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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

observes that Birds fell down with the infection and birds of prey would not touch the carkases In the government of Vibius Gallus and Volutianus as Pomponius Laetus and Zonara testifie the plague continued without intermission fifteen yeers and at Alexandria no house was clear and those that remained were not more than there were old men in former dayes Lipsius saith He never read of a greater plague for continuance in any part of the Earth In Justinians dayes at Constantinople sometimes 10000 have died In Numidia sometimes as Orosius reports 800000 In the time of Petrarch at Florence between March and July a hundred thousand died And it was so violent in Italy that of a thousand men scarce ren remained In the yeer 1348 the Plague destroyed so many at London in twelve Moneths that in one Church yard 50000 were buried Between January and July there died 57374 What shall I say of the English Sweat which thrice passed over the whole Island the last was in the yeer 1551. Nor must we think that the Pox is now more violent than it was formerly This very disease saith Fracastorius will dy and be extinct and again it will revive in our Posterity as it is credible it was seen by our Ancestours of which there are no small tokens yet remaining But as for the Scurvey which is nothing else than a Melancholique and Malignant Cachexie of the body and some suppose it to be proper to the inhabitants of the North and the Sea Coast It proceeds from obstruction of the Milt by Melancholique dregs corrupted by some secret malignant quality with weaknesse of the Attractive and the expulsive faculties and is not without some great hurt of the rest of the bowels of the belly whence ariseth an itchy rednesse of the gums flagging corruption and stinking falling out of the teeth or weaknesse of the Legs resolution wannesse and exceeding wearinesse from a very small cause That the Ancients were ignorant of this is most false For Hippocrates as Langius writes doth describe it under the name of the ●liac passion or Volvulus Haematites in lib. de intern affssect and also under great milts in the same book And lib. 2. Prorrhetic he confirms it Galen in lib. Definit describes the Scurvie That it is a kinde of Palsie that if men be affected with it they cannot walk straight forward but sometimes they reel from the right hand to the left and they bring about their left foot against their right and they are forced to knock their right foot against their left and when they go forward ●hey lift up their leg Some again out of Galen would call it the Black Morphew But true 〈◊〉 is that a great Plague this time ten yeers spread in England Italie France and other places but what doth this make for a universall declining of Air to a worse condition The violence of Fires underground seem to have respect to this which were very raging in former times as we know for certain When Titus Vespasian and Flavius Domitian were Consuls the Mountain Vesuvius in Campania burned and first breaking up the top of it it cast forth stones after such vast flames that it set two towns on fire Herculaneum Pompeys towns and the smoke was so thick that it obscured the Suns light Lastly it sent forth such abundance of Ashes that they covered the neighbour countrey as if they were snow which by the force of the winds were said to be carried into Egypt Africa and Syria The City Julianum they are the words of the most prudent Historian being joyned to us was afflicted with an unexpected mischief For fires breaking forth of the Earth laid bold of Farms Fields Villages in many places and they flew to the very walls of Col●n newly built nor could they be extinguished by the falling of rain or by river waters or any other moysture untill for want of remedy and for anger at the losse some countrey men did cast stones on a far off and as the flames gave way they went neerer and with strokes of clubs and other things they frighted them away as men do wilde beasts Last of all they took off their clothes from their bodies and threw upon them the worse they were and defiled with wearing the better they served to put out the Fire That also was wonderfull that fell out in the Kingdom of Naples neer to Puteoli in the yeer 1538 the 29 of September The Sea retreated 200 paces and a Mountain at two of the clock at night riss up with a huge noise and casting forth of burning stones and with such a belching forth of ashes that not onely almost all the houses were thrown down but also the famous hot Baths at Tripergula The mighty Fires of Aetna and of some other Mountains in India are to be seen in my Book of the Wonders of Nature Let every man consider whether the like hath hapned in latter times Concerning that which is newly written of the mountain of Coles in the Countrey of Misena or of Modernus in Italy that Agricola speaks of or that which is written of Hecla by