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
A08242	Certaine sermons vpon diuers texts of Scripture. Preached by Gervase Nid Doctor of Diuinitie	Nid, Gervase, d. 1629.	1616 (1616)	STC 18579; ESTC S113333	39,489	118

with the constant martyr Romanus How willingly his mother gaue him to the hands of the tormentor kissing him but once which was as little as a mother could doe Nee immorata est fletibus tantum osculum Impressit vnum vale ait dulcissime Et eum beatus regna Christi intraueris Memento matris Now if a man inquire into the inward mouing cause for which the world was so strangely carried away with affection vnto Christ hee shall find it to bee faith Which faith though the Scripture opposeth to vision yet calleth it a kinde of sight So faithfull Abraham desired to see Christs day and saw it and reioyced By faith Moses indured patiently as if he had seene the inuisible And by the eye of faith all the Saints since the Apostles beleeuing them that saw him haue loued him as firmly as if themselues had seene him They seeing the head beleeued of the body wee seeing the body beleeue concerning the head Namque habet fides oculos suos quibus quodammodo videt verum esse quod nondum videt For faith hath it eyes whereby in some manner it sees that to be true which as yet it sees not saith S. Austē Faith is opposed to the corporall view of things visible and to the demonstratiue knowledge of things intelligible Which knowledge is also called intuitiue knowledge Now the bodily sight of Christ in his humilitie was onely proper to them that liued in his time Though by imagination wee can likewise represent vnto our selues the same But the sight of his spirituall and glorified body shall be the reward of all And as for the intelligible visiun of invisible glory of the Godhead of Christ and of the eternall Trinitie they that see it here in twy-light shall then behold it as at noone day and loue it there with incomparable feruencie of spirit if they continue here in that modell of warmth which this life affoordeth The hope whereof how greatly doth it sustaine the patience of his absence and confirme the constancy of louing Christ vnseene when we haue so good assurance to see his spirituall body and that happinesse which neuer eye hath seene Where if he shew his fiue wounds and the veritie of all which hee did and suffered in this life what can be wanting to the destruction of that which is in part and conuerting faith into vision Meane while wonderfull is that grace which makes vs now to loue him For although the conuersion of the world the strange preseruation of the Catholicke Church the authoritie of the same Church the bloud of so many Martyrs the fulfilling of Prophecies the superexcellent learning of Catholicke Writers and Catholick Gouernours with many other vnanswerable arguments haue in a manner demonstrate the whole truth of Christian Religion Insomuch that hee which will not now beleeue without seeing wonders is himselfe a wonder saith S. Austen Yet in many ages when God hath permitted generall inundations of Gothes and Vandals of Turkes and Saracens ouer the Christian world which the old serpent hauing spued out of his mouth desired to make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the woman to bee carried away of the floud or when fearefull tempests of heresie doe obscure the Church that for a time neither Sunne nor moone appeare till controuersies bee determined till ancient records bee se arched and vnquiet nouelists suppressed the safest way was alwayes to cast himselfe into the bosome of the Church that faith might support where knowledge failes and the loue of Christ continue where he was not seene Faith is the subsistence of matters hoped for and the euidence of things not seene by the firme embracing whereof in the midst of all miserable temptations and inuestigable errours the faithfull louers of Christ Iesus haue loued him whom they neuer saw neither with the eye of sense nor the eye of reason Great friendship hath there beene betwixt men which neuer saw one anothers faces yet true report of wisedome and vertue hath bred strange coniunction and familiaritie of mindes as if their soules had met together in the night when their bodies rested or because that mindes being incorporeall neede not visible presence to vnite them nor are their loues separated by distance of place Which if it be true in natural loue and humane affection how much more certaine is it in spirituall and Diuine where not onely similitude of nature combines but also vnitie of spirit If thou louest none but whom thou seest saith S. Austen then shouldst thou not loue thy selfe Neque enim teipsum nisi in speculo vides Many men there be whose wisdome will not suffer them to bee credulous their hands haue eyes and their hearts haue eyes they beleeue that which they see and they will loue that which they see vnknowne vnbeleeued vnseene vnloued But vnto the most of faithfull Christians Almightie God hath left more things to bee beleeued then knowne that there might bee place for reward For hope that is seene is no hope Euery one could not liue at that time when Christ was liuing nor see the wonders which he wrought or which his Prophets did before him or his Apostles after him Yet many will say hereafter if we had liued in those times or if whe had talked with one risen from the dead we had surely repented Indeede the Tyrians Sidonians if they had seene the miracles at Corazin and Bethsaida they would haue turned their purple into sackcloth but they had sufficient helpes and so hast thou neither knowest thou whether thou mightst be so obdurate through thine owne first wilfull negligence that the sight of Christ wold haue caused no more loue in thee then it did in Herod who defired of long to see him and not beleeuing Moses and the Prophets neither wouldest thou beleeue if one should rise from the dead S. Austen sayes hee was often tempted to desire a signe from God concerning him selfe but by Gods grace he alwayes resisted that temptation So our Sauiour taxeth the Gentleman of Cana in Galilee whose sonne was sick at Capernaum Vnlesse you see signes and wonders you will in no wayes beleeue The Atheist if he might see the Diuell he would hate him And the Idolater if hee may haue a palpable visible God hee will worship him Make vs Gods to goe before vs cry the Israelites as if things that were inuifible were not They that desire to see the holy Cittie vpon distrust or curiositie which is concupiscence of the eye or dwelling farre off greatly indanger their present estate their fame their liues and neglect their necessary functions I see not how they can warrant that action Against which S. Gregorie Nissen speakes in an Epistle of his Locall motiou saith he makes thee not neerer vnto God which is in all places And it is better to goe a pilgrimage from thy body to God then from thy countrey to Iurie for whilst wee are at home with the body wee are steangers vnto God Ierusalem is not now