Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

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
A85327	Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.	1650 (1650)	Wing F993; Thomason E1375_2; ESTC R209221	23,410	56

some extraordinary act in their life time worthy of eternall fame and by their Tombs and Sepulchers which they build to make their names as eternall as they can and to what end should man desire this if there were not a possibility of attaining it nay we may assure our selves that God would not have implanted this naturall desire in man but that there is such a thing attainable by man for if he had plainted in man a desire of a thing unattainable he had dealt worse with man then he hath done with beasts who neither know nor believe nor desire any such thing from whence we may also conclude that our soules being created immortall they doe well conceive of an immortality or an everlastingnesse without end Fourthly I would beseech you seriously to consider that the brute beasts do feare a present evill of punishment in this life only but man naturally doth fear the evill of punishment after the end of his life for there is a natural impression stamped in man that vice must be punished after death as it is evident in that there was never any nation so barbarous but they were observed naturally to put a difference betwixt vertue vice so far forth as they knew it and so to have joy and content when they practised vertue and to have feare and sorrow when they practised vice and that neither for hope of reward nor feare of punishment in this life And I dare boldly say that if a Man who hath committed some gross sin should be by reason of the secrecy in the committing of it be confident that it should never be so much as known to any one man woman or childe in the time of this life yet could he not be without feare whensoever he thought upon it And what though some Epicures among us are for the present so swallowed up in the pleasures of this life that they have no thought of being called to an account for their sinnes either in this life or at the end of this life yet when did you ever hear of any such man that hath not at the houre of death beene afraid of the judgement to come for mine own part I am confident that there was never any man that when he apprehended death neare approcahing could then perswade his Conscience that his Soul was mortall and should dye with his body but then though it may be too late hee begins to think within himselfe what shall become of his soul and could then with all his heart wish that he had lived the life of the righteous and why is all this but because man naturally doth beleeve that his soul is immortall and shall come to judgement Fifthly I would also beseech you seriously to consider that although mans body I meane his sensuall appeitite can with the sensual appetite of beasts find rest and content inearthly things here below yet is his soule in a perpetuall motion and can finde no rest nor content in any earthly thing and that because it hath a secret longing desire after God though it know it not for as a childe that is new borne doth by a naturall instinct in strength of desire crye after the dugg and yet knoweth not what it wanteth even so mans poore soul doth desire God and yet through the blindnesse of his understanding it knoweth not what it wanteth and like as if an ignorant nurse should offer the childe such food as its tender age is not capable of receiving it would not be contented but would still in strength of desire crye after the dugg even so though a man should offer his soul a world of Creatures yet will they not content it for I dare boldly say that no earthly-minded man ever met with so much profits pleasures or honours in this world as did fully content and satisfie him indeed mans sensuall appetite may feed upon earthly delights and be as it were filled with the creature but what can fill mans minde not all the world for t is certain saith a learned and godly Mr. Boulton discourse true hap Author though one man were not onely crowned with the soverainty of all the Kingdoms of the earth but besides were made commander of the motions of the Sun and the glory of the Stars yet the restlesse eye of mans unsatisfied understanding would peepe and pry beyond the heavens for some hidden excellency and supposed felicity which the whole compasse of this created World cannot yield so unquenchable is the thirst of mans soul untill it bath it selfe in the River of life and the immeasurable Ocean of goodnesse viz untill it lives in him and of him in whom all things doe live and by whom all things are upheld Now then as in naturall things we may know by their motion where is their resting place even so by the motion of mans soul toward God we may certainly conclude that God is the resting place thereof which indeed is a sure testimony that mans soul is an immortall essence and so shall never dye Sixthly and lastly I would pray you to consider that although mans body may decay dye and perish if it want corporall food yet will not his soul for what can make the soul decay dye and perish can want of corporall food No for it can skil to feed upon things above the world for the minde of man is so nimble that even by way of view it feedeth upon all things take from it sensible things and the things of the understanning remaine with it stil bereave it of al earthly things and the heavenly remaine abundantly and then it feedeth at greatest ease and makes best cheare agreeable to its owne nature th● plaine truth is the soul lives best when it is most freest from all things in this world it is well known that those who want their eye-sight have their mindes most apt to understand and most firme to remember because their eyes are not busied about the beholding of outward objects and when we shut our eyes then are we best able to conceive of things spirituall in our minds yea and if we consider the matter well we shall finde that when our sences are most quenched then doth our soule most labour to surmount her selfe and the more the body decreaseth the more doth the soul increase as it is commonly seene when a man draweth nigh unto death the soul hath then the most care of her owne eternall welfare in so much as it hath been observed that when a body hath been very far spent bare consumed and withered so that whosoever looks upon it sees nothing but earth yet such a man hath been heard speake most spiritually and heavenly Now when a man doth behold such a lively soul in so weak and withered a body may hee not say as it is said of hatching of Chickens the shell is broken but there commeth forth a Chicken may he not hence conclude that for the soul to continue in its being it hath no