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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	law_n	see_v	transgression_n	3,670	5	9.9933	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37244	A work for none but angels & men that is to be able to look into and to know ourselves, or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body ... : of the imagination or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions, motion of life, the local motion, intellectual power of the soul ... Thomas Jenner has lineas composuit.	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1658 (1658)	Wing D410; ESTC R27853	22,709	36

Root and Fountaine of man kinde did draw corruption and Gods curse by sin this was a charge that did binde all his off-springe and so they all grew corrupted as when the hand sins the man offendes for part from whole in this the law doth not sever so Adams sin extends to whole mankinde for all natures are but part of his Therefore this sin of kind was not personall but reall and hereditary the guile and punishment whereof must pass by course of nature and law for as that easie law was given to all to Ancestor to heir first and last so the transgression was generall in our law we see some foot steps of this which take her root from God and nature Ten thousand men make but one corporation and these and their successors are but one and if they gain or loose their liberties they harme and profit not themselves alone but their Successors and so the Ancestor and all his heirs if they should increase as the Sand their advancements and forfitures are still but one his civill acts doe binde and harme them all There are a Crew of fellowes J suppose That angle for their Victualls with their nose As quick as Beagles in the smelling sence To smell a feast in Paules 2 miles from thence Trueth and a Lye did each a Lodging lack And to a Gallants Eare their course did take Trueth was put by being but meanly clad And in the Eare the Lye the Lodging had Next she useth the smell in the nostrels as into them at first God breathed life so now he makes his power to dwell in them to judge of all Aires whereby we live and breath this sence is Mistress of an Art to sell sweete perfumes to soft people yet it imparts but little good for they have the best smell that cannot away with any perfumes yet good sents doe awake the fancy refine the wit and purifie the Braine and old devotions did use incense to make mens spirits more apt for divine thoughts Lastly the power of feeling which is lifes roote which doth shed it selfe through every living part and extends it selfe from head to foot by sinewes as a net covering all the body or much like a spider which setteth in the midst of her web and if the outmost thread of it be touched she instantly feels it by the touch we discern what 's hard smooth rough what 's hot and cold and dry and moyst these are the outward instruments of the soule and the Guards by which every thing must passe into the Soule or aproacheth unto the minds intelligence or touch wits looking-glasse the Fantasie yet these Porters which admit all things themselves neither discern nor perceive them one Common power which sits in the forehead brings together all their proper formes For all those Nerves which carry spirits of Sense and goe spreading themselves to the outward Organ are there united as their Center and there they know by this power those sundry formes the outward Organs present things doe receive the inward sence retayne the things that are absent for she straightwayes transmits what she perceives unto the higher Region of the Brain Where sits the Phantasie which is the hand maid neer to the minde and so beholds and discerneth them all and things that are divers in their kinde compounds in one weigheth them in her Ballance and so some she esteemes good and some ill and some things neuterall neither good nor bad this busie power is working night and day when the outward sences are at rest a thousand light and phantasticall dreames with their fluttering wings keeps her still awake yet all are not alwayes afore her she successively intends this and that and what she ceaseth to see she commits to the large volume of the memory This Lidger Book lyes behinde in the Brain like Janus eye seated in the Poll and is the storehouse of the minde which much remembers and forgets more here sences apprehension ends as a stone cast into the Pond of Water one Circle makes another till at last it toucheth the Banke But although the apprehensive power do pawse yet the motive virtue is lively and causeth passions in the heart as joy griefe fear hope love and hate and these passions bring forth divers actions in our lives for all actions without the light of reason proceed from passion but since the powers of sence lodge in the Brain how comes passions from the heart it ariseth from the mutuall love and kind intelligence betwixt the Brain and the Heart From the kinde heat which raigns in the heart from thence the spirits of life takes their beginning these spirits of life ascending to the brain causeth a sensablenesse and imediately judgeth whether it be good or ill and sends down to the heart where all affections dwell a good or ill report and if it be good it causeth love and longing hope and well assured joy If it be ill it anoyes the heart with vexing grief and trembling fear and hatred Now if these naturall affections were good or if we had such strength of reason and especially grace for to rectifie natures passion we might be happy and not so often miscarry as we doe for we were but blocks without them besides there ariseth another motive power out of the heart which are the vitall spirits born in arteries and causeth continuall motion in all parts it makes the pulses to beate and lunges respier and holdes the sinewes like a Bridle so that the body retires or advanceth turns or stops as she strains or slackens them thus the soule tunes the bodyes instrument with life and sence fit instruments being sent by the body although the actions doe flow from the soules influence sometimes I will this yet I have not a power to expresse the working of the wit and will for though their roote be knit to the body yet use not the body when they use their skill WILL. Free to all ill till freed to none but ill Now this I will anon the same I nill Appetite ere while ere while Reason may Nere good but when Gods Spirit beares y e sway To these high powers there is a store-house where lyeth all Arts and generall reasons which remaine unto the soule even after death which cannot be washed away by any Loethean flood of forgetfulnesse This is the soule and these be her virtues which although they have their sundry proper ends and one exceed another yet each one doe mutually depend on the other our understanding is given us to know God and he being known our will is given us to love him but he could not be known to us here below but by his word and workes which we receive through the sences and as the understanding reapes the fruit of sence so the quickning power feeds the sences and while they do thus dispence their severall powers the best needeth the service of the least even as

