Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	behold_v	express_v	great_a	27	3	2.1460	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19332	A warning for worldlings, or, A comfort to the godly, and a terror to the wicked set forth dialogue wise, betweene a scholler and a trauailer / by Ieremie Corderoy, student in Oxford.	Corderoy, Jeremy, b. 1562 or 3.	1608 (1608)	STC 5757; ESTC S123358	95,926	364

the onlie appointment of God is limited his course bounds the which he cannot passe but as rebuked by the shores his appointed limites retourneth back to his chanels againe Then the great commoditie thereof appeareth in the varietiy and vnspeakeable number of fishes in it which as a common treasurie for all sorts of people rich and poore yealdeth fishes in varietie vnspeakeable in number infinite frée without money in so plentifull manner that notwithstanding all nations continually night and day take out of it vnknown store of fish yet there remaine such plentie that there is no signe that any haue béen taken out of it Lastly consider the manifold varietie of foules beastes plantes and hearbes wherewith God hath enriched the earth all for the vse of man obserue the prouident order with God hath appointed in causing springes of water without which man cannot liue to issue out of high mountaines in the land and channels to conueie them into the Sea otherwise would they drowne the whole land and herein obserue a maruailous wonder that notwithstanding all the riuers in the world doe empt themselus into the Sea and haue done so euer since the world beganne yet at this time is the Sea no fuller than at the beginning to speake of all particulars which God hath created here on erth not only for the vse of man but also for his delight were to vndertake that which no tongue can expresse or penne describe therefore I leaue them to your particular consideration Now if you should behold a goodlye house curiously builded adorned and garnished with all things which may delight the beholder with fit and conuenient roomes for all necessarie vses with conduits of water into euery roome where it might néede all things as well composed as wit and art can deuise could you imagine that such a house were composed by chāce reason would constraine you to confesse that the composer and builder thereof was indued with great skill art and wisedome how much more should you when you behold the great fabrike of the world confesse the great power and wisedome of God were you not giuen ouer into a reprobate sēco Now to create all these things and place them in so wonderfull order doth farre passe all humain power wisedome but cōtinually to preserue and continue al these particulars perpetually in their motions vertues and order is a matter of greater wonder all the Monarks of the world cannot create one haire Painters may paint the world with all thinges in it but they cannot giue them life and motions they can instill no vertue into thē in this prouidēt preseruation of God in preseruing al things in their proper and seueral natures cōsider first his general prouidence ouer al things in the world thē a more especiall care of man aboue all things in the earth and lastlie his especiall care ouer his elect Tra. Nay stay first let me except against that which you haue spoke of the creation of all things for the good as you say of men you haue ranged through heauē and earth and can find nothing amisse I pray you tell mee is it for the good of man that oftentimes thunders lightnings and tempests breake forth whereby not only houses are ouerturned but also men and cattell are destroyed oftentimes the sun skorcheth the earth and frosts so extreāly nip the fruits of the earth that by such vnseasonable weather men and beasts are hunger-baned Stu. Before I answere this point let me see your strange fashioned Rapier Tra. O sir I perceiue you seek digressions Stu. Noe truely I meane to answere your obiection Tra. Then loe sir I maruaile not that you admire it so much I think you haue not seen the like this Rapier I bought at Bilbo in Spaine his maker was the skilfullest man in his art in all Spaine by the opinion of his countrymen marke the curious inamelling of him feele his lightnesse you may run him double against the wall and it will neuer be the worse this Rapier I am perswaded hath not his fellowe in all England Stu. Indéed it is curiouslye wrought and it should séeme the woorkeman thereof had great skill but hee had not the skill to kéepe it from rusting for mée thinketh it beginneth to rust in one place Tra. Is that the fault of the Cutler I hope you are not so ignorant but that you know all yron is subiect to rust no art be it neuer so exquisite can preuent this you knowe it is a generall position in Aristotle that all mixt bodyes are subiect to corruption because they are composed of the elements consisting of contrary qualities Stu. You say right the rust of this Sword commeth by the fault of the yron and not of the maker of this Rapier I maruaile that you can so easily sée whence these faultes corruptions and euils proceed and yet accuse God as the Authour of them you frée the Cutler from the fault that this rust beginneth to eate this Rapier you ascribe the fault to the nature of the mettal wherof it is made and herein you say truely whē it went out of his hand it had not this fault and I maruaile that you cānot aswell frée God from being the Author of those euils which before you recited for God made all things as frée from faults as this Cutler this Rapier these euils procéed frō the things created and not frō the creator Tra. Yea but if God be omnipotent and good then had it been a part of his omnipotencie and goodnesse so to haue made thinges that there should haue been no imperfection in them as for example if God had made the mettall of this Rapier so perfect that it should neuer haue gathered rust and that beeing once a Rapier it should neuer breake nor any way decay his omnipotency and goodnesse would haue been greater than now it is what builder of a house will not make it as durable as hee can what builder of a Citie doth not make it as stronge as hee can that it might not bee subiect to any decaye How much more should God exceed in prouidencie and goodnesse to men and make all his creatures of such perfection that they should no way haue any imperfection in them if he be of that omnipotency as you wold make him Student Sir you must vnderstande that particular thinges are made for the generall good of the vniuersall and parts are made for the good of the whole As for example Man is not made for the vse of his hands eyes legges or any of his members but his hands are made for the vse of his whole body his eyes to direct the whole body the legges to beare the whole body no mēber is made for the vse of it selfe only Now if the imperfection of particulars in that they are subiect to corruption and decay make more for the good of the whole then if there were no imperfetion in thē then it becommeth the maker of the whole