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B04357	The wonders of the world: or, Choice observations and passages, concerning the beginning, continuation, and endings, of kingdomes and commonwealths. With an exact division of the several ages of the world ... the opinions of divers great emperours and kings ... together with the miserable death that befel Pontius Pilate ... a work very profitable and necessary for all. / Written originally in Spanish, translated into French, and now made English, by that pious and learned gentleman Joshua Baildon.; Silva de varia leción. English	Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?; Baildon, Joshua.	1656 (1656)	Wing M1957; ESTC R215366	95,994	143

thousand a hundred ninety nine years According to Orozine five thousand twenty years According to Isiodorus one lesse And according to Alfonsus six thousand nine hundred eighty four which is much more then any of the rest At this birth of our Lord begins the sixth age which hath lasted to this hour and shall last even to the end of the world And during the which a great party of men are governed by one man onely the Emperour of the Romans These Emperours have maintained themselves in prosperity for some time from one succession to another but aftewards came the Goths and other Nations and then Mahomet who have given so many traversings to this Empire that it is much deminished in such sort that in many quarters of it there are perticular Kingdomes and Signiories taken out By which discords and coldnesse of faith the enemies of the Church of Christ hath found means to molest the faithfull Christians casting many of them out of their Teretories and Provinces These computations of the times of the ages which I have recited are taken out of the Authors alledged St. Augustine Isiodorus Beda Eusebius Filo Orasine singular Historians And for Modern Pierre d' Aliaque and above all John Driodon in his Ecclesiasticks The Poets gives the world four ages and no more The first of Gold The second of Silver The third of Brasse And the fourth of Iron shewing thereby that the malice of men beginning to encrease the excellency of mettals decreased to which they compared the world As Ovid speaks in his first book of Metamorphosis CHAP. VIII Of the distinction of the age of man according to the Doctrine of the Astrologers BY the common division of Astrologers Arabes Caldeans Greeks and Latines and particularly Procleus a Greek Authour Ptolomeus and Aliben Rasellus the life of man is divided into seven ages upon every of which hath dominion and reigns one of the seven Planets The first Age is named the infancy continuing the time of 4 years in which domineers the nearest Planet to the earth which is the moon Because the qualities of infancy compels us to say that the influence of that Planet is of all others agreeable to that Age in which the body is moist delicate tender weak and moveable and in al things like to the moon for a smal thing alters it Its members for a little smal thing is weakned and the members are perceived to grow in a smal time even to ones eie These things hapned in general to all because of the moon that governs then Neverthelesse more to one than to another and not equally for as much as the other particular qualities which hold nothing of the Moon takes effect as the child is brought into the world according to the state and disposition of the other Planets The second Age lasteth ten years Age. 2 while it comes to fourteen Which the Latines call Pueritia Childhood wherein ends infancy and begins youth In this age reigns another Planet called Mercury placed in the second Heaven this is a Celestiall body easie to change being good with the good and nought in the aspect with the nought Lasting this time then nature composeth it self to the quality of this Planet for then young children begin to shew some principle of their spirit be it in reading writing or musick and are then tractable and docile yet light in their purposes inconstant and changeable The third Age is eight years more Age. 3 called by the Ancients Adolescentia youthfull age and continues from fourteen to two and twenty during which raigns the third Planet called Venus for man then begins to prompt by nature able and strong to engender being enclined to love and Ladies addicted to sports voluptuous banquets and worldly pleasures and this we must search into whether nature provokes the man to do this For we must believe that man keeps still his own free will either to take or leave these inclinations or influences and understand that neither the force of the Planets nor the power of the Stars can but nible at such liberty although they encline the sensative appetite and the members and organs of a humane body The fourth age pursues it self till a man hath accomplished forty two years Age. 4 and is called Iuventus youth the course of which lasts nineteen years and hath for its Governour and Master the Sun which is in the fourth heaven called by the most ancient Astrologers The Fountain of Light The principall eye of the universe King of Planets And Heart of all the World And like to it this Age is the Prince of all the rest And the flower of the