Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	blood_n	body_n	nourish_v	3,797	5	10.3232	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62084	The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes.	Sikes, George.	1667 (1667)	Wing S6322B; ESTC R220778	50,008	113

ruler and King He being the only creature for whose sake they were all made stands obliged to return praise unto God for himself and them They are all freely given unto him and he ought to give up himself unto God and in himself all the rest They received not what they have for themselvs Man is the only receiver properly and God the only giver And there arises a natural obligation in the receiver to the giver from the gift received especially when great and freely given The gift is all that man has in his own nature and all that inferiour creatures have in their natures for his use There is no naturall debt or obligation on them to God nor can they perform any such thing Man alone is obliged to paythe debt of pure obedience and thankfulnes unto his creatour for himself and all the rest He is not obliged to inferiour creatures for the service they perform to him because they serv him not by choice but naturall necessity He only is bound unto God for all as affording therein food for his body and instruction to his mind CHAP. VI. Man is to be weighed and considered of by his parts that it may be known of what value he is MAn can not fully know how much he is obliged unto God for himself unless he rightly know of what value he is 1. For this we may first consider him by his general parts as comprehending in his nature and composition whatever is to be found in the whole creation He has being with things of the first degree life with those of the second sense with things of the third And the being life and sense they have are inferiour to the being life and sense he has in conjunction with reason and are designed for the mainteining of his being life and sense as the end for which they were given The rational powers in man ought to rule over these inferiour generall parts of him his being life and sense as also over all inferiour creatures that have the like The generall parts of man then are four being life sense reason The three inferiour are more excellent in him then in other creatures by personal union with the fourth All inferiour creatures then by being yeilded up to the service of man as appointed attein in him a more excellent kind of being life and sense then they have in themselvs to wit a humane being and life of sense But although as they do enter the composition of man they are advanc'd beyond what they are in themselvs such their advance by a personall conjunction with rational powers is gradual and proportionable to the different worths thereof The elements in man's composition are the immediate seat of vegetative life which he has in common with herbs and trees Vegetative life is the immediate seat of sensitive sensitive with all its parts and powers is the immediate seat and servant of the rational powers and operations The rational or intellectual life of man having no other created kind of life superiour thereunto ought to be the seat or throne wherein God alone is to sit and rule the whole man and all the world made for man's use and put together in his constitution The will and understanding of man ought to be yeilded up unto God in order to their becomming in seperably united with and subjected to his mind and will Thus as all other creatures come to be united in man so do they all in and with man come to be united with God Man by the resignation of his will and understanding unto God is therein immediatly united with God Other parts or powers of life in man are mediatly by his rational or intellectual powers united with God as sensitive life in man is united immediatly with his rational but vegetative life mediatly by the sensitive The whole world as brought together in man comes to be inseperably united with God that made it when man comes to be so united with his maker Every man that declines or rejects the means and way of being brought into such unchangable union with God does what in him lies to frustrate and render void the principal intention of God in creating the world The rest of the world was made for him He therefore is of more value then all the rest and is more obliged to God for himself then for all the rest He is responsible or accountable unto God for himself and for the whole world as made for him He ought therefore to seek out and gaine as right and cleer a knowledg as he can as to what he has received from the hand of God both in himself and other creatures that he may the better know and pay the debt thereby contracted to his creatour 2. We may weigh and consider man in the two principall parts of his composition body and soul. His body is fearfully and wonderfully made admirably organized for all manner of operations of his threefold life vegetative sensitive and rational He is more bound unto God for his body only then for the whole world besides But much more yet is he obliged to him for his soul. In tbe body we find a multiplicity and diversity of excellent and fit organs in the soul a proportionable multiplicity and diversity of excellent faculties whereby it is enabled to use all those organs and perform all those various offices and functions in and by the body which are conducible to the good of the whole person An artist has divers instruments for various artificial purposes the soul on like account his divers bodily organs or instruments for various natural uses Man has a kind of Kingdom as wel as world within himself In this kingdom are three orders or distinct powers lowest middle and supream 1. The lowest powers of life and operation in man the nutritive augmentative and generative all of them comprehended under the vegetative have four attendent of subservient faculties with in the compass of vegetative life and operation to wit the attractive retentive digestive and expulsive powers These all are as labourers and merchants in the kingdom of man They do incessantly labour to sustein and keep up the other more noble orders and excellent powers of this kingdom within man If they perform not their severall offices and respective charges the whole fabrick fall's the man dies and the kingdom is dissolved The office of the attractive or appetitive power is to desire and receive food The office of the retentive to keep it in when received The digestive and concoctive powers do gradually prepare and transform it into flesh blood and spirits The expulsive cast's out the superfluities by way of evacuation sensible as also insensibly by perspiration through the pores of the body By this means is the body nourished augmented and fitted for generation All these offices does the vegetative power of life in the soul of man perform by various bodily organs or instruments and without them it cannot exercise any