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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	natural_a	nature_n	supernatural_a	1,381	5	10.6365	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41175	A just and modest vindication of the Scots design, for the having established a colony at Darien with a brief display, how much it is their interest, to apply themselves to trade, and particularly to that which is foreign.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.; Hodges, James.	1699 (1699)	Wing F742; ESTC R21931	134,853	248

more exalted and generous Principles either of Nature or of Grace then it is the Lot and Portion of many any where to be have upon Philosophical or upon Religious motives become Travellers and Voyagers into far distant and remote Countries yet as the ends under the view and for the compassing whereof they have heretofore undergone and do hitherto subject themselves to the toil cost and dangers which unavoidably attend and accompany such undertakings are either too speculative and too much abstracted from things and matters that affect our Senses and are beneficent and gratifying to the Animal life or are of too elevated spiritual and Celestial a Nature and Consideration to make an impression upon and to byass and govern any Large Number of those of great Political Bodies and National Societies So the Embarking thereinto upon the forementioned single inducements and prospects by some Individuals whose either natural Genius or their improvements in Divine Knowledge and the being furnished with more Christian zeal and Supernatural grace than most have arrived unto or are under the power of does neither amount nor bear proportion to the Notion and Idea which an Vniversal Correspondence between and amongst those of all Regions signifieth and imports Nor will it answer the Exigencies and Necessities which the People of every Nation are less or more under of having their Superfluities Exported and of gaining those things to be Imported which they do either wholly or to very prejudicial Measures and Degrees want and stand in need of So that it is not more obvious than it may be easily accounted for how a Correspondence of this or that State or Kingdom with other Nations and Dominions especially when far distant and widely disjoyned from each other comes to be so little minded and practised save in order unto conjunction with and in Subserviency to Traffick and Mercantile Commerce Nor do remarkable Numbers of any people much love to Travel or commonly do out of their own Native Regions and Territories tho' but into Neighbouring and adjoyning Provinces which may be effected with great Safety and at little expence unless upon views either of Subsisting better there than they did at home or of qualifying themselves thro' an acquisition of Arts and Sciences or by the procuring Treasure and Wealth by means whereof they may afterwards make a better Figure and live more comfortably and opulently in their own Countries than they were otherwise likely to have done And whosoever alloweth himself liberty and vouchsafeth to take the pains of observing the present State and Balance of Europe with the various and different conditions of the several Territories Jurisdictions and Dominions thereof will soon discern and understand why every People whose Country lies situated and whose either Soil or Industry may furnish them with Materials for Trade should account it their Interest and make it the Scope and Design of their Skill and Labour to cultivate and pursue Navigation and Foreign Traffick seeing the great Advantage whether with respect to Power or to Wealth which this or that European Country and Nation have above and beyond others is mostly if not altogether owing and ascribable unto the extent and measure of their Navigation and Traffick For as it is principally this that attracteth and draweth large swarms of Industrious people to Countries and Territories where the Natives and such as did Inhabit there before were but few so in proportion to the encrease of people and their application to Commerce there do necessarily ensue Enlargement of Agriculture Augmentation of Manufacture the venting of Natural as well as of Artificial productions and thereby a growth in Wealth and Treasure and consequently thereunto an advancement in the value and price of Lands But because the main design as well as the necessary brevity of this Discourse will not allow place nor room for the arguing of this according to the worth and importance of the Subject I shall therefore choose at once both to prove and to illustrate it from and by uncontroulable matter of Fact Nor have we occasion to go far for a convincing Instance and Evidence of it Forasmuch as we need no other demonstration of the many Benefits that Naturally result from Trade than to consider how our Neighbours the Dutch are hereby become Populous Wealthy and Powerful It being apparent beyond possibility of being rationally denied or contradicted that notwithstanding the Unhealthfulness of their Air the Brackishness of their Waters the Badness of their Ports the Scarcity of their Natural Productions the Narrowness of their Territories and the vast Expence which they are indispensibly obliged unto for the covering and defending themselves and their Country from the Inundations of the Sea yet that upon the motive and encouragement of the Profits and Advantages arising by Trade they have drawn many of the most Laborious and Ingenious people of all Neighbouring Countries into their Provinces so that from a scanty number of Original Natives and primitive Inhabitants they are increased into such a Multitude that no Nation without Traffick and that is confined to there narrow dimensions of Lands and Territories maketh an approach unto and much less equalleth And all these by accruements from Navigation and Commerce are not only by reason of their Riches and Wealth become the objects of the envy of such as live about them but the Heads Governours and Supreame Rulers of that Republick are risen from Poor Weak Supplicant and Despised States to the making of such a Figure in the World that fully and amply answereth the Lofty Title which they have assumed unto themselves of High and Mighty Nor is it unworthy of remark that the English whose Genius disposeth and inclineth them and whose Situation Ports Natural Productions and Manufactures give them incomparable Advantages for Foreign Traffick and Commerce beyond what the Hollanders with respect to all and every one of these recited particulars are possessed of and furnished with and that the said English have for above a Century of Years applyed themselves unto Trade with Industry Zeal and Success beyond what most of their European Neighbours can pretend to have done yet even They are greatly exceeded by the Dutch allowing for the dimensions of their Territories both in Number of People and in the Opulency of Private Dealers as well as of their States And this meerly by a more intense and Vniversal Cultivation of Commerce and by the Wise conduct of their Government in the making the Export and Import of their Goods and Commodities Moderate and Easy under all the Exigencies and Necessities of the State and a proportionable Imposition upon and Exaction from the Subject For whereas the Dutch as is well observed by that Excellent and Sagacious Author of an Essay upon ways and Means having in all their Provinces only about Eight Millions of Acres do entertain employ and comfortably Subsist near three Millions of People yet England notwithstanding all the forementioned Advantages for Traffick beyond and