Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	quicken_v	5,491	5	10.4511	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25694	An apology for lovers, or, A discourse of the antiquity and lawfulnesse of love by Erastophil, no proselyte, but a native of that religion.	Erastophil.	1651 (1651)	Wing A3544; ESTC R8369	23,849	122

is able to trample upon all extremities of heat and cold and set the Wind and Weather at defiance Certainly whatsoever it be it hath occasioned a great deal of wrangling amongst Philosophers and some of them as * Cicero saith of Velleius Epicurus de nullo magis dubitans quam ne de aliqua re dubitare videretur doubting of nothing more then least they should seem to doubt of any thing and fearing least their silence should seem to confess and acknowledge their Ignorance have given us a Definition of it such as it is Love say they is an Appetition of a Good which is present if there be an Appetition when the Good is absent it is then called Desire If there be a possibility of obtaining this absent Good why then it is Hope but how far short this comes of giving us any true knowledge what Love is I leave every one to judge For the truth of it is the Essence of it is not capable of a definition neither is it demonstrable a priori but we must content our selves with such a rude Description of it as we are able to gather from the Effects taking an imperfect and short View from thence And here me thinks Xenophon gives us some little light who as my Lord of St. Albans saith in his Advancement of Learning observeth truly That all other affections though they raise the Mind yet they do it by distorting and uncomlinesse of extasies and Excêsses onely Love doth exalt the mind and neverthelesse at the same instant doth settle and compose it strange that so different and repugnant Effects should proceed and flow from one and the same Cause and therefore it is elegantly said by Menander saith the same Lord of St. Albans elsewhere Amor melior Sophista lavo ad humanum vitam That Love teacheth a man to carry himself better then the Sophist or Preceptor which he calleth left-handed because with all his Rules and Preceptions he cannot form a man so Dexterously nor with that facility to carry and govern himself as Love can do Let us give a guesse then at the Cause by the Effects for that is all we are able to do and from these gracefull and amiable Operations imagine and conjecture how much more excellent and beautifull that must necessarily be from whence all these beauties and excellencies proceed and are derived For we know the Old Maxime Quod efficit tale illud est magis tale That which makes a thing to be so be it good or bad must needs be more and in a far greater measure so it selfe Now some have undertaken to discover and find out the intricacie of this involv'd and hidden Mystery by several Symptomes some by one and some by another as by the Eye the Pulse c. Concerning the Eye there have been great questions mov'd which are the amourous or the loving Eys Whether the dying or the smiling or the wild such as Aristotle calls in sani the mad eys for all of these have found their assertors who have tooke up the Gauntlet in maintainance and defence of them or again whether it be true what some of the Platonists held That the Spirits of the Lover do pass by the Eye into the Spirits of the Person loved which causeth the desire of return into the body whence they were emitted whereupon say they followeth that Appetite of Vnion which is in Lovers So likewise about the Pulse Whether there be not a love-Pulse or a Pulse proper and peculiar to discover Love by as wee read in Plutarch of Erasistratus the Physitian that found out that young Antiochus the son of Seleucus was in love with the fair Stratonica his fathers Wife by the unusual beating of his Pulse and then again what kind of motion it causeth whether great or little quick or slow or rather quite irregular and altogether confused like to that which is observ'd to be at the point of death at which time the Heart doth so palpitate and tremble that the Systole and Diastole are in a manner confounded This I onely mention to shew how hard a matter it is amidst so many difficulties and diversities of Opinion to state any thing aright concerning this subject Give me leave therefore to draw over the Curtain again and to leave it here seeing we may be rather said to admire then know it as long as we are here upon Earth where we see but onely in Aenigmate tanquam per speculum darkly and in much obscurity To conclude then I say that even God Almighty himself is most happy in that he is most loving infinitly loving or rather * Love it self as St. Iohn speaks the Devil is most unhappy in that he is not capable of this excellēcy and Divine perfection Having therefore the example pattern of so great a Patriarch before us let no Lover hereafter be asham'd to imitate it or write after so excellent a Copy when he reads that Iacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few dayes for the love he had unto her I have now done with the literall and Historicall parts of the Text I shall a little touch upon the allegoricall and so make an end This indeed is the kernel and the marrow the other is but the bone and the shell this is the spirit that quickneth and giveth life the other is but a dead letter for so Saint Paul saith Litera occidit spiritus autem vivificat By Iacob therefore is here meant every Christian Militant upon earth by the service which he indures the afflictions and crosses which he must abide and undergoe in this world by Rachel the Kingdome of Heaven By Seven Years the whole time of his life which will then seeme short and pleasing to him when his Heart is kindled and inflamed with Love towards God and Charity towards his Neighbour Let us but a little consider the vast infinite disparity and disproportion betwixt these things and surely we shall be ashamed to have made the Comparison For what shall Iacob undergo so much sufferance and hardship and that with so great delight and pleasure for a temporal Remand and should not every Christian●●dure much more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nall and far more 〈◊〉 weight of Glory For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is this life but a Stage 〈◊〉 of Misery and Discontent whereon every one acts a sad and sorrowfull part some more some less but every one hath a share Man is born to Misery saith Job as the Sparks fly upwards and how natural it is for light bodies to ascend such as sparks are every one knows What is this life but a Repetition of the same things over and over or as * one elegantly saith a Dull retaining to the Sun and Moon we eat we drink we sleep that we may eat and drink and sleep again and thus the Year runs round And as the same seasons return which were before so do we reiterate the same