Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	earth_n	live_v	4,806	5	5.4600	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20681	Apollo Christian: or Helicon reformed		1617 (1617)	STC 708; ESTC S104423	21,858	50

till thou hung'st the Sunne on high Bidding him runne dayes arbiter and eye Fishes birds beasts and man that noble thing Had shape and life by thee their God and King Angels the sparkes of thine owne flame diuine By thee enabled were to bee and shine And which much better had lyen hidden still Mettals and gemms vnder each shore and hill Thou close didst couch for vse to the worlds end When man would more on meanes then God depend Or to adorne thy house the house of pray'r Where nothing should bee seene but bright and faire For either in thy Churches golde doth best Or golde of all things is the most vnblest §. 2. THis all 's creation Gods Hexameron That six dayes worke he could haue done in one Or as hee shall consume it in a trice So could haue raised the whole edifice This Architecture of th'huge Vniuerse Whose nobler parts who is it can reherse With equall praise to their creations state This masse which one soule doth inanimate This goodly greatnesse this faire Arke of things Borne vp in God which my Muse summes not sings The worke of our redemption doth exceed Both in the worth and honour of the deed As infinitely as Gods mercy stands ' Boue all the workes of his celestiall hands Obnoxious man whose benefit it is Cease ô to bee ingratefull tend to this For thou art bound if benefits may binde And benefits of so transcendent kinde For better had the glories we beholde Remain'd in Chaos vp together rolde Heauens azure glasse vnblowne-out into spheares And euery suit which mother Nature weares Beene absolutely voyd no acrie screene The conuex globe and hollow skíes betweene Better had that fine bubble Lordly Man Whose sinne so gored Christ our Pellican Better ô better had high God forborne To make him out of molde and to adome Our Microcosm in Adam Protoplast With gifts diuine through his fowle lapse defac't Better that nothing still had stood for all Vnlesse a world were made which should not fall Had not redemption in her lap receiued What Furies had of mans first state bereaued To build a palace worthy of a Prince For Apes and Owles is no magnificence But prodigality and bad excesse And notes the sounder for vnworthinesse Or if magnificence then such the cost Which th' old Aegyptians on their Temples lost Vnder their Pharaohs and their Ptolomees From Nile-brancht Delta to blacke Meroes And Birds Beasts Crocodiles the god-heads were Which those Idolaters adored there 'T is not the pomp nor Maiestie of things But th' vse they serue vnto which honor brings What glory had it beene to the Creator Of all things out of nothing to be Author If onely Sprights and Goblins there should dwell And man for whom he made them damn'd in hell But this was worthy of Gods nature sweet With which in mans men doc most rarely meet For his owne sake rebellion to forgiue And for his Courts sake letting man to liue Nor onely so but to remooue the barre His iustice put and by the which we are For euer disinherited of heauen It pleased him his owne Sonne should be giuen A voluntary sacrifice for all Thus Adam nothing lost by Adams fall Hee lost Euphrates and swift Tygris riuer But drinkes the water makes him liue for euer Hee lost t' abide on earth in endlesse blisse Hath better ioyes in other Paradise Hee lost an Eden but an Heauen hath found Hee hath a firmament hee lost but ground Before his body neuer should haue died But now his body shall bee glorified As then his body his soules mansion was Now soule and body vnto glory passe As then he trembled at the voyce of God Now face to face in his diuine abode Hee God beholds and shall behold for euer As then his blisse did but in sense perseuer Now in his soule then happy but in part Now in the whole Adâm how blest thou art As then his obiects dainty land-skeps were And cleere Horizons May-months all the yeere Now mysteries and types reueal'd doe feed His happy soule and time he doth not need Eua in Edon was his naturall ioy Now supernaturall sweets them both employ And for the beauties of a blanched skin Christs Spouse they see whose beauties are within His walkes were then among fresh trees and flowers Now Alleluia sings in heauenly bowers The flockes of starres were then aboue his head Now vnderneath his feet are trauersed There were as then no birds nor beasts of prey And Eagles did with Doues together play To make his Lordship sport who Monarch was But where he is there nothing is so base As beasts or birds nor needeth fond delight Hee raigneth now where euery meanest wight Doth farre excell the state of greatest Kings The Cherubim now fanne him with their wings And th' head with plumes impalpable doe shade ' Gainst which was brandished a fiery blade The streames of Eden had some gemms of price Rich stones and vnions wall new Paradise There nakednesse and sinne did make him hide Heere all things euer cleeere in sight a bide The tree of knowledge quite forbidden there Is common and communicable here There he for diet was to fruit confinde Now hunger is not God doth feede his minde And that which is the iustest ioy of all His whole posterity who through his fall Had reason to lament as suffering losse Now through th'exaltiue vertue of the crosse Hee sees in blisse without originall blot And grace surmounting sinne that they were not Nor euer shall bee by his act endomaged As freed by Christ who hell for them had romaged Gods promis'd mercy being most compleat Each Tribe high placed on triumphant seat And euery Saint distinguished with markes Martyrs Apostles Virgins Patriarkes Fellowes of Angels friends and sonnes of light And therefore deerest in their makers sight Eua to Aue turn'd hard sweat and paine To ioy and peace How great is Adams gaine For in times fulnesse the incarnate Word Theanthropos Messias Christ our Lord That is Gods off-spring and himselfe high God Who weilds the Scepter and the iron rod Vonchsafed in the Maydens wombe to dwell To ransome vs from seruitude and hell Abasing his great Maiesty and came O happy comming to vnite this frame This clayie fabricke of mortality To God the Father This was by and by Effected O the wonder ô the ioy A riddance cleare from all extreame annoy §. 3. HEE came before him came the Baptist Iohn Herald and harbinger of redemption Whose cryes in desarts did so farre rebound As fill'd all peopled places with the sound Neuer mans worth such testimony gain'd As this great Prophet Yet there had remain'd Among Gods people most exemplar Saints Graue Ieremie with gorgeous words depaints The sacred Order of the Nazarenes Whose liues and doctrines in his holy Threnes To milke snow iuory and to saphyres faire Fornutritiue and pure he doth compare Nor with small feruor the same pen endites The praises of th'abstemious Rechabites These