Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	life_n	separation_n	6,353	5	10.2058	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97171	Pax vobis or a charme for tumultuous spirits. Being an earnest and Christian advice unto the people of London, to forbeare their disorderly meetings at VVestminster, least they prove to the disturbance of the great businesse in hand, pressed by divers waighty and considerable reasons offered to their serious thoughts. Together with a motion for the speedy reliefe of the poore distressed Protestants in Ireland : and for a publike fast that we may all joyne in harty supplications to God for them. / By Thomas Warmstry Minister of Gods word.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing W886; Thomason E180_24; ESTC R12759	20,943	42

powerfull then the most violent winds Then the most teareing thunder yea then the most enraged flames that any humane fury could kindle or raise against them Neither did they abstaine as some may perhaps object either for want of opposition or through any defect of Christian zeale or of a party to countenance a Tumult Opposition they had enough to provoke them as is well knowne and wee have already declared their zeale Alas yours at the hottest if wee speake of pious zeale is but a sparke unto their flame you may and do I doubt exceed in intemperate heartes But divine zeale it is a benigne flame ever accompanied with humility and charity that a Feaver a disease this a healthfull vigour of the Soule and in this I dare be bold to say they were as farre beyond the best of you as the Sunne at noone beyond an Ignis fatuus neither wanted they a party to have shewed themselves in the matter with as much noise and violence if they had pleased as you have done If you consider either number or unity as you may see if you look upon those great and miraculous increments and numerous collonies that transplanted themselves at once into the Church even by about three thousands at a time as you may read in the acts of the Apostles for their number and if you looke upon that one minde and one heart which was in them which could not but adde much sttength unto their multitude so that their forbearance was not out of any such respects but out of a carefull watchfulnesse not to exceed the Decorum of a Christian moderation and to doe Christs worke according to his owne rule and patterne in whom the strength of the Lion of the tribe of Iudah was joyned with the meeknesse and patience of a Lambe and the wisedome of the serpent with the simplicity of the Dove And surely beloved if we would walke in their stepps it might be a good presumption of our attaining to the like ends Since we if our sinnes have not altered the case have the same God and patron of the same power and mercy to protect the same cause that they had And if our offences have deprived us of him it is not all the violence wee can use nor the most impatient sollicitation we can set upon that can purchase any blessing to the matter in hand Therefore in this respect my advice is unto you and I hope I shall joyne with you to turne your violence in that kind you wot of to an holy violence upon God in your prayers and instant sollicitations of the Throne of grace that with united forces and sanctified importunities you would assault the Allmighty for his mercy and compassion quasi 〈…〉 facta as Tertullian speaketh as an united party and army of Christians in your holy assemblies and this as hee speaketh would be vis Deo grata a force very acceptable in deed unto the Lord but for your Tumultuous assemblies I know no such warrant to judge them pleasant unto him since I see not any Commission you have from God unto that purpose nor any good proportion that they beare unto that issue which wee earnestly hope to be happy in Adde unto this that it is a worke of Medicine or healing not of destruction or dissolution but so far onely as our present tumours and Corruptions make necessary unto that the whole state is that great body to be Phisickt and cured The civill State or the Common-wealth in the outward and pollitique consideration is the outward part or Fabrique the Church in the spirituall consideration may well be taken for the inwards or bowells or if you will the Soule of that body For these two make up but one and the same and differ no futher then the extemall parts or members from the inward or spirituall part of one and the same man And as the outward parts are for the inwards and the body for the soule so the outward state of the Common-wealth is for the Church or spiritual part and as the cure and managing of the body is to be directed principally to the good of the soule so the affaires and carriages of the Civill state to be directed principally to the preservation of the State spirituall in a Christian Common wealth which is the only living body of this kind Heathen states being at the best but dead Carcases void of all inward life as it were And therefore these two must not be separated too farre but joyntly cared for with a principall regard ever had unto the spirituall ends since the greatnesse or flourishing of the Common-wealth is onely so farre truely comfortable and healthfull as it tends to the promotion of Religion and service the of God which is the healthfull constitution of the Church And therefore those Polititians or Statesmen that make Religion and the Church but a meanes unto outward ends they set the Cart before the Horse and are preposterous in their designes The union betwixt these two is like the union betweene the body and the soule which is the uery definition of life the separation if to tall is death and what ever tends thereto leads unto a dissolution And therefore whosoever divides these two too farre and makes them of too different a consideration goes about to divide the forme from the matter For as Anima is tota in toto so I dare bee bould to say the Church is extended or at least should bee through all the members of a Christian Common-wealth so that even the state is an Eclesiasticall body Some conclusions wil follow upon this that might perhaps discover some Paralogismes in the ordinary discourse of these times but I pursue the businesse I have in hand The distempers of the Church are like those extremities and disorders which are in the faculties or passions of the soule The sores of the Common-wealth as the wounds of the body And as in the humane or naturall these two have a mutual coaction or reaction the distemper of the soule causing diseases in the body and on the Contrary the diseases of the body procuring inordinate affections in the soule So here the miscarriages in the Church are the causes of the miscarriage in the Common-wealth and the distempers of the Common-wealth bring forth diseases of the Church And to speake truely I doe more then doubt that for the present wee are vnder a shrewd Complication of these two kinds of diseases therefore it is time to looke after the Phisitian and who is that it will bee worth the knowing The Archiatros or principall Phisition in whose power and skill onely the cure lyeth it is none but God alone under him in the Ministeriall worke both Magistrates and Ministers Some of these are more for outward applications and some for inward of the former sort there are the Magistrates especially the King or as Galen if my memory doth not faile mee saith of a Physition that Medicus debet esse tanquam

