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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

Canopy Q. What is that which hath a voice but no Body speaks yet understands not itself what it says is often heard but never seen A. It is an Eccho said by Ovid to be a fair Maid that pined her self away to nothing for love Qu. Who are those amongst men that attempted to fly like birds A. Daedalus and Icarus Also one of our British Kings if the History of Geoffry of Monmouth be true who attempting to play the Fowl or rather the Fool fell down and brake his neck This King's name was Bladud It is also said that of late years an Italian flew from the top of St. Mark 's Tower in Venice and did it without hurt Q. What likeness have false men to countterfeit money A. Man and money a mutual falshood show Man makes false money money makes man so Q. To what are Souldiers in peace compared unto A. To Chimneys in Summer for though in hot weather we have no extraordinary need of Chimneys yet we do not pull them down as knowing that Winter will come in like manner Soldiers are continued in Peace either to prevent or to be ready if War do come Q. Amongst all Beasts and Birds which are of most beautiful and various colours yet not without some parts of great deformity A. The Peacock among Birds and the Panther among Beasts the first hath a very goodly Train but foul Feet The other a gay Body but deformed Head and therefore it is said that wanting Food and being a Beast but of slow pace she hideth her head whereat all the other Beasts come about her to wonder at her Beauty but coming within the reach of her Claws she catcheth them and makes them become her food Q. To what are out-side Gallants likened unto A. To Cinnamon trees whose bark is better than their whole body Q. What was the old saying concerning Friends A. That it was good to have Friends but bad to need their help since true friendship indeed is very rare No such friends to be found now adays as was Damon and Pythias Alexander and Lodowick Musidorus and Pyrocles Friendship extending now no further than profit according as one wittily versifies Friends like to leaves that on the Trees do grow In Summers prosperous state much love will shew But art thou in adversity then they Like leaves from trees in Autumn fall away He happy is that hath a friend indeed But he more happy that no friend doth need Q. What makes silver look so pale A. To this Diogenes the Cynick answers that it is because so many lies in wait for it Q. Why is it said 't is good to have a wolf cross the way and bad to have a Hare cross it A. By this is meant that when a Wolf crosses away from us it is good luck that we scape him and if a Hare it is bad luck that that scapes us but for any future things that is boded by them I am of the opinion of Cato who when one would needs know what harm attended him by reason that Rats had gnawn his Hose he answered That it was no strange thing to see that but it had been much more strange if his Hose had eaten the Rats Q. Who was the two men the one whereof was never born but died the other was born but never died Ans Adam and Enoch Q. Why do so many men praise poverty and yet covet after riches A. Their actions shew they mean not as they say for although the poor are accounted blessed yet most of them are of Ovid's mind Non tamen haec tanti est pauper ut esse velim Though blessings be for them in store To be their Heir I 'de not be poor Q. Who was the greatest Traveller in his time A. Sir Francis Drake who first put a Girdle about the world of whom a Wit in that Age thus descants Drake who th' encomapss'd Earth so fully knew And whom at once both Poles of Heaven did view Should men forget thee Sol could not forbear To Chronicle his Fellow-Traveller Q. What is the most beautiful thing in the world A. One said the Sun which if so then were blind men of all others most miserable but certainly virtue is most resplendent of all things and which is to be discerned by the eyes of the Soul wherein blind men of all others have the greatest help of Contemplation Q. What is the heaviest burthen that the earth bears A. Sin which is more ponderous than the biggest Mountains or greatest Piles of buildings for it weigheth down even to Hell Q. Which is the longest Letter in the Alphabet A. The letter L. which is more than a yard long Q. Which is the most unnecessary Letter in the Alphabet A. K. because C. is of the same sound Q. What three Vowels are most pernicious to Debtors A. These three IOV. Q. What two words are those that trouble the world A. Meum and Tuum Thine and Mine Q. What are the principal causes of the greatness of Cities A. Although they are many in number yet they are reduced principally to these seven 1. A Navigable River by which there may be continual concourse of Merchants as may be seen by Venice Amsterdam Constantinople and our Metropolitan City of London which as it is thought had it not been for the River of Thames would not have gone on so forward in the rebuilding since that terrible conflagration thereof by fire which may be evidenced in that the buildings towards the River side were the first begun and are the forwardest in finishing 2. The Palace of the Prince for where the Court is there will be continually store of Nobility and Gentry which enriches Tradesmen by selling commodities to them one instance whereof we have by Madrid in Spain which is grown from a mean Village to a very populous City only by the Kings Court. 