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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07222	A nevv post vvith soueraigne salue to cure the worlds madnes. Expressing himselfe in sundrie excellent essayes or wittie discourses. A marke exceeding necessary for all mens arrowes: whether the great mans flight, the gallants rouer. the wisemans prickeshaft, the poore mans butshaft, or the fooles birdbolt, quantus in orbe dolus. By Sir I.D. Knight.; Reasons academie	Mason, Robert, 1571-1635.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 17620.3; ESTC S109376	40,379	124

A NEVV POST VVITH Soueraigne salue to cure the Worlds madnes Expressing himselfe in sundrie excellent Essayes or wittie Discourses A marke exceeding necessary for all mens Arrowes Whether The Great mans Flight Whether The Gallants Rouer Whether The Wisemans Prickeshaft Whether The Poore mans Butshaft Whether Or the Fooles Birdbolt Quantus in Orbe dolus By Sir I. D. Knight Printed for Iohn Mariot A NEVV POST THE World which is the Shop or warehouse of all euills was neuer since the beginning vnfurnished of most wicked Commodities and as Time and me●s lusts hath increast the Trade so hath the Trade filled vp the empty places and left no vaculty or vast corner in the world vnstored and filled vp euen from the bottome to the top with mymicke and fantasticke Imperfections with sinnes of all shapes of all fashions of al inuentions Sinnes of all proportions and all measures the great mans crea●●●●● the meaners imitations the Courts ambition the Cities surfa●●e the Countries folly The first being grounded vpon Enuy the second on Pride and the last on Weaknesse so that according to the nature of man the old world is full of old thoughts and being nearest to the end is farthest from all amendement hauing in it nothing but a couctous hoarding or gathering together of those vices whose sadde weight cannot choose but shake the body into cinders This mortall Tympanie how many worthy Lecthes haue studiously sought to cure but their medicines haue either not b●t●e receiued or else so too carely cast vppe in vnnaturall vomits that the vertue hath beene lost for want of retention How hath Diuinity threatned Morality condemned Satyres whipped lipigrammes mocked and all in one iointly raised vp an earthquake or thunder against the Vices and Abuses of the times yet still the world as drowned in a Lethargie or dead sleep nussels and snorts in security seeding vice to such a monstrous bignesse that me● stand in awe and dare not forsake him and women tye him to their wastes with aboue a dozen points of the strongest riban But may not this feare be taken from men and this folly vntyed from the feminine Gender Yes questionlesse and with great ease if they will either take the Antidote of reason against this p●yson of nouelty or bath themselues in the cleare and wholsome streames of moderation and discretion It is nothing but the want of the discourse of reason which doth breed this madnesse in mankinde for where it raigneth there can neither be want not superfluicie for it boundeth all things within a meane and gouerneth with Iustice and Iudgement ●is hath the true measure of goodnesse and carryeth so euen the ball●ce which weigheth euery excellence that no graine or drop can be insufficient but our Reason may amend alter or correct it This if either moderne Phylosophers or our liuing Poets had instructed the world withall surely all vice had long since forsaken vs much gall had beene saued in their inke lesse pepper and more salt had kept vertue in season without corruption Since then the knowledge vse of Reason is the onely salu to cure these reasonlesse iufirmities it is not amisse in this little dispensatorie to shew the true manner of this composition that euery man knowing the ingredients their naturall operations each man may bee his owne Physition and cure those malladies which make the world run mad with toyes and fantasmes It is to be vnderstood then that to make this excellent balme of Reason euery man must take Number Place Time Vse Art things Naturall aboue Nature and against Nature and mixing them with example distill them into a pure conscience and the worke is then finished Now for the nature and operation of these simples thus in these Essay●● it followeth ESSAY I. Of Number NVmber doth consist of diuers things either of one or seuerall denominations and without Number there can be no true definition demonstration manifestation nor vnderstanding of any thing for if all things were but one then were there no Number or order wherefore one is saide to be no number Sed scala do vnitate the beginning of number In the Godhead being before all time the maker of time and all things that increase in time there is number The Trinitie of persons and vnity of Godhead doe declare as much For although God be a most singular Diuine Essence in himself yet hath hee proportioned Number in himselfe vnseparably vnited in his Godhead which the Diuines call the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost And the ancient Philosophers call three inbeings The Father the actiue or inworking vertue power and nature The Sonne they call the word speech or reason and the Holy Ghost Loue. These Philosophers haue striuen wonderfully in this labour wherein they haue waded exceeding deepe Plotin 〈◊〉 5. 〈◊〉 Ae●●rlius the Disciple of Plotin is sayde to name the Trinitie three things or three vnderstandings The Beer the Hauer and the Seer The Trinitie is expressed in these words Power Vnderstanding and Will which Trinitie maketh a full number of things belonging to a minde which the Philosophers est●em to be the Godhead But to leaue off this kind of descriptiō I cōclude with Plotinus There are saith he three chiefe Inbeings The one or the God 2. The vnderstāding or wit 3. The soule of the world And of these three saith he it is not for any man to speake without praying vnto god And without set●●ng his mind afore vnto quietnes And if it be demanded saith he how one of them begetteth an other it is to be considered that we speak of euerlasting things therefore we must not imagine any temporall begotting for this begetting which we speake of saith be betokeneth but onely cause and order This Trinitie and first and euerlasting number hath proportioned appointed other numbers in them a miraculous order If any aske a reason hereof I answere It was the power the wisdome vnderstanding wil of God to expresse himselfe in this compleat number of persōs in one vnity of godhead By this nūber three was the whole world created al things innumerable whose mouers are only known to the creator himself In that number three is expressed the wōder of the world the taking vp of Henock Elias the Ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly and Christ three dayes in the graue So that in the number of three it manifested the eternall Tr●●●tte of the God head the creation of the world and of man the ●se the death and the re●uraction There cosented to the destruction of man The Serpent the woman and the man There haue repa●ed that downsal The Father the giuer the Sonne the gift and the holy Ghost the comforter In the numof three is a perfect condusion of all 〈◊〉 Much may be said of the ●omber 〈…〉 is made by this 〈◊〉 As fire 〈…〉 and earth 〈…〉 the world 〈◊〉 Spring Semer Autum Winter ●o make the 〈◊〉