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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81486	Vox cæli; or, philosophical, historicall, and theological [brace] observations, of thunder. With a more general view of Gods wonderful works. First grounded on Job 26. 14. but now enlarged into this treatise. / By Robert Dingley, M.A. once fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; now minister of Gods Word at Brixton in the Isle of Wight, and County of Southampton.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing D1502; Thomason E1868_1; ESTC R209723	78,969	218

yet we heed we regard them not Aristotle was otherwise minded for he held the meanest creature having life exceeded the best void of life In which Axiome he prefers a Fly before an Oak and a Worm before the Sun Such an admirer was he of life in generall and especially in little creatures That in pursuance thereof he ran into this absurdity which peradventure he was not aware of Pliny wonders how the Gnat being so small a creature should be able to make so great a buzzing Gallen much extolls the wisdome of God in making a Gnat o Gallen de usu partium c 7. yea the thigh of that poor creature confesseth the hand of God and magnifies that Name which many Christians blaspheme p Mat. 10.29 30. Providence reaches little Sparrows nay the smallest and meanest things even one hair of our head Which Doctrine 't is said that Pompey could by no meanes digest I might here add what Pliny Aristotle Ambrose and Basil have written of the Bee Ant such like poor little Animals and how they magnifie the wisdome of God in the structure and properties of these creatures But to speak something of Pearls Diamonds and other precious Stones which are not smaller in quantity then great in worth and estimation Charls Duke of Burgundy q Alsted chronol lost a Diamond in Battle which is said to be of so much worth that therewith a man might buy an whole Countrey And much is written of Cleopatra's Pearl Yet r Dr Reynolds behold that which is such an ornament to the Lady that wears it is said to be a disease in the Fish that breeds it Strange things are written of the rare vertues of Precious stones containing in worth what they have not in bulk The little Pearl being more admirable then a Rock Borrheus saith the Emrauid preserves chastity Rueus that the Chrysolite helps breathing Tostatus of the Saphir that it frees from wrath and envy also of the Jasper that is full of veines Quot venae tot virtutes The Diamond saith Pliny is an admirable remedy against poyson Dioscorides saith the Agat will keep him moist that wears it The Beril saith Abulensis cureth watrish and running eyes nay sharpneth the wit saith Ystella And Albertus affirms that the ſ Dr Featlies Sermons p. 498 c. Onix strengthens the whole Body There is not any Precious stone or Herb of the Field but hath rarer properties and more virtues in it then men can discover or observe Medium 5 Fifthly we admire such men as have any thing wel imitated Gods works yet we have more reason to marke and admire the works themselves We are apt to wonder at Appelles who drew the picture of an Horse so like in t Erasmi Apoph lib. 8. Ephesus that horses seeing it neighed as surprized by the fortunate imitation so the Birds came and pecked the Grapes which were painted by Zeuxis Albertus Magnus made the Statue of a Man which could walke and pronounce certain words it was 30 year about Phidias is much praised by Julian for a Grashopper and Bee which he made in brasse The wooden Dove of Architas could flye by curiosity of Art Wonderfull was that Globe of Silver sent by Ferdinand King of Romans to Solyman the Turk for it expressed the time of the day the motions of the Planets change of the Moon and the wonderful revolutions of the Heavens If we see a glasse Eye an ivory Tooth we praise the skill of the Artist but we do not observe a special power and providence in the frame and composure of the members themselves All the united power and wisdome of men and Angels are not able to make a Primrose or Fly if they might have more worlds for their paines then the aire hath flies or the Sea-shore pibbles They must let that alone for ever Medium 6 Sixthly A multitude of wonders attend the visible Heavens The Moon is the Queen of Planets a very great and goodly Creature to look upon when she is in the full of her glory Yet the Sun is said to be six thousand sixe hundred forty and five times bigger Heidfeldius tells us that the Sun moves two hundred seven thousand Dutch miles an hour He moves so fast u Day on Cor. p. 260. saith another as if a Bird should flye fifty times the space of the world in halfe a quarter of an hour You have my Author in the margent Jupiter is as many yeares in going his circuit as the SUN is moneths The ninth or Christallin Sphear is said w Plato to accomplish his Revolution in thirty sixe thousand years Who can number the Stars none but God x Psal 147.4 who calleth them all by their names Some have pretended to tell them distinctly and could make but a thousand three hundred and odd Yet they had not names for all these and they were faine to reckon them by Constellations as we number Grapes by the cluster so they give one name to an huge Family of Stars y Day on 1● Cor. 15. p. 271. Some Mathematicians have adventured to say That there are no more but a thousand thousand and two and twenty Stars according to the 48 Images which they chalke out in the Firmament and those they sort into sixe Magnitudes the sixth Magnitude being the least and yet the least Star is said to exceed the Earth in bignesse 18 times And z Aristot De Caelo lib. 2. c. 15. such as pretend to know the bigness of the Earth say it is four hundred thousand miles about 'T is generally held a Origen Austin Eusebius and Clem. Alexandrinus by Learned men that the Earth after the Flood was divided into 70 Languages Cant. 4.8 How much is thy love better then wine The Chaldee paraphrase reads it Thy loves are better then the seventy Nations If the Earth be so big as to hold 70 Nations and that the girdle of the Earth is four hundred thousand miles long judg then how big and spacious the circumference of the heavens is to which the whole Earth is by all acknowledged a Punctum in the midst of that Circle Who can understand or speak exactly of the Heavenly bodies who can fully declare the Names Motions Magnitude and several Influences of the Stars Not a Star riseth to morrow in the same manner as he doth to day Thus hath God adorned the goodly Canopie of Heaven with a multitude of golden spangles and shining Diamonds for the use and comfort of man b Psal 19.1 The Heavens declare his glory and the Firmament so embroidered his handy-worke Unsearchable is the wisdome of God in these glorious works which he hath created Medium 7 Lastly Providence is a kind of continuall creation By this the blinde Whelp seeks for the Nipple till he find it The Swallow so curiously builds his clay house or nest and every Bee of the Hive goeth readily to his owne little Cell and waxen