Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	north_n	pole_n	south_n	3,753	5	10.5697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44124	The improvement of navigation a great cause of the increase of knowledge a sermon preached June 7, 1680 before the Corporation of Trinity House in Deptford Strand, at the election of their master / by Richard Holden, Vicar of Deptford.	Holden, Richard, 1626 or 7-1702.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2380; ESTC R4281	14,377	40

is maceriâ quâdam igneae illius Zonae à notitiâ orbis communis segregatus severed from the known world by the hedge and fence as it were of the fiery Zone which not being to be past through it is like the Angels flaming Sword to keep men from approaching near that Paradise which lies beyond it And give me leave to observe in passing that possibly this conceit of his in first making this earthly Paradise to be the seat of the Blessed till the Resurrection and then placing it beyond this as he imagined burning Region might give rise to the Doctrine of Purgatory in the Romish Church which teaches that there is a place of flames to be gone through after Death before the Soul arrives at a state of happiness And thus ignorance in Geography begot a very great errour in Divinity For experience and late discoveries have convinced the World that those parts which of old were with some colour of reason judged uninhabitable are not only well peopled but withal so excellent in the pleasant and healthful temperature of the Air and so abundantly stored with all manner of provision and delight that they yield to no part of the Earth but go beyond all others And this does very much vindicate and clear that Divine wisdom which made the World Georg. l. 2. p. 76. for had that been true which Strabo affirms and was generally believed that if we divide the Earth into five parts three of them are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uncapable of inhabitants the scoffing Atheist would have had some colour to ask Why the biggest part of the Earth was made in vain and for no use But now when we consider that that part of it which the greatest Wits of former ages judging in appearance with great reason did conclude to be almost all flame so unsupportably hot that men could not live or breathe in it is now found by experience to be so far from that that it is rather the Garden and Paradise of the whole Earth it will teach us thus much that as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 3.19 The wisdom of this world even of the wisest men in it is foolishness with God and that there cannot be a greater folly than for us men to think of measuring his Ocean by our span or that we can fathom his depths with the short line of humane reason Ignorance and Impiety have only one thing now to object which is That still those parts of the Earth which lie under each Pole are by reason of their excessive cold not to be inhabited Of the North we have proof and there is as much ground to believe it of the South But to this I shall Answer in the sense of a most Learned person Voss de Idol l. 2. c. 2. That the reason of the Universe required it should be so For the Sun the Fountain of heat being most fitly placed in the middle betwixt the two Tropicks it was necessary that under each Pole there should be a fountain of Cold too which might disperse it self over all the World to temper and allay the Suns heat as experience shows it does after an extream hot season by the blowing of the North wind And without this cold the watry humour would have been quite consumed which yet is no less necessary to the production and conservation of things than heat it self is 2. The knowledge of Arts. Without Winds and Seas and Ships Nat. qu. l. 5. c. 18. as Seneca truly speaks man would have been imperitum animal an ignorant and unknowing Creature confined to his own home without the benefit or so much as the knowledge of what might be learnt from the People or enjoyed and made use of from the product and improvement of distant Countries No Nation is so self-sufficient as to abound with all the provisions of life but either wants or does but sparingly enjoy what others have in great abundance both for themselves and strangers some of which are for necessity and use others for delight and ornament One Nation is a Granary for Corn another a Wardrobe for Cloathing a third a Vineyard for Wine a fourth a Mine for Gold and Silver a fifth a Store-house for all Provisions of War And even this Country of ours in the most barbarous and rude and uncultivated times of it when only a small part of it towards the end of Cornwall was discovered by the Phoenicians Geogr. 1.2 p. 121. as Strabo tells us they valued it so highly for the Mines of Tin which they found there that they did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conceal and keep it close from all the World besides that they might engross the benefit of that useful commodity to themselves And adds withal That one of their Ships being followed by the Romans out of a design to discover the place the Commander discerning their intent ran his Ship on shore and drew them after him into the same ruine but he escaping with his life had amends made him when he returned home out of the publick Treasury for the good service he had done his Country in keeping so beneficial a Trade still concealed from their Enemies though it was with the hazard of his life and the loss of all his goods Now Ships are the great Bridge of a Kingdom which reach from hence to the East or West Indies transport into foreign Countries what can be spared at home and in exchange bring back with them whatever any part of the Earth affords and make the Sea become the great Mart of the whole World And together with Wealth and the conveniences of life Learning and all useful knowledge is hugely improved this way There may be a traditio lampadis not only from one Age but from one Nation to another too This Consideration put some great Philosophers Pythagoras and Plato upon travelling all the learned World over that they might enjoy the Conversation of knowing men who were not all confined to one Countrey however the vanity of the Greeks reckoned all the World but themselves barbarous Whenas yet their own Writers confess They learn'd Arithmetick and Astronomy we may add the very use of Letters too from the Phoenicians who were the greatest Merchants and Navigators of those Ages and by that means attained a great name for Philosophy and all kind of wisdome and knowledge Il. 4. v. 743. whence it is that Homer calls the Sidonians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as being men who had acquaintance with all the best and most ingenious Arts. And the Scripture it self as in one place it gives it the Attribute of the Great Sidon Josh 11.8 not as if there was any other of the same name less than it but because it was the chief City of all Phoenicia having a convenient Haven and abounding in shipping whereby it became exceeding rich and populous so in another place it calls it very wise Tyrus and Sidon though it be very wise Zach. 9.2