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id: A26941
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1681
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mime: application/xml
words: 4662
sentence: 103
flesch: 50
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title:
  The invaluable price of an immortal soul shewing the vanity of most people in taking care for the body, but neglect their duty as to the preservation of their never-dying souls : with advice to secure sinners to examine themselves before it be too late, that when death shall come to separate their souls from their bodies, they may be in a condition to welcome death for that happy change which all prepared Christians will ever rejoyce in : very necessary for all people to read and consider who would willingly be accounted true Christians : with large admonition to prayer as a duty most incumbant upon all who desire to obtain everlasting life through Christ Jesus.

summary:
  Oh wretched state that Man knows not his own heart , but hath a Thousand times more sin in him unknown , then the greatest self-conceited person in the world can see perfection in himself : few there are that are not too strongly and too well opinionated of themselves , and some have high esteem of others , and will say , that such a one is a good natur'd Man , he hath no deceit in him , he would not wrong a VVorm : when alas , these Excellencies are nothing in comparison of that Ocean of Sin , deformed Corruption , which lurks in his heart , and cannot be rooted out but by that Heavenly Antidote which alone can expell the Poyson of sin out of our corrupted Hearts , carnal Men do not consider that their wilful minds are not nor cannot be subject to the Law of God , which is absolutely pure without spot or blemish , whilst the best of our actions , the supream of our thoughts , are vain , sinful and Rebellious . Sin is absolutely contrary to the will of God , therefore should it be absolutely detestable to the Heart of Man , sin would pull down what Gods holy Laws would set up , and Establish Gods prescribed Laws for the salvation of souls , and the Devil deviseth sins for the Destruction of souls , yet will not poor sinners see that impurity which in sin it is clearly contrary to the very Nature of God.


id: A67203
author: Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.
date: 1644
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6411
sentence: 462
flesch: 84
summary: ●…imile . 9. Souls remain where they are sent till the Resurrection .
cache: cache/A67203.xml
txt: txt/A67203.txt
title:
  Ecce homo, the little Parliament unbowelled with, the substance, quality, and disposition of the outward members, and inward faculties, vertues, and properties : the glory of the good ones, and sad condition of rotten back-sliders.


id: A51225
author: Moore, John, 1646-1714.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8487
sentence: 383
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A51225.xml
txt: txt/A51225.txt
title:
  Of the immortality of the soul a sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall upon Palm-Sunday, 1694 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Bishop of Norwich.

summary:
  For when he looks upon Body , and its Powers , and likewise concludes , that those kind of Operations cannot belong unto Bodies , he presently yields that there is in us some other Thing , which does deliberate or advise , and that is the Soul. ( 2. ) I argue that the Soul and Body are distinct substances from the incapacity of matter to think . For does not every Man as plainly comprehend what is meant by Thinking , Considering , and Judging , as by Dimensions , Motion , and Divisibility in Bodies ? Every Man judges ( says Atticus Platonicus ) that they are the Properties of the Soul , to deliberate , to consider , and after any manner to think .


id: A37244
author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12321
sentence: 181
flesch: 33
cache: cache/A37244.xml
txt: txt/A37244.txt
title:
  A work for none but angels & men that is to be able to look into and to know ourselves, or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body ... : of the imagination or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions, motion of life, the local motion, intellectual power of the soul ... Thomas Jenner has lineas composuit.

