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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46233	An history of the constancy of nature wherein by comparing the latter age with the former, it is maintained that the world doth not decay universally in respect of it self, or the heavens, elements, mixt bodies, meteors, minerals, plants, animals, nor man in his age, stature, strength, or faculties of his minde, as relating to all arts and science / by John Jonston of Poland.; Naturae constantia. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1016; ESTC R11015	93,469	200

or shorter longer most commonly when the times are Barbarous and the Diet more plain and more given to bodily exercise shorter when they are more civill and there is more Luxury and idlenesse but these things have their turns c. And this is our opinion But since the world is considered either in sprect of it self or in respect of its parts in speciall and these do contain more bodies under them there must be many Propositions set down in clearing this Thesis and these are the propositions that seem to me to appertain thereunto I. That the world in respect of the whole doth not alwaies grow worse II. Nor in regard of the Heavens III. Nor in regard of the Elements IV. Nor in regard of mixt bodies both Inanimate and Animate without reason V. Nor in regard of Man Wherefore our discourse shal be employed in the refutation of the contrary and confirmation of these propositions And thou Christian Reader read this without prejudice and consider with judgement Proposition I. The world in respect of it self doth not alwaies run to worse THis is most true For the Wisdome of Solomon saith that the Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world That which the Platonists calls the Soul of the world is nothing else but the power of God that manifests it self no lesse in preserving the Frame of the Universe than it did in creating it Whence saith Justin Martyr As that which is had never been unlesse he had commanded Let it be made So would it not continue unlesse He had given order to those things that do not perish that they should alwaies abide and to those things that come and goe that they should alwaies increase and multiply And Learned men in Schools compare the dependance of things Created upon the Creatour partly to Light which is extinguished in the Ayre by the Suns absence partly to a Vessel that contains the water within it partly to a Print made in Water II. There are two principles that constitute naturall bodies Namely matter and form That because it is not generated it is not corrupted for it is without any contrariety and therefore cannot naturally be destroyed but the nature of This is that when one departs an other succeeds in the same matter Nothing born can die But all things successively Are changed but formally Nor can it be otherwise in Nature For it intends no annihilation nor can she do that more than she can create nor where there is any augmentation can any diminution happen III. But should we grant that some parts of the world do alwaies decrease other parts thereupon will increase or else diminution or annihilation must follow and if this be granted an incredible disproportion will fall out between them and an infallible ruine must come upon that And then for some thousands of yeers the Influence of the Heavens had faild and transmutation of Elements and forces in mixt bodies But Solomon saith expresly that there is a Circular motion in things and as a Poet writes The Sun sets in the West But he there takes no rest To rise he doth his best So we must judge of all other things IV. Lastly by the rule of proportion it were an easie matter to foretell the day and the hour when it shall end But that is false by the Testimony of Scripture and of Christ himself and divers men diversly define the Age of the world Liboravius makes it 1666. Ros●●nus 1656. Cusanus 1700. or at least the space that precedes the yeer 1734. Copernicus is of an other minde Upon Napere Baron of March a Mathematitian that was second to none Owen makes this sporting Epigram Ninety two yeers this world must last you say It seems to set the bounds you are full wise For had you set them at a shorter day You might have liv'd to shame for forging lyes But it is objected that Esdras the Apostle and Cyprian a Martyr did intimate the decaying of things and confirme that Principle Every thing the more it is removed from its beginning the more it faints and fails It is true and in expresse words in Esdras Consider also that you are of lesse stature than those that were before you and those that shall come after you will be lesse then you are for that the Creatures now grow old and are past the strength of their youth It is certain that the Apostle writes That the world is subject to vanity and that it shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God We cannot deny but these are Cyprians words You must know in the first place that the world is now grown old that it stands not so strongly as it did stand nor is it so vigorous as formerly it was c. In Winter there is no such plenty of showers to nourish the seed nor in Summer is the Sun so beneficiall to ripen the corn Nor are plants in the Spring so prosperous by reason of temperate weather nor are Trees so fruitful with fruit in Autumn There are fewer Marble stones dug forth of the Mountains that are worn out they afford lesse quantity of Silver and Gold Metals are exhausted and the slender Veines daily grow lesse and decrease The Husbandman failes in the Fields Concord in friendship skilfulnesse in Arts Discipline in Manners c. All these things are true yet this is most certain that our Tenent is nothing weakned by this nor is the contrary any whit confirmed First of all that Book of Esdras hath nothing but a false Title and is most injurious What we found in the sixth Chapter are mere Fables concerning Behemoth and Leviathan and that is false that is spoken of the consummation of the world The Apostle onely ●ntimates the impuritie and deformity that the Creature contracted by the fall of Man and also the declining of Individuals and the hastening of the species to a totall and finall dissolution by Fire Lastly the abuse of them with the dishonour of the Creatour joyned with the wrong done to his servants which are the things he complains of It is no wonder also that Cyprian writ such things The times were then so bitter by reason of Wars Famine and Pestilence that the Christians of that age expected the end of the world to be at hand Graserus writ that the opening of the second and third Seal hapned in that time But a few yeers after that lamentation was turned into joy For not only under Galienus otherwise a most cruel Persec●tour was peace restored by an Edict sent forth to the Churches but also under Constantine was that Woman in the Apocalyps brought back into the clear light which Nero had driven into the Desert and which had lain hidden there for a Time Times and Half a time or 245. yeers But also unto this may be opposed the Disciple of Saint Augustine Orosius whose words are these Let

