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fire_n	cloud_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,723	5	10.5941	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42215	The [French-man] and the Spaniard, or, [The two great lights] of the world, displayed in lively [characters] representing the antipathy of their humours and different dispositions [with an impartiall survey] of the customes of both those nations / by R.G., Gent.; Oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; Gentilis, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing G210; ESTC R7504	61,948	291

would have come withall the greatnesse and variety as they expected from so great a King and seeing him otherwise they began to despise him and strangely to scoffe the French men where they conceived such hatred against the Spaniards that they could never since forget this disgrace and affront and if we will say that the devill at this meeting grounded the enmity and antipathy which now a daies raignes we shall not say amisse seeing a farre lesser ground then this will serve his turne To all that is said before may be added a great motive which these two Nations have had to contemne and abhorre one another which is that in times past there came not out of France into Spaine any people of sort and note but onely poore beggerly and needy people of the frontiers as Guascons Biernois and others who went as they do to this day in white round caps like a trencher upon their heads bare legged with wooden shoos which they call esclops upon their feet these with a base kind of avarice will put themselves to any base office as keeping of cowes and hogs to sweepe chimneies or the like and though in their eating they bee sober enough for with an onion or a head of garlicke and a peece of bread they will passe the whole day yet in their drinking they are unreasonable and all their gaines goeth in wine which being strong and heady presen●ly makes them drunke so that for the most part of the day they go reeling and falling about the streets to the great scandall of the Spaniards amongst whom there is no greater infamy or dishonour then to bee drunke wherefore the Spaniards who saw no other French men but these thought that all the rest had been like them did abhor them and conceive much enmity against them and contempt of them the same occasion had the French for very few or no Spaniards of fashion going into France and they seeing none but poore and wretched people who went to bee touched for the Kings evill verily beleeved that all other Spaniards had been of the same kinde and so from that basenesse they tooke occasion to hold the Spaniards in little esteeme and besides this contempt to encrease this mortall enmity each of these foresaid reasons in my minde are sufficient occasions and motives of the hatred and disdaine we finde between these two Nations especially the divell mixing his care and industry with it But if I should speake mine opinion I think there cannot be a more powerfull reason given for this antipathy then the naturall contrariety of these two Nations humors and so it being so hard a thing to force nature with reason I doe not wonder if the will in which consists hatred or love keeps company with nature and followes her steps obeying her contrarieties and repugnances and we must imagine that to move the will so much the more to the contrariety of humors the divell did helpe forward all the forenamed accidents so that the constellation the diversity of humours the contempt of both nations and the divell joining together there could nothing be hoped for but a mortall hatred and the antipathy which now we see the remedy of which lieth in God only seeing I doe not beleeve that on earth there is any antidote for such a pestilent poison CHAP. XVIII That the conjunction and confederacy of these two crownes is a thing which proceeds from heaven AMongst the great and infallable truths which the Apostle St. Paul writ to lift us up towards the knowledge of God me thinkes that is a marveilous one when he saith Invisibilia Dei per ea quae facta sunt intellectu conspiciuntur which is as much to say that in all and every creature shines the infinite power of the divine wisdome and that they are all like so many tongues to declare unto us what the almighty power of their author is wherefore that must be a grosse and materiall understanding which by the contemplation of things created could not reach to the knowledge of the perfection and noblenesse of of him that made them The same was the royall Prophet his intent when he said Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei opera manuum eju● annuntiat firmamentum whereby is knowne the imperfection and misery of our understanding subject only to the knowledge of the materialities of this world and unable to reach at the knowledge of things which are beyond natures bounds since that in these as Aristotle saith he is as the owle or the night-bat is with the sunne beames when it shines most cleare and bright and the same Psalmist knew this truth when he with such great fervency craved of God Revela oculos meos considerabo mirabilia de lege tua holding it for a certain that it was impossible to arrive to the knowledge of such high mysteries with the imperfection of nature onely wherefore the supreame architect finding that there could bee no equality nor proportion found between his greatnesses and our humane understanding they being infinite and this materiall limited he ordained that man should come to the knowledge of his infinite power by meanes of the visible effects of this world Whence we shall see by this reason that God at all times did communicate himself to men by materiall and visible means as in the guiding of the people of Israel by day with a pillar of cloud by night with a pillar of fire making mount Sinai to shake whē he gave the Law affrighting them with thunder lightning sending fire from heaven the deluge and the like by which he did accommodate himselfe to the imperfection of our understanding For if God should not use materiall things and easie to bee understood perhaps the understanding of man would either attribute such effects to some other cause or would not know from whence they proceeded For it is certaine that when God decreed to destroy the world with the floud hee could as well have annihilated and destroyed it without filling of it full of water or doing any other manifest and visible action but it would not have seemed so great a wonder to men if they were all fallen dead without any manifest cause as the rivers over-flowing of their bankes and the opening of the cataracts and windows of heaven was And though God could have destroyed those accursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah without any apparent signe with making them fall simply without any other visible effect yet he would have their ruine be by meanes of a materiall cause which should manifest the great power of him who sent to doe such an execution as that was to make fire as the sacred text speaketh and brimstome to come downe from heaven a signe that hee could make even the grossest understanding know what the power of divine justice was for if God had used some insensible meanes the cause would not have been knowne nor his great might and power So also