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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

Earth and not so far remote toward either Pole and lastly that the Pole Starre in the Tail of Ursa Minor is neerer to the Pole and therefore the Heavens are deficient It is so For there are many that now live under the Torrid Zone and there is Merchandise for multitudes of commodities from hence thither Bodinus reports out of Copernicus Rainoldus Stadius and others that the Sun is now more neer to the earth by 136. Semidiameters or 26600. miles and Philippus Melancthon thought that ought to be referred to the wasting condition of the earthly and heavenly bodies It is the common opinion of Astronomers that the Sun in Winter is not so far from us toward the South as he was in the dayes of Ptolomie and Hipparchus and not so neer toward the North in summer For Ptolomie about the yeer of Christ 140. discovered the greatest declination of the Sun from the Equinoctiall Line toward either of the Poles to be 23 degrees 51. minutes 20. seconds and because he found that account to agree with the observations of Hipparchus who lived 130. yeers before Christ and of Eratosthenes who preceded him he thence concluded that the Suns greatest declination was immutable But in the yeer of Christ one thousand four hundred and thirty the most learned Astronomers of the Arabians found the same declination to be but 23. degrees 35. minuts To whom Albategnius subscribed who lived in the yeer 880. But in the yeer 1070 Arzachel an Ethiopian born in Spain took the greatest Declination which he found to be 23 degrees 33 minutes 30 seconds and that he might salve the differences of observations he invented a new Hypothesis Copernicus afterward following him in the yeer 1520. concluded that the Suns greatest declination was mutable yet never greater then 23 degrees 52 minutes nor lesse than 23 degrees 28 minutes and he taught us that in the space of 1 thousand seven hundred and seventy yeers the Sun would passe from the former to the latter and again in so much space of time the Sun would go back again from the latter to the former Therefore out of this Hypothesis of Copernicus about 65 yeers before the birth of Christ the greatest declination of the Sun was 23 degrees 52 minutes from which time calculating backward it hath ever grown lesse and lesse untill about 1782. yeers before Christ the greatest Declination 〈◊〉 but 23 degrees 28 minutes and from that counting backward again as before it increased untill in the yeer 3499 before Christ it grew to be 23 degrees 52 Minutes Lastly Molineus writes of the Pole Star in the Tayle of Ursa Minor that in the Days of Hipparchus it was 12 degrees distant from the Pole of the World and now a dayes it is hardly four degrees from it and he supposeth that when it shall come to stand in the Poles place which may be within 500 or 600 yeers the period shall be which God hath set to Nature I willingly grant all these things yet I see not what inconvenie●ce will happen to our cause thereby Since they that are of a faction against this do defend a universall declining they must also of necessity say that the cold zones by the cold being increased are become inhabitable and that the forces of men are so worn that they can by no means endure it The suns neerernesse to us is either founded upon false principles or the Suns declination is uncertain and changeable For Ptolomie about the yeer of Christ 140 placeth the distance of the Sun from the Earth in 1210 Semidiameters of the Earth but Albategnius about the yeer 880 found it to be 1146 Semidiameters Copernicus about the yeer 1520 found it to be 1179. Tycho Brahe about the yeer 1600 calculated it to be 1182 Diameters But La●sburgius Keplerus and others suppose the Sun is distant from the Earth 3000 Semidiameters Scaliger holds that opinion to be so absurd that he breaks forth into these words That which some have been bold to write that the body of the Sun is not far more neer than it was written to be by our Ancestours so that it may seem to have changed its place in the body of the deferent Orb their very writings ought to be wiped out with Spunges or themselves whipt with rods As for the Suns coming neerer to the South or to the North the most learned Doctor Banbridge Astromonie Reader in the famous university of Oxford thinks that the Suns Declination is immutable and that the difference of some minutes between us and Ptolomie might arise from some errour amongst the Antients in their Observations whence it will follow that the Sun is not farther removed toward the South nor is he come neerer to the North. Yet however if we should grant that there were a mutability it would follow that as the Sun was 65 yeers before Christ farther off toward the South than it is now so in the yeers that went before those yeers it was not farther off And when that the greatest Declination is at the highest the Sun in winter wil be farther toward the South and neerer in summer toward the North But when it is at the lowest it will be all contrary Lastly if any inconvenience may fall upon us thereby that is recompensed by the convenience that befalls them that live toward the South and so nothing can be collected thence for to prove an universall falling of the