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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	holy_a	scripture_n	2,400	5	5.5262	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59093	The reverse or back-face of the English Janus to-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the common and statute-law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations, to the decease of King Henry II. set down and tackt together succinctly by way of narrative : designed, devoted and dedicated to the most illustrious the Earl of Salisbury / written in Latin by John Selden ... ; and rendred into English by Redman Westcot, Gent.; Jani Anglorum facies altera. English	Selden, John, 1584-1654.; Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1682 (1682)	Wing S2436; ESTC R14398	136,793	167

in the Sacrament of Regeneration did not admit into its bosome As to scalding Water ones arm in that manner thrust in up to the elbow made a discovery of the truth and Aelstan a Monk of Abendon afterward Bishop of Shirburn thrusting in his bare Hand into a boiling Cauldron shewed himself with some pride to his Abbot But that they say that Rusticks or Vassals only were tryed by Water for Water is ascribed to the earthly and ignoble nature Fire to the heavenly so that from the use of Fire peculiar to man Firmianus Lactantius hath fetcht an argument for the Immortality of the Soul that this is not altogether so true is made out by that one example of John a Noble and Rich old man who in the time of King Henry the Second when being charged with the death of his Brother the Earl of Ferrers he could not acquit himself by the Watery Tryal was hang'd on a Gallows Whence or by what means both these Customs were brought in among Christians 't is none of my business to make an over strait inquiry I remember that Fire among the Ancients was accounted purgative and there is one in a Tragedy of Sophocles intitled Antigone who of his own accord profest to King Creon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That in his hands be red-hot gads would kéep And over burning gleads would bare-foot créep ●o shew himself innocent as to the Burial of Polynices I pass by in silence that Pythagorical opinion which placeth Fire in the Centre of the Universe where Jupiter hath his Prison which Fire some however the Peripateticks stiffly oppose it would have to be in plain terms the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who all things overlooks and all things hears Yet I shall not omit this that in the holy Bible the great and gracious God hath of a truth discovered himself to mortal conception in the very name of Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a thing agreeable to Divinity as saith John Reuchlin and that S. Paul hath according to the Psalmists mind stiled the Ministers of God a flame of fire And indeed to abuse the holy Scriptures by mis-interpreting them is a custom too ancient and too too common Homer and Virgil both sing of Imperjuratam Stygiamque paludem Dii cujus jurare timent fallere numen that is Th' unperjur'd Stygian lake Whose name the Gods do fear in vain to take We read of the Infants of the Celts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Try'd in the streams of sacred Flood Whether of right or of ba●e blood as it is in the Greek Epigrams of the fountains of Sardinia in Solinus of the moist Februa or purifications by water in Ovids Fastorum and of those Rivers that fell from Heaven and their most wonderful and hidden natures among Natural Philosophers But most of these things were not known peradventure in our Ordeals Yet Martin Del Rio a man of various Reading and exquisite Learning hath in his Magical Inquiries offered a conjecture that the tryal by Water crept into use from a paltry imitation of the Jews Cup of Jealousie Truth is a great many instances both of this way of trying by Water and of that by Fire are afforded by the Histories of the Danes Saxons Germans Franks Spaniards in a word of the whole Christian World An quia cunctarum concordia semina rerum Sunt duo discordes Ignis Vnda dei Junxerunt elementa Patres was it saith the Poet 'Cause the two diff'ring Gods Alwayes at ods That of Water that of Fire Which yet in harmony conspire The seeds of all things fitly joyn'd Therefore our Fathers have these two combin'd Or was it because that the Etymologie of the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hashamaim that is Heaven for the Heavens themselves were the feigned Gods of the Gentiles some are pleased with the deriving it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esh i. e. Fire and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maim i. e. Water Let some more knowing Janus tell you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For my part I shall not this game pursue Why should I lose my time and labour too The superstitions and fopperies the rites and usages the lustrations and purifyings the Prayers and Litanies and the solemn preparations in consecrating and conjuring the Water c. you have in Will. Lambard in his Explications of Law terms and in Matthew Parker Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in his Antiquities of the Brittish Church Both of them together with that other of single Combat or Duel for that also was reckoned among the Ordeals were judged by the Church of Rome to be impious customs and it is long since that they have been laid aside and not put in practice among the common ordinary wayes of peoples purging and clearing themselves Well now let me come back to my own Country again and return to Northampton CHAP. XVII Other Laws Of entertaining of strangers An Uncuth a Gust a Hogenhine what of him who confesseth the Murder c. Of Frank pledge Of an Heir under age Of a Widows Dowry Of taking the Kings fealty Of setting a time to do homage Of the Justices duty Of their demolishing of Castles Of Felons to be put into the Sheriffs hands Of those who have departed the Realm 68. LEt it be lawful for no man neither in Borough nor in Village or place of entertainment to have or keep in his house beyond one night any stranger whom he will not hold to right that is answer for his good behaviour unless the person entertain'd shall have a reasonable Essoin or excuse which the Master or Host of the house is to shew to his neighbours and when the Guest departs let him depart in presence of the neighbours and in the day time Hither belongs that of Bracton He may be said to be of ones family who shall have lodged with another for the space of three nights in that the first night he may be called Uncuth i. e. Unknown a Stranger but the second night Gust i. e. a Guest or Lodger the third night Hogenhine I read Hawan man i. e. in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Familiaris one of the family 69. If any one shall be seised for Murder or for Theft or Robbery or Forgery and be knowing thereof i. e. shall confess it or for any other Felony which he shall have done before the Provost the Master or Bailiff of the Hundred or Borough and before lawful men he cannot deny it afterwards before the Justices And if the same person without Seisin with Seisin in this place is the same as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we commonly say in our Language taken with the manner shall recognize or acknowledge any thing of this nature before them this also in like manner he shall not be able to deny before the Justices 70. If any one shall dye holding in Frank