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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	father_n	son_n	trinity_n	3,742	5	9.9958	5	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