Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	worship_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	161	3	11.1629	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55194	Plutarch's Lives. Their first volume translated from the Greek by several hands ; to which is prefixt The life of Plutarch.; Lives. English. Dryden	Plutarch.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2635; ESTC R30108	347,819	830

the original that in case there should be a design to steal it away the true might not be distinguished or known from those which were counterfeited by which means there would be more difficulty to defeat the counsels of Fate or invert the order of divine Predestination He farther declared that he was commanded to consecrate that place and the Fields about it to the Muses where he had often entertained a free intercourse and communication with them and that the Fountain which watered that Field should be made sacred and hallowed for the use of the Vestal Virgins who were to wash and cleanse the penetralia of their Sanctuary with those Holy Waters The truth hereof was speedily verified by a miraculous cessation of the Pestilence whereupon Numa immediately delivered this Target to the best Artists to have others made in a just likeness in all particulars thereunto but none was able to arrive unto a perfect similitude in all undistinguishable respects untill at length one Veturius Mamurius an excellent Master happily hit upon it and made one so to represent the other in all respects that Numa himself was at a stand and could not distinguish the true from that which was counterfeited The keeping of which Targets was committed to the charge of certain Priests which are called Salii who did not receive their name as some imagine from one Salius a certain Dancing-master who was born at Samothrace or at Mantinea who taught the way of dancing in Arms but rather from that Dance which the Salii themselves use when in the month of March they carry the sacred Targets through the City at which procession they are habited in a short Cassock girt with a broad Belt clasp'd with brass Buckles on their heads they wore a copper Helmet and ever and anon sounded on the Targets with short Cemyters in this manner they proceeded with a nimble motion and just measures of their Feet and with such handsome and various turns as demonstrated great strength and agility of body These Targets were called Ancylia from the fashion of them for they were not made in a round or orbicular form but oval and with certain folds or pleats closing one over the other they fitted the Elbow by their cubical Figure and thence were called Ancylia from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signified a crooked shape or from the cubit which is from the Wrist to the Elbow and called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on which they carry these Ancylia Juba who much affected the Greek Tongue draws many of his derivations from thence and would have it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies as much as sent from above or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the cure or medicine of Diseases or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a deliverance from great driness or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is an escape from great evils whence it is that the Athenians called Castor and Pollux 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all which may serve to employ the curiosity of those who have a fancy to Greek derivations All the reward which Mamurius received for this his Art was to be mentioned and commemorated in the Verses which the Salii sang as they danced in their Arms through the City though some will have it that they did not say Veturius Mamurius but Vetus Memoria which is Ancient Remembrance After Numa had in this manner instituted these several Orders of Priests he erected a Royal Palace near the Temple of Vesta called to this day Regium where he spent the most part of his time in prescribing Rules for Divine Service instructing the Priests and with zeal and devotion attending in person on the Offices of Religion He built another House upon the Mount Quirinalis which place they shew to this day In all publick Processions and solemn Prayers Tipstaves or Hushers were sent before to give notice to the people that they should forbear their work and attend to the Divine Solemnity for they say that the Pythagoreans did not hold it sufficient reverence towards the Gods to worship them in a negligent manner as when the religious Processions did obviously occur but obliged their Scholars to go out from their Houses and with prepared hearts attend to Divine Supplications so Numa in like manner decreed that his Citizens should neither see nor hear Divine matters in a perfunctory manner and with wandring thoughts but laying aside all distractions of mind and cares of the world should apply and elevate their meditations to Religion and the ways and streets should be clear of noise or laments or other incumbrances which might obstruct or disturb the solemnity and seriousness of devotion Something of this custom remains at Rome to this day for when the Consul begins to sacrifice or officiate they call out to the People Hoc age or attend to the work in hand and is as much as with us Let us Pray whereby the Auditours then present were admonished to compose and recollect their thoughts for prayer And as Pythagoras had certain Precepts and Sayings such as these Thou shalt not make a Peck Measure thy seat to sit on Thou shalt not stir the Fire with a Sword When thou goest forwards look not behind thee When thou sacrificest to the celestial Gods let it be with an odd number and when to the terrestrial let it be with even So likewise Numa delivered other Sentences of an obscure and abstruse meaning such as these Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Gods an offering of Wine proceeding from a Vine which was never pruned No sacrifices shall be performed without Meal Vse a circular motion in adoration of the Gods and sit down when you have worshipped The two first Precepts seem to denote that urbanity and a natural complaisance with the world is a part of Religion and as to the turning which the Worshippers are to use in divine adoration it is to represent the orbicular motion of the world But in my opinion the meaning rather is that he who comes to worship enters the Temple with his face towards the East where being come up as high as the Chancel he turns towards the West and then back again to the East perfecting the whole office of his prayers to that God who is Maker of the Universe unless perhaps this change of posture may allude to the Egyptian Wheels which were Hieroglyphicks of the instability of humane fortune and that where God should fix and establish our lot and condition we should there rest contented and repose our selves with intire resignation to the Divine pleasure They say also that the sitting quiet and in a reposed posture after worship did denote a concession or grant of the petitions they made and was an assurance of everlasting felicity in the future life and that this still and sedentary cessation from work was the full stop or period of business already performed from whence now designing to begin