Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	ark_n	covenant_n	27	3	6.9439	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62355	Italy in its original glory, ruine, and revival being an exact survey of the whole geography and history of that famous country, with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta, &c. : and whatever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of the world) and all those towns and territories mentioned in antient and modern authors / translated out of the originals for general satisfaction, by Edmund Warcupp, Esquire.	Schottus, Franciscus, 1548-1622.; Warcupp, Edmund.	1660 (1660)	Wing S891; ESTC R14486	337,341	355

than published with such vain ostentation besides that Historians say he was baptized by the Nichomedian Bishop when he arrived in Asia B●…isardo thinks that the said Battisteri●… was rather the Bath to the Lateran Pallace and the Form of the Fabrick induceth him and others to the same belief But however it was t is most certain that Constantine the great having profest the Christian Religion was baptized in this Church and the same Babtistary t is shewed to this day and all converts to the Christian Religion are there still baptized On the right hand of it are certain holy chappels and therein preserved many pretious Marbles and some Pillars conveyed hither from Jerusalem At the entrance of the Church San Giovanni Laterano stand many sumptuous Tombs of Popes and Altars wrought excellently with Marble upon the high Altar is the last supper of Christ ingraven in silver of great value set up by Clement the seaventh who also raised the great rich Organ and that stately Vestry for the use of the Church Before the Chorus were four hollow brasen Pillars of Corinthian work which t is said were brought from Jerusalem full of the holy Earth where our Saviour was enterred others say that Sylla fetched them from Athens and others that Augustus caused them to be cast in Rome of the Beaks of the Galleys taken in the Actiack battail and in memorial applyed to the Temple of Jupiter Capitolino Furthermore others say that Vespasian translated them with the other spoils from Jerusalem Of late Clement the 8th caused them to be guilt over and placed them on the high Altar with a brass Scutcheon guilt and affixed to them wherein his Arms are engraven Before Sixtus the 5th reedified from the foundations the Lateranian Palace there was a great hall where the Pope with the Ecclesiastical Synod of Cardinals and Arch-bishops rendred themselves when they were to manage any substantial business Those three great marble Collumnes were shipped from the Palace in Jerusalem here the Later ane●…sial counsels were solemnized with the assistance of the whole Clergy The Scala Sancta contained 28 stairs which stood in Pilats House the which Christ ascended when he was whipped are transferred by the Pope into another place where Christians frequent them and for devotion creep up them upon their knees kissing them Here were two porphyr chairs whereof the Enemies of the Catholick Faith recount certain shamefull Fables which have been sufficiently confuted by Cardinal Bellarmine in his first Tome of the controversies of the Roman Bishop as also the story of Pope Joan whom the story saies to be John the 7th who succeeded Leo the 4th confuted by the said Cardinal and Onofrius and lately by Florimondo Romondo in French The Pillar of white Marble placed in the wall and divided in two is thought to be broken miraculously at the death of Christ when the Veyl of the Temple rent Sancta Sanctorum is a Chappel held in great veneration the ingress therein is forbidden to women In it are kept the Ark of the Covenant the rod of Aaron the Table whereon Christs last supper was celebrated of the sacred Manna the Navil string and praepuce of Christ a Vyal of Christs blood some thorns of his Crown one whole Nail wherewith he was fastened to the Cross. The Snaffle of Constantine the great his Horse which was made of the two nayls which pierced his feet the fourth was placed in the Emperors golden Diademe In the same place are likewise shewed many Reliques which are regarded by the Romans with huge Devotion here is to be observed that the old pictures of the Greeks and Gregory Bishop of Turona shew that Christ was fastened to the Cross with two nails in his feetand a little table under Somewhat distant from S. Giovanni stands a Gate of the City called now by the same name but antiently Celimontana from Mount Celio Hence the Via Campagna takes its beginning leading to the Campagna called Terra di Lavoro from its sterility Forth the City it joines with the Latina On the back part of Monte Celio lyes the Church Santa Croce di Jerusalem one of the seaven chief formerly sacrate to Venus and Cupid In it is kept a part of the Lords Cross and the title of the Cross writ in three languages one of the thirty pence which Judas the Traitor received for betraying Christ a Thorn of the Crown with other sacred Reliques Here under the Earth Helena the mother of Constantine built a Chappel wherein Women are permitted entrance only upon the 20th of March to the Monastery of this Temple is adjoyned an Amphitheatre somewhat less but more antient than the Coliseo which was edificated by Statilius Taurus in the reign of Augustus but t was for the most part destroyed by Pope Paul the 3d. for reparation of the Monastery On one side of Santa Croce appear yet some ruines of the Basilica Sessariana near the Walls The Arches which enter the City by Porta Nevia and pass over the top of the Celio to the Aventino were the Arches for the Aqueduct of the Claudian water and were the highest and longest of Rome Claudius conveighed this water from forty miles off into the City Some of this water run into the Palace some into the Campidoglio but the greatest part to the Aventino The said Porta Nevia was also called Nevia and Santa Croce and was built in an Arch Triumphal which demonstrates the Majesty and grandeur of the work Near the Aqueduct for the Aqua Claudia towards Monte Celio stands the Hospital S. Giovanni being both wealthy and comodious for receipt of infirm and sick Persons abounding in all sorts of Phisical ingredients Physicians Apothecaries Surgeons attendants and whatever els can conduce to the good of the Patients This conveniency hath in all ages induced many Princes and other Persons of quality and riche●… when their Maladies require to make this Hospital their abode though they lye there at their own expence In the Court of it are Sepultures of divers sorts Baths with sculptures of Satyrs and different Actions The battail of the Amazones The Chase of Meleager and other fair objects The Temple of S. Clement Pargetted with various coloured Marble hath divers old inscriptions many figures of the sacred in struments used in the divine services by the Popes as also in the Sacrifices by the Priests of the Gentiles and the Southsayers In the return you meet that stupendious and admirable Mole the Amphitheatre called vulgarly Coliseo from the Colossean statue of 120 foot high which Nero erected The altitude of this Amphitheatre was such and the structure so compact that Rome afforded nothing more stately 'T was eleaven yeers continued labour for thirty thousand Slaves and capable of eighty seaven thousand men who might conveniently dispose theselves in the surrounding Seats for be holding the Playes there yeerly exhibited The house of Nero occupying all that space between the Hils Palatino and Celio reached to the Esquilie so