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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	earth_n	part_n	3,093	5	4.2458	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77677	A soliloquy of the soule, or, A pillar of thoughts with reasons proving the immortality of the soule / written by Sir Richard Baker, Knight.	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1641 (1641)	Wing B512; ESTC R42576	24,998	195

with him into Heaven by a lively Faith and by a Heavenly conversation For thus Ascending thou shalt bee out of the reach of Time and Place and all other circumstances of thy sinne and which is most of all thou shalt be out of Satans walke which goes no further then compassing the Earth that thou needest not now to feare either their Testimonie o● his Accusation But O my soule there is one step of this ladder yet behind without which thou canst never climbe up so high as to Gods Mercy-seat and the step is this to Referre all thy Thoughts thy Wordes and Actions to the glory of God For if thou shouldest have faith that thou couldest remove Mountaines if thou shouldest performe all the Workes of the Law as exactly as any Sadducee and not referre them to Gods glory they would all bee taken but for ungratefull complements and bee of no account nor thou for them in any account with God And great reason it should bee so for why did God make the World and all that is in the world but onely for his glory shall any that live in the world have another End in using it then God had in making it shall man that is made after his Image doe no more to the setting forth of Gods glory then every creeping thing of the Earth be only a passive instrument of his glory not an active Can hee take it well at his servants hands to be backwardest in a service in which they should be forwardest to neglect his greatest worke and then thinke to please him with Tything of Mint canst thou looke to have Recompense of God for thy service and God to have no recompense of thee for his favours and what recompense what Retribuam Domino hast thou for God but onely to take Calicem salutaris to Glorifie his Name How can any man justly complaine of his meane estate when the meanest man that is hath that in him which is in man the most excellent thing and what is that most excellent thing what my soule but a power to glorifie God for this Power is a greater Dignitie then the greatest dignitie of any earthly Power It is the worke which Angels doe in Heaven and is there any worke done in Heaven that is not better then the best that is done on Earth and more then this it is the very worke that makes the Angels happy for without doing this worke they could not be happy and if we want any thing in this life of being happie it is because we want something of doing this worke For never shall wee come to be perfectly happie till we come to be able to doe this work perfectly What was wanting in the Morall vertues of Heathen men but only this that they referred them to their owne and not to Gods glory Aristides in a high degree was just Cato sober Socrates Patient Regulus Constant all excellent parts towards the perfecting of a Building but yet no benefit of them because they came not up to the Roofe they had not the Crowne of Glory to God therfore not the crowne of reward to themselves It is an easie lesson to say but a hard to learne and few but David have ever practised it Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the Glory for is it not that we seeme all to have a spice of Lucifer in us though we can bee content to allow the greatest glory to God yet faine wee would reserve some at least for our selves when alas if wee reserve any at all to our selves we leave none at al for God for neither is glory a thing that can bee parted neither is God one that can endure a partner and specially in his Glory for though all his Attributes be Excellent Admirable yet Majestie is Attributed to none of them but to his Glory As it is in the Angels song Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory and what greater Derogation to Majestie then to have a Partner Indeede Gods Glory is in it selfe most perfect alwaies and nothing that man can doe can either adde to it or detract from it but such is Gods graciousnesse to us so great his desire to endeere us to him that he infinitely overvalues our Endeavours and sets a farre greater price upon them then they are worth counting as if wee added to it when we detract not from it at least as if wee then give it him when we ascribe it to him If therfore O my soule thou wilt ever be admitted into the quire of Angels to sing Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the Majestie of thy Glory It must bee thy care thy principall and I may say thy onely care to ascribe all Glory and Praise to God and to him only that if the Angells will undertake for Heaven thou for thy part mayest undertake for the Earth that their song shall sung out to the End Heaven and Earth are full of the Majestie of thy Glory that when both of them be full of his glory there may be no roome left for any of ours And thus my soule when thou hast made thee a Pillar of Thoughts with these three as I may call them Pretious stones The consideration of thy sin with a penitent heart The apprehensiō of Gods mercy with a Faith unfained the Referring all to the Glory of God with an humble Reverence thou wilt then be able to climbe up this ladder of Jacob to the uppermost step where meeting with saints and holy Angels that stand ready to receive thee thou wilt bee taken into the number of their society the happinesse of which cōpany the joy of which Happinesse the greatnes of which joy no Pillar of Thoughts can ever reach so high as to apprehend no my soule not so much as to Imagine Yet adde this one Thought more to thy Pillar to thinke of the great Difference of the Happinesse that will bee then and the Happinesse that can bee now for all our happinesse now is but Expectation of happinesse we joy not so much in that we are whatsoever we are as in that we hope we shall be though wee know not what wee shall be the minde is so longing after the Future that it never rests satisfied with the present nor ever will till there shall be no more Future to long after but all shall be present then at last I shal have my wish ●or thou my soule wilt ●hen be turned into a Pil●ar of Thoughts they will ●ot then bee voluble nor moveable as now they are being out of their right place and having various objects but they will be quiet and quiescent as being fixt in their true center and fixed upon their proper object The beautifull face of God blessed for ever and never till then will thy state be capable of this counsell Quod sis esse velis nihilque malis But O My soule though

