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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	epistle_n	paul_n	timothy_n	2,910	5	10.4803	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70258	Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.	G. H.; G. H. (G. Hussey); G. H. (G. Hooker)	1670 (1670)	Wing H2629A; Wing H3812; ESTC R178183	59,815	208

elsewhere as extream cold Some Regions watered with dainty Rivers others again infested with perpetual Drowth Some Plains some Hills some Woods some Mines and what not in some tract or other yet nothing almost common to the whole but Barbarism of Manners Idolatry in Religion and Sottish Ignorance such as hardly distinguisheth them from Bruits else they would not have taken reasonable Men to be immortal Gods as at first they did yet what either God was or Immortality they knew no more than instinct of Nature gave them they had heard of some place or other God knows where behind some Hill where the blessed resided after death And from thence they supposed the Spaniard came at their first Arrival but it was not long before the Tyrants cudgelled their simplicity and by their cruelty appeared to them rather Devils from Hell than Saints from Heaven Yet still the Inland-Countryes retain for the most part their Inbred blindness and worship the Sun Moon and Stars and they have their other Spirits which they call their Zemes and Adore them in Images made of Cotton-Wool which oft-times by the delusion of Satan seem to move and utter an hideous noise that works in these poor Idolaters a great awe least they should harm them The rest of their Customs are answerable to their Religion beastly they go naked and are very lustful people without distinction of Sex In many places they are Anthropophagy and prey upon each other like Wolves they labour not much to sustain themselves but are rather content to take what the Earth can yield without Tillage Nova Hispania or Mexicana propria is the largest Province It was first possessed by the Spaniard 1518. But it cost them much blood to intitle their Kings Hispaniarum reges It is an excellent Country full of all variety almost in every kinde usual with us and exceeds in rarities full of wonder There is one Tree which they dress like our Vine and order it so that it yields them almost all useful necessaries The leaves serve them instead of Paper and of the Vine-bark they make Flax Mantles Matts Shoes Girdle and Cordage Peninsula Peruviana is the South tract of America from North to South there runs a continued course of high Mountains whose tops the very Fowls of the Air cannot reach by flight And from thence descend many admirable Rivers among which Maragn● and Argenteus are most famous the one for his extent and the other for his plenty of Silver The Country is exceeding rich but the people differ not much from the worst of Beasts They devour Mans flesh filthy worms and what else comes in their way Near to the North-west of Peru was an admirable atchievment performed by our valiant Country-man John Oxenham who by the direction of Moors skilled in the Country went to the Land of Pearls and took from the Spaniards an incredible weight of Gold and Silver Cartagena a fruitful Countrey which did yield when time was to our still Renowned Sr. Francis Drake store of prize and 240. pieces of Ordinance Peru a very rich Countrey aboundeth with Gold and Silver little esteemed among the Inhabitants For by report the Spaniard ordinarily shoed their Horses with Gold The Inhabitants are strange Idolaters and worship a black Sheep Serpents and other ugly Creatures Brasile The Inhabitants are rude live for the most part in the bodies of Trees the people are covered with natural hair cruel lascivious false and what not In this Region is an hearb called Viva which if you touch it it will shut up as a Daisie in the Night and will not open till the party that injured it be out of sight Chile on the North of Peru it is there extream cold insomuch that many are frozen to death and hardened like Marble The Rivers are fed with Snow that falls from the tops of the high Mountains GREECE GReece She had once the preheminence of Rome in glory as the precedence in time For to say truth she was the wisest of any people that were not inlightened with the knowledge of that great Mistery She set a pattern for Government to all her succeeding ages and in brief she was the Mistress almost of all Sciences Some there are which in a strict account will except none but the Mathematicks but now the poor wretches suffer by the Turks under whom to this day they are and are scarce permitted by that great tyrant means of learning to know the name for which they suffer And besides the base mis-usage of the mis-believing Turk the very Natives themselves are fallen from the noble disposition of their Predecessors into an incredible sottishness and those which before reckoned the rest of the Earth barbarous in comparison to their Politick Common-wealth are now themselves sunk below the envy of the meanest Nation and become the most miserable object of pity living upon the earth indeed they may hardly be said to live They are lazy beyond belief and ignorant almost beyond recovery for they have now no means to bring their Children either to learning or manners Not an Academy in all Greece their carriage generally uncivil their feasts riotous and their mirth debaucht Their Wives are well favoured and so indeed they must be for they use them no longer as their Wives than they continue to their liking when they once fade they are put to the house of drudgery Their language is the same as heretofore but rudely corrupted they have no habit almost proper but those which serve the Turk wear their fashion the rest which are under the Venetian observe them in their Apparel for they are Slaves to both in their whole course Yet they retain still a shew of the Christian Religion which was here first settled by Timothy to whom St. Paul wrote two Epistles and was after in the primitive times professed by diverse learned and Reverend Divines of their own Nation which are with us received as Authentick Fathers of the Church St. Chrysostome Basil c. Thrace Part of this Province was heretofore perswaded that their Ancesters did not at all dye neither should they but passe only out of this world into another to their supposed God Zalmoxis once a Scholer of Pythagoras who when he had perswaded them into this Religion seemed wonderfully to vanish out of their sight and appeared not any more but left them fully possest that he was the Deity which must after a time entertain them And this they expected with that great joy that as oft as one dyed instead of mourning they set forth Games and Feasts to congratulate his freedome from the troubles of this earthly condition and the Wife only whom he loved best for they had many was thought worthy to be killed by her best friends at her Husbands Grave that she might bear him company in the other World the rest bewailed their neglect and the residue of their life was to them as a disgrace When a Child was born neighbours were called to