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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07219	Reasons academie. Set foorth by Robert Mason of Lincolnes Inne, Gent	Mason, Robert, 1571-1635.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 17619; ESTC S109937	40,563	119

number of daies to euery day 24 hours to euery houre 60. minutes And so reducing these learnings to one point or head they proportiō as wel Latitude and Longitude of place as motion ●passage of time together with the influence and aspects of the planets and starres in such sort as if this mistery were vnknown in any mans vnderstanding it were impossible to be found out And because the sun passeth alwaies frō the East to the West and neuer fully reacheth to the point of the North or South they haue determined diuided the world into 5. seueral zones The 2. remote parts of North South they call the cold parts the middle they cal the hot or burning zone the other two are the temperate parts To this they haue likewise added a girdle that goeth ouerthwart the hot two temperat zones diuiding the same into 12. equal parts ascribing a seueral Lord or Gouernor of these houses limiting the sun 30. daies trauel to passe throgh euery of mese same with many other admirable necessary lernings And out of these Arts it is well knowne they haue truely set down the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone the reuolution of the Starres stabilitie of the North and South poles the motion of the others by which all nauigation is maintained the compasse carde needle proportioned nay the ship it selfe and all other buildings both of land and sea deuised framed fashioned Al coūtries known and seuered and euery mans possession diuided one from an other Astronomy and Astrologie haue taken their foundation there And how much the Physitians knowledges are increased thereby or what defects they would finde by the want therof let themselues iudge But to be short These Arts are the onely and true directors of the whole course of mens liues as wel in gouernment as obedience in distribution as well as in receiuing for there being diuersitie of honours places dignities and worthinesse so ought there to be a measure and indifferency in proportioning their contributions Many thousands of admirable blessings would follow Reasō if measure and proportion were truely kept For then should the King haue the supreme place The magistrates their due honour The subiects true and equall iustice and euery man his owne right without controuersie checke or controlment But Originall reason is so weakened and impaired that these things are not to be looked for mens natures are preuaricated and intemperate disires so bent to disorder that poore Queene Reason hath little place and her proportions little esteemed and lesse vsed Reason of it selfe discerneth and concludeth that the heauens are imbowed like a vault about the lower parts And the lower parts circumualated and incompassed within the heauens conuexitie The earth as the flower or planckes to goe vpon and retaine the massie bodies of men and the mighty inuolued numbers of Creatures there on residing And the heauens as the wide drawne and large extended Canopie to couer all these with many included essences and beings all seruing to exercise Reason withall the more fully to apprehend the incomprehensible greatnesse goodnesse bountie of the Creator and the worthinesse of mans originall Creation But as is before discouered this perfection of Reason innocencie is lost corruptiō is creptin and taken vp right and true Reasons roome and had so much impaired blemished darkened obscured Reasons faculties that euen the arts themselues were almost forgottē put to obliuion great labour hath bene vsed to reuiue recontinue and vphold or make knowne these former Arts and Science Concerning this point Let vs take a short viewe of the beginnings of creatures All things had a kinde of perfectiō yet subiect to imperfectiōs As creatures to a Creators command Then the first declination laps after the Creation which hath ouerthrowne the sincere purenesse of Reasō The feare of punishment for that offence hath exercised mans reason with many incomberments and caused a kind of decisting to continue the rememberance of such parts of reason as then remained not vtterly ouerthrowne Vnto which I adde two other decaies the ouerthrow of the world by the floud accursedness of the earth at that time And the confusion of languages at the ouerthrowe of the Tower of Babel being in māner Arts destruction For after this time in many parts of the world Arts Sciences were almost vtterly vnknown ther●equired a new time first to learne vnderstād languages before Arts could be taught few remained in life that had the Science of teaching or at the least for the dispercing of arts for that there was then no such common vse of letters as of later time for that reason had not then discouered the Art of printing besides the amazednes of that cōfusiō of tongues caused the inhabitāts of the earth to dispose thēselues into coūtries vnfurnished with other fruits then such as the earth of her owne accursed nature did produce none such as were in the original Creation so men had enough to doe to prouide thēselues food apparell for many hundreth yeers so as besides the forgetting of the vse of Arts there scarce remained so much as the vse of tillage and manuring of the earth to succour and defend mens liues by which meanes Arts remained raked vp as fire vnder ashes not clean● extinct yet seeming not to bee In so much as it is reported of those parts of the world wherein as well the Greekes and other nations liue that Philosophie was first discouered by Pithagoras long after whose time the Romanes are holden to be ignorant thereof Seneca faith Philosophie was not found out aboue one thousand yeares before his time Socrates is said to be the first that brought it from studie to practice which is not much aboue two thousand yeares since for which he is so holden in admiration as he is said to haue brought it from heauen to earth and thereby to haue taught men how to gouerne themselues and others yet these learnings had their Originalls before though they attributed thē to Pithagoras as the beginner thereof arguing their owne ignorance for Pithagoras learned his skil from Gon●hedie and of the Iewes Plato of Sechnuphis Endoxus of Conuphis and al these of the disciples of Trismegestus who out of his own bookes manifesteth that he learned it of Moses Thales is said to be the first that taught in Astronomy to the Greekes It appeareth as wel by his own as other mens workes that it was taught him by the Egyptians to the Egyptiās by the Caldeans And if Belus as Plini reporteth were the finder out thereof yet hee hath the same from Abraham in whose time he liued wherin I obserue that many contentions haue bene about the beginning thereof to aduaunce the honour of their owne Countries But howsoeuer it is most true that the perfection of those Sciences and Arts were lost in manner put to absolute obscuritie and obliuion For it is said that

