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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	good_a	young_a	youth_n	76	3	7.7893	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58099	A discovrse of the orientall tongves viz. [brace ] Ebrew, Samaritan, Calde, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic : together with A genrall grammer for the said tongues / by Christian Ravis.	Raue, Christian, 1613-1677.	1649 (1649)	Wing R311; ESTC R32273	174,955	268

soule businesse indeed if they should go better with one legg than with two and see better with one eye than two Onely the question is now if ye are well contented with their service if they make you as good returnes from thence as they did when you did send them all along through England where they knew the tongue I am shure you would be content and I wish they did so But I feare that if the companies do finish close and make up their account of some yeares past they will find but small profit for all their dangers and pains And if they which the Merchants doe send knew the tongue what Ambassadours thinke you should ye need for a handfull of factors And these Ambassadours what excellent profit have they brought into the treasure of any company whatsoever by ignorance of the tongues whereby they are not esteemed disrespected contemned scorned kict at and by their ill behaviour all the Nation doth suffer where some other of lesse ranck and condition can passe through these strange Nations without need of Ambassadours do his worke without resistance without a protection of an Ambassadour only because he has God and the Tongue I will not jarre any longer on this unpleasant string where I could shew and it is known and felt and smarted enough what ignorance of the Tongue doth or rather what it doth not but suffers Come not and tell me tale of I know not what hard dealing of the people of Asia and Africa Beleeve me they are as honest as courteous gracious friendly in alwayes as respectfull of you as mindfull of you tender towards you favourable well fashioned as any the best Gentlemen in France Spaine Italie or Germanie nay England it selfe Have not so many vertues with you nor so well made of body and minde soule and heart age and actions if you lack this key of mens hearts beleeve me you will be weary before you can breake them open for all that they would willingly give you an entrance into the most inward bowels of their good will And if you cannot open them it is not their fault for all men are but in this work passively wrought on not working but yours their vertues are as good as any mans easily to be gained but you are unskilfull Further let the whole state come once and fall againe upon that mind which 〈…〉 was on hand to go as much Eastwards 〈…〉 ●●tations of their people and the Gospel 〈…〉 and Saviour Jesus Christ as they have gone 〈◊〉 westwards and let them take courses to meet the Spanish and Portugals and Duchmen in East-Indies to help them in their way and to do good for themselves also to send out at least every two yeares a fleet of 20.30 or 40. sailes to fill many excellent places of the void part of the world which have as good an ayre as any part of England or Europe with that gracious and fruitfull English blood rather than to destroy it and the Kingdome with civel warre thereby to open the generall Worlds commerce at a more sure and fast tye than hitherto so that there may be lesse troubles in England which for the most part bud out of that superfluous abundancy of the blood within the narrow veines of this Kingdome so that men may be more generally imployed lasinesse being the Mother of all vices and devices against the Common-wealth and peace of this Kingdome Or if that such plantations should be among such people whose tongue we doe not understand and yet the profit be great in joyning with them will these Tongues thinke you do hurt unto the State of England here or there But let that sleepe Unto you most reverend and pious soules of England and Scotland unto you I would willingly speake of that subject if I had leasure more largly and exactly than this discourse will afford There are three things that concerne every one of what rank condition charge honour title or degree soever and therefore I meane not onely the reverend Ministers though them truely more especially but you all in generall and I wish no man may thinke himselfe not to be of that number First to have the truth at home out of the well of truth and life viz. the Ebrew Bible well and perfectly understood without the help of any translations whatsoever whensoever or by whosoever compiled excepting onely the Calde Syriac Samaritic and Ethiopic translations they being the same with Ebrew the mother tongue it self not out of broken cisternes where into breake in by force an infinity of dirt and mire Secondly to have this truth transported in all our voyages great and small East and West even through the whole world that is to take still with you such a man as is able to satisfie you and your company with the sweet and fresh water flowing from this well viz. the Ebrew Bible instructing you so farre therein that you may be an eye witnesse of what he teaches and so able to withstand any gainesayer and to hold fast that which your owne knowledge shewes you out of the living fountaine of the Ebrew Bible to be the undoubted truth for you will scarcely finde this fresh and pure water in any Country much lesse at Sea but onely in the innermost parts of Asia and Africa and there your ships arive not so that you will be forced sometimes to take in salt or brackish water of unsound translations Thirdly If onely in the East Country viz Asia and Africa there be this well viz. that tongue wherein the old Testament was delivered and that generally throughout it every City and village therein sending it forth in plentifull streames rushing from them more abundantly and strongly more cleare pure sweet and tastfull than we can conceive why should not our youth given to divine study our young Ministers and Preachers our young Gentlemen that would travaile for the good of their native Countrey choose to go to those places where this holy primitive tongue is as yet fully spoken rather than towards France Italy Spaine or Germany the Low countryes or any other of lesse note to quench their humerous fancyes with some Roman antiquities having no life or salvation in them Will not these considerations bring you back from a deceitfull opinion of those abundant riches of your English studyes which hitherto have been more filled out of translations than the text it selfe out of annotations of men than your owne eye-sight to make you willing to trade more diligently by searching the fountaine it selfe to see with your owne eyes tast with your owne tongue I conselfe I praise God Almighty from the very bottom of my heart soul that such riches have flowed out of those halfe stopt wells whereas by ignorance of the true nature of the tongues signification of the words in Ebrew Calde c. there is not a verse in the Bible but may be made more cleare plaine than hitherto never a chapter in