3. The Residence of the Nobility by whom beautiful Buildings and stately Structures are raised to the great adornment thereof as may be seen in the Cities of Italy where their Nobles and Gentry constantly reside as ours do in Towns and Villages 4. The Seat or Tribunal of Justice which invites Lawyers and their Clients thither in abundance to the great enriching thereof as may be evidenced by the Parliamentary Cities of France and Spiers in Germany 5. Universities or publick Schools of Learning which draw thither the Sons of several Noble persons and Gentlemen from the adjoyning Counties to the great benefit and profit thereof as Paris well knoweth Oxford Collen and several other places 6. Immunities from Taxes and Impositions which cause many persons to come and inhabit in such places their Income being thereby greatest and their Priviledges most as in Naples Florence and Venice which being almost desolate by a Plague were again very suddenly peopl'd by granting Immunities to all Comers 7. The last but not the least is opinion of Sanctity as was evidenced in former times bp the City of Canterbury to

of him what his intent was To whom he answer'd To roast your Goose Upon Latine A Company of Countrey fellows disputing of Learning and what a crooked hard and intricate a thing it was to be a good Scholar Truly says one and so it is for I have heard your best Latine is in Crooked-Lane The Fellow and Miller ONe being much abused by a Miller the fellow at last told him that he thought that there was nothing that he could imagine more valiant than the Collar of a millers shirt and being asked what reason he had to think so he answered Because every morning it had a thief by the neck Of Womens pride AN ancient Tradesman living in London had a wife who carried a very stately ●ind and delighted very much in brave ap●rel Upon a time walking abroad with other women her neighbors they espied pair of silk Stockings upon her Legs which made them not to let their Husbands ●e in quiet till they also had the like Their ●●sbands unwilling to be at that charge and ●t loth to displease their wives went to the ●●cient Gentleman and said Sir the suffe●nce of your wifes pride hath spoiled all ●rs for since she hath worn Silk Stockings ●r wives have grown so importunate that ●ey must needs have the like and you are ●e chiefest cause in suffering her to wear the ●●me O my good neighbors said the Gentleman I have great cause in doing so for seeing I ●●nnot please my wife above the knees I must ●eds please her below the knees and the only ●ay to please a woman is to let her have her will A Gentleman and his Huntsman A Gentleman that used to hunt very much being at the fall of a mighty Stag whi●st he was breaking open he began to fall in●● discourse with this Huntsman averring ●●at not any creature upon earth had a more ●ick and tough skin than a well grown Stag. ●o which the Huntsman answer'd Sir if it ●e not offensive to correct you I am not of ●our Worships mind for I do think many ●●ke creatures have skins tougher than any ●ag in the Forrest His Master desirous to ●ow the reason of his opinion askt him that creatures those were To which the Huntsman answered Marry Sir Cuckolds for I could never meet with any Stag whose hide was so tough but that his horns would break out and branch from his brows but the skin of a Cuckolds forehead is so hate and impenetrable that be his horns never so wide and large they are kept so within that they are never known to be outwardly visible On a Spanish Soldier A Spanish Souldier being very sick expecting death every moment made hi● Will bequeathing amongst other things hi● Pistol in an especial manner to his Physician who demanding his reason for so doing O Sir said he that Instrument joyn'd with you● Practice you need not to fear but you may kill whom you please On a Gallants Cloak ONe seeing a Gallant who had on a Cloa● which was all plain without and plush within said that Cloak is far different from the Wearer who is worst within and be● without Horses to be Lett. A Countrey fellow riding to London by chance casting his eyes upon a Sign read these words Here are Horses to be Lett 1664. which was the year when the Sign wa● first set up but he imagining it to be th● number of the Horses turned to his Companion and said so many Horses in one plac● to be hired* I much marvel what shift they make for stable-room Upon a Pint of Claret TWo Gentlemen coming into a Tave● one of them call'd for a pint of Clare● why do you love Claret said the other for my part I 'le see it burnt before I 'le drink a drop of it Of Rape-seed A Handsome young fellow having seen a Play at the Red-Bull after it was done came to one of the Players and desired him ●f his leisure would permit to accept of a bottle of Wine for his better acquaintance which being accepted the Player desir'd him ●o go as far as the Kings-head in St. Johns●treet and he would as soon as he had made himself ready attend him there In the mean time to keep him company he desired ●s friend of his to go along with him promi●ing to come to them instantly But staying ● pretty space his friend desired to be excu●ed he having some business to do but enga●ed to be there in a quarter of an hour The ●layer comes in the mean space and finding ●he Gentleman alone when his friend came ●e began to chide him for his absence He ●resently craved pardon and begins to excuse himself that he had been abroad