Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	action_n	body_n	soul_n	2,300	5	5.5109	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28543	The Consolation of philosophy		1664 (1664)	Wing B3428; ESTC R7383	72,453	204

known Whence she all single things beholds or them divided knows Whence 't is that she all things enfolds What from the highest Heaven flows And what on the Earth's surface grows With this same knowledge she repleat with Truth does Falshood gall No Knowledge sure can be so great Which does from outward Objects fall As that which comprehends this all Yet living creatures Passions have which do the Mind excite Each Object does attention crave Both of the Hearing and the Sight And this their forms does bring to light And thus the Mind to outward things her knowledge does apply Not that the outward Object brings Vnto it any novelty For it kn●w all intrinsicly And if in Bodies it be so Their outward forms by Sense to know The outward Object must reflect Upon the Sense and it affect And that we do the Passions find Precede the Actions of the Mind And do provoke the Soul to stirre Those inward forms ly hid in her If that these bodies right to know The Mind to Passions this does ow Although she Passions do at length Subdue by her own force and strength How much more do those things that be From Corporal Affections free The outward Objects not attend But to the Mind their powers bend Wherefore there is of Knowledges Like diff'rence as of Substances Some creatures motionless have Sense But they want all other science As Shel-fish which to rocks stick fast And thence do nourishment exhaust The Beasts and Birds that use motion Have Sense and Imagination By which they fit things covet do And seek all dangers to eschew Reason does only Man define And Vnderstanding is divine So that same Knowledge excels sure Which excells of its own nature And does not only its own show But does all others Objects know If Sense and Imagination Then should rise up against Reason And this same their contest should be There 's no Vniversality As Reason thinks she does behold And thus their argument should hold Whatever thing is Sensible Or that is Imaginable That Vniversal cannot be If Reason's judgment true then be Then nothing can be Sensible No nor yet Imaginable For many things to her are known Subject to Imagination And Sense then vain is the conceit Of Reason which does Objects treat That in their natures Single be With her Vniversality Thus Reason's answer would be free That in Universality She does behold what 's Sensible And what is Imaginable But their weak Knowledge cannot fly Up to Vniversality ' Cause they no Knowledge have at all 'Bove Figures and Forms Corporeal Then certainly we must affirm That Knowledge for to be most firm As also to be most perfect Which knows both Form and the Effect In this contention surely we Indu'd with Reason's faculty That have Imagination And Sense also to work upon Cannot in reason but attest That Reason's cause is much the best Just so it is when Reason does Think that God's Vnderstanding knows Things yet to come no otherwise Then she does think she them descries For thus thou say'st If th' event be Not certain and necessary Then a Foreknowledge of the same Also can no way be certain Hence of these things thou dost alledge That there can be no Foreknowledge And if there be nought certainly Can hap but of necessity If as we have of Reason part God Judgment would divine impart As we already did conclude All Sense and Thought for to be rude ' Cause they to Reason would not yield So Reason must submit the field To th' Vnderstanding Divine Mind Then granting that our Reason's blind Let us unto that height aspire Where Reason when she has got higher Will see those things and plainly too Which in her self she could not do Which is that those things which have no Certain event God does Foreknow And that Opinion this is none But rather highest notion bound up in that Simplicity That by nothing can bounded be On earth what sev'ral kinds of creatures are Poison the Serpent lines yet he is fair His skin no soil will take though he does creep Yet he does furrows make and dust does sweep Birds use their wings to fly upon the wind And in the air full high a passage find Beasts going on the ground their steps appear By which in Woods oft found they hunted are All sev'ral form'd you see in Nature's book Yet all in this agree on Earth they look Man only does erect his stately crown To th' Earth gives no respect nor eye throws down If Earth don't thee inchant thy Form does teach For all things thou canst want to Heav'n to reach But if thou Earth do love and to it trust Thy Body will above thy Soul be thrust Then as to thee before was shown Whate're is known it is not known By its own nature but by his By whom it comprehended is Let 's now the Divine substance see With care and with sobriety That seeing it we may also Know what it is that he does know First then God is confest by all That Reason have to b' eternal The thing that must consider'd be Is what is this Eternity For this will unto us declare What 's knowledge and what 's nature are Eternitie's full possession Of life without conclusion This unto us will plain appear If temp'ral things we do compare All things that live do proceed from Times past go on to time to come And there 's no one that can embrace At one instant all the whole space Of his whole Life knows not next day Nor is what he was yesterday Nor in this very present day Does he of 's Life more time enjoy Then one moment transitory In which to Move or Speak or Die Then none of time can be more free Then Time can make himself to be Though that as Aristotle said O' th' World it no Beginning had No End shall have if Life I say With Time enduer should for aye It could not rightly be a thing That might be call'd Everlasting For though that Life were infinite It could not at one time unite All its whole course being barr'd from All the whole time that is to come Then that same which does comprehend All that whole Life which has no end All that is past knows certainly All that 's to come does plainly see That same must the Eternal be And this is of necessity For that he in himself alone Has all perfect possession Makes all things present him assist And also carries in his fist The all and whole infinity Of Time that has mobility But very largely they mistake Who from Plato's opinion take This frame to be coeternal With him that framed this same All Because that Plato this has penn'd It nor Beginning had nor End And they do think to prove by this The World as God Eternal is For it is one thing for to have Life without end which Plato gave To th' World and it is another As 't is easie for to gather At one instant