Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,424	5	9.4906	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03390	A free-vvill offering, or, a Pillar of praise with a thankfull remembrance for the receit of mercies, in a long voyage, and happy arrivall. First preached in Fen-Church, the 7 of September, 1634. now published by the author, Samuel Hinde.; Free-will offering.	Hinde, Samuel, fl. 1634.	1634 (1634)	STC 13511; ESTC S115210	27,253	104

with those blasts of fire which proceed from Mines of brimstone by which they are nourished The terrible and sulphurious flames do pierce the ayre above Fire that in the day time it seemes to be covered with smoke in the night with fire The ayrie and tempestuous windes above Ayre enraged the billows and surges of the Sea below Water that as said the Poet Ovid de Pont. Iam iam tacturos sidera summa putes So said the Prophet so say I sometimes we were lifted up to the heavens and sometimes cast downe againe unto the deepe everie element a messenger of death The fire flaming the earth smoking the ayre storming the water raging Psa 8● 5 as if all the foundations of the earth had beene out of course The envelloped clouds descended round about us in shouts terrible to each beholder into the water the water ascended into the clouds and as a weaker vessell yeelded to their violence The fire burnt in the bowels of the earth and the earth uncapable of resistance sent forth flashes and flames of fire and brimstone as if Hell had no other chimney but Strumbelo Strumbelo Aetna Vulcans temple mount Soma or Vesuvia puteoli all burning mountaines and the adjacent mountaines to vent her smoke These things for commonnesse and familiarity to some Marriners the oftner they are seene the lesse they are regarded But some fresh-water spectator beholding them in their terrour would think perhaps as little of preaching in a Church of England as ever did Ionah in the streets of Ninive when the sea was his death the fish was his death the winde and waves his death Presentemque intentant omnia mortem Virg in Luc. Yet that God that set Ionah a shore upon the borders and lists of Syriah hath brought us also to the Haven where we would be Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord and declare the wonders that he hath done for us the children of men These and all other dangers to which Seamen are subject have their end and use For as the pennance and mulct of Demosthenes did serue to adorne the altars of Iupiter so the miseries and troubles of such adventurers do work together for the best to them that love God Ro. 8.28 and are called of his purpose Here 's some honour to adorne the altars of the God of heaven For as stormes do purge the ayre above so they do or should purifie mens hearts below For now if ever the Marriners will deprecate their Dieties and call upon Ionah to call upon his God Ion. 1.5.6 Now if ever the Disciples will awake their Saviour with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Master save us we perish Mat. 8.26 Now every Turke betakes him to his sacrifice every Christian unto his prayers Even such as allow not or approve not of a Letanie ashore would quickly learne to say and pray From lightening and thunder from stormes and tempests from violence of winde and waves God Lord deliver us The soundest heart will disrelish this bitter Colloquintida and quake to be fed with this unsavoury Hemlocke though but for a few dayes or houres and after the stormes are once blowne over will preferre the case of a Christian to the wealth of an Arab or savage Indian Quid maris extremos Arabas ditantia Indos Horace in loc I and conclude with Meander Satius esse pauperem in terra vivere quam divitem mari se committere It's safer to live a poore man on shore than a rich man at Sea Neither are we more subject to the violence of windes at sometimes then to variety at other Aul. G●l li 2 c. 24. at night we sayle Vento Iapige with Virgils Westerne winde Act. 27.14 ere midnight troubled with Pauls tempestuous Euroclydon which blew and blustered at midnight ere morning Virg. Aen. 1 Validus iactaverit auster in alto turned with a Southerne and after that a Northerne gale t is possible to see them and many more blow all at once according to the Poeticall description where each strives to get the mastery Virg. Vna Eurusque Notusque ruunt Creberque procellis Affricus c. Nor yet more troubled either with violence of winds or variety then a third time with want and scarcity After heaven had seemed to frown and lower she now doth laugh and smile at our former troubles and present helplesnesse Now we have a breathing time and our former sorrowes be becalm'd It proves to many the increase of worse who lye for want of winde in sight of their port but cannot come at it Like Moses in the sight of Canaan but could not come neare it The first makes them a trouble to themselues which is stormes of abundance the last which is the calmes of want do make them a booty and purchase for roving and ranging Pirats 2. Danger of the enemie in the Sea which is but the second part of Danger at first proposed One woe is past Revel 9.12 and now behold another woe is at hand Sicut unda impellitur unda Ov. I two more woes doe follow it as one wave doth another If there were no more woes or danger in the Sea then the opposition of our enemies it were enough to make a voyage miserable No day in the week or scarce houre in the day are we free from encounters or preparation to encounter with those Turks Gods and our aduersaries those venemous Cantharides do swarme in the Mediteranean and Adriaticke Seas Sex quotidie millia lampadum ante Pseudo prophetae Mahometi tamulum c. Petr. Bess Mr. R Know●s in his Turkish History Millions of Christian soules haue rued the terrour of those worse then debauched Saracins worshippers of the false Prophet Mahomet borne in an unluckie houre whose body hangs up in their Sancta Sophia or chiefe Church of the City of Mecha with six thousand lamps alwayes burning before him These his followers and worshippers are and haue beene the ruine of many thousand Christians on Land by warre on Sea by pyracie Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires As fires neglected gather strength and make way for their owne fury So doth their security giue advantage to our ruine and their cruelty They have alreadie so long triumpht in mischiefe that if we credit the annals or opinion of such who record it they have got a greater part of Christendome than is left for to oppose them Or if we beleeve but our owne experience and ordinarie probabilities Hist de destruct ruina Troiae we may expect that ere long like Aegcon the Greekish Pyrat they will set upon the Navy Royall of Iupiter himselfe God stirre up all Christian Princes to unity amongst themselues and to unite their forces against this common enemie herein would lye the safety of their owne Monarchies and securitie of their owne Subjects For now so many shippes so many fights and funerals both of