to buy Rape-seed and that he stayed to feed his birds ●t the word of Rape-seed the man rose from ●he Table in great anger telling the Player ●hat he came in courtesie to desire his acquaintance and to bestow the Wine upon ●im not thinking he would have called that ●ellow up to abuse him they wondring that he meant he proceeded 'T is true indeed I was arraigned the last Sessions at ●ew-gate for a R●pe but I thank God I came ●ff like an honest man l●●●le thinking to be w●●ted of it here Both began to excuse themselves as well as they might pleading ignorance of the knowledge of any such thing But he that gave the offence thinking the better to express his innocence young Gentleman said he to shew you how far I was from any intention of wronging you look you here as I have Rape-seed in one pocket for one Bird so here is Hemp-seed on this side for another At which word Hemp-seed saith the young man why villain dost the● think I have deserved hanging and took up the pot to fling at his head but his hand was stayed and as error and mistake began the quarrel so wine ended it A Ladies Serving-man A Lady sending her Serving-man to the Play-house to know what was playd that day one of the Players told him 'T is pity she was a Whore a Play so called which the fellow mis-understanding told them they were base rogues to call his Lady Whore who was as honest as any of their Mothers On a Play-book ONe having a Play-book call'd the Wit● which he much valued by chance lo●● it for which he fell in a very great passion one of his friends coming in the interim an● asking the cause of his distemper it was answered that he had lost his Wits An Ignorant Constable TWo Gentlemen of Stepny going home wards over Moor-fields about twelve of the Clock at night were staid by an impetinent Constable with many frivolous questions more by half to shew his Office than 〈◊〉 wit one whereof was If they were not afraid to go home at that time of the night They answering no Well said he I shall let you pass at this time but if you should be knockt on the head before you get home you cannot but report that there was

ground remaining a deep pit August 4. Anno 1584. At the end of the Town call'd Nottingham in Kent eight miles from London the ground began to sink three great Elms being swallowed up and driven into the Earth past mans sight March 17. 1586. A strange thing happened Mr. Dorrington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire had a Horse which dyed suddenly and being ripped up to see the cause of his death there was found ●n a hole of the heart of the Horse a Worm of a wondrous form it lay on a round heap ●n a Kall or Skin in the likeness of a Toad which being taken out and spreed abroad was in form and fashion not easie to be described the length of which worm divided into many grains to the number of eighty spread from the body like the branches of a Tree was from the snout to the end of the longest grain seventeen inches having four Issues in the grains from whence dropped forth a red water The body in bigness round about was three inches and a half the colour was very like the colour of a Maycril This monstrous worm crawling about to have got away was stabbed in with a dagger and so died which after being dryed was shown to many persons of account for a great rarity Sunday December 5. in the thirty eighth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign a great number of people being assembled in the Cathedral Church of Wells in Sommersetshire in the Sermon time before noon a sudden darkness fell among them and storm and tempest follow'd after with lightning and thunder such as overthrew to the ground them that were in the body of the Church and all the Church seemed to be on a ligat fire a loathsome stench followed some stones were stricken out of the Bell-Tower the Wyers and Irons of the Clock were melted which tempest being ceased and the people come again to themselves some of them were found to be marked with strange figures on their bodies and their garments not perished nor any marked that were in the Chancel How daily ought we then for to pray thus From Lightning and Tempest Lord deliver us Anno 1604. in the Reign of King James John Lepton of Kepwick in the county of York Esquire a Gentleman of an ancient Family and of good reputation his Majesties Servant and one of the Grooms of his most honourable privy Chamber performed so memorable a journey as deserves to be recorded to future ages because many Gentlemen who were good Horse-men and divers Physicians did affirm it was impossible for him to do without apparent danger of his life He undertook to ride five several times betwixt London and York in six dayes to be taken in one week betwixt Munday morning and Saturday night He began his journey upon munday being the 26 of May in the year aoresaid betwixt two and three of the Clock n● the morning forth of Saint Martins near Aldersgate within the City of London and came to York the same day betwixt the hours of five and six in the afternoon where he rested that night The next morning being Tuesday about three of the clock he took his journey forth of York and came to his lodging in Saint Martins aforesaid betwixt the hours of six and seven in the afternoon where he rested that night The next morning being Wednesday betwixt two and three of the clock he took his journey forth of London and came into York about seven of the clock the same day where he rested that night