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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	dead_a	death_n	20,966	5	6.0173	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81229	The originall cause of temporall evils. The opinions of the most ancient heathens concerning it, examined by the sacred Scriptures, and referred unto them, as to the sourse and fountaine from whence they sprang. / By Meric Casaubon D.D.	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1645 (1645)	Wing C809; Thomason E300_12; ESTC R200256	58,479	71

is naught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because saith he this fish Polypus is pleasant to the taste but it disturbeth sleep with troublesome and heterogenous or unnaturall phancies As also from Plautus Plautus in M●●●t in Rud. Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus Mirisque exemplis nam somnia in somnis danunt Ne dormientes quidem sinunt quiescere And elsewhere Miris modis c. as before then followes Velut ego hac nocte hac quae praeteriit proxima In somnis egi satis fui homo exercitus It is taken otherwise passively by Aristotle where he defines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in men to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Molestiam turbulentam though there also it may bear an active construction See also if you please Oracul Chald. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. and there Psellus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herodotus again lib. VII ca. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By him saith he a great army may easily be overthrown by a small one when God envying them shall send upon them a sudden fright or thunder as upon the Marcomanni in Marcus Antoninus his time a famous story among Christian writers through which the most worthy have unworthily been defeated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without falling properly which puts me in mind and I must have remembred it however of Adam's fall Now as we have here an ancient tradition concerning the envy and malignity of certain evill spirits to mankind so was there among them another tradition of no lesse antiquity concerning the fall of man or men from their primitive estate of Angelicall happinesse both which traditions being put together will make it evident which is a great part of our task that the fal of Adam as it is recorded in holy Writ by the temptation of the Devill was not altogether unknown unto ancient Heathens Of this latter besides Plato and all Platonicks after him who speak of it often but more obscurely and allegorically Tully writes in this wise Ex quibus humanae vitae erroribus aerumnis fit ut interdum veteres illi sive vates sive in sacris initiisque tradendis divinae mentis interpretes qui nos ob aliqua scelera suscepta in vitâ superiore poenarum luendarum caussâ natos esse dixerunt aliquid vidisse videantur verumque sit illud q●od est apud Aristot simili nos affectos esse supplicio atque eos qui quondam quum in praedonum Etruscorum manus incidissent crudelitate excogitatâ necabantur quorum corpora viva cum mortuis adversa adversis accommodata quà aptissimè colligabantur eâ nostros animos cum corporibus copulatos ut vivos cum mortuis esse conjunctos that is From these many errors or wandrings and miseries of this mortall life I am ever and anon much inclined to beleeve that those ancient whether Prophets or Ministers and Interpreters of the divine will by whom sacred rites mysteries were instituted who taught that we were born and brought forth into this world to suffer for some crimes by us committed in our former life did speak the truth indeed as also for the same reason to subscribe unto that of Aristotles as most true who writes that our punishment is not unlike that which was used by some Etruscan robbers elsewhere by S. Augustine called Reges Etrusci and Thusci Tyranni Contra Cresconium Grammat l. 4. c. 49. contra Parmen l. 3. cap. ult who to shew their cruelty towards some who were faln into their hands devised this kind of death to fit their live bodies with other dead bodies and to bind them up very artificially the one opposite to the other face to face and so of other parts that even so our souls are coupled and joyned with our bodies as those live bodies were joyned with the dead We owe this excellent passage of Tully unto S. August by whom out of his Hortensius in his IV. book against Julianus the Pelagian it is cited and so preserved the whole book from which it was taken some few fragments excepted being since perished Orpheus is the man intended by Tully who was both vates and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too a great contriver of sacred mysteries who first as we are told by Plato in his Cratylus called the body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a tombe or sepulchre This Orpheus is very ancient according to Eusebius his computation he lived about twelve hundred years before Christ was born long before Homer There is very little of his some few verses collected from severall Authors now extant that is truly his but of old even in Platoes time as himselfe witnesseth there were divers counterfeit books that went under his name Di●g Laertius thinks him not worthy the name of a Philosopher Neither doe I if he did write indeed such things as he layeth to his charge Now whereas those ancients Orpheus and since him Plato and others who speak of mans happinesse before this life seem to make man in that state of happinesse meerly spirituall a pure soul I mean this will easily be reconciled with the truth if it be considered that the same Ancients Plato I am sure did attribute unto man that is unto the soul of man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an immortall bright resplendent and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a materiall mortall body of which t●ey th●● desire to know more may reade Synesius in his De Inso●●●●● and the Greek Scholiast there as also Hierocles upon Pythageras his ve●ses who treat of it at large So that according to them the soule even before it was joined unto this body was not without a body but so different in qualities from this that it seems it was mistaken for another quite different as well in substance as qualities And as for the place where this former life was not mentioned here by Tully but expressed by Plato and others to have been Heaven we know that Paradise the place of our first Parents abode during their innocency is even in the Scriptures taken for Heaven sometimes or at least for a place of blisse different from the earth and even S. Chrysostome who sharply censureth those that turned the situation of Paradise as it is described in the Scripture into allegories yet himselfe spareth not to say that our first Parents in Paradise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inhabited the earth as a kind of Heaven styling man in the same place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Terrestiall Angel S. Basil is yet more free in his expressions and so are other Ancients whom I shall not need to name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pherecydes his words in Origen against Celsus are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Of that portion is the Tartarean portion or company kept by the daughters of Boreas Harpyes and Thuella or Tempest and thither doth Jupiter cast whoever of the Gods or Angels which word of Angels was not unknown to