life During which the sences and the powers of the body and the spirits maintain and hold their ful force And then being a man of full understanding and courage is made to know and chuse the best things He desires to purchase wealth and to get himself a good name alwaies inclining to do well briefly in all things generally he evidently shews that the sun raigns over him The fifth Age is called Viril manly Age. 5 and according to the said Authors dures fifteen years so goes on in pursuit to fifty six years subject to the Planet Mars which in it self is nought dangerous and hot inclining men to covetousnesse and making them chollerick sickly temperate in eating and drinking and constant in their actions Then joining twelve to fifty six Age. 6 you shall find Three-score and eight years which makes an end of the sixth Age called old Age whereof Iupiter is the great Governour which is a noble Planet betokening Equity Religion Piety Temperance and Chastity provoking men to put an end to all labour and hazard and to seek rest Men in this Age do all holy works Love Temperance and Charity seeking after credit accompanied with commendation are honest and scaring shame and disgrace The seventh and last Age Age. 7 hath been limitted from threescore and eight to fourscore and eight and few are found that atteins unto it It is called feeble and decrepit Because Saturn commands-over it as the most flow and highest Planet and environs all the others abovesaid His complexion is cold dry and melancholy angry and envious By which means he draws these old people to a solitarinesse choller pensivenesse despite and anger He weakens their memory and their strength and loads them with anguish sorrow languishing sicknesse deep thoughts and with a great desire to undertake secret and hidden things and which is more they would be superiors and masters above all and be obeyed And if we ever find any that goes beyond this age at which in these daies we may wonder he will return and grow again to be as in his infancy and will have one touch again of the moon for his Planet which was the Governour as is said before of his first years By reason whereof people do the same to them as you see them do to little children following their humours

than that which we reckon by the course of the Sun which is three hundred sixtie five daies and six hours yet this difference shall not make us doubtfull or uncertain of the lives of our ancient Fathers for this is but a small matter in nine hundred or a thousand years to fail twenty or thirtie the Lunarie moneth not accomplishing thirtie daies By this authoritie then we are certain that the nine hundred and thirtie years that Adam lived and the nine hundred years of others were the same as the hundred and seventie five of Abraham and the seventie or eightie that men live now in these daies he that shall beleeve otherwise is in an errour There is likewise another consideration to be noted alledged by St. Augustine to this purpose which is Put the case that the Scripture makes not mention that Adam and his had other children before those which are there named yet it is to be beleeved that before and after they had many in condition at younger years than the Scripture makes mention they could have children and to make thereof a more ample proof when it is said that Cain had built a Town Jos 1 lib. de Antiq. the first that was in the World whereof Iosephus speaks saying That it had Towers and that it was walled round and that he named it after his sons name Henoc which was newly born unto him It is very unlikely that there was then in the World but three or four men onely yet the Scripture makes no mention of any more because to build such a Town would require the help of a great number of men albeit the text names but the principal and chief that built it as appears when is said That their sons and their daughters begat others which are not named We see the holy Evangelists have done the like in their Evangelical History for St. Matthew treating of the linage of Christ according to the flesh begins at Abraham and willing to reckon even unto David saith Abraham begat Isaac using no words of Ishmael a little after Isaac begat Iacob speaking nothing of Esau although he were the first-born because having an intention to come by degrees even to David which was not of the Line of Ishmael he reckons neither Ishmael nor Esau Afterwards Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren and yet Iudas was not the eldest In such manner treating of the generation he reckons those by the which he might descend to David A sufficient proof to incite the contrary part to believe that Moses did the like in his history and that our first Parents had other children then those which are named and declared in the holy Scripture CHAP. III. That the sign of the Crosse was in estimation before our Saviour Christ was crucified LOng time before our Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ suffered upon the Crosse the sign of the Crosse was in esteem as a Prognostick sign and fatall especially by the Egyptians and Arabians The Egyptians engraved it upon the brest of their Idoll Serapis which they adored for their God But