Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	adam_n	fruit_n	tree_n	1,436	5	7.9708	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14727	The vvonders of the load-stone. Or, The load-stone newly reduc't into a divine and morall vse. By Samuel Ward, of Ipswich. B.D.; Magnetis reductorium theologicum tropologicum. English	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.	1640 (1640)	STC 25030; ESTC S119467	50,652	286

vaine in these subtill disquisitions and spend the strength of our wits to no end How much more uprofitably and unprosperously have the Schoole men employed their houres and endevours in searching out and declaring the causes of Go●s election and mans vocation whilst they excogitated that the reason hereof was Gods fore-seeing of mens saith or their works or affirmed that any thing else out of G●d was the cause of thi● divine decre● and distinct●●n or difference made betweene men T●e mysteries of his Empire must bee reserved and left unto God who will not suffer his servants without punishment to look so curiously into the Ark of his secrets the Bethshemites in times past suffered for this pride and folly Predestination is an incomprehensible impenetrable depth and bottomlesse pit Some divine mysteries are unsearchable and cannot be found out which if God had revealed unto us peradventure hee would have forbidden them to bee published and discovered and surely men might with greater commendation and profit employ the strength of their wits more earnestly and intentively about those things which pertaine to the practice and use of humane life and such as tend to the confirmation and making sure of our election and calling than about these things If a man happens to meet with a fruitfull tree he neither digs up the earth that is about it nor uncovers the root but lookes upon the fruit with longing eyes and plucks them with greedy hands And indeed it had turned lesse to the destruction of Adam and his off-spring and more to their salvation if hee had eaten the fruit of the Tree of life and had not tasted at all of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge Chap. 40. Of the slanders and abuse● to ●hich Loadstones as also great men and their affaires are lyable HItherto have I con●inued in rehearsing the various and ●xcellent uses of the Loadstone hereafter I will comprehend in few words the abuses thereof and those fables also which passing to and fro through the mouthes of men have gotten some beliefe among the credulous multitude especially such as that is concerning Mahomets Iron Tombe that hangs as they say in the Ayre in a Chappell sceiled with Loadstones which they who travaile as far as Mecha doe constantly affirme to be false This I conjecture to be sprung from another fable somewhat neere of kin unto it which Pliny relates of that Master-Builder Dinocrates who began to cover with Loadstones the roofe of Arsinoe's Temple at Alexandria that her Image or Picture might seeme to hang in the Ayre in the meane time it fell out that the Artificer died and Ptolomy also who commanded this to be made for his Sister Of the same kind are those fained tales of Serapion that he could open doores and lockes that he could stay Ships in the midst of their course that he could extract nailes out of them by the helpe of a Loadstone Like unto this is that of Arnoldus de villa nova who affirmed that the devils might be put to flight by this meanes and that of Marbodaeus Gallus who said it was the best Philter or Medic●ne to procure love and that wives are by it reconciled to their husbands and husbands reconciled to their wives unto which his Commentator Pictorius adds this for a Surplusage that it makes the possessors of it very acceptable to Princes and eloquent It is also an usuall thing with Couseners of plaine Countrey people and for Mountebancks under pretence of the vertues and effects thereof to seek earnestly for credit and estimation to that plaister which in Latine is tearmed Armarium and is commonly called the weapon salve having Sympathy with other things wrought upon by the Stars Besides Famianus Strada a man excellent for penning any kinde of discourse hath feigned a notable couple of Tales and as I beleeve to exercise his wit and practise his writing which because they are briefe and pleasant or full of mirth I shall not thinke much to set them downe here fully The first is according to the Patterne of Lucretius his Verse and treats of a most expedite nere way to write unto friends without any Carrier or sending of Letters and that only by the helpe of a Loadstone after this manner Magnesi genus est Lapidis mirabile c. A Loadstone of strange kind there is to which if you apply Some iron substance instruments to write then by and by They draw not only vertue thence and motion amaine Vnto the Northerne Pole to turne and toward Charles his waine But also all among themselves in strange and wondrous sort Those instruments the Loadstone toucht you shall see them resort Vnto one place of motion yea so that if by chance But one of them doe move at Rome the other will advance It selfe to this and though far off will instantly remove And turn to it with speed by League and Natures secret love Well then if thou would'st understand of thy far-distant Mate To whom no letter can be sent then take a plaine round plate That 's large and wide then write therin the A B C letters all In order as by children learn'd these place on brims withall Of this round plate and in the midst each way set downe the Iron Pen Which touch'd the Loadstone that It may be turn'd and then Touch any letter which thou wilt by this example frame Another table for thy friend in forme the verie same Having those outward brims alike and Iron Instrument Toucht by one Loadstone which thy friend that to depart is bent May carry with him then you must among your selves appoint What time the Iron Pen shall move and at the Letters point Things so compos'd if thou desir'st for to salute thy friend Which busied is farre off from home in earths extreamest end Then take the Table in thy hand the turning Iron touch Thou seest the Letters on the brim dispos'd in order such As thou shalt need them to frame words to them thy pen direct Somtimes to this and somtimes that thy purpose to effect Vntill that oft this Instrument thus turning all about Thou hast in order all thy thoughts discribed and set out 'T is strange to be believ'd thy friend which is farre off doth see The rolling Iron move with speed from all enforcement free Now here now there then he that knowes this feat is at a stay Observes the Guidance of the Pen toucht and followes every way Hee reades the Letters that were which being together brought He now perceives what needfull is which by this meanes was wrought Besides the friend when that he sees the Instrument to stand May touch the letters and rescribe and answer out of hand As he shall thinke conve●ient O that this way to write Were once in common use that all might letters thus endite A Letter then more speedily and safely to and fro Might passe without all feare of theeves and streams to overflow A Prince might then dispatch himselfe