knowledge sufficient of themselves in this tongue or whither they must be faine to take upon trust what they do to make new translations which must then be called the Kings bible and all Sermons grounded thereupon And when Beza that worthy Beza saith in his preface on Mercerus upon Genesis Quam in ipsa contextus verborum phrasium explicatione necessario quidem inprimis sit laborandum res ipsa demonstrat Pendet enim certe à verâ conveniente ipsius contextus explicatione tota Theologiae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inde eruendae ratio quae inde adhibitis locis quos vocant communibus disputationes exhortationes consolationes usurpantur quod quicunque vel in semet ipsis vel in aliis erudiendis facere negligunt magnam certè reprehensionem merentur Verissimum enim est hic quoque proverbium illud Nucem frangat oportet qui nucleum esse vult That is how necessary it is to labour for the full and right explication of the whole context of the words and phrases the worke it selfe will demonstrate For from the right and convenient explication of the context doth depend all the meanes to draw forth any dogmaticall point of Divinity and all sorts of disputations exhortations and consolations commonly used by the helpe of those which we ordinarily call common places Which if any man wave in teaching either himselfe or others truly such an one makes himselfe justly liable to a great reproofe for no lesse true is heere that common proverb yee must krack the nut before yee can get the kernell Hitherto Beza But O good Beza who believes thy preaching and admonitions I confesse sometimes upon a suddaine fit a humerous minde will looke into the Ebrew bible to see what word is there to brag with in the pulpit but no body talkes of a generall reformation in the Church Vniversities and Schooles Quaerenda pecunia primum Deus post nummes First mony and then God There is neither love to teach nor love to learne 't is a wonder to see what a drowfinesse is in our very Schollers All things of God go on with a slow and heavy pace as if hee were not worthy of the best entertainments of our thoughts but I am sure God will once meet with them Therefore curteous Reader I beseech thee heartily and with my most humble deep and affectionate defire tender unto thee that thou wouldst be pleased to be truly sensible of that high and unspeakable contempt of Gods word even by those that live by it give good counsell help admonish instruct act stir nay in some measure if thou hast power in thy hand as now 4 or 500 able men have be vigorous set Schollers truly on worke and let them not be squandring away their time whither in or out of the Vniversity in Scholes or out of them in a Ministry or out of a Ministry in a publique calling or not yet called If they will have any incouragements from the publique from the Altar from pious and charitable gifts houses dwellings or revenues I pray let them throughly work for it Now when the water of a generall deluge hath spoyled all Piety in actions wee are all become so full of worldly care that the first word wee speake in the Church is what newes as soone as the Sermon is ended they aske what heare you And thus gets the Devill away that pretious seede which should grow up in our hearts and beare fruit in patience and long suffering I wish that Ministers would give their mindes lesse to the reading of the dayly newes and more to Gods Word Worke Tongue Church and chosen and bestowe that money which they usually spend upon such trifles upon the poore and left all the care of state affaires unto the Parliament themselves fighting onely with prayers and almes deedes wherewith they might finde worke enough and teach others to do good by their examples and good works O! what a fine sunshine would arise and break forth in the midst of these clouds I beseech the Ministers as they will answer it at the last day that they will not any more ordaine such men as know not Gods Tongue And if that most reverend order of men cannot finde it within their hearts to do this so necessary a thing then beseech I the Magistrate hee that weares not the sword in vaine to use his authority and to provide that there may not be any men ordained let him have never so many callings poor people know not many times what they would have what is good for them whither what is recommended to them bee good or bad except bee bee able to make good his profession out of the Ebrew and Greec tongue in the old and new Testament against a Jew And truly to that purpose I could wish our Magistrats would let them come amongst us to be taught by us more closly at home and to rouse and awaken our drousie and sleepy spirits which because they have nothing to do apply themselves rather to do hurt than good God knowes I pray them I pray for them I am willing to teach willing to offer all my strength but alas within one year weeke after weeke labour after labour of 300 or 400 Schollars learned men and Preachers now and then in the city I dare not say how few I find to be zealous of gods glory how many unashamed of their filthy sinking nakednes before many men that can discern it wel enough But because the Magistrate looketh not narrowly into mens actions whither good or bad just or unjust whither the laborious be rewarded and idly punished worthy or unworthy ordained it comes to passe that all things are at so ill a passe The easinesse of teaching and propagating the Gospell of God by this tongue consists in those severall things which I wil heer set down not as a Logician but a willing afforder of what I conceave fit for professors First let him pray to God to shew him the nearest way and God as he is able so is hee willing to do it And I am sure that such a man who doth pray to God incessantly within the chamber of his heart to direct him in his wayes for easinesse God will finde him such a way as no other man thought on before Secondly let him but love his worke have his delight in it view it most diligently even into the innermost part of it and hee will display a greater easinesse than he is aware of Thirdly let him love his disciples heartily and tenderly and then I am either utterly mistaken or else he will give unto them all possible explications of the things under hand and will discusse all the doubts they are able to propound Fourthly let him thirst after more knowledge after more good and sound reason being certaine of that because God is the knowledge it selfe therefore how much knowledge hee gets the greater apprehension of Gods wonders and mighty infinity and infinite