World from worse to worse The opinion of that Rare man is grounded on a weak foundation for the Pole Star wil never remove to be in place of the Pole of the world or be so straightned that it cannot proceed forward I grant indeed that after 50 yeers are gone it will be very neer to it but it will go back again and it will become more Northerly as it is now Southerly and this seems to be most certain and if the comming neer or going farther off from the Pole by other Stars do not shew the end of the world what reason will perswade us that this Star should shew it Proposition III. The world in respect of the Elements doth not grow to be worse BEing that the Elements may be considered in generall or in speciall that this Article may be more exactly demonstrated four other Articles seem to belong unto it I. That the world in respect of the Elements in general doth not grow worse II. Not in respect of the Ayre III. Not in respect of the Water IV. Not in respect of the Earth We shall therefore shew all these in their order The First Article The Elements in generall do not grow worse FOr if the Elements considered in generall should universally and perpetually grow worse they should decay either in respect of Number or Qualities or Proportion or Transmutation But it is not so in any of these What concerns their number The common opinion is that there are four but Three is the truth for the Fire is but the supronie part

of the purer Air that is more subtile hot and free from exhalations For since the Scripture doth no where speak of Fire no not in Genesis where things created are described why should we maintain it And if that solid Element of Fire should differ in subtility and thinnesse from the Sky or the uppermost part of the Air a new refraction of the Stars must needs follow by reason of the Fire and we should be ignorant of their true places which is false Moreover Nature in the chiefest things hath observed the number of Three For to say nothing of the supernaturall Mystery of the Trinity there is a Trinity in Mans Sex the male the Female and the Hermaphrodite there are three first principles of naturall things as Matter Form and Privation also there are three sensible principles Salt Brimstone and Mercury There are three principall parts in Man and three kind of spirits the Animall Vitall and Naturall as also they have three Channels or Vessels namely the Nerves Arteries and Veins There are three humours in the Blood as there are in Milk The Buttery part of Milk resembles the Air and so doth the Cholerick part of the blood The wheyish part of the Milk and the serene part of the Blood resembles the Water And the Crudly part of Milk resembles the Earth as doth the grosser Choler of the Blood Every man knows that this number is found now adays and in respect of the qualities the Earth is now the driest Element the coldest and the heaviest The Air is the hottest moistest and lightest The Water is cold and moist Aristotle makes the proportion between the Elements to be Ten Degrees but it is not so For the Circumference of the Earth is 5400. miles therefore the diameter is 1718 the Semidiameter is 859 or 860 which are chosen for to facilitate the account Moreover there are many emptie places of the Earth that are without Water and where Seas are the Earth is under the Water so that the depth of the Sea as is gathered by the observations of the most skilfull Mariners in many places scarce amounts to 80 or a 100 pases more seldome to two or 300 pases and most seldom to 500 pases but seldom or never to a 1000 pases and that is but the fourth part of a Germane mile and if this be compared with the Diameter or depths of the Earth it is as the height of a drop of sweat compared with the whole body Moreover experience shews that Air will be made of a few drops of water that is by many degrees more than they And who can deny but that this proportion holds even at this day As for their transmutation There is a notable compensation of the four fold forces in the Elements dispensing their courses by equal rules and bounds For as the Circle of the yeer is distinguished by four quarters one quarter succeeding after an other and by the same Circuit untill the same time return again in like manner the Elements of the world succeeding one the other in their courses are changed and you would say it were incredible When they seem to die they are made immortall running the same race again and again and passing daily up and down the same way For from the earth begins a rising way which melting is changed into water then the water evaporates into Air the Air is rarefied til it he Fire another declining way tends downward from the top the Fire being put out sinks down into Air and the Air becomes thick and turns to Water and the moysture of the Water becomes grosse till it be Earth True it is they are not otherwise mingled than as Islanders are with those that Traffick with them yet this cannot be denied but it is done for the great good of the Universe For pure water were unfit to drink the Earth would afford no moysture for Corn and we could not breathe in the Air. Hence Saint Augustine The Air on the top of Olympus is reported to be so thin that it cannot nourish Birds nor yet Men that happen to go up thither can be nourished