summary:
  sayth the Lord , which stretcheth forth the Heavens , and layeth the foundations of the Earth , and formeth the Spirit of man within him ▪ he makes the body of Earth , and in it a beam of heavenly fire , now in the wombe before the birth , inspires in all men their soules , and without a mother sends dayly millions into the world which neither from eternity , nor at once in one time lay them up in the Sunne or Moone , nor in some secret cloyster where they sleepe till they be awaked , neither did he make at first a certain number , infusing part in beasts , and part in men , and being unwilling to take further pain would make no more ; so that the widdow soul should be married to the next body that should be born , and so by often changing mens souls should pass from beasts to men , these are fond thoughts ; since there are far more born then dye , then thousand soules should be abortive , or others deaths should supply their soules ; but as nature Gods handmaid doth create bodies in time distinct and in due order , so God gives soules the like successive date , which himselfe formes in new bodies , which himselfe makes of no materiall thing , for unto Angels he hath given no power either to forme the shape , or bring the stuffe from Air or Fire , nor in this doth he use natures service , for although she can bring bodyes from bodyes , yet she could never traduce soules from soules , as light springs from light , and fire from fire as some learned fathers that were great lights of old did hold , for say they , how can we say that God made the soule , and yet not make him the Author of her sinne , for in her lies the corruption , for Adams body did not sin but his soule , and so brought the body to corruption , So we would fain make him the Author of the wine , if we knew whom to blame for her dreggs ; none were yet so grosse , as to contend for this , that soules may be traduced from bodyes , between whose natures there is no proportion , but many subtle wits have justified that soules may spiritually spring from soules , which if the nature of the soul be tryed would even in nature prove as grosse , for all things that are made are either of naught , or of something that is already made of naught , no Creature ever formed ought , for that is proper for the Almighty ; if then the soule make another soule , she must take it of some former stuffe or matter , but there is no matter found in the soule : then if her heavenly forme doe not agree with any matter in the World , then must she needs be created of nothing , and that is only proper to God alone ; again , if soules doe beget soules , 't is either by themselves , or the bodies power , if by themselves what hinders them but that they may engender soules every hour , if by the body , how can understanding and will joyne with the body in this act ; only since when they doe their other works , they doe abstract them themselves from the body ; moreover , if soules were begotten of soules , they should move and change into each other , but motion and changes brings at last corruption , and then how should it be immortall ? In other workes of thine thou leavest thy print , but in man hast written thine own Image ; there cannot be a creature more divine , this exceeds mans thought , to consider how highly God hath raised man , since God became man , the Angels are astonisht when they view and admire this mistery , neither hath he endowed man with these blessings for a day , neither do they depend on this life , for though the soule was made in time , yet lives for aye , and though it had a beginning , yet hath no end Her only end , is never ending blisse , and that consisteth in beholding the eternall face of the Almighty , who is the first of causes , and last of ends , and to doe this she must needs be eternall , then how sencelesse or dead a soul hath he that thinks his soul dieth with his body , or if he think not so , yet would fain have it so , that he might sin with the more security ; Although light and vicious persons say our soules are but a smoake , or Aiery blast , which while we live playes within our nostrills , and when he dies turns to winde , although they say so , yet they know not what to think , for ten thousand doubts doe arise in their minds , and although they strive against their consciences , there are some sparkes in their flintey breasts , which cannot be extinct , which though fain they would , yet cannot be beasts ; but whoso makes a merror of his minde ▪ and with patience views himselfe within , shall cleerly see the soules eternity , though all other beauties of the soule be defaced because of his sin .


id: A71322
author: Hill, William, Doctor in Diuinitie, attributed name. aut
date: 1605
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12433
sentence: 463
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A71322.xml
txt: txt/A71322.txt
title:
  The infancie of the soule; or, The soule of an infant A subiect neuer yet treated of by any. Which sheweth the infusion there of whiles that the infant resteth in the wombe: the time when, with the manner how. Gathered from the boosome of trueth; begunne in loue, and finished in the desire to posit others. The contnets are in the next page following. William Hill.

summary:
  It is called Soule , for that it giueth life . He being taught by God , knew well that she had no part nor portion of his Soule : for if shee had , he would haue sayd : that this is bone of my bone , flesh of my flesh , and Soule of my Soule , But leauing the last , he teacheth vs , that the Soule is not a naturall substaunce begotten by the effusion of Seede , ( as Tertullian imagineth ) but a subaunce which at that instant when the Body is fully framed , is created of nothing ; and at that instant infused into the Body .


id: A37242
author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12562
sentence: 509
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A37242.xml
txt: txt/A37242.txt
title:
  A work for none but angels & men. That is to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more th[e]n a perfection or reflection of the sense, or teperature of humours: how she exercises her powers of vegetative or quickening power of the senses. Of the imaginations or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions motion of life, local motion, and intellectual powers of the soul. Of the wit, understanding, reason, opinion, judgement, power of will, and the relations betwixt wit & wil. Of the intellectual memory, that the soule is immortall, and cannot dye, cannot be destroyed, her cause ceaseth not, violence nor time cannot destroy her; and all objections answered to the contrary.