Bleshaenius or of S. Michaels Island which is one of the Azores seems not to be compared with them Article III. The Element of water is decayed in nothing WEe see at this day a threefold tide a daily monethly and yeerly Tide that Posidonius ascribes to the Sea That it is Salt as formerly is discerned by the taste It sends forth rivers from it and receives them again upon their return If waters are seen now where they never were before on the contrary waters do fail from the places where they formerly were It is manifest that in the yeer 1460 a Ship was found in the Alps with Anchors in a Mine where they digged Metals And Hierome writes that after the death of Julian Ships were brought to the Clifts of Mountains and hung there And Though no Fountains last for aye But all rivulets still decay Yet the great Rivers Indus and Ganges Danubius the Rhien and Nilus have not at all changed their courses as is to be seen in the Geographicall Descriptions Especially the constant course of Nilus for so many Ages seems to be one of the wonders of the World For it keeps its time so exactly that if you take any of the earth about it and neither moysten it nor dry it it will keep alwaies the same weight untill the 17 of June From thence is the weight increased as the river augments and gives an infallible testimony of the ensuing Flood It is known that some Mineral Baths have perished but it is no question but others are risen in their rooms Necham writes most truly of the Baths of England For to releive old age decaid ther 's none Before our English Baths were ever known If men he be bruis'd or broke or fainting lie Sick from a cold cause her'e 's the remedy

disclos'd your full Intent T is a graeat wonder for your friend to see His Needle travers o're the A. B. C. Guided by yours that so wide doth lye Distant from his and so to read thereby Each word you there make and if then he please He may so send to you again with ease When you have done and when your style stands still He can by 's Needle write back what he will I would this writing were once brought in use Then should our Letters suffer no abuse Thei 'd need no Posts nor need they stop or stay They 'd safely passe and swiftly no delay From Theevs nor Seas nor Rivers need we fear It were all one thing to be far or neere Then Princes might their own dispatches make With their own hands what ere they undertake We Scribes that swim in Inkes black Sea might then Offer up to the Load-stone every pen. Thus for Srtada Haseatefferus write that the like may be done by blood drawn forth of the veins of two friends As for particular Inventions many might be instanced in that surpasse Architas his Pigeon Archimaedes his Globe of Glasse Homers Iliads writ in parchment and put into a Nutshell the Ship and the Chariot of Myrmecidas that was covered with the Wings of a little Bee this with the wings of a Fly Albertus M. made a Statue that spake he was thirty yeers in making it and Thomas Aquinas brake it Regiomontanus made an Eagle that at Norimberg met Caesar Maximilian and hung over his head directly and bore him company into the City He made also a Fly of Steel that flew out of his hands and flew back again into his hands when it had first flew round about all the guests at a banquet and in a manner saluted them all A generous Gentleman Johannes Christophorus de Berg affirms that he hath an Invention that with one turn of a Wheel made by a boy of 16 yeers old he would rayse 800. weight 60 foot high The Coach that saild with the Winde that Stevinus invented is well known of which Grotius writes thus Typhis first made a Ship with sails which Jove Did soon translate amongst the Stars above But Stevins brought it on the Earth to sail Typhis and Joves may Stevin's shall not fail He affirms elsewhere that he could run-with it seventeen miles in two hours I beleeve also that Cornelius Drebbils wonderfull Sphere is not unknown wherein he did by vertue of a perpetuall Motion represent the constant and most apparent Motions and Laws of the Heavens and the Stars and the Predestinations of Times and Motions in them But what shall we think of that Instrument by means whereof he changeth himself into divers forms of Trees and living Creatures and makes an appearance as if the Earth opened and Spirits came forth of it First in the form of a Cloud and then changing themselves into another shape that he commands them be it of Alexander the great or of some other King or Prince I will say nothing of his Ship that swam under the Waters and an Optick Instrument wherewith in a Starlight night he could read Letters a quarter of a mile from him Jacobus Metius brother to Adrian Metius invented a Perspective Glasse whereby he could take the heighth of any Towre or body that was distant from him three Holland Leagues as exactly as if he stood close by it and he could see cleerely into England from his own Shore And he discovered other things concerning the Globe of the Moon of the Milkie