Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	3,953	5	9.8078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54321	The astrologer anatomiz'd, or, The vanity of star-gazing art discovered by Benedictus Pererius ; and rendered into English by Percy Enderbie, Gent.; Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas artes. English	Pererius, Benedictus, 1535-1610.; Enderbie, Percy, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1465A; ESTC R40059	54,756	134

yet did Mars every day by necessity of his course come through the middle of that Heaven neither is it to be questioned but that children were born every hour in that so large a region or territory Amongst the Indians and Bactrians are many thousands of men called Brachmanes who as well by tradition os their Forethers as their laws and constitutions avoid the adoration of Idols eat not any thing animate neither drink they or ingurgitate wine or other strong liquors men free from all malignant indispositions imploying their whole time in the Service and Honour of the most High and Great God There are other Indians in the same Region who contaminate themselves with the adoration of false Gods with adulteries murders and drunkenness nay there is yet another sort of Indians inhabiting in the same Climate who assassinate men as they are at their sports of hunting or offering sacrifice and devour and feed upon them neither can any of those Stars which they esteem benign or propitious deterr or hinder those people from such like villanies nor yet the malignant enforce or compel the Brachmanes to act such black and hideous crimes Amongst the Persians there was a law whereby it was enacted that men might contract matrimony and cohibit with their Daughters Sisters or Mother and this Edict those people observed not onely in their own Countrey but in what Climate soever they inhabited or Regions colonized which they polluted with incestuous Nuptials and horrid Marriages which other Nations loathing and abhorring branded them with the nomenclation of Magussees and even at this day in the very heart and centre of Egypt Phrygia and Galatia are many of those Magussees who by a long continued practice from former ages commaculate and defile themselves with such obscene and detestable villanies and yet we cannot in positive terms affirm that those bruits rather then rational creatures were generated and produced under the house of Saturn Mars being an assisting spectator The Amazons lived without Husbands onely in Spring time they conglomerated and passed the bands and limits of their native soil made bold with their neighbours Husbands and such other lusty sparks as seemed to be active in propagation and as they all enjoyed the company of men and convenied so by necessary consequence they must be delivered and brought to bed at or much about the same time and instant The males they unnaturally murdered and destroyed reserving the females whom they trained up in Martial Discipline and they proved for the most part undaunted Virago's and the true Daughters of Belona yet it were ridiculous to opinionate that all these masculine females were born under the same natalitial Stars This verity is yet made more manifest by the example of the Jews who wheresoever they have their beings in what Region or Kingdome under what King Prince or Emperour or in what Climate soever they are born by an inviolable observation upon the eighth day they circumcise their Infants keep their Sabbath high and holy reverence and honour the Feast yet all Jews are not born under the same constellation neither can these pretended influences or vertues of the Celestial Bodies draw them from the Rites and Customs of their Progenitors much more may it be said of Christians who dispersed over the whole superficies of the Christian world observe the same tenour of doctrine and form of life yet neither by force fair words large promises glorious pretences nor thundering minaces torments almost insupportable Tortures Racks and other strange and unheard of punishments can or could be seduced or drawn one hairs breadth as the saying is from those principles which Christ our Lord and Saviour left unto them are or were all those Christians born under the same Planet These happy souls before the receiving of Christian Faith followed with an ardent Superstition the Laws and Precepts of their Ancestors but after the sacred Lavacre of sin-remitting Baptism they forsook all those soul destroying Ceremonies invested their better parts with a pure faith cloathed themselves with the new man and followed a perfect rule of living leading upon earth a life Angelical upon that score the baptized Parthians wedded not many wives the Medes cast not their dead bodies to the dogs the Indians committed not the corpses of their deceased to the consuming flames of fire The Persians contract not matrimony with their sisters daughters or mothers the Egyptians abhor the worship of their Apis Goat Dog or Cat but wheresoever they inhabit observe the same form of life and doctrine What needs more to be said each hour men are born in all Nations and we see that through free-will and power in man those Laws and Customs are punctually kept and observed neither can these all-powerful Stars as Astrologers dream compel and force the Seres to Homicide the Brachmanes to eat flesh neither can they hinder the Persians from their incestuous copulations the Medes from giving to their dogs their friends dead carkasses nor the Parthians from wedding many wives all nations when they will and how they will use the fredom of their Liberty obedient to their Laws and Customs Thus much out of Bardesanes against the vanity of Astrologers The fifth Reason The free-will of man and the immortality of the soul granted this Art cannot subsist for if the the one must stand the other must fall Judge then courteous Reader is not this Art highly to be disesteemed and slighted which cannot have an existence or shew any feats unless the liberty of mans will and immortality of the soul be overthrown and demolisht But if our soul be mortal and have not freedom in its actions yet Astrologicall Predictions cannot subsist as shall be concluded by these ensuing Arguments First of all Astrologers profess and brag that by the profundity of their Art and observations they can foretell future things and events future things which have their dependency upon free-will cannot possibly be discovered by these Artists for so they should know future things as they are in themselves or per se in act and a thing which is not in as much as it is not cannot be understood therefore it must be after some kinde of manner to wit in the powerfulness or potestaty in its causes neither can future things be known in their causes which are three God Heaven and humane will but such things as are to have their being from the decree counsel and absolute will of Almighty God what mortal Creature either by the Heavens or any other means can dive into them unless they be such unto whom the Almighty will have them by himself made known and revealed for who saith the holy Scripture knows the sense and meaning of God or who hath been of his counsel And as it is written in Wisdom 9. The things that are in sight we finde with labour but the things that are in heaven who shall search out and thy sense who shall know unless thou give wisdom and send