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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	death_n	soul_n	7,226	5	5.8870	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37048	The assurance of the faithfull, or, The glorious estate of the saints in heaven described and the certainty of their future happiness manifested by reason and Scripture / by M.D.	D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.	1670 (1670)	Wing D282; ESTC R24872	26,857	44

sublimest felicity of Christ and of his Saints signifies as well the plenty as the eternity of their advantages He encompassed about Psal 21.3 We may hereby understand that this Crown of life shall intitle them to innumerable and immortal satisfactions it shall therefore be a true life How wrongfully do we abuse this pleasant Title in bestowing it upon the present unworthy subsistency of the soul and body O miserable estate how vainly do we flatter our beings with this gratefull conceit Can that ever be a life that drags us continually to our Grave that causeth us to die as soon as we begin to breathe and that is joyned unto death by the inward Principles of our existence Can that be a life that carries death in its bosome that makes us sensible of a thousand deaths before we breathe forth the last gasp and that is interrupted by sleep idleness and sickness as by so many deaths which deprive us of the benefits of life by which it is to be esteemed rather than by the continuance of the soul with the body at least in the judgement of a wise Moralist who hearing of a wicked man that was lately expired in a very old age Diu fuit said he sed non diu vixit At this rate how unworthy is our present subsistence of the pleasing and glorious title of life This therefore is promised in my text in opposition to that which we now lead to express the excellency and reality of that Heavenly Life free from those miseries which now do attend us Tolerantia transitoria Corona aeterna pugna modica merces immensa poena levis gloria inestimabilis dabo tibi post morzem pro morte vitae aeternitatem Aug. de civit Dei As if our Saviour should thus compare them together for the encouragement of the faithful What if my interest doth expose you to your enemies cruelty what if you are forced to lay down your lives in the maintenance of my cause what reason have you to prize so inconsiderable a loss when the Exchange brings unto you Returns of a more unspeakable value Grudg not to part with this shadow of life Grieve not to surrender it Refuse it not when I shall require it I have another life in reserve for you whose advantages do as highly excel those of this present being as the Crown doth the other enjoyments of the body a life both glorious and pleasant Erit status omnium bonorum aggregatione perfectus Boetius de consol where nothing shall be wanting to increase your satisfactions but cares trouble and pain which now do cause us to relish the sweetness of our earthly pleasures I will give thee c. This expression presents us with the greatest variety of Excellencies That they may better appear unto you take a view of them and of that supernatural estate of Heaven in these following propositions 1. It shall be an unseparable union of the soul and body for all eternity We shall live no more upon condition to die The fear of death that doth usually torment us more than the sense shall then cease with the cause Men shall never be disquieted with those importune Apprehensions that disturb us as they did Belshazzar in the midst of his carousing Cups and that cause us to be weary of life as that Roman was who being pursued by the cruelty of the Triumvirat offered himself freely to his Enemies pleasure to be delivered by death of the daily fear of dying But then we shall be secure both from the sense and apprehension of death and of all approaching evils and we shall rest in that blessed Tranquility that shall never have cause to dread an alteration there shall be no more divorce made between the soul and body it shall not be possible to separate that most loving couple Gods Wisdom and Power shall joyn them together in such a manner that neither Time nor any Accident shall be able to cause a separation For God upon whose pleasure all his Creatures do depend shall remove all deadly principles and grant us an eternal continuance which shall proceed not onely from his immutable Decree and immediate influence but also from the nature and manner of the union of the two parties that shall no longer be entertained by the assistance of the Creatures and a supply from the Elements but onely by a greater correspondency by more spiritual and more sutable Embraces At present although the soul hath a natural tendency to enliven to move and inform the body between them there is a vast difference that can never consent unto any conjunction without the mediation of the vital spirits extracted from the more subtil and purer substance of the meats refined by their successive concoctions But then our Bodies shall depose and cast off that gross and earthly matter and become more convenient companions of the soul by a nearer assimilation to that Celestial being For this mortal must put on immortality and this corruptible must put on incorruption as St. Paul teaches at large in the 1 Cor. 15 Chap. where he further declares the Mystery of the Resurrection and of the estate of our bodies in the 42 43 44. Verses The body is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body From hence we may discover the future substance of our Bodies which shall be almost as subtil as those earthly Spirits raised by the ordinary systole and diastole Mercat lib. 1. par 4. clas 4. quast 120. the two motions of the heart which Spirits have the nearest access to the soul of man and by which it is tied to its present residence for this blessed life and its eternity is established upon a resemblance and nearer relation between the soul and body whose beings must be rendred more conformable before they can be secured from a dissolution or from the sense of violence because that onely this conformity is able to render the communion unseparable and to free it by that means from the insults and affronts of all enemies It is therefore most certain that it shall not be in the power of any beings to put us to the sufferance of pain for as the pain which proceeds from the body is derived from an apprehension or a possibility of separation from that being upon which it depends or from that which tends unto it As the pain of the soul doth from a seeming or a real separation from God the fountain of all good or from that which stands us in some manner instead of God It cannot be imagined how they shall be able to suffer who are adorned with the qualities of immortality whose beings are free from alteration and not subject to the least weakness and whose senses shall never receive any contrary impressions nor convey unto the appetite

