Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abel_n	beget_v	cain_n	101	3	11.1451	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42895	Plato's demon, or, The state-physician unmaskt being a discourse in answer to a book call'd Plato redivivus / by Thomas Goddard, Esq.	Goddard, Thomas.	1684 (1684)	Wing G917; ESTC R22474	130,910	398

Government then began with the World and God who had the Sovereign Right of Power over the whole Universe invested Adam with so much as was necessary for the Government of this World and that in such express Words that there can remain no doubt but such as is malicious and willful And God said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it and have Dominion over the Fish of the Sea and over the Foul of the Air and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth And least those Words every living thing should not yet be general enough to comprehend Mankind God gives Adam the rule over his Wife Eve the only humane Subject that was then upon Earth and from whom all the Race of Mankind was to proceed And surely Adam had naturally a Right of Power over those whom himself begot Unto Cain God gave the rule over his Brother Abel and after God had banish'd him from the Protection of his Father he builds a City and secures it by Walls Can any body be so blind as not to see that Cain was absolutely Governour of the Place and had an undoubted Right of Power over those Subjects which proceeded out of his own Loins I confess the Affairs of that Age before the Flood are a little obscure and since Moses thought fit to pass them over with so great Silence it is reasonable we should do so too But we may most probably conjecture as well from that short History in the Bible as from the Authority of Josephus and after him Grotius That the neglect of Government and of the exercise of Power in those days produc'd the Deluge for formerly Government was but a trouble and as the best of Men cared for no more than was necessary for the Preservation of their particular Families so some were unnatural enough to abandon their Children to the Licentiqusness of their own corrupt Inclinations Whence proceeded Violence as the Text says The Earth was corrupt and filled with Violence And as Grotius tells us Ante Dil●vium Gigantum oetate promiso●a invaluit coedium Licentia And from thence follow'd the Punishment of their Violence by that universal Cataclis● But howsoever it was before the Flood I suppose it will be sufficient for our purpose if we deduce the History of Government and the Right of Power from the Restauration of Mankind to the first Grecian Kingdoms which I hope may be done so plainly and that by the Authority of approv'd Authors that not only Europe Asia and Africa but even America it self according to the imperfect Accounts of Solon Plato and Pliny and of later Authors Josephus Acosta and Herrera will appear to have been repeopled and govern'd absolutely by Fathers of Families But not to embarque into so wide an Ocean as that is we shall keep our selves within the Streights where Affairs being more certainly known they will prove more pertinent to our purpose Which is to shew when and how Governments and the first Regulation of Man began in the World after the Flood I think there are very few who doubt the Truth of the Flood it self Common Experience even in our days in several Countries attesteth it besides most Authors both Greek and Latine agree to it even as it was deliver'd by Moses I confess the Greeks from the Assyrians talk of a Deluge happening under Sythithrus or Xi●uthrus as also Ogyges and Deuc●lion But we are assur'd by Grotius de verit Rel. Christ That they signifie the same in Greek as Noe in the Hebrew Language Philo de proemiis poenis tells us plainly that whom the Chaldaeans call Noe the Greeks call Deucalion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And many other good Authorities there are it being most usual among the Greeks to contrive expressive Names So Plato observes of Solon That he searching into the Force and Signification of the Hebrew Words turned them into the Greek Idiom vim ipsam significationémque nominum personatus ea ipsa nostr● vestivit Sermone This being granted I suppose all Men must agree that Noe had a Right of as absolute Power in him as any Man upon Earth ever had Not only as he inherited it from Adam and the rest of Mankind but even from his own Father Otyartes if we will believe Abyd●us the Assyrian and Alexander Polyhistor who say that Otyartes being dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Son Sisythrus reigned in his stead eighteen Years in which time the Deluge happen'd However a Monarch he was and I do not hear and am confident you will not believe that he receiv'd any Investiture or Right of Power from his Children but that as his Authority was successive so it was divided among his Children according to their Generations by whom the World was progressively re-peopled Mer. But Sir if the World was repeopled progressively as you speak that is to say from Father to Son sure Fathers were more humane than to suffer their Children to live together like Beasts in a Pasture as our Author says Men having not certainly debased their Natures so soon to be equal with the Beasts which perish and turn their young ones out a grazing without any farther Care what became of them Trav. No surely Cousin for besides natural Instinct which we have common with other Creatures and by which we are desirous to preserve our Young God has bestow'd upon us all a rational Soul more than the rest of other Creatures have by which we may find out the best and easiest way to obtain artificially what naturally we thus desire Mer. Methinks then Sir we should easily contrive a way to live happily together and peaceably Peace being undoubtedly more rational and natural than War Nor can I easily believe That naturally we should covet what another hath possess'd himself of before but rather leave that to every Man which he had appropriated to himself and Family Pray Sir is Nature a God or a Devil Trav. Nature is certainly a God or else rather the Opifex Dei whom we call Natura naturata that is the Causa Causata or second general Cause of all sublunary Beings whatsoever God is the first Cause who out of nothing hath made Matter Whether that nothing be a Nothing which to us is incomprehensible Nullam rem è nihilo gigni divinitus unquam or whether it be that Materia prima which some Philosophers have believ'd antecedent to the Elements themselves and which others agreeing with the Rabbins have call'd Hyle Ench. phys Rest Can. 18. by which they seem to mean a kind of Shadow or Darkness incomprehensible the fancy of a thing rather than a thing indeed a Matter without Form yet most desirous and capable of all Form without a Body and yet the Foundation of all Bodies in short a vast abyss of Cold and Night which we cannot comprehend I say whether God created all things out of Nothing which we cannot conceive or out of this materia prima which we can as hardly explain