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A96648	Natures secrets. Or, The admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors. Particularly describing, the temperatures and qualities of the four elements, the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars: the efficient and finall causes of comets, earthquakes, deluges, epidemicall diseases, and prodigies of precedent times; registred by the students of nature. Their conjecturall presages of the weather, from the planets mutuall aspects, and sublunary bodies: with the proportions and observations on the weather-glass, with philosophicall paraphrases rendred explicitely, usefull at sea and land. / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford, Gent.	Willsford, Thomas.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1658 (1658)	Wing W2875; Thomason E1775_2; ESTC R204119	105,190	225

by the perfidious Jews condemned by Pontius Pilate then Presedent of Judea under Tiberius Caesar and crucified at whose passion the World did tremble with an Earthquake and the greatest that ever was or as it is thought ever shall be untill His coming again to judge the quick and the dead but some say this was miraculous and not universal these are the words of Didymus Mei Christi tempore non privatus aliquis terrae motus sed tota terra conquassut● centro convulsa fuit In the year of grace 1117. there was in Lombardy and Earth-quake which continued 40. days in which time it overthrew many buildings but the greatest wonder was it removed one Town from its seat and set it in another place a good distance from the former situation with many of the houses standing this story you may read in Floriacensis these are evident demonstrations of an Omnipotent power Job cap. 9. ver 5. Qui transtulit montes nescierunt hi quos subvertis in furore suo In the year of grace 1509. the City of Constantinople was shaken with an Earth-quake in whose ruines there was overwhelmed 13000 Men Women and Chridren In the year 1531 the City of Lixborn trembled with an Earth-quake which ruined 1500. dwelling houses Fromondus lib. 4. Meteo does affirm how that in the year 1570. Ferraria was miserably shaken with an Earthquake which had continued in Italy the space of two years as some Authors do write and in the year following being 1571 the Turks presuming of their strength and the divisions of Europe by reason of the Sects and Schisms raised a mighty Army intending to invade Europe both by Sea and Land for which design a fleet was rigged And for the prevention of this general calamiy it pleased God to unite all the Christian Princes as against the common enemy who provided another and put to Sea and upon the 6. day of October the Christians gave the Turks battail which Sea fight continued that day and the next and then the Antichristians fled and many of them did run their Gallies a ground whereby to save their lives The Christians in this Sea-fight sunck and took 230 Gallies and slew 30,000 Mahumetans and multitudes were taken prisoners who with the prizes and spoils were divided amongst the contibutors according to their adventures In this fight 12000 Christians were redeemed from the Turkish slavery The Christian Princes lost in this fight 8 gallies and 8000 Souldiers This was called the famous Battail of Lepauto In the year 1601. there was a general Earthquake through Europe which made it all to tremble but not the people nor yet so much as moved them to repentance for their transgressions against Heaven In the year of the Worlds Redemption 1638. March the 27. S. N. between 3 and 4 in the afternoon the Kingdome of Naples was violently shaken with an Earth-quake which subverted houses and Castles the City of Necosia standing by the Sea side was made an Island and five miles divided from the Continent the Earth finking Nature brought in the waters to fill the lower grounds and cover her entrails there perished in this Earth-quake of men women children so neer as could be gathered the number of 40,000 this was a forerunner of implacable tumults and commotions of the people besides the bloudy Tragedies acted there betwixt the Kings of Spain and France Many prodigies I have here omitted as partly fearing to be prolix some again I have found but not their sad events and others I have let passe as from doubtful Authors as the Earthquake and Tempest at the taking of Constantinople by Mahumet the great from Constantine the last Christian Emperour of Greece in storming this City there happned a direful Tempest of Thunder and Lightning and an Earth-quake that killed 3000 Men Women and Children and ruined 800 houses but Authors do not well agree in this nor yet of the time When it was taken one saith Anno Domini 1452 May the 27. which was Whitsunday Eve Knolls writes 1453 May the 29. which was the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday that year But all agrees the City was quite depopulated putting all to the Sword but what were reserved for Mahumet's pleasure and those led away into a miserable captivity the Tyrant intending this for his Antichristian seat called in the Jews to inhabit it Here you may see Heavens just revenge against a stubborn people perversly maintaining that diabolical Heresy against the Sacred and ever blessed Trinity at which time Feast the Empire had a fatal period and the Grecians delivered into the hands of the most barbarous enemy These fatal Meteors are great motives to humble Man to make him repent his iniquities and soberly remember the most dreadful day of Judgement of which these prodigies are forerunning fignes according to Isaia cap. 24. ver 1. Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram nudabit eam affliget faciem ejus disperget habitatores ejus Plagues and Epidemical Diseases EArth-quakes are often forerunners of Plague and Famine Heavens direful revenge and just runishments proceeding from excesse or defect and presag'd sometimes from subterranean vapours restrained in the Earth and by rarifaction being grown over great to be contained they do make violent irruptions and so by infecting the Air in which we breath they do breed pestiferous diseases but these exhalations are generally held most infectious to beasts For their heads being prone towards the Earth and neer it they do draw in with their breath those crude exhalations into their bodies much more then Man who stands erect but beasts being genepally infected with the viciated Air and their bloud contaminated the eating of their flesh breeds contagious Deseases in Man and in such times the greedy Grasier sends those to the slaughter which he thinks to be infected fearing they should die in his hands and keeps the soundest still for store Of these general calamities I could instance many but fearing lest I should weary you with reading as I am with writing I will briefly relate these Before the Nativity of Jesus Christ the Worlds Redeemer 18● there happned a Plague in Africa that swept away 30000 Romane Souldiers and of the Natives 1080,000 which depopulated not onely many Towns and Cities but some whole Provinces In the year of Christ 171. Antoninus Emperour of Rome it pleased God to visit the World with a Plague which made whole Countrys like a Charnel house This general Pestilence began at Babylon but spread its infection over a great part of Europe In the year of Grace 254. there happned an Epidemical disease that raged violently and continued in several Countries the space of 15 years all which time the Church of God was persecuted by the Pagan and Tyrannical Emperours possesed with infernal spirits in Rome at these times it rained bloud where this Plague continued three years while the living in the City were not able to bury the dead From the Sacred Virgin 's

the matter be extracted from the Earth it causeth sterility by consuming the Humidum radicale all this it does presage and more the iminent scourge of God as the observations of Historiographers and Poets do abundantly testifie and thus writeth Manil. a heathen Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus aether Et nunquam Coelo spectatum impune Cometem And although such prodigies do usually proceed from natural causes yet God who is Omnipotent did know from all eternity the actions of the Worlds inhabitants and their rebellious proceedings against His Sacred Majesty arming themselves in vain with fortifications against just Heaven and combining together with the associations of evil Spirits in League and Covenant with them when the Immense Creator if he pleases can make not onely the Elements to destroy mankind but the very Atomes or the most contemptible things that ever were made for mans use and those to execute his commands as witnesse the Egyptian plagues where Nature produced those stupendious effects and little despicable creatures almost destroyed a mighty Kingdome Yet these had forerunning signes with mercy to admonish Pharaoh and draw his people to repentance And thus speaks Esdrae 2. cap. 9. Et dedisti signa atque portenta in Pharaone in universis servis ejus in omni populo terrae illius The State of Rome at the death of Julius Cesar was menaced with a dreadful Blazing Star presaging the effusion of much blood which quickly after did ensue for these Meteors do beget choler and from thence fury rage and madnesse the Parents of commotions ushring in Sword Plague or Famine Of this writes Virg. lib. 1. Geor. Non alias Coelo ceciderunt plura sereno Fulgura nec dir● toties arsere Cometae The effects of Comets or fiery impressions in the Air are not universally seen to all Countries nor yet oftentimes to all places within those regions nor are their influencies obnoxious to all men where they be visible yet motives unto every particular man to repent Although there hath been no calamity yet in the World so general but God out of his Mercy hath preserved many and in acknowledging of his goodnesse thus it is recorded in the Sacred Records Joshuae Cap. 24. v. 17. Fecitque videntibus nobis signa ingentia custodivi nos in omni via per quam ambulavimus Comets do declare the greatnesse of the Creator and are as admonitions from Him who like a Father and a merciful Judge infinite in his Love as in his Justice giving us these signs as warnings like an indulgent Parent who shews us the rod before the Sentence be pronounced the continuance of their direful effects are as the rest in dispute but by some observed thus That for so many natural days as any Blazing Star or fiery Meteor shall continue so long will their sad effects endure in succeeding years answering the number of those days this is but a meer conjectural opinion derived rather from the annotations of doubtful Experience then grounded upon any humane reason But whether