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A77226	A new and cleer discovery, of the true, and proper, natural cause, of the ebbing and flowing of the main sea. Convincingly held forth, both from Scripture and reason. So as any rational man, may easily apprehend, the proper cause on its flucnt [sic] motion: and that it is not the Moon, as some have imagined, and gone about to prove. / Written by Ellis Bradshawe of the Parish of Boulton in the County of Lancaster, Husbandman.	Bradshaw, Ellis.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4146; Thomason E575_34; ESTC R206353	10,802	16

A NEW And cleer Discovery OF THE TRVE AND PROPER NATVRAL CAVSE OF THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE MAIN SEA Convincingly held forth both from Scripture and Reason So as any Rational man may easily apprehend the proper Cause of its fluent motion And that it is not the Moon as some have imagined and gone about to prove Written by ELLIS BRADSHAWE of the Parish of Boulton in the County of Lancaster Husbandman PSAL. 97.4 5. His Lightnings lightned the world the earth saw it and trembled The hils melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth All thy works praise thee oh Lord Therefore even I also will magnifie thy Name for it is holy Yea let the heavens and the earth praise him the seas and every thing that moveth therein Psal ●9 34 LONDON Printed by G●rtrude Dawson for Thomas Brewster at the Signe of the three Bibles under Mildreds Church in the Poultry 1649. THE Authors Apologie in Respect he is but an Husband-man and unlearned in the Tongues to excuse himselfe of Presumption herein to the Christian Reader CHRISTIAN READER If when thou hast read these few lines thou canst say as it is prophesied Isa 52.15 That that which hath not been told thee thou dost hereby see and that which thou hadst not heard thou dost now consider Let it stop thy mouth from speaking evill of the unworthy Instrument and thy heart from thinking him too presumpteous for appearing in Print and undertaking the discovery of such truths as neither thou nor others that are now living on the face of the earth for ought thou knowest have discovered before Refuse not knowledge because tendered unto thee by so unworthy an Instrument they are too squemish that refuse good meat because presented in an earthen vessell 2 Cor 4.7 for ought thou knowest it may be done of purpose that the excellency of power may be of God and not of man And they that are taught in the word should rather communicate unto him that teacheth them in all good things then despise and reproach him returning evill for good hatred for love this is bad requitall but not a little common now adayes But however thou judgest or requitest the Instrument yet give God the glory of what thou learnest else thou also despisest even the fountain of knowlege who is justly worthy of praise and honour yea and will have the glory as so the Instrument desires that both wholly and freely it might be ascribed for ever Amen But it may be objected that this is not the first of my appearing in Print but that I have also presumed to write a Book called An Husbandmans Harrow to pull down the Ridges of the Presbyteriall Government and to smooth a little the Independent c. And therefore an Apology to excuse my presumption might have been therein also held forth to the Reader as well as now considering that in the Title thereof I conclude so presumptuously as to call my arguments contained therein both new and unanswerable to that purpose and such as I have also proved to be like teeth of steel that will pull down the Ridges before they break or bend I answer that I intended that very Title to serve to excuse me instead of any further Apology For thus I thought that any rationall man might easily gather to wit That if in my apprehension I had any arguments to so good a purpose as the reconciling of such hot disputes and that betwixt Brethren That might truly and properly be called new having never yet been propos'd by others on either party I thought it might well excuse me For who is it but he will be content to hear yea and enquire of any man be he learned or unlearned that can tell him Newes and especially good Newes and such as may be usefull both to himself and others yea such as may possibly guide him into the right way when he is