Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	1,890	5	9.4049	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28517	The union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, or, The elaborate papers of Sir Francis Bacon ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Irvine, Christopher, fl. 1638-1685.	1670 (1670)	Wing B340; ESTC R338	40,143	72

most cases principally regarded In Nature the time of planting and setting is chiefly observed And we see the Astrologers pretend to judge of the fortune of the party by the time of the Nativity In Laws we may not unfitly apply the case of Legitimation to the case of Naturalization For it is true that the common Canon Law doth put the Ante-natos and the Post-natos in one degree But when it was moved to the Parliament of England Barones unâ voce responderunt Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare And though it must be confessed that the Ante-nati and Post-nati are in the same degree in Dignities yet were they never so in Abilities For no man doubts but the Son of an Earl or Baron before his Creation or Call shall inherite the Dignity as well as the Son born after But the Son of an Attainted Person born before the Attainder shall not inherite as the after-born shall notwithstanding Charter of Pardon The Reason of Estate is That any restriction of the Ante-nati is temporary and expireth with this Generation But if you make it in the Post-nati also you do but in substance pen a perpetuity of Separation Mr. Speaker in this point I have been short because I little expected this doubt as to point of Convenience and therefore will not much labour where I suppose there is no greater opposition A BRIEF DISCOURSE Of the happy UNION OF THE KINGDOMES OF ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Dedicated in private to His MAJESTY I Do not find it strange excellent King that when Heraclitus he that was surnamed the Obscure had set forth a certain Book which is not now extant many men took it for a Discourse of Nature and many others took it for a Treatise of Policy For there is a great affinity and consent between the Rules of Nature and the true Rules of Policy The one being nothing else but an Order in the Government of the World And the other an Order in the Government of an Estate And therefore the education and erudition of the Kings of Persia was in a Science which was termed by a Name then of great Reverence but now degenerate and taken in the ill part For the Perasin Magick which was the secret Literature of their Kings was an application of the Contemplations and Observations of Nature unto a sense Politick taking the fundamental Laws of Nature and the Branches and Passages of them as an Original or first Model whence to take and describe a Copy and Imitation for Government After this manner the foresaid Instructers set before their Kings the examples of the Celestial Bodies the Sun the Moon and the rest which have great glory and veneration but no rest or intromission being in a perpetual office of motion for the cherishing in turn and in course of inferiour Bodies Expressing likewise the true manner of the motions of Government which though they ought to be swift and rapide in respect of dispatch and occasions yet are they to be constant and regular without wavering or confusion So did they represent unto them how the Heavens do not enrich themselves by the Earth and the Sea nor keep no dead Stock nor untouched Treasures of that they draw to them from below But whatsoever moisture they do levy and take from both Elements in vapours they do spend and turn back again in showers only holding and storing them up for a time to the end to issue and distribute them in season But chiefly they did expresse and expound unto them that fundamental Law of Nature whereby all things do subsist and are preserved which is that every thing in Nature although it hath his private and particular affection and appetite and doth follow and pursue the same in small moments and when it is free and delivered from more general and common respects yet neverthelesse when there is question or case for sustaining of the more general they for sake their own particularities and attend and conspire to uphold the publick So we see the Iron in small quantity will ascend and approach to the Load-stone upon a particular sympathy But if it be any quantity of moment it leaveth his appetite of amity to the Load-stone and like a good Patriot falleth to the Earth which is the Place and Region of massy Bodies So again the Water and other like Bodies do fall towards the Center of the Earth which is as was said their Region or Countrey And yet we see nothing more usual in all Water-works and Engines then that the Water rather then to suffer any distraction or dis-union in Nature will ascend for saking the love to his own Region or Countrey and applying it self to the Body next adjoyning But it were too long a digression to proceed to more examples of this kind Your Majesty your self did fall upon a passage of this nature in your gracious Speech of thanks unto your Council when acknowledging Princely their vigilancies and well-deservings it pleased you to note that it was a success and event above the course of nature to have so great Change with so great a Quiet Forasmuch as suddain mutations as well in State as in Nature are rarely without violence and perturbation So as still I conclude there is as was said a congruity between the principles of Nature and Policy And lest that instance may seem to oppone to this Assertion I may even in that particular with your Majesties favour offer unto you a Type or Pattern in Nature much resembling this event in your State Namely Earthquakes which many of them bring ever much terrour and wonder but no actual hurt the Earth trembling for a moment and suddenly stablishing in perfect quiet as it was before This knowledge then of making the Government of the World a mirrour for the Government of a State being a Wisdom almost lost whereof the reason I take to be because of the difficulty for one man to imbrace both Philosophies I have thought good to make some proof as far as my weakness and the straights of my time will suffer to revive in the handling of one particular wherewith now I most humbly present your Majesty For surely as hath been said it is a form of Discourse anciently used towards Kings And to what King should it be more proper then to a King that is studious to conjoin contemplative Vertue and active Vertue together Your Majesty is the first King that had the Honour to be Lapis Angularis to unite these two mighty and warlike Nations of England and Scotland under one Soveraignty and Monarchy It doth not appear by the Records and Memories of any true History or scarcely by the fiction and pleasure of any fabulous Narration or Tradition That ever of any Antiquity this Island of Great Britain was united under one King before this day And yet there be no Mountains or races of Hills there be no Seas nor great Rivers there is no diversity of Tongue or Language that hath invited or provoked this