Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	moon_n	star_n	sun_n	12,021	5	6.6320	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18109	A treatise of vse and custome	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1638 (1638)	STC 4753; ESTC S107685	65,850	196

who in one day shift themselves often and are not the men that they were neither in regard of their mind nor happily of their fashions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith excellently Saint Nazianzene to this purpose Orat. de Spir. Sancto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We are not mixt creatures onely but also contrarie both to others and to our owne selves not continuing truely and intirely the same not so much as one day much lesse our whole lives but both in regard of our bodies and in regard of our soules or minds perpetually flowing and perpetually changing From this mutabilitie and inconstancie of mans will wee may first deduce Varietie of fashions and customes But secondly differences of places and times cause difference of fashions and customes and this of necessitie For it is not possible for many reasons that men that live under different clymates should all live after one fashion nor that the inhabitants of one place the state of things altering often as it doth should alwaies live after one sort Hence are in different places and Kingdomes at all times and in the same places and Kingdomes by certaine revolutions of times sometimes longer sometimes shorter different fashions different customes different lawes Old fables tell us of one Epimenides who after a continuall sleepe of fiftie yeares awaked with amazement finding a new world every where as of men so of fashions since hee had seene it last Let this long sleepe goe as well it may for a fabulous thing the effects of it I am sure his amazement I meane might have beene credible enough though the sleepe had beene shorter by many yeares In some Countries for all Countries are not equally light and phantasticke and they are happy Countries that are lest if men should but put on those clothes that they left of but foure or five yeares agoe and use those fashions that then were in use they would seeme even unto themselves ridiculous and unto many little lesse then monstrous The consideration of this varietie affords as unto the Naturalists matter of speculation how even herein nature delights in varietie so unto the Divine matter of indignation to see the vanitie of mortall men who for the most part spend themselves wholly their wits and their lives upon things so transitorie and spend little or no time at all upon the onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as both Philosophers and the Scriptures are wont to speake God that is and his service and the Knowledge of his Truth which are the onely things that are permanent and have realitie of existence in this World and therefore commended unto us by Christ as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all our many cares and businesses in this World the one only thing that is profitable necessary But to forbeare that which I find already done by divers Divines Naturalists and others fully and sufficiently I shall here onely observe the power and providence of Almightie God who as hee can out of darkenesse bring forth light so can turne these wretched effects in themselves of mans frailtie and corruption to be the meanes in part of his happinesse I say therefore that what in the Heavens the Sunne and the Moone divers Starres and Planets are for the naturall division of times to divide the day from the night to be for signes and for seasons and for dayes and for yeares Gen. i. 14 without which division of times and seasons there would bee no living in this World so varietie of fashions and customes serve unto man for the Civill or politicke distinction of the severall times and ages of the World without which there would be little certaine knowledge and little or no truth amongst men By varietie of customes I here understand also varietie of languages and dialects and words all which depend of custome as much if not more then any other thing of the World besides as elsewhere shall be shewed as conducing to the knowledge of the Truth in this World no lesse then varietie of manners Now to make this good that I have said I must first of all suppose which I thinke no man will deny that by bookes especially wee come to the knowledge of Truth Of truth in generall by bookes especially in some peculiar objects of Truth as in matters of Historie wee have them onely to trust to And in matter of bookes the Authors of the bookes and the times when the Authors lived is mainely considerable For accordingly doe wee give credite especially in point of Historie and truth of religion to the Bookes themselves more or lesse for the most part In many things this alone to know the Author of the booke is enough to decide many controversies But what if the Title deceive us and some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some idle braine of our age represent it selfe unto us upon the stage under the gray haires of authenticke antiquitie Have there not beene such impostors at all times who have attempted would I could say they have attempted it onely to abuse the World with supposititious Titles and Names What profession so sacred or so vulgar that hath not suffered in all ages by this kind of men Divines Lawyers Phisicians Philosophers Historians have in all ages complained of them and in those ages when by reason of the ignorance of the times men have not beene able to discover them what errors and absurdities both in matter of knowledge and practise both in the Church and in the Commonwealth have ensued thereupon to those that are learned is not unknowne I am sure and I may not so far digresse at this time to satisfie the ignorant Of all noble Impostors in this kind I will instance but in one Annius Viterbiensis a Monke by profession who lived some two hundred yeares agoe having attained to more then ordinary knowledge both of the tongues and Histories applyed himselfe by his knowledge and proficiencie not to helpe but to cheat the World To that end hee counterfeited divers ancient Historians of best note and greatest antiquitie as Berosus Manetho Catonis Origines and the like which had not beene heard of in many ages and wrote Comments uppon them himselfe being both Text and Comment that the World might have the lesse occasion to suspect his fraud and passed so current for a long time that even to this day though followed and discryed by divers learned men of all nations and professions many can scarce perswade themselves that so many fine Titles and shewes should be but a piece of juggling Now what shamefull errors and mistakes in point of History both Ecclesiasticall and Civill they that have trusted unto him have beene led into by this jugglor any man may imagine and many have written of it Now the ordinary and surest way generally to find out a counterfeit Author in this kind is by his style and by an accurate examination of those particular fashions and customes that he doth either obiter which can hardly bee avoyded in