summary:
  Bodies are fed with things of mortal kind , And so are subject to mortality ; But truth , which is eternal , feeds the mind ; The tree of life which will not let her dye . For when she sorts things present with things past , And thereby things to come doth oft foresee ; When she doth doubt at first , and choose at last , These acts her owne without the Body be .


id: A26963
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1682
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15826
sentence: 726
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A26963.xml
txt: txt/A26963.txt
title:
  The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed perplexing doubtfulness / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  And if those Waters were material , such were all things they d●d produce , among which was Man , of whom the Text asserts nothing more plain ; for it saith , God created man of the dust of the earth ; the most gross part and sedement of those Waters , after all things else were created . 2. And you must believe , that Christ was God and Man , and came to save man , before you believe that there is such a creature as man , or what he is , and whether he have a soul capable of salvation .


id: A45359
author: Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?
date: 1667
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16887
sentence: 308
flesch: 35
cache: cache/A45359.xml
txt: txt/A45359.txt
title:
  A private letter of satisfaction to a friend concerning 1. The sleep of the soul, 2. The state of the soul after death, till the resurrection, 3. The reason of the seldom appearing of separate spirits, 4. Prayer for departed souls whether lawful or no.

summary:
  Thus Heraclitus , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . speaking of the Helmet of Hades which makes men invisible , he sayes , It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the end , or death of every man ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to which he that comes , becomes invisible . For this we have the suffrage of Justin Martyr , who disputing with Trypho the Jew , taxes those as erroneous , who say , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .


id: A16740
author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
date: 1608
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20265
sentence: 350
flesch: 42
cache: cache/A16740.xml
txt: txt/A16740.txt
title:
  Diuine considerations of the soule concerning the excellencie of God, and the vilenesse of man. Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously looke into. By N.B. G.

summary:
  But let those that feele these great effects of grace in the goodnes of the liuing God , say with the holy Prophet , Psalme 136. verse 1. be thankfull to the Lord , and speake good of his name , for his mercie endureth for euer : but since so infinite is his goodnes in all things and to al things , and specially to man aboue all things , let me onely wish al men for their own good , to acknowledge all goodnes onely to bee in the Lord , the onely Author and substance thereof ; & whatsoeuer is good in heauen or earth , is onely a free guifte of his grace , that must onely work to his glory ; the election of man to be an effect of loue in the grace of his goodnes , and not to dreame of merite , but to giue glory vnto mercie , for the benefit of such a blessing , as being freely giuen to man , through our Lord Iesus Christ by his merite , is onely confirmed to the eternitie of his glory : and thus much touching the goodnes of God. Againe , through the loue of God was man made the wisest creature , to know the varieties of natures , to giue names vnto creatures , to note the courses of the heauens , to till the earth , and make his pathes through the seas , to deuide the times , to distinguish of doubts , to search into knowledge , and to know the giuer and glory thereof : Againe , through the loue of God , man was made commaunder of all creatures vnder the Sunne , Lord of all the earth , foreseer of after-times , messenger of the worde of God , student of Diuine misteries , cheife seruant to the Lord of Lords , freinde to the King of Kings , and coheire in the heauenly kingdome , through the loue of God ; hee was made a seruante , but as a friend , a brother and a coheire : now hee that thinks on these pointes of loue , is worthy of no loue if he cannot say in his heart there was neuer such loue : hee loued man in himselfe , when there was none to perswade him to loue him but himselfe ; he loued man as himselfe , that he wold haue him one with himselfe ; yea he loued man more if more could be then himself , that for man to death would giue himselfe : hee made man louingly , he blest man louingly , hee came to man louingly , and dyed for man most louingly : in the beginning hee shewed his loue without beginning , and in the end will shew his loue without ending , he made him better then his creatures , for hee made him Lord ouer them : hee made them better then his Angells , for hee made them to serue him alittle lower then himselfe .


id: A37239
author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21133
sentence: 901
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A37239.xml
txt: txt/A37239.txt
title:
  The original, nature, and immortality of the soul a poem : with an introduction concerning humane knowledge / written by Sir John Davies ... ; with a prefatory account concerning the author and poem.

