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A85770	A display of heraldrie: manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof then hath hitherto been published by any, through the benefit of method; / wherein it is now reduced by the study and industry of John Guillim ... Interlaced with much variety of history suitable to the severall occasions or subjects.	Guillim, John, 1565-1621.; Nower, Francis, d. 1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2219A; ESTC R177735	251,394	243

they did the better conceal their proper nature untill such time as they should make known unto men what they were indeed Hereupon it seemeth the Ancients of forepassed ages have used the bearing of Angels in Coat-Armours according to those bodily shapes and habits wherein they appeared unto men as in example SECT III. CHAP. II. FRom things naturall that are mearly formal Of naturall and materiall things Materiall defined we come to such as are Naturall and Materiall Those are said to be Essences Material that do consist of a Body subjected to motion and alteration Natura materiata est essentia in corpore motui obnoxio subsistens A Material nature is an Essence subsisting in a body subject to motion These are Simple Mixt. Simple are certain Orbicular or round bodies or bodily Essences originally consisting of an unmixted matter Of these some are Constant. Inconstant Those are said to be Constant natures which in respect of their perfection are of most lasting continuance such are the Celestial Globes and the Stars Constant natures The heavenly Sphears or Globes are Vnmoveable Moveable Sphears The Vnmoveable is holden to be that uttermost Sphear that glistereth so gloriously as that it dazeleth the sharpest sight of man Immoveable and is called Coelum Empyreum the fiery Heaven whereof we shall be better able to judge and speak when God shall bring us thither and yet our Star-gazers will take upon them to talk so confidently and particularly of those incomprehensible bodies as if they had been there and surveyed every corner thereof This celestiall Globe according to Scribonius is the Mansion place and Pallace of all the Heavenly Natures wherein the Angels and other the Blessed of God do with endless joy behold the presence of Almighty God face to face To this place according to the same Author were Enoch Elias and Paul rapt up before their deaths But now for more orderly progression herein forasmuch as we have occasion here offered to speak of a Sphear we will first shew what a Sphear is and so proceed to the rest A Sphear is a figure or body exactly round of all parts Sphear what Sphericall forme perfectest and void of all angles and corners The Sphericall or round forme is of all other the most perfect as also the most beautifull capable and fit for motion in as much as it is voide of all corners which might give impediment to moving therefore is this forme most agreable to the Heavens and Celestiall bodies which are evermore in continuall and restless motion It was requisite that the perfectest body such as the heavens are should receive the perfectest form which is the orbicular or round figure Figura Sphaerica saith Arist Lib. de Coelo mundo est omnium figurarum nobilior The motion of the Heavens is the most sincere and unlaboured of all motions Movetur enim sine labore fatigatione Arist de Coelo 2. As also it is said in Eccl. 16.26 The Lord hath set his Works in good Order from the beginning and part of them he sundred from the other when he first made them He hath garnished his works for ever and their beginning so long as they shall endure they are not hungry nor wearied in their labours nor cease from their Offices Ver. 27. Again None of them hindreth another neither was any of them disobedient to his words Ver. 28. He buildeth his Sphears in the Heaven and hath laid the foundations of the Globe of Elements in the earth he calleth the waters of the Sea and powreth them out upon the open earth the LORD is his name Amos 9.6 The matter whereof the Heavens are composed hath in it this naturall property Not to be moved violently neither yet naturally to rest As the same Author testifieth in these words Natura materiae Coeli est innata non movere violenter non quiescere naturaliter Lib. de coelo without intermission is the motion of the Heavens Therefore are high and noble Spirits resembled to the celestiall bodies according to Lipsius A●ti ae●her●ique animi ut ipse aether semper gaudent motu Men of ethereall or heavenly spirits cannot be idle but are evermore in action and exercise of things commendable and vertuous being thereto moved and quickened by an honest and free disposition and affection of the will and desire of the mind Omnia enim honesta opera saith Seneca voluntas inchoat occasio perficit But vertue hardly receiveth her due merit at all seasons Neverthelesse Saepe honorata est virtus etiam ubi eam fefellit exitus The circular motion receiveth beginning in it self and hath the smoothest passage for in all other forms you shall find Angles either more or lesse which do give impediments to motion whereby they give occasion of some stay or rest as I have said before Therefore it behoveth that the sincerest body should be fitted with the simplest form and motion In this kind of motions of the Heavens is signified the very eternity of God wherein there is neither beginning nor ending to be found and therefore it is rightly said by the Apostle The invisible things of God are conceived and understood by his creatures as also his everlasting power and divine essence whereof his visible works are the expresse Characters Mercurius Trismegistus in his description of God resembleth him to a Sphear saying Deus est Sphaera qui ratione sapientiaque comprehenditur cujus centrum est ubique circumferentia vero nusquam c. God is a Sphear that is apprehended by reason whose center is every where and his circumference no where For God hath neither beginning nor ending he wants beginning because he was not made by any but was himself the Creator of all things and he is void of ending by reason that he had no beginning Nam quicquid finitur in sua principia resolvitur Whatsoever hath an end the same is resolved into that it was at the first Substance of the Heavens As touching the substance of the Heavens Scribonius saith that it is Corpus constans ex aqua in firmissimam essentiam instar pellis extensae concameratum It is a body sath he co●●●sting of Water in the most solid substance thereof spread out v●uit-w●●e like a skin Though it may seem to th●e Courteous Reader that I doe undertake a needlesse labour is manifesting that the glorious Heavens and Earth were formed and framed by the most powerfull God a thing so frequent in the sacred Scriptures and also so clear as that no man can doubt thereof yet give me leave for my own particular who do labor to apprehend every occasion to publish the glory of the Eternall and Omnipotent God which is the 〈◊〉 and principall end of our Creation especially sithence the order of my Method requireth the same and that bonum aliquod soepius repetitum delecta● Give me leave I say in this my latter impression to reprove my selfe for my too