better to declare how this figure came in such veneration You must understand that the ancient Arabes most skilfull in the knowledge of the heavens and the force of the Stars made for divers causes Images and Figures graven in Stone Mettals Rings and other things observing thereby certain points and certain days amongst which signs this of the crosse was by them most esteemed attributing thereunto more virtue and efficacy than any of the others and esteemed reverently of it in their houses and other private places Now let us set a part the respect that we may have of it In that thereupon was made our Redemption as Facinus writes and let us consider this figure of the Crosse by it self in contemplation of Geometry it will be found an excellent and perfect figure because it conteins equal length and breadth It is composed of two streight lines equall the joining whereof taken at the Center to the extreamest of each end makes a perfect round it conteins in it four streight corners and therefore in it are the greatest effects of the Stars because they have the greatest force and virtue then when they are in their extreamest and corners of the East West North and South and so seated form by the splendor that they give the figure of a crosse all which things are considerable Besides it is not amisse to note the reasons why the Egyptians esteemed it amongst their other notes and figures and what they signified by it But I will speak first of some of the Figures and Hieroglifiques of Egypt and their significations Before the Egyptians had letters they writ their conceptions by Figures Characters and Ciphers of divers things as Trees Birds and Beasts or by some of their particular members in which they were so cunning and accustomed that they quickly learned to know what every thing signified by the great experience which they had made which the children learned from their Parents and one from another by succession Cornelius Tacitus Strabo Diodorus and Plinie in many places gives reasons hereof First by the Figure of a vulture they understood nature because say they of this sort of bird is found no Male as Amian Marcellin writes Lib. 4● By the Sparrow-hawk or Falcon they signified any thing that was done with great diligence because of the readinesse and swiftnesse of these Birds The Honey Bee signified a King because a King ought to have sweetnesse and a sting By the Serpent Basilisk holding his tale in his mouth they understood the revolution of the year because it ends where it began The head of a Wolf shewed the Time past because this beast hath no remembrance The head of a Lion the time present because of his strength and power The head of a Dog licking and made sharp to signifie the time future for alwaies we cherish him and use him kindly in hope The Ox signified the earth because of the great pains this beast taketh Justice was signified in the Stork because it is said this bird susteins and nourishes the old ones in their age in acknowledgment to have been bred and brought up by them in the nest They demonstrated Envy by an Eel because it accompanies not with other fish The bountifull man was declared by the right hand open and on the contrary the covetuous man by the left hand shut The Crocodile which is a very noisome beast signified the malicious man The eye open did denote a man observing justice By the Ear they understood memory To shew a man of great memory they painted a Hare having his ears open and so discoursing of all things they practised these Figures as though they had been to them written letters Now let us return to our purpose of the Crosse It is strange that amongst so many signs and figures this was the most evident and known figure or character yea even to be placed upon the breast

of their God to signifie the hope of the hour which was to come and as it were to prognosticate the everlasting salvation which thereby succeeds unto us so says Ruffinus in his Ecclesiasticall history Marcellus and others Here you see how the crosse was in esteem amongst that Nation But on the contrary amongst the Jews Romans and other people the death upon the Crosse was reputed ignominious And the Emperour Constantine was the first that forbad any person condemned to death should be crucified for the honour he bare to the holy Crosse But ordeined the contrary that it should be honoured and reverenced of all because God had shewed him a Crosse in the air with promise of victory so that under this sign and hope of the promise he fought with his enemie Maxentius a Persecutor of the Christians and overcame him as is recited by Eusebius So the Emperour Theodosius though it be not observed to this day ordeined that the sign of the Crosse should not be engraven in stone or in metal to be placed afterwards in any place where it might be broken or defaced because such substances are apt to break and he would perpetuate them unto us CHAP. IIII. Of the excellency of keeping Counsell and how it ought to be kept with some good examples to that purpose ONe of the principall things which makes a man known to be wise is that he can keep counsel be secret in that which hath been declared unto him by another and to keep his own proper