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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42215	The [French-man] and the Spaniard, or, [The two great lights] of the world, displayed in lively [characters] representing the antipathy of their humours and different dispositions [with an impartiall survey] of the customes of both those nations / by R.G., Gent.; Oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; Gentilis, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing G210; ESTC R7504	61,948	291

to the order and perfection of nature is farthest from the first The fifth is composed of the last element which is the earth and this is the first linke which begins to turne towards it beginning and it is the vegetative nature which intresseth it selfe with the sensitive and that with the rationall which uniting it selfe immediately with God shuts up the chaine and circle of this succession And because the last knot or linke of this chaine was to unite it selfe with God and betwixt God and the creature there could be no proportion of equality therefore the eternall wisdome created the soule which being immortall and incorporeall should have some resemblance of God and so uniting it selfe perfectly with him the chaine of the fabricke of this world should so close up and shut And in case that some curious body not content with the generall union of the seven rings or linkes which have bin set downe should desire more particularly to finde out the point of this trueth he may satisfie himselfe with the internall searching out of each nature and linke of the said chaine And beginning from the first he shall finde in it an infinite abysse of perfections and attributes which are Wisedome Omnipotency Justice Goodnesse Glory Mercy and innumerable more which are all with an unspeakeable incomprehensibility gathered in and united unto the indivisible latchet of the most simple divine nature Concerning the second linke which is the Angelicall nature he may very well apprehend not onely by the light of faith but also by the strength of his owne understanding the marveilous order perfect concord wherewith those Angelicall spirits are united together the Cherubins joyning themselves to the Seraphins the Seraphins to th' Archangels they to the Angels Thrones Powers Dominions the other kinds of the twelve quires of Angels with such great uniformity and concord as may be presumed in that heavenly commonwealth Then if we shall cast our eyes on the contemplation of the third linke which is the nature of the heavens we shall plainly see if Ptolomie deceive us not that the primum mobile is united to the Christalline heaven this to the eight spheare the eighth spheare to Saturne who joyneth himselfe to Jove Jove to Mars Mars uniteth himselfe to Sol Sol adheres to Venus Venus to Mercury Mercury to Luna from whose hollow superficies takes it beginning the fourth linke of th' Elementall nature joyning it selfe unto the annexed fire it unto the ayre whom the element of water followeth untill it comes to unite it selfe unto the earth which is the universall center of al heavie and ponderous things From the earth beginnes the fifth linke to goe upwards againe and this is the Vegetative Nature which like unto the rest keepes it dependance and succession united unto all her species and kindes beginning from the biggest trees and of greatest fruit even to the lowest humblest and poorest grasse of the field In this vegetative nature consists the basis and foundation of the sensitive which is utterly unable to put in practice th' operations of moving and feeling without it This likewise is not different from the first and hath it kindes and degrees of succession and dependency the noblest and perfectest of them which is the Lyon uniting himselfe to the poorest worme of the earth This sensitive nature linkes it selfe at last with the rationall which being by meanes of the soule spirituall exceeds in perfection the corporeall vegetative and nutritive remaining at last united with God So that the aforesaid union is not onely to be found in this whole universall frame but also in every one of its parts It being impossible that there should be any one not linked and united to the rest by the analogie of some attribute which is indifferently proper to them all The little microcosmos of man may be an example of this her being an epitome and cipher of the whole fabricke of the world in whom all natures are united he being participant of each vertue and perfection for he hath his body of the heavens elements and stones his vegetating or growing from the plants his feeling from beasts his discourse from Angels and the image and likenesse of God And passing to that which is proper unto this nature we shall finde that all his actions have a dependency one from the other the understanding being not able to understand any thing unlesse it unite it selfe to the sences nor these produce any sensations or feelings unlesse they joyn themselves by meanes of the species and image which presents it selfe unto them with the object And according to the Philosophers doctrines the object unites it selfe to the externall sence the externall transmits it to the common the common represents it to the phantasie from whence comes the names of phantasmaes With these imaginations doth the active intellect joyne it selfe illustrating them and with taking away all their materialities makes them of sensible intelligible The active intellect unites it selfe with possibility which cannot operate unlesse the active disposeth it to it by representing the species unto it disrobed of all matter and singularity From thence the intellect or understanding being disposed produceth its first operation which is the simple apprehension and this coupleth it selfe with the second which is affirmation or negation from whence groweth the third which is discourse The discourse goeth united with the will which could not produce any act of love or hatred or election if discourse had not gone before it being impossible to will or refuse that which hath not before bin knowne So that all things which are inclosed within this frame of the world are nothing but union accord and amity not onely through the dependency which every thing hath from one sole beginning but also through the loving correspondency which they hold amongst themselves And if any one shall aske me the reason of this marvailous linke and intrinsecall love wherwith so many and so different natures are linked together I will not answer them with that which is ordinarily said that God had so ordained But I wil say that the supreame artificer having determined in the creation of the world to make a perfect and durable compound variety and union were very requisite therein it being impossible to make any thing beautifull which was not composed of varieties or durable if it were in and against it selfe divided To this end he appointed all creatures at the least the corporeall ones a naturall and proper meane which hindereth all that which is contrary to the union and preservation of this world And this is that prima materia argued upon by all but as I beleeve knowne by none This materia which some say is pura potentia others an entitative act others that it is neither quid nor quantum nor quale is a beginning in the which stand united all corporeall or bodily natures It is not ingendred nor it doth not corrupt for so the union and pacificall