Fishes as that they cannot live long out of their proper element which is the Water Besides fishes doe serve men for no other use but for food and some sorts of them for medicine whereof it commeth that we have not so many names of fishes mentioned in the Scriptures as of other Animals For these reasons Fishes were not produc● before Adam that he might give them names answerable to their natures Neverthelesse God gave him Dominion over them aswell as over the rest when he sayd Dominamini piscibus maris c. Hereof it commeth that man hath lesse familiarity and acquaintance with Fishes than with many other Animals as Horses Dogges small birds of many kinds which we daily use either to serve our necessities or for our delights Fishes are borne after a diverse manner Manner for their bearing viz. directly upright inbowed extended indorsed Respecting each other Surmounting one another Fretted and Trianguled c. All Fishes saith Leigh that are borne feeding shall be termed Rule 1 in blazon devouring because they doe swallow whole without mastication or chewing and you must tell whereon they feede All Fishes raised directly upright and having Finnes shall be termed in blazon Hauriant ab hauriendo signifying to draw or suck ●cause Fishes do oftentimes put their Rule 2 heads in such sort above the wa● 〈◊〉 ●fresh themselves with the coole and temperate Ayre but especia● 〈…〉 waters do so rage and boyle in the depth of the Seas against som●●ous storme that they cannot endure the unwonted heat thereof ●es being borne Transverse the Rule 3 Escocheon must in blazon be termed Naiam of the word Nato 〈◊〉 swimme for in such manner doe they beare themselves in the waters when they swimme Concerning both the variety and the innumerable multitude of Fishes Pliny is of a prettey fantasticall conceit affirming that the seeds and universall Elements of the World are so sundry wayes commixed one with another partly by the blowing of the winds and partly by the rowling and agitation of the Sea that it may be truly said according to the vulgar opinion That whatsoever is ingendred or bred in any part of the world besides the same is to be found in the Sea besides many things more in it which no where else are to be seene A Fish if you will beleeve Farnesius i● called piscis à pascendo Quia ad rem nullam nisi ad pastum natus est he ●bred onely to eate and to be eaten Derivation Of Fishes some have hard and crusty coverings others have a softer out-side and those latter are also of two s●rts some having onely skin and other scales Scaled Fishes by their fins are both adorned and greatly assisted also in their swimming but Congers Eeles Lampreies and such like may seem in respect of the smalnesse of their fins to have received them of nature rather for ornament Fishes Scaled what than for use in swimming especially because these lye most in the bottome of the waters and therefore lesse need their fins Of these severall kinds I will briefly give some few examples wherein I rather purpose to lay open their diverse formes of Bearing in Coat-Armour than meddle with their unlimitable particular kinds as in example SECT III. CHAP. XXIII Scales of Fishes not continuate THE Hardnesse of Scaly fish whereof we have before spoken is not Continuate but Plated fitting for Motion but there is another sort of hard covering whieh is continuate Of which sort some are crusted other some are shelled as Examples shall shew The clawes of the fore-feet of this sort of fish are called forcipata brachia Cancrorum of forceps which signifieth a paire of Tongs or Pincers or such like alluding to their quality which is to pinch and hold fast whatsoever they do seize upon Which institution doubtless was grounded upon great reason to shew the steadfast amity and constant fidelity that ought to be between brethren and companions of one society and brother-hood for take one of these fishes and divide the shels and endeavour to sort them with I will not say hundreds but millions of other shels of fishes of the same kind and you shall never match them throughout therefore do they resemble the in dissoluble friendship that ought to be in fraternities and societies because there can be according to Cicero Offic. 1. Nulla firma Amicitia nisi inter aequales The consideration whereof if I be not deceived moved the first Founders of this Order to sort them in the coller of this order by couples for that all others do disagree with them Secundum magis vel minus and none do concur together with them in all points but onely those that nature hath conformed and made agreeable to each other in all points SECT III. CHAP. XXIV A Transition from things unreasonable VVEE have long insisted in the bearings of Animals or Living Creatures Vnreasonable distinguishing them according to their Kinds sorting them into several Rankes placing them under Sundrie Heads exemplifying their manifold Vse and Formes of Bearing in Coat-Armour to the end that they might give better life and warrant to such Rules and Observations as concerning them are formerly given The last place I have here reserved to the most Noble creature and first in estimation I meane Man Man the Noblest of Gods creatures whom God hath indued with a reasonable Soule and for whose sake he created all other things subjecting them to his Soveraigntie that they should serve Man and Man should serve God Thou hast given him saith David Soveraigntie over all the Workes of thy handes and hast put all things in subjection under his feete all Sheepe and Oxen ond all Beasts of the Field the Foules of the Aire and Fishes of the Sea c. For God made Man in his owne Image not onely in giving him an Vnderstanding soule and an Holy will but also a Soveraigne jurisdiction over these inferiour creatures even as Kings are the Image of God in a more peculiar manner because God hath given them Soveraigntie over Men Neither is the Beautie of the Body it selfe lightly to be regarded whose admirable Proportions and uses made Galen an Heathen to acknowledge the Infinite Wisedom of an Eternall Creator And that Godly King to breake out into termes of Admiration saying Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy booke were all my members written which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them Inasmuch as we are now come to treate of man the most excellent of all Gods creatures and for whose sake all things else were created Let us take a considerate view of the order of the Creation and we shall finde many forcible motives to stirre us up to the glorifying of our gracious God that hath so graciously and abundantly provided for our sustentation and maintainance before we were yet created that so we may be provoked with more circumspection and regard to