way and of Stars which Astronomers hitherto called Cloudy Stars and of other Wandring Stars about Jupiter an Invention now adayes which the Ancients never knew of Galilaeus Galileaei hearing the fame of this Instrument saith he came to the Invention of such an other by the help whereof he descried those Observations in the body of the Moon and innumerable fixed Stars the Milkie Circle Clowdy Stars and the four Planets and their periods about Jupiter The same person mentioned before proceded to search out with geat care and study an Instrument of the like kinde and he hoped to finde it whereby out of our Horizon in the Opposite Hemisphere beyond the bounder of the Hemispheres he might observe all the Stars there as if they were apparent in that part of the world we live in What shall we say of that Musicall Instrument that by the perpetuall moveable or moving vertue of the same as the Artificer reported in a clear day the Sun shining forcibly only by the Sun beams that musicall Genius being roused thereby without touching the instrumentall parts with your hand would make most Heavenly Musick But who is able to recckon up all If those things be true that Mormius hath set forth in his Arcanis Rosianis lately at Leyden in Holland but beleeve them that will his example were enough to oppose against all Antiquity As for the art of Navigation we need not prove it to be more perfect now than formerly it was I. The Antients writ on Hercules Pillars Non ultra And Lucan writes thus of the first Ships First the white Willow whilst the Twigs were green Twisted into a Ship and covered with a Hide The bottome was on Waters to be seen The Britans over Seas in this would ride And the Venetians on the river Po. II. Fracostorius and Acosta confesse that we read no where in Antient Writers that men did ever sail into the Main Ocean But the Phoenicians Carthagenians Tyrians and Sidonians made choice of the shore III. Lastly in the times of our Fathers the whole world hath been compassed round by Americus Drake Candish and in our times by Oliver Van Nort Schoutenius Spilbergen L'Heremite and strange Voiages into the North parts have been undertaken by the English and Dutch Moreover the precepts of the Art of Navigation are written by Petrus Medina and Baptista Ramusius and the publike Lectures appointed by Charles the fifth are yet in use But it cannot be granted to be true which Vatablus and Arias Montanus say with whom Als●ed seems to agree that Ophir from whence Solomon fetched Gold and Elephants Teeth should be Peru by transmutation of the Letters For in the West Indies there are no Elephants and when under Franciscus Pizarrus the Countries of Attabaliba were discovered and the Spanlards that understand not the language described with their hands water or any thing they would have the Indian answered Peru that is water So Juca●an which Montanus thinks had the name from Joktan is nothing else but What say you What seek you To rehearse the Opinion of Pineda whereby he applies the name of Tartessi to Tartesso in Spain is enough to answer it For there are no veins of Gold so plentifull unlesse perhaps they were carried into the New World and brought back again in their great Gallions Since therefore it is so it is most certain that Arts by Times succession have suffered no

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

Concerning the English Spaws See Edmund Dean Doctor of Physick at Yorke his Spadocrene Article IIII. The Element of Earth hath faild in nothing IF the Earth had faild in any thing it must either be in quantity or fruitfulness For Aelian in his time writes that Aetna Parnassus Olympus did appear daily to grow lesse as Sea-Men observed But Palaestina though it were but a small Countrey yet it was large enough for Thirty Kings that were Idolaters and withall fed such multitudes of the Israelites that in a war between Israel and Judah 1200000 Men met to say nothing of the Sacrifice made at the Dedication of the Temple or of that other spoken of elsewhere in the Chronicles Yet the Conclusion cannot by any means be granted For what is spoken of Mountains is not confirmed concerning the whole Earth which hath the same Dimensions now it formerly had For this falls out by reason of rain water and the Sea and what departs from the Mountains falls upon Valleys whereupon Anaxagoras being asked whether the Sea should ever overflow the Mountains of Lamsacum he answered Yes when time should fail For as nothing is lost by the Sea when the Rivers run from it because they return again so the earth loseth nothing by things that grow from it and are fed by it because all turn at last into earth as Lucretius writes Therefore the Earth hath gaind the Mothers Name For all born of her return to the same That which is spoken of the Holy Land it seems that we ought to ascribe that to the particular benediction of God and also to the promise made for the supply of the Sabbatical yeer But B●●cardus writes thus of