Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35573	The wards of the key to Helmont proved unfit for the lock, or, The principles of Mr. William Bacon examined and refuted and the honour and value of true chymistry asserted / by John Case ...	Case, John, fl. 1680-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing C821; ESTC R37527	17,474	27

others whose Judgments have been opposed by better experienced Sophisters as by Pythagoras Samius Melissus Zeno and as is more expressed by Aristotle the Prince of Philosophers above the rest concludes upon one World namely this we live in The World saith he is that in which all things are contained and without which there is nothing that is or can be found So by consequence if there were any thing without the World then the World could not contain all things therefore no World but this Question may be more fully determined There is but one World and that perfect as there is but one most perfect Creator the absolute Prince and Governour thereof without this World there is neither Place nor Time Place there is not because there can be no Place without a Body if no Body then no Motion if no Motion all Time is excluded Nam Tempus est mensura Motus For Time is the measure of all Motion I shall conclude with that which was spoken by the mouth of Moses In principio creavit Deus Coelum Terram In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth Manifest it is then that there is but one World for some have strove to maintain the Permanency as that it was without beginning and shall always continue without end The Foundatirn being laid I come now to prove what the Principles of Natural Bodies are whether unalterable or not and also the opinion of some learned Men in these things now I joyn my opinion with that of Hipparehis Heraclitus and Ephesius who give the sole Pre-eminence to Fire as the beginning of all things the Reason thus That Fire condensed or moistned is made Air but a degree more thicker than gross Water and at length made more constrict turned to Earth so bring them retrograde Earth Rarified Converted to Water by Evaporation into Air and being purified transmigrateth into the Nature of Fire and by reason of the perpetual shifting of this one Element the order of the Birth and Breedeing of all things do consist and hence new work to arise Now give me leave to lay down some Opinions of Philosophers concerning the beginning of the World as Thales Milesius counted to be the wisest Man in that Age that lived in Greece held opinion that Water was the beginning and breeding of all things so Aristotle and Plutarch report of him The weak Foundation he builded upon was because he saw and found by experience that there was a Moisture in the seed of all things and as well in the Elements This cannot be for Water is soon drank up by Air neither can that Argument hold good that a Child not Born to turn to Water but Corruption Anaximenes the Auditor of Anaximander reasoned that all things were begot or procreated from Air by those reasons that Air was capable of all Impression Action and Quality and naturally apt to be transchanged from one Form to another a property which the rest of the Elements cannot challenge Some say the Creation proceedeth from two namely Calor Frigus Heat and Cold the Fire which gives the Motion and the Earth which supplyeth it with Form I shall not trouble the Reader any more with Opinions but conclude with these words Compescat se humana temeritas id quod non est non querat ne illud quod est non inveniat Let Mens rashness bridle it self and that which is not let him by no means seek lest that which is he can no ways find Concerning the Elements Aristotle saith That the Beginning of them are Heat Cold Moisture and Drought Likewise that they have a repugnancy among themselves and therefore cannot be lasting Ignis in Aethereas volucer se sustulit Aras Summaque Complexus Stellantis Culmina Coeli The swift Fire lifts it self above the Air And mounts aloft to embrace round the fair And bright Roofs of the Starry Heavens it claims Prime place and girts them with a Wall of Flames Air next with subtile breath it self extends Both through the middle part and spacious Ends Of th' empty World with gentle breathings feeding The Fire next to the Stars The third succeeding Is that moist Element which fills the Ocean Ebbing and flowing with continual Motion The moving Waves a gentle Stem do breed Which so exhal'd from them the Air doth feed The Earth remotest from the former height Sits lowest as supprest with its own weight Drought or Dryness is proper to the Earth which challengeth it to it self Cold is inherent to the Earth but not peculiarly because it hath that Quality common with the Water and as Water challengeth Coldness so it hath humidity common with the Air and as the Air claims Humidity so by a kind of fellowship it draweth a Heat from the Fire and as the Fire doth vindicate Heat as proper to it self so it participateth of Dryness with the Earth which claims that quality to it self Thus it is manifested what is proper to every Element distinctly and what is common among them which they borrow one from another by which they are connext and knit one to another it was necessary that they should be first distinct and separate that each of them might preserve its own nature Needful it was also that they should be connext thence might grow the Composition of Bodies so that one might adhere to another according to their common Qualities The Bodily matter and the matter of the four Elements were created with the Spiritual Creatures that is to say with the Soul and the Angels who were created together which is proved by the testimony of Saint Augustine saying That by Heaven and Earth ought to be understood the Spiritual and Corporeal Creatures created in the beginning of Times From these moveable and changeable Elements all things in the World have their beginning and ending It is likewise observed that God in the Creation of the World began above to work downwards for in the first three days he laid the Foundation of the World and in the other three days he furnished and adorned those parts The first day he made all the Heavens and matter of the Earth and came down as low as the Light The second day he descended lower and made the Firmament or Air The third day lowest and made a distinction betwixt the Earth and Water Thus in three days the three Parts or Body of the World was laid and in three days more and in the same order they were furnished For on the fourth day the Heavens which were made the first day were deckt and stuck with Stars and Lights The fifth day the Firmament which was made the second day was filled with Birds and Fowls The sixth day the Earth was replenished with Beasts and lastly with Men. And thus did the Almighty accomplish and finish the marvelous work of the Creation I shall not enlarge upon Beasts Vegetables nor Minerals here but come to treat on Men which is my intended business only this all Creatures whatsoever Man