summary:
  This Lamp , through all the Regions of my Brain , Where my Soul sits , doth spread such Beams of Grace , As now , methinks , I do distinguish plain , Each subtile Line of her Immortal Face . Ev'n as a prudent Emperor , that reigns By Sovereign Title , over sundry Lands , Borrows , in mean Affairs , his Subjects Pains , Sees by their Eyes , and writeth by their Hands ; But Things of weight and consequence indeed , Himself doth in his Chamber them debate ; Where all his Counsellors he doth exceed , As far in Judgment , as he doth in State.


id: A43995
author: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23031
sentence: 683
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A43995.xml
txt: txt/A43995.txt
title:
  Humane nature, or, The fundamental elements of policy being a discovery of the faculties, acts, and passions of the soul of man from their original causes, according to such philosophical principles as are not commonly known or asserted / by Tho. Hobbs.

summary:
  1. HAving spoken of the Powers and Acts of the Mind , both cognitive and motive , considered in every Man by himself , without Relation to other● ; it will fall fitly into this Chapter , to speak of the Effects of the same Power one upon another ; which Effects are also the Signs , by which one taketh notice what another conceiveth and intendeth . For the understanding of what I mean by the Power Cognitive , we must remember and acknowledge that there be in our Minds continually certain Images or Conceptions of the Things without us , insomuch that if a Man could be alive , and all the rest of the World annihilated , he should nevertheless retain the Image thereof ; and all those Things which he had before seen or perceived in it ; every one by his own Experience knowing , that the Absence or Destruction of things once imagined doth not cause the Absence or Destruction of the Imagination it self ; This Imagery and Representations of the Qualities of the Thing without , is that we call our Conception , Imagination , Ideas , Notice or Knowledg of them ; and the Faculty or Power by which we are capable of such Knowledge , is that I here call Cognitive Power , or Conceptive , the Power of Knowing or Conceiving . CHAP. II.


id: A23100
author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
date: 1609
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24414
sentence: 866
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A23100.xml
txt: txt/A23100.txt
title:
  The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers.

summary:
  Lord Iesu Christ eternall King , God and man , crucified for man , look on me with the eyes of thy mercie , heare mee putting my trust in thee , haue mercy on mee full of miseries and sins , thou which euer makest the fountaine of thy compassions to spring . Why art thou troubled touching the price , Christ hath yeelded and deliuered vp himselfe to God his father ▪ that thou shouldest purchase thee a Kingdom : thou so giue thy selfe , that thou be his Kingdom and that sinne may not raigne in thy mortall bodie , but the spirit in obtaining of eternall life .


id: A51412
author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23052
sentence: 1060
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A51412.xml
txt: txt/A51412.txt
title:
  The spirit of man, or, Some meditations (by way of essay) on the sense of that scripture, 1 Thes. 1:23 ... by Charles Morton ...

summary:
  The Spi●●● should fail before me , and the Souls which● have made ; Spirit and Souls may be take● as put Exeg●tically ; yet , if you conside● what follow , ( in that Zach. 12. AS we have all manner of Demonstrations , to assure us , of what E●●hu asserted when he said , There is a Spirit in man ; so we have the Eternal Spirit of God Himself , by the Pen of His Inspired Solomon , Recommending this Blessed Oracle of Wisdom unto us , A man of Understanding is of an Excellent Spirit .


id: A29667
author: Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643.
date: 1641
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23137
sentence: 1116
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A29667.xml
txt: txt/A29667.txt
title:
  The nature of truth, its union and unity with the soule which is one in its essence, faculties, acts, one with truth / discussed by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, in a letter to a private friend ; by whom it is now published for the publick good.

summary:
  How would the soule improve , if all Aristotles Materia prima , Plato's Mens Platonica , Hermes Trismegistus his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , were converted into some spirituall light ? the soule might soare and raise it selfe up to Universall Being , bathe it selfe in those stately , deep , and glorious streames of of Vnity , see God in Iesus Christ , the first , chiefe , and sole cause of all Being : It would not then containe it selfe within particular rivulets , in whose shallow waters it can encounter nothing but sand or pebbles , seeing it may fully delight it selfe in the first rise of all delight , Iesus Christ . All things are this one light or truth , shining from God .


