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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

the Mine though it have no metall in it in processe of time will be changed into the same Mine Lastly it is most certain that in some Countreys even now some rich Mines are found out I will say nothing of the West Indies the wealth whereof fills the Cantons of the Spaniards English and Dutch Norway alone can shew the same if Bartholinus a man of credit may be trusted At this day saith he there is no place in the earth to fruitfull for Silver as some Mountains are that are discovered in the Kingdom of Norway Anno. 1623 in the reign of Christian the fourth King of Denmark and Norway my most bountifull Lord that if any man did formerly promise Golden Mountains Norway doth not onely promise Silver Mountains but performes them For great lumps are dug up that are most pure and the best Silver without any help of Fire In other parts it is more unconcocted but where scarce a fifth part was now a third or fourth part is drosse What shall I say of the Veins of Iron in Sussex and of Tin in Cornwall Article III. Neither Plants nor Animals have decayed at all I Shall not need speak much of these for if the Earth have not failed either in respect her fruitfulnesse nor of other accidents how then shall they fail The Simples have now the same temperament and the same operations and Animals are now described as Aristotle described them Aristotle saith Horses lived but 18 yeers and at the most but 50 yeers Albertus saith he saw a Souldier had a Horse 60 yeers old Niphus saith that in the Stalls of Ferdinand the First there was a Horse 70 yeere old Also Buteo a man commended by many writers going about to shew by Geometricall proportion that the Ark could hold so many Cattell and provision for a yeer borrowes the foundation of his Argument from the present Dimension of the bodies of beasts and their sufficient nutriment Goropius Becanus Pererius Rawley and others subscribe to him But what is spoken of an Elephant in the Book of the Maccabees Junius shews that must be understood of the Indian Elephants that are greater than the rest of Aethiopia And they that have been in the Kingdom of the Great Mogull maintain there are some greater than those we see here The influence of Eclipses upon these inferiour bodies and the greater frequency of them makes nothing to this matter For first since an Eclipse is nothing but the interposition either of the Moon between us and the Sun or of the shadow of the Earth between the Sun and Moon we have no more need to fear any danger from an Eclipse than we should by the interposition of some grosse Clowd This order will continue in all ages that have such dayes wherein the Sun by interposition of the Moon is afraid to send forth all his beames Also it is false that Eclipses ate now more frequent than formerly For the Sun Moon and Earth have the same substance and accidents they had and Light and shadowes have the same being they had formerly and the Moons way or Latitude from the Eclipticke is as it alwayes was See Bartholinus concerning these points Astrolog Problem Ultimo Also it is false that they are greater than they were For in the yeer 1133 as Cambden writes the Suns Ecclipse was so great that day was changed to night Anno. 1140. as Malmburiensis relates it was so great that men feared the old Chaos would return Anno. 1415 on the seventh of June it was so terrible that birds fell to the ground We shall conclude therefore that there is nothing in mixt bodies that can intimate unto us that the world declines to worse universally and perpetually Proposition V. The World in respect of Man doth not grow worse MAn is the Epitome of the whole world a Marriage of Superiour and Inferiour bodies a Microcosme of a Macrocosme But for as much as this consists not onely in the body but also in the rationall soul that is united to it it is requisite that in respect of all things some of each should be enquired into But here principally we are to consider his strength age and faculties of his soul. And indeed our opposites maintain that in all these considerations Man is decayed Therefore under this proposition arise these Articles I. The age of Man within these 3000. yeers hath not failed II. His force and stature are not diminished III. He wants nothing in the faculties of his soul. Article I. The age of Man within these 3000 yeers hath not failed THat the age of Man hath not decaid since Moses time may be cleered by many Arguments For first Moses himself speaks expresly Our yeers are 70 and if one so strong to come to 80 yeers c. And though he himself and Aaron his brother surpassed this age but because as a learned man said he spake of the generall condition it is pertinent to our subject Hence also Herodotus sets the longest bounds of Mans life to be but 80 yeers Barzillay was said to be a very old Man and yet he was but fourscore and David was full of dayes yet but seventy yeers old Solomon as Divines conjecture was not 60 yet it is said When Solomon was old In all the records of the Romane Greek French and German Emperours there are found onely four that lived to fourscore yeers Amongst the Popes onely five and they were immediately before our times Namely John the twenty third Gregory the twelfth and thirteenth Paul the third and fourth and that which is most notable Elizabeth Queen of England out lived all her predecessours from William the Conquerour and she raigned as fortunately as Augustus as long as David P●trus Criaitus affirms that Egyptis by a subtile conjecture taken from the weight of the heart found out within what bounds the life of Man was included and he affirmed that he could scarce live above a hundred yeers For every yeer till fifty it increased two Drachmes and from thence to 100 yeers it decreased as much Though this be rather curiositie than truth yet it shewes what the Antiens thought of the last end of Man Varro also held the same opinion They called the space of a hundred yeers Seculum from senex an Old Man because they thought that was the longest time for Men to live to be old And Seneca saith We see that thou art come to the very utmost stage of Mans life thou art a hundred yeers old I say nothing of Trebellius Pollio who in his book to Constantius ascribes to the longest age but 120 yeers by the opinion of Mathematicians Moreover the Ancients well observed the secret stations and progresses of nature in Mans body not onely in respect of increasing in the Wombes of their Mothers and in respect of their being born but after their birth also Hippocrates ascribes to the time of being born the seventh ninth tenth the