Imperator so I may say on the contrary that Imperator debet esse tanquam medicus a King ought to be like a Physitian under him the subordinate Governours for ordinary and particular cures of known and Common diseases the Ministers they are for inward applications The Parliament is that great Councell or Colledge of state Physitians assembled under his Majesty to consider of publike and extraordinary evills which are not so safely to be committed to the skill or faith of particular Men and they are to consider of all sorts of distempers whether inward or outward in Church or State whether they be against our Temporall or Spirituall good and since both these workes are in their hands and agents are to be fitted to their endes I desire it may be seriously waighed whether they should not Consist of both Spirituall and Civill members that may be fitted both for the discovery and remedy of both sorts of diseases And these are the great and extraordinary doctors of the Common-wealth and Church of whom under God wee hope for the cure that the body may againe receive vitall action freely and without interception from the Soule and the soule yeeld it franckly unto the body The Medicines that they are to apply are wholsome and good Lawes for quod Medieamenta morbis id praestant jura negotiis saith the Civill Law So you see it is a worke of medicine or healing and in this respect as it requireth in them skill faithfulnes courage freedome from passion So it concerneth you to demeane your selves quietly whether you reckon your selves to be patients as I confesse I doe or whether as assistants or standers by If patients the very title teacheth you not to be impatient If assistants or standers by you must not trouble or interpose in the worke if you can say any thing that may give light unto the Physitian for the more cleare discovery of the disease doe it in the name of God modestly and peaceably but doe not prescribe to the Phisitians for the Medicine least if you will needs be pleased wee that I say not you be not perfectly cured that Physitian that will yeeld to administer every thing that either the patient longs for or the standers by can talke of shall try many experiments but heale few diseases And give mee leave here to advise you that you be not too earnest for Empiricall receipts that have had some successe in other Bodies the various customes or age or temper of this and the necessities of those may much alter the case and perhaps though the bodies be like the diseases are not the same perhaps the same ingredientes here in this Climate may have another kind of vertue either in nature or degree then they have in other as it is observed of Physicall simples I pray you leave the Physitians to their owne worke and doe not disturbe them with clamorous exactions They are not mett as Cooks in a Kitchin to please your pallats but as Physitians in Conclavi medicinali to displease your diseases and to heale your body Let them alone then and trouble them no longer with I pray you administer this or that but leave it to their skill and care and to the blessing of God and take heed especially you prescribe not to him Lastly it is a worke of reparation of the house or Spirituall Temple of God and therefore as in the building of the Temple there was no noyse of axe or hammer to be heard but all things were to bee done without noyse or tumult so here in this repaire of the Spirituall Temple all things are to bee done without tumult or passion God would not have his holy Arke carried upon Beasts but by men which mee thinkes may intimate thus much unto us that he will have matters of the Church managed not by passions and unruly affections which is the beastly part in us but by calme and quiet reason which is the part which stiles us men At least it is not fit for you to trouble your selves and them in this kinde because of your different constitution and various interest you have in the businesse That your Constitution is different from theirs If you confesse not the distance is so much the greater you will not deny I am con●ident but there are many degrees of wisdome betwixt you I will not say very neere as much as is betweene the sensitive and the rationall It is well if you have enough to steere you right in your private and mechanicall affaires which is your proper station or calling and you may doe well to consider whether you doe well to neglect that businesse God hath set you about to meddle with that you have no calling unto But they are Starres of a greater magnitude and therefore may move in a higher Spheare and you may be content to receive their influences I hope it is not in you all to challenge so much light unto your selves as to judge of lawes being made much lesse to determine and set downe magisterially unto them what constitutions they are to frame And as your constitution is very divers so your interest is not the same with theirs Their calling and commission unto which you amongst others have subscribed engageth them to the well-doing of the worke so far that they are answereable to the great God for all errours and misprisions therein and must goe away either with the glory or the shame of it Your interest is to receive the benefit together with them of their happy designes to reape the harvest of that good seed which they shall sow to gather the fruit of those wholsome plants which they shall plant in the garden of the Common-wealth which I wish may prove unto every one of us as the Garden or paradise of God yeilding forth unto you that mortall fruit of the tree of life and of knowledge free both from the curse of the one or the flaming sword of the other to the eternall comfort of all your soules If this move you not to give over your unquiet motions give me leave to mind you of the generall concernement I might say of all Christendome and the world for I hope this may prove in the event and diffusive good of their determinations to have beene an Oecumenicall Parliament that may open fountaines of truth and peace together with holinesse unto the whole universe to water and make fruitfull all the Barren and thirsty places of the world that like the Sun or Starrs in the Firmament they may disperse the glorious beames of their light into the darkest corners of the Earth But I need not fetch my rise so-farre the generall concernment of the whole state and Church of England if you consider it as you may and ought to doe will yeild you reasonable motives enough to sit down and not to take upon you to be moderatours and beare the sway according to your humours in those affaires which concerne them all unlesse you