Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	eat_v	root_n	8,670	5	10.4075	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77250	Fair warning to take heed of popery, or, A short and true history of the Jesuits fiery practices and powder-plots, to destroy kings, ruin kingdoms, and lay cities waste by an Anti-Papist.	Anti-Papist.; Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4225; ESTC R42725	95,277	138

he tells they are a Warlike people though they eat nothing but roots and such like substance and drink only water yet in the next words says the greatest Lords among them feed upon flesh baked between the Horse and the Saddle wherein rideth the Horseman But perhaps this Gentleman by some Hocus-pocus or rather by his Chymical Art in which I perceive he hath a Tincture can extract flesh out of roots be like ti 's easie for roots And why may not this be done by the same Art by which the bloud and filth of the dead bodies on which they trod squirted in their faces when at the same time they felt the poor limbs of these creatures being calcin'd by the vehement heat of the fire as namely their armes legs to break under their feet like glass p. 24.25 But while I take the Traveller thus napping he 'l alledge Aliquando dormitat Homerus And he might not observe these and the like Dormitats when they stole into his little Treatise lying dormant so long in the corner of his Desk and so let it pass For the morals of his Treatise he seems to dwindle whiles under asmooth pretention of ascribing the Conflagration of Lond. to divine Providence he endeavours to destroy moral evidence and yet we can in reason expect no other in a matter of Fact it being not capable of a Mathematical Demonstration as I know our little Treatiser will easily grant To weaken the Gentlemans confidence that 't was only by an unhappy chance as he expresseth himself he may see in the last Paragraphs above 1 propria confessio or persons condemning themselves 2. Evidentia facti palpable in the casting of Fire-balls into houses Cellars c. observ'd by eye-witnesses if Sincera would have men believe their own eyes and think there is any truth in his Dutch Merchants relation concerning the Burning of Moscow 3 Testes idonei credible witnesses under no impeachment of prevarication in thier informing against such sa they found not only in suspicious circumstances but in the Fact of Firing And must we suppose a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or general agreement of informants in their joynt attestations was only a conspiracy against the Truth or a malicious design to impeach the Papists and their Leaders the Jesuits against all the principles of nature maxims of civil Society Reason and Religion that in such a time of losses persons of sobriety reputation must from a principle of Fiery-revenge add one to all the rest I mean the shipwrack of Faith and a good conscience Is the mans name indeed Rege sincera or may he not mean by these letters and syllables Igne Secarer as if the City should say in the language of some upbraiding Jesuit I would be torn in pieces by the Fire rather then change my Religion We have heard what the Jesuits threatned to London and what they did before to other Cities It may be the Gentleman under whose umbra he writes knows this conjecture about the name to be but a meer fancy be it so I am content only hope this working of fancy is venial taking occasion from the strangeness of the name Yet I would fain know of our Historico-moral-observator whoever he be how all or any of his eight causes of this Incendie may be of force to invalidate such evidence as was given in by the Informants against his Hypothesis for did the carelesness of the Baker suggested against his own solemn protestation which cannot be disprov'd in not raking up his fire make any of these witnesses as careless in speaking of the truth or did the narrowness of the streets the weakness of the buildings the quantity and quality of Combustibles c. at all conduce and lend their helping hand to the Banishing of Astraea justice and honesty five miles from this once glorious City might I not say comparatively this City of Righteousness I shall only demand one thing more of him and I have done with him and mine Apendicular Apologetick he hath put me to the charge of Do not men ordinarily believe this kind of evidence to be good in matters of Fact And if others do why should not I thou man of Morals tell me why FINIS