Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	4,212	5	9.5265	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

understands how incapable the Man is to judge of what Religion I am by his being wholly unacquainted with me and by being a meer stranger as it appears to all that can rationally pretend to know me for I here declare he never had any Discourse with me tending directly or indirectly to any Religious Purpose or scarce of any other Matter and I am consident at that time whatever he hath had since he never had any Conference with any Person that was of any intimacy with me or of Twelve Months standing Acquaintance So that without Conjuration it is easie to tell that this Calumny must necessarily proceed from no other Source then the malicious Efflaviums of his Sick Brain and therefore upon the same ground he might as well have declared me to be a Turk as a Papist only his Mother-wit was ready to prompt him that the last was the fitter Stigma and as Publick Circumstances then stood might prove most serviceable for his opprobrious Design whereas if he had been so idlely busie as to pry into my Religious Circumstances he being within the smoak of many of their Chymnies who have known me and my Communication all my Life time might thereby without any cost or much pains have been satisfied that I am of the Religion the farthest distant from Popery of any amongst the Reformed of the Church of England as it is now establisht and therein by the gracious Disposal of Gods Providence had the happiness to be Educated for which God make me ever thankful though I do not profess my self otherwise beholding to my Education than to manuduce me into a Truth which my riper Judgment upon wholly devesting it self of that prepossession hath upon free choice consented to To the confirmation of which as far as the nature of the thing will bear I could procure if need were a Testimonial from Persons of such Eminency Religion and Learning that if there was as much shame in him as there was Cowerdise in that Man at the Siege of Spoletto whom Nature dissavowing degraded of his Breeches would Analogically make his May-pole-size shrink into a Pigmy's Stature But as for such like Persons as this who eye more the Quis than the Quid prejudicating the Work out of prejudice to the Author they rather give a Badge of their own deplorable Weakness than any the least blemish to it therefore I value not their Censure As for the Judicious and Learned I know they will judge like themselves of whom I had rather be deservedly controlled than by the other ignorantly commended Since we are all Debtors to Truth the Candid Reader will not think it much that I have Obiter spent a little time to set my Reputation to rights thereby hoping ere long to see my self disabused The whole Design of this Tract is contrary to those Physicians who under pretence that they were supersticious Characters defaced the old Writing over Cicero's Baths which declared the names of those Diseases they Cured to divulge to the World the manifold and admirable Vertues which God out of his Goodness hath particularly bestowed upon this Water Bouum quo communius eo melius That those that never heard of these Wells or at least of their Vertues might by this means receive information and if upon tryal they reap any benefit may be added to the number of those that are particularly obliged to bless God for them I cannot omit the taking notice of a very great abuse occasioned by a rabble of Londoners and others weekly frequenting these Wells on Sundays where under pretence of drinking of the Waters they spend that Holy Day in great Prophaneness who after they have for the most part of them gorged themselves with the Water do drink upon it an excessive quantity of Brandy that Bane of English Men or other strong Liquors thereby many of them becoming greatly prejudiced in their Health to add to their Folly and Crime have not been ashamed to impute their Indisposition to this Water whereas upon a Rational omitting the Religious account the success in such cases cannot be expected otherwise This excellent Water like other choice Remedies is liable to be abused by its undue Administration many and those of a soberer rank than those before spoken of thinking thereby to cure themselves do not only much prejudice but oftentimes destroy themselves For in curing Diseases if it were sufficient to know Medicines and Forms of Receipts the Translator of the London Dispensatory hath to the meanest Person made the Physicians Imployment useless and an Apothecary were then most probable to make the best Physicians being stockt with a number of Receipts communicated by divers Physicians And in the use of all Medicinal Waters as well as this the Physicians Advice by consequence would be needless but there is far more Judgment and Skill requisite to discover the Disease and other necessary Circumstances as Cause Constitution Temperature Age Sex Custom c. than the Remedy and without such Discovery how abundant and frequent mischief do we daily see done even by applying Medicines of themselves safe So that as there is a necessity of Advising with an Able and Learned Physician in all Cases where Remedies are to be applied so in particular about the Drinking of this Water because by manifold Advantages reaped by his many years Study in Natural Philosophy his many happy Discoveries in Nature his Anatomical Knowledge of Mans Body of its Actions Use c. he is able by several Signs to discover the Causes and Nature of Maladies and from thence to know how to apply proper Agents to the Patient OF LEWISHAM WELLS SECT I. Of Water in general SEeing that Water is the Materia Subjecta of this Treatise it is a pardonable Digression to speak somewhat of it in general as of its Creation Nature and various Effects As to its Creation it is generally referred to the first Verse of Genesis which is a brief Description or a Compendious Mapp of the Vniverse of the whole Globe of Matter thereof from the Outmost Circumference to the inmost Center created in the Beginning And since we do not find that any new Matter was afterwards created we may fairly conclude that the Waters were created in the Beginning also to which truth the Original Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is translated the Heaven methinks gives us some light which receiving its Derivation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fire and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Water intimates to us the Subject Matter of the Elementary Heavens for as for the Super-aether and all other Spiritual created Substances being possibly too Sublime and Metaphysical Notions for that Age to receive it doth not appear that they were any scope of Moses his Design there to treat of but of the visible Works of the Creation only which being obvious and lying level to their Senses were the liklier to receive admittance into the consideration of the besotted and unbelieving World and gradually allure