Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	catholic_a	church_n	faith_n	6,104	5	5.7683	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42948	The man in the moone, or, A discourse of a voyage thither by F.G., B. of H. ; to which is added Nuncius inanimatus, written in Latin by the same author, and now Englished by a person of worth.	Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.	1657 (1657)	Wing G970; ESTC R35701	46,142	175

setting up But fearing I would spend it as lightly as I got it they did never leave importuning me till I must needs marry the daughter of a Portugais a Merchant of Lisbon a man of great wealth and dealings called John Figueres Therein I satisfied their desire and putting ●ot onely my marriage money but also a good part of mine own Stock into the hands of my Father in Law or such as he wished me unto I lived in good sort even like a Gentleman with great content for divers years At last it fell out that some disagreement happened between me and one Pedro Delgades a Gentleman of my kin the causes whereof are needless to be related but so farr this dissention grew between us as when no mediation of friends could appease the s●me into the field we went together alone with our Rapiers where my chance was to kill him being a man of great strength and tall stature But what I wan●ed of him in strength I supplyed with courage and my nimbleness more than countervailed his stature This fact being committed in Carmona I fled with all the speed I could to Lisbone thinking to lurk with some friend of my Father in laws till the matter might be compounded and a course taken for a sentence of Acquittall by consent of the prosecutors This matter fell out in the Year 1596. even at that time that a certain great Count of ours came home from the West Indies in triumphant manner boasting and sending out his declarations in print of a great victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines Whereas the truth is he got of the English nothing at all in that Voyage but blowes and a great loss Would to God that lying and Vanit●e had been all the faults he had his convetousness was like to by my utter undoing although since it hath proved a means of eternizing my name for ever with all Posterity I verily hope and to the unspeakable good of all mortall men that in succeeding ages the World shall have if at the leastwise it may please God that I do return safe home a●●●● into my Countrie to give perfect instructions how those admirable devices and past all credit of possibility which I have light upon may be imparted unto publique use You shall then see men to flie from place to place in the ayre you shall be able without moving or travelling of any creature to send messages in an instant many Miles off and receive answer again imediately you shall be able to declare your minde presently unto your friend being in some private and remote place of a populous Citie with a number of such like things but that which far surpasseth all the rest you shall have notice of a new World of many most rare and incredible secrets of Nature that all the Philosophers of former ages could never so much as dream off But I must be adv●sed how I be over liberall in publishing these wonderfull mysteryes till the Sages of our State have considered how farr the use of these things may stand with the Policy and good government of our Countrey as also with the Fathers of the Church how the publication of them may not prove prejudiciall to the affairs of the Catholique Faith and Religion which I am taught by those wonders I have seen above any mortall man that hath lived in many ages past with all my best endeavours to advance without all respect of temporall good and so I hope I shall But to go forward with my narration so it was that the bragging Captain above named made shew of great discontentment for the death of the said Delgades who was indeed some kin unto him Howbeit he would have been intreated so that I would have given him no less than 1000. Ducats for his share to have put up his Pipes and surceased all suit in his Kinsmans behalfe I had by this time besides a wife two sonns whom I liked not to beggar by satisfying the desire of this covetous br●ggart and the rest and therefore constrained of necessity to take another course I put my self in a good Carick that went for the East Indies taking with me the worth of 2000. Ducats to traffique withall being yet able to leave so much more for the estate of my wife and children whatsoever might become of me and the goods I carried with me In the Indies I prospered exceeding well bestowing my stock in Jewells namely for the most part in Diamonds Emeraulds and great Pearl of which I had such peniworths as my stock being safely returned into Spain so I heard it was must needs yield ten for one But my self upon my way homeward soone after we had doubled the East of Buena Speranza fell grievously sick for many dayes making account by the same sickness to end my life as undoubtedly I had done had we no even then as we did recovered th● same blessed Isle of S. Hellen the only paradice I think that the Earth yieldeth of the healthfullness of the Aire there the fruitfullness of the soile and the abundance of all manner of things necessary for sustaining the life of man what should I speak seeing there is scant a boy in all Spain that hath not heard of the same I cannot but wonder that our King in his wisdome hath not thought fit to plant a Colony and to fortifie in it being a place so necessary for refreshing of all ●●● vellers out of the Indies so as it ●●● hardly possible to make a Voyage thence without touching there It is situate in the Altitude of 16. degrees to the South and is about 3. leagues in compass having no firm land or continent within 300. leagues nay not so much as an Island within 100. leagues of the same so that it may seeme a miracle of Nature that out of so huge and tempestuous an Ocean such a little piece of ground should arise and discover it self● Upon ●he South side there is a very good harbo●ough and near unto the same divers edifices built by the Portingals to entertain passengers amongst the which there is a pretty Chappell handsomly beautifyed with a Tower having a fair Bell in the same Near unto this housing there is a pretty Brook of excellent fresh water divers faire walkes made b● hand and set along upon both sides with fruit-Trees especially Oranges Limmons Pomgranats Almonds and the like which bear Fruit all the year long as do also the Fig-Trees Vines Pear-Trees whereof there are divers sorts Palmitos Cocos Olives Plumms also I have seen there such as we call Damaxaelas but few as for Apples I dare say there are none at all of garden Hearbs there is good store as of Parsly Cole-worts Rosemary Mellons Gourds Lettice and the like Corn likewise growing of it self incredible plenty as Wheate Pease Barley and almost all kind of Pulse but chiefly it aboundeth with Cattle and Fowle as Goates Swine Sheepe and Horses Partridges wild