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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	nature_n	spirit_n	16,404	5	5.4081	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30381	The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, kt sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench. Written by Gilbert Burnett, D.D.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5827; ESTC R218702	56,548	244

the harshest Tempers accommodated to the Gravity of the Subject and apt to excite warm thoughts in the Readers that as they shew his excellent Temper that brought them out and applied them to himself so they are of great use to all who would both Inform and quicken their Minds Of his Illustrations of things by proper Similies I shall give a large instance out of his Book of the Origination of Mankind designed to expose the several different Hypotheses the Philosophers fell on concerning the Eternity and Original of the Universe and to prefer the Account given by Moses to all their Conjectures in which if my Taste does not misguide me the Reader will find a rare and very agreeable mixture both of fine Wit and solid Learning and Judgment That which may illustrate my Meaning in this preference of the revealed Light of the Holy Scriptures touching this Matter above the Essays of a Philosophical Imagination may be this Suppose that Greece being unacquainted with the Curiosity of Mechanical Engins though known in some remote Region of the World and that an excellent Artist had secretly brought and deposited in some Field or Forest some excellent Watch or Clock which had been so formed that the Original of its Motion were Hidden and Involved in some close contrived piece of Mechanism that this Watch was so framed that the Motion thereof might have lasted a Year or some such time as might give a reasonable Period for their Philosophical descanting concerning it and that in the plain Table there had been not only the Discription and Indication of Hours but the Configurations and Indications of the various Phases of the Moon the motion and place of the Sun in the Ecliptick and divers other curious Indications of Celestial Motions and that the Scholars of the several Schools of Epicurus of Aristotle of Plato and the rest of those Philosophical Sects had casually in their Walk found this Admirable Automaton what kind of Work would there have been made by every Sect in giving an account of this Phenomenon We should have had the Epicurean Sect have told the By-standers according to their preconceived Hypothesis that this was nothing else but an accidental concretion of Atoms that happily fallen together had made up the Index the Wheels and the Ballance and that being happily fallen into this Posture they were put into Motion Then the Cartesian falls in with him as to the main of their Supposition but tells him that he doth not sufficiently explicate how the Engin is put into Motion and therefore to furnish this Motion there is a certain Materia Subtilis that pervades this Engin and the Moveable parts consisting of certain Globular Atoms apt for Motion they are thereby and by the Mobility of the Globular Atoms put into Motion A Third finding fault with the two former because those Motions are so regular and do express the various Phenomena of the distribution of Time and of the Heavenly Motions therefore it seems to him that this Engin and Motion also so Analogical to the Motions of the Heavens was wrought by some admirable conjunction of the Heavenly Bodies which formed this Instrument and its Motions in such an admirable Correspondency to its own Existence A Fourth disliking the suppositions of the three former tells the rest that he hath a more plain and evident Solution of the Phenomenon namely The universal Soul of the World or Spirit of Nature that formed so many sorts of Insects with so many Organs Faculties and such congruity of their whole composition and such curious and various Motions as we may observe in them hath formed and set into Motion this admirable Automaton and regulated and ordered it with all these congruities we see in it Then steps in an Aristotelian and being dissatisfied with all the former Solutions tells them Gentlemen you are all mistaken your Solutions are Inexplicable and Unsatisfactory you have taken up certain precarious Hypotheses and being prepossesed with these Creatures of your own fancies and in love with them right or wrong you form all your Conceptions of things according to those fancied and preconceived Imaginations The short of the Business is this Machina is eternal and so are all the Motions of it and in as much as a Circular Motion hath no beginning or end this Motion that you see both in the Wheels and Index and the successive Indications of the Celestial Motions is eternal and without beginning And this is a ready and expedite way of solving the Phenomena without so much ado as you have made about it he took that extraordinary care to keep what he did secret that this part of his Character must be defective except it be acknowledged that his Humility in covering it commends him much more than the highest expressions of Devotion could have done From the first time that the Impressions of Religion setled deeply in his Mind He used great caution to conceal it not only in obedience to the Rules given by our Saviour of Fasting Praying and giving Alms in Secret but from a particular distrust he had of himself for he said he was affraid he should at some time or other do some enormous thing which if he were look't on as a very Religious Man might cast a reproach on the profession of it and give great advantages to impious Men to blaspheme the name of God But a Tree is known by its Fruits and he lived not only free of Blemishes or Scandall but shined in all the parts of his Conversation and perhaps the distrust he was in of himself contributed not a little to the Purity of his Life for he being thereby obliged to be more Watchful over himself and to depend more on the aids of the Spirit of God no wonder if that humble temper produced those excellent Effects in him He had a Soul enlarged and raised above that mean appetite of loving Money which is generally the root of all Evil. He did not take the profits that he might have had by his Practice for in common Cases when those who came to ask his Council gave him a Piece he used to give back the half and so made Ten shillings his Fee in ordinary Matters that did not require much time or Study If he saw a Cause was Unjust he for a great while would not meddle further in it but to give his Advice that it was so If the Parties after that would go on they were to seek another Councellor for he would Assist none in Acts of Injustice If he found the Cause doubtful or weak in point of Law he always advised his Clients to agree their Business Yet afterwards he abated much of the Scrupulosity he had about Causes that appeared at first view Injust upon this occasion There were two Causes brought to him which by the ignorance of the Party or their Attorny were so ill represented to him that they seem'd to be very bad but he enquiring more narrowly into them