it before 300 yeers were past The Corn growes and increaseth wonderfully upon the Earth not manured with dung and soil The Fields are like Gardens wherein there growes every where Fennell Sage Rue Rosen and in brief there are found all the worlds goods and the Land truly flows with Rivers of Milk and Honey And though it be said that it hath lost something of its wonted fruitfulnesse Yet on the contrary other countreys here there other places have received new forces to become fruitfull it is no doubt but that did fal out by a singular curse from God and for the wickednesse of the Inhabitants We saith Columella assigne the businesse of Husbandry to the basest of our servants as to a hangman for punishment whereas the best and Noblest of our Ancestours used it themselves The earth did heretofore enjoy a plow with a Garland and a triumphant Plowman We must do therefore as Mises did if we would have Pomegranates as great as he offred to Artaxerxes Should I ad to these that there was greater famine amongst our Ancestours and that the price of things were greater I should not erre In the yeer 1625 there was a mighty Famine and in 1630 in Poland which otherwise is held for the Granary almost of all Europe For four bushells of Corn that were wont to be sold for three Franks were prized at 18 Franks But what is this to things past In the time of Valentine Fathers in a Famine sold their children that they might avoid the hazard of death In the time of Honorius they proclaimed in the Market place Set price to Mans flesh Livy writes that many of the common people at Rome that they might not pine away with lingering hunger did cover their heads and cast themselves into Tyber The same thing hapned in England in the yeer of Christ 514 in the dayes of Cissa King of the South Saxons As for the price Varro writes that L. Axius a Romane Knight would not part with a pair of Pigeons for lesse than 400 Denarii and it may be now Sparrows are sold for lesse then a farthing Proposition IIII. The World in respect of mixt bodies both Inanimate and Animate creatures without reason doth not grow worse A Mixt body is divided into Inanimate and an Animate body under that Meteors and Minerals are contained under this Plants Animals and Mankinde Wherefore it seems very necessary that for the more perfect handling of this question these things should severally be demonstrated But because there is a proper Article assigned for Man by himself by reason that he affords such plenty of matter we set down here onely three Articles I. It cannot be proved by the Meteors that the world runs to worse II. Mineralls have not faild III. Neither Plants nor Animals have decayed at all Article I. From Meteors it cannot be proved that the world growes worse FOr neither have those things faild that serve for our profit nor are things hurtful lesse hurtfull now th●n they were formerly nor are they lesse frequent Rain and Snow do now as well make the earth fruitfull Dew waters it the Winde ventilates the Air and the fiery exhalations purifie it Do we not now see Rain-bows and other Meteors as well as formerly As for things hurtfull In the yeer N. C. 634 when the Jugurthine war began it rained Milk three dayes and in the third yeer that the wars proved successefull against Jugurtha some write that it rained Milk twice See a rain of flesh in Livie Albertus relates out of Avicennas that a great masse of Iron weighing a 100 pound fell out of the Air and of that afterwards the best swords were made When Hannibal with his Army broke into Italy it rained fire-Stones When Titus Annius Milo pleaded his cause at Rome it raind burnt Brick and it was recorded in the Acts of that yeer Our age speaks no such things It is true the Clowds fell in Selesia about Goldeberga but Was not a greater fall of them seen in Franconie Anno. 1551 An infinite multitude saith Bartholinus of Men and beasts were drowned by a sudden tempest clowds falling unawares and rain being powred forth in heaps so that the strongest walls of many Cities Vineyards gallant Buildings were destroyed utterly What shall I speak of Earthquakes comets winds and thunder There appeared as the Earl of North-Hampton writes four Comets in four yeer And Beda and Paulus Aemilius say that in fourteen days in the time of Charles Martell there were two seen one at the Suns rising the other at the Suns setting There was such a great one when Attalus Raigned that it was as large as that place in the Heavens called Via lactea And in the yeer 1556. there was one so great that not onely all light exspirations and dry matter no nor all Woods and groves as many as are upon the face of the earth could serve for Fuel for its two Moneths time wherein it shined Was there any such thing in our dayes Truly I know no example of it and should I meet with any such yet this would conclude nothing for the universall ruine of the world For if when the exhalations are

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