Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	call_v	word_n	1,643	5	3.6294	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52130	A Common-place-book out of The rehearsal transpros'd digested under these several heads, viz. his logick, chronology, wit, geography, anatomy, history, loyalty : with useful notes.	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. Rehearsal transpros'd.	1673 (1673)	Wing M869; ESTC R3584	13,677	64

A Common-place-Book Out of the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D Digested under these several Heads Viz. His Logick Chronology Wit Geography Anatomy History Loyalty With Useful Notes LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun at the West end of St. Pauls M. DC LXXIII The Reason of publishing these Papers I had purposed once to have laid by these Papers esteeming them like such which menscrible in a Common-place-book especially when I heard there was an Answer to the Rehearsal Transpros'd in Booksellers hands The Answer is now known by the Title of Rosemary A grave and serious Piece that 's the greatest opposition w ch it maintains against the Transproser excepting that once he ventures at Wit like an Apothecarie as far as his Herbal can furnish him with the qualities of Nettles and Archangel You may lay a Wager on his Name at once reading if you observe how he prides himself in squirting at the Royal Society like Culpeper against the Colledge of Physitians How he strikes at all in his reach how he nips Rosemary with the long nails of his left hand and tears Bays with his right hand and teeth But to give him his due commendation he and one more who hath Natural wit though no Reading parts would make a good Writer It may I think serve as an account why this is published that upon considering the Performances of the Common Enemy to both I did not perceive my Labour was saved or that this small Trifle was forestalled A Common-Place-Book Out of the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D Concerning his Title-Page THe Worthy Author that he might not seem a Plagiary doth with much modesty call his Book The Rehearsal willing to intimate that what-ever may be accounted any thing in it was taken from others and that he may more particularly own whence he receiv'd all his Flowers excepting what he calls the Rapping-flower he lets it still keep the old name of the Farce So that a Rehearsal it is and more than so Transpros'd If you ask why Transpros'd I say in his behalf he did it like a Prince to shew the Authority he had to mint words and with an Or to shew what this must pass for But you will say why doth he then discourage Kings from the like Sovereignty If you know not that you are not fit to talk with a Senator It was that he might enjoy the whole peculiar Jurisdiction to himself just as the man disswaded his rich neighbours from the Sin of Vsury that he might have the sole Trade of Extortion He is so kind as to bestow the Impression on the Assigns of Iohn Calvin and Theodore Beza It is a valuable Gift and will bring good profit as other Books which are written against Government or printed in a Corner I hope the Assigns of these first Fathers of the Church are not Ministers if they be Happy had it been for the Nation happy for themselves if they had never been so enriched seeing he observes so many mischiefs that happen by reason of the flourishing condition of Church-men But he meant it kindly and has thanks due for his bounty the more because he is not wholly of their Church yet is he not at all of that Church which was Mother to Sibthorp and Mainwaring Now that the Assigns may have sale for the Book these are to give notice that you may buy it at the Sign of the Kings Indulgence What! do you not understand him you look as strange and simply as if he had told you of the sign of the Counter-Tenor-Voice or of the Noise in the Air whereas the Sign is a fair double Sign The Indulgence is a sign of the Kings Goodness more than their deserts It was a conjectural Sign too of what would follow to wit Preaching and Praying against the established Church though this was strictly forbidden Upon the same Sign-post is drawn the Posture of a Garrison almost forced to a surrendry at last obtraining a Cessation of Arms and in that time fitting it self to repel the Besiegers The sign is large and hath more than that in the Strand containing the several Coats of the 13 Cantons of Switzerland But still you are never the better except you know at what Market Town this new Sign is hung up It is on the South side of the Lake Lemane the Town is better known by the Name of Pure Geneva But now I have told you it is ten to one against you that you find it not It is like Delos a pretty spot of floating Ground only it is not so bold as that to lanch out into the Deep but like a little sneaking By-lander it creeps and coasts about the Shore of the Lake now it is South but by then as you can read about 50 Pages of the Rehearsal Whip it 's got to the West side of the Lemane but the next time we take it there we will get an Archimedes or some Cunning Man to remove and fix it on the South Still I am glad to hear the Kings Indulgence is at Geneva for then his Supremacy must be in the same place and who knows but his best Subjects may do what the rest cannot and prevail with their Dear Brethren but the Project is not worth pursuing 't is a bad Air for Kings and would kill them sooner than the infamous Hundreds or Sheerness But if Monarchie cannot have health yet Indulgence surely will make a good shift among them 't is not to be doubted They will indulge themselves and all others who profess the single and onely Religion of their City but no other can be suffered to be believed and discoursed for they look upon themselves as the True Protestant Dominicans and as the Popish part of that Order have by an old Prescription the principal Power of the Inquisition by the same right doth the other exercise this Authority over all within their reach who believe not that Presbytery is the Government that the Pope is the Antichrist and that a Man is almost no Man They can further justifie themselves by their own great Principle and affirm that they ought not to shew any favour to differing Opinions no though the doubting Persons should come both to their Churches and Sacraments This befitting Gentleness is called a halting betwixt God and Baal a cursed Neutrality a Laodicean Luke-warmness and far from an Ardent Zeal for the Cause of God The Reason upon which they proceed so is this Religion which is an imitation of Him whom they profess to worship requires that they should make their Decrees against men in such a manner as the Dominicans and they do much what alike believe that God enacts in the Case of Absolute Reprobation which Sanction is so farr from any Tenderness or Indulgence that Calvin himself calls his own Doctrine in this Article The Horrid Decree But I had almost forgot one Piece of Toleration which the Rehearser and others report Though there is no Toleration in the Genevian Church yet after Church time on Sundays

