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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A50563	XII visions of Stephen Melish a Germane being such as concern the affairs now in agitation between the French King & the Pope. Translated by Albertus Otto Faber.	Melish, Stephen.; Faber, Albert Otto, 1612-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing M1645; ESTC R217795	9,592	20

there was no body that would or could help it all was very terrible beyond expression But towards the South all was changed into smoak insomuch that because of the fume nothing was to be seen And westwards in blood But from the East did arise a fair bright morning-red Aurora underneath blood-red and from thence a round Rainbow extending it self from the East to the West and a loud Voyce was heard but I could not understand what what it said The XII Vision I was in a great Hall with high and cleer Windows wherein a multitude of People was assmbled and behold a great storm of rain came and the clouds fell down by pieces in the river whence it did mightily increase insomuch that it reached unto the Windows of the said Hall nevertheless it run away by the sides very swiftly Instantly there did appear a great brightness from Heaven that we could not bear it therefore we did close the windows fearing some tempest But behold a great Sun coming from the North-east where he doth arise in the Summer did shine so bright and burn so exccedingly that I know not how to declare it or to describe and express it by any similitude whatsoever And in it was written something in Hebrew letters And behold all did begin to break all round about us was undone at once and brought to nothing at all insomuch that we as it were hung in the aire And at the same instant was heard such a noise ratling over and overturning and an alarm that I cannot express it In which terror I lay a while before I came again to my self and could remember how it was with me also because of fear and anguish I knew not what I should pray say or sing Out of a Book that treates concerning the Conversion of the Jews written by a Germane Lady Anna of Medem 1641. The IV. CHAPTER BEing so far spent in my disease that there was no hope of life at all they took me off from my bed and put me upon the straw according to the custom of that country like a dying person Then I sunk into a very deep sleep and I was as it were truly dead But there I saw a strange man who had two different bodies with all the members of men but one onely soul of which both the bodies had their life The one was fair of face but the other had an ugly countenance This now that was of so ugly a fashion dyed and was carried away from the remaining living body asunder into another chamber Then the other living body came unto the dead body and spake to them that had carried him forth thus A● how horrid looks now my dead body stinks so ugly Now I first see how ugly my countenance and form hath been when it was alive Now as I thus considered of that strange man and much wondered at him saying What is that for a man God hath never created such a man Then there was made an answer unto me Thou hast well said For in the beginning God has created man like unto his image in sincere holiness and justice and immortall But by the Devils envy Death is come into the world and through Sin it has pierced thorow into all men because they have all sinned And as concerning this strange vision the signification of it is this The man with those two bodies and one soul being partly fair and alive to the contrary partly ugly dying and remaining dead that is the regenerated man every one in his particular person created after God In whom are two contrary natures called the Old man and the New man spirit and flesh like as thou hast seen that the one was very ugly and stunk Likewise nay more horrid is the na●ural man with all his bad concupiscences or lusts before the eyes of God Now as the ugly died so must that corrupted Adamical flesh with all his bad lusts die in the regenerated man and quite perish For like as the dead was separated from him who remained alive So also must a true Christian deny all the dead works serve the true God alone with a clear heart And as the living did not sooner acknowledg his ugly shapethen after the others death So the naturall man as long as sin has dominion in his mortall body cannot acknowledge his corrupted nature how that from the soal of the foot even unto the crown of the head there is no soundness in it but wounds bruises and putrifying sores that have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with ointment Isa 1. Yea like an unclean child that lies yet in his blood not being bathed so is the regenerated man until God have born him again given him grace that through his Spirit he might kill the old Adam At that time he can acknowledg by the grace of God how greatly he had been corrupted by hereditary sin since he came forth from his mother Thereupon he begins to praise the Lord God in Heaven the fountain of all pureness that he hath purified him So still he hath a hatred against sin denieth himself cast forth all self-love Yea absolutly given over unto God in his will with all he hath in the innermost of his Soul body Then he begins to live first of all accordingly the Image of God is to be renewed again For like as in a troubled water that is moved agitated by wind a Man cannot see his image so the image of God cannot be seen in a heart moved by the Winds of this World the lusts of the eyes the lusts of the flesh the pride of Life and the hope upon perishing things and troubled by the dirt of riches covetousness and ambition This is now the declaring of the man with two bodies and one Soul God will be pleased to kill in us all bad lusts and stirr us up by his grace that we might serve the living God in holiness and righteousness according to his will and pleasure FINIS