Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	action_n	body_n	life_n	5,700	5	4.7855	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45579	A banquet of essayes, fetcht out of famous Owens confectionary, disht out, and served up at the table of Mecoenas by Henry Harflete ...; Epigrammata Horace. English. Selections. 1653	Harflete, Henry, fl. 1653.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622.; Horace.	1653 (1653)	Wing H766; ESTC R3351	30,518	94

A BANQUET OF Essayes Fetcht out of Famous OWENS CONFECTIONARY Disht out and serv'd up at the TABLE OF MECOENAS By HENRY HARFLETE sometime of Grayes-Inne Gent. London Printed by T. R. E. M. and are to be sold by Joseph Barber at the signe of the Lambe in the New-buildings in Pauls Church-yard 1653. To the Right WORSHIPFUL And my much honoured Friend Kinsman SIR CHRISTOPHER HARFLETE Knight Sir YOur former favours oblige me to a votal if not total requital at least to an acknowledgement though 't be but in this slight Commemoration and so near alliance may command this Dedication I might have elected some titular Protector to cherish this weak Infant of my Braine but I content my self with an inferiour choise desiring your self my tutelar Patron Accept of these my poor labours which were the selected object of my Meditations on purpose to keep me from idlenesse the mother of all mischief That excellent saying of St Hierome egg'd me on to these Meditations A liquid operis facito ut te Diabolus inveniat occupatum non enim facilè capitur à Diabolo qui bonovacat exercitio Be alwayes doing something that so the Devil may finde thee imployed for he is not easily caught in the Devils snare who is well busied Sir were there not Lectores who be Lictores or could all my Readers be free from the aspersion of critically censorious I could well afford to imitate my Author Commend my book to the Reader and my self to you however let it be so I'l● expose my selfe to charitable judgements and venture it Inveniat noster Patronum ut ubique libellus Librum Lectori dedico mèque tibi Your Worships affectionate Friend and Kinsman to commend HENRY HARFLETE A BANQUET OF Essayes Upon these verses Ex. lib. 1. Ep. 2. Qui legis ista tuam reprchendo si mea laudas Omnia stultitiam sic nihil invidiam ESSAY I. Of Reading Understanding and Practising Qui legis THE World is now so laden and larded with Learning as that it s not only fatigated with the burden of it but also its fascinated shall I say fatuated with such a supposed felicity as that it loathes the life of it too that 's action Reading is like the body Understanding like the apparel and Practising like the soule The body of reading being mortal cannot but quickly meet with a dissolution did not the soule of Practice animate it the apparel of the Understanding keeping it from the frigid and defending it from the torrid aire that from obscuration this from oblatration For Writings might quickly espy a Momus did not the backbiter eye an understanding MECOENAS ready to defend the Authors quarrel forcing him to praise if not practise what he reads though he never read to praise or practise but to traduce Qui legis Well may the World be reported Spherical in that it 's vertical even so cloyed with a number of giddy-headed readers as that it surfets with their issue doctrine so that they loath that which they should love Preaching Ever since our Bacchanalian tospots have scorned our Ecclesiastical despots obliging their devotion to the temple of Baccus the Pulpit with them hath been counted a reproach and no marvel for they have turned the current of their devotion another way making their belly their god the Drawer or Tapster their Priest the Barre his Pulpit the Taverne or Ale-house their Temple their Wine or Ale their Spirit their Stomack their Altar their several sorts of Drinks their Graces their belchings or spewings their prophecies or knowledge and the best book they delight to lay open before them to read in is their Hostesse or her fine Daughter Qui legis Time was when the Church had many Practisers but few Readers time is that a contradictory position being laid in the balance of the Sanctuary makes up this proposition That this now Church hath many Readers few Practisers The Primitive Catec●umenists heard and practised but our Moderne Mythologists hear and read but practise not The Church in her Infant-cradle might glory in the number of her Rockers if I may so terme them but in this her Maturity she may well condole the plenty of her lazy rackers and who be they but her learned Readers The World now doth boast in Knowledge and scornes to take the paines to make a double journey to the Temple on the Sabbath unlesse it be either for customes sake or as the women came to the Theater according to the Poet Spectatum veniunt veniunt spectentur ut ipsae So these come to be seers not to hear their Seer or perchance to be seen rather then to be taught and why either 1. Self-conceit perswades them that they know already as much as the Preacher can tell them or 2. Else blinde devotion strikes in them this opinion that they have done God good service to visite his Temple once a day or 3. Their learned ignorance would conceive that for an undeniable Orthodox which graver judgements have censured for a palpable Paradox even that Reading is better then preaching What though St. Augustine was converted by reading some part of the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul to the Romanes Wilt thou therefore conclude that the word read doth out-poise the word Preached in the balance of profit Thou readest the proverb and believest it that Una hirundo non facit ver One swallow makes not Summer In all this conceive me aright though I commend Preaching yet I condemne not Reading for both be excellent It is a rule in Rhetorick given from that great Oratour Cicero concerning comparisons that Necesse non est in rebus comparandis ut alteram vituperes si alteram laudes The law of reason cannot impose this necessity upon comparisons that the praising of one part should derogate any thing from the worth of the other N●y let me ground this position upon the rock of truth fetcht out of the quarry of great St. Chrysostome Negligentia legendo eget diligentià praedicando because the Reader is negligent he wants the Preachers diligence I cannot but admire at the foolishnesse of some in the managing of their states who neglect Preaching and buy damnation with Reading For what is it available for a man to be accounted learned and judicious and then after death go to hell for want of Practice He that reads and understands not is like the Parrot who may utter a perfect Orthology yet is ignorant of the true A●tiology or true meaning of the words spoken and surely no wiser is that man qui legit non intelligit who reads and understands not would you spell a reason for it then put them two together and you have it legere non intelligere est negligere To read but not with the intellec● is to neglect But he that understands and practiseth not is like that proud Silke-worme who enrobes himself in gorgeous array rather to attract personall reverence and worldy