Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	fire_n	set_v	tongue_n	3,258	5	9.1898	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73765	Good newes for Christendome Sent to a Venetian in Ligorne, from a merchant in Alexandria. Discouering a wonderfull and strange apparition, visibly seene for many dayes togither in Arabia, ouer the place, where the supposed tombe of Mahomet (the Turkish prophet) is inclosed: by which the learned Arabians prognosticate the reducing & calling of the great Turke to Christianitie. With many other notable accidents: but the most remarkable is the miraculous rayning of bloud about Rome. Done out of the Italian.	Cortano, Ludovico.; Butter, Nathaniel, d. 1664, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 5796.3; ESTC S115623	17,505	48

the Turke haue conquered Greece and some parts of Hungarie yet he admitteth the toleration of any religion so that they contribute his customes and acknowledge his superioritie he is contented to leaue them to their owne establishments so that the Greeke Church doe publikely maintaine their ceremonies and the Roman Catholicks haue by themselues a Church by the name of Francks euen in Constantinople or if you will in the Vines of Pera or Galata chuse you whether yea when the couetous Patriarcke of Constantinople would haue farmed his place to the Iewes the Viceer did not permit the same but by way of punishment confinde him to Zio from whence with a beliall spirit he in a monstrous contumacie went to Mosko and about the yeare 1588. resigned that title to the Archbishop there for 100000. peeces of gold invested him with the absolute Primacie of the Patriarck of the Greek Church but see the iust iudgment of God ere he had passed quite through Moldauia certaine Ianisaries set vpon him and not onely tooke away his gold but bereaued him of his life 2. Secondly you must consider that among the Turkes in taking of prisoners they haue no distinction of persons but in their ransome accounting all slaues and confining them to the Gallies with an ignominious robe shauing them and marking them on some parts of their flesh 3. Thirdly that this famous towne and harbour and Iland of Rhodes was remarkable for two things 1. First for a Colossus of brasse which boasted of great antiquitie and was indeed a man in absolute proportion stradling ouer the hauen betweene whose legs a ship with full sailes top and top gallant might enter so that when the Turke surprised this place he laded 1500 Camels with the rubbish of this one monument whereby most of his great Ordinance were cast which be now in the Tapinare the office of his Artillerie and whereas you shall read that S. Paul writ to the Colossians it was no other then the inhabitants of Rhodes 2. Secondly that after the Knights Templars were dissolued there arose a new order to supply that place called S. Iohns of Ierusalem who when the Turks conquered Siria and Palestina were of so great reuenew in Europe that for many yeares they both expulsed the Saracens and held wars with these new Mahumetanes till at last the high decider of controuersies submitted them to alteration and both their Monasterie and their Palace were pulled in peeces by those barbarous hands that neither spared Ierusalem nor the wonderment of the world the Temple of Diana in Ephesus falsified by some stories vpon Herostratus who to perpetuate to himselfe a name of villanie set it on fire 4. Last of all that howeuer the Alchoran position of not disputing of their religion sealed vp as it were the lauishnes of mens tongues from going at large yet will they heare strangers in ciuill opposition and euen the strictest arguments that may conculcate and beat downe their new inuentions but this seldome happens because either they learning none but the Persian or Syriack language few men vnderstanding theirs can dispute with them But now to the Archbishop After the Friers had ouerpassed the ceremonies of gratification amplified the discourse of there trauell with the circumstances of the vision the Archbishop replied your newes hath no way got any hand of my admiration For it hath beene long since frequent amongst vs and vpon another report of the troubles in Europe especially that it rained a whole day bloud into Tiber and that three sunns were seene in full radiance ouer the citie of Rome many Greeke preests resorted vnto me to Rhodes with an impressed cheerefulnesse as if our Church were already re-established in the first forme of the primitiue patterne nor passed it thus amongst our selues but the Bashaw sent for me in all hast and not only demanded my opinion of these things but made meanes to certaine doctors of their law to enter into further disputation with me I told them plainely that the originall of Mahomet was a meere deuise which they might easily perceiue by the assotiation of Sergius one of our moncks For if he had beene a Prophet of God he would questionlesse neuer haue intermingled any deuises of man then againe for his prefixed time of returning it was a thing neuer heard nor red of that any one returned from the dead nor shall euer rise till the last dissolution and therefore how much are you beholding to that God which you doe now worship that hath from heauen