this be true or that these dreadful and stupendious Meteors be the cause of these woful ensuing events I dare not subscribe my weak opinion but this I will confidently affirm that they are evident Demonstrations of an Omnipotent Diety and motives to make the proudest Creature strike Sail to amaze the wisest and terrifie the most valiant Eccles 3.14 Omnia opera sua fecerit Deus ut timeatur The un usual tumults or disorder of the Elements presages the wrath of God connexed with His Mercy by his stupendious works to draw us unto Him if not for Love yet for fear of punishment For if the Elements of Fire and Air do rage whither shall we run to save our selves upon the Seas we shall suffer wrack by the storm or perish in the tumultuous waves if the Earth does prove unstable where shall we set our feet houses nor caves cannot defend us when the bases of Rocks and Mountains shake and the whole Globe of Earth shall tremble whither shall we fly who can secure us Here I find comfort and hopes of safety with St. Augustine In te Domine speravi non confundar in aeternum And Psal 121. ver 2. Auxilium meum â Domino qui fecit coelum terram Blazing Stars though unusualy forerunners of sorrow yet oftentimes commixt with joy of which there be many examples one is recorded at the death of Nero the Emperour a Tyrant a Parricide a Murderer of Christians and a professed enemy to Mankind and at last contrary to the perpetual establish'd Laws of Nature kill'd himself A little before his death there appeared a fiery Comet whose event in his fall was happy This homicide raised the first persecution in the Primitive Church and put to death St. Peter and St. Paul Apostles as you may read in St. Chrysostom and in Lactantius l. 4. c. 21. de vera Sapientia God hath given us Signs in the Heavens both of His wrath and mercy of which I have shewn you here some precedents and do intend to manifest it with a few more examples but conclude the Introduction here with this The Rain bow which we often see is from a natural cause as the Comets fiery impressions and all Meteors are suppos'd to be yet the proclamations of the Creator and their significations oftentimes beyond the knowledge or reach of humane reason the Rainbow given to Noah was a Sign of Peace Gen. cap. 9. ver 13. Arcum nieum ponam in nubibus coeli erit Signum foederis inter me inter terram THE FOURTH PART Shewing The opinions of some Men concerning Blazing Stars with a compendious Historical observation of their events with divers other prodigies epitomiz'd ALl Comets or fiery impressions are generally observed swiftest at the first and their influences of greatest force having then most matter and peradventure more violent and obnoxious when newly inflam'd But all this is oppugned by Scaliger who conceives no Comet for to consist of a fiery nature but a crude and undigested vapour illuminated by the Planets or fixed Stars as are those Meteors commonly called falling Stars which are like gellies not enflam'd but transparent and apt to receive light and these Meteors being illuminated by the Celestial orbs do represent as in a mirrour their figures or apparent forms of the Stars or Sun which apparitions are common in the Northern Climates although held portentions to us And such as do continue long where the material cause is great and the rays of the Sun wanting force to dissipate them As for an instance in the year of Grace 1596. the Hollanders sayling by Nova Zembla to search for a N. E. passage into China and the East Indies there did appear for 17 continued days the perfect effigies of the Sun after the 17. of October when as the true Sun was depressed the Horizon of that place being in the latitude of 77 degrees The like you may read in

being a Mother 316. Maxentius in the Eastern Countries raised a terrible Persecution putting all Christians to death that he could find and with severall kinds of tortures to force them from their allegiance and service to the Son of God This persecution constrained many to fly their Countries and divers for fear of Maxentius and his unhumane competitours obscured themselves in Caves of beasts in the Desarts where from savage Creatures they found more mercy then from Man But this Christ reveng'd persecuting the Tyrants with Plague and Famine which so consumed many Countrys that they were destitute almost of Men Women or Children until the Emperour had nothing but beasts to rule over and not many of them neither From the Birth of our Lord and Saviour 1346. there happned in that year three great conjunctions of the higher Planets viz. ♄ ♃ and ♂ and these three all in ☌ in ♒ this year produced one of the most universal and destructive Plagues that ever was inflicted upon wretched mortals this pestiferous infection took the original in the East Indies and past over the world no people safe either by Land or Sea the Air being generally contaminated as with a deadly poyson many that year went to Sea hoping by that means to avoid it but in vain for there they were surprised with their whole families this Epidemical disease was so dreadful that it banished all humanity and perverted man from being a sociable creature Friends forsaking their Friends and Alies Parents unnaturally forsook their Children and ungrateful Children their Parents This general disease continued 9. years in several Countreys and was as mortiferous and