Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	element_n	fire_n	13,062	5	7.1789	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16845	A treatise of melancholie Containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the physicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as haue thereto adioyned an afflicted conscience. ... By T. Bright doctor of physicke.	Bright, Timothie, 1550-1615.	1586 (1586)	STC 3747; ESTC S106464	155,522	312

by reason and thē apply them to the particular solutiō of that which hath bene obiected First the simplicitie of the nature of the soule more simple then the heauens argueth vnitie of facultie seing all simple thinges by nature reiect mixture and composition and whatsoeuer tendeth to plurality For whatsoeuer is more is diuerse diuersity simple thinges embrace not neither doth diuersity of nature admit so nigh copulation as to settle themselues in the selfe same simple vniforme subiect which if they refuse to do what shall we iudge then of will and appetite repugnant to reason and will sometime at variance with animall appetite how can these so contrary faculties concurre in one single nature That simple thinges receiue neither cōtrarietie nor diuersity the consideration of the whole sort of dissentanie and disagreeing things wil make the matter manifest All of that kinde are either such as we call diuerse or opposite diuerse whose disagreement is most gentle haue notwithstāding such strife that they meete not in the selfe same subiect at any time as beauty and wisedome riches and honestie which haue their diuerse roomes in the same generall nature and do not one farther encounter the other The other haue one single subiect if they be of accidentary natures or qualities and there one expelleth the other enduring no society as vertue vice liberality couetousnes and prodigality black blew yellow and greene light darknes c. And these are at perpetuall warre admit no truice day no not for a minute so because they will needes possesse the same place expel ech other and are in Logick tearmed Opposites Now thē whatsoeuer the soule simple indiuiduall without mixture or compositiongiueth entertaynement of disagreeing natures must of necessity fall into one of these that is to the opposite or diuerse The opposite require their owne times and will not accord in the same subiect at once except you will accompt relatiues of a milder disposition more sociable then their fellowes which notwithstanding by the diuerse respect are as farre disioyned as the rest Now then if we hold that the minde hath diuerss faculties then of necessitie must there be in the same minde diuersity of subiect which if ther be then is the simplicity thereof turned into multiplicity of substance and composition of nature a disposition contrarie both to the manner of the beginning of the soule void of mixture and that immortall perpetuitie wherewith it is induced Peraduenture it may seeme straūge and repugnant to the nature of thinges diuerse to disseuer them of subiect seing softnes and whitenes white and heate and such like being diuerse enter into the same subiect as in snoe the one and the other in molton leade or hote yron which doubt because it serueth for proofe of this vnity of faculty I will lay open and make playne vnto you Of all things subiect to corruption the elementes are most simple which being diuersly mixed yeeld the variety we see of all compoūd thinges vnder heauen these haue ech of them but one quality fire hote ayer moist earth dry and water cold if they should haue twayne then must they needes either enter communicate or two quallities concurre with the first matter entercommunication is there none for then should they not be the elements of other things seing they should be elemēts one of ech other two qualities make superfluities in the mixed which nature eschueth in all her worke then superfluitie would be here in that there should in the compound be found a drynes of fire and the like of earth a coldnes of the earth and the like of water and so in the heat of fire ayre which were more then neede seing such quallities are sufficiently imparted to the compound by one Now if the elementes which after a sort receiue composition of a grosse matter and forme do admit no diuerse quality much lesse doth the minde of a more pure beginning and simple substance reiect the same But how then commeth it to passe that a cole is black and hard chalk harde and white in the same parte throughout if diuersities settle no nigher together yea very well notwithstanding For compounded things though they make one nature yet are they not by reason of composition in all partes alike neither are the elements so confused in the mixture but in all partes they may be found distinct by their qualities simple or compound which qualities although they be commonly attributed to the whole yet properly and cheefely belong they to the elementes whereof the whole cōsisteth so that in one nature diuersity of subiect is to be considered Example shall make it plaine The heate of pepper riseth of the fiery element the drynes and solidity of substaunce which it hath of the earthie In Rhubarb the purging vertue riseth of the subtle substance the strengthening facultie of the grosse and earthy Chalk is white of the aiery moisture which it is endued with and hath his hardnes of a earthie drynes The rose her rednes of a certaine temper of single moistnes concocted with heat and her smell of an aierie moistnes mixed with an earthy drynes attenuated with heate and vertue of the fiery element So we see diuerse thinges which seeme to fall into one vniuersall nature or subiect the matter being more narrowly vined betake them to their owne subiect proper and peculiar vnto themselues and only by communicating their substaunce with the whole endue it also with like qualities But you will say if the elements haue but one qualitye which first was affirmed to the mainteynance of single faculty then is not the element of fire dry nor of water moist nor of aire warme True neither are they of their owne natures such but that which is in fire beside heate is only an absence of moistnes in the earth accompted cold is an absence only of heate in the rest likewise and not an ingenerate quallity more then heauen may be said to be moist because it is not dry or hote because it is not cold which indifferently refuseth all such kinde of quallity Now an absence of one quallity is not straight waye an inferring of the other but only in priuants wherof the one is a meere absence and of that contrary only which naturally should be present as blindnes is not rightly said of a stone though it see not at any time In the elemētary qualities it is not so but they are all quallities importing a presence because they adioyned to the first matter of thinges are the only formes of elementes now absence formeth nothing and priuants are alwayes contrary to forme and nature It appeareth then that elements which are lesse simple then the soules of men are endued but with one faculty and that diuerse things require a diuerse peculiar seat which being taken vp in such natures as will abide mixture seeme as though they were of the whole mixed when as but after a sort only they are so