the foundations of the Earth and formeth the Spirit of man within him he makes the body of Earth and in it a beam of heavenly fire now in the wombe before the birth inspires in all men their soules and without a mother sends dayly millions into the world which neither from eternity nor at once in one time lay them up in the Sunne or Moone nor in some secret cloyster where they sleepe till they be awaked neither did he make at first a certain number infusing part in beasts and part in men and being unwilling to take further pain would make no more so that the widdow soul should be married to the next body that should be born and so by often changing mens souls should pass from beasts to men these are fond thoughts since there are far more born then dye then thousand soules should be abortive or others deaths should supply their soules but as nature Gods handmaid doth create bodies in time distinct and in due order so God gives soules the like successive date which himselfe formes in new bodies which himselfe makes of no materiall thing for unto Angels he hath given no power either to forme the shape or bring the stuffe from Air or Fire nor in this doth he use natures service for although she can bring bodyes from bodyes yet she could never traduce soules from soules as light springs from light and fire from fire as some learned fathers that were great lights of old did hold for say they how can we say that God made the soule and yet not make him the Author of her sinne for in her lies the corruption for Adams body did not sin but his soule and so brought the body to corruption So we would fain make him the Author of the wine if we knew whom to blame for her dreggs none were yet so grosse as to contend for this that soules may be traduced from bodyes between whose natures there is no proportion but many subtle wits have justified that soules may spiritually spring from soules which if the nature of the soul be tryed would even in nature prove as grosse for all things that are made are either of naught or of something that is already made of naught no Creature ever formed ought for that is proper for the Almighty if then the soule make another soule she must take it of some former stuffe or matter but there is no matter found in the soule then if her heavenly forme doe not agree with any matter in the World then must she needs be created of nothing and that is only proper to God alone again if soules doe beget soules 't is either by themselves or the bodies power if by themselves what hinders them but that they may engender soules every hour if by the body how can understanding and will joyne with the body in this act only since when they doe their other works they doe abstract them themselves from the body moreover if soules were begotten of soules they should move and change into each other but motion and changes brings at last corruption and then how should it be immortall If lastly soules did use generation then they should spread incorruptible seed and then what becomes of that which they doe loose when the acts of generation doe not speed but if the soule could cast spirituall seed yet she would not because she never dies mortall things desire to breed their like that so they might immortalize their kinde therefore the Angels who are call'd the sons of God neither marry nor are given in marriage their spirits and ours are of one substance and have one father the Lord of Heaven Who would at first that in each other thing earth and water living souls should breed but mans soul which he would make their king should immediately be produced from himselfe and doubtless when he took the Woman from the side of the man he alone inspierd the soul for t is not said he did devide mans soul but took flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone and lastly God being made man for mans sake and like him in all save only in sin tooke his body from the wombe of the Virgin but all agree God formed his soule within him then is the soule from God so say the Pagans which saw by natures light her heavenly kinde naming her kin to God and Gods bright ray a Citizen of Heaven confind to the earth This cloud may be further cleerd by heavenly light for questionlesse God made her and made her good and ingrafted her in the body there to grow which though it be corrupted flesh and blood yet can it not bring corruption to the soule yet this soule at first made good by God and not corrupted by the evill of the body yet in the womb is accurst and sinfull ere she can judge by wit or chuse by will yet God is not the Author of her sinne though of her being and if we dare judge him in this he can condemn us and yet be cleere himselfe first God from eternity decreed what hath been is or shall be done and that every man in his turne should run his race of life and did purpose to make all soules that ever have been or shall be and that they should take there being in humane bodies or not to be at all was it then fit that such a weake event weaknesse it selfe the sin and fall of man should prevent his execution and councells fixed and decreed before the world began and that one penall law broke by Adam should make God breake his own eternall law and revoke the setled order of the world and change all formes of things which he foresaw could Eves weake hand extended to the Tree rent a sunder that Adamantive chain whose golden linkes of causes and effectes remain fixt to Gods own chare O could we see how cause doth spring from cause how they are mutually linckt and foulded and that on disagreeing stringe doth rather make then marr the harmony and at once view how death is brought by sin and how a better life doth arise by death how in one his justice is seen and his mercy in the other we would praise this his decree a wise and right but we measure time by first and last and see the sight of things successively when the Lord sees all at once and at an instant he sees all things in himselfe as in a glasse for from him and by him and through him are all things His sight is not discorsive by degrees but he seeing the whole seeth every single heart He looks on Adam as a roote or spring and on all his heires as Branches and streames and sees all men as one man though they dwell in sundry Nations and Cit●es and as root and branch makes but one Tree and the spring and streame make but one River so that if one be corrupted the other is corrupted also So when the

