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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	behaviour_n	good_a	surety_n	2,051	5	11.1158	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60477	Christian religion's appeal from the groundless prejudices of the sceptick to the bar of common reason by John Smith.	Smith, John, fl. 1675-1711.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4109; ESTC R26922	707,151	538

Military was grown out of knowledg Annal. 12. 157. This Peace and its Daughter Plenty gave him both Opportunity and Ability to perfect those magnificent Works of the Aqueduct begun by Caligula the draining of the Ficine Lake and building the Ostian Haven Works so stupendious as neither Augustus nor Tiberius durst attempt them hence that Encomium Nero gave him in his Funeral Speech that during his Reign nothing sad befel the Empire from Foreigners past with the general Vote Tacit. ann 13. Nihil regente eo reipublicae triste ab externis accidisse pronis animis ad auditum Search we the Annals of Nero Anno Christi 57. and in the first and best part of his Reign we hear no noise of War In his first indeed the Parthians make a flourishing of their Ensigns and a brandishing of their Swords against Armenia But first this was out of the Confines of the Empire for Armenia was not reduc'd into the form of a Province till Trajan's Reign Heylin Geograph 799. And secondly the Parthian was perswaded to fold up his Colours and put up his Sword before they had been rowled and bathed in Blood Tacit annal 13. 179. Datisque obsidibus solitam prioribus reverentiam in R. Populum continuare chusing rather to give Sureties for their future good Behaviour towards the State and her Confederates than try the Roman Mettle In his next Year there was Pax foris Peace every where abroad no Brawls but what Nero procured by his Night-walks among the Stews no Blood-shed in any but those obscene Quarrels Tacitus ibid pag. 184. Pax foris faeda domi lascivia qua Nero lupanaria veste servili in dissimulationem sui frequentavit comitantibus qui vulnera obviis inferrent adeo ut ipse quoque acciperet ictus His third was so barren of Action had so little wind stirring as Tacitus complains his storifying Vein is becalm'd his Pen can find no Pasturage in that Years Occurrences except he should instead of Annals write Diurnals and go about to commend the Foundations Beams and Bulk of that Amphitheater which the Emperour erected in Campo Martio or in a Tragick Strain record the Wounds of Fencers and Slaughters of wild Beasts there received and perpetrated that being the only Martial Camp for that Years Wars which that inquisitive Historian can give us Intelligence of Id. Ib. pa. 186. Nerone secundò L. Pisone Coss. pauca memoria digna evenere nisi cui libeat laudandis fundamentis tabulis quîs molem Amphitheatri apud campum Martium extruxerat volumina implere In this long Vacation the Roman Prowess had contracted so much Rust as Corbulo in his Expedition against the Parthians making a new attempt upon Armenia in Nero's fourth found the laziness of the Roman Soldiery a greater prejudice to him than either the boysterous Strength or perfidious wiliness of the Enemy Id. ibid. pa. 187. Sed Corbuloni plus molis erat adversus ignaviam militis quam contra perfidiam hostium quippe Syria transmotae legiones pace longa segnes munia militum aegerrimè tolerabant The Legions of Syria a Door-neighbour to if not comprehending Judaea and the great Road that the Apostles of the Circumcision travell'd had so far unlearnt War that they could not bear the hardships nor perform the office of Soldiers Nay Satis constitit fuisse in eo exercit●● Veteranos qui non stationem non vigilias iniissent vallum fossamque quasi nova mira viserent Tacit. an 13. 187. of a certain saith Tacitus there were many Veteran Soldiers that had never stood Centinel that wondered at the sight of Trenches and Rampires as new and strange things that came to the Muster in quirpo without Head-peices Breast-plates c. neat and trim Carpet-knights as having spent their lives in Garrisons and City-delicacies as having never perform'd service in the Field In so much as Corbulo durst not emplòy them but is forced to send as far as Germany and Spain to levy men for that Armenian War who notwithstanding that through the Midwifery of their Native horrid Clime they were born hardy Soldiers yet their Nurture and Education in the soft and warm bosom of that pacifick Age had so far temper'd the natural Steeliness of their Mettal as it turn'd Edge so much effeminated their innate sturdiness as they were not able to sustain the sharpness of that War but ran away so fast from their Colours as the General with all the Art he can use and the utmost severity of Martial Law can scarce prevent the mouldring away of his Army Tacit. an 13. quia duritiam caeli militiaeque abnuebant deserebantque remedium severitatis quaesitum est qui signa reliquerat statim capitis paenas luebat c. Corbulo saith Dion restored Military Discipline which had been slighted and neglected Ziphil e Dione Nero pa. 518 Nam Corbulo restituta re militari quae antea dispersa neglecta erat Is it possible to conceive a fuller accomplishment of that Prophecy Is. 2. 4. that when the Word went out of Sion the Law from Jerusalem there should be such aboundance of Peace as the World should unlearn War can we expect a more perfect Transcript of that Prediction than is here drawn by the Pens of those Authentick Historians where can we better fix the Epocha of its taking effect than in this Age wherein the most Warlike Nations were grown so incredibly inexpert at War as they are here described when for sixty Years together Nation did not rise up against Nation In the last half of which from the fifteenth of Tiberius when the preaching of the Gospel began in the Baptist's Ministry unto Nero's fourth that Prophetical half hour reckoning Minutes for Years wherein its preaching was fully known in all the World there was an universal silence in the Heaven of the Roman Empire no noise of War no clashing of hostile Armour heard within its Precincts I here only allude to that passage Revel 8. 1. there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour I undertake not its Exposition Saving some dry blows in Judaea where had been the Vision of Peace nor in its Borders saving Armenia Olive plants growing round about it save on that Coast whither Noah's Dove brought the Olive Branch If the Septuagint mistake not in translating Arrarat Armenia Isa. 37. 38. 2 King 19. 37. A remarkable Providence that God should prepare a place of rest for the reception of the Ark and Tabernacle of his own pitching every where but where the Arks of Noah and Moses had rested and a fair intimation to the Proselytes of the Gate that rested on Noah's seven Precepts and the Proselytes of the Covenant who trusted in Moses that that which they had taken up with was not their true rest § 4. It being thus evident out of the undoubted Histories of those times that beside that thirty Years space of Peace through the whole Empire from the birth of our Saviour unto the