Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	death_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,853	5	11.4614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17486	Concerning the true beleefe of a Christian man a most excellent and profitable dialogue, by S.C. Herevnto, besides the marginall notes, declaring the chiefe points of doctrines, there is added a godlye and lightsome prayer, which in certain breefe petitions, comprehendeth the very contents of the vvhole vvorke: vvritten in Latine, by Abraham Fleming Londoner borne. To the right Reuerend Father in Christ, Iohn Bishop of London. Translated out of Latine, by Arthur Golding.; De vera Christiani hominis fide. English.	Wittewronghelus, Jacobus.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607. A godly and fruteful prayer.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1582 (1582)	STC 4301; ESTC S109605	31,186	106

VVhich walke not after the flesh but after the spirite it is bitter and of very few beleeued And to make few words men do easily beleue that they shall reape with ioy but if you tel them that they must sow with teares they put that sentēce ouer vnto Christ. Herevpon it commeth to passe that the false prophets because they teach delectable things blaze abrode Gods pleasaunt promises with open mouth do easily find credit wheras the true prophets because they vrge men and make them afraide with threats and teach the truth seuerely do beare sway among very fewe according as Esay crieth out Lord who hath beleeued our preaching Heereby it appeareth playnly my Lewis that self-loue is the let that men beleue not the trueth And if selfeloue were done away they would beleeue nothing so easily as the trueth as who are borne vnto trueth and do by and by fall in acquayntaunce with it as a thing of their owne kinne if there be no impediment to let it Therefore if you will rightlye beleeue the trueth that is to say God you muste needes put away selfeloue or rather conceiue a hatred towards your selfe Levv. Truly Frederik you win me to be of your minde in these things but it is no smal matter for a man to hate himself Nother do I see how I may attaine vnto it or yet perceiue whether it be possible for me to attaine thereto I am so farre in loue with my selfe Fred. I know Lewis that it is a very hard thing and passing the strength of man but in this case we must beare in minde how that whē Sara beleued not y t she might breede child our Lord said of her Is there any thing which god can not do The things y t are vnpossible to man are possible to God wher god is our guide nothing is to be despayred of Lew. I beseech you then shewe me the way to attayne thervnto Fred. By Gods leaue I will do it giue eare vnto me If I had a Seruant in whom I very much delighted fayrespoken and seruisable whiche should prepare me some meates that best liked mine appetite with the same meates should mingle poyson to bereeue me of my life and you who loue me should haue knowledge thereof what would you doo Levv. Surely I would spedily and earnestly giue you warning that you should not taste of those meates nor loue that seruant for that he lay in wayte for your life Fred. What if I should say that I am delighted with the seruisable behauiour of that seruant and with y e sweetnes of his cooquerie Lew. I would counsel you that you should not make so great account of your present pleasure as to loose your life for it Fred. What if some friende of yours were in loue with a flattering and a peinted harlot whiche were diseased with the Frenche pockes and you knew of it what would you do Levv. I would make him priuie to her disease and to the vttermost that I could I would disswade him from her companie Fred. What if he sayde he were delighted with her Lew. I would tell him that Fishes also are delited with baytes but yet that it were folly to purchase so small pleasure with so great sorrowes or rather with death Fred. What if he should say that he can not but like well of the pleasure Levv. I would counsell him that if he could not yet restrayne the desire of his minde he should at leastwise resist it and not yeeld to obey it Fred. But what if he obeyed it for all that Lew. Then would I think him foolisher then the brute beasts and worthy of any mischief For fishes wolues foxes puttocks and such other be they neuer so hungry wil neuerthelesse forbeare the bayte if they spye or mistrust any snare or any thing wherewith they may be caught Fred. You saye trueth Lewis Thus then standeth y e case Euery mans own flesh is as a Harlot as Iudas termeth it in his Epistle yea and a peinted harlot which with her inticements fayrefawnings doth allure delight egge the man to sinne hold him down in sinne and at length throw him headlong into death of the soule And man beeing ignorant of the poyson imbraceth the pleasures yeelds himself ouer to them Now commeth in truth as a friend vnto him warneth him that y e wages of sinne is death declaring vnto him that his flesh whom he tooke to haue bin his friend is his deadly enimie Therefore if thou desire to be saued thou must beleue that thou hast not a more noysome enimie to thee then thy selfe that is to say thē thy flesh or thy lustfulnes that as thou hast hitherto loued it thou must hencefoorth hate it and resist it because it is noysome and deadly And although thou canst not ridde away her allurements out of hande as in deede thou canst not for they sticke fast to thee the trueth wyll saye vnto thee as it sayde in olde tyme vnto Moyses Go thy waye into Egypt for it lyeth in thee to doo that and I will bee with thy mouth and I will inable thee to do that which thou canst not do Euen so Lewis the trueth sayth vnto thee as now Do thou what thou a●t able and God will inable thee to do that whiche thou canst not do As for exāples sake Thou sittest at a well furnished table and hast eaten ynough already to refresh thy powers and to staunch hunger Now there is brought in some delicate dishe made to prouoke gluttony withall By and by thy flesh is tempted with it and putteth suche an imagination as this in thy head This is a fine dish if I eate of it I shall receiue pleasure by it But the spirite striueth against the flesh and warneth thee thus beware Lewis that thou yeelde not vnto voluptuousnes for voluptuousnes is a poysoner For first it calleth away thy minde from God than the which there can be no greater mischiefe For seeing that no man can serue two masters thou canst not serue both voluptuousnes and god because voluptuousnes ouerwhelmeth the minde beareth it downe to the ground and separateth it from God Besides this it also hurteth the body with surfetting insomuche that although thou haddest no soule yet oughtest thou to absteine from superfluitie euen for thy bodies sake I require not now that you should not be tempted with the inticements of the flesh but that you should not obey them And whereas you alledge that you can not but obey them you be easily disproued For if a man would giue you a floren to absteine from the sayde dishe would you not absteine Yes And will you not absteine by reason of the trueth Do you not hereby bewray that the truth beareth lesse sway with you then one floren Or if some man shoulde threaten that he would giue you a blow on the eare if you refrayned not surely you would