for us to aime at for this very end and purpose that all the world should misse it Can he that is the faithfull and true God put such a trick of fraud and mockery upon his creatures No surely righteousnesse evangelicall righteousnesse is the only thing intended per see in all Gods Commandements and sin which is nothing else but a missing of the marke comes in by accident sin is that which God will either destroy and banish out of the World by the clear discovery of his truth in the hearts of men or else he will at last chain it in the bottomlesse pit to all eternity and make the blacknesse of it to be a soyle to set off the glory of his justice But it is suggested by some that Christ will not therefore bestow any true righteousnesse holinesse or sanctification upon a Saint on purpose that he might keep him humble as if the only way to make men truly humble were to make them wicked and as it men would be so much the more proud by how much the more holy and made truly partakers of the image of God Away then w●th this fond conceit whereby we doe nothing else but gratifie mens lusts And smother and extinguish the life of God in the world it is the sluggard that sayes there is a Lion in the way but the true beleever saith Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain nay the truth it selfe saith All things are possible to them that beleeve we may undoubtedly by the power of God in us prevaile every day more and more over the power of sin and Satan the weapons of our warfare are very powerfull and able to batter down the strong holds of Satan in our hearts he that is indeed born of God shall overcome the world and the flesh and the Devil to by the power of God in him he shall destroy the law of sin in his members by the true Law the Law of the Spirit of life and if we should with unfeigned simplicity of heart apply our selves to God and resigning up our selvs to him to be taught led by him we should certainly find that his free spitit would inwardly lead us into all wayes of obedience and that it would be as naturall and as delightfull to us to walke on in those pleasant pathes of holinesse and righteousnesse as ever it was to wander in those crooked wayes of sin and wickednesse nay the true Regenerate christian is so far from delighting secretly in the wayes of sin as the false hearted hypocrite thinks he doth that there is nothing that more hurts and wounds his soule then that he hath not a more lively sence of evill for the divine life in him being a delicate and tender thing hath the most quickest sence of any thing that is contrary to it and is most ingenious and industrious for selfe preservation against it wisdome is easie to the wise sayes Solomon and her wayes are wayes of pleasantnesse to them and all her paths are peace and sin is the most ugly and forlorn thing in the world Let not therefore these evill spyes that bring an evill report upon this Land of Promise dishearten and discourage us but let us goe on in the Power of God and his strength and exercise our faith in this not only that we shall be freed from Fire and Brimstone here after but that we shall be delivered from the power of sin and Satan in our own hearts this is that faith whereby we overcome the world and if we had more of this faith in the power of Christ to destroy our corruptions in us and to tread down Satan under our feete and all that fond and ungrounded confidence that God intends to save us while we continue under the power of sin we should goe on more successefully and prosperously in the way to Heaven And it is a dangerous mistake now under the Gospel to conceive that God will save men out of a fond affection towards them without renuing of their natures and begetting his own son the new Creature in their hearts Meerly for beleeving this very thing that they shall be saved as if it were possible for men to be made happy without being delivered from the power of sin which is all one as if we should say that it were possible for men to be saved without salvation surely such as these think heaven nothing else but a meer place without them a fine glistering place whose gates are of pearl and the walls of Jasper and the bottome paved with starrs a very Turkish Paradise for had they once tasted of the true pleasures of the soule purg'd from sin and really establisht in the life of God they would then see so much deformity in sin that they would not accept of heaven upon such terms as those that is to be placed in an outward heaven without the inward change and renuing of their mindes without the conforming of their soules to the Image and likenesse of God I am sure a true Saint would not take heaven on such conditions as these are that he might enjoy all the outward pleasures that are possible that he might have a shining glistering body that he might tread upon Stars and flye upon the wings of the winde that he might converse with Cherubims and Serafims Angels and arke Angels if all this while he must continue filthy within full of noysome and stincking lusts voyd of divine wisdome that purges and purifies the soule having a darke and sottish minde unruly affection continually strugling and quarrelling within God he may indeed dispence with the punishment that belongs to sin he may forgive and pardon in respect of punishment but he can never account those truly holy that are truly wicked and bond slaves to sin and Satan Now this can never make us happy to be freed only from the punishment of sin we can never be happy till we be made pertakers of the life of God himselfe till we have the same minde and life in us that is in God himselfe If God should account us righteous except we were truly possessed of a righteousnesse within us I may speak it with reverence this could doe us no good no true christian would be contented with it no more then a man that is sick could be contented to be accounted whole or one that is poor and naked could be contented to be accounted rich and cloathed no more then one that is frozen in a cold winter night could be contented to be accounted hot nothing without us can make us really happy till we be inwardly made pertakers of the Image of God But it is very plain and easie to discover the ground of these mistakes because carnal men desire not so much to enjoy heaven as to be freed from hell or if they desire heaven they desire nothing at all in it but only their own ease and carnall pleasure it would serve their turn