id: A53583
author: Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24705
sentence: 998
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A53583.xml
txt: txt/A53583.txt
title:
  Man wholly mortal, or, A treatise wherein 'tis proved, both theologically and philosophically, that as whole man sinned, so whole man died ... with doubts and objections answered and resolved, both by Scripture and reason ... : also, divers other mysteries, as of heaven, hell, the extent of the resurrection, the new-creation, &c. opened, and presented to the trial of better judgment. / by R.O.

summary:
  All the Faculties of Man ( severally or together ) are all , and each of them mortal ▪ as well those that are peculiar to man , as those that are common to Beasts : and if all those , with his corpulent matter compleating Man , be proved mortal ; then the invention of the Soule upon that ground vanisheth : which I thus prove . Here , first , we are to consider that we are not to speak of Man , as the title or word man may be ascribed to the humane shape or carcasse , as in this place it seemeth it is , by way of distinction from other forms ; but of such an humane shape or carcasse as is a living soul : and so alwayes when we speak or treat of man in this point of difference , we are not to mean his carcase in humane form or shape onely , but as he is a rational living soul in that form , and so call'd man : for the text ascribeth the title of Man to him , both before and after the breathing in his face the breath of life ; and man became a living Soul : therefore that living Soul was Man.


id: A07786
author: Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.
date: 1602
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25123
sentence: 932
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A07786.xml
txt: txt/A07786.txt
title:
  The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..

summary:
  Euery one ought to know thys , & reuerence these gifts of God in nature , vsing them lawfully , and to the benefit of humaine societie : We should consider and acknowledge God in nature reuerently , we should esteeme the actions of nourishing , giuing increase , and supplying by generation , as diuine gifts and graces , the abuse whereof is punished by most horrible paines .


id: A38619
author: Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.
date: 1651
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33084
sentence: 793
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A38619.xml
txt: txt/A38619.txt
title:
  Enchyridion physicæ restitutæ, or, The summary of physicks recovered wherein the true harmony of nature is explained, and many errours of the ancient philosophers, by canons and certain demonstrations, are clearly evidenced and evinced.

summary:
  Notwithstanding this , he thi● shall grant Nature the honour of being the second universal Cause attending on the first , and as it wer● an instrument moved by it , and 〈◊〉 giving , according to a material order , an immediate motion to ever● thing in the world , will not spe●● what disagrees with the opinion 〈◊〉 Philosophers or Divines , who 〈◊〉 that Natura naturans : i. Nature giving nature : this , Natura naturata , Nature made nature . it is to admit a Principle that shall go counter to her intention , but her end in Generation being to obtain a Form , to which Privation is adverse , certainly this cannot be part of Natures aim : They had spoken more to the purpose , if they had made Love a principle of Nature , for the matter being widowed in its form , covets eagerly the embracing of a new .


id: A42818
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38045
sentence: 1021
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A42818.xml
txt: txt/A42818.txt
title:
  Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence, in relation to mans sin and misery.

summary:
  When therefore we cann● give Accoun● of things either by the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 or concen●able 〈◊〉 , ( as likely some things relating to the States of Spirits , and immaterial beings can be resolv'd by neither ) I say then , we may have recourse to the Arbitrary managements of those invisible Ministers of Equity and Justice , which without doubt the world is plentifully stored with . 〈◊〉 can ●ne thinks searce imagine , that presently upon the quitting on●e , we shall ●e stript of all corporetry , for this would ●e such a jump as is seldome or never made in nature ; since by almost all i●ances that come under our observation his manifest , that she ●seth to act by due ●nd orderly gradations , and takes no precipition leaps from one extream to another .


id: A36909
author: Dunton, John, 1659-1733.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39588
sentence: 1379
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A36909.xml
txt: txt/A36909.txt
title:
  The visions of the soul, before it comes into the body in several dialogues / written by a member of the Anthenian Society.