discouered vnto you in a vision what you must trust vnto in these latter times if you be not stupified with obstinacy remain more stony hearted then euer the Iewes were that crucified the Sauiour of the world now are glad tidings brought vnto you For the woman which appeared is questionlesse the Church of God compassed about with a Sunne representing the sonne of righteousnesse euen Christ the Sauiour of mankind without whom no flesh can come to happinesse the booke in her hand is questionlesse the scriptures and the opening of it prefigureth the searching and contemplation of the secrets but whereas so great an army stil fled as she opened the booke how can any thing be personated by it but that both Persians Moores and your selues will be ashamed and abashed to conceiue in what a sottish ignorance and senceless blindnesse you haue beene so many yeares detained therefore embrace the truth and returne to Christianity which will bring you into the direct path of saluation and in the end the glorious kingdome of heauen Why replied one of the Doctors Iewish Doctors how can this be your prophet was but a man as ours was and for inuentions of men your religion exceeds and farre exceedes those fanaticall impositions as you terme them that euer Mahomet gaue vs. But among all as the Iewes haue often told you there be three or foure such strange things in your religion that it is impossible for an honest resolution to apprehend that God would be serued so foppishly and childishly First the erecting of Images did God cast away the Iewes as I haue heard cursed Ieroboams calues yea rent the kingdome from your great Salomon and all because he gaue way to the Idols of his wiues and will you hauē vs be so entangled againe as to heap vp vengeance for so foule an absurdidie on our owne heads Beleeue it it will neuer be and it is impossible 2. Secondly your prophanation of the Sabboth Doe we or the Iewes buy and sell as you doe labour and trauell eat and gurmandize gamboll and play dance and sing and commit such abuses on that day as if all the weeke were tied into one bundell and then set open to florish her expences 3. Thirdly your dispensations with sinne and selling of indulgences for mony O God! is God a receiuer of money or what conceit haue you to thinke that he that is all loue and mercy will be

corrupted with reward or brought about with mercenary bribes 4. Last of all your sumptuous liues and excesse of vanity wherein your Cardinals goe beyond greater princes and shame indeede their profession with vnsanctified superfluitie I name no more because I know these be vn answerable and not capable of the distinction of personall falts With that I replied although these might be all well excused with circumstantiall infirmities and apologicall inferences that the maine points of saluations are held amongst them yet you know we haue opposed Rome in these things and not only returned the pride of their supremacy vpon their heads but discouered their tirannous vsurpation of our rights For Christianity began in Antioche and the Greekes were the first receiuers of the truth long before the Latines therefore belieue it without further disputing vnless we had time to ouer look Ptolemeis library of 200000. bookes both Rome shall be disrobed Antichrist discouered the riuer of Tiber flow with bloud as this the rayning of bloud prefigureth and Mahometh himselfe proued an impostor so that both Iewes and Turks doe what you can and say what you list shall be taken into our fold and set downe in the accounts of Gods sheepe and the Christian flock of Christ When I had made an end of my speech I protest I cannot tell whether I left them to the extremity of rage or laughter For they were so farr from approouing my words that they cried out it was pitty such a fellow should liue so the Bashaw to shew himselfe a true maintainer of the Othoman glory committed me to prison where I remained vntill such time as their came a new enforcement against me for hiding out of the way certaine knights of Malta slaues and taken by their gallies in a florentine ship as supposed to ioyne with the pyrates that had proiected the surprising of Scanderon but the Bashaw willing to saue my life as much affecting these gray haires my former demeanor and that outward proportion I carry shipped me from Rhodes to Alex and hath confined me an exile to Aegipt with licence to liue in Cayro as I list Hence arose a new contention betweene the Friers and himselfe about the Popes supremacie the augmentation of the Clergies power from the donation of Princes and the suffrages of generall Councels but the Archbishop quickly cut them of and told them plainely that the Italian Bishop was but an vsurper and he made no doubt but the raining of bloud into Tyber prefigured the destruction of Rome the shining of the Sunns an hereafter manifestation of greater truth For fellowes saith he you know that our Iohn Patriarch of Constantinople beganne these tumors of ambition against whom your Bishop of Rome called the Great Gregorie opposed assuring him that any assumption of such an vniuersal title was antichristian but what followed the destruction of Phocas and Mauritius the Emperors of the East and the horrible combination of