with the Spirit of a grosser Air as they are wout to be and is requisite for their nutriment Article II. The Element of the Air is deficient in nothing IF the Aire had failed in any thing it had faild in its temper But if we credit Historians in former times the drinesse of the Air was greater and the Infection of it more Pestilentiall Chronicles write that in the yeer 1234 the Winter was so Cold that in the Adriatick Sea the Venetian Factours passed over the Ice loaded with their Money Zona●us reports that the like accident fell out in the Pontick sea and the Sea adjoyning under Constantinus Copronymus In the dayes of Charles the great there was a great and most bitter Frost whereby the Pontick Sea for a hundred Miles Eastward was turned to Ice and was from top to the bottom 50 Cubits thick In the yeer 1125 the Winter was so violent that innumerable Eels in Brabant by reason of the ice went forth of the lake which is strange and got into Hay Ricks and lay hid there till by extream cold they rotted away Robertus De Monte And the Trees at last scarce had any leaves put forth in May. But to speak of the drinesse I read in Livie that in the yeer after Rome was built 322 that the rain from Heaven not onely failed but the Earth also wanted her inbred moysture and had hardly enough to serve for the perpetuall Rivers And where Fountains and Rivers were dried up and Water failed the Cattell died for thirst In the yeer 1153 the Wood took fire by extreame heat of the weather and the fat earth burned and no rain could Extinguish it The Germane Annals report that in the yeer 1228 the Air was so hot that the harvest was ended to use their own words before the Feast of Saint John Baptist. In the yeer 1473 the Wood in Bohemia burnt 18 weeks and the Danow was so dry that in many places it was Fordable and the same thing is written of the River of the Thames in the Reign of Henry the First But in the yeer 1494 in the end of July the Lakes and Waters were so bound up with Ice that all the Fish died for want of water You may adde to this what Tacitus writes of Armenia That the Winter fell out so cruell that the ground was so covered with Jce that without they dug they could find no place for their Tents Many mens Limbs were scorched with extremitie of cold and some upon their Watch were found dead And there was a Souldier observed who carried a bundle of wood whose hands were so frozen that they clave fast to the wood and fell off from his arms that were thus maymed As concerning the Pestilent infection of the air it was once so great in Greece as Thucydides

for giving us this hint to exasperate our endeavours and for chalking out the way whereby we may be able to do more than any Age before us That they should not so much reflect on former times as to forget that God had reserved somthing for them if they would not be wanting to themselves No Hercules Pillars are here set up with a Non ultra engraved upon them but we are to make use of Charles the Fifth his Motto and go on couragiously with a Plus ultra adding to what our forefathers shewed themselves honourable in Give me leave for a cloze to make this application that as your worthy Ancestours were highly honoured for their vertues and for being good Patriots to their countrey so you may have the happinesse to exceed them all and to raise up Trophies of honor unto posterity beyond your famous predecessours improving by your goodness those gifts that God hath bountifully bestowed on you Which are the cordiall wishes of him who is Your Worships in all Honourable respects John Rouland TO THE Most Illustrious and Noble Lords D. ANDREAS D. RAPHAEL Earls of Les●um Palatinat Belzen D. GEORGE de Konary Slupecky Castellanidae Lablinensi My most gratious Lords Health in all obedience THough there be nothing almost Most Illustrious Lords that doth not defend the Constancy of Nature yet amongst other arguments your family may stand in the first place From the dayes of Dambrowca that you have made Poland happy unto this present time there are as many Senatours of the Kingdom of your house as you have had Grandfathers and great Grandfathers in former ages and all of them of so great vertues that all vertues seem to be bred in your courts That there were pios men amongst them the founding of Monasteries and their large bounty to the Church can testifie that they were Magnanimous persons appears by their laying aside the supreme honours and undergoing meaner Offices for the publike good Your Ancestours far before the Lepidi have out-run their yeers by the celerity of their wife actions and were made Honourable Senatours at that age that Scipio could not think of being Consul And why do I speak of former dayes Your Grandfather was for this very thing of most famous memory who so raised Piety and Magnanimity to the height that were his hereditary vertues that he hath the name of the Patron of the True Religion and seems to be an example of most prudent Oratory To say no more the most Illustrious Lord your Father lives and I wish he might live alwaies of whom so many so great things may be said that the slendernes of my wit cannot comprehend nor my low style expresse The Church calls him her nursing Father and Delight The Senate their Eye the Nobility the light of the common wealth