vse or abuse the blessings and benefits of God least in gathering too much it turn to wormes as Manna did in the wildernesse or to Quayles and it become the destruction of the eaters thereof in stead of nourishment These benefites God hath bestowed on Man principally chiefely to serue his turne and to instruct and teach him in this first life which shall finish and ende Behold there are further matters and benefits bestowed and prouided for Man besides these the meanest farre exceeding the greatest of these They are such as I dare not define or treate of and therefore with reuerence leaue them to the Readers consideration with such descriptions as they are left to me They are such As the eye hath not seene the eare heard nor the heart of man can conceiue Oh inestimable riches peace plentie ioy fulnesses which God hath prouided for this immortall reasonable soule if it vary not from the direction of the Creator And are not these yet sufficient but man must needes be medling with himselfe patching and playing the tinker or botcher vpon some imagination of his owne and so marre all which the the auncient Philosophers hold to be the reason that man was cast out of the company of the Gods into this lower base and corruptible Sphere of the Elements This is not all I say that God hath done for man for beside his creation he doth still by his holy hand vphold and support him he hath receiued him to fauour being abiected for vsing the creatures of God contrary to his ordinance he hath set his holy Angels to preserue defend him his only Son to loose his life to redeeme him his most gratious holy spirit to be his comfort and consolation A fulnesse of all benefites in this life and eternall ioyes in heauen c. Prouided alwayes that wee doe not vse his creatures to vnnatural vnlawfull or forbidden vses or employments This is the happie estate of reasonable man ● he containe himselfe within his bounds All the worlde will confesse no benefit● or blessing can be added vnto it Let vs not therefore seeke to alter change charge or incomber the course and way the Almightie power hath appointed in these things least it turne to our vtter confusion Let vs not wrong our reasonable soules therefore but schoole and iustruct them in such rudiments as may preserue their worthinesse Reason is the Founder of Arts. BY the precedent Circumstances it appeareth that among all the creatures vnder Heauen man onely excepted nothing is seene to bee made for it selfe nor man onely for himselfe but for the seruice of God The Sunne shineth and heateth but not for it selfe The Earth beareth and yet hath no benefite thereby The Windes blowe and yet they sayle not The Fire burneth and yet feeleth not this owne force The Water beareth the shippes and yet knoweth not the waight thereof Al these serue onely to the glory of God and benefit of man Behold therfore how neere God hath placed man vnto himselfe nay what plentifull prouision hee hath made for sustentation of this sensitiue life and the necessarie vse thereof The Sunne warmeth the earth the earth nourisheth the Plants the Plants feede the beasts and the beasts serue man So that the noblest creatures haue neede of the basest and the basest are serued by the most noble And all these by the diuine prouidence of God wherein as there can bee nothing wanting so thereunto there may be nothing added Now for the better discouerie of what dignitie honour aduancement benefite and supply this sensitiue life hath by the vse and imployment of Reanon which is an inseperable qualitie of the immortall Soule let vs discend a litle into the Arts whereby Reason doth supply the defects miseries which otherwise this life must abide which in reason should moue the hearts of men to vse these temporall blessings in such a temporall measure as they might supply and serue the turnes and vses of all the race of Mankinde As I meane not to euery one a like so it is no equall sharing that some should haue all and others want If wee consider but this one thing that by the admirable reason of man in his first creation he did sodainely giue all the creatures of God seuerall names and still retained the memory of them when he had neuer seene them before here began the Arte Memoratiue and all other Artes which afterwards had almost perished and beene confounded Hermes taking consideration of these things faith The Sun beames of God are his actions the Sun beames of the worlde are the natures of things And the Sun-beames of man are his arts and sciences Whence should he learne teach or vnderstand this but out of that reason which then remained though imperfect and impayred By which reason he was led to acknowledge the diuinite and omnipotencie of God being more then many men wil at this day acknowledge But to proceede to the Arts albeit they are well knowne yet let me recite some particulars By Reason first the generall knowledge is attained Then Reasō hath proportioned things into diuers parts First in consideration of their natures worthinesse secondly in cōsideration of their numbers and places thirdly in regard of their vses and employments So hath Reasō left nothing vnproportioned which she hath set down and concluded by Arts Sciences By Grāmer ● course of true speaking by Retoricke the māner of perswasion by Logicke the true proportion of reasoning by Musicke true consent of Harmony by Arithmaticke the proportion of numbering adding diminishing augmenting and diuiding By Geometry the manner of euen infalible proportioning all these come of Reason The petty nay rather the great helpes towards the effecting of these things The inuenting the making and fashioning of the tooles instruments and preparations that serue to these vses The making of pen inke paper letters sillables words edge-tooles notes of musick flat c. cards wheels loomes milles the mecanicall Arts of Weauers Tuckers Spinsters Tailors Smiths carpēters sawyers ioyners w e diuersother of the like quality All these and many others haue bene drawn takē out proportiōed by the noble● famous arts of arithmatike geometrie which are neither so highly esteemed nor vnderstood as they deserue for the more neerer reason with reuerend careof that creator searcheth into these causes the more neerer doth it bring the soule of man to the principal Artifex and maker of them Let vs proceed a little further By the motion of the Sun which surroundeth the world in 24 hours they haue proportioned the circumference of the world to be 360 degrees they diuide euery degree into 60. miles with many other such diuisiōs which I omit By these Arts they haue found that the sun in the whole yeare maketh her furthest point both toward the North and South pole and thereupon they haue diuided that time into xii monethes To euery of these twelue monethes they proportion an appointed