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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85918	The first lecture, of an introduction to cosmographie, (vvhich is a description of all the world) / read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier his academy, at Bednall-Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G557; Thomason E573_5; ESTC R206200	7,181	15

THE FIRST LECTVRE Of an Introduction to COSMOGRAPHIE VVhich is a description of all the WORLD read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier His ACADEMY AT Bednall-Greene LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson and are to be sold by Hanna Allen at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1649. The publique Lecture of an Introduction to Cosmographie which is a description of the whole World read publique at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier his Academy at Bednall Green Cosmographie is the description of the Celestiall and Elementary Region IN the Celestiall region we learn to know Heaven its matter its qualitie the Planets their motions their order c. In the Elementary we see that most admirable establishment of the Elements who by their unequall proportioned assemblage doe compose so many sorts of mixtures as we see here below This will be held forth with their qualities properties and situations And we shall see in that which serves for a Center to the universall world store of satisfying remarkable and necessary things viz. 1. The proofs of its Circular form 2. Which of the Earth or of the Water doth passe the one or the other in quantities 3. The off springs of Springs and Floods 4. The smalnesse of the Terestriall Globe not onely in comparison of Heaven but also of the Sun and of the Stars how the said earth can be measured in its superficie and Soliditie Then wee shall make the description of the Circles which must be imagined to be in the Heaven to the end we may learn the course of the Asters and the effects which we feel of them as their rising and their going down The Summer and Winter the long and the short dayes The Solstices and the Equinoxes from whence proceeds the different Constitutions of the Earth And thus many things the curiosity whereof is extreamly commendable prove to be altogether necessary to those that doe desire to passe for men of knowledge and understanding And to make an end in our Sphere we shall achieve with a Lecture on the Meteors wherein all the impressions which are made as well of Fire as of Aire and of Water in the high middlemost and low region of the Aire shall be clearly brought and reported unto us That is to say whence proceedeth in the high region of the Ayre the impressions of Fire viz. D●rds Lances Flying-stars and Commets which in the Heaven seem sometimes to be all on fire the lightning thunders and thunderbolts in the midlemost and in the lowermost the wilde-fires glow-worms c. Next to this the impressions of the Ayre as the Windes Storms and Whirle-windes those of the Waters as the Clouds the Rayns Snow and Haile both made in the middlemost Then wee sh●ll proceed to other impressions concerning that Crown of splendor which is about the Sunne the Rainbow and then we shall descend to know whence proceed Fogs Dews Frost and Ice We shall end with the three kindes Minerall Vegetall and Animall seeing in the Minerall the generation of the Minerals in the bowels of the Earth their qualities and allyances and how they are seven correspondent to the seven Planets Then the Stones of all kinde and the Saps condensing in the Mines as Vitriol Alum c. In the Vegetall gender wee shall consider the nature of Plants their faculties to put forth and to multiply by their seed then we shall conclude by the Animals which besides the Soul and Vegetating faculty and putting forth have more and above the sensitive which gives feeling and motion and are much above the Plants all their Organes and naturall parts being much the more perfect But there are of two sorts of them the Irrationall and rationall Beast and Man Wee shall leave the Beast to speak of reasonable Let us then say that Man more worthy then all things hath been created by God for that by his word all things have been made Fiat Lux Gen. 2. the light hath appeared Formavit Dominus Deus hominem de Limo Terrae inspiravit in faciem ejus Spiraculum vitae factus est homo in animam viventem and hath animated him and indoved besides the precedent said qualities with an intelectuall Soule whereof depends the understanding and the will Now let us consider I beseech you how the mercy of God hath always increased some perfection of degree in each body to make in man a fulnesse of the perfection of all his works and ha●h set him as a King to command and to make use of the aforesaid things Et praesit piscibus Maris volatilibus Coeli Besti●s universaeque terrae omnique reptili quod movetur in Terrae which are onely made for his use and advantage for God was no lesse before the world then he is and had no need of them to be more glorious We ought therefore to have a great and deep sence of acknowledgement and that our labour be not in vain we must consider that great Architecture in his wisdome in his power in his liberality and in his bounty Adore him honour him and admire him in all his attributes and thank him incessantly not onely for the present means the vicissitude whereof sufficiently sheweth its vanity but for the hope of eternals to which he hath designed us provided we prove true and that by Faith made good by our works that we doe acknowledge him But unhappy man that the creature is more praised then the Creator the gift preferred to the Giver and that which we should but take passing by as Christian prudence permits and wils we doe abuse of it by a most horrid blindnesse preferring a thing which we all know to be created in the order of Nature to the Author of it With horrid shame and confusion therefore the insensible things tell unto those their Lesson that dare so boldly and so impudently abuse of that great authour guider and preserver of all things But he will not be abused doe what thou canst O enraged Atheist thou perverst wit of the perverst time and he will in the dayes of vengeance make thee confesse thy wilfull malice for ignorant thou art not thy senses doe condemne thee so doe the Elements who dayly seek their elementary place the fire being light it ascends the Ayre being lesse light remains lower the Earth the heavier of the foure holds the Center the Water which is lesse swim's above it Now those things that are mixt as they have one of the elementary qualities in degrees eminent above the others they likewise seek their Sphere and do not rest untill they are come where they should be A Stone would descend to the center of the Earth if there were an overture Wood swims above the Waters and why Because there is more ayre and fire in its composition then in the Water nor in the Stone and let man do what he will it shall ever be so and why Because God hath created them and hath given unto them the light and heavy qualities who cause that motion