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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	observation_n	sabbath_n	1,995	5	9.7332	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06471	Emblems of rarities: or Choyce observations out of worthy histories of many remarkable passages, and renowned actions of divers princes and severall nations With exquisite variety, and speciall collections of the natures of most sorts of creatures: delightfull and profitable to the minde. Collected by D.L.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 16942; ESTC S108945	119,960	508

the one was with child the third woman comming suddenly upon them unlooked for thrust the heads of those two which were talking together so that they dashed and touched each other whereof the woman that had conceived already being made affraide through strong imagination gave and printed the signe of the rushing of their heads in her two children How scrupulous the Iewes be to doe any thing on their Sabbath day IT chanced that at Magdeburg in Germany about the yeare of our Lord 1270 a certaine Iew upon the Saturday fell into a Jakes out of the which hee could by no meanes deliver himselfe hee cryed therefore pittifully for the helpe of his fellows at the length some of his companions came and they with lamentable voyces shewed that it was their Sabbath day and therefore not to bee lawfull for them to use or exercise the labour of the hands Whereupon they exhorted him patiently to beare the thing untill the next day that it might bee lawful for them to travaile in the helping of him out This matter at the last came unto the eares of the Bishop of that place who was nothing favourable to the Iews The Bishop understanding that the stubborn Iews for the scrupulous observation of their Sabbath day would not helpe their brother out of the jakes commanded upon paine of death that they which did so curiously observe their owne Sabbath day should in like manner as religiously observe and keepe with the like solemnity the next day after being the Christians Sabbath day This was an hard case what should they now do upon paine of death they must obey In the meane time the miserable Iew in the jakes was enforced to abide two dayes and two nights in great filth and stinke and danger of his life The like History you shall finde in Fabians Chronicle The Famine of Ierusalem SVch was the Famine that this famous Citty and her people did endure in the 72 yeare after Christs time that an infinite multitude perished within the walls through Famine so many perished for food that they were not to be numbred for in every place where any Corne or other victualls was heard they presently resorted thither and by force of Armes assaulted their deerest kindred and friends and fought with them to take the food even from little infants even like madde Dogs greedy of meate and in that insatiate manner that they gathered together such things to eate as the most filthiest living creatures in the world would have loathed They did eatte he hides of Horses boyled in a little water to make the skinne a little tender their shooe soles they did eate and their Belts and Girdles from their Loynes they tooke and likewise the skinnes that covered their Targets or Shields did they mince and cut to satisfie their greedy stomacks A little bottle of Hay was sold weghing twelve pound at foure pieces of Silver But great and fearfull is it to relate of one Mary dwelling beyond Iordan the daugter o Eleazer of the town or village of Vitezotia and by interpretation the house of Hysop descended of noble and rich stocke flying with her Friends into Ierusalem for feare of the enemy Titus who besieged the City And in length of time shee wanting her naturall food was compelled to do that which nature abhorred and then through extreame want tooke her son whom she loved dearly which lay smiling on the bed with teares in his eyes like Diamonds glittering to see his Mother which he no way could relieve bewayling her hard f●●tune said My deare but oh miserable child in this war famine and sedition for which of these shal I reserve or keepe thee for if the Romans overcome us thou then art a slave yet famine will prevent bondage or else sedition worse then them both She being then resolved tooke a Faulchion and strucke off her sonnes head and said Be thou food for mee which have formerly fed thee in my wombe therefore now thou shalt be meat for me a terrour unto the seditious a tragicall story to bee related of by posterity and that which is onely yet unheard of amongst the calamities of the Iews And after these words she cleav'd his body in twaine and did seeth or boyle the one halfe of him and did eate of it the other part she reserved in obscurity The souldiers smelling the sent of that execrable meate came to her house and threatned her with Death unlesse shee would relieve them as shee had done her selfe or shew them the way or meanes how they might come by some victualls to satisfie their hunger shee presently in a trembling manner told them shee had kept a good portion thereof for them and on a sudden uncovered the other part of her sonnes dead body which she had uneaten at which sight they were strucken with amazement and horrour But the woman said This is truely my son and mine owne act or doing taste of it for I my selfe have eaten sufficiently thereof Be not more effeminate and childish then a woman not more mercifull then a mother and if Religion or your Conscience cause you to refuse this my sacrifice I have with a good appetite eaten of it already and will eate the rest Then the seditious souldiers departed from her and bruted abroad in the Citty this hainous crime and every man having before his eyes this execrable fact ●rembled as though himselfe had done the deed and now all that were vexed with this scar●ity and famine hastened their owne deaths and cast lots dayly who should be the next to be sacrificed accounting himselfe most happy that dyed before he felt this famine Of wilde Bulls in Prussia THere be wilde Bulls in the Woods of Prussia like unto the common sort of Bulls saving that they have shorter homes and a long beard under the chinne They be cruell and spare neither man nor beast and when any snares or deceit is prepared to take them or they be wounded with arrows in the Woods they labour most vehemently to revenge their wounds upon them that gave them the which thing if they cannot doe rushing and stumbling on trees they kill themselves They be of such bignes that 2 men may sit betwixt their hornes Of Iseland IN this Countrey from the 10 of June for a moneth space or more they have no night at all and about the tenth of December they have no day at all The people live in Dens and hollow places in hills sides with them Mountaines and Hills are insteed of Townes and spring waters for delicate drinks An happy Nation whose poor estate none doth envy and so much the more that it hath receiued Christianity The Merchants of England and Denmark doe not suffer them to be content with their owne but by ●eason of the great fishing there ●hey repaire thither oftentimes ●nd with their Merchandize ●hey carry thither their vices and enormities They have learned now of ●ate to brew with malt and have ●eft

