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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	cause_v	part_n	1,774	5	4.3230	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55307	The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.	Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694?	1682 (1682)	Wing P2756; ESTC R3092	63,931	131

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Summatim Nor are they agreed in the origination of the word שמים Some will have it compounded of the words מים and שם ibi sunt aquae there are waters Others will have it derived from the Arabick word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altum esse And as great variety may be observed in the Translation of those words The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters but such varieties are endless I will only mention the different opinions of Criticks upon those words Psal 22.17 They pierced The word כארי some think is derived from the Hebrew word כרה and that the Aleph in the middle is Epenthetical and the Jod in the end of the word is put for Vau either by the negligence of Transcribers or the fraud of the Jews out of spight to the Christian Religion Others think the radix of the word is כהר and that Aleph is put for Ajn by a permutation usual in the Eastern Languages Others think that the word is Syriack and that the radix is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that 't is here the infinitive Mood with the affix of the first Person which often admits the signification of the preter perfect Tense among the Hebrews This opinion they think is favoured by the Septuagint who Translate the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is of the same signification with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ferrarius informs us Other diversities of opinions there are concerning this word those that please may consult De Dieu Glassius Hottinger Amama Pocock in Porta Mosis with many others Are there not great diversity of opinions among Historians and Chronologers do they give the same account of things is there no diversity in their narrations Do the Greek and Roman Historiographers report the same things of the Emperours great Generals and men of War whose lives and actions they transcribe and transmit to future Ages and Generations Do they fix the same Epoches and Periods to the beginning and end of the four famous Empires that have succeeded each other in the world Are they agreed in what year of the Julian period to fix the Creation or how long it hath been existent Longomontanus reckons it existent 3964. Kepplerus 3993 years before the birth of our Lord. Ricciolus says in his Almagest that he hath proved in his Chronology that this duration of the world could not be extended farther than 4076 nor determined shorter than the year 3993 from the Nativity of our Lord And the most probable year of the intermediate space betwixt these two periods he thinks is the year 4063. See And Tacquet Astron lib. 1. p. 46. This is enough to prove the variety and uncertainty of Chronology to which many more might be added if it were to any purpose When will our Learned Commentators agree in their expositions of the dark and obscure parts of the Scripture When will they give the same sense of the Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations Mr. Mede seems to have given the fairest account of them and yet the Learned Dr. More dissents from him in many of his interpretations as well as from Dr. Hammond and his admired Hugo Grotius And 't is not only among Christian Writers that this diversity is found but even among the Jewish Doctors I shall only give one instance thereof amongst numberless numbers that might be produced and that shall be from their expositions of the 53 Chap. of Isaiah Abravanel in his enquiry concerning the Subject of that Prophecy tells us that many of their Wise Men understand it על פשיח לעחיר לבא de Messiah venturo and thus Paehmanides understands it Rabbi Saaidias understands it of Jeremy the Prophet and so doth Aben Esra and Rabbi Menachem with whom Grotius assents though not without some hesitation Jarchi and both the Kimchi's Father and Son understand it of the Jewish Nation which opinion he embraces and defends Vide eum si placet in Commentariis fol 78. The like diversity is found among the Mahumetans as those that please may find in Mr. Pococks specimen Historiae Arabum and his notes upon it as also in Hottingers Historia Orientalis When will the diversity of opinions concerning the Hebrew Points receive a determination Capellus in his Arcanum punctationis asserts the novelty of them so doth our Learned Walton Buxtorfius Junior asserts them in his Anti Critica Capellus defends his opinion with acrimony and scorn enough towards his adversary as may be seen throughout his whole defence Buxtorfius replies again and the Controversy is not yet ended nor I think like to be These things Create no disputes among Carpenters and Masons among Plough-men and Carters and Persons that live in an utter ignorance of them but they are and will be controversies among the Learned till Elias come And are there not as many controversies varieties and uncertainties in natural Philosophy as in what I have already mentioned are not all things variously argued there and are not mens Judgments in those matters as multifarious as their Persons in them Have not DesChartes and some other Philosophers of late overturned the whole Systeme of the Aristotelian Philosophy and may not others do the like by what they have established and are there not as great objections lying against their Novel Systemes as against those that they have rejected Or are the minds of ingenious and inquisitive men any more satisfied in the one than in the other Are Physicians agreed in the nature of Simples Drugs and Minerals have they any fixed Method for the Cure of Diseases are they agreed in the Nature and Causes of them Can they tell what causeth Convulsions and Epilepsies Are they agreed or satisfied in what Dr. Willis hath discoursed concerning them Do they know what causes an Ague or in what part of the body and in what vessels thereof that Fomes lies which at stated times ferments and produces those various Symptomes Are they agreed in their judgments about these things or are they ever like to be Do we not find new methods of Curing Diseases propounded every day which after they have had their turn upon the Stage they go off and others succeed them As the varieties in natural Philosophy are many and the differences among those that converse therein innumerable so are there the like among the Writers and Students in Metaphysicks What is there in that Science that is not variously argued and disputed When will they be agreed about the Principle of Individuals about the nature number of Causes about Quantity Habits Relations and other things past count and number When will they with one consent tell us the difference between the Decrees and Essence of God whether it be real virtual relative or by extrinsick denomination To these varieties and differences in Science add those that are found among Mathematicians in Astronomy and other parts of Mathematical Learning When will they be agreed about the Diameter and Circumference of the Earth when

