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fire_n	earth_n	element_n	world_n	2,435	4	4.7467	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03648	A concordancy of yeares Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes ... Newly composed and digested, by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles.	Hopton, Arthur, 1587 or 8-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13778; ESTC S104205	137,447	273

bodies as the earth and mettals or into diaphane and transparent bodies as aire and water Or these kind of bodies some haue being onely as Stones some life and being as Trées some sense life and being as Beasts and others vnderstanding sense life and being as Man which is most noble of all other and therefore the Philosophers haue called him Microcosmus a little World which doth respond vnto the greater for as the motion of the whole glove is caused by the voluntary motion of an intellectuall substance which some call Daemones or Intelligentiae so man is moued by his intellectiue soule because as Aristotle hath proued Euery thing that is moued is moued by the vertue of another And as this most wonderfull frame or Machina doth containe all things in it selfe because Extra coelum nihil est so man by knowledge is all and at all nothing natural is hid from him being not without motions affectations equall to that glorious heauenly Hierarchie And to end this respondency betwixt Microcosmus and Cosmus betwixt Man and the World in man are two motions intellectuall sensuall the one to good the other to bad so in the world are two locall motions rationall and irrationall the one into the West the other into the East for as the irrationall motion is contrary to the rationall so is the intellectuall to the sensuall Man thus resembling the heauens became a Christian taking the denomination thereof from Christ Iesus being the proper name and Christ the surname Iesus being the name of his God-head and diuinity and Christ the name of his office and dignity Iesus in Gréeke being called Sother in Latine Saluator in English both signifying a Sauiour and in conclusion note from S. Bernard 4 creations of man The first without man woman as Adam out of the earth The second of man without woman as Euah of Adams rib the third of man woman as we are the 4 of a virgin without man as Christ of Mary CHAP. II. The definition of the World THe world is Heauen and Earth all things therein contained as well simple as mixt and as Moses testifies was made by God The Latines call it Mundus à mouendo because it is in continuall motion it is called of the Gréekes Cosmus à pulchritudo because it is most faire and beautifull as well by reason of the Elements and such transparent bodies as by reason of the resplendency of the Sunne Moone and Starres for indeede what is more admirable to behold which caused Plato to say eyes were giuen to man to view the glory of heauen as may also appeare by Ouid. Os hominum sublime dedit coelumque videre For what is a more sure testimony of the wonderfull workes of God or what greater delight is there to them that truly vnderstand it then the beholding of the glory of the Sunne Moone and Starres in obseruing their motions vpon their Excentrickes and Concentricks in noting the diuersity of aspect and radiations with their retrogradations and directions their magnitudes and distances and such like As for the name of heauen it is called with the Latines Coelum quià coelatum est pictatum ornatum CHAP. III. Of the diuision of the World THe world is diuided into two parts or regions Elementary and Aethereall The Elementary part is subiect vnto daily alteration and doth containe the Fire Aire Water and Earth The Aethereall region doth containe in his concauity the Elementary region and this Aethereall region is called of some Quinta essentia the quint-essence or fist substance which is a body of it selfe differing from all Elements and things Elementall as well in matter as in forme and no lesse in nature and quality containing no contrariety and being without corruption such is heauen and the matter thereof but the Elements are farre of otherwise not simple but compounded of viscotions matter for a pure Element cannot be seene because that which is pure wanteth colour and that which wanteth colour is not visible and therefore the Elements intermingle themselues according to their propinquity so that an Element is that whereof any thing is compounded they are the first of compositions yet of themselues not compounded for they bee imagined simple bodies in respect of other bodies compound and mixt of these Elements euery part taketh name of the whole as euery part of water is water and euery part of fire is fire They be diuisible into parts of diuers formes and of the commixion of them is made and ingendred diuers things of sundry kinds as well things vegitatiue as sensitiue rationall or irrationall and euery of these Elements hath nourisheth therein liuing creatures as the Salamander in our fire which is but an imperfect element because it is mixt with viscotious and earthy matter the Camelion in the aire which there also liueth and Birds which there abide the fish in the water Moles and wormes in the earth and man and beast vpon the earth and you must know that euery body compounded of the foure Elements is elementary not that they be Elements formerly but vertually in mixt bodies CHAP. IIII. Of the Elementall part of the World IN the Elementall part of the world is contained the earth the water aire and fire the superficiall conuexity of euery one of these resting in the superficiall concauity of the next superiour Element and therefore the earth hangeth in the concauity of the water the water in the concauity of the aire and the aire in the concauity of the fire euen as you sée the scales of onions one inclosed in another Now for the earth it is a round body like vnto a ball darke and solid without any concauity hanging by the prouidence of God fixed in the middest of the world insomuch that if you were in any other part of the earth you should be no neerer vnto the heauens then you are in England which moued the Philosophers to say Stellae aequae distare à centro terrae siue in Oriente siue in Occidente c. And the Earth as you shall perceiue hereafter is but a point in respect of the Heauens and is by nature cold dry Next aboue the earth is the water the earth hanging in the concauity thereof they both indéed making but one round globe as may appeare by the eclypse of the Moone the seas being bounded and limited by the earth as may appeare by Psal 107 and Iob. 38. the water is of nature cold and moist in compassing the superficiall conuexity whereof is the aire and is diuided into thrée regions the inferiour superiour and meane the inferiour is warme by reason of the reflection of the Sunne beames reuerberated and beateu backe by the earth the superiour is hote by occasion of the proximity of the fire and there Comets and fiery Meteors are ingendred the meane is coldest as well by the remotenesse of the fiery region as also for that the reflection and reuerberation of

