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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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A67005	A sons patrimony and daughters portion payable to them at all times but best received in their first times when they are young and tender : laid-out without expence of money only in the improving time and words with them contained (in an answerablenesse to their ages) in two volumes ...	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3506	409,533	506

this when we men lay a foundation so the Father goes on we digge deepe and if we meet with water in our way we goe yet deeper till we see the spring dryed up else we will lay no foundation for a foundation upon water makes a building unstable and tottering it cannot be a fixt dwelling It is against the nature of water to beare up so heavy a body It was not the stick no nor the work of nature though put to the extent thereof which caused so much as the yron p 2 King 6. 6. to swim And it is against the nature of the earth to have its seat or basis upon such a foundation But Gods wayes are not as mans wayes which may be found out and comprehended by reason And yet saith the same Father Why dost thou wonder ô man If thou wilt wonder thou shalt never cease wondring for into whatsoever creature thou wilt pry into thou wilt finde an unlimited and boundlesse power much more then in the bearing up of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 massive body And to this power thou must be brought else thy understanding can never fix but be as unstable as the waters We must be brought to this even to the power of God for hitherto all the answer that the sacred Scripture makes to this great and grave question tendeth He hangeth the earth upon nothing saith Iob q 26. 7. upon nothing nothing can beare up nothing yea but the earth hath pillars so we reade also The r 1 Sam. 2. 8. Cardines Poli. pillars of the earth are the Lords and He hath set the world upon them The meaning thereof is this though some bend the interpretation otherwise to their own end according to the sicknesse of their fansie That these pillars are our North and South poles amidst whereof the earth is s Reade Pol. Virg. lib. 4. ca. 9. Where they would make us beleeve that Anna prophesied of Cardinall Pole or others the Popes Cardinals so making them elder then the Moon placed which confirmes unto us the singular power providence of God saith Trem. and it is as much as is implyed from that text I meane the singular power of God therein for that is intimated by those words past all question Another sacred Scripture saith thus t Fundavit terram super bases ejus Trem. Psal 104. 5. Terrae in se locus est Plin. Hist 2. 65. He hath founded the earth upon her own Basis that it should not be moved for ever That is till there be a new heaven and a new earth And this answer comes neerest to our sense and is most sutable to our understanding though farre exceeding both sense and reason That the Lord hath given such an occult and hidden propertie to the earth that it should beare up and poyse it self with his own weight that it should be as the Philosopher said a place u to it self and it is as impossible that it should leave its place as for a stone to tend upward But still in our search and enquiry here our reason leaves us in the darke we must referre this to the head of that boundlesse power before mentioned and there leave it amongst the wonders x Inter Arcana naturae Alsted de Terra and secrets of nature or rather of His Art which is beyond our skill to finde out Only this every childe knows and he it is whom we would instruct That every building must have some pillars whereon to depend and beare it self up this the childe knows If then the childe be asked what or where are those pillars that beare up the earth It must needs answer That pillars it hath none as other buildings have to support the same and support it self it cannot an invisible hand there is made bare of flesh that gave the earth at first a being and ever since a subsistance poysing it with his own weight and so as the Prophet of himself bearing up the pillars x Psal 75. 3. thereof so the childe will answer and from thence he learnes that that is of the greatest force and strength which is least exposed to the eye In earthly things we finde it so we heare how the thunder Gods voice roareth we see it not we heare how the wind renteth our houses and stocks up trees we see it not we heare our y Lact. lib. 7. cap. 9. M. Faelix p. 23. in sol See Hist of the world lib. 1. cap. 10. sect 10. Lactant 2. 2. voice and a sound that which poseth all the naturalists in the world we see it not The more remote from the senses any thing is the more divine and admirable Nay if a naturall eye could perceive it there were no divinitie in it at all That is best seene which is not seene z Magis videtur quod non videtur B. Juel Artic 8. pag. 402. That is as our Iewel interprets it we see more certainly with our faith then we can see with the eyes of our body they may deceive the eye of the soul cannot But I am too high if as children in knowledge we understand not earthly things how can we heavenly The arme of flesh is too short here nature is at a stand I give but an hint only to helpt it out for here nature will ever stick till an invisible hand I meane an Almightie power helps it out and raiseth nature above it self For by faith we understand c. Heb. 11. 3. I would aske one question more and it is according to a childish supposition but best agreeing with his understanding and conceit Suppose the earth did hang like as our deceived sense presents the Sun at its setting popping down behinde the nexthill or like a stone still dropping into the water suppose it so I would then aske whether should the earth fall It must needs be answered according to the same conceipt That it must fall into the lap and armes of Chap 7 § 3.1 heaven And this is as if we should say That the creature falls into the armes of Him who holds it up which secureth the stabilitie of the same That there are as the sacred Scripture saith everlasting hills and perpetuall mountaines Habb 3. 6. It secureth also and it is a principall thing The stabilitie and firme foundation of the Church and the true members thereof They are an everlasting foundation also they stand fast like Mount Sion fast for evermore The gates of hell power and policie shall not prevaile to remove and unbottom them so fast they stand for how should they fall or which way which way soever they fall they fall into the armes of Him who supports them They may be turned by the gyants of the world as Mr. Dearing calls them from post to pillar as the proverbe is and from the pillar separated to the foure winds and yet they are upon their basis and bottom still All their shocks cannot put them off thence