as the Degrees and varieties of Mens understandings are vastly great and many so are their prejudices and Anticipations Some persons suck in certain Opinions with their Milk they receive them from their Parents and such as give them their Education Thus some are prejudiced for the Doctrine of Calvin and others for the Doctrine of Aaminius thus some persons are prejudiced for Episcopal Government in the Church and others for a Presbyterian Parity Thus some contract a kindness for a pompous and ceremonious Religion and Way of Worshipping God others contract a fondness for a very plain and and simple Way and Method of Worship and Devotion Moreover some men read but one sort of Books and care not to read any thing that is written in opposition to their Anticipations or if they do read any thing of that nature 't is with so great a prejudice that their judgments are rather confirmed than altered thereby They are strongly persuaded of the truth of their own apprehensions what is intended to shake them doth but as the Wind by Trees fix and establish them That this is a fault I do easily grant but 't is easier to observe than cure it and that mens prejudices are strangely fixed and confirmed thereby cannot be denied Besides men are strangely prejudiced against some Opinions by the infamous reports that have been raised concerning those that have defended and maintained them Thus the Papists are prejudiced against the Doctrine of Protestants by impudent and frontless Lyes that have been raised against Luther and Calvin and other great instruments in the Reformation And thus many among us have an Implacable Pique and Displeasure against Dissenters and all their Opinions because some men do report them a company of seditious People that can never be quiet but are always libelling Authority and disturbing all Order and Governments wheresoever they live And others are as much prejudiced against Episcopacy and the peculiar Opinions of that sort of men because they are reported to be a generation of men that are proud and imperious lovers of Empire and Domination that engross the Revenues of the Church and employ them in Luxury and Sensuality but care not for the Souls of men If they will obey the Orders of the Church and submit to its Institutions they may defie all the Laws of God and without restraint or control make what haste they please to Hell they countenance the Ungodly and Prophane and persecute and oppress such as fear God tremble at his word they are impatient of such Meetings and Assemblies where a company of poor Christians meet together to hear Gods Word and call upon his Name but they can very patiently bear the Assemblies of riotous Sensualists and Blasphemers that convene to defie God promote their own Damnation and of as many others as they can Again some Persons receive prejudice against Opinions from the real faults of some single Persons or a few men that have embraced and entertained them Some Dissenters have used some uncomely indecorous and unadvised Expressions in their extemporate Prayers and therefore they reproach and reject all extemporate Effusions some of them have preached Doctrine not agreeable to some mens conceptions or have used homely Language and Similitudes and therefore all their Mouths must be stopped and the Church of God will do better without them than with them Some Conformists read the Liturgy without any seeming seriousness or Devotion they are in such haste to have done with it that they can scarce give themselves time enough to pronounce the words in their full extensions and therefore they infer that all forms of Prayer are inconsistent with and enemies to Devotion and good for nothing but to promote Laziness and introduce Formality and a kind of Lifeless Worship of God Another thing that sixes mens prejudices is their worldly Interest and Advantage this is that which is the strength of the Papacy and the support of the Antichristian Hierarchy and Kingdom The Romanists are by their Education seasoned and imbued with the Opinions of that Church and their Interest confirms them in the belief of them When they come to the use of their Reason and a Capacity of judging concerning them men do seldom embrace Opinions that are inconsistent with their worldly Advantages or forsake those though never so unreasonable that do favour and advance it By believing the Doctrine of that Church they possess Estates and Honours they live in Ease and Peasure and exercise Dominion over the Consciences of men and these things are pleasant to depraved Natures and corrupted Minds and by them men are charmed and bewitched into a Belief of the wildest and most unreasonable persuasions in the World 'T were impossible to hold the Members of the Church of Rome to a belief of its own Doctrine were there no worldly Interest to biass and sway their Judgments thereunto Bishopricks and Abbacies Caps and Miters and the many Preferments and Advantages wherewithal that Church abounds do more to preserve it than all the Power of Princes yea than all the writings of the greatest and most learned Champions of that cause And 't is not only in the Roman Church but in some other Churches of Christendom besides that Interest doth either form mens Opinions or fix their Anticipations and make them steddy and immutable therein The variety of mens Understandings and Prejudices being thus obviously great and many how is it possible that there should be Union and Concord among Christians if Church Communion be suspended upon the belief and acknowledgment of doubtful and unnecessary things May not their concord with as much reason be suspended upon a similitude of faces features and proportions SECT VII BUT I shall argue the improbability of it from Experience as well as from its proper Causes Do we not see great variety of judgments and apprehensions in all parts of Learning and Knowledge Do not Grammarians differ in the sense and meaning of words and in the explication of the Idiotismes and peculiarities of the learned Languages Do not our Mythologists differ in the account they give of the Fables of the Greek and Latine Poets Do not some Learned Men think that they are at least many of them corruptions of the true History of things which we have in the Holy Bible Hath not the Learned Bochartus among others given very probable reasons for it and hath not an English Doctor and Divine of our Church derided and laughed at him for it Have not and do not our Theological Criticks and Translators differ in their Opinions even concerning the Signification of words as about the Original of them Is there any agreement or concord among them or do we need to go far for proofs of it The first verse in the Bible will furnish us with enough ברא שית In the beginning is translated by the Jerusalem Targum בחוכמא in Wisdom By the Arabick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first and by Aquila 〈◊〉 〈◊〉