the next morning being Thursday betwixt two and three of the Clock he took his journey forth of York and came to London the same day betwixt seven and eight of the clock where he rested that night the next morning being Fryday betwixt two and three of the clock he ●ook his journey towards York and came thither the same day betwixt the hours of seven and eight in the afternoon so as he finished his appointed journey to the admiration of all men in five days according to his promise and upon Munday the seven and twentieth of the same Moneth he went from York and came to the Court at Greenwich upon Tuesday the 28. to his Majesty in as fresh and cheerful manner as when he first began Anno 1608. in the fifth year of King James upon the 19. of February when it should have been low water at London-Bridge quite contrary to course it was then high water and presently it ebbed almost half an hour the quantity of a foot and then suddenly it flowed again almost two foot higher than it did before and then ebbed again until it came to its course almost as it was at first so that the next flood began in a manner as it should and kept its due course in all respects as if there had been no shifting nor alteration of Tydes all this happened before twelve a clock in the forenoon the water being indifferent calm And now we are come to our own memory viz. the Reign of King Charles the First in which we find that there was a Fish taken and sold in Cambridge Market which had in its belly a book of an ancient print part whereof was consumed but enough left to be legibly read as you may find in Mr. Hammond Lestrange his History of King Charles the first The wonder of his time old Thomas Parre a Shropshire man who attained to the age of 152 years and odd months being afterwards brought up to the Court as a miracle of nature but having changed his air and dyet he soon after dyed and was buried in Westminster Abbey The Woman at Oxford which was condemned upon a supposed crime having hanged a good space and being by the Soldiers knockt divers times on the breast with the but-end of their Muskets to put her the sooner out of her pain yet afterwards when she was cut down and ready to be Anatomized there was life perceived in her and by applying some things unto her she recover'd her memory and senses was afterwards found guiltless of the fact married and had three or four children June the second Anno 1657. a Whale of a prodigious bulk being sixty foot in length and of a proportionable bigness was cast on shore not far from Green-wich which was lookt upon to be a great presage of some wonderful matters soon after to ensue and indeed the event proved it to be true for not long after Cromwel full sore against his will in a great wind was hurryed away into another World The last but not the least wonder is of one Martha Taylor hear to Packwel in Darbyshire who from Saint Thomas day in the year ● four Lord 1667. to the present writing hereof being the 11. day of January 1668. hath not asted any sustenance in all that time she ●s still living and audible to be heard but more like an anatomy or Picture of death than ● living creature Qu. What other wonders are there to be

dayes which the Solar year doth exceed the Lunar the one consisting of 365 dayes the other of 354 so that in every 4 years there is added a number more than 30 which being greater than the Epact can be for from change to change there can be but 30 days therefore 30 being taken from that excess the remainder is the Epact for the next year The Epact is thus found out multiply the Golden Number of the year by 11. the product whereof if it be under 30 is the Epact but if it be above 30. they divide the product by 30. and the remainder shall be the Epact Qu. What is the Circle of the Sun An. The Circle of the Sun is a Revolution of 28 years in which time the Dominical Letters make all their several changes and is called the Solar Circle because it comprehends all the varieties and changes that the Sunday Letter can have Qu. What is the meaning of the Dominical Letter An. The Dominical Letter is alwaies one of these seven A. B. C. D. E. F. G. and sheweth the Sunday Letter all the year But in Bissextile or Leap-year there be two Dominical Letters whereof the first holdeth from the beginning of January to St. Mathias Eve and the other to the years end The Golden Number and the Dominical Letter change the first of January and the Epact the first of March Easter day never talleth lower than the 23 of March nor higher than the 25 of April Shrove sunday hath his range between the first of February and the 7 of March Whit-sunday between the 10 of May and the 13 of June and for a Rule for Shrovetide the Tuesday after the change of the Moon in February is always Shrove Tuesday Qu. What causes the Eclipses and Full of the Moon An. The Eclipse of the Moon is caused by the interposition of the Earth betwixt the Sun and her for she being a dark body of her self and having no light but what she borrows by reflection from the Sun so far as the Earth interposes so much of her is darkened The cause of the Sans Eclipse is when the Moon passes betwixt the Sun and us and shadows some of the body thereof from our sight so that what part is interposed by the Moon cannot be seen by us by reason she is a dark body hiding the same from our sight The Moon being in right opposition against the Sun causes her to be at the full as her increase is by drawing nearer to