raging as ever was Plague in any Countrey Some writers affirm how that this Plague began from fiery Exhalations risen out of the Earth whose malignancy infected the Air and from those distempers begot raging Feavers in Men untill the sword made incision of their inflamed veins a remedy worse then the disease Others say this Plague took its sad Exordium from fire that fell from Heaven the most authentick Chronologers record it thus Lamech a City of Arabia now known by the name of Mecha the Metropolitan of the Antichristian Mahumetans superstition in this City it rained Bloud and Snakes the space of three days and nights together the Serpents soon after perished in such multitudes that the stench of their corrupted bodies contaminated the Air in all the adjacent Regions this stupendious storm raz'd Mahumets Temple to the ground and sever'd into many pieces the Sepulchre of that infernal Impostor The next year the Earth denyed her accustomed fruits introducing a Famine more mortiferous then the former these direful calamities not moving man to repentance O incredulous and obdurate hearts but contemning those dreadful judgements were pleased with their enemies fall until they fell themselves Piety expulsed fled into exile while envy and confusion in Arms put the world in an uproar the sword licensed in the hands of Furies making a rude decimation of those who had espaced both Plague and Famine These three last deplorable afflictions were the most universal and destructive that the world ever felt or the Inhabitants groaned under since the general Deluge when in 40. days all living souls were destroyed from off the face of the Earth but what the Ark was fraighted withal whereby to replant the world again and those for many months were wafted over the angry waves that lav'd the Earth polluted with enormous crimes and transgressions of unbelieving licentious men only under the Law of Nature to which brute Beasts subject themselves This Ark represented the figure of Baptism 1 Pet. 3.20 21. And moreover St. Hierome calls it a Type of the Catholike Church the raging storms and tumultuous billows in opposition to one another resemble Herefies and Persecutions the Ark out-lived the fury of the Deluge and so shall the other to the worlds consummation all perished that were not in the first so I need say no more of the last Historiographers conjecture that more Men Women and Children perished in one of these Epidemical diseases then in the universal Flood the World being conceived more populous then in the days of Noah and the continuance much longer many will not believe these being but humane traditions and 't is not strange since they want faith in divine Records whereof some object that if the Deluge were 15. cubits above the highest Hills the superficies of the Waters on which the Ark floated was swell'd up to the middle Region of the Air in which no living creature can subsist besides they make queries from whence should these magazins of Waters be extracted the Fountains of the Earth they conceive not sufficient the Clouds are but thin dilated vapours the Waters mentioned above the Firmament could not descend so low in 100. years without a miracle To their objections I might answer 't was the providence of God which preserved them to whom nothing is impossible being sole Creator and Moderator of the Universe but since an Omnipotent and divine power condescended to make Mans preservation by a humane means humane reasons may be expected for which I refer the over curious unto the learned Expositors of Genesis yet not to leave them in a Sea at last something I will say not positively affirmed but conjecturally intimated only As for their Suppositions the whole Element of Air is held naturally hot and moist and the middle Region cold but by accident which frigid and restringent cause being chang'd the quality must cease and so the Air in general might convert to vapours innumerable and the waters in the Earth peradventure were dilated and so made more fluxible whose Fountains were opened for 40. continued days the Catarracts descending from their overburthned clouds which time to humane apprehension might encrease the inundation to submerge the terrestrial Globe 15. Cubits above the highest hills whereof 't is probable the Armenian mountains were most exalted above the Earths center and as the clouds were exonerated by the waters that fell 't is like this inferiour Air did ascend and assume the middle Regions Sphere and so made apt for all living creatures to breath in The Deluge ebbing Mount Ararat appear'd on whose firm foundation the Ark rested the Waters by an orderly summons retreated some to replenish the Earths entrails and exhausted veins others confin'd to channels of spacious Rivers ample Lakes and Oceans almost unterminated a great part by the influence of Stars might be sublim'd and reconverted to vapours thence rarifying to Air ascend their proper Orbs again the grosser parts sink to their seats of gravity and so will I this being above my Sphere yet pleased in recollecting my preservation past the hope of one in future transports my mind beyond a Deluge the landing Eternity A Compendium of Meteors and Signs observed in former Ages as at this present most prodigious in Nature stupendious to Mortals and portentious in their dismal events THe Symptomes of Natures distempers I have