Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	body_n	faith_n	4,273	5	5.2454	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42228	The mourner comforted an epistle consolatory / written by Hugo Grotius to Monsieur Du Maurier the French embassadour at the Hague ; translated on a sad occasion by C.B.; Epistola consolatoria ad Benjaminum Auberium Maurerium, Regis Christianissimi apud Foederatas Belgii Provincias legatum illustrissimum. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1652 (1652)	Wing G2114; ESTC R1086	13,310	35

unto my self I have seen Him shining with divine Majesty and by his immediate authority was converted and vowed to be his servant whom before I had persecuted And can any one yet be doubtfull Certainly never did any equall Judge reject so many witnesses men of integrity and such as had no temptation to make a lye This testimony is so farre from being gainfull to us that we must pay for it with the losse of all things for the saving whereof lyes are wont to be invented Therefore doe we incurre the hatred even of our nearest Relatives we are dispossest of our Estates we are banisht from our Countrey we are in hazard of our life every day No man at so dear a price doth buy the pleasure of deceiving another Now if our testimony be received by amost evident example it is manifest that God can restore life to a dead body And by the same Argument it is evinced that this shall be done for all the Disciples of Christs institution if that be certain which was certainly heard by many thousands that Christ hath promised it For the Resurrection of our bodies is assured by Christs testimony the veracity of Christ is witnessed by his Resurrection Neither could it stand with the equity of God to give that honour to one that spake not the truth especially when himself before the event had set it for a sign Wherefore beleeve us that Christ is risen and beleeve Christ that all shall rise to immortall blessednesse and blessed immortality who die his Disciples He shall present us to the Father who hath once obtained such grace with the Father that no request of his can ever be in vain He shall make us partakers of his glory and bring us into those places where dwels an undisturbed peace where neither diseases shall approach the body nor vices have accesse unto the minde where shall be life without fear of death and joys without mixture of sorrow Some taste of this supper have the souls already that are departed hence in the faith of Christ in most sweet tranquillity waiting for the consummation of their felicity together with the bodies He that heartily beleeves these things must needs be so far from lamenting that he will congratulate their happy condition whom he hath sent away before him to the enjoyment of our common hopes For in a true judgement they are not dead but freed now at last from their mortality This place of Paul hath carried me farther then I intended whilest I endeavour to examine every one of his words and the force of them For I am assured there can be no better remedy applied to sorrow then that which the great Physician of souls among the infinite treasures of saving wisedome hath brought down from Heaven And yet how many things have I omitted which might be drawn from the fame fountain But those considerations that we have deduced thence if they be taken to heart and received throughly will be sufficient Beleeve it excellent Sir as if you saw it the soul of your wife for many reasons most beloved begins already to enjoy the sweet fruits of her virtues and tasteth the rewards promised to sincere piety The end and consummation of so many ages when she shall be wholly restored to her self that immense accumulation of all good things to which all that can be imagined is far inferiour is not expected afar off as by us but lookt upon by her at the nearest distance What she hath in possession is so great that she wanteth nothing and yet that is more which she seeth she shall possesse Nor have you any reason to say She might have stayed longer before she went thither Time is some advantage and it is a great felicity to be quickly happy How many evils partly certain partly uncertain doth he escape who is called hence betimes How many are the examples of men that have paid dear for the lengthening of their life I might here relate the torments of diseases and the affronts of fortune never more to be feared then when she flattereth and the incommodities of old age which every man that lives long shall be sure of This one thing seemeth to me a sufficient benefit of an early death to be put out of danger of sinning any more It remains that you say I am not sorry for her sake but my own And to this I was now coming for that is wont to be said but how unjustly any one may easily understand whose ejulations have not made him deaf to the voice of reason He that flyes to this refuge manifestly shews himself an offender against the laws of friendship For they that fetcht the originall of friendship from indigence were entertained with the hisses of almost all Philosophers nor among the common people whose manner is to measure most things by profit could they make good their cause In friendship the Affection goes abroad and without self-respect seeks the good of another Applauses fill the Theater as oft as any Pilades derives upon himself the dangers of Orestes so prone is the consent of men to esteem it the office of a friend in an equall matter to prefer his friends safety before his own How much more ought the sense of our own incommodity and losse be swallowed up by the felicity of one we professe to love when we consider here is much more of good then there of evill Zopyrus is commended in the story because he cut and dismembred his own body to the end his King might obtain a great yet but one City In this case there was some comparison but in yours if in the one scale you put your wife advanced to the very gates of Eternity enjoying the society of Christ and the blessed souls free from every thing that may occasion either grief or fear in the other scale place your self destitute of those commodities which a happy matrimony prolonged for some more years might adde unto you there will be found no weight in your part of the balance the beam will not stand at all but speedily turn with the great weight on the other side as if on yours were nothing What if I acquit you from this comparison and convince you that your incommodities weighed by themselves are nothing really but only in opinion For wherein is he more unhappy who hath lost a wife then he who never had one In opinion there is some difference for the memory of the thing once possessed represents the image the image excites the desire but this is the judgement of the lower bench we may appeal Let your Reason aided by so much experience and instructed by so much reading sit in the Judgement-seat and pronounce the sentence That which is past is not and therefore can have no efficiency nothing is ours but whilest we have it afterward it pertains no more unto us then that which is farthest from us Really then He that never had and he that now hath not are in the