louers of religion that they conceiue not their opinion to perswade themselues no part of man liueth after corporall death nor that the whole frame of our bodies and soules do altogether perish as the brute beast which the wicked and such as are forsaken of God doe earnestly put into the minde of the ignorant and so by this most daungerous opinion doe turne their wauering minds from the certain vndoubted and most wholesome doctrine of Christ Whereby we may see the Apostle by al meanes laboureth to draw Christians from the conuersation of such who by their subtile doctrine do draw the ignorant into errors for thus doth hee illustrate and lay open his exhortation by a sixe footed verse of Menander Corrumpunt bonos more 's colloquia praua Good maners are quickly defiled with filthy lewd speeches We must bridle our tongues not onely from filthy but also from idle words Chap. 37. NOwe if wee heare Christ condemne idle words that is vnp●ofitable vain friuolous Math. 1● and to no purpose and which are spoken to the profit neither of the hearer nor speaker Ephes 5 so that hee will require an account of them in the day of iudgement how much more then as Paule saith are vncleane and scoffing wordes filthy mirth vnhonest iestes and vncomelie talke to be detested which do greatly hurt good maners To be short taunting mockes and biting speeches which as they leaue a bitter remembraunce of them in the minde and like waspes flyinge awaie from vs dooe leaue their stinges behinde them in vs are the onelie causes of hatred and debate amongste vs. For as soone as the matter commeth once to multiplication of wordes and figuratiue and crooked speeches are wrested to and froe it commeth in the ende to a bloudy battell and after that pricked on with manie accidentes they are stirred on to an extreame hatred and vnappeasable anger which when it is once inwardlie conceiued and deepelie imprinted in their heartes then doeth it moste shewe it selfe when all thinges seeme to bee husht and forgotten Moreouer contentions rage of euill speakinge and skoulding doe more displease the Apostle Paule then can be expressed Cap. 4 for he warneth the Galathians to abstaine from such vicious and naughty affections not suffering those biting quips to be vsed among thē nor any tauntes or desire to back bite least while they one bite quippe and vexe another they after the maner of beastes doe one teare and consume another in peeces 1. Cor 1. Hee also doth the same with the Corinthians whom he louingly exhorteth to mutual agreement in the name of Iesus Christ exhorting thē that through hatred and dissention they fall not out among themselues but that they agree and be of the same mind opinion Paule taketh his example from Christ which by so many means teacheth them to be louing charitable one