of Isaack and the God of Jacob for he is not the God of the dead but of the living and living they could not be if the Soule were mortall and so it is for the Power of God still that the soule be immortall And now my soule wilt thou rather detract from Gods Glory from his Justice from his Power than believe and acknowledge that the soule is immortall Shall Heathen men who had scarce any hope of good after this life Shall a Heathen Poet say Et cum frigida mors Anima seduxerit artus making death not a destruction of the soule but onely a separation of it from the body and shall we whose chiefe blessednesse consists in the expectation of our soules blessednes after this life make a doubt whether the soule of man be immortall or no Are there not manifest Arguments to evince it and such as are obvious to sense both in the dead and in the living For is it nothing that in all ages there have beene apparitions of man departed whereof though some perhaps be Fables and some delusions yet many no doubt are true Relations and have beene Reall Representations which could be none if the soule were mortall And if it be doubted whether any such apparitions have been or no have we not the learned Melancthon a reverend Writer of late time affirming himselfe to have beene an eye-witnesse Have wee not the learned Ludovicus Vives affirming many of his acquaintance men worthy of credit to have seene and spoken with them and heard many things related by them above the pitch of Nature that nothing is more certaine than such apparitions which could be none if the soule were mortall What though it were not the true Samuel that appeared to Saul but a delusion of Satan yet was there no ground for his using such delusion which could be none if the soule were mortall Is it nothing that the Devill oftentimes makes Pacts and bargaines with wicked men to doe great matters for them in this present life upon a hope and desire of their destruction in the next which could be none if the soule were mortall and if any doubt of such Pacts with the Devill have we not Confitentes reos daily examples of Delinquents themselves averring it at their deaths no time to dissemble that nothing is more certaine then that such Pacts are made which could be none if the soule were mortall Is it nothing that the consciences of all men whether good or bad give evident testimony of this truth of the soules immortality For why else should good men dye so patiently indeed so joyfully if they had not a hope of a better life after this which could bee none if the soule were mortall Or why should wicked men dye so unwillingly indeed so fearefully if their conscience did not give them there would be sense of paine remaining after death which could be none if the soule were mortal Have not all wise men a the world over affirme and beleeved the soule o● man to be immortall onely some few fooles wh● have said in their hearts there is no God hav● said also with thei● mouthes The soule i● mortall and shall we rather joyne in assent wit● these few fooles tha● with those many wise men No my soule let Epicureans and Sadducees and Atheists doubt their pleasures till their doubt be resolved by the feeling Argument of eternall paines but let this be thy Pillar or rather thy Murus Aheneus that after this life there will be reward for the Godly and punishment for the wicked that In memoria aeterna erit justus the Righteous shall bee had in Everlasting remembrance that the number of Angels that fell from Heaven shall be filled up with Saints from the Earth and especially that God is the God of Abraham the God of Isaack and the God of Jacob and then I doubt not thou wilt be satisfied of this doubt and not on●y of thine owne but of ●hy bodies immortality that so thou maist por ●onely immortally be Spiritus but immortally be Anima for though thou wilt properly bee but Spiritus till the body rise againe yet after the Re●urrection thou wilt pro●erly be Anima againe and have all thy Faculties not onely in Habit but in Operation and Animate the Body in a greater perfection than ever before for the body will then have greater endowments of thy Facultie 〈◊〉 thou art properly 〈◊〉 by a more vigorous vegetation and perspicacity of sense and greater endowments also of thy Faculties as thou art properly Spiritus by celerity of motion and by subtilty of dimension by which perhaps it was that Christ after his Resurrection came in amongst his Apostles when the doores were shut for so it was fit for a body being then spirituall Now indeede Corpus aggravat Animam the body is a burthen to the soule but as much as the body aggravates the soule now and makes her participate of its infirmities so much and more will the scale then alleviate the body and make it participate of her perfections And who now is so stupid that findes not a sweet showre of perswasion to fall upon him from this cloud of Reasons whereof though every drop by it selfe may seeme to wet but little yet all together make a showre able to wet to the roote but if any mans temper be so hard that no showre will mollifie it if any man be so unreasonable that no reason will satisfie him yet there is hope that Faith will for Faith raines downe a stronger showre of perswasion than Reason can and this beliefe of the soules Immortality is the mayne Root upon which all Faith is grounded For if the soule bee not believed to bee Immortall where is the assurance of forgivenesse of sinnes where the hope of Resurrection from the Dead where the expectation of life everlasting And if any man still be possest with a stupidity of this doubt that neither Reason can perswade him as a man nor Faith over-rule him as a Christian I must then leave him to feede upon grasse with the Beast of the Field like Nabuchadonozer untill like Nabuchodonozer he recover his senses and recant his Errour and then hee will bee able and shall have leave to make a benefit and to take the benefit of this cloud of Reasons And now my soule thou art sure of immortality a Fee Simple that no time can weare out no forfeiture extinguish but alas what good is it to have Immortality if it be not accompanied with Beatitude and accompanied with Beatitude it will never bee if God vouchsafe not his Beatificall Vision and that Vision hee will never vouchsafe thee if thou bee not Mundo Corde of a pure heart in his sight For Be●ti mundo Corde quoniam ●psi videbunt Deum Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God O therefore my soule endevour so to serve God with a pure heart in this mortall life that wh●● thou commest to thy true Immortality in the next thou mayst be admitted to see that Beatificall Vision ●nd mayst be immortall in ●●joying of Happinesse and not in feeling of torments thy Joy may bee ●mmortall and not thy Misery And let this bee ●y Pillar upon which to ●●xe thy Thoughts