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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	tree_n	1,517	5	8.6085	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53837	Observations, both historical and moral, upon the burning of London, September 1666 with an account of the losses, and a most remarkable parallel between London and Mosco, both as to the plague and fire : also an essay touching the easterly-winde : vvritten by way of narrative, for satisfaction of the present and future ages / by Rege Sincera.	Rege Sincera.	1667 (1667)	Wing O92; ESTC R1890	16,912	39

sulphureous fire was evidently seen in the melting of Bells Iron Pots Glasses and other metallique things and in the calcining of stones and bricks which no other single fire of wood coals or other vulgar matter could have done I remember that some four or five years ago the Lightning fell in Herefordshire without doing any harm in the Country but being extinguished of it self the exhalation of it did mix it self with a strong Westerly wind that came as far as London beating down houses plucking up trees by the roots and to shew its nitrous and sulphureous Nature did as it were neglect to touch wood but did chiefly stick upon metal and either broke or bended it the tokens of it are seen to this day upon the Steeples of Bowchurch St. Andrew St. Giles Cripplegate the May-Pole and other places These sulphureous matters were also the cause of another inconveniency which is that the fire being corporified in them did extend the sphaere of his activity at a further distance then ordinary and cast his burning beams furthest off mixing more exactly his Atomes in the Air which he turneth almost into his own Nature which was the cause that no body could come neerer that fire then a hundred or two hundred paces VI. The foregoing Summer that was extraordinaryly hot and dry had also disposed the matter of the buildings to admit the fire more quickly and easily by sucking not only the intrinsecal moisture that was in them but also that of the Air which might have moistned them for though there be no rain falling nevertheless there is a certain evapourish moisture in the Air which if it be not dried up doth moisten all porous things intrinsecally and doth condense it self upon the solid ones in the form of an Oleaginous moisture as doth appear upon Marbles and Glasses VII In cometh now the East-wind to play his part in this Tragedy That unfortunate wind of which it is commonly said that it is neither good for man nor beast did blow with such a wonderful fierceness all the time of the conflagration that it did not only quicken the fire as Bellows do the Furnaces but also getting into the streets and among the houses when it found any let or hinderance that did recoil it back it blew equally both to the right and to the left and caused the fire to burn on all sides which hath perswaded many that this fire was miraculous I my self remember that going into some streets at that time and having the wind impetuously in my face I was in hope that at my return I should have it in my back but it was all one for the reason aforesaid It would be here too tedious to speak of the nature of winds and to shew many reasons why this wind is so dry in England as to burn the flowers and leafs of the trees more then the hottest Sun can do one which I think satisfactory will serve for all It is therefore to be observed that winds do not only participate of the nature of the places where they are begot but also of that of the Countries thorough which they pass Now all the Southern Western and Northern winds must pass thorough the great Ocean to come into England in which passage there mixes with them abundance of vapours which cause their moisture except the North-wind wherein the moisture is condensed by the cold but the East-wind to come to us must pass over the greatest Continent of the world France Germany Hungary Greece Persia c. even to China so that in perusing such a tract of Land it not only droppeth down by the way his moist Effluviums the earth as it were sucking them for its irroration but also carrieth along all the hot and dry exhalations that perpetually arise out of the earth which is the cause of his dry and burning quality I had formerly a little Garden where I did bestow as much pains and cares as I could to bring up some young fruit-Fruit-trees that were in 't having the advantage of a very good mould but being seated Eastward and closed narrowly by a Brick-wall on either side this wind that raigneth constantly here in England in the moneths of March April and beginning of May did in their budding so burn the leaves and the flowers that the hottest Sun could not do the like so that I was fain to give it over having been two or three years before I could understand that mystery and the nature of that wind in this countrey for there is some other countreys where this wind is salubrious and fruitful enough VIII It was also a great contributing to this misfortune that the Thames Water-house was out of order so that the Conduits and Pipes were almost all dry as also that the Engines had no liberty to play for the narrowness of the place and crowd of the people but some of them were tumbled down in the river and among the rest that of Clearken-well esteemed one of the best And thus courteous Reader thou seest an admirable concurrence of several causes for the putting of Gods will in execution in other Cities that are not subject to conflagrations as Paris which is all built of Free-stone the innundations have several times played their pranks other Towns as in Italy that think themselves exempted from fi●e and water come to their periods by fearful Earthquakes others that escape Fire Water and Earth do perish by the Meteors of the Air and are calcined by the Lightening so that God Almighty never wanteth instruments to compass his will and it seemeth that the four Elements of which this world is compounded do conspire against the happiness and quietness of man when by their daily prevarications they go about to confirm the disobedience of our first Parents Cur Why SECT V. HEre it is that we must wholly stoop and humble our selves under the mighty hand of God and answer with the Apostle O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counsellor Rom. 11.33 let it suffice thee O man to know that whether he hath done it to punish thee for thy sins or to try thy Faith and exercise thy Patience if thou canst make benefit of this affliction and sanctify it to thy use We know that all things work together for good to them that love God