Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05418	Curiosities: or the cabinet of nature Containing phylosophical, naturall, and morall questions fully answered and resolved. Translated out of Latin, French, and Italian authors. By R.B. Gent. Never before published.	Basset, Robert.	1637 (1637)	STC 1557; ESTC S101058	58,950	311

them Secondly because that by them the cholericke humour is evacuated and purged for as the head is purged from phlegmaticke superfluities by the nostrills so by the eares are the cholericke superfluities purged or driven out Q. What is the reason that for to see the better we doe use commonly to winke with one eye An. Because the one eye might bee ayded with the sence of the other eye which is shut and closed Qu. VVhat is the cause of the Hydropsie An. The great cold of the liver which comes from the crudities of the stomacke Qu. VVhy doe those that have the yellow laundise find Honey to be bitter in taste An. By reason of the great choler and inflammation wherewith their tongue and palate of their mouth is infected Qu. Why doe Musk-millons and Cucumbers provoke urine An. By reason of their great humidity and coldnesse which causeth a man very soone to make urine Qu. Why hath birds and other feathered fowle no spettle An. Because they have dry lungs as Aristotle more at large manifests in his Booke De anima Qu. Why doe not birds evacuate by urine An. That creature let it be whatsoever that doth not sucke doth never pisse Qu. Why doe men yawne or gape An. The learned Hippocrates doth affirme that it proceedeth of wearisomnesse or being tyred with a discourse which is neither pertinent or permanent as when a man is constrayned to tarry among such as hee doth not know whose society hee could willingly bee rid of And againe gaping is caused of the thicke fumes and vapours which fill the jawes by the expulsion of the which is caused the stretching out and extension of the jawes and opening of the mouth which is called gaping or yawning Variety of Extravagents Qu. VVHy hath Nature not given a sting to the King of the Bees and hath furnished all other Bees therewith An. To teach Princes that nothing becommeth their dignity lesse than tyranny and that their onely defence should consist in the strength and force of their subjects Qu. What water is in the sight of God most precious and in the taste of men most unsavorous An. The unfained teares of a penitent sinner Q. What is that which most delighteth and most deceiveth a woman An. A mans dissimulation which hath such a sweet passage through his tongue as it delighteth as the Syrens songs and turnes to as deceitfull conclusion as the Crockadiles teares Qu. Of what three things repented himselfe Cato done in bis life time An. To have overslipt a day and not to have increased his knowledge to have gone by sea where he might have gone by land and thirdly to have committed his secrets to a woman Qu. Why ought wee not to disclose our secrets unto women An. Because they cannot keepe their owne Qu. Why are there so many that live discontented in wedlocke An. Because their first love was grounded upon lust or else in making of their rash choice they had more regard to the womans dowry than to her conditions or else the woman respected more the mans purse than his personage or more his body than his good or ill qualities Qu. Why was Diogenes called a dog An. Because he did bite indifferently doth his foes his friends but his friends to their good and amendment and his enemies to their shame and confusion Qu. What men are very dangerous in a Common-wealth An. Those that affect novelties Qu. What three things are the life and death of life An. Baths wine and women for as the use of them is restitution so is the abuse of them life and healths destruction Qu. What man is worthily called hold and couragious An. He that loves his life and yet feares not death Qu. Why were Iudges in times past painted without hands An. To signifie thereby that Justice ought not to bee corrupted with bribes Qu. In what sort should a man seeke profit of the Common-wealth An. As at a fire which if one sit too neare unto doth scorch himselfe and being too farre off it sustaineth cold Qu. What men are chiefly deceived An. Those that looke for tow contrary things at one time namely for pleasure and the reward of vertue Qu. How many wayes is violence chiefly committed An. Two wayes either by deceit or by force the one is the practice of the Foxe and the other of the Lyon and both of them are most farre from humanity Qu. Why is vertue had in so small account An. Because she is plaine and cannot dissemble Qu. What men are most ingratefull to themselves and least hurtfull to other men An. Those that are covetous and envious for as these pine away at other mens welfare and prosperity so the other endanger their soules to leave rich and perhaps unthankfull heires behing them Qu. Why is Heaven said to have a low gate An. Because those that shall enter into it must first stoope low and learne humility Qu. Why did Antiquity in their Churches place a Crosse upō the entrance of the Quire An. Because the body of the Church did represent the Church militant upon earth and the Quire the Church tryumphant in Heaven to teach us hereby that no man would come from the one into the other unlesse he did suffer first persecutions Qu. How might a foole resemble a wise man An. In hiding of his folly by silence Qu. VVhat three things doe men most covet An. Riches pleasure and honour Riches be the nurses of sin and iniquity Pleasures the guides to calamity And honour the pompe of worldly vanities Qu. What is it that women most feare and yet of it doe most desire the occasion An. To be with child they most desire and feare most the houre of their delivery Qu. VVhat men transforme themselves into Angels of light and are nothing but devils incarnate An. Hypocrites Qu. VVho is the Mother of all mankind An. The earth even by the Oracle of Apollo for this Oracle being demāded by certaine Princes that were in controversie for the Kingdome of Aegypt who should succeed the late King deceased answered that he should not onely bee installed King of the Kingdome of Aegypt that first should kisse his mother but should likewise become Monarch of all Asia This answer being reported by the Priest unto the Princes that were then attending without upon the Oracle Darius having heard it stept suddenly from his horse and kist the ground saying that the earth was the mother of all mankind The Princes that could not deny it made and created him King who afterward conquered all Asia and became quiet Monarch of many Kingdomes Qu. Who kill their mother ere they bee borne in the revenge of their father that begat them An. Vipers for as the Male and Female ingender by the mouth so the damme being kindled with lust in the Art of Venery bites off the males head and the young ones ere they bee borne gnaw their mothers belly open to come forth and so doe kill her Qu. What