Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	river_n	run_v	sea_n	5,329	5	6.8400	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21119	Sermons very fruitfull, godly, and learned, preached and sette foorth by Maister Roger Edgeworth, doctoure of diuinitie, canon of the cathedrall churches of Sarisburie, Welles and Bristow, residentiary in the cathedrall churche of Welles, and chauncellour of the same churche: with a repertorie or table, directinge to many notable matters expressed in the same sermons	Edgeworth, Roger, d. 1560.	1557 (1557)	STC 7482; ESTC S111773	357,864	678

is called Propontis Then yet more Northwarde it runneth togither into a narower streict then any of the two that I haue spoken of this streict is called Thratius Bosphorus The countrey of Thracia where Bizantium nowe called Constantinople is cheife citie is on the West parte of it and the sayde Constantinople lieth nigh to the same streict This streicte is so narowe that in caulme wether men maye heare byrdes singe frome the one point to the other and mennes voyces also from Europe into Asia and contrarywyse out of Asia into Europe When the sea passeth that streict then it spreadeth abroade into a marueilous great sea called Pontus Euxinus And yet agayne gathereth it self together into as narow a streicte as this that I spake of last and it is called Cymmerius bosphorus and beyonde him it spreadeth abroad againe into a huge meare or standing water called Meotis into whiche runneth the fierce and swifte riuer of Tanais comminge oute of the mountaines of the North and is drowned in the sayd Meotis Here haue you hearde more shortely then the matter requireth the course and wayes of the middle earth sea or leuaunt whiche you maye more sensiblye perceiue yf you wyll conferre my sayinges to a table or mappe of the worlde In the sayd Leuaunt be Ilāndes as Pomp. Mela reconeth about C.xl. of whiche some be the moost excellentes of the worlde speciallye in the forth-right course betwixt Calis Malis Cilicia there is Corsica where the Romaines haue their vyne cors There is Sardinia Sicilia and Creta whiche we call Candy there is the most fertyle and fruitfull Ilande of Cyprus And towarde the mouth of the retourne Northwarde called Hellespontus that I spoke of is the well knowen Ile of the Rhodes latelye inhabited with Chrysten men nowe by the rage of the Turke peruerted to myserable subiection and bondage Nowe for the texte you shall vnderstande that these countreys that Saynt Peter speaketh of lieth in greate Asia whiche is the thyrde parte of the worlde deuyded frome Affrike by the ryuer of Nylus that runneth thoroughe Egipte downe vnto the sayde myddle earth Sea or leuaunt deuyded from Europe by the seas runnynge Northwarde into the standynge water called Meotis and by the swyfte ryuer of Tanais runnynge oute of the mountaynes in the North parte of the worlde and descendinge into the sayde Meotis And the sayde Asia conteyneth in quantitie more grounde then both Affricke and Europe doeth And the sayde countreys that Sainte Peter preached in and to whiche he wrote his lettre or Epistle lyeth not so in ordre as Saynte Peter rehearseth them but Saynte Peter rehearseth them oute of theyr ordre of purpose I thinke meanynge that vicinitie to Ierusalem or prioritie in receauinge the fayth doeth not derogate or hindre the other that were later conuerted but that fyrste and laste all is one in Chryste As Sainte Paule in a lyke speaketh Galath iii. Non est Iudeus neq Graecus non est seruus neque liber non est masculus neque femina omnes enim vos vnum estis in CHRISTO IESV Furtheste of frome Ierusalem and mooste Northwarde lyeth Pontus on the Easte side of that broade sea called Pontus Euxinus that I spoke of euen nowe Pomponius Mela capite de summa Asiae descriptione Circa pontum aliquot populi alio alioque fine omnes vno nomine pontici dicuntur Hieronimus de nominibus Hebraicis Pontus regio multarum gentium iuxta mare ponticum quod Asiam Europamque disterminat It conteyneth dyuers countreys and of diuers languages There is Colchis where Iason hadde the Golden fleice as Poetes faine Mithridates that noble kinge that kepte open warre with the Romaynes by the space of sixe and fortye yeares was kinge there in Ponto fyrste and afterwarde of Armenia Capadotia and of the mooste parte of all maygne and greate Asia And I thincke verelye it is twoo thousande myle aboute by lande frome Ierusalem where Sayncte Peter begonne to preache In whiche all Bysshoppes and all they that haue taken vppon them cure of soules or the office of preachinge haue example to take paines and labours in ministringe the worde of God to theyr people and not to lie at reste pleasures in a corner at their manours Next to this is Capadocia where S. George the martyr was borne as appeareth by his legend this Capadocia hath on his North coaste the sayde sea Pontus Euxinus and it runneth a long on the same sea and hath on his east side both Armenyes the lesse and the more and is deuided from the greater Armenye by the ryuer of Euphrates and extendeth southwarde as farre as Cilicia that I spoke of and hath on the Weste side Bithinia Galacia Paphlagonia Then by the sea coaste Bithinia lyeth next and it lyeth against Constantinoble sometyme called Bizancium in so muche that the East point of the lande making the streict called Thracius Bosphorus is in Bithinia and parte of Bithinia lyeth on the sea that is on the South part of that streat called Propontis parte of it on the North parte of that streict on pontus Euxinus And in the sayd Bithinia is the citie called Nicea where the gratious Emperor Constantine with CCC and .xviii. bishops kept the moost autenticall and blessed counsell called concilium Nicenum in whiche Arrius heresies were condempned and manye blessed statutes made Then commeth Galacia sometime called Gallogrecia it lieth withoute the streicte called Hellespontus southward super mare Egeum and in this countrey S. Paule had laboured as wel as S. Peter and had instruct them very perfitlye in Christes fayth Notwithstandinge by pseudapostles and false preachers they were broughte into the Iewes ceremonies whiche when S. Paule knewe he writte to them a very earnest epistle to call them home agayne you haue it amongest his other epistles called the Epistle to the Galathies or Galathians Then commeth Asia the lesse which is but a part of maigne Asia that as I tolde you is the thyrd part and greatest parte of the worlde and in this countrey standeth the noble citie of Ephesus in which sometyme was the famous temple of Diana that is spoken of Act. xix And to the people of this citie S. Paule wrote his epistle intitled the epistle to the Ephesies or Ephesians The country is exceadinge welthy and fruiteful and the people excedingely geuen to carnall pleasures therfore S. Paule called them beastes i. Cor. xv Si ad bestias pugnaui Ephesi quid mihi prodest c. Here I haue breifely declared the site and standing of these countreys that S. Peter speaketh of in his salutation and beginning of his epistle you must not thinke that all these countreys be immediat and next to gether one to another but there be some greate countreys betwixte them whiche is not to my purpose nowe to speake of but conferringe one of these to another of them they lye by the Geographye in that order as I haue tolde you To all