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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	lewis_n	4,519	5	10.9213	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44763	The vision, or, A dialog between the soul and the bodie fancied in a morning-dream.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3127; ESTC R11503	50,341	190

Pharoh and his army to a high spring tide The passing over of the Israelites to a low ebb and eddy water They admire not the raining of Manna in the wildernes because there is good store found in Calabria and other places They cannot believe that Lazarus was rais'd from the dead but they must be satisfied where his soul was all the while They censure the miracle of making the blind to see because he saw men walk like trees whereas he had never seen trees before having bin blind from his nativity They think it strange the● shold be a Tree in Paradise so soon in regard the text saies positively that the plants of the fields were not yet grown because it had not rain'd They question whether the handle of Goliath's spear was as big as a weavers beam and whether David had so many hundred thousand talents of treasure Moreover they cast blemishes upon Christian truth because general and great oecumenicall Councels did so clash one with another And that the Fathers of the Primitive Church in divers opinions were not only differing one from the other but dissonant to themselfs as among other positions in the computations which they make of the Yeers from the Creation of the world to the Incarnation wherin they are so discrepant Nay they wold derogat from the Dictats of the Holy Ghost himself touching som texts of Scripture because in the second of Kings we read Michal for Merah as may be perceived by comparing it with the first Book of the same History As also because St Matthew hath written Zachary for Ieremy chap. 27. Likewise that St Mark in the first chapter cites a passage out of Isaiah which is recorded in Malachy Moreover when he saith that our Saviour was crucified on the third hour whereas St Iohn saith Chap. 19. that he was but only condemned by Pilat the sixth hour So likewise where St Luke saith that Cainan was the son of Arphaxad and Salec the son of Cainan the place is contradicted in Genesis 23. where it is said that Salec was not Arphaxed's grandchild but his son no other generation intervening betwixt the two And when ●● is said Genesis the 11. that the Cave which Abraham bought was in Sichem being indeed in Hebron and that he bought it of the sonnes of Emor the son of Sechem yet Moses saith it was of Ephron the Hittite Moreover wheras he saith that Emor was Sichem's son it is said in Genesis 3● quite contrary that Emor was Sichem's Father and not his son Other supercritical spirits wold cast aspersions upon Christianity because Constantin the first Emperor of that Religion was a very lewd man Gildas accusing him to have bin a murtherer a perjurer the tyrannicall whelp of the unclean lionness of Dannonier's That likewise Clovis the first Christian king of France was as bad And that Henry the eight the first reformed king worse then either of Them Ther are others that have another kind of spiritual pride it being not only sufficient to Arrogat from the Holy Scriptures to pick ho●es in Christianity criticize so upon her but while they go about to magnify man they detract from the chiefest instruments of Gods glory and his principall attendants the blessed Angels by paraleling mans Creation to theirs and that they were made as all things els for man whom they cry up to be the Epitome of the world and that the principal ministerial function of the Angels is to gard him Such as these may be said to be possessed with a giddy kind of spiritual drunkeness or madness rather and touching those of this last conceit they are like the Cobler who drunk himself into a kingdom and thought himself a king while he continued in that humor Nor is Religion only troubled with such Critiques and Detractors but these times afford such in all sciences to magnifie their own fancies they slight all Antiquity they will not stick to call Plato a dotard and Hippocrates a quack-salver thinking that they have more sublime notions then any It is true that in some sense restraining it to saving knowledg a child that understands his primer may be said to be more learned then all the Philosophers that ever were as the least fly in regard she hath a sensitive soul within her may be said in som respects to be more noble then the sun because he is inanimat Soul It is too tru that the present times do swarm with such arrogant and over-curious spirits though they be full of doubts and still at a loss going after nothing els but more teaching still yet they seem to have such a peremptory certitude of their salvation as if they had seen their names registred in the book of life expunging thence all other but their own They cannot modestly beleeve the Creed but they must know the very track that our Saviour went to Hell they wold string the rainbow and be satisfied what kind of wood it is that the man of the moon carrieth on his back c. With a spirit much like this was Scaliger possessed who while he went about to amend the times and correct errors committed as gross ones himself as any one Author he condemns he makes Dagon a woman the Emperour of Habassia Prester Iohn what shallow conceits hath he of the depth of the sea and how poorly was he vers'd in Cyclometria how scurrilously he railes against whole nations and would understand nothing but what he liked Body Truly I have bin ever averse to raise frivolous quaeres in any thing specially in the essentialls of faith or enter into disputes and altercations or heat touching matters indifferent I was never of their mind that against a Cap and a Surplis would put on a Helmet and Armor I have bin contented to follow the first road I was put in towards heaven moving after the motion of the superior orbs that were plac'd in the firmament of the Church though not altogether in an implicit way I have always made Reson and other sciences to truckle under Divinity their mistress I have taken as much spirituall delight let all this be spoken without vanity or any scandall to other souls in other offices and holy duties of the Church as in Sermons which makes me reflect upon a saying of S. Lewis the French king to Henry the third of England who asking him in those times of implicit Faith whether he would go sooner unto the Eucharist or to a Sermon he answered I had rather see my friend then hear him only spoken of I have always inclined to love Order and degrees of respect to abhor confusion to love decencies rather then slut●isness nor I hope shall I be ever of their gang who to avoid superstition do fall into palpable prophaness Soul I like you humor well touching all these particulars nor will they offend I beleeve any one that is of a s●ne sober judgment concerning the last thing you spoke of it makes the