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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	publish_v	write_v	1,828	5	5.3252	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10715	Opinion diefied [sic]. Discouering the ingins, traps, and traynes, that are set in this age, whereby to catch opinon. Neither florished with art, nor smoothed with flatterie. By B.R. Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 20994; ESTC S115920	36,020	66

foolish to please as she is at this houre and she is in nothing more curious then in censuring of books for he that will presume to publish a booke if hee doth not learne with the Tayler and the Atyremaker to put it into a new fashion it will neuer sell it will lie still in the Printers hands and those lines that are now put in print if they conteine any matter of pietie or that are any whit at all entending to honesty they doe but pester a Stationers stall and there are very few or none that will bestow one peny of them such is the curiosity of Opinion in this age but especially concerning bookes I might yet speake of some strange conceited books that hath beene published by sundry authours one amongst the rest In the Contempt of glory some others In the prayse of the pestilence In the prayse of the Quartane Ague In the praise of Baldnes In the praise of a Flie in the praise of Nothing and that great Clarke Erasmus of Roterdam writ a book In the prayse of Folly all these and diuerse others that might be yet named the meere motiues of Opinion But leauing to speake of Pamphlets I might speake of great volumes nay excepting the holy scriptures how many bookes are extant which Opinion hath not had some hand in It was a strange Opinion that led Alexander to bury his horse Bucephalus Augustus to bury his Parrot Heliogabilis his Sparrow what should we say to Hortensius a Roman Gentleman that mourned certaine monethes for the death of a fish By this little it may appeare the Potency of Opinion how it hath raigned and ruled in the world in all times in all ages in all places and hath had soueraignty with all sortes of persons The Antiquity of Opinion Chap. II. THe first conception of Opinion was in heauen at that time when Lucifer fell for it was a selfe ouer-weaning Opinion that puffed vp those glorious Angels into that height of pride that was the cause of their perdition It was after hatched vp in Paradise for when the Serpent insinuating himselfe to curry fauour with the woman that shee might the rather conceiue a good Opinion of him what sayth he hath God forbidden you that you should not eate of the tree of knowledge but why stand you in doubt of that prescript there is no such danger in the matter as he hath protested for God doth know that when you shall eate thereof your eyes shall bee opened and you shall bee as Gods knowing both good and euill This pleasing perswasion so allured the woman to like of his speeches that she beleeued all to bee true but it is Opinion that first begetteth beleefe according to the old prouerbe Men are beleeued as they are beloued for we neither trust nor beleeue him in whom wee haue no conceit whereby to draw on our affiance but where Opinion is a little setled euery moule-hill is turned to a mountaine we beleeue impossibilities we wonder at matters of no moment nay we many times extoll and commend ougly vice for seemely vertue this poore blind Opinion hath euer since so dominired in Adams posteritie that it no lesse ouer ruleth the Prince then the Pesant the mighty then the meane the rich then the poore the wise then the foolish What diuersitie in Opinions amongst the Philosophers Chap. III. VVHat varietie in Opinions amongst the Philosophers and how many sectaries were there amongst them as Stoickes Peripatetickes Ethnickes Academickes Epicures and as hystories doe make mention there were 50. seuerall sectes amongst them and what were these contrarieties they were but Opinions and those that still were striuing to vpholde Reason with so many reasons were yet vtterly ignorant from whence Reason came the wisest amongst them did but gesse of the Immortality of the Soule yet they were still disputing and arguing one against an other to vphold opinions that were sometimes farre from the truth They could speake many good words concerning manners and conuersation amongst men but of God they spake nothing but dreamingly neyther dreamed they of him but ouerthwartly and how many greeuous in counters haue there beene amongst them concerning the principles of naturall things whereof there are many that doe yet hang before the Iudge not fully decided Thales Mylesius one of the wise men of Greece beginning to looke into the generation of things concluded that the world had his first beginning by water And Archelaus not farre dissenting from his Opinion affirmeth that the creation of the earth was but by liquid water inflamed by the heat of fire and by resolution turned into dust Heraclitus he thinketh all things to haue their originall of fire concluding with Aristotle That the corruption of one thing is the generation of an other Democritus and Crisippus with diuerse others they referre the originall of the world to a little nothing making vp a something of this Chaos they conclude it to be the subiect of corruption Anaxagoras trusting in his owne opinion fabled that the Sunne was composed of bright Iron and that the heauens were of stone wonderfully knit together least they shoulde fall I might yet speak of many other contrarieties in Opinion that was holden amongst the Phylosophers about Fate about Fortune about Felicity what distinctions they made betweene Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata so that to conclude the Phylosophers that haue so much busied them selues to search out the beginning of thinges coulde neuer find out God the creator and maker of all things The wisedome of that Phylosopher is yet to be admired who suspected the vprightnesse of his owne carriage when he heard himselfe to be commended by a man that was noted to be of a lewd conuersation What contrarieties in Opinion amongst Christians Chap. IIII. AS this iarring and seditious disputing was of continuance amongst the Phylosophers so Opinion is made a mattter of conscience with Turkes Infidels Papistes and Sectaries and there were amongst the Heathen in times past who to win an opinion were faine to perswade the world falsely that they had conference and communication with the Gods In a great part of the world euen at this day Mahomet is worshipped who was the authour of a very foolish religion And the Iewes are yet looking after their Messias but amongst vs Christians it is strange to see what disagreement there is amongst our cleargy men about rites about ceremonies about worshipping about apparell about discipline about many other matters too long to bee spoken of but this is especially to be wondered at aboue the rest that they doe thinke by opposition and contention to ascend into heauen for the which in times past Lucifer was throwne downe into hell the diuisions that are amongst diuines by sinister opinions holden about religion are so diuerse doubtfull and contrary that they haue filled the Schooles and Vniuersities with contention scoulding who contend not for the confines of Christian religion but for the principall