Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	970	5	9.6533	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01075	A comparatiue discourse of the bodies natural and politique VVherein out of the principles of nature, is set forth the true forme of a commonweale, with the dutie of subiects, and right of soueraigne: together with many good points of politicall learning, mentioned in a briefe after the preface. By Edvvard Forset.	Forset, Edward, 1553?-1630.	1606 (1606)	STC 11188; ESTC S102531	69,814	116

their persons but to their faults shewing himselfe grieued and vnwilling to afflict them seeking rather their chasticement with pitie than their destruction with crueltie and rather to hold a coniunction with them by the mutualitie of louing offices than to weaken his owne strength by the losse and cutting off the imployable parts of the state publike The welfare and prosperitie of the bodie giueth to the soule sweet contentment as secured thereby from the cares perplexities and griefes which want occasioneth so the plentifull and abundant estate of the subiects is by a good Soueraigne both maintayned and reioyced at sith it giueth to him assurance of supply and comfort in all necessities In the creating of man God is said to haue breathed into him the soule whereby the puritie and dignitie thereof is much extolled aboue that lump of mowlded earth his body So is the place of preheminence of an high maiestie of a more choice and better esteemed worth as being more to the image of God participating more aptly with his greatnes his power his iustice his mercie his wisdome his goodnes and bountie and whatsoeuer els vnspeakable perfection in his vnsearchable essence for if mans gouerning of the creatures be to the image of God then the gouerning of men is much more to that image It was not in the power of the body either to chuse or refuse the soule but his right of admission depended only on the pleasure of his imediate maker I forbeare to force the consequence so farre as wholy to debarre the peoples liking or electing of their gouernors yet somewhat to temper the harshnesse and to restrain the rashnesse of some peremptorie pragmatikes I may be bold from that auerment of the soules imbreathing to propound this application comparatiuely from thence inferred That in this high poynt of principalitie God hath reserued to himselfe this prerogatiue ofbestowing that dignitie according to his owne most vnscrutable counsell By me saith he Kings do raigne And Saint Paul auoucheth That there is no power but of God Yea Homer produceth graue Nestor reproouing of Achilles for his obstinate withdrawing from Agamemnons regiment and his ouerbold contending with the King sith his Imperie was of God True it is that euen in the same phrases all things may be sayd to bee of God and from God as the authour creator preseruer and disposer thereof yet when we find him to single out and appropriat any onething more especially vnto his owne designements wee are there to take notice of his greater respectiuenesse and his ouerswaying greatnesse in the disposing and ordering of that matter beyond the orders and limitations of lawes or customes yea in such a case he conformeth the secundarie causes to cooperate with him to his owne ends as when he framed the peoples hearts and the concurrance of their consents in the electing of Saul and Dauid vnto the kingly office whom notwithstanding he had before himselfe appointed and anointed to that function Wherefore as the soule notwithstanding the mediate meanes of procreation is vsually sayd to bee infused from aboue into the body so the Soueraigne euen in his particular parson but much more the soueraigne authoritie may notwithstanding the approbation of men or any other assisting helps in the establishing thereof be rightly auouched to bee ordained and designed by God himselfe As the soule in imitation of that infinitenesse from which it was first breathed spendeth all his powers with an insatiate desire in the search and inquisition of more and more knowledge endeuouring therby a further dilatation or extention of his nature as to bee like vnto God himselfe so doeth oft times a Soueraigne haughtily conceyted of the likenesse he hath with his ordainer striue with all restlesse thoughts and deare aduentures to inlarge the amplitude of his dominion reckoning it the absolutenesse of perfection to bee extended beyond the compasse of any limitation and then wishing the subduing of many worlds that hee might more neerely resemble the highest God that made and ruleth all the world But vnto them both out of sorrowfull experience I may adde this correcting caueat That such ambitious affectation as it brought vppon the one the depriuation of his former blessednesse so is it commonly punished in the other by the downefall and dissipation of his so exalted state And as the one hath euer since beene stinted at a measure of vnderstanding acquirable by the organs of the body the which to seeke to exceed is a renouncing of humilitie yea a forgetting of our humane imbecilitie a curiositie beyond sobrietie so is each soueraigne power listed confined to his owne territories maynteinable by the strength therof the which who so is not cōtented with is accoūted blamable of a presumptuous vniust vsurpation beyond the boūds to him assigned In that the soule is authour of action and motion in the body passiue himselfe being neuer idle it sheweth by similitude that the soueraigne doth vncessantly care and labour for the publike good and that his place is not as some vayne heads imagine the seat of idlenesse and pleasure but that his crowne is accompanied and euen encompassed with so many restlesse thoughts and stinging cares as affoordeth him but small respit of ease no not in the night season as Homer describeth his Agamemnon Howsoeuer the body be termed passiue in regard of the soules working in and by his instruments yet vnto it also the soule imparteth his power of mouing and acting and the more noble parts thereof bee the more indued and inabled with the soules best and worthiest faculties So is all superioritie and commaund in the state deriuatiuely branching from the supreme principalitie and the subiects of best sort fittest for vse and imploiments do share the greatest portion of such their soueraignes subdiuided authoritie the remembrance meditation whereof cannot but adde vnto such designed and deriued magistrats a spurre of quickening incouragement more watchfully to attend so waightie a charge least through their fayntnesse and dulnesse there be procured to their Soueraigne a distayning disgrace or imputation of disabilitie For as when the sences and powers of the bodie bee fallen asleepe the soule also as not shewing himselfe in the life of his actions may be thought to be fast bound surprised with the same slumbers so when the substituted and authorized officers do desist from their indeuours and vigilancie in the tendance of the charge or businesse to them credited the soule of soueraignetie is in such their slacknesse or sleepinesse greatly discredited as if it were wholy depriued of his power yea of the very apparance of his gouerning vertue I● i● not impossible vnsensible that a body should liue or moue by any other soule than that wherunto by nature it is vnited And is it not as absurd in any mans vnderstanding and as preposterous by vsurpation that any forraine power should intrude to rule