whatsoev●●● they would as all kinde 〈◊〉 dainty dishes for satiety sil● and purple apparrell yong an● beautifull maides at their own will and pleasure with Go●● and Silver plate and Ange●● serving and ministring un●● them like Butlers bringi●● milke in goulden plates a●● red wine aboundantly in Silv●● cups Contrary wise to tho●● that breake these Lawes the● threaten the danger of 〈◊〉 and everlasting destructio●● This also they beleeve th●● how great offences soever a man hath committed if he will beleeve onely in God a●● Mahomet when he dyeth 〈◊〉 shall be safe and happy Some of their Religion ha● ●is opinion that the Law pro●eth nothing but the Grace of ●od whereby a man must be sa●ed which without merit or ●aw is sufficient to get salvati●n There be some as it were ●ccessours of the Prophets and ●athers alledging and affirming ●●e traditions of the Elders ●hich teach that men by merit ●ay be saved without the Law ●nd Gods grace so that they ●e earnest in prayers in watch●●g and meditations There be others againe that affirme every ●an to be saved in the Law that ●s given of God because those ●awes are equally good to those ●hat keepe them and one ought ●ot to be preferred before ano●her So you may see where Christ is not how inconstant ●indes waver in divers errours ●he which thing also may appeare amongst some Christian● as such as seeke for salvation o● any other then of the Saviou● onely Of the miseries that Hierusalem suffered during the siege thereof by Vespasianus and Titus THe Roman Eagle displayed it selfe before the Towne with all other Engines and war-like instruments Titus himselfe being then in person to take view aswell of his own souldiers valour as of the ground about the Citty to entrench in as also to try the courage of the Enemies Hee set before it with his Army in the yeare of the world 4034 being after the Death of Christ 72 and when upon his first approaches he was repulsed by the Cittizens yet taking ●ourage with the diligence of ●is old Souldiers he had made a firme wall in three dayes space ●ound about the Towne of 39 Furlongs compasse besides 13 Forts every one of them being ●lmost 2 miles in compasse so ●hat in the space of one yeare ●nd lesse this populous City by Fire Sword Sedition and Famine was stripped of 11 hundred thousand people It hath ●eene taken besieged and burnt ●7 times as you may read in the ●escription of Canaan Hierusalem taken and fired THis place so remarkeable for strength and multitudes of people supposed to bee im●regnable was by the just hand ●f God and the valour of the Romans taken in the yeare of the World 4034 and after Christ 72 being the eighth of September by Titus after chosen Emperour in which Action many fearefull passages may be viewed as the dayly slaughters rapines and cruelties but especially the burning of the whole Citty the Temple in which alone perished 60 thousand of the Jewes also the burning of the Councell-house in which were consumed all the Rolles and ancient Records of that Nation and not lesse then 30 thousand o● men women and children But especially lamentable was the burning of the Temple which in greatnesse beauty workemanship costlinesse and plenty of all delights farre exceeded all workes that ever the World had nay it strucke pitty and remorse even in the heart of the Roman Generall who striv'd to hinder it and desired to have ●eene it in its beauty nay hee admired that part which he beheld before the fire had taken it and confessed he never saw the like And to adde to the miseries of the Iewes the Ray of the fire was not greater nor more terrible to behold then was the cryings of the people of all ages slaughtered there fearefull to heare But most remarkeable is it that upon the just revolution of such a prefixed time upon the same day of the same Moneth that the Chaldaeans spoyled it before I say upon the same day was this latter Temple which Haggaeus rebuilded utterly burnt downe by the Romans so just is God in sending deserved punishments upon a people in his due and determined time to shut up this with this one Observation that though it was not builded without the helpe of thousands of Labourers and great expences both of monies and time yet it was destroyed in a moment of time by one fire-brand cast out by the hand of one Souldier as some have related whose name was Pisolus of the fifth Roman Legion No place nor person though never so great or beautifull can be priviledged from punishment if they be full of sinne and impiety Of the Fasting and meats of the Turkes THe Turkes are wont to fast one moneth and one weeke every yeare but they doe not allwaies keepe one prefixed time for if this yeare they fast in Ianuary the next yeare they will doe it in February the third in March and so orderly of the rest and when they doe fast they taste and eate nothing all the whole day not so much as bread or water but when stars appeare it is lawfull for them to eate all things saving things which are suffocate and Swines flesh They have Vineyards the fruit and commodity whereof they use diversly The Christians make Wine and the Turkes doe so prepare Hony and Raysons that they appeare alwaies fresh both in taste and sight they have three manner of drinkes the first of Sugar or Hony mixt with water The second of raysons sod in water the stones cast away and then Rose-water is added unto them and a little of the best Hony The third is made of Wine well sodden and representeth a kinde of hony both in taste and sight this is tempered with water and given to servants to drinke When they should eate any thing they strew their floores and grounds with mats and other things then they lay Carpets and Tapestry worke or cushens and some sit downe upon the naked earth their table is of some skinne as I said before it is drawne at large and shut together againe as a purse they sit not downe after our manner nor yet as the people of old were wont to doe leaning on their elbows but with their feet folded together in the forms of this letter X. like to the manner of botchers before they take any meat they have their prayers or thanks-giving They eate greedily and hastily with great silence but all their Wives keepe themselves in secret Those which are captive women never goe abroad nor can get licence but with othe Turkish women when they goe to wash in Bathes or in any other place out of the Citty for recreation sake into Gardens or Vineyards but alwaies keepe home at their worke and it is not lawfull for other women to bee conversant with their captives Of the Circumcision of the Turkes THe Turkes use Circumcision not in the eight day after the manner of of the Iewes but as