and pleasures that are onely there to be found Other Reasons and passages of Scripture may be alledged for this Truth which makes St. Paul fly out into an Admiration and St. John breathe forth nothing but wishes all the holy Martyrs embrace and hug the Flames that did convey them into this estate Was it not sufficient O blessed God that thou shouldest deliver man from his deserved punishment was it not sufficient that thou shouldest render him capable of thy favours But must such a favour be granted must thou admit him to a participation of the divine Nature by this unspeakable Union St. Peter O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and goodness of our God! You know not mortal men what God hath reserved for them that fear him What may we not expect from his love when we shall come to this estate If there be any good at Gods disposal any sweetness any pleasure and benefit in heaven or in earth it shall be theirs and in their possession Rom. 8.32 unto whom he hath at present given his Son and Spirit and will also give himself as St. Paul tells us Besides this Union shall cause an interrupted Communion between God and our souls God shall pour his blessings upon us in abundance and we shall render unto him unfeigned testimonies of thankfulness We shall spend Eternity in his praises and he shall spend his Treasuries upon us we shall think of nothing but how to glorifie him and he shall strive to satisfie us we shall contend in mutual offices of Love and Friendship O happy contention O blessed communion unto which our present Piety and Religion intends to bring us We have now a communion with God in holy duties and by his divine Spirit for no other end but that we might thereby be prepared for his eternal communion in Heaven In this Union and Communion with God consists the chief happiness of the creature for besides that they shall remove from us whatsoever looks like an evil they shall procure unto us advantages suitable unto that supernatural honour and estate Isa 64.4 Which eye hath not seen c. Our present knowledge shall be changed into sight our hope into fruition our love to God into endless transports our desires shall be satisfied our Prayers granted and turned into eternal Allelujahs our understandings shall be no more darkened with ignorance our wills no more corrupted with vice a blessed perfection shall reign within us And this shall proceed from an immediate infusion of divine Knowledge and a communication of spiritual qualities that shall fit us for the vision of God for we shall see his Face and his Name shall be in our foreheads Revel 22. We know saith St. John when God shall appear we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is not only with our corporal eyes we may see that inacessible light which always accompanies the visible declaration of his Glory and Power but also with the eyes of our souls we shall behold as much of the essence of God as the creature can perceive he will expose himself to our view And therefore we shall be transformed into his resemblance we shall be as so many Images of the Godhead so many living Pictures of his Infinite Being representing his glorious perfections as a clear fountain doth the body of the Sun or rather as Moses face did the brightness of the beams with which the Divine Majesty was cloathed upon the Mount Sina God will imprint in us the noble Characters and lineaments of his Essence therefore well might David promise to himself As for me I will behold thy face in righteousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness So that this blessed life shall not so much consist in the union of the soul and body as in the union of both soul and body with God our Creator In the next place in this life there shall be an excellent order and subordination in our souls all the passions and affections shall be ruled by the command of our Reason These inward motions shall not cease but they shall be bound to their good behaviour they shall no more offer to raise a rebellion within us to disturb our tranquility they shall not be capable of evil impressions Isa 32.18 nor bear the marks of corrupted nature There shall be a beautiful symmetry between the parts of our soul and body insomuch that perfection and integrity shall appear within and without How happy shall that life be when we shall perfectly enjoy our selves when all our affections shall endeavour to accomplish our felicity These are our present enemies they procure all the inconveniences that happen unto us whether in our bodies or estates by perswading us to embrace that seeming good which proves our deadly poyson But then they shall be no more corrupted by the sight of apparant advantages nor tempted to betray our interest for a vain enjoyment they shall always carry us to the performance of Duty and to that real good which shall fully satisfie us with content Unless they be thus reformed it is not possible for man to taste happiness in the most blessed Estate For what are Honours Riches and the greatest Blessings to one tormented with the desire of an increase or to a peevish discontented soul that apprehends a change or sees a happiness afar off which it prefers to the present or to one whose passions gaul him The least pain is sufficient to qualifie the greatest pleasures therefore in this happy life unruly passions shall cease with outward inconveniences they shall suffer us to relish the sweetness of our possessions they shall rather awaken our senses and give them a fuller and a quicker apprehension of the excellency of the heavenly delights and although our happiness shall not be confined to those pleasures that are furnished by our senses for they are not sufficient inlets to receive as much as the soul requires to accomplish her felicity besides it is not proper that the Bliss of so excellent a part should depend upon its correspondency with the baser or that it should borrow its satisfaction from its union with the body Caro spiritualis effectae per omnes sensus suos multimodis exuberabit delitiis Laur. yet it is most certain that they shall not want a share of those pleasures in which the soul shall so freely swim they shall not be brutish or such as Mahomet promiseth to his Mufulmans but they shall be sutable unto the spiritual body of the Righteous and far excelling the base and rotten pleasures of this miserable life in quality for they shall be without the least mixture of bitterness in the quantity for they shall be proportion'd to our capacities and in the durance for they shall be continual without interruption and eternal as David informs us Psal 16.11 speaking unto God In thy presence is fulness of joy and at thy right hand