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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02484	An apologie of the povver and prouidence of God in the gouernment of the world. Or An examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and vniuersall decay diuided into foure bookes: whereof the first treates of this pretended decay in generall, together with some preparatiues thereunto. The second of the pretended decay of the heauens and elements, together with that of the elementary bodies, man only excepted. The third of the pretended decay of mankinde in regard of age and duration, of strength and stature, of arts and wits. The fourth of this pretended decay in matter of manners, together with a large proofe of the future consummation of the world from the testimony of the gentiles, and the vses which we are to draw from the consideration thereof. By G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1627 (1627)	STC 12611; ESTC S120599	534,451	516

onely discernable by one sense as colours by seeing and sounds by hearing motion is discernable by both nay and by feeling too which is a third sense really distinguished from them both That there is in the heavenly bodies no motion of Generation or Corruption of augmentation or diminution or of alteration I haue already shewed There are also who by reason of the incredible swiftnes of the first Mouer and some other such reasons dare deny that there is in them any Lation or Locall motion heerein flatly opposing in my judgement both Scripture and Reason Sense But to take it as graunted without any dispute that a Locall motion there is which is the measure of time as time againe is the measure of motion the line of motion and the threed of time beeing both spun out together Some doubt there is touching the moouer of these heavenly bodies what or who it should bee some ascribing it to their matter some to their forme some to their figure and many to the Angells or Intelligences as they call them which they suppose to bee set over them For mine owne part I should thinke that all these and euery of them might not vnjustly challenge a part in that motion The matter as beeing neither light nor heavy the forme aswell agreeing with such a matter the figure as being Sphericall or Circular the Intelligence as an assistant In the matter is a disposition For whereas light bodies naturally moue vpward and heavy downeward that which is neither light nor heavy is rather disposed to a Circular motion which is neither vpward nor downeward In the figure is an inclination to that motion as in a wheele to bee carried round from the forme an inchoation or onsett and lastly from the Intelligence a continuance or perpetuation thereof as a great Divine of our owne both age and Nation hath well expressed it Gods owne aeternity saith hee is the hand which leadeth Angells in the course of their perpetuity their perpetuity the hand that draweth out Celestiall motion that as the Elementary substances are governed by the heavenly so might the heauenly by the Angellicall As the corruptible by the incorruptible so the materiall by the immateriall and all finits by one infinite It is the joynt consent of the Platoniks Peripatetiks and Stoikes and of all the noted sects of Philosophers who acknowledged the Divine Providence with whom agree the greatest part of our most learned Christian Doctors that the Heavens are moued by Angells neither is there in truth any sufficient meanes beside it to discover the beeing of such Creatures by discourse of Reason Which to mee is a strong argument that the Heauens can by no meanes erre or faile in their motions beeing managed by the subordinate ministery of such indefatigable and vnerring guides whose power is euery way proportionable to their knowledge and their constancy to both SECT 2. The Second reason taken from the Certainty of demonstrations vpon the Coelestiall globe The Third from a particular view of the proper motions of the Planets which are observed to bee the same at this day as in former ages without any variation The Fourth from the infallible and exact praediction of their Oppositions Conjunctions and Eclypses for many ages to come The Fifth from the testimony of sundry graue Authours auerring perpetuall Constancy and immutability of their motions THe most signall motions of the heavens beside their retrogradations trepidations librations and I know not what which Astronomers haue devised to reconcile the diversitie of their observations are the diurnall motion of all the fixed starres and Planets and all the Coelestiall spheres from East to West in the compasse of every foure and twenty houres and the proper motion of them all from the West to the East againe These motions whether they performe by themselues without the helpe of orbes as fishes in the water or birds in the aire or fastned to their spheres as a gemme in a ring or a nayle or knot in a Cart-wheele I cannot easily determine howbeit I confesse wee cannot well imagine how one and the same body should bee carried with opposite motions but by the helpe of somewhat in which it is carried As the Marriner may be carried by the motion of his shippe from the East to the West and yet himselfe may walke from the West to the East in the same ship Or a flie may be carried from the North to the South vpon a Cart-wheele and yet may goe from the South to the North vpon the same wheele But howsoever it bee it is evident that their motions are most even and regular without the least jarre or discord variation or vncertainety languishing or defect that may bee Which were it not so there could bee no certaine demonstrations made vpon the Globe or materiall Sphere Which notwithstanding by the testimony of Claudian are most infallible as appeares by those his elegant verses vpon Archymedes admirable invention thereof Iuppiter in parvo cum cerneret aether a vitro Risit ad superos talia dicta dedit Huccine mortalis progressa potentia curae Iam meus infragili luditur orbe labor Iura poli rerumque fidem legesque Deorum Ecce Syracusius transtulit arte senex Inclusus varijs famulatur Spiritus astris Et vivum certis motibus vrget opus Percurrit proprium mentirus signifer annum Et simulata nouo Cynthia mense redit Iamque suum volvens audax industria Mundum Gaudet humana sydera mense regit When Ioue within a little glasse survaid The Heavens hee smil'd and to the Gods thus sayd Can strength of Mortall wit proceed thus farre Loe in a fraile orbe my workes mated are Hither the Syracusians art translates Heavens forme the course of things and humane fates Th' included spirit serving the star-deck signes The liuing worke in constant motions windes Th' adulterate Zodiaque runnes a naturall yeare And Cynthiaes forg'd hornes monthly new light beare Viewing her owne world now bold industry Triumphes and rules with humane power the skye The Gentiles sayth Iulian as S. Cyrill in his third booke against him reports it videntes nihil eorū quae circa Coelū minui vel augeri neque vlla sustinere deordinatam affectionē sed congruam illius motionem ac bene op●…atū ordinem definitas quoque leges Lunae definitos ortus occasus Solis statutis semper temporibus merito Deum Dei solium suspicabantur seeing no part of heaven to deminished or decreased to suffer no irregular affection but the motion thereof to be as duly and orderly performed as could be desired the waxing and waning of the moone the rising and setting of thee sunne to bee setled and constant at fixed and certaine times they deseruedly admired it as God or as the throne of God The order and regularitie of which motions wee shall easily perceiue by taking a particular view of them I will touch only those of the

Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth whereby the ordinances of heaven it may well bee thought is meant the course and order of these hidden qualities which without divine and supernaturall revelation can neuer perfectly bee knowne to any mortall creature Besides as a wise man of late memory hath well and truly observed it cannot bee doubted but the starres are instruments of farre greater vse then to giue an obscure light and for men to gaze on after sunne set it being manifest that the diuersity of seasons the Winters Summers more hot or cold more dry or wet are not so vncertained by the Sunne and Moone alone who alway keepe one the same course but that the stars haue also their working therein as also in producing severall kindes of mettalls and mineralls in the bowels of the earth where neither light nor heat can pierce For as heat peirces where light cannot so the influence pierces where the heat cannot Moreouer if wee cannot deny but that God hath given vertues to springs and fountaines to cold earth to plants and stones and mineralls nay to the very excrementall parts of the basest liuing creatures why should wee robbe the beautifull starres of their working powers For seeing they are many in number and of eminent beauty and magnitude wee may not thinke that in the treasury of his wisedome who is infinite there can be wanting euen for euery starre a peculiar vertue and operation As euery hearbe plant fruite and flower adorning the face of the earth hath the like As then these were not created to beautifie the earth alone or to couer and shadow her dusty face but otherwise for the vse of man and beast to feede them and cure them so were not those incomparablely glorious bodies set in the sirmament to none other end then to adorne it but for instruments and organs of his divine prouidence so farre as it hath pleased his just will to determine I 'le ne'r beleeue that the Arch-Architect With all these fires the Heav'nly Arches deckt Onely for shew and with these glistring shields T' amaze poore sheepheards watching in the fields I 'le ne'r beleeue that the least flower that pranks Our garden borders or the common banks And the least stone that in her warming lap Our kind nurse Earth doth covetously wrap Hath some peculiar vertue of it owne And that the glorious Starres of Heau'n haue none But shine in vaine and haue no charge precise But to be walking in Heau'ns Galleries And through that Palace vp and downe to clamber As golden Guls about a Princes Chamber But how farre it hath pleased the Divine Providence to determine of these influences it is hard I confesse to be determined by any humane wisedome SECT 3. That the particular and vttermost efficacie of these influences cannot be fully comprehended by vs. IF in the true and vttermost vertues of hearbs and plants which ourselues sow and set and which grow vnder our feet and wee dayly apply to our severall vses we are notwithstanding in effect ignorant much more in the powers and working of coelestiall bodies For as was sayd before hardly do wee guesse aright at things that are vpon the earth and with labour do wee find the things that are before vs but the things which are in heauen who hath searched out It cannot well be denyed but that they are not signes only but at leastwise concurrent causes of immoderate cold or heat drought or moysture lightning thunder raging winds inundations earthquakes and consequently of famine and pestilence yet such crosse accidents may and often do fall out in the matter vpon which they worke that the prognostication of these casuall events euen by the most skilfull Astronomers is very vncertaine And for the common Almanackes a man by observation shall easily find that the contrary to their prediction is commonly truest Now for the things which rest in the liberty of mans will the Starres haue doubtlesse no power over them except it be lead by the sensitiue appetite and that againe stirred vp by the constitution and complexion of the body as too often it is specially where the humours of the body are strong to assault and the vertues of the minde weake to resist If they haue dominion over Beastes what should we judge of Men who differ litle from Beasts I cannot tell but sure I am that though the Starres incline a man to this or that course of life they do but incline inforce they cannot Education and reason and most of all Religion may alter and over-master that inclination as they shall produce a cleane contrary effect It was to this purpose a good and memorable speech of Cardinall Poole who being certified by one of his acquaintance who professed knowledge of these secret favours of the starres that he should be raysed and advanced to great calling in the world made answer that whatsoever was portended by the figure of his birth ●…or naturall generation was cancelled and altered by the grace of his second birth or regeneration in the bloud of his Redemer Againe we may not forget that Almighty God created the starres as he did the rest of the Vniversall whose secret influences may be called his reserved and vnwritten Lawes which by his Prerogatiue Royall he may either put in execution or dispence with at his owne pleasure For were the strength of the Sarres such as God had quitted vnto them all dominion over his Creatures that petition of the Lords Prayer Lead vs not into temptation but deliver vs from evill had been none other but a vaine expence of words and time Nay be he Pagane or Christian that so beleeueth the only true God of the one and the imaginary Gods of the other would thereby be dispoyled of all worship and reuerence and respect As therefore I do not consent with them who would make those glorious Creatures of God vertulesse so I think that we derogate from his eternall and absolute power and providence to ascribe to them the same dominion over our immortall soules which they haue over our bodily substances and perishable natures For the soules of men louing and fearing God receiue influence from that divine light it selfe whereof the Suns clarity and that of the Sarres is by Plato called but a shadow Lumen est vmbra Dei Deus est lumen luminis Light is the shadow of Gods brightnesse who is the light of light SECT 4 That neither of these kindes of influences is decayed in ther benigne and favorable effects but that curious inquisition into them is to be forborne NOw then since the Immoveable Heaven by the confession of all that acknowledg it is altogether inalterable since the aspect of the fixed constellations the conjunction and opposition of the Plannets in the course of their revolutions is still the same and constant to it selfe since for their number their quantity their distance their substance th●…is motion their