affairs silent Those that shall read ancient Histories will find infinite good enterprises to have failed of their desired end either in peace or in war for want of keeping counsel and thereupon have followed an infinite number of mischiefs But among all examples we wil consider one notable above all the rest as proceeding from God who so well keeps his own counsell that he lets not any one know whatsoever he be what shall happen to morrow Nor those of times past could ever know what should happen at this hour So in truth we may see that God himself hath loved secresie For albeit he should declare or hath declared some things yet is it not possible for any to make him alter his will For this cause understanding men have always loved to do their business secretly We read that Cato Censor would often say to his friends that he always repented of three things if at any time he should happen to do any of them The first if he should declare asecret to any one especially to a woman The second to have travelled by Sea when he might have gone by Land And the third if he should spend one day idly without performing some vertuous act The two last deserves to be noted but the first serves to our purpose Alexander had received from his mother a letter of some importance and after he had read it in the presence of Hephestion he closed up his mouth with his Seal-Ring wherewith he was wont to seal his most secret letters whereby he shewed that he to whom one reveals his secrets should have his mouth sealed up When King Lisymachus bid the Poet Philipides ask what he would and it should be granted the Poet answered him the greatest good you can do me is that you communicate not to me any of your secrets Antonius Sebellicus writes a notable example to this purpose In the time of Pope Eugenius saith he The Senate of Venice had a Captain named Cremignol by whose treason means the whole army wasdiscomfited By means whereof the Senators assemble to determin what should be done in this case Some advised that he should be sent for apprehended and receive justice others were of the contrary opinion At the last it was concluded that there should be no notice taken of his fault waiting for a better opportunity all agreeing neverthelesse that he should suffer death for his fault This conclusion and occasion was deferred for eight moneths with such secrecy that there was no speech of it during all that time which was a marvellous thing seeing there were so many Senators whereof there was many of them great friends to Cremignol and many of them poor which had received from him many gifts and much riches yet gave him no advertisement Nevertheless this thing was kept secret among them till those eight moneths were past Then it was ordeined that he should come for Venice where the Senate received him with great welcomming and loving embracings And the next morning he was apprehended and condemned to be beheaded which was done accordingly This may serve for an example to all our Modern Senators Judges and Counsellours that it may not happen to them as it hath done to some which have by and by discovered those secrets which they ought to have concealed to the shame of whom I will tell you a pleasant discourse of Aulus Gaelius in his Attique nights and by Macrobius in his Saturnals which is thus The Senators of Rome when they entred into the Senate-house had a custome to bring every one of them along with them one of their children so soon as he could go and the children of the noblemen had this priviledge even to the age of seventeen years that being accustomed to see the good orders that their fathers kept there afterward coming at age to govern they might be the better instructed in publick affairs these children neverthelesse were so well instructed and taught that they kept precisely the secrets that were there treated of It happened one day amongst the Senate was put a matter to treat on of great consequence so that they stayed longer in the house that day than they were accustomed and yet were forced to defer the determination of this matter till the next day forbidding to speak any thig of it in the mean time in any sort Now amongst the children that were brought thither that day there was one young child son to the Senatour Papyrius who was of one of the most illustrious and famousest family in Rome At the childs return home the Mother would know of him what businesse that was that was treated of there that day that kept them there so late to whom the child answered It was a thing that he might not declare and that he was forbidden to speak any thing of it The Mother hearing this answer as it is the custome of women was much more desirous to know it than before so that at first by fair means and promises she assayed to draw it from him and at last by threatnings and beating would constrain him which to avoid the child devised a pretty shift and told her that which was in debate and would be determined the next day was that it seemed good to divers of the Senators as well for the publick good as for the increase of people that every man should have two wives and that there were some that were of the contrary opinion maintaining that every