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A14727	The vvonders of the load-stone. Or, The load-stone newly reduc't into a divine and morall vse. By Samuel Ward, of Ipswich. B.D.; Magnetis reductorium theologicum tropologicum. English	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.	1640 (1640)	STC 25030; ESTC S119467	50,652	286

and vices Only this is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bōd of perfection which kep those first Apostles and Christians of that truly golden age in unitie among themselves when all beleevers abiding in the same place had all things common they sold their possessions and substance and imparted to everie one as hee had need continuing daily in the Temple with one accord breaking bread from house to house eating their meat with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart praising God and giving thanks before all the people Doubtlesse this Loadstone like chaine of charitie purchased them favour among the Gentiles and daily drew brethren Tertull. in Apoluget and adjoyned new Converts unto them which agreement of theirs the verie Pagans beholding cried out See how the Christians love one another see how they are ready to dye one for another This is that celestiall and spirituall bond of charitie which so straightly bound that Royall and Noble couple of friends I meane David and Ionathan whereof the one loved the other to the death with a love greater than that of Women he lov'd him more than himselfe nay more than his ●ereditary Kingdome The life of those two no age among the Ethnicks ever knew no Philosophy ever bred the like in comparison of whose friendship that of Scipio and Laelius of Pylades and Oresies and other couples of the like condition what doth it deserve to be tearmed but a shadowy carkasse and counterfeit semblance of a true and vehement love Chap. 18. That the Loadstone and our Saviour Christ effect more by an Instrument than by their owne immediate vertue THe Loadstone as it is an exceeding marvellous so is it in a speciall manner a mysticall Stone no lesse famous for secret wayes of working than for mighty workes that though it bee the fountaine and principall seat of attractive and elevating vertue yet doth it as it were on set purpose transferre all the honour of it upon the Iron for this very Stone being destitute of company and by it selfe drawes little or nothing but armed with Iron will lift up a huge weight of Iron I my selfe have seene a Loadstone which being unarmed would scarce take up s●aven Ounces but cover'd or capt with Iron as the rud● of speech use to say it lif●●d up strongly and easily two and twenty pounds r●sembling God in this who is natures principall workman and the first mover of all things who although he be the Father of light yet he illuminates this visible world by the Sun himselfe being invisible in the heavens and which is our blindnesse and madnesse not worshipped and praised of many He doth also redeeme save and judge men by the Son of man he doth delegate or commit unto him a power to supply his roome both in heaven and earth whose God-head and Majesty lay hid in the vaile of his flesh as a light in a darke Lanthorne insomuch that he was not made manifest but to his owne people and but to few of them and that by miracles who now also hiding himselfe in the Heavens using the Minist●ry of men as the Loadstone the help of Iron cals drawes and converts men unto him by a fit Instrument of the same kind taking his Ministers into fellowship of honour with him He that receiveth you saith he receiveth me nay he passe● hover and commits a more ample power to th●m He that believes in me shall doe greater workes than I have done We doe not reade of Christ that he converted so many as a hundred at one Sermon But it is expressed of Peter Act. 2. That he converted three thousand which love of his towards man doth in a manner surpasse all his miracles As it is the greatest Art of Arts and Artists to conceale their Art and skill so it is the principall praise and vertue of a good man to derive praise unto others himselfe being concealed Neither is there any thing wherein men may come neerer to God than this Let men admire and praise in Ioah some one thing some another among all his honourable Arts I never thought that heroicall or noble demonstration or proof of his vertue to be the principall that he both would and could transfer upon the head of David the glory and Crowne of a Victory purchast by his owne valour for the rest of his deeds he overcame others in this himselfe which was farre more honourable than if he had triumphed a hundred ●imes over Rabba and the Ammonites Chap. 19. That the Loadstone drawes ten times more weight by two points or Caps than by so many severall points by themselves NOw will I put you in mind by the way and that not unseasonably that the Loadstone doth transfuse the force and vertue thereof into the Medium or Instrument that it imparts but a small portion of it to one Cap or polar point by it selfe but a large and ample vertue to two joyn'd together Of which when I tooke experiment and made triall in a strong stone and applyed the iron to one of the points it took up two or three pounds and that very hardly But when I had applyed the iron to both together it lifted up two and twentie pounds without any difficultie so that the saying of Salomon is not only true Eccles. 4 9. Two are better than one for it they lye together they sooner have heat if they fall the one will lift up his fellow But also that common saying understood of them that have least knowledge That forces united will become the stronger For who doth not see acknowledge that forces by such union are twice the stronger but that they should be ten times stronger this is both rare and singular and to be seene only in these experiments of the Loadstone That it is no wonder as Origen observes on the first of Genesis that God made most things double and joyned them together by two and two as when it is recorded in the sacred Histories That God created together the Heaven and the Earth the Sun and the Moone the Man and the Woman and that Christ sent his Disciples not one by one but two and two That as one foot or one hand helps another so they should yeild to one another mutuall helpe that their forces and purposes being joyned together they might couragiously and prosperously draw living stones unto Christ and build upon him Chap. 20. That those Instruments are more prevalent and can doe more which stick closely than those which stick loosely to Christ or the Loadstone I Doe not thinke it fit to passe over in silence the great difference that is betweene that armour and furniture which is tied negligently to the Magnetick poles or points of the Loadstone and that which is tied to the same more fitly and closely For if there be but the least gap or space betweene them it is endued with much lesse vertue and drawes the burden more unsuccessively weakly and sluggishly neither will it lift up half

