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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	power_n	soul_n	5,623	5	5.5945	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06462	A compendious and a very fruteful treatyse, teachynge the waye of dyenge well written to a frende, by the flowre of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete Londoner, late deceassed, on whose soule Iesu haue mercy.	Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1534 (1534)	STC 16934; ESTC S122071	22,183	84

to be wrytten for a wonder and lyke to a myracle beinge a thynge besyde the course of nature to here of a man that can in deathe ouer come the passion of feare as we wonder to here of some that lyue withoute sustinance of meate or of drynke Bycause I saye hit is a naturalle thinge to feare dethe we greattely meruayle of them that feare it not Yet reason saythe we shoulde not feare that thynge the whiche we know not only yuel is worthy to be feared But seinge we knowe not dethe we may well by reason doubt whether it be yuell or good And nowe before we speake anye more of feare let vs a lyttell consyder dethe by it selfe what thyng it is of his owne nature and whether by it selfe it be good or yuell ¶ We calle ones dethe the losyng a sonder and departyng of .ii. thinges the soule from the bodye the whiche departyng no man can escape but necessarilye dye all we muste that be borne in this worlde When the body by any violence loseth his sensis and is spoiled from the quicke vse of his principal partes than departeth the soule from hym and in maner the bodye leaueth the soule before the soule leauethe the bodye For it is not the soule by hym selfe that goeth from the body but it is the body by his forsakynge lyfe that causethe the soule to departe For where lyfe is not there the soule canne not abyde and as the body is liuely before the soule entereth so the same dody is deadly before the soule departeth Bloudde in his measure and temperance betwene cold and hotte kepeth lyfe in the body the which bloud by innumerable wais of chanses may be altered and constrayned to leaue his nouryshyng whervpon shall insue the losse of lyfe and than streighte after foloweth the soules goinge away For well you knowe that the soule is one thynge and lyfe is an other Wheresomeuer the soule is there is lyfe But it is not trewe that where someuer lyfe is there is the soule For trees and herbes haue a parte of life and a more parte of lyfe is in muskylles oysters and wormes yet a more perfect lyfe is in these bestes and birdes the whiche haue amongeste theym some more some lesse of lyfes perfetnes But thoughe in theym lyfe the whiche resteth in the vse of the sensis that be to here to see to fele to smelle to taste and in swyfte mouynge is a great worke of lyfe the which thynges I say though they be in the perfection amongist these beastes yet the hande of god hath not gyuen to any creature lyuyng in the erthe water or ayre to haue besyde lyfe a soule the whiche is a thynge formed after his lykenes sauynge onely to man whome he hath putte here to rule ouer thynges created lyke as he reuleth in heuen ouer al. It is the creatours wyl that nothynge in this worlde shall haue a soule but man alone the which soule bringeth with him the vse of reason a thynge that may teache vs bothe that we haue a soule and that god is he the whiche hathe thus made vs to be in this worlde his chiefe and mooste excellent creature Reason dothe thus teache vs yet besyde reason we be herein better instructed by our mayster the son of god so that nowe we can not doubt that in vs is a thynge the whiche canne not dye But of suretie we euidently se not onely by reason but moche better by belefe that the ymage of god in vs is perpetuall can not not feale any corruption oneles suche as our frowarde wyll maye gyue wherof groweth synne that is the lyuynge dethe of the soule But lette vs comme to our mattier ¶ To speake of this bodyly deth we nowe haue a greatte fordell in comparison of some olde clerkes that were in doubte whither there was in man any soule besyde lyfe more than is in an horse or a gose They were in doubt whether any thynge of manne remayned after dethe that myght fele or perceyue eyther ioy or peyne For as to the faynyng poetes that spake of delicious gardins for good spirites and of dyuers sore turmentes for vngracious sowles after this life most part of the olde clerkes gaue no maner of credence and they that beleued other an heuen or an hell to be ordeyned for mens sowles yet they so beleued that moch doubtfulnes was in theyr belefe in asmoch as their reason suffised not to fynde oute the certeyntie of goddis workes From the whiche doubtis the vnfallible doctrine of Christe hath now delyuered vs al so that as many as wyll gyue eare to the voyce of god they can not mistruste their knowlege but that without question bothe we haue a soule and the same soule is immortall a thynge that neyther in this worlde nor out of this worlde can peryshe or feale any poynte of deth to lacke by the same any iote of his beinge I saye oure soules contynually without ende shall euermore endure the which be created and made by god after the forme of god What fourme that is it is as harde to shew as it passeth our capacitie to knowe what god is whose shappe and facion our soules beareth ¶ Nowe than what shall we saye of dethe the whiche by hym selfe is not vnlyke to an endles slepe of the bodye wherof the bodye lyeth without power to vse anye sence beynge after lyfe lyke to a stone that neuer had lyfe This change of the bodies state whether by hit selfe hit be good or yuelle it is an harde thyng for vs to iuge seing the trowth is that no man lyuing expertlye knoweth what thynge deathe is and to determyne of a thynge vnknowen hit semeth a presumption full of folye Therfore without any certayne determination we maye for oure lernyng debate with reson the thing as moche as shalbe within the bondes of our capacytye and fyrste if deathe were by hym selfe good it shoulde be no trespace for one man to kyll hym selfe or an other For in gyuynge to other a good thyng or in takynge to our selfe a good thynge can be no rebuke Where the dede is good there is well doynge in the doer But euer not onely by Christes teachynge but also by natural reson manslaughter hath bē iuged an abhominable synne Wherfore it canne not be that by hym selfe death is a good thyng And ageyne an yuel thing it is not For Chryste dyed wyllyngely the whiche wyll in god and goddes sonne coulde not haue consented to dethe if deathe hadde ben a thynge of his owne nature yuelle Nor yet hit coulde not be that vertue shoulde be praysed in the gladde sufferynge of deathe as nowe be crowned in heuen many holye marters the whiche couragyouselye toke vppon theym the deathe And surely it shoulde not be the naturalle ende of mannes course in this life if it were a thīg by it selfe nawght For yuell magrye mans hedde is neuer put to him