Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	angel_n	body_n	spirit_n	8,316	5	5.4481	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63831	The divine comedian, or, The right use of plays improved in a sacred tragy-comedy / by Rich. Tuke.	Tuke, Richard, fl. 1672.	1672 (1672)	Wing T3226; ESTC R28893	18,997	38

pine me unto death against all reason Enter Reason Satan Reas Good morrow Lady what 's your waiting man and you fal'n out Empir It seems so Sir and 't may be 't is from you we are for even just but now she had your name up Reason Mine good Madam Empir Yes your's good Madam you think it may be we are ignorant of your devices and your tricks to allure her from our service Reas Madam we that are great moderatour of all humane things that hold the golden Scale wherein are weigh'd all humane Actions and Chief Counsellour to truth hold this as a disparagement to our high office that have hitherto been a Peace-maker no we never come where there is brawling ' xcept i● be to end the strife and you do wrong us to suspect what never yet occasion offered to your hard thoughts Empir Reason we honour thee Mortals indeed have cause to bless thee and adore thy light whom the grave-Magi of all times have courted and in all civil Bodies hast a place Yea we our selves are stiled rational and this above the rest of animals Thy lustre sets a goodly gloss upon these worldly strifes but in heav'nly things th' art wholy blind thy wisdome folly and thy light but darkness these are spiritual that we 're about and you must leave us here They are above you they 'r too high too secret for all your scrutiny Reas how 's that too secret for us we that are Nature's Physician have imbowel'd her to all her woers and by several clues have winded every mistique maze within the Universal labyrinth of the World and trac'd their causes to their entities and then proceeding find them all in one comprised and centred in perfection can more be known to any one then this Empirea Yes Faith knowes more and tells us misteries not to be fathom'd by the utmost line of all thy cunning of the Trinity and that same Hy postatique union of the two Natures Humane and Divine in one The-anthropos and of the great Change at the final dissolution these thou art ignorant of Satan Reason ' I le help thee or thou art-ore thrown what madness has possest the Soul to throw durt in the face of him to whom she owes her exc'lencie since to be rational gives her th' advantage of that nobler state whereby she gloryeth over all the rest of animals if Reason lotted were by the great Soveraign of beings to be Judge and President in chief o're all thy family of faculties how durst thou thus abuse her great authority and call her powers in question to set up some new usurping fancies of thy own bred in the breasts of melancholy folk and vented by tradition through the World If thou unthron'st thy reason thus what wilt thou be surviving her authority irrational a stile that levels thee But equal to the state of bruits and beasts Empir Base feind thy bolt is shot thy gin is laid I know thy wiles thy malice and thy spleen in tempting thus our faculties away from their allegiance to their Soveraign who is not Reason but that God that gave her for a friend and helper to the Soul By whose authority she rul'd and raign'd and did dispose as pleas'd her best to do But when perverted by the envious wiles in Paradice she turned Rebel to her God shee lost her self in tyrannie by which o're swaid we hitherto obeyed and followed her dictates running on thereby unto our own destruction But since in mercy it hath pleased God in order to that great Redemption his sonn by dying purchased for us to renovate our lapsed Natures by secret infusions of diviner grace we find our selves lost to our selves and not able by any power of our own to gain again that Innocence and peace we lost Reason has lost her power whereby she would conduct us through those armed wayes that lead to happiness On this account do we disclaim her trust yeilding our selves unto a surer guide yet hereupon we merrit notto be stiled irrational we own her powers where she is able and deserves to rule in civil matters or in moral things But in Divinity we sore too high for her to follow with those lamer wings the fall has left her nor do we decline her principles but rather would sublime them to superiour perfections no way divesting her but seeking to invest her with more noble energies rendring our selves no wayes irrational but rather truely Metaphysical in seeking to regain that glorious state which others that would wise ones counted be and chiefest Friends to reason-slighting and instead thereof choosing a moments space of Pleasures ending in eternal pains before those sure and never-dying joyes shew themselves most irrational of all and such art thou thy self O Lucifer sinc breaking thy allegiance to thy God thou of an Angel art become a Fiend Condemn'd to torments that shall have no end But now our reason is grown impotent we readily submit her to the Will of him whose sole commands sufficient are as they 'r revealed in his sacred word to claim obedience to th' authority of him who our Creator is and Lord Reason But does that word that thou pretend'st to be such an observour of exact such hard and cruel usage as thy flesh sustains He is the God of soul and body both both alike tendred by his sacred care whose gracious disposition doth prefer Mercy before the goodliest sacrifice Nor would these bodies that he lent unto their Angel guests should be abused thereby nor yet the Temples of his spirit be defac'd or spoil'd by cruel usages you are mistaken God requires no such things at your hands Empir Reason thy talk is vain Thy Counsels frivolous who does not know the great concerns of an immortal soul were this our handmaid such a friend to us as she was first ordain'd to be we should use her accordingly but being now turn'd our professed Enemy wee 'l strive to keep her under as we solemnly have vow'd in our Baptismal Covenant And those rebellious members that are still ●nruly under that same easie Yoke Our Saviour hath bequeathed unto us shall by constraint be made obedient to the Dictates of the heav'n aspiring mind Thus we hereby an En'mie shall subdue and hereby win that great and glorious Crown w●erewith our labours shall rewarded be in heav'n with other of those blessed ones that trampling on their clay'ie Cottages did thence ascend into their several thrones And thus St. Paul we find to conflict with more eagerness against these home-bred-foes then e're he did with Beasts at Ephesus keeping his body under and by force subjecting it left by its fraud or strength he should his hope and glory lose at length What if these Tabernacles may be said to be the Temples of the living God if he will daign to dwell in Tents of Clay shall we not strive to make it an abode fit for his Majesty wee 'l sweep it clean although the scratchings make it bleed again