opposition and her decrease by departing further off Qu. Of what substance be the Stars what are their motions and what causeth blazing Stars An. The Stars are of the same substance with the Moon thick aad not transparent as the Heavens borrowing all their light from the Sun being otherwise of themselves dark bodies and shine as well in the day as the night though by reason of the Suns refulgent beams they are not obvious to our sight And as for their motion it is the same of the Heavens wherein they are placed Shooting or blazing Stars are hot fumes of a thick substance like glew which being exhaled above in the air and bovering alost until it be kindled flyes like a squib through the Air but if it mount to a higher place and there be kindled it turneth to a blazing Star A brief discourse of the natural cause of Airy Meteors as Snow Hail Rain c. YOu must first understand that there be four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth the Fire is hot and dry the Air hot and moist the Water cold and moist and the Earth cold and dry These four Elements are the simples whereof all things under the Moon are made compounded and mixt Of Rain Rain is a cold vapour and earthly humour drawn from the Earth by the vertue of the Sun and the rest of the Planets into the middle Region of the Air where by the extremity of cold it is thickned into the body of a Cloud which the wind driving before it it doth dissolve and fall upon the Earth Of Snow Snow is ingendred of Rain the Cloud congealing through extremity of cold but not altogether so hard as Hail Pliny writes that the Hail sooner melts than Snow and that Hail falls oftner in the day than the night Of Hail Hail is likewise ingendred of Rain which the excessive cold when the Cloud dissolves freezes the drops and congeals into Ice whereby great and irregular stones do sometimes fall on the Earth Stow in his Annals reports that in the time of King Henry the 8. Anno 1545 there fell in Lancashire Hail-stones as big as mens fists and that which is most strange some were of the shape of mens faces others were fashioned like Gun-holes c. In the 23 year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth August 12. Anno 1581. there fell a great shower of Hailstones which were fashioned like the Rowels of spurs and were two or three inches about Of Frost and Dew Dew is a thin vapour which through the faint heat of the Suns elevating it self but a little from the Earth presently at night descendeth again which in the Spring-time is called Dew but in the Winter by means of cold being congealed it is called Frost Of Wind. Wind is hot and dry fumes drawn from the Earth by the Stars which seeking to fly to the Sun is by the freezing cold driven back but from the fields fumes another fire which carries them back again so that thereby together with the confluence of other exhalations rising out of the Earth his motion is forced to be rather round than right and the reason why he bloweth more sharply one time than another and in some places more than others and sometimes not at all is fumes arising out of new exhalations and out of Floods Fenns and Marshes joyning with it to encrease his force the defect or dulness whereof may either allay or increase it as also the Globe or rotundity of the Earth may be the cause of the blowing of it more in one place than in another or Mountains Hills or Woods may hinder his force from blowing in all places eqnal whereas upon the Plain and broad Sea it bloweth with an equal force and as for the stilness or ceasing thereof it cometh to pass divers ways either by frost closing or congealing up the pores of the earth whence it should issue or by the heat of the Sun drying up fumes and vapors that should encrease it and whereof it is ingendred Of Earth-quakes Earth-quakes are caused by plenty of wind which getting into the holes and caverns of the earth and wanting a vent the earth closing again causeth the shaking or Earth-quake which is more violent according to the quantity of wind so inclosed Anno 1580. in the 22 year of Queen Elizabeths Reign happened a terrible Earth-quake at London and generally throughout all England by violence whereof the great Clock-bell a● Westminster struck against the hammer as divers

Clock-bells did both in City and Countrey In London a piece of the Temple Church fell down In the late dissolved Church called the Grey-Fryers now called Christ-Church in the Sermon time one stone falling from the Church killed a young man outright and another stone so bruised a Maid that she lived but four days after the Man and the Maid being fellow Servants in one House divers were bruised and run out of the Church Some stones fell off from the Church of St. Pauls in London and some from the Church of St. Peters at Westminster divers Chimneys lost their tops and Ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to totter this Earthquake did not continue above a quarter of an hour in London but in divers parts in Kent it held them so terrible that the people went out of their Houses for fear they should fall on their heads Of the Rain-Bow The Rain-bow is only the Suns reflection on a hollow Cloud which the edge being repelled and beaten back against the Sun from thence ariseth much variety of colours by reason of the mixture of clouds air and fire-light together If two Rain bows appear at one time they presage Rain to ensue but if one Rain-bow presently after Rain it betokeneth fair