Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	reason_n	soul_n	9,368	5	5.4761	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63833	The souls warfare comically digested into scenes, acted between the soul and her enemies vvherein she cometh off victrix with an angelical plaudit.; Divine comedian	Tuke, Richard, fl. 1672.	1672 (1672)	Wing T3228; ESTC R6192	18,701	38

to use me thus and pine me unto death against all reason Enter Reason Satan Reas Good morrow Lady what 's your waiting ma●l and you fal'n out Empir It seems so Sir and 't may be 't is from you we are for even just but now she had your name up Reason Mine good Madam Empir Yes your's good Madam you think it may be we are ignorant of your devices and your tricks to allure her from our service Reas Madam we that are great moderatour of all humane things that hold the golden Scale wherein are weigh'd all humane Actions and Chief Counsellour to truth hold this as a disparagement to our high office that have hitherto been a Peace-maker no we never come where there is brawling ' xcept i be to end the strife and you do wrong us to suspect what never yet occasion offered to your hard thoughts Empir Reason we honour thee Mortals indeed have cause to bless thee and adore thy light whom the grave-Magi of all times have courted and in all civil Bodies hast a place Yea we our selves are stiled rational and this above the rest of ani●als Thy lustre sets a goodly gloss upon these worldly strifes but in heav'nly things th' art wholy blind thy wisdome folly and thy light but darkness these are spiritual that we 're about and you must leave us here They are above you they 'r too high too secret for all your scrutiny Reas how 's that too secret for us we that are Nature's Physician have imbowel'd her to all her woers and by several clues have winded every mistique maze within the Universal labyrinth of the World and trac'd their causes to their entities and then proceeding find them all in one comprised and centred in perfection can more be known to any one then this Empirea Yes Faith knowes more and tells us misteries not to be fathom'd by the utmost line of all thy cunning of the Trinity and that same Hypostatique union of the two Natures Humane and Divine in one The-anthropos and of the great Change at the final dissolution these thou art ignorant of Satan Reason ' I le help thee or thou art ore'thro●●● what madness has possest the Soul to throw durt in the face of him to whom she owes her exc'lencie since to be rational gives her th' advantage of that nobler state whereby she gloryeth over all the rest of animals if Reason lotted were by the great Soveraign of beings to be Judge and President in chief o're all thy family of faculties how durst thou thus abuse her great authority and call her powers in question to set up some new usurping fancies of thy own bred in the breasts of melancholy folk and vented by tradition through the World If thou unthron'st thy reason thus what wilt thou be surviving her authority irrational a stile that levels thee But equal to the state of bruits and beasts Empir Base fe●nd thy bolt is shot thy gin is laid I know thy wiles thy malice and thy spleen in tempting thus our faculties away from their allegiance to their Soveraign who is not Reason but that God that gave her for a friend and helper to the Soul By whose authority she rul'd and raign'd and did dispose as pleas'd her best to do But when perverted by the envious wiles in Paradice she turned Rebel to her God shee lost her self in tyrannie by which o're swaid we hitherto obeyed and followed her dictates running on thereby unto our own destruction But since in mercy it hath pleased God in order to that great Redemption his Son by dying purchased for us to renovate our lapsed Natures by secret infusions of diviner grace we find our selves lost to our selves and not able by any power of our own to gain again that Innocence and peace we lost Reason has lost her power whereby she would conduct us through those armed wayes that lead to happiness On this account do we disclaim her trust yeilding ourselves unto a surer guide yet hereupon we merrit not to be stiled irrational we own her powers where she is able and deserves to rule in civil matters or in moral things But in Divinity we sore too high for her to follow with those lamer wings the fall has left her nor do we decline her principles but rather would sublime them to superiour perfections no way divesting her but seeking to invest her with more noble energies rendring our selves no wayes irrational but rather truely Metaphysical in seeking to regain that glorious state which others that would wise ones counted be and chiefest Friends to reason-slighting and instead thereof choosing a moments space of Pleasures ending in eternal pains before those sure and never-dying joyes shew themselves most irrational of all and such art thou thy self O Lucifer fine breaking thy allegiance to thy God thou of an Angel art become a Fiend Condemn'd to torments that shall have no end But now our reason is grown impotent we readily submit her to the Will of him whose sole commands sufficient ar● as they 'r revealed in his sacred word to claim obedience to th' authority of him who our Creator is and Lord Reason But does that word that thou pretend'st to be such an observour of exact such hard and cruel usage as thy flesh sustains He is the God of soul and body both both a like tendred by his sacred care whose gracious disposition doth prefer Mercy before the goodliest sacrifice Nor would these bodies that he lent unto their Angel g●ests should be abused thereby nor yet the Temples of his spirit be defac'd or spoil'd by cruel usages you are mistaken God requires no such things at your hands Empir Reason thy talk is vain Thy Counsels frivolous who does not know the great concerns of an immortal soul were this our handmaid such a friend to us as she was first ordain'd to be we should use her accordingly but being now turn'd our professed Enemy wee 'l strive to keep her und●r as we solemnly hav● vow'd in our Baptismal Covenant And those rebellious member● th●t are still unruly under that same easie Yoke Our Saviour hath bequeathed unto ●● shall by constraint be made obedient to the Dictates of the heav'n aspiring mind Thus we her by an En●mi● shall subd●e and here●y win that great and glorio●s Crown w●ere●ith ou● l●b●urs ●h●●l rewarded be in heav'n with other of those blessed ones that trampling on their clay'it Cottages did thence ascend into their several thrones And thus St. Paul we find to conflict with more eagerness against these home-bred-foes then e're he did with Beasts at Ephesus keeping his body under and by force subjecting it lest by its fraud or strength he should his hope and glory lose at length What if these Tabernacles may be said to be the Temples of the living God if he will daign to dwell in Tents of Clay shall we not strive to make it an abode fit for his Majesty wee 'l sweep it clean although