third cannot be granted For I. Goropius Becanus speaks expresly Bodies will endure Helle●●r now as well as they did formerly in the same or greater quanlity as I have tried in others And Jacchmus is of the same minde II. I remember saith Galen that blood was drawn to six pound weight in some men and so the Fever was cured But he took lesse from others Where the forces are strong and age will allow it it is fit to draw blood till they faint III. Pareus writes that in four dayes he drew seven pounds of blood from a Man and D. Deodate affirms that from a Man of seventy six yeers in three dayes he took sixty Ounces of blood Also Schenckius mentions strange bleedings at the nose when sometimes eighteen sometimes twenty sometimes fourty pounds of blood have run forth Lastly Pasquier in Epistol ad Turnerum observed that blood was drawn now more commonly than formerly for of old to open a vein was dangerous before fourteen yeer old and it is usual What concerns the Gut twelve fingers broad It is true that Archangelus Picolominie concludes thence that men were greater then and lesser now but how truely let him see to it I. It is certain that Pliny and Tertullian mention Herophilus yet it is uncertain what age he lived in And should we suppose that he lived a thousand yeers since it will follow that two third parts of men are lost in their statures and if men be now five foot high they were then fifteen II. If that happen to us by reason of those times then that hapned to them in respect of former times And it is wonder nor Galen nor Hippocrates should speak any thing of them III. Riolanus seems to decide this controversie when he writes And take nothing from the Ancient Measure unlesse you adde the more slender and narrow part of the Ventricle which reacheth forth from the bottom below to the very beginning of the windings of the guts which I have often seen to be twelve fingers breadth long Laurentius and many others think that the Antients took the Pylorus with the Duodenum The last thing of the Impurity of Seed is false For I. Wee see sometime that sickly Parents beget strong and healthy children II. The same may be said of Animals and doublesse Men had faild by this time and there had been an end of the dispute III. There are many Examples of women that have exceeded in bearing of Children Vives relates of a Countrey Man in Spain whose progeny had fild a Village of a 100 houses whilst he yet lived In the Temple of the Marschall in Essex there is a Sepulchre sen of one Mary Waters who when she died hd of her Legitimate posterity three hundred sixty seven children sixteen of her own a hundred and fourteen of her childrens two hundred twenty eight in a third degree nine in a fourth Also that is common The Mother said to her Daughter Daughter say to your Daughter that she must mourn for her Daughters Daughter I let passe other examples And I conclude that strength and stature have not failed for some thousands of yeers Article III. Nothing is wanting to the Faculties of of the minde THus much is spoken hitherto concerning those things are principally to be considered in the body of Man now followes the rationall Soul Wherein we are to consider whether the faculties thereof have failed in generall or in speciall That is principally known both by the proceedings of Arts and manners yet not omitting those things that are requisite thereunto as Memory Judgement Imagination wherefore these parts are to be considered I. That Memory and Judgement have not failed II. Nor any thing in the three Faculties III. Thirdly nor in Speculative Philosophy IV. Nor in practicall Philosophy and History V. Nor in Languages and Arts. VI. Nor in M●chanicall Arts and Navigation VII Nor in Manners The first Branch Memory and Judgement have not failed HOw have they failed when as greater things have fallen out in the latter times and in our own than were the vast examples mentioned by the Antients Seneca the Rhetorician saith that he rehearsed two thousand words in the same order they were spoken and that he repeated from the last to the first all the verses that each man propounded that came to hear his Master and they were above two hundred persons But Marcus Antonius Muretus reports of a certain young man of Corsica who studied the Civil Law in the University of Padua who could repeat thirty six thousand names without any staying in the same order they were spoken To which Muretus adds I know not any of the Ancients I can oppose to this unlesse it be Cyrus of whom Pliny Quintilian and the Latine Writers relate that he remembred all the Souldiers names Xenophor sayes Onely of his Officers But Aenaeas Sylvius testifies that Ludovicus Pontanus a Counsellour of Spalato did not onely repeat all the Heads of the Laws but the whole body of them he died at thirty yeers old Famianus Strada writes that Francis Suarez that famous Jesuite had so strong a Memory that he recited Saint Augustines works in the same words they were written We have often saith he seen him readily to teach and shew with his finger the very place page wherein he spake of such a thing Greater and more things may be spoken of Johu Raynolds a Famous divine in Oxford University For men say he was so conversant in all Classicall Authors that he might truly be called a Living Libray or a third university Gentilis confessed that he knew the Laws better than himself yet he was professour of them To confirm the force of Judgement and the other Faculties it shall suffice to Instance in Budaeus Tostatus Scaliger Ludovicus Vives saith that France never brought forth any man that had a more sharp wit strong jugdement more exact diligence or more learning nor yet Italy in this Age And indeed he had more knowledge of the Latine and Greek Tongues than of his own Wherefore what he writ in them was extemporary If you read his Books De Asse you shall finde he had read all the Philosophers and was imployed in publike Affaires both at home and abroad But this is the greatest wonder which he found in him onely they are the words of Vives Both the Master and the Scholler and the method and reason of teaching and the tenth part of those things Men can hardly learn under other great Masters that he learned wholly being his own Master from himself Tostatus in the 22 yeer of his age had the knowledge almost of all Arts and Sciences whence one writes of him This the worlds wonder knows all to be known And Metamorus writes further of him Had he lived in any age than in in that he did we should never Envie at Augustine of Hippo nor Hierome of Stridon nor yet any of