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spirit_n	body_n	call_v	soul_n	13,519	5	5.4839	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

he sawe a peece of barlie bread which turned into the Campe of Madian and came to his pauillion and beate it to make it fall and then returned when the pauillion was fallen The same may appeare in the Dreames of Nabuchadnezzar in respect of things prefigured in the forme of a high Image and a great as it is set downe in Daniel But for so much as the manner of Dreames aboue sayd seemeth to be very strange and altogether vncredible by reason of the Sympathie spoken of before and that there be some skilful mē who holding it impossible that which some go about to haue to bee beleeued of that Sympathie betwixt earthly heauenly things are perswaded it is impossible from thence to haue such intelligence Others who are of opinion that this Sympathie both may bee and is suppose for instāce the Sympathie betwixt the starres of the North and the Adamant stone whereas wee see continually that those starres draw that stone Likewise we see that certaine flowers open and shut after the approaching departing of the Sunne That the Nightingall and the Cuckow both grow hoarse at the rising of Syrius the Dogge starre that the humours abound in the full Moone afterward diminish In like manner that some constitutions of starres can gouerne and maintaine and on the contrarie others corrupt the humours in some parts of the bodie And for confirmation hereof they alleadge vs a reason that God in the beginning hath giuen and ingrafted in euery of his creatures made by his owne hand a speciall vertue and a secret propertie which are hid and contained in the seedes of them from whence successiuely are procreated all corporall things receiuing their forme by a commixtion and temperature of qualities according to that order of nature which God hath appoynted And although the starres so drawing the Adamant stone haue not a power or vertue to giue entyre formes to creatures themselues yet notwithstanding the world below being compassed with the heauen as it is and all that it containeth as wel in respect of things created as generated they are all gouerned and maintained by a diuine power of a celestial light and the especial vertue of the aire which not only shines through darknes as the common sort doe imagine but containeth in it an excellent and diuine vertue sustaining with a life-making heate al the creatures of the world according to the course of nature for as one sayth the heauen so commādeth the earth as God commandeth the Angels the Angels men men beasts the soule the bodie the reason the appetite Neither must we think that these creatures are onely maintained by their proper seede and the mixture of the qualities aboue said but likewise that there is another vertue proceeding from the heauenly light which doth sustaine gouerne them in most miraculous manner the vaines and arteries shining like little flames in naturall bodies doe shew vnto vs plainly the spirituall vertue that is in them likewise in men the spirits and the naturall heate which sustaines them for euen as the light of the fire comming out of the flint constantly shewes it selfe vntill that be consumed which is enlighted euen such a light commeth from aboue which gouerneth and sustaineth as a nurse all the liuing creatures belowe Master Barlasse in the second day of his weeke speaketh fitly to that purpose and saith Cela se voit a laeil dans le brulant tison Son feu court vers sa natale Maison Son aer vole en fumee en cendre chet saterre Son aeau bout dans ses naeus vne semblable querre Tient en paix nostré corps la Terre est sa chaire Semee de maint os au lieu de maint rocher Dans les vitaux esprits git son aer sa flamme Dans les humeurs son flot et le ciel dans son amé Then from this coniunction and heauenly allyance proceedeth a meruailous concord and naturall agreement betwixt heauenly and earthly bodies There is no man who findeth not in himselfe the vertue proceeding from the Sunne beames which in the exposition of Iosephs dreame is called the Father and nourisher as it is written in the second booke of the antiquities of the Iewes The bodies spirits of all things are recreated by the rising of the Sunne The soule is as it were awaked with a certaine nimblenes finding a wholesome fine time by the good disposition of the ayre On the contrarie we growe drowsie melancholie and as it were in a deadly lethargie by the indisposition and change of the ayre The naturall constitution and complexion of men changeth after the manner of the foure seasons in the yeare wee see a mans spirits to bee more quicke and nimble at one time then another without any manifest discerning of cause why It is the aboue named heauenly light which awaketh in vs some part of that vertue which she lent vs at our first beginning hereby happeneth the change of flowers of the beastes before mentioned of the inclination of the Adamant towards the North. In like sorte if we would suppose the foresaid coniunction and naturall agreement which is in the creatures aboue mentioned we should finde it no whit strange the Sympathie which is saide to bee betwixt some heauenly and earthly bodies which is made by an interchangeable touch of the supposed naturall coniunction consisting in the agreement of their formall qualities Thus much of Sympathie Notwithstanding all that wee haue said both concerning the singular vertue of the starres causing the foresaide presaging dreames as also in respect of Astrologie it selfe there is an opinion at this day quite contrarie For Nicodem Frischlin a late Astronomer holdeth it as a Paradoxe that none of all the starres haue any vertue either generall or speciall vpon the things belowe and hee derideth all those who think the Starres haue vertue to warme to coole to drie to moysten And in like manner that neither Aries Leo Taurus or any other of the celestiall signes haue any force to affect the things belowe Moreouer that the art of Astrologie and all the credit it hath vntill present time was inuented by the craft and subtletie of the Chaldaeans and Arabians who following the fables of Poets haue themselues imposed the names to the signes in the Zodiacke and to the other starres which are obserued at this day whereat the heathen themselues scoffed as Ouid. Vacca sit an Taurus non est cognoscere promptum Pars prior apparet posterior a latent Or Cowe or Bull if it be it cannot well be knowne The former parts are seene the hinder be not showne By meanes whereof hee maintaines it a thing impossible either to measure the height of the heauen aboue or the depth of the earth belowe according to the testimonie of the Prophet Ieremie saying If the heauens can