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
A45322	Susurrium cum Deo soliloqvies, or, Holy self-conferences of the devout soul upon sundry choice occasions with humble addresses to the throne of grace : together with The souls farwell to earth and approaches to heaven / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Soules farewell to earth and approaches to heaven.	1651 (1651)	Wing H420; ESTC R2803	81,778	407

I pray not for these alone but for them also which shall beleeve on me through their Word That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they may be One in us And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may bee one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may bee made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me I know thou couldst not but be heard in all that thou prayed'st and therefore I take what thou suedst for as done Lord I do beleeve in thee unite thou me to thee make me one spirit with thee It is no presumption to sue and hope for what thou hast prayed for and promised to performe Oh make mee according to the capability of my weake humanitie partaker of thy divine nature Vouchsafe to allow me even me poor wretched soul to say of thee I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine And by vertue of this indissoluble union why shouldst thou not O my soule finde thy selfe endowed with a blessed participation of that heavenly life and glory which is in and with him In that thou art united to thy body thou impartest to it vegetation sense motion and givest it a share in the exercise of all thy noble faculties how much more entire and beneficiall is the spirituall union of thy God and thee Alas that bond of naturall conjunction is easily dissolved by ten thousand waies of death this heavenly knot is so fast tied that all the powers of hell cannot unloose it And the blessings communicated to thee by this divine match are so much more excellent as the infinite giver of them is above thy meanenesse Lo now thou art actually interessed in all that thy God is or hath his kingdome is thine his glorie is thine to all eternitie SECT. XII ANd what now can follow O my soule upon the apprehension of thus enjoying the presence of thy God and the vision of so blessed an object and thine union with him and participation of him but a sensible ravishment of Spirit with a joy unspeakable and full of glorie Heretofore if some great friend should have brought mee to the Court and having shew'd me the splendor and magnificence of that seat of Majesty should have brought mee in to the sight of his Royal person and should have procured me not onely a familiar conference with him but the entire affection of a favourite and from thence there should have been heaped upon me Titles of honour and large revenues and yet higher a consociation of Princely dignitie How should I have been transported with the sense of so eminent an advancement how great and happie should I have seemed not more in others eies than in my own what big thoughts had hereupon swolne up my heart in the daies of my vanitie But alas what poor things are these in comparison of those heavenly promotions I might have been brought into the stateliest Court of this World and have been honoured not only with the presence but the highest favours of the best and greatest of Kings and yet have been most miserable Yea which of those Monarchs that have the command and dispensation of all greatness can secure himselfe from the saddest infelicities But these spiritual prerogatives are above the reach of all possible miserie and can and do put thee in some degree into an unfailing possession both reall and personall of eternall blessednesse I cannot wonder that Peter when with the other two Disciples upon Mount Tabor he saw the glorious transfiguration of my Saviour was out of himself for the time and knew not what he said yet as not thinking himselfe and his partners any otherwaies concerned than in the sight of so heavenly a vision he mentions onely three Tabernacles for Christ Moses Elias none for themselves it was enough for him if without doors he might be still blessed with such a prospect But how had he been wrapt from himselfe if he had found himselfe taken into the society of this wondrous transformation and interessed in the communion of this glory Thy renovation and the power of thy faith O my soul puts thee into that happy condition thou art spiritually transfigured into the similitude of thy blessed Saviour shining with his righteousness and holiness so as he is glorified in thee and thou in him Glorified not in the fulnesse of that perfection which will be but in the pledge and earnest of what shall and must bee hereafter O then with what unspeakable joy and jubilation dost thou entertaine thy happinesse How canst thou containe thy selfe any longer within these bounds of my flesh when thou feelest thy selfe thus initiated into glory Art thou in heaven and know'st it not Know'st thou not that hee who is within the entry or behinde the screen is as trulie within the house as he that walkes in the Hall or sits in the parlour And canst thou pretend to bee within the verge of heaven and not rejoyce What is that makes heaven but joy and felicity thy very thought cannot separate these two no more than it can sever the Sun and light For both these are equally the originals and fountaines of light and joy from whence they both flow and in which both are complete there is no light which is not derived from the Sun no true joy but from heaven as therefore the nearer to the body of the Sun the more light and heat so the nearer to heaven the more excesse of joy And certainly O my soul there is nothing but infidelity can keepe thee from an exuberance of joy and delight in the apprehension of heaven Can the wearie Traveller after he hath measured many tedious miles and passed many dangers both by sea and land and felt the harsh entertainements of a stranger chuse but rejoyce to draw near in his returne to a rich and pleasant home Can the Ward after an hard pupillage chuse but rejoyce that the day is comming wherein he shall freely enjoy all his Lordly revenues and roialties Can a Joseph chuse but finde himself inwardly joyed when out of the dungeon he shall be called up not to liberty only but to honour and shall be arraied with a vesture of fine Linnen and graced with Pharaoh's ring and chain and set in his second Chariot and in the next chair to the throne of Egypt And canst thou apprehend thy selfe now approaching to the glorie of the heaven of heavens a place and state of so infinite contentment and happinesse and not be extasied with joy There there shalt thou O my soule enjoy a perfect rest from all thy toiles cares fears there shalt thou find a true vitall life free from all the incombrances of thy miserable pilgrimage free from the dangers of either sins or temptations free from all anxiety and