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
A09450	The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19. verse to the ende of the said chapter. By William Perkins.; Reformation of covetousnesse.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Clapham, Henoch.	1603 (1603)	STC 19735.6; ESTC S106356	66,232	268

word in the creation so they should doo to the ende of the world So in the matter of prouidence trust in God and walke in the compasse of thy calling and doubt not the issue If there were no more reasons to perswade vs to a moderate care for necessaries this one sensible reason borrowed from the Lillies were sufficient When he saith They labour not c. his meaning is not by their example to maintaine idlenesse or to neglect our calling but to teach vs that when all helpes faile vs walking in our calling and hauing done what wee can without our default Gods blessing shal not be wanting wee shal haue meats drinke and cloth though all means faile vs And for this end these words are set downe 29. Yet I say vnto you that euen Salomon in all his royaltie was not araied like one of these Herein one speciall amplification is to be marked They are cloathed by God and that more gloriously then Salomon himselfe was yet Salomon had promises of great honour and glory without his seeking for hee desired but wisedome yet with wisedome God promised him honour For all this Christ saith of the Lillies that Salomō was not cloathed like them and he speakes not of some one but of euery one and of the Lillies of the field too not of the garden And euery one of them is cloathed more gloriously thē Salomon was when hee was in his chiefest glory First this serues to check and controll vs for our pride in apparell and to teach vs that wee ought not to bee so curious in attiring our selues for when wee haue done all we can wee cannot match one of these flowers but they will goe beyond vs. Why then should we puffe vp our selues in regard of our apparel whē as the least hearbe in the field is more gay What cloth in whitenes comes neare the Lilly What purple like the Violet And what crimson or scarlet is like diuers other flowers Art may doo much but it cannot match nature Doo what wee can the hearbes will goe beyond vs. And if it be so why are we so proud of our apparel The hearbe which thou treadest vnder thy feete and puttest into the furnace is finer then thou art I nunc effer te quòd pulchro incedis amictu Te longè superat fertile gra●um agri The second vse is to teach vs that all our pompe is but vaine for what is more fraile then the hearbe which is to day in the field and to morrow is cut downe So the whole nature of man is fraile and brittle as Paul saith All the glory and pompe of this worlde is vaine and passeth away subiect to chaunge and alteration And yet when Christ speaks this of Salomons glorie and makes it inferior to the hearbe preferring this before that hee cōdemnes not Salomons glory for it was promised him giuē him by God And the word though it condemne curiositie and superfluitie of apparell yet it condemnes not gorgeous apparell in Princes and great personages The pompe in apparell is not simply condemned in the word for Ioseph refused not the ring and fine garment And whereas Luke saith of Agrippa and Bernice that they came with much pompe the words may be taken as well in good part as ill 30. Wherefore if God so cloathe the grasse of the field which is to day to morrowe is cast into the Ouen shal hee not do much more vnto you O yee of little faith In these words Christ abaseth the creatures in regard of man the difference between man and the hearbes is in these things First they serue for mans vse Therefore they are inferiour to him they serue for the making of his fire and the heating of his furnace Secondly the hearbe is to day and hath a being to morrow it hath no being but ceaseth to be an hearbe so fraile and vaine is the creature that excelles man in glory But man hath a being to day and his being continueth The trees and hearbes haue a kinde of life and soule as men haue but there is a great difference for their soules are mortall and arise from the matter whereof the plant is made but the soule of man is immortall bee it of the righteous or the vnrighteous The difference is plaine in Genesis where God commands the earth to bring forth hearbs and trees with life and substance But when hee made man the earth brought not foorth his soule but God breathed into him a liuing soule As for the soules of beasts plants whether they be quallities or substances it is not knowne but they perish are corruptible and they cease to be that they were But it is not so with man for whē he dies he ceaseth not to be a man a dead man is a man still though not a liuing man and his soule shall be reunited to his body yea the body that is dead and lyeth in the graue is vnited to Christ as well as the soule and by vertue thereof it shall rise againe I speake now of the righteous especially and therefore dead Abraham is Abraham still Now it is not so with the other creatures The hearbe or tree being burnt ceaseth to bee an hearbe or tree But man when he dies because he is in the couenant he is still a man for he that is once in the couenant is in it for euer and the vertue of the couenant shall be as effectuall to raise the seruant of God to glory as the word of creation is effectuall to bring the creature out of the earth Therfore the diuersitie difference is to aduaunce man aboue the creature Shall he not do much more vnto you O ye of litle faith These wordes were spoken to all the Disciples and other hearers wherein for our further edification these two circumstances are to be considered First the persons rebuked Secondly the causes why they are rebuked The persōs are the Disciples when Christ speakes thus to his Disciples ô yee of litle faith he dooth not rebuke them simply for want of faith but because their wicked vnbeliefe was more and the distrust of Gods mercie and prouidence greater then their faith and beliefe so that not the want of faith but the smallnesse of it is here rebuked Heere obserue that besides the full perswasion which is the highest degree of faith there is a lower degree and a lesser measure which is here called the lesser faith And this litle faith is not here condemned but the vnbeliefe that goes with it for this little faith in them was a true faith and Christ confessed before that God was their father And it is a true faith that brings a man to the little adoption it brought them into that state that they had God for their father and they were his children Obiection Cōsidering that in the Disciples others that their vnbeliefe was more than their faith their faith cannot saue them the sinne beeing greater then