If we had nought but sense, then only they
Should have sound minds, which have their senses
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But wisdom grows, when senses do decay;
And folly most in quickest sense is found.
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If we had nought but sense, each living wight,
Which we call brüte, would be more sharp than
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As having sense's apprehensive mightyen
In a more clear and excellent degree.

But they do want that quick discoursing pow'r,
Which doth in us the erring sense correct;
Therefore the bee did suck the painted flow'r,
© Aad binds of grapes, the cunning shadow peck’d.

This power spreads outward, but the root doth grow
In the inward soul, which only doth perceive;
For th' eyes and ears no more their objects know,
Than glasses know what faces they receive..

For if we chance to fix our thoughts elsewhere,
Though our eyes open be, we cannot see a
And if one pow'r did not both see and hear,
Our sights and sounds would always double be.

Then is the soul a nature, which contains.!
The pow'r of sense, within a greater pow'r;'/
Which doth employ and use the sense's pains,
But sits and rules within her private bow'r.

Who can in memory, ort, or water find? or will,

Or air, or fire, or

What alchymist can draw, with all his skill,
The quintessence of these out of the mind?

If th' elements which have nor life, nor sense,
Can breed in us so great a pow'r as this,
Why give they not themselves like excellence,
Or other things wherein their mixture is ?

If she were but the body's quality,

Then she would be with it sick, maim'd, and blind: But we perceive where these privations be, Au healthy, perfect, and sharp-sighted mind.

If she the body's nature did partake,

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Her strength would with the body's strength de But when the body's strongest sinews slake, Then is the soul most active, quick, and gay.

If she were but the body's accident,
And her sole being did in it subsist,
As white in snow, she might herself absent,
And in the body's substance not be miss'd.

But it on her, not she depends;

For she the body doth sustain and cherish :
Such secret pow'rs of life to it she lends,
That when they fail, then doth the body perish.

Since then the soul works by herself alone,
Springs not from sense,
e, nor humours well agreeing,
Her nature is peculiar, and her own;
She is a substance, and a perfect being.

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But she receives both Heav'n and Earth together: Nor are their forms by rash encounter spill'd, For there they stand, and neither toucheth either.

Nor can her wide embracements filled be;

For they that most and greatest things embrace, Enlarge thereby their mind's capacity,

As streams enlarged, enlarge the channel's space. All things receiv'd do such proportion take, As those things have wherein they are receiv'd; So little glasses little faces make,

And narrow webs on narrow frames are weav'd.

Then what vast body must we make the mind, Wherein are men, beasts, trees, towus, seas, and And yet each thing a proper place doth find, [lands;

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Doubtless, this could not be, but that she turns
Bodies to spirits, by sublimation strange;
As fire converts to fire the things it burns;
As we our meats into our nature change.

From their gross matter she abstracts the forms,
And
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To bear them light on her celestial wings.

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CREATION OF SOULS HANDS OU 1192197 oë buk THEN neither from eternity before, to the d Nor from the time, when time's first point bajun, Made he all souls, which now he keeps in store; Some in the Moon, and others in the Sung b ate and vibely blues wh Nor in a secret cloister doth he keep bluow nist These virgin-spirits, till their marriagri dwy ji Nor locks them up in chambers, where they sleep, Till they awake within these beds of clay.

Nor did he first a certain number makeandt andT Infusing part in beast and part in thon padW And, as unwilling further pains to take," lost ›d W Would make no more than those he framed then.

So that the widow soul, her body dying, one srov Unto the next born body married was pa tenT And so by often changing, and supplying, 9:3 Men's souls to beasts, and beasts to men did pass.

Again, if souls of souls begotten were,
Into each other they should change and move:
And change and motion still corruption bear;
How shall we then the soul immortal prove?

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Therefore the angels sons of God are nam'd,
And marry not, nor are in marriage giv'n:
Their spirits and ours are of one substance fram'd,
And have one father, e'en the Lord of Heaven;
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Who would at first, that in each other thing
The earth and water living souls should breed,
But that man's soul, whom he would make their king,
Should from himself immediately proceed.
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And when he took the woman from man's side,
Doubtless himself inspir'd her soul alone?
For 't is not said, he did man's soul divide,
But took flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone.
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Lastly, God being made man for
an for man's outi šake,
And being like man in all, except in sin,
His body from the virgin's womb did take;
But all agree, God form'd his soul within.

He looks on Adam as a root or well poð dyrodt (or And on his heirs as branches, and as streamps? He sees all men as one man, though they dwell: 7. In sundry cities, and in sundry realinsłą teri

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The stream and branch the same corruption take.
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So, when the root and fountain of mankind
Did draw corruption, and God's curse, by sin;
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And all his offspring grew corrupt therina mé
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And as when th' hand doth strike, the man offendis,
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Therefore this sin of kind, not personal,

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So, though God make the sonk goodþrich, and fatt,
Yet when her four is to the body knit, no baA
Which makes the man, which man is Adam's heir,
Justly forthwith he takes his grace fromite nă
And then the sotily being first from nothing brought,
When God's grace fails her, doth to nothing
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And this declining proneness unto nought,je oda
Is e'en that sin that we are born withal.

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But in their place the contrary do riseși iin ban
And real spots of sin her beauty mar.

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Should be transferr'd-unto his guilty: race,ok or
When Christ his grace and justice doth imparti
To men unjust, and such as have no grace.

Jesong to hand to me aidt stofarad” Lastly, the soul were better so to bene leg, mel Born slave to sin, than not to be at all T Since (if she do believe) one sets her free,

That makes her mount the higher for her fall.

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And order things with industry and art: and A
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Which also God might in his works admire,
And here beneath yield him both pray'r and praise;
As there, above, the holy angels choir.
Doth spread his glory forth with spiritual lays.^,
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Lastly, the brute, unreasonable wights,

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