the Muses their Patron and to say what I would in brief Men think that in his brest is bred whatever vertue and prudence can be bred in any Noble person But most Illustrious Lords what shall I say of you and your two brothers I look upon your Illustrious and most Noble Mother descended from the Lesznii and the Dukes of Sanguscii and you proceeding from ●n honourable Seminary of vertues do shew forth some flowers in the spring of your youth ●or the good of the Church and the Common wealth and there is no doubt but fruit will follow in the Autum of your yeers Most Illustrious Lord Slupeck I have no need to say much of you and your most noble family The Kingdom of Poland knows the worth of it and posterity shall thankfully remember your most Honourable Father And you whilst ●ll your designes are Honourable and engraf●ed into the Family of the Lesznii what may be ●aid of that family you justly seem to partake of it It is yet in your power to preserv a golden ●ge in the Church and State and being so most ●llustrious Lords This work of the Constancy of Nature doth of right belong unto you and being I am come into the patronage of your Noble family it is my duty to offer it unto you whatever it is Wherefore I lay it at your feet and I beseech you to pardon any weaknesse in its mean dresse No man was ever unblamed to be wiser than his mean condition would suffer him and no man lost his ●abour that offered though it were a mean gift to the Gods Farewell most Illustrious Lords and proceed and continue long to do good for God for your Country and noble families and to shew favour unto me that am most addicted to your Honours From Leiden in Holland November 1632. The most bounden to your most Illustrious Honours JOHN JONSTON I am of the number of those that admire the Antients yet I do not as some do despise our own dayes For nature is not grown so barren as to bring forth nothing new worth commendation Pliny L. 6. Ep. 21. And as Tacitus saith There is a kinde of Circle in all things as the Ages for manners turn about all things were not better in former times but our Times have produced some things worthy to be commended and arts worthy imitation for posterity Annal. The Table The Prologue IT is false that the world universally and perpetually doth grow worse Page 1 Proposition I. The world in respect of it self doth not alwaies run to worse pag. 6. Proposition II. The world in respect of Heaven doth not grow worse perpetually pag. 10 Proposition III. The world in respect of the Elements doth not grow to be worse pag. 18 Article I. The Elements in generally do not grow worse pag. 18 Article II. The Element of the Air is deficient in nothing pag. 21 Article III. The Element of Water is decayed in nothing pag. 26 Article IIII. The Elements of Earth hath said in nothing pag. 28 Proposition IV. The world in respect of mixt bodies both inanimate ●nd animate creatures without reason doth not grow worse pag. 31 Article I. From Meteors it cannot be proved that the world growes worse pag. 32 Article II. Mineralls have not failed pag. 37 Article III. Neither Plants nor Animals have decayed at all pag. 39 Proposition V. The World in respect of Man doth not grow worse pag. 41 Article I. The age of Man within these 3000 yeers hath not failed pag. 42 Article II. Mans stature and strength within the ●eers are not decayed pag. 52 Article III. Nothing is wanting to Faculties of th● minde pag. 6● The first branch Memory and Judgement have not failed pag. 6● Part. II. There is nothing decayed in the three Fa●culties Divinity Law or Physick pag. 7● Part. III. Nothing is wanting in speculative Phi●●osophy pag. 8● Part. IV. Nothing is wanting in practicall Phi●●osophy and History pag. 8● Part. V. Nothing wans in Tongues and Arts. pag. 9● Part. VI. Mechanick Arts and skill in Navigation have increased pag. 10● Part. VII Vices were as great formerly as they ar● now pag. 17● Point I. The

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

them remember with me the times of their Ancestors that were most unquiet by reason of Wars most hainous for wickednes most foul for dissentions most miserable for a long continuance which they may deservedly be afraid of because they were and they have need to beg that they may be no more to beg that of God onely who then suffered his secret Judgements to break forth and now his Mercies are manifest by removing them And that that Axiome is false appears not only by the state of things but also by the effusion of the grace of God by the Incarnation of Christ in the yeer 3947. But that it must be understood of violent motion is without all doubt Proposition II. The world in respect of Heaven doth not grow worse perpetually IF such a declining of things to worse should befall the Heavens it should either befall the Substance of it or the Motion or the Light or the Heat or the Influence But it falls upon none of these Not the substance For though it be granted that the first matter of the Heavens and of the Elements be the same and that both in respect of want of action in them both and for the needlesse bringing in of two matters Yet that matter is joyned to such a form that satisfieth the whole desire thereof nor hath it any contrary whereby it may become subject to any corruption and though it be