Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	alive_a	body_n	dead_a	4,124	5	6.9287	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03012	A soveraign counter-poyson prepared by a faithfull hand for the speedy revivscence of Andrew Sall late sacrilegious apostat ... / Contriv'd by J. E.	J. E.	1674 (1674)	Wing E16; ESTC R171890	44,784	118

like and Pierus l. 19. de Rana says that the frog hath bloudy red eyes and that it hath a double liver properties of hereticks their eyes are bloody looking with eyes of flesh and blood upon the misteries of Religion the power of the Pope looking with eys of blood upon the power of absolving given to the Priests seaven Sacraments the Real Presence all they look on with eyes not of faith but bloud Two livers also hereticks no fasting no austerity of life no mortification no pennance but still eat drink take pleasure fare well still increasing blood in their two livers the seat of blood for to pursue lust and concupisence and an unbridled appetite of their flesh and blood and which must breed and nourish pride the source and nursery of heresie according to S. Austin diversae diversis locis sunt haereses sed una mater superbia genuit it is said that the Camel is not accustomed to drink before he troubles the water so heresy never enter'd into any kingdom but by troubling the Republicks with dissentions civil broils quia dominationem spernunt Majestatem blasphemant ut serpentes humiliter irrepunt blande capiunt molliter ligant latenter occidunt with their Serpentine cur praecepit vobis deus speaking to Adam and Eve so hereticks are like serpents cur tot praecepta cur tot jejunia cur diebus veneris carnes vetitae cur tot in Ecclesia ceremoniae cur quomodo corpus Christi in exigua panis specie c. Are not these serpentine interogations all their stir is but from sence from flesh and blood for honor for plausible exteriority Did not Melancthon the first follower of Luther tell his Mother at the point of death that the protestant was plausibilior but the Catholick Religion securior whereupon his Mother sent for a Roman Catholick priest and died in the bosome of the true Church for salvation haec plausibiliòr illa securior Did not a Gentleman say Si bonum est cum Luthero vivere haud bonum est cum Luthero mori and did not Luther himself say Martine Martine jam agis voluptuose sed quid erit post haec A Soveraign connter-poyson Document 4. S. Cyyrian the great Doctor writing to some of the Ethnicks touching the lives and studies of Christians speaks thus Philosophi sumus factis non verbis nec magna loquimur sed vivimus that is we are philosophers in our actions not in our words nor do speak great things but practise them It seemes this holy man thought it much fitter for a Christian to exercise himself in Vertuous actions then in diving with curiosity into the Nature of things Andrew Sall When I consider your present miserable state and deplorable condition I cannot abstain from tears you have been heretofore known and counted a philosopher both by words and deeds you spoke great things and did likwise practise them But alas alas lately there is seen and perceived in you a strange and sudden alteration and change I ask quomodo obscuratum est aurum mutatus est color optimus thren 4. you seem awhile ago pure precious gold how come you metamorphosed and chang'd so as no shaddow could vanish halfe so soon now not gold sed fuligo dross and rubbis quomodo mutatus est color optimus heretofore a religious priest an Embassadour for atonement of grace and mercy a preacher all those superexcellent prerogatives graces and beauties defaced what a living member of the glorious Congregation of Jesus become a dead child of error heresies darkness and suddenly become the scorn of boys and Lackies sure this cannot be mutatio dextrae Eccelsi ah poor Andrew That exquisite torment used in antient times by Tyrants to their Captives hath some imperfect weak resemblance of your poor souls present condition they used to fasten living men to dead bodies joyning their hands their feet their mouths their eyes and all their other parts with those of dead putrid carcases Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis Let us consider what were the thoughts of those miserable wretches who though living were by this union hindred from exercising any the actions of life and notwithstanding their natural aversion from stench rottenness and corruption were yet forced to converse only with them exchanging all the happiness of life to entertain those dismal objects which presented them with nought but ghastliness terror all this Andrew is an imperfect representation of your state you cannot but perceive your living body to be fastned to a loathsom dead soul and so by that unhappy union you are hindred from exercising any actions of grace or vertue yet are forced to converse only with the Father of darkness notwithstanding your naturall aversion from him and this for your sacrilegious Apostasy and revolt from the mother Church in which you had an unerring Guide Rule and Judge leading you to true faith the high path to laudable actions of grace Sanctification and eternal felicity oh mutatus est color optimus and this unhappiness befell you through the perverse and wicked choise of your blind will for what the soul is to your body such in a manner I may say is Gods divine Grace to your soul all the members of your body by the operation of the soul are alive do move and stir and exercise their several functions which when the soul is separated from your body all those members are as dead as a stone no member can stir or move nor exercise its function even so when your soul is bereaved of Gods grace as it is at present by black Apostasie then your soul is dead to all goodness all the faculties and powers thereof cannot exercise their function in order to eternity vertue or sanctity you are quite blotted out of the book of life and society of Saints you have no more communication with the blessed and celestiall Congregation of the Church-militant you have forfeited your claim and right to heaven you cannot enjoy as formerly those internal ineffable joys blessings and consolations which the true constant servants of God your fellow-travellers and fellow-labourers in the vineyard of Christ have and your brethren hourly do taste and enjoy Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis Oh wretched Andrew it had been more advantageous and of more pleasure to you to have your living body fastned to a rotten putrid carcase then to have your soul fastned to darkness and lothsomnesse of cursed heresie and apostasie Now do but consider the infinite advantage prerogative and dignity of your former happy state and compare it to your present deplorable cursed and most black state before you were vir Apostolicus now apostata vilis dictus before a most resplendent star in the firmament of the true Church now an obscure dusky and abominable ignis fatuus leading your self and ther 's to precipices of eterna● perdition before a Religious priest now an● accursed Judas before conferring life of grace on others now you are