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A46233	An history of the constancy of nature wherein by comparing the latter age with the former, it is maintained that the world doth not decay universally in respect of it self, or the heavens, elements, mixt bodies, meteors, minerals, plants, animals, nor man in his age, stature, strength, or faculties of his minde, as relating to all arts and science / by John Jonston of Poland.; Naturae constantia. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1016; ESTC R11015	93,469	200

the Antients By Scaliger I mean Ioseph though his father was a Man of so great learning that Lipsius reckons him to be the fourth with those three that he admires amongst the Antients whose commendation ●ounds in the mouthes of learned men if you except Schoppius who was the shame and spot of his Countrey There is nothing saith Casaubon that any man would learn that he could not teach he had read nothing and what had he not read but he presently remembred it there was nothing so obscure or difficult in any old Author Greek Latine or Hebrew but if he were asked he would presently answer to it He readily remembred the Histories of all Nations all Ages the successions of Empires and the Estate of the Ancient Church He held a record of all Animals Plants Metals and of the properties of all naturall things with their differences and names were they new or old He knew perfectly the situation of places the bounds of Provinces and the divers divisions of them at severall times He left none of the more weighty Arts or Sciences that he attempted not to learn he had the knowledge of so many tongues so exactly that had he done nothing but this all his life time it would worthily be accounted a Miracle The same is is witnessed of him by Julius Caesar Bullingerus a Sorbon Doctor and Professour at Pisa but in fewer words for he writes thus The yeer 1609 followeth which was fatall by the death of Joseph Scaliger than whom our age brought forth no man of a greater Genius and Ingenuity for Learning and it may be the Ages past had hardly his equall for all kinds of Learning To these I may adde that young Man who in the yeer 1445 was at Paris who though he were but twenty yeers old yet was he very well versed in all Arts and Sciences and therefore he was thought to be Antichrist and born of the Divell Castellanus who then lived writes thus of him A youth I did behold But twenty yeers old Who could all Arts unfold And the Degrees uphold He boasted that he knew What ever had been writ Had he but once the view As a young Antichrist But if we consider the whole matter exactly and shall compare the condition of the later times with the former we shall finde that we can do as much and more than they could For we have many helps the Antients wanted Amongst which the Art of Printing is the chief For by this the prices of Books are eased which were so high in former ages that Plato paid three thousand Florens for three Books and the Books of the Antients are preserved for our use Onely this is necessary that we may employ lesse time in gaining languages and that Controversies in Religion may be shortened and that equall diligence may be used and the like Patrons may be found Aristole received from Alexander eight hundred Talents to compose his naturall History Roscius the Comoedian had a daily sallary of three hundred florens Aesop the Tragoedian left to his son 1500000 Franks How much hard Labour can do wee may learn by the example of Joseph Scaliger For he in twenty one dayes time learned all Homer by heart and in four moneths he learned all contained in the Greek Poets besides Hence saith Vives good wits grow in any place if they may be adorned it may be in some places more frequently but every where some And Quintilian writes Nature hath not rejected us that we should be slothfull but we indulge more to our selves than we ought so then they did not so much exceed us in wit as in resolution In the mean while certain it is that there is a circular motion also in habits For first the Egyptians floruished Then the Greeks At length Learning forsook Athens and passed into Italy And now in the principall parts of Europe there are most learned Men. And I dare say with Ramus we have seen greater increase of learned men and of their labours in one Age than our Ancestours saw before in fourteen ages that are past Part. II. There is nothing decayed in the three Faculties Divinity Law or Physick IT is almost clear concerning Divinity that it is now in greater perfection For I. The Gentiles were employed in vain disputes concerning the number and nature of their Gods They became vain in their Imaginations Now women understand better the most secret mysteries that are worth the knowing and needfull than formerly the greatest Philosophers did They were all alwaies eloquent in speaking against their vices we appear not in a habit of wisdom but in our mindes we do not speak great matters but we live so II. The Church of the Jewes had the Oracles of God committed to them But the Thalmudist Cabalist Pharisees and Essens c. did strongly wrest them That they held a transmigration of souls not onely appears by the opinion of Herod and of others concerning Christ as though he had received the soul of John Baptist or Elias But also the question of the twelve Apostles declares as much And that they supposed a Temporall Kingdom of Christ should be upon the earth that question shewes after Christs Resurrection Concerning the restoring of the Kingdom of Israel III. The three former Centuries are commended for their piety and Martyrdom the fourth for learning For that age if ever any had most excellent and famous Doctours Thence were Arnobius Lactantius Eusebius Athanasius Hilarius Basilius Nazianzene Ambrose Epiphanius Theophilus Hieronymus Augustine c. Yet Tertullian Origen Cyprian are condemned for their enormous Errours And then the principall Heresie concerning the Trinity and Christs Incarnation was so rife that in those dayes it was an ingenious matter● to be a Christian. And at that time was the opinion of the Millenaries maintained and that they were Angels that were called the Sons of God in Genesis Chap. 6. Whence Peternus on the place I am ashamed to speak what I am about speak here concerning the best writers IV. About the ninth Century men were so ignorant that if any man studied Philosophy they commonly held him for a Conjurer Genebrard saith This is called an unhappy age and drawn dry of men that were famous for wit and learning wanting hoth Famous Princes and Bishops V. So soon as Divinity was wrapt up with distinctions there followed a great contempt of Gods Word For Albertus M. brought Aristotle into the inmost and secret places of the Church of God whom former times had brought to the door The men of former dayes did onely equallize the sayings of the Fathers of the Church with the Word of God But he with his followers took away that small Reverence was left unto the Word of God and compared Aristotles writings with it as if these were founded upon demonstrations and that concluded onely by probable Arguments Hence the most famous Graserus supposeth that the third Viol in the