subject to corruption which is the truth as we finde it in the Psalme and thence Generation would follow because that there appeared new Stars one in Cassiopea in the yeer 1572. which lasted two yeers and again another in the brest of the Hen Anno 1600. which is yet to be seen and in 1604. one appeared in the Sphere of Saturn Yet this would make no more against our opinion than the corruption of mixt bodies made of Elements can make Not the Motion For we see if we were minded to follow the Common opinion that not onely the Primum Mobile by an Eternall decree goes about from East to West but the Planets keep their courses as they are Calculated by our Ancestours and when for certain yeers they have wandered in their Latitudes they will without doubt passe in the same tarces as they went before The Sun that runs with Fire hot The cold Moon 's motion hindereth not Nor doth the Pole Star ever drench Her flames within the Sea to quench Though others do and Vesper bright At certain times foreshwes darke Night But Lucifer brings back the Light Of Saturn the Planet we may say as truly now as Cicero writ of it formerly The Star of Saturne in its motion effecting many things admirable both anteceding and retarding and by lying hid in the Evening and shewing it self again in the Morning yet this makes no change in the large length of Time but in the same time it wil● do the same again And should we maintain that the course of the Starres were changed how then could Mathematicians foretell the yeer day hour nay the very instant of Oppositions and Conjunctions and Ecclipses so many yeers before Lactantius concluded from thence that the Stars are no Gods because they cannot alter or exceed their bounds or usuall Motions For were they Gods they might wander here and there at pleasure without any necessity as living Creatures do upon the earth who because their w●lls are free they go up and down where they please and as their mindes lead them thither they go And Plutarch wondering at this uniformity Such a great magnitude of things saith he such disposing of them such a constancie in observing times and orders could not either formerly be made without a Provident Artificer or remain so many ages without a Potent Inhabitant or be governed for ever without a Knowing and Skillfull Ruler as Reason it self declares it And if we would hold that the Heaven's standing still is agreeable to the Scriptures and to the opinions of the Antient Fathers and should we assert that the Starres onely are mooved by their proper Motions and that they are in the heavens no otherwise than living Creatures are upon the Earth Fishes in the Water and birds in the Ayre yet would the matter be the same Not the light For as at first the waters were dispersed over the Face of the Earth So was the Light through the Firmament And as the waters were gathered together into one heap so was the Light bound up in one body as that was called the Sea so this was called the Sun As therefore the Sea loseth nothing though it water the Earth with innumerable Rivers so the Sun loseth nothing by communicating of his Light And if it be true that at Padua tow Pitchers were dug up inclosed in one which Olybius Maximus dedicated to Plato for they were full of a liquor wherein a Light then burning was preserved for many ages And if that be not false also that is written of another Candle that was found burning in the Sepulchre of Tullia what should we doubt of the Heavenly Light Especially seeing that the Father according the opinion of those who hold the Soul to be extraduce loseth nothing of his own Soul when he communicateth a Soul to his Childe but it is as Light borrowed from Light As for the question concerning Heat this doth of it self belong to the stars yet God hath given this unto them that they may be the cause of it in things capable of heat That they do it not by Motion is confirmed by the Suns standing still in Joshua's dayes and the temper of the middle Region of the Ayre that declines unto cold but by their light the beams whereof if they fall Perpendicular if they be reverberated then is it stronger and this is almost a certainty For the Summer and Winter Temperament of the Ayre and the effects of the artificiall Glasses of Archimedes and of Proclus seem to confirm as much When therefore we shew that the Light is not diminished every man may easily know what to think of the Heat We need not much troouble our selves concerning the Influence For if the substance remains Entire how can these Operations ceose that flow from the forme We may for maintaining of our Theses otherwise produce that which Langi● hath written I do not see saith he how any Ma● can exactly calculate any Mans Nativity seeing tha● the Starres are hurried so violently about day and night so that the least moments of time will produc● mighty changes Which hardly any man can comprehend in his very thoughts Reginald Pool pleaseth me well who answers thus to one who promised him great Honours from the Scheme of his Nativity Whatsoever is pretended in me by my naturall generation is changed and restrained by a supernaturall Generation made by the Blood of my Saviour But you will object to the contrary that in former times the Torrid Zone was unhabitable that the Sun is now neerer to the