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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	civil_a	law_n	matter_n	2,103	5	5.8530	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53491	A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing O516; Thomason E1900_2	78,114	296

this Course so contrary to what She professes which is to render Reason more playn That She brings like Eve a Totter'd Apron to cover it Though Chalk-Stones may appear of too weak and soft a Temper to perfect a Fabrick yet they become usefull and necessary to mark and delineate the First Grounds for the Greatest and most exact Designes So Idea's the Embryo's of Knowledge are not seldom found in Heads apter for Conception then Production It being a labour proper and peculiar to Jupiter alone to be at once delivered of so exact a Minerva so strongly arm'd as may be proof against Detraction Emendation Yet rambling Wits ought in my poor Judgement to be indulged because by Crumbling their Conjectures on all Subjects they have in every Age further inriched the World then Solider understandings are known to have done Which may appear upon Tryall fitter for Nourses then Mothers whom in a short Time they teach their Children to forget and Call that by their own Names never cost them more paynes then to Educate and loath suteably to the Apprehensions of Men. A Truth so manifest That if all the Arts not to mention the Altars were forced to refund what hath been primitively borrowed from the Poets They would if not be Naked want many of their richest Ornaments And if we call to Account who first did embellish our Language we shall not finde them amongst the Greatest Clarks but such as were more Conversant with Men then Books For though the First like Flegmatick Cattle hanging their Noses still over their Tables may appear more plomp and voluminous yet such as with the Eagle Survay the World cannot but be more Active and Exemplary Nature holds out proof against all Constraint For if violated in one sense it is still for a Gratification of some other Passion or Affection at the present more prevalent Coneys Ferrets c. do not seldom devoure their young but 't is alwayes for want of Water or Meat Nor are Women out of Feare and Shame of what Law hath rather forged then found in the Records of Nature lesse cruel to their Children when squeezed between the Bark of Reproach and the dreadfull Tree of Destruction they make them away For though Nature hath placed Mother and Child in a relation next in blood She hath removed them many Degrees off in that of Affection ever most prevalent in reference to Themselves Especially when all hope determines as it doth here To conclude Selfe-Murther as we call it though reckoned amongst the highest results of Valour being still to avoyd a present or put to silence all expectation of Future Misery esteemed worse then Death may no more then the rest be contrary to the award of this universall Mistresse whose highest intention is Well-being no more then it is against Reason Of two Evills to make choyce of the Least No Element is found lyable to a more generall Diminution then it is subject to an universal Excesse Manifest in the Sea that receives not any Augmentation from the greatest Confluence of Land-Floods The Reason is That her Commings-in are Mathematically adjousted to her Layings-out All possible Abatements in one place being reemburs'd in another by a continuall Bartering and Exchange From whence through a Naturall Chimistry so much is Commuted or Calcin'd as onely makes good the Principall Stock without incroachment upon Superfluity or Want Such as seek further after their own Originall or are in Quest of a remoter Cause then God prosecure a no lesse impertinent Study and from whence no more certain Solution can be expected then Conjecture is able to return their Curiosity who endeavour to find out what Mutations may succeed after Death hath determined their Speculation shall cease It being equally impossible to discover our first Production as for a Child without Direction to know the Midwife that brought him into the World or the precise part of it whereon he was born Wherefore out of the power of any thing but Omnisciency to extend a Pedigree beyond the Line of ordinary Generation That related by Moses pointing more to Obedience and an exact Observation of the Sabbath not till long after the Creation indulged through any reveal'd Practice then the fomenting of Understanding not improperly alleadged for the Discoverer if not the Occasion of Infelicity Man remaining in a more entire Tranquillity under a Calm Ignorance then such a turbulent and indeterminable Knowledge Which like the Aprons it first produced is patched up with so many Leaves of Contrary Operations Ends and Applications that under presence of a Covering for our Shame it doth daily reveal more Mischief and is by reason of a Subtilty learn'd from the Serpent able to Conceal greater Malice Sin and Wickednesse The Originall of Infelicity then Naked-mankind had ever been Capable of without it So as no thanks remaines due to it but what may result from the Abbreviation of Life It being an undenyable Truth That the production of every Child is if not an Advancer of the Monarchy of Reason in its own Person the doubted Subject of others Deceit and Oppression Humane Wisdom being of little larger Extent then what it is able to purchase and find room for through an Incroachment and Advantage made and taken of others Folly and Defects And from this the Whole World comes to be so universally Inhabited Every Family seeking rest by Evasion It being as Naturall for Strife to abound where Want is as for Strength to prevail Wherefore Sin must needs be an Effect if not of Eating of Excesse Through which man out of Love for Himself came to Robbe others And to obviate the Differences could not but arise from Inequality in Strength Appetites and Desires Government was instituted Towards whose Favour all Lawes both Civill and Divine are either taught or do naturally incline Yet if any in Curiosity desire to make scrutiny into their own Originall I cannot but with Solomon send them to the Insects for their further Satisfaction and perswade them to be more studious after the Causes of such Animalls as the Sun doth yearly Create or regenerate And to enquire whether matter may not be so prepared and adapted by us as it shall be Capable of Animation through a propensity to that regular and even proportion of Weight and Measure naturally required by the First Agents of Life Nor can any Cause of Discouragement be well apprehended in the Prosecution of Life's Originall through a more curious Inspection into the Production of Insects which once perfectly survey'd and found out cannot but open a Window towards the prospect of Our own beginning Since he that hath discovered the Spring by which a small Watch is Inlived not to be denyed the neater workmanship cannot in reason be farre to seek what causeth and continues the Operations of a Church-Clock Their Motions being one and the same no lesse then their Engines though bound up in a smaller Volume and supported by more Leggs and Feet Nor