they tolerate Sports This Liberty is not I suppose desired by the Indulged no they have more Loyalty sure they have heard it Preached that it was the Wicked Book of Sports not a word of Rump and Army that brought the King to the Block As for Geneva had it not been that Democracie both in Church and State had made some amends you had been told ere now that it tumbled into the Lemane Lake or that it had been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah By this time without doubt you have enough for a Title Page now make room for the Rehearsal or Animadversions The Book begins like a Course of University-Studies with Logick and before he hath done you will find him as Universally learned as the Renowned Knight in our English Poet. You have Page 1. a Dilemma against the Preface for being written after Declaration that he would write no more Now a Dilemma is otherwise called A two-horned Argument whereas most men would have believed that he could have made neither two horns nor one since he left the Colledge but here they are Beware of a cu●s'd Ox though his horns be short It had been unmannerly and false to call so great a Master of Wit a Bull. Now you wi●h your Preface look to your self What can you say in your own defence Do you plead with the Casuists that any man may dispense with his own Promise where the Non-performance prejudices no one According to this Rule you are gone for by writing again you have offended the sweet-temper'd Author of Evangelical Love You have affronted Atheism which is accounted by Ricaut a considerable Sect amongst the fatal Turks and which in this Town under the like Patronage of Leviathan and Absolute Necessity is not of a despicable strength But this is not all You have hereby provok'd my Author to waste much precious time in an Answer For he like the Humorous Lieutenant was taken up in great and Important Affairs of State The Parliament may sit in February and then the GOOD OLD CAUSE and The Work of all the Faithful in the Land require his Counsel in Cabals and his Speeches in Publick as the most sufficient States-man and exact Orator that their Party does afford Now would it not vex a man to be thus unseasonably diverted from the weightiest Business of this Nation and of one or two besides Certainly he has cause ●o complain in the words of his Old Masters Wife after the death of her Husband That the burden of three Common-wealths lies upon those shoulders I hope Sir he hath paid you off with his Logick and to shew you that he is good at more Weapons than one have at you with his Chronology Page 5. The Press that Villanous Engine invented much about the same time with the Reformation I suppose by his former kindness that he intends the Honour of the Reformation for Mr. Calvin who is placed in the Tables of Chronology to the Year 1550 and the Press was invented 1440 a Villanous Engine that it should be so much before the Reformer Now though we had but few hundreds to turn in we shou'd have brought Press and Reformation nearer together than as at present they stand 1●0 years distant but for one sinister Accident had not that hindred the Reformation should have been attributed to Luther who though he still took his Commons in a Monastery wrote against Indulgences in the Year 1517. Let not the weak Brethren mistake as if he had been a Persecutor of the Sober Party it was only against the Popes Indulgence which was a sort of good natur'd Liberty of Conscience for men to sin Scot-free paying only for it a small Rent of Acknowledgment to his Holiness That which must for ever exclude Luther from this glorious Title of Reformer is That he was not contented Page 295. with three Ceremonies but he had the Table se● Altar-wise and to be called an Altar Candles Crucifixes Paintings c. so that Calvin is your Man so useful an Instrument that I could wish for the sake of my Author he had been heard of but one hundred years sooner But if you make the worst of it what signifies this in comparison of so many thousands as the World is old and if you set it over against Eternity he is not so much as one moment out in his Computation But since this Chronology is a dry Study and Printing very laborious he makes a facetious transition from the Printing Press to the Wine Press If his thirsty Wit be so pretty what may we expect from his new Wine Here it comes Page 64. He was the Cock Divine and Cock-Wit and walked among the Hens Oh how I love to see much made of a little Some pretending Wits are so lazy that they will take no pains with a Joke except it will come easily they let it alone they like unskilful Carvers of a Calfs head cannot find the best bits but our Author rather than miss any will break his own brain He is in splitting Jests as famous as those celebrated men in their several Professions of whom one is called Doctor Tear-Text the other the Pick-Lock of the Law Another Piece of the same Wit is Page 10. where he tells us of contrary Assignations where the Phansie is up and Breeches down with the rest of which Modesty forbids to make a Rehearsal his excuse must be that of Hilkiah the Quaker for his plain Song of Window-woing He said it when the vain Spirit was upon him Whatever he says ill now he recants Page 65. He declares that he does not hear for all this that he practised upon the Honour of Ladies This is very charitable and true but if this accusation had been just the candor of the Vindication had been wonderful The jealous Fellow in Green-street was not so favourable to the Blew-Gown whom he caught in that Posture with his Wife for like an ill-bred Clown he used him untowardly and so that it is a shame to tell Thus far my Author hath shewed a kind of Apothegmatical short Wit now to shew that he can offer somewhat more stately and large he performs the fear of Aristotle's Rarefaction that is he gives you much of extension upon a little of matter He takes but two letters I. O. and with these alone he writes from Page 80. to 91. Never did Bow-Bells ring more Changes than these well tuned two Say but what you would have and here it is I. O. is a Talisman though the Owner thereof is neither Conjurer nor Cunning Gipsie I. O. is Paean Daughter of Inachus Iudicious Iealous Oraculous Obscure This is an Abridgement of the Design carried on through 10 Pages excepting some stragling digressions One is his advice to the Alphabet to fetch a Warrant from Justice Bales against the Prefacer I think he had better advised them to another except they meet with his Clerk at home for since the Justice left practising Law he hath almost quite forgot