summary:
  But this is all R●ddle to you , who have ●ot yet known how Souls act in Bodies , how the Intellect conceives Ideas of Material Objects by the Senses . Perhaps I have more reason to beg pardon of my Brethren , the Members of the Athenian Society , than of the World , in that I have only ●●●tion'd the Subject to them , without taking the●● advice in the Composure ; but my Impatient Book-Seller , alledging the nearness of the Term , occasion'd the hurrying it into the Press ; some of our Members being just now gone out of Town , & some retir'd at present to their Estates in the Countrey .


id: A26782
author: Bates, William, 1625-1699.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41899
sentence: 1635
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A26782.xml
txt: txt/A26782.txt
title:
  Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...

summary:
  Nature under another name is the ordinary Power of God , that by its intimate concourse with Second-Causes produces and supports things . How often are they forc't to take refuge in occult qualities when prest with difficulties ? or only assign universal causes of things , and sometimes the same for operations extreamly contrary ? How many mysteries of Nature are still vaild and hid in those deep recesses where we can go only in the dark ? How much remains undiscover'd that is truly wonderful in the Works of God ? They are the Objects of the Eye and Mind , but what is visible to the Eye is least worthy of admiration .


id: A30150
author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 49801
sentence: 1772
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A30150.xml
txt: txt/A30150.txt
title:
  The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes of the losing it : first preached at Pinners-Hall, and now enlarged and published for good / by John Bunyan.

summary:
  Yea , let him now count up all , and all manner of curses and torments that 〈◊〉 reasonable and an immortal Soul is , or can be made capable of , and able to suffer under , and when he ha● done , he shall come infinitely short of this great A●●thema , this master curse which God has reserved amo●gst his Treasuries , and intends to bring out in that day of battle and war , which he purposeth to make upon damned Souls in that day . Thus will all the Powers , Sences and P●●●ons of the Soul of him that has lost himself , 〈◊〉 of his own power to dispose for his advantage ; and will be only in the Hand and under the Management of the revenging Justice of God.


id: A85674
author: Gregory, Edmund, b. 1615 or 16.
date: 1646
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 50171
sentence: 861
flesch: 41
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title:
  An historical anatomy of Christian melancholy, sympathetically set forth, in a threefold state of the soul. 1 Endued with grace, 2 ensnared in sin, 3 troubled in conscience. With a concluding meditation on the fourth verse of the ninth chapter of Saint John. / By Edmund Gregory, sometimes Bachelour of Arts in Trin. Coll. Oxon.

summary:
  It seek●e● Peace , it hateth to contend ; It 's gentle , milde and loving to its friend . And all this Good it freely doth impart , Without a pa●tial , p●oud o● grudging heart ; Good meaning .


id: A32696
author: Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.
title: The immortality of the human soul, demonstrated by the light of nature in two dialogues.
date: 1657
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mime: application/xml
words: 49705
sentence: 1180
flesch: 44
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summary:
  Nor do I fear the frowns of Theology , if I adventure to affirm , that that Soul must have a clearer preception of the Excellency of Objects Supernatural , who can attain to speculate them both by the light of Grace and that of Nature together . First , it will be convenient , in order to the prevention of all Equivocation and Logomachy , that may arise from the various use of the word , Soul ; that we insist a little on the examination of that vulgar Opinion , which admitteth a real distinction betwixt Animus and Anima , the Mind and the Soul :


id: A28525
author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 81957
sentence: 3017
flesch: 73
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title:
  Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...

summary:
  There is nothing which it cannot subdue : only understand it aright , The Soul hath such might or ability from its Original , and such a Spirit it could have given forth out of it self , if it had not let in the Earthly Great Turba , which now giveth the stop : unless it be so , that the holy Spirit rideth upon its Chariot ; as with Moses , Elias , and all the Prophets , with Christ and his Disciples , also still continually , with the holy Children of God : they have all this Power or Authority , they can awaken or raise the Dead , heal the Sick , and expel all Diseases , it is natural , the Spirit only ruleth therewith , over the Turba . 24. 1. VVHen the Soul entereth into the majestick Light as above mentioned , and receiveth the Light of God , then is it altogether longing and h panting after it , and continually draweth into its desire , God's power and vertue , that is , God's Body , into it self ; and the holy Spirit is the power and vertue of God's Spirit ; thus it acquireth God's Body and Spirit , and eateth at God's Table ; all whatsoever the Father hath is his Sons , and whatsoever the Son hath is his Images .


