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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

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

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