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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63798	Tryon's letters upon several occasions ... by Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing T3184; ESTC R27544	228,706	258

are all circumscribed to certain Bounds Limits and Periods in their Motions Generation and Growth and that is most clear and it is witnessed by innumerable living Testimonies that for any person to pretend to do or attain to that which God his Law and the whole course and method of all Created Beings forbids on the peril of Gods high Displeasure It is true Mankind by Industry and Art hath found out many curious and useful things as that of Clocks and Watches which of late have been mightily improved and it is not to be doubted but that it will be still farther advanced in all Motions and Curiosities thereunto belonging but still Gods Eternal Law and his Handmaid Nature puts Bounds and Limits so that they cannot exceed their Circles all Arts Trades and Sciences take their Birth in Nature and the better Workman or more curious any Person is the more nearer he comes to Nature but however it is but an imitation of her for all Arts and Sciences Trades and whatsoever is done and performed by Mankind the Excellency thereof doth chiefly depend on the degrees of each Persons Judgment and their distinguishing that principle form quality and nature of the thing or materials they work on and according to the degrees of each Mans Judgment and distinguishing power such a Workman he becomes either better or worse the Original Principles of all Sciences Arts and Trades are the same for ever but the Superstructures or Building thereon do strangely and wonderfully vary either for the better or worse all according to the judgment and the degrees of distinguishing in the Workman for Nature hath bounded every Man in his Gifts and Talents for Arts and Sciences are beyond all Humane Number and Capacities however there are very few if any that attain to their highest limit in either Arts Trades Sciences Health or length of Days which have come to pass by the depraved and unnatural Methods Mankind have from one Generation to another embraced For this cause the more ignorant any Person is the more he values the Works of his Hand that is the Commodity he works on or makes up and indeed no Artist is so apt to bragg or be proud of his Work as he that wants a sound Judgment and a distinguishing Understanding such a Persons Hands goes as far as his Judgment he values that which one that has Understanding and doth distinguish the principal parts of such a peice cannot but that Person that hath a sound Judgment and doth distinguish the principles and parts of the matter or thing he works on such a one is rarely proud or conceited of his Art in himself whatever he may pretend to others for the sake of Gain or his Interest because his Judgment and Understanding went before or is greater than his Hands can perform by which Eye of Distinction he sees plainly that the peice of Work be it what it will may be better performed so that such a one is less apt to boast For this cause ordinary Workmen or such as are called Bunglers are more apt to boast and to be pleased than better Artists and if the curious Workmanship of some others of the same Trade did not clip the Wings of such Persons they would be exceeding proud of what they can do Now as is hinted before there are but few People in this Nation that ever do attain to the highest limit or number or become so curious in Arts Sciences and Trades as their Genious is capable of the Original or grand causes thereof are viz. First most or all Youth are too Old before they are amongst or communicate with such People that are of the same Trade Art or Science they are put to as we have more largely Discoursed in our new Method of Education for the younger and greener Children are the more capable they are of receiving all Characters and Impressions and for this cause if little Children were but accustomed to be amongst and constantly communicate some part of each day with hard working Tradesmen and though they were not able to do or perform any part of such Labour with their Hands nevertheless their Judgments and distinguishing Faculties of Nature will as it were unknown to themselves be improved and such when they come to be put to that Trade or Art shall obtain it in a shorter time and be more curious and better Workmen Secondly There is wanting a true natural method and form in the learning and doing of most things and the well ordering of Young People both in Meats Drinks and Communications for Temperance and Order are the Spring-heads that renders Mankind capable to attain to the highest limits of his natural Genius And on the other side for want of conduct and a proper management of the Humane Earth and of the Sowing in each sort of Land the most agreeable Seeds and that too in its due Season is the chief occasion that the greatest number are so deeply Depraved Insipid Ignorant Foolish and Intemperate knowing little or nothing either of God themselves not of the wonderful Works of their Maker for to be Ignorant is the greatest Evil in the World because it puts Mankind on a thousand Projections that have no principles nor ground in Nature some in one thing some in others which do ensnare and entangle the most ingenious Persons whose Gifts and Talents would have brought Honour to God and have been serviceable unto Men but for want of Prudence and a distinguishing mind all their Toil Labour and Industry hath chiefly served to Inslave themselves both in Body and Mind and to lead their ignorant Neighbours into the same Mischiefs and Inconveniences Therefore my Friend lay aside all natural Propensity to this Study and the Reading of Authors that treat of this matter and also consider what we have here presented you with and mind your Health which is deeply wounded or invaded on all sides which is the true method and means under God to preserve your own Motions and Health both of your Body and Mind to the highest degree that God and his Handmaid Nature have allotted you I am your Friend and Servant T. T. LETTER XXIX Of MUSICK SIR YOURS of the 26th of Iuly 1698 lies before me and having seriously considered the Contents thereof importing your desire to know whether there be any better or shorter Method for Children and Young People to learn Musick than our Musicians and Masters of that Science do usually teach I do readily agree with you that their Methods are not only Intricate Laborious Chargeable and Tedious but farther when all is done amounts to little or no purpose or assurance of time whereby many Lovers of that excellent Art have been discouraged from learning themselves or having their Children instructed therein and consequently the improvement of so inspired a Branch of Mathematicks is obstructed to which the pride and insolency of many of the Masters especially such as are endued with any excellency therein has not also a