the sunne beames cannot extend so farre and here all watery meteors are created as snow and such like but the Element of aire of it selfe is warme and moist hanging in the concauity of the fire which is hote and dry so that each Element hath qualities of the other by participation as the aire doth participate with the fire in warmnesse with the water in moistnesse the earth with the water in coldnesse and with the fire in drinesse so that two elements be extreamely contrary as the fire warme and dry is contrary to the water cold and moist and the aire warme and most is contrary to the earth cold and dry so that there is in euery Element but one predominating quality called the qualitie passiue because they be contrary amongst themselues and cannot consist in euery Element as the fire exceedeth in heate the aire in moistnesse coldnesse in the water and drynesse in the earth and what other qualities they haue commeth by participation of the material vertue and natural commixtion of which Element all bodies perfect and vnperfect which are bodies mixt are ingendred For you must know that there is nothing in the world but is compounded hereof as stones take most of the nature of the earth mettals of the slimy nature of the water plants hearbs and all liuing things take most of the aire and yet all these haue part of the fire and therefore some stones as lime-stones and thunder-bolts take most of the fire other stones more of the water then earth as Christall Birrell Pearles and other participate more of the aire then earth as such that will not sinke so amongst mettals some participate more of one element then of another as lead and siluer of the earth quicke-siluer of the water copper of the aire and iron gold of the fire so may it be said of hearbs and plants the roots by their thicknesse participating most of the earth the leaues by their moistnesse of water the blossomes for their lightnesse of the aire and the seede by reason of the generatiue spirit of the fire so do all beasts participate more of one Element then another as is said before albeit some parts of them participate of the other Elements as bones of the earth flesh of the aire the spirit vitall of the fire and the humour of the water Likewise the senses of man bee attributed vnto the foure Elements as the vnderstanding to the fire the reason to the aire the imagination to the water feeling to the earth The like is of the outward senses the sight is appropriated to the fire for light is not without fire the hearing to the aire as caused by the reuerberation thereof the smell to the water for no smell is without moisture and the touching to the earth So be the acts of the body and passions of the mind attributed to the elements as mouing slowly to the earth feare and sorrow to the water ioy grace and maintenance to the aire anger fury and vnrest to the fire Let this suffice lest I be tedious CHAP. V. Of the Aethereall or Coelestiall part of the World THe celestiall part of the world called of some the Aethereal Region or Quinta essentia encompasseth and containeth in the concauity thereof all the Elementall Region And this celestiall part hath in it the seuen Planets their spheares the starry Firmament the Christalline Heauen the First Mouer and the Emperiall Heauen as shall follow Of the first Heauen The Philosophers had no knowledge of this Emperiall Heauen onely the Scriptures teach vs to beleiue the saine and is called the Emperiall Heauen by reason of the clearenesse and resplendency It is immoueable made by God the first day he began his creation of the world and by him immediatly replenished with his ministers the holy Angels It is the foundation of the world most fine and pure in substance most round in shape most great in quantity most cleare in quality most high in place where as it is thought remaineth the humanity of Jesus Christ and hath therein thrée Hierarchias holy orders or principalities called Epiphonia Epiphonomia and Euphumia and these are called of some Supercoelestiall Coelestiall and Subcoelestiall Now the first hath in it thrée orders as Seraphins Cherubins and Thrones The first excelling in zealous loue the second in knowledge and the third in iustice Epiphonomia hath likewise thrée orders as Principalities teaching inferiours duty to their superiours Powers chasing away euill spirits comforting such as fight in ghostly battell and Dominations teaching men how to behaue themselues in spirituall conflicts Lastly Euphumia or Subcoelestiall hath also vnder it thrée lower orders as Vertues for comforters Archangels shewing miracles and Angels working miracles to conclude here is the aboundance of all goodnesse and perfect felicity with the priuation of euill CHAP. VI. Of the first Moueable VNder the Emperiall Heauen is situate the First Moueable called Primum Mobile containing all other inferiour Spheares and by his naturall motion moueth from East to West and to the East againe in foure and twenty houres and by violence of this motion carrieth with him all the inferiour Spheares contrary to their proper motion which is to the East and many Philosophers thinke that if this motion were not flackened by the contrary course of the inferiour Spheares that the frame of Heauen and Earth would be torne in péeces and nothing prosper or remaine by reason of the violence thereof This Heauen is puce and cleare without starres CHAP. VII Of the Christalline Heauen THe Christalline Heauen is also a cleare substance void of Starres not subiect to the sight perlucid transparent and most slow in motion mouing according to the succession of the signes one degree in 100 yeares and accomplishing a full reuolution in 36000 yeares but according to Alfonsus in 49000 yeares The reason why this heauē doth require so long a time is because of the neernesse thereof to the first Moueable which turneth this heauen the rest about with him by a contrary motion as is said and therefore the nearer any Spheare is to the first Mouer the longer is he in accomplishing his revolution This reuolution of some is called Mag●nus annus Platonis because when it was compleat he thought all things should returne to the estate they were at first This Heauen is called of some the watery Heauen by the authority of Scriptures Gen. chap. 1. and in the Psalmes All the waters aboue the firmament c. CHAP. VIII Of the Starry Heauen THis Firmament is a most glorious heauen adorned beautified with all the fixed starres whose naturall motion is vpon two little circles the one about the head of Aries the other of Libra whose diameters is 4 deg 18 min. and 43 sec and is called the motion of Trepidation but indeed the motion of this heauen is thrée-fold for first it turneth about from East to West in foure and twenty houres according to the