of his power and wisdome manifested O how great how rich and glorious must the fountain be where these fair streams their flow and being have How great that wisedom that so orderly in the conjuncture of this goodly frame of nature hath dispos'd its several parts How great that power whose only fiat could speak them all out of nothing into these their several beings and then gives them Lawes for conservation by a constant chime of never ceasing generation by which I see the Plants that lately were intomb'd within the Bowels of the Earth now to regain a Resurrection and lifting up their heads again to heav'n as 't were in thankfulness unto that power that so redeem'd them from their Winter sleep How beautiful and lovely nature seems like to a Bride upon her nuptial day How gay the flow'rs with what variety of colours tinctur'd by the artful hand of their Creator while their sweetness strives in emulation for preheminence How rich a Sallad does the fields aford as food for them that then are food for us How wonderfully hath his providence inrich't the paths on which we heedless walk with these innumerable plants indued each with ' its several property and use whose various knowledge he has granted to the mind of man to suit them to his ends of Health or Pleasure ' mongst the branches see how chearfully the birds express their joyes for this sweet season by their merry notes sporting themselves in the light Region and then descending to the Earth for food or to the purling streams to wet their throats when dry with chirping and then lift their heads unto the skies in thankfulness as 't were for their Creators bounty Pretty things how brisk they are that lately hung the head opprest with hardship of the Winter past yet then our heav'nly father's providence provided for them not a Sparrow but was the peculiar object of his care And how much more shall we pertake thereof that have so great interest in his love we are more dear than sparrowes so sayes he that bought us we were deer to him indeed then let distrust or fretfull care no more oppress our spirits while we have a God that careth for us we will rest on him And now my eyes that have the priviledge of other things by a restringent nerve to have your sight inabled to ascend into superiour objects that we might so comprehend the whole Creation and therein contemplate your Makers Glory look to that glorious place that 's pav'd with Stars where those great Worlds of light the Sun and Moon perform their courses and give lawes thereby unto our times and seasons while the rest within their several Orbs do variously point out such knowledge to the mind of Man whereby he see 's how lower bodies are govern'd by their higher influence And yet this goodly spangled covering and Roof of this inferiour Ball whereon we sojourn but the outside is of those same glorious dwellings of the Soveraign of all where he compast with numerous hosts of Angels raigns in everlasting bliss There there 's our center thither we aspire and long to leave this our imprisoning Earth that thither we might mount unto those joyes that there attend our coming purchased and then prepared by our gracious Lord Who keeping there possession for us we ev'n long to meet with he alone it is that is our Hope our Life our Crown our bliss Visus What goodly creature 's that in yonder walk Some Angel sure in mortal habit that comes to invade us with astonishment How well those brave attires become her ●eat proportion'd limbs But what a Syren face Crowns all their lustre tempting smooth and fresh enough to make the bloud dance in the veins of the most frozen-hearted Anchorite Empir Whence this surprise How came that amorous g●… stoln from the serious contemplation of Natures far more innocent delights Thus treach'rous still forbear too well we know the danger in those secret glances ly we have an Enemy within our breast to whom these objects first transmitted by your treacherous conveyance will imbrace them with the heats of base and lustfull fires so you betray that holy purity of our intentions to a brutish Fiend Thus holy David by a wanton glance was foil'd and cast into the snares of Lust which made him when recovered to pray to have his eyes with-held from Vanity Thus patient Job that knew the danger too of these same spies bound them by Covenant never to look or gaze upon a Maid O strange deceits of these our sences how alas how oft have we betrayed bin by these adul'trous glances When our eyes have set our heart on fire with flames of Lust lew'd books and images that have conveyed wanton imaginations into us And stain'd the purity of our best thoughts O never may we see those dayes again What are these creatures we so dote upon fine polish't dust that soon will cheat the hopes of those that most desire them with a quick return to wrincles and deformity Beautie 's a fading flow'r that soon decayes and ends at last in rottenness and stench And so my senses all you dote upon Will take their farewell in Corruption Faith But I discerne incorruptible joyes suitable objects for a deathless Soul that when these temporary pleasures shall languish into their Sepulchres of dust shall bless them with an endless Vision of the Creators Glory whom thou then shal't see no more by the reflection of these same outward things but face to face there shall we see with ravishment of Joy Our Saviour cloth'd with that precious flesh in which he suffered glorifyed with all the Royalties of his great Deity there shall we see in a full Vision all the great Counsels of our God reveal'd in Order unto our Redemption And all the secret causes of these things that here our understandings blunted by our fall are impotent in peircing through Whereby the Soul in Extasies of wonder rapt shall behold her great Creators Glory and Joy therein for ever these are sights blessing the mind with pure and true delights Audit But what a voice was there when now she sung the Spheres did nere afford such harmony so ravishing as were those melting airs that in delicious quavers flowed from the pretty lips of that same lovely Dame Faith Is there such Musick then in mortal breath that 's scattered with the wind decayes and dyes what ravishment and raptures must there then need 's ' tend the Ecch's of heav'ns londer Joyes when in triumphant songs those glorious hosts of Saints and Angels Halelu-jah's chant to their Creators Glory Tactus O how soft and delicate are those plump lips of her's how would they melt in lushious Vapours to the close impression of an amorous kiss Faith O folly of a Youthfull fancy thus to tempt a Soul unto such sensual thoughts those amorous touches and imbraces may please you a while but when your Idle Clay shall moulder into rottenness and