weather Of Thunder and Lightning When hot and dry vapours mixt with moisture is exhaled up into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a Cloud these two contraries not agreeing together break forth with great violence so that fire and water break out of the cloud making a roaring noise which we call Thunder and the fire Lightning the Thunder is first made but the Lightning first seen in regard the sight is quicker than the hearing which to prove observe but at some distance when a man is cleaving of blocks or a Carpenter hewing a log and you shall see the fall of the beetle or Ax some little distance of time before you hear the noise of the blow Now of Lightnings there be many sorts that which is dry burneth not all but dissipateth and disperseth its self moist burneth not likewise but blasts and changeth the colour but the clear is of a strange property for it melteth the sword and not singeth the scabberd it draweth vessels dry without hurt to the vessels some rich misers have had their silver melted in their bags and purses and yet neither bag nor purse hurt nay not so much as the wax that sealeth the bag stirred It breaketh the bones and hurteth not the flesh and killeth the Child in the Mothers Womb not hurting the mother what great cause have we to pray as it is in the Letany from thunder and lightning good Lord deliver us What things are not burt with Lightning It entreth not past five foot into the earth it hurteth not the Laurel-Tree such are freed that are shadowed with the skins of Seals or Sea-Calves the Eagle is likewise free Pliny saith Scythia by reason of cold and Egypt by reason of the heat have seldom Lightning A Brief Deseri●tion of the World shewing what it is and of what Parts it consisteth together with other things well worthy of observation THe world may not unfitly be termed a large Theatre of the heavens and earth wherein are contained all bodies both simple and mixt The Greeks calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latine Universitas or Mandus all signifying with us the world It consisteth of two only parts the one Elemental and the other Coelestial The Elemental part contains the four Elements as Fire Air Water Earth The Coelestial parts contains seven several Orbs for the Planets and one for the fixed Stars above which is the Christalline Heaven the first mover which once in 24 hours carries the other round about the Earth and last of all the Empereal heaven the habitation for Saints and Angels with all the rest of Gods elect Within this coelestial part not these only are continued but also the Elemental part it self and whatsoever it containeth within the midst of his concavity by the divine providence of God hangs this dark and gross body of the Earth upon which we mortals live and in respect of the glorious Heavens we should scarce so much as fix our eyes upon it for God hath made us not as other Creatures with a dejected countenance but os homini sublime dedit he hath given to man a lofty and exact countenance according to that of the Poet And where all Beasts look down with groveling eye He gave to man looks mixt with majesty And bids him with expansed looks to view the Sky Plato the most divine amongst the Heathen affirmed that the chief cause why men had eyes given them was to behold the Heavens an admired spectacle of Gods Workmanship for though there be other ends for which we have our senses yet without question this is one and a main one to consider the glorious part of Gods creation and to search into the obstruse Mysteries thereof for God hath made nothing in vain he hath not made these glorious bodies only to be gazed at but to be searched into there being none of the humane sciences that draw us so near to God so that Ptolomy not unworthily in the beginning of his Almagest affirmeth Hanc unam scientiam esse viam ac semitam ad sciendum Deum altissimum which being understood cum grano salis will not be much different from the mind of St. Paul Rom. 1. 20. for the invisible things of God c. are seen by the Creation of the World In which place as all things created are understood so especially it should seem the coelestial bodies to be intended for these with their beauty magnitude and multitude and with the perpetual stability and wonderful variety of their invariable motions and effects do in a marvellous manner commend the wisdom and goodness of the glorious God and do exceeding much draw us to the admiration love and knowledge of him according to that excellent testimony of the kingly Prophet The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy work And again There is neither Speech nor Language but their Voice is heard among them Psalm 19. 1 2. And in Wisd 13. 4 5. saith Solomon But if they were astonished at their power and vertue let them understand by them how much mightier he is that made them For by the beauty and greatness of the Creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen And from hence sure it is that the Sideral science is by some not unfitly call'd Natural Theology Solid Orbs and Comets to be in the sublunary Region have been maintained by many both elder and later yet by the infallible observations and unparallel'd instruments joyned with the unwearied assiduity and almost invaluable expence of the Tres-noble Tyche they have been found altogether false The Heavens so framed are That they do all declare Gods Glory doth excel The Skyes and Firmament Bright clear and