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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	artery_n	great_a	vein_n	5,327	5	10.3624	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42850	London's deliverance predicted in a short discourse shewing the cause of plagues in general, and the probable time (God not contradicting the course of second causes) when the present pest may abate, &c. / by John Gadbury.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1665 (1665)	Wing G86; ESTC R24344	26,606	49

destroy and bring MANY to the● Graves 3. Thomas Trigge in his Calendarium Astrologicum 〈◊〉 in his Junes observation thereof hath these words I 〈◊〉 much fear a sickly season in earnest from which evil God of 〈◊〉 mercy protect this great and populous City for Mars possesse● Gemini the Ascendant of London And it 's observable that th● Sickness then began to encrease 4. In my own Ephemeris for the present year 1665. in th● moneth April at what time the Pestilence first began to she● it self I had these Poetical observations If England keep but from Sickness free Then England may a happy Kingdom be ●hereby you see I feared not onely the Pestilence but the ●eat damage that thereby this Nation hath sustained and i● like yet to undergo thereby 5. And in my discourse of the Comets or Blazing Stars pag. 47. thereof after a consideration of the Natural port●nts of the two first Comets I subjoyn these words When we consider these several dreadful significations which I there at large mention a● any that list may read it may put us all to our ●●●tany From War PLAGUE and Famine Libera nos Do●●ine Good Lord deliver us And in pag. 51. of the same book as having a sufficient 〈◊〉 vision of the present Pest from the apparition of those ●●lestial Monitor's the Comets and other eminent occurring Causes I bewail the world by reason of the many and terrible afflictions they denounce unto it thus The sword is an enemy that by the sword a man of resolution and magnanimity may contend with and be in hopes of a victory but the PLAGUE and FAMINE are adversaries there is no fence for or defence against They are so sure an Ambush that the subtilty of all the Machiavils in the world cannot enervate or destroy enemies that the stoutest of men cannot take a revenge upon although they see their dearest friends murdred by them before their faces And in pag. 53. and 54. in my Catalogue of places that were by those Comets c. designed to suffer and become passive I name England and London And although these predictions be particular enough as to the thing in question yet had it not been that I was lo●th to affright folks too much with the sence or thought of danger before it came I could have been much plainer and much plainer I was also in this very particular Pest some years before it came to many of my peculiar and better knowing friends as are yet in the City some of them by my encouragement only and I am confident are both ready and willing to a●●est the truth hereof if occasion required it or if that that I have now said from divers others as well as my self in print do not satisfie in this matter Let this therefore in this place suffice to prove to the ingenious that by Astrology this present Pest was foretold even as Hippocrates that Prince of Physicians by the same Art was also enabled to predict that raging Plague which happened in his time for the which curious skill he is so honorably remembred by Sir Christopher Heydon in his unanswerable defence of Astrology as also by many other eminent and worthy Writers CHAP. VIII That the Air is unjustly suspected to lodge the Contagion IT is received generally for a truth that the Noble Element of Air doth harbor and lodge the Contagion and that men c. sucke in a kind of venesick poisonous matter therewith and so come to be infected with the Pestilence Which i● true it proves Custome a most terrible Tyrant in following whereof the Magistrates shut up people infected in Houses or Rooms to prevent the spreading thereof For if the Air be at such a time infected and doth really harbor the Contagion the hotter it is the more infectious it needs must be and consequently the plague in far greater danger of encreasing by this customary Care then if it were wholly omitted Nay were the Air the Palace of the Pestilence in a time of Sickness it would be even dangerous for persons to assemble either in Churches or Courts of Justice nay for many to talk together in a street since the uniting of breaths must make an addition of heat unto that which was too hot and pestilential before but we accuse the Air unjustly to lodge the contagion and that for these Reasons 1. The Air is that Element whose office it is to preserve all things and without which nothing can remain alive and can we reasonably suppose it should be able to estrange it self so much from its native quality as to lodge within its bosom so destructive an enemy as infection The Air being a pure Element is attracted by the Lungs into mans body and without it saith Dr. Brown there is no durable continuation of Life It preserves the body by ventilation and by its power alone the Natural flame or torch of life is kept from extinction That therefore which by its natural vertue is the preserver of every thing that hath life cannot be presumed to entertain so unhappy and cruel an inmate as infection it being supposed the grand enemy to and destroyer of Life 2. Anaximenes the Milesian in Plutarch maintaineth that Air is the principle of the world and as our soul saith he which is Air keepeth us alive so Spirit and Air maintain the being of the whole world And we know it is for want of Air that the earth refuseth to bring forth its fruits and it is for the Aires sake we remove some Plants and open the roots of others or else they either dye or bring forth nothing worthy Nay Fishes as one ingeniously observes though they breath not perceptibly yet we see the want of Air kills them as when a long and tedious Frost imprisons a Pond in Ice It cannot therefore be that that Element which hath all these noble and preserving qualities should lodge so foul a guest as the Contagion 3. The Air saith learned Feltham is not corruptible we speak falsely when we say the Air infecteth the Air it self ever clarifies and is always working out that taint which would mix with it Every breath we take it goes unto our heart to cool it Our Veins Arteries Nerves and in most Marrow are all vivified by their participation of Air and so indeed is every thing that the world holds as if this were the Soul that gave it livelihood It were therefore great presumption for so defiled and unclean a Companion as the Contagion to attempt the taking up of so fair and pure quarters as the Air affords And however the Air is come to be charged it is below Reason to think that Pure and Impure can at all agree The Air therefore cannot lodge the Contagion 4. If the Contagion should keep its court in the Air as the Air it self altered so should the Contagion but we see the contrary is true therefore the Air hath nothing to do in lodging with the Contagion The Learned