Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	speak_v	6,346	5	5.2623	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39789	A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world wherein the greatness, littleness, and lastingness of bodies are freely handled : with an answer to Tentamine [sic] de Deo by S.P. ... / by N. Fairfax ...	Fairfax, Nathaniel, 1637-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing F131; ESTC R6759	116,406	248

being now here next now in the furthest corner of the world without taking point by point the room that lyes between and this power they have too as being not body We say then again That motion a thing as truly not body as ghost is may happily upon that score be so far quickned by ghost at least or so high wrought up in its own kind as to hale the thing stirr'd in the utmost speed beyond the steppings of atome by atome after its kind So a body having bequeath'd it one degree of sturt or yerk in one now of time and hitching thereupon one atome of room may upon taking in ten or twenty degrees of the same in the next sturt to many atoms in length Now it being as easie for a body to take in ten or twenty degrees of starting in one now as to take in one Start or swiftness not being body in it self cannot be measured as intended in degrees by that which measures body as extended in parts it seems not to bear very hard upon reason that it should also undergo the brunt of them as of one As then the effect of one taken in in one now was a start of one atome of room in one now of time the taking in of twenty such degrees in such one now should also beget a skip of twenty such atoms in one such now Though the foul seems to have much the better of it as to the body while in it as doing things often against the grain of the body and more like it self when the body cannot do many things against the souls will nor any against its kind though the things be never so friendly to body as body Yet this sway that the soul has over the body will not help us out in the shewing how body may be carried out to the doing beyond it self as such when rous'd up by a thing not body which has gotten the mastery of it For the souls business in the wagon or vehicle of the body is not to ride it full speed but to breath it fair and soft rather to ride in state than to ride post ennobling the body by its curious draughts and trails of enlivening sprightlinesses not jading it in the great road of bare motion which other stirr'd bodies are wayfaring in That therefore whence I think a little light will dawn towards us in these mists is this to wit Some instance of Gods impowering ghost either by bare leave or by biding to boot to run body so far off its legs as to hurry it on nearer the pace of ghost than that of it self yet without insouling or inlivening of it Thus if any faith may be had to story we have tales enough to make a Thomas believe that spirits have brought bodies into a room in the twinkling of an eye and by as clever a slight wafted them away in another and that they have in a bodily shape told some as at this now what is done at a place scores or hundreds of miles off which upon search have been found to have been done there as near as could be driven but the moment before it was spoken yonder Of which to name one the Devil of Mascon falls not much short whether you look upon the feats done or the witness of the story that speaks them so But to be sure one who could never mistake himself nor mistel us has said flatly that our Blessed Lord was so suddenly wafted into the midst of his Disciples Luke 24. 36. that of above 22 eyes none could see him coming thither till they beheld him standing there And though they might well believe their eyes while he stood that it was a body by standing there yet 't is said they were frighted to think that it must be a spirit in its coming thither they being no more able to ken the body through the glancing of the spirit that brought it than they could the speed of a spirits glancing even without body And as his coming was thus over-quick to be seen by those eyes that can see from earth to heaven in a moment so his going away from two a little before was of the same kind v. 31 He vanisht out of their sight not that the body turn'd to a nothingness but to an unseenness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And such to end was his farewel While he blessed them he parted and was carried up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the very blessing he was carried It was so soon upon it that the Spirit of God did not think meet to say it was after it Though indeed we read from one Gospeller That after the Lord had spoken he was received up yet he does not say it was after these words of blessing but might be only after what he was speaking of foregoing Or if he did take in this he does not say after but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be at among or about there as well as it must be elsewhere Luk. 24. 5. And if it be said that our Lords Body was a spiritual body we must also say that if it was not true body as well as spiritual it could not be truly a spiritual body What we would gather hence is this That if a body whilst a body may be so oversway'd by ghost within it as to brush through many atoms of room in fewer nows of time it may happily be that that unbodily thing call'd motion without ghost may be so far intended beyond what the body in which 't is is extended as to bring it to a like swiftness So that if all the motion with which God at first quickned the world were made over to one small body just holding way with time in its motion and all the rest at a dead stilness time all the while holding on its even by-run 't is not methinks altogether unlikely but that this body which ran even a breast with time from the motion which it had before should now give time the go-by with what it has gotten since and is over-glutted with But to break off from this so great a stamme to the mind rather wishing we could give more light in it than blissing our selves in that already given We go on to the following which may seem to have beset the mind as narrowly with wrack and night as any of the foregoing We have it with the former father'd upon Empiricus thus Take a line of nine points and imagine two least bodies pacing with even speed from the two ends to the middle that they may meet there 't is needful that the fifth or middle point should be halv'd between them there being no reason why one should engross the whole more than the other when yet the places and bodies mov'd in them are for-taken to be altogether without parts To which by way of fore-runner we ananswer That if the Argument be of any force at all it will hold as strongly against time's being made up of nows as body's being