Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	adam_n	body_n	death_n	5,454	5	5.9970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59749	Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...	Sheppey, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3221; ESTC R33738	21,949	42

Jerusalem that is above the Mother of us all In the state of Nature the good and welfare of Mans Body depends upon the Peace and Harmony of the forementioned Qualities and his dissolution proceeds from their Discord The natural good of his Soul consists in an interiour Repose Tranquillity and easiness of Spirit which renders him serene content and satisfied His Body is sustained by Peace as its Life and his Soul breaths after Peace as its utmost felicity Irrequietum est Cor nostrum Domine donec revertatur ad Te. Even all his outward Senses and inward faculties seek after Quiet and repose as their ultimate End and Good What do all the Senses aim at in those several Objects they pursue with so much eagerness but to repose in them by delight All the Senses are in perpetual motion searching on all sides for proper Objects and Diversions and having met with them they embrace them and embracing them they unite themselves to them and being united to them they delight in them and being delighted there they rest and are at quiet rejoycing in their Happiness and thus in their Repose they meet with their Perfection And as for his interiour Powers his sensitive Appetite Imagination Memory Understanding Will what do they quest after what do all their bustlings stirs and motions tend to but to find Repose by uniting themselves to Objects agreeable In a word All that is in man looks out after its proper Object and in its Object its delight and in its delight its peace and quiet and in its quiet its End and Happiness So that Peace is the Perfection of Man and of all that is in Man To what do all his desires and devices his Designs Labours and Industry bend but to settle himself in his ease and in his ease to meet with Content and in Content to find Peace and in Peace to enjoy Happiness Why do Men delight in Society to what purpose were Empires Common-wealths and other Communities founded to what end serves Order and the Dependance of Inferiours and Superiours of Commanding and Obeying but to take away Confusion to establish Order and with Order Peace and Quietness among Men What is the meaning of Magistrates and Laws Policy and Punishment but to uphold this Peace by cutting off those Refractory Members that would disturb the Harmony of the Body Politick Just as they turn a jarring Voice out of a Quire of Musicians and take a false string from a Musical Instrument And thus is Peace the Perfection of Man considered in his pure Naturals Peace is the scope of his Designs the end of his Labours the Center of his Faculties the Repose of his Motions the Life of his Body and the Happiness of his Soul But to little purpose do we study to be quiet in this World At least it is a fond hope to meet with a perfect and accomplish'd Peace any where but in God Nature and the whole Oeconomy of Nature cannot yield that Quiet and Repose that Man is bound to seek after And not only doth Faith teach us but Reason demonstrates and Experience convinceth us that nothing here below can yield an entire Peace to our hungry appetite but that Divinity which gave it Being And therefore we must raise Man a degree higher than the order of Nature and consider him in that of Grace as a Christian endowed with Faith Hope and Love of God whose fruition he expects in the state of Glory and in the fruition of God his compleat Peace his intire Quiet and absolute Perfection It is true the works of God are all Perfect and God created Man compleat both as to his Body and his Soul His Body injoy'd perfect Quiet by reason of that Temperamentum ad pondus that exact Temper and Harmony of the humours A Harmony that Death could not destroy nor Maladies disturb since he was enobled by a supernatural Gift which rendred his Body Impassible Immortal and Incorruptible His Soul in like manner injoyed most perfect Repose not experiencing the least contradiction in the inferiour Part and being at Peace with God by an entire agreement of his Will with the Divine Will original Righteousness maintained this harmony by calming his Passions bridleing in his Senses taming his Flesh and subjugating his Appetite to Reason and his Reason to God From whence sprung so great an accord in the Soul of Man that even upon Earth he had a foretaste of the sweets of Heaven But Sin having caused Reason to rebell against God made the Appetite to rebell against Reason and violating that agreement which was between God and Man did likewise disturb that quiet which Man had in himself and sow'd those seeds of Dissention between the Flesh and the Spirit Sense and Reason the Appetite and the Will Nor did Sin onely interrupt the inward Peace of his Soul but the outward Repose of his Body also by taking from him that gift of Grace which made it Incorruptible And then the materials and humours whereof he was composed presently began to mutiny and this spoil'd the harmony by sicknesses and utterly destroy'd it by Death And hence arise all those mischiefs which at this day inviron the wretched Off-spring of Adam both in Body and Soul Had Man maintained the Peace with God by a sweet Concord of his Will with his Sovereign's he had likewise retained most absolute Tranquillity in himself But assoon as he broke the League by his Rebellious will all things broke the Peace with him His Body by the clashing together of the humours his Soul by those many contradictions he finds there Then presently War was proclaimed the Angel took his Sword and the Earth arm'd it self with Thorns the Heavens with Thunder the Air with Contagion and wild Beasts with Fury Beasts Elements and Angels the whole Creation rose in Arms against their Makers Enemy And whereas before he had peace with all Things with God by Grace with himself by the happy Concord between the Soul and Body with all other Creatures by that Obedience they paid him Now he is attacqued on all sides God became his Enemy his own flesh his Adversary and all Creatures rebell'd and so by woful experience he found that to break Gods Peace is the greatest mischief that can betide a Rational Creature But at last after innumerable Acts of Hostility past on both sides on man 's by his multiplied Iniquities and on Gods by his severe Chastisements he whose Property it is to have Mercy and to forgive though the first provoked and assaulted yet was graciously pleased to propose terms of Reconciliation and that not by an Angel or Servant but by his own Son God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself and he dismantled those strong Holds that Sin had raised and breaking down the wall of Partition made all Friends And therefore the Apostle expresly calls him Our Peace He united the Humanity and Divinity together in his own Person by the Hypostatical Union he joyned