Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	father_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,193	5	9.8397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07786	The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Xenophon. Memorabilia.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1602 (1602)	STC 18163; ESTC S103514	52,106	260

saide Miserable wretch that J am who shall deliuer me from this bodie so subiect to darknesse and death Afterward he aunswers The grace of GOD by Jesus Christ. The word then signifies not onely an action sensuall but likewise a vice defect in the vnderstanding and will by which insueth infinite multitudes of mishaps So dooth the Scripture call the harts endeuours because the mouing and agitation of the hart is cōioyned with the will Assuredly if nature had continued in her puritie the knovvledge of GOD would haue been cleere in our vnderstanding whereto the will had franckly obeyed but nowe is hindered only through her obscurity The hart wil haue moouings distort and contrarie to God for the will without the feare of God and trust in him loues himselfe seeks safety in himselfe trusts in his owne dilligence delights in his owne wisedome for a man would be honoured and esteemed and feares more the reproches or blames of the world then of GOD his Creator The very like agitations doe sway the hart the sensuall motions draw the will vnto thē as much to say as when the hart loues the voluptuous pleasures of the sences which are prohibited or when a man hates his neighbour flatly against the lawe of God To this effect spake our Sauiour That out of the hart proceeded euill cogitations thefts blasphemies murders adulteries lies and such like other crimes In this then it appeares most certainely that by the hart is signified the vnderstanding and will as vvhen the hart takes pleasure in false oppinions and such imaginations as are contrary to the honour glory of God The consideration of these thinges shoulde check the pride presumption reigning in vs and induce vs to obedience by often and feruent prayer to God that he would renue in vs the cleere pure and sincere light of our vnderstanding that hee woulde likewise make cleane our harts and plant therein none but good affections As Dauid desired of God A cleane hart a right spirit And Saint Paule who said That Iesus Christ onely reformes the cleerenesse of our vnderstanding and conformes the body to his brightnesse The Motiue power is that whereby the bodie and his parts are transported from one place to another the organes are the nerues the muscles and the cords of the members Alexander Aphrodisianus saith that the soule is the cause of the bodies moouing as weight is the cause why a stone falls downeward This moouing is deuided into two kindes naturall and voluntarie The naturall neyther beginnes or ceasseth according to our imagination and pleasure nor can it be otherwise but as when an obiect is presented thē it is afterward pursued as the ventricle vvhich drawes the receiued foode to it the hart attracts the spirits eyther suddenly or softly The voluntary moouing both begins and ends at our owne pleasure that is the property of this power as is the seuerall mouings of our parts going rūning swimming and such like There is another cōmixed moouing beeing partly naturall and partly voluntary as is the moouing of the brest or stomack The benefit of this power is easily discerned For thereby we seeke what is necessary for our cōseruation and shunne what we imagine therto contrary It remaines to speak of the intellectuall power whereof S. Augustine makes an accommodation to the Trinitie The memorie saith hee forming the intellection represents the Father the intellection represents the Sonne and the will the holie Ghost For the Father considering knowing himselfe begot the Sonne and the holie Ghost is the agitation proceeding of the Father and of the Son This is the povver whereby wee know receiue iudge and discerne hauing in it the beginning of Artes heereto likewise is action riciprocall for therby our actions are seen and iudged This power differs frō the sensitiue for the sensitiue takes knovvledge but of things peculiare and singulerly but this other cōceiues and apprehends both singuler vniuersallie The obiect of thys power is God and the whole vniuersalitie of things as well celestiall as elementarie The offices of thys power are to vnderstand forme in him selfe the images representations of things to retaine and conferre them together thē afterward to see what agreement what difference is between thē The organes of this power are the interior sences wherof we haue discoursed already Plato saith that as the seale imprinteth on the wax so by meanes of the spirits are the shapes of thinges imprinted in the braine But this is the matter most meruailous of all that we should retaine so great a multitude and seueral diuersities of things likewise for so long a time but the reason thereof can neuer bee well or sufficiently expressed Wherfore seeing by our actions our life is guided we should pray vnto GOD that hee would take pittie vpon our weake nature and that hee would renewe his image in vs to the end we may more perfectly know his workes in vs and shewe our selues more reuerent and obedient to him Aristotle makes a deuision between the vnderstanding actiue and that which is tearmed passiue mary hee calls the actiue vnderstanding nothing else but that which inuenteth any thing as the vnderstanding of Archimedes did inuent the Compasse The passiue vnderstanding is that which inuenteth not of it self but makes approbation of an others inuention as he that approued the inuention of Gunpowder or that of the Compasse or the Astralabe The knowledges of the vnderstanding are deuided into actions and habitude The knowledge which is called action is that part of the vnderstanding which apprehendeth somthing by forming the image thereof Habitude is as a constant resident light in the vnderstanding whereof wee make vse whensoeuer we please The vnderstanding somtimes busies it selfe and considers those thinges whereof it can but hardly reach to the knowledge as the changes of the ayre the reuolutions ordinarie of the heauens those are termed speculatiue Sometimes it meditates on thinges that it can easily exercise and then it is called practiue The word reason is that which comprehends and then the vnderstanding cōceiuing things conferreth and makes iudgement of them where-upon the wil makes his coniunction Then may the wil be thus very well defined it is a part or power of the vnderstanding which is called reason working freely after that the vnderstanding hath tried iudged the thing to be good or bad If nature had continued in her first integritie we should neuer haue willed but what of it self had been good honest but the order of nature beeing perturbed makes such an alteration that there is a discord among the powers that the vnderstanding is sometimes deceued in iudging of things And albeit it can easilie discerne the hurtfulnes of things yet many impediments doe happen to crosse it