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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
A54498	A treatise of Lewisham (but vulgarly miscalled Dulwich) wells in Kent shewing the time and manner of their discovery, the minerals with which they are impregnated, the several diseases experience hath found them good for, with directions for the use of them, &c. / by John Peter, physician.	Peter, John.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1691; ESTC R13465	37,829	138

them into a belief of the Worlds Creation by the Almighty God Hither may be referred that of Rabbi Bechai as translated by Buxtorf in Lexic Accepit Deus Benedictus ignem aquam permiscuit ista invicem ex illis facti sunt Coeli i.e. The blessed God took Fire and Water and mixing them together made the Heavens So that if by the word translated Heaven we have found Fire and Water the next word in the Text being the Earth we have gained the time of the Creation of the Elements Fire Water and Earth answerable to the Hermetick Principles of Sulphur Mercury and Salt And further that Water was signified by Moses to be created in the Beginning is evident by the words of the next Verse where Water is mentioned under the word Deep without any intimation of any new Creation but as it were taken for granted that it was created in the Beginning that the word Deep in Scripture Stile is often used for deep Waters or Seas is very obvious as only to instance in that one place of the Royal Psalmist speaking of the Creation of the Earth Psalm 104.6 Thou coverest it with the Deep as with a Garment From whence it is evident that there was not one Homogeneous Mass of Matter created in the Beginning but one Body expresly distinguisht into several Heterogeneous Members which were distinct and separate in their Scituations and not confounded together It was as Natural for the Water to be every where about the Earth as the Air to be every where about the Terraqueous Globe the Aether to be about the Air and the Super-Aether above all which is elegantly expressed by the Prophet Amos chap. 9.6 It is he that hath builded his Stories in the Heavens c. From which Original Scituation of the Elements we may collect that their several Bodies of Matter were proportionable the Matter of Earth most dense and therefore lowest the Matter of Water less dense and therefore above the Earth the Matter of Air more rare and therefore above the Water the Matter of Aether more rare and therefore above all other Elements next to the Super-Aether which is mo t rare and so fittest for the Habitation of pure Spirits Now the said Elements which were created in the Beginning were then endued with their proper Elementary Spirits pure and unmixt which receiving Disposition by the Holy Spirit did produce their proper Qualities gradually and successively à potentia in actum whereupon the simple Qualities of Driness and Moisture in the Earth and Water did not actually exist till the third day at which time God call'd the Dry Land Earth and the gathering together of the Waters call'd he Seas The Element of Water is elegantly set out by Pliny lib c Hoc Elementum caeteris omnibus imperat terras devorant Aquae flammas necant scandunt in sublime caelum sibi quoque vindicant c. This Element challengeth a kind of rule over all the rest it devours the Earth extinguishes Fire it aspires even unto Heaven and doth as it were not only clime up thither it self alone but it carries with it whole Sholes of Fishes heaps of Stones and divers other heavy Substances which afterwards fall down again with it thus far Pliny This is so necessary an Element that no living Creature can subsist without it How wonderfully are all Vegetables enlivened the Spirits of Animals refresh'd with the vivifying Humidity and Balsamick Vertue wherewith it is impregnated by its Digestion in the Clouds Hence it was perhaps that Thales Milesius one of the seven Sages of Greece and Empedocles do both agree that Water is the sole Principle of all things the Spagyrick Masters go not quite so far who affirm it to be the material Principle of all Concrete Bodies As to the manifold and wonderous Vertues of Waters which Authors of good Credit do relate it would be an Herculean Labour to recite them all I shall therefore only for the Readers Curiosity and Delight recount the most admirable and unusual of them which for Methods sake I shall speak to in this order 1. Of the Coldness and Heat of some Waters 2. Of their Taste and Smell 3. Of their various Colours 4. Of their divers Currents or Runnings 5. Of their change of Quantity and Quality 6. Of some other Things remarkable in Waters 1. As to the First In Corinth there is a Fountain of Water which is always Colder than Snow Ptol. Com. Lib. 7. Pliny reports that there is a certain Fountain issuing out of the Mountain Nonacris in Arcadia that is of so cold a Quality Vtpote cum profluens ipsa lapidescat i.e. That as it springs out it is converted into Stone Lib. 31. c. 2. There also he tells us of certain Springs call'd Posidianae near the City Baiae in Campania whose Waters are so hot that they boil their Meat commonly therein Near the Sea Banks of Cuba there is a River so large that it is Navigable and yet it is so hot that one cannot endure to touch it Martyr Sum. Ind. And as Ramus relates Tom. 3. There is a Spring near the Province of Tapala which runs so hot that one cannot pass over it here we ought not to omit our hot Baths at the Bath in Somersetshire The hot Spring issuing out of St. Vincents Rock near Bristol and other Instances of this nature which this our Isle doth produce might here be particularized if it were necessary 2. In the Taste and Smell of Waters there is great variety Aristotle writes of a Well in Sicily whose Water is so sowr that the Inhabitants commonly make use of it instead of Vinegar The Waters of Eleus and Chocops for Deliciousness and Sweetness were famous amongst the Persian Rings and of them they much used to drink Johnst Cl. 2. c. 3. The Water of Cardia is sweeter than warm Milk and so is Vinosa near to Paphlagenia where multitudes of Strangers come to drink of it Johnst ibid. The small Fountain Exampeus in Scythia is so bitter that it taints the sweet Streams of the River Hypanus after it hath run sweetly Forty miles Ibid. In the bottom of the Adriatick Sea which turns to Aquelia there be Seven Fountains and Six of them are very Salt Polyb Hist But of the Saltness of Fountains we need no further instance than our Salt Springs at the Witches in Cheshire The wonderous pleasantness of the smell of Cabura a Spring in Mesophtamia hath occasioned the Fable of Juno's bathing her self therein Plinie lib. 31. c. 3. The hot Baths that are distant from Rhegium 26 miles smell of so gallant a Bitumen that they seem to be mingled with Camphire Johnst Cl. 2. c. 2. Where also he tells us of a Pit in Peloponnesus whose Water smells wondrous pleasantly In Hildersham there be two Fountains the one flowing out of Marble smells like the stink of Rotten Eggs the other from Brimstone smells like Gun-powder Agric. de Nat. 3. As for Colours they