Bonifacius in the West which your Bishops can relate as for your Arrian faction what a wonder was shown in the world when our poore Athanasius for opposing 700. Bishops was condemned for an Heretick had not our blessed Emperor interdicted the sentence and sauing him by a vision sent for him to priuate conference wherein the spirit made him so great a workmaster that he confirmed the Emperor in his faith and made that Creed which is so famous for the conuersion of Europe as for your Images who knowes not that the Councells of Nice and Constance were contradictory about it and at last a sentence preuailed for their ouerthrow and so could I proceed to the ouerthrow of the rest but that I will haue no further wrangling therefore hast you into Italie and mark but the reuolution of times and what I by way of prediction haue spoken For on my soule both Iewes and Turks shall turne to Christianitie and Rome your babilonish Rome shall beset on fire to the terror of all the world that haue wished well to the great strumpet who hath made the Kings of the earth drunke with the cup of her abomination With this the company deuided themselues The Arch-Bishop prepared for Cayro the Friers and the rest for Florence and I setled awhile in Alexandria from whence hauing so conuenient a messenger I thought it my dutie to acquaint you with these occurrences wherein if I haue somewhat extended the limits of a letter I craue your pardon and hope you will conceiue that my good will ouercame discretion and so I commit my selfe to your care for my dispach and in all humilitie Bascio le honorate mani di V. S. Octob 12. 1619. Stilo nouo Osseruantissimo Ludouico Cortano ❧ The Translators Epilogue WHat I haue done you now both see read For it cannot be recalled nor do I meane to make any apology though it be but like a spiders cobweb fit for nothing but sweeping away least I proue like the courtier that leaped reasonable well vpon the suddaine taking him in his bootes but when he thought to put them of and make apparent his further dexterity and strength he came far short and thus you shall read of Protogenes pencell that hauing made an arteficiall dogge and comming to finish it with the muzsled haire about his chaps he still misliked it and wiped it away till at last casting his pencell from him in a rage he effected that by chance which all his art was defectiue in For application I haue now done a thing as we say ex improuiso not caring to what vse the reader puts it to so I haue my owne ends yet as I heare it will be likt whether I will or no and is meerely a tricke of blind fortune to out-face both good endeauours and true scholership For let me neuer be trusted if euer so hood-winckt a bayard aduentured before on so hard a stile and durst publish it as a worke either worthy the viewing or censuring The obstinate Papist will storme and the pedanticall humorist will sweare if not sweat the censorious traueller will smile the nouelist will buy it though it were a lye and he that liues by an Almanack will suppose there may be something in it for direction the yong man may affect it being himselfe not solid enough for a Critick and some old men may be yong enough to entertaine it The free-hearted Gentleman will say it was well done to affright idlenes with some endeuors and the man of grauitie and learning will conclude it a deuise to get money To get money what as this world goes In the name of Couetousnes who would care for money when euery mans dores are open to the hungry belly euery naked soule clothed euery empty purse filled nay a man cannot looke sadly but his friend will aske him what he ayleth and if want be the cause send him a gratuitie the next morning when our yong Ladies will leaue off their tiers painting and fethers to bestow it on poore Schollers and a man shall no sooner character a booke with a Moecenas but the Lord will send all ouer the towne to looke him out and not trouble him to waite vpon him when the money shall be spared that was wont to be spent vpon Barbers panders and whores and equally diuided amongst men of well-deseruing In a word when olde acquaintance will stay his Caroch in the streets to speake to his decayed frend and when he comes home to negotiate with him will send for him vp without excuses though he be in bed with his Lady Notwithstanding all this considering my disastrous improuidence and dogged humor to snarle at the basenes of men indeed I was glad it got money For if the worst fall I shall be able while it last to pay for my dinner and preuent the cutting my throat in expecting to be sent for else-where yet good Reader in way of ciuilitie I would it could get you somewhat too that is if you cannot beleeue it as truth yet to make that vse of it as if it were true and then shall you know there is but one way to happines and all the praedictions prophesies visions apparitions Comets invndations stormes tempests famine warre alteration and subuersion of Kingdomes with all the cabinet of of mysteries tend to this end that proemium and poena be the mastring curbs of the world that is that God hath a Magazin of iudgments to inflict on the obstinate sinner with punishments and a store-house of mercy to support the penitent soule with comfort FINIS