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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

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