Mathematicians do tell us that the Orb or Circle of each Planet is far greater than the whole Globe of Earth and Water which hitherto no Man in the general hath doubted what they have found true by the Observations of the most Learned and Ingenious of all Ages for some thousands of years and if so what mor●…l Man can guess the wonderful Creatures and Inhabitants that may possibly dwell and inhabit those Spacious Airy Plains for so they seem to us and who can tell but that the Globe of Earth and Water may appear to the Creatures of those Worlds as they do to us and consequently that the Mathematicians and Astrologers of those unknown Worlds may make as great ado about the influences of our Planets Stars and Constellations as we do of theirs and give us the same Titles and Names as we do them but we have never ravelled in their Regions nor conversed with the People and World of the Moon and therefore shall submit and be silent in this guessing Philosophy It is further to be considered that the good and evil Successes or Fortunes to the Ascendants Planets and Significators that as Astrologers say are showered down upon Mankind by the benevolent and malignant influences of those great Luminaries and Coelestial Bodies which are various and strange if all be true as Philosophers say Now the Evils and Misfortunes are as it were beyond Humane number in comparison of the Good and whatsoever Misfortune or Evil doth happen or befall Mankind is by many of those cunning Men attributed to the Configurations and Directions of Planets and Significators or some one of them to Saturn they say when ill lignified he powerfully inclines his Sons and Daughters to Oppression Violence Killing Covetousness Back-biting Envy Strife and all kinds of evil Words and Works And the like is to be understood of the other Six Planets whereas it is as clear as the Sun Beams at Noon-day that all the Intemperances Evils and Outrages Mankind doth commit against God and his Neighbour are generated and midwifed into the World by Customs Presidents evil Communications and Examples as appears by the foregoing and if this be true how angry then will those great Illuminated Powers of Heaven be with Man for laying the Cause and Foundation of those great Evils upon them as when the fair Sex are vain proud wanton and foolish to say that Venus that great and wonderful Illuminated Body and Queen of Love is the cause that inclines them to such Wickedness or when a young Man is ingenious sharp and witty and turns all into Cheating to attribute it to Mercury and when any Person is vain wanton and unconstant to lay the cause on the Moon and her Influences or when a Man is fierce devilish hard-hearted cruel and subject to Wrath Passion and Violence to lay the cause on Mars and when false in Religion to attribute it to an unfortunate Iupiter and when proud and subject to Vain-glory and boasting to fix it on the Sun when in Truth the Original cause of most or all Evils and Sins take their first birth in the center of a Mans self and the People he Lives amongst and communicates with so that Mankind doth mightily add to his evil Course of Life by laying the cause where he should not and belying those innocent Powers which wicked Trade he hath followed ever since he transgressed Gods Holy Law and Commandment putting the evil from himself and laying the cause on some other thing of which its said that our Mother Eve was the first Precedent or Example Now what Mankind have to say for themselves when they shall be brought to the Test I cannot imagine for it seems impossible for Astrologers that they should pass their Accompt without making retalliation or satisfaction so that the Wisemen have made but poor work of their Studies It is likewise further to be Noted that no Creatures or Sublunary Bodies are subject or compelled to obey the Influences of the Heavenly Bodies but only such as have kept and Lived under the Law of God and observed and not broken the limits of their Natural Orbe or Circle in which each specifick Body or Creature was Originally Created and brought forth as we have hinted before for all the wonderful and most amazing of the Heavenly Luminaries called Stars Planets and Signs and though their number be far beyond all Humane Numeration nevertheless each of them doth keep within the limits and bounds of their Orbs and Original Circles and doth alway move with an exact and regular motion keeping and obeying the Voice and great Law of their Creator And for this cause all Corporeal Beings that live and move within the Limits of their first Law and have not at any time broken nor in any degree exceeded its bounds are all subject to the Laws Orders and Methods of Heaven and to all the Influences of those great Powers vulgarly called Stars Planets and Constellations and they do with the highest diligence endeavour to observe and imitate their Superior Powers every Creature observing both time and season so that all things are done and brought forth in an exact and wonderful Method and Order which is strangely amazing and surprizing to any considerate Person Do not all the numerous Off-springs of the Earth obey the Motions Influences and Voice of the Heavenly Bodi or Constellations And are not the Children or Fruits of our Mother Earth better or worse strong or weak vertuous or the contrary all according to the Benevolent or Malevolent Influences or Configurations of the Stars Constellations and Elements The like is to be understood of the Sensitive Creatures called Beasts of which there is an unaccountable variety nevertheless each doth in a most wonderful manner and curious method observe and constantly obey the Original Law God stamped on them and their Young Ones or Children learn and observe the same without the invading fierce Rods of School-Masters or Tutors and as the Heavenly Bodies and Governing Powers of the Great Creator do all work move and govern in a most exact and regular Order and Method The like is to be understood of all the Children or Off-spring of the Elements who keep their first Law and therefore they do all as exactly keep and observe their times and seasons alway moving within the compass and bounds of their own Circles or Orbs they were Created in and their whole business both of Motion Inclination and all the Actions of Life is to imitate and observe the Laws and Commands of their Superiors viz. the Heavenly Bodies But the contrary is to be understood of the Humane Race who have defaced their noble Image by breaking the Law of their Creator and thereby have destroyed the Orbs and Limits of their own Circle so that they are as it were blind and know little or nothing of the wonderful Operations of their own Heaven nor are they in any degree sensible of their own Natures or the Principles they are compounded