of life and eminency of learning of whom I would speake more but that I will not offend his humility and modesty I say the Authour himselfe who hath a commanding power in me did request me to undertake this taske and I am glad if my Pensill hath in some measure taken out to the life so curious a Prototype howsoever Courtious and Christian Reader I have resolved to venture upon thy favourable acceptance and to desire thee to interpret this interpretation to the best in hope of which I remaine Thine to my power Harb Grimeston THE WONDERS OF THE LOAD-STONE CHAP. I. Concerning the use of the Load-stone unknowne in former ages discovered in these latter times THe Learned and unlearned have seene the Load-stone and tooke it into their hands many ages agoe yea as I may say from the very beginning of the world the vulgar and meaner sort of people perceived not without amazement the Vertue which it hath to draw Iron unto it and lift it up Arist. lib. 1. de anima Thales Scaliger Gil●e●tus Flinius Claudtanus O●pheus ● Lucretius The Philosophers disputed subtily about the forme thereof and vehemently contended among themselves about this whether it had a Soule or no Both Historians and Poets have proclaimed the mysticall and wonderfull nature the secret and hidden qualities thereof yet mingling truth with falshood and adding to their discourses diverse vaine sigments of their owne so that of one and the same stone Ludovic Vives in Augustinum de Civitate Dei through errors they made two of a contrary nature one they called Theamedes from the Southerne point another Ma●nes from the Northerne but I pray to wha● good end or purpose when in the meane time they were utterly ignorant of its turning toward the Pole of its use in Navigation and the Art of Dyalling they not so much as dreaming darkly of these things Surely the Lord of Nature would have so many acute and Divine wits of Philosophers and Theologues not to finde out as yet such an excellent invention and so it lay hid altogether in the secret bosome of natures Majesty and that for five thousand yeares and more untill at length after the exhibiting of Christ to the world in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred or thereabouts Almighty God of his goodnesse taking compassion uopn Man-kind did make Mortall men happie declaring unto them by Goias Melphitanus the most usefull and beneficiall Instrument of the Mariners compasse by the helpe and benefit of which wee doe now discover many remote lands that were unknown heretofore and so procure all kindes of Merchants wares Wherefore that which is commonly spoken of Aristotles Booke of Physicks wee may more justly applie to the Load-stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that made publike it was and yet not made known because that men did not yet understand the secrets thereof Looke in what manner the Lord of the world to whom belongs the earth Ps. 124.1 the fullnes therof did give the Load-stone unto the world in the very same māner did he give the world it selfe and all worldly things to such as are great and worldly people Heaven indeed he hath reserved for himself for his elect both Angels men but the earth he hath given to the children of men in generall Concerning possessions Titles Lawyers plead in their Courts as Divines dispute in their Scholes concerning the right and Lordship thereof whether unregenerate persons since Adams fall have any right to these earthly things as also whether this Right be grounded upon Grace or Nature whether it holds good in Gods Law Court or only in mans Let these controversies bee at an end for me Let the ungodly if God so please hold and enjoy their large patrimonies let worldlings keep to themselves their vaine worldly wealth so that this bee out of all doubt and question that the saving and profitable use of such things pertaines onely to them that are good in the eyes of the Lord who by Christ have recovered that which was lost and forfeited by sinne And this I suppose to have beene the Apostles meaning in that briefe Epitome of our Magna Charta 1 Cor. 3. 21 22 23. the large charter of Christians where he doth accurately and particularly rehearse that ample and royall priviledge of the faithfull excluding all Infidels or unbelievers All things are yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come All I say are yours yours onely as touching the true spirituall and Heavenly use of the same and yee are Christs and Christ is Gods So then this good blessing and gift of GOD is proper onely to those that are good which gift the royall Preacher doth praise so much Eccl. ● 19 and 2.24 26 and doth also make opposite to it vanity disease disquietnesse vexation of spirit and that toylsome occupation of gathering and heaping up riches which he notes to be the portion of sinners impos'd as a punishment upon them by God of which he doth else-where complaine Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a foole Seeing he hath no heart or mind that is to say to receiv'e any profit thereby or to make any good use of it Wherefore have wretched Euclio's or Misers the Usurie of much Money and the right use but of little Wherefore is unmeasurable Wealth confer'd on the Covetous which are as greedy as TANTALUS is said to have beene they being such sparing Distributers of it and doe abstaine from their Wealth as if that it were sacred and forbidden to bee touched So likewise wherefore have the Prodigall and wastfull spenders of their Substance such plentifull meanes which they to the destruction of their bodies and Soules doe abuse and consume in Gaming and Riotous living Wherefore have wicked men such excellent endowments inriching their mindes quick understandings stedfast memories happy and fine wits wherby they doe service to Satan and their own lusts which S. Augustine did so lamentably bewaile in his Scholer Licentius a learned and Noble young-man Wherefore hath God infus'd into their hearts the habits of graces wherefore hath hee with a Liberall hand committed these heavenly talents unto their trust if they shall be wrapt up in Napkins and being wrapt up be hid and perish unlesse that over and above he shall adde unto these another Grace whereby they may stirre up these graces received and set them forth to be seene of others and exercise themselves in them to the glory of God the giver of all grace and to the profit of their friends and neighbours Vile latens virtus quid enim submersa tenebris Proderit obscuro veluti sine remige puppis Vel Lyra quae reticet vel qui non tenditur arcus The vertue that lyes hid is poore and vile In darkenesse drown'd what profits it the while A ship without a guide to th' Sea that 's