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spirit_n	body_n	soul_n	think_v	5,441	5	4.8272	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16327	Helpes to humiliation. By R.B.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; I. S., fl. 1631-1638.	1631 (1631)	STC 3235; ESTC S115297	19,071	176

the first Act Act. 1 viz. Get a sight and survey and full apprehension of all thy vilenesse iniquities transgressions and sinnes the number and nature of them for which purpose take these three helpes Helpe 1 First keepe the eye of thy naturall conscience cleare Helpe 2 Secondly be acquainted with all the wayes thou canst possible to anatomize thy sinne Helpe 3 Thirdly take notice of the guilt of originall sin because a Christian may haue his heart locked vp more at one time then at another Helpe 1 For the first of which viz. the keeping of the eye of the naturall conscience cleare obserue First the rules of the Heathen that never did know Christ Secondly the indowments of the Heathen Thirdly the common notions of nature which were in the Heathen For the first viz The rules of the Heathen that never did The rules of the Heathen know Christ as instance in Lying besides the word of God which banisheth it from Heauen Revel 22.21 by the light of naturall reason Aristotle sayth A lye is evill in it selfe and cannot bee dispensed withall and the reason of it is this wee haue a tongue giuen vs to expresse the truth now if our tongue tell more or lesse then our minde conceiues it is against nature Ribald talking of which many make a sport and rather then they will lose a Iest they will venter to damne their soules Epictetus saith It 's dangerous to digresse into obscenity of speech Cowardize in good causes thinking it good sleeping in a whole skinne Aristotle Ethic. 3. cap. 1. that in some cases a man had better lose his life then be cowardly Drunkennesse the dayes be so drowned in impiety that if a man be not drunke every day hee will take it in a great disgrace if hee be not counted an honest man whereas Seneca sayth it is but a raging madnesse if hee should behaue himselfe so but two or three dayes as he doth when hee is drunkē men would count him mad Mourning immoderately for losse of wife or children Sene. 100. ep Passions of anger Morall Philosophers haue many excellent rules the which if a naturall man would take notice of hee would never be so passionate for they say it ariseth first From a great weakenesse of spirit For were hee manly hee would passe by those things with scorne whereas he shewes himselfe to be of an effeminate spirit and impotent affections From selfe-loue From an over delicacy and too much nicenesse in suffering wrong From a passing proud nature being affraid to be contemned From too much credulity so that if one or two doe whisper hee thinkes they speake something hurtfull of him and is ready to breake out into rage for which passions they giue these rules That thou containe thy body and tongue in quiet That thou say over the Greeke Alphabet before thou say any thing in rage That thou looke thy selfe in a glasse and thou shalt see what an vgly creature thou art in that rage for sayth Homer his eyes sparkle like fire his heart swels his pulse beates c. so that if in this moode hee should see himselfe in a glasse he would never againe be angry The endovvments of the Heathen Secondly observing the endowments of the Heathen Instance 1 For instance Regulus the Romane being taken prisoner of his enemies the Carthaginians and vpon promise of returne if he sped not obtaining to goe home to Rome to treate with the Senate for a commutation of Captiues Carthaginians for Romanes of whom himselfe was one Comming to the Senate he gaue weighty reasons to disswade them from commutation so as chusing rather to abide the certaine cruelty of his enemies then to breake his faith and promise hee returned where hee was most cruelly vsed of them by whose example Christians might be ashamed that make no matter of breaking their promises Instance 2 Fabricius attained to that height of excellency that it was sayd A man may as soone pull the Sunne from its Spheare as that man from his honest and just dealing Instance 3 Cato was so excellent that it is sayd hee did not good for feare shame profit c. but because goodnes was so incorporated into him that hee could not doe otherwise Instance 4 Cambyses stood so stricktly against bribery that a Iudge being taken in that crime hee flayed him and set his skinne in the seate of Iustice and let his son leane thereon that hee might hate that vice Instance 5 Zaleuchus King of the Locrians made a law for adultery that whosoever was taken in that fact should haue his eyes pulled out now his owne sonne being taken in that fault first because he would not violate his own decree pulled out one of his sonnes eyes and one of his owne Common notions in Heathen Thirdly obseruing the common notions of nature which were in the Heathen as All good is to be done All evill is to be avoided Kinde is to be propagated Do as we would be done by God is to be honoured frō whence ariseth this objection namely Quaest Is not this notion extinguished in them that deny God Ans Not vtterly but it generally dwels in them so farre onely they haue vse of it as to leaue them without excuse Rom. 1.19.20 A mans life is to be preserued Now selfe preservation is soe ingrafted into the blood veines that therefore the selfe-murderer sinneth Against God the Father Against God the Sonne Against God the holy Ghost Against the light of nature Against God the Father For the first viz. thou sinnest against God the Father who commandeth Thou shalt not kill and soe thou sinnest Against the image of God in that thou destroyest it Against his Soveraignty for Hee hath appointed thee to worke in his vineyard and thou wilt rather dye c. as if hee were a hard Master that thou darest stay no longer in his seruice Thou dishonourest him and gratifiest his enemy Hee hath planted thee as a tenant at will in this earthly tabernacle and thou beatest it about thy eares Against God the Sonne Thou sinnest against God the Son for Thou art none of thine owne thou art bought with aprice this will helpe thee against the Divels temptations for when hee comes to tempt thee to that sinne say thou art an others ' and not thine owne Thou maymest Christs body in taking away a member of it Against God the Holy Ghost Thou sinnest against God the holy Ghost for Thou pollutest thy soule with blood and It is the office of the Spirit to dwell with vs and It is the office of the Spirit to invite vs to taste of the good blessings of God as Esay 51. Oh! Object but my soule is blacke with sinne Sol. c. This is the action of the Spirit to reveale this vnto thee Against the light of nature Thou sinnest against the light of nature most cowardly and against fortitude thou sinnest against the kingdome against thy neighbour thy family and