Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	england_n	king_n	queen_n	3,439	5	6.9536	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65095	A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1686 (1686)	Wing V598; ESTC R21854	60,337	192

who cannot prove their Nobility by three Descents at least The Sixth Order is of the Bath brought first into England 1399 by Henry the Fourth they are Created at the Coronation of Kings and Queens and at the Installation of the Princes of Wales Their Duty is to Defend true Religion Widdows Maids Orphans and to maintain the Kings Rights Obelisci or Pyramids which may be called long broches or Spires were great and huge stones in Aegypt made by Masons from the bottom smaller and smaller of a large length they were consecrated to the Sun because they were long much like to the beams of the Sun The First of them was instituted by Mitres who reigned in Heliopolis being commanded by avision to make it and so it was recouded and written on the same King Bochis set up four that were every one of them 48 Cubits long Ramesis in whose time Troy was destroyed reared up one Forty cubits in length and another of 819 Foot and every side was four cubits broad Ptolomeus Philadelphus made one at Alexandria of four cubits And Pheron set up two in the Temple of the Sun of a hundred cubits length a piece and four cubits broad on this occasion it fortuned that this King for a great crime that he had commited was stricken blind and continued so ten years and after by Revelation at the City Bucis it was told him that he should receive his sight if he washed his Eyes with the water of a Woman that was never defiled with any strange Man but was alwayes content with her Husband First he tryed his own Wife and afterwards many others till at last he received his sight and Married her by whose Urine he was healed and was recovered and all the other with his first Wife he caused to be burnt Afterwards for a remembrance he made his Oblation with the two aforesaid Pyramids in the Temple of the Sun Augustus Caesar brought two of these Broches or Spires to Rome and set one in the great Tiltyard or Lists called Circus The other he set up in the field called Campus Martius Ointments Pliny is of opinion that they were used long before the Battel of Troy for Jacob sent to his Son Joseph in Aegypt Ointments and Moses that was three hundred and fifty years before the Siege of Troy maketh mention of Ointments concerning the Sanctification of the Tabernacle and the Priests of the Old Testament Pliny and Solinus report that Alexander when he conquered the Army of Darius found amongst other Jewels spoiles and things of value a Casket of Ointments that he highly esteemed of But Herodotus affirms that they were frequently used long before Darius time For Cambyses Son to Cyrus sent Ambassadors to Aethiopus King of the Macrobians with great presents whereof a Box of Ointments was one It is not certain when they first were used in Rome but I find in Pliny that the five hundred sixty fifth year of the City Antiochus being Vanquished P. Licinus Crassus and Julius Cesar then Censors commanded that no Forraign or Strange confection of Ointments should be sold in the City The Original of the Heathen Gods as the Scripture hath it Ephes 6. was When the Spirits of the air the Rulers of this World began to give Prophetical answers out of Images made to resemble mortal men and by their wicked Subtlety did pretend themselves sometimes to be of the Number of good Spirits sometimes Coelestial Gods sometimes the Souls of Valiant Lords they brought Men into such error and perplexity that in a short space they did alienate their hearts from the Religion and Reverence of the true God and so deluded them as to make them to repare to them for help and to inquire their Oracles and Answers which of purpose had doubtful understandings least their Ignorance should be perceived By these deceitful means they were by divers Nations Deified and sundry people after divers manners chose them for Gods and with great reverence Worshiped them These spirits of the Air that gave such doubtful answers to them that euquired any question of them were at the comming of our Saviour Christ all destroyed For when he was carried into Aegypt which was a Countrey full of Superstition and Idolatry all the Idols of that Nation were overthrown and Fell to the ground at his comming And in the time of Adrian the Emperour both their wicked Sacrifices were abolished and also the Oracles of Appollo at Delphos of Jupiter Hammon in Aegypt with the like vanities were subverted The Opinions of the Philosophers concerning the birth of Man Were divers Diodorus recordeth that they spake of two sundry manners of birth and first stock of Mankind for they which contend that the World was not generate and without any danger of Corruption say also that Man hath been in a certain Perpetuity without Beginning Of this Opinion were Pythagoras Xenocrates and Aristotle with other Peripateticks affirming that all things in the Eternal World which have been or shall hereafte come to pass are by Generation endless and without Beginning and have only a circuit or course of Generations wherein both the Birth and natural resolution of things may be perceived Others suppose this World had both an Original cause of Being and shall also end by Putrefaction they hold Opinion that Man had a time of his Generation P PHYSICK some referr the invention of it to Appollo because the moderate heat of the Sun seems to be the repeller of all Sickness Others attribute the finding of it to the Aegyptians but the enlarging of it to Aesculapius who besides other more rare Experiments found out the way of drawing of Teeth In Rome Archagathus of Peloponesus was the first Physitian In Aegypt and Babylon they used no Physitians but brought the Sick Persons into the Streets Publick places that so the Passengers might tell them what manner of Medicine or Dyet was good for them neither was it Lawful for any Man to pass by till that he had spoke with the Patient Afterwards the Aegyptians did so distribute the Art of Physick that every Disease had a distinct Physition to look after it one for the Head another for the Eyes others for other parts according as they excelled Of Medicines made by Herbs we have already in another place in part discoursed Chiron the Son of Saturn as he was reported to have been so knowing in the virtue of Herbs may be Accounted to have been one of the first inventers of Salves for Wounds and Sores he found out the Herb called Centaurie wherewith he cured the Wound that he had received from Hercules's Arrows falling on his Feet as he was handling of his Quiver Mercury found out the use of Moly and Achilles the virtue of Yarrow Medicines made with Honey were from Sol the Son of Oceanus several Herbs also very necessary for Medicines were discerned from those cures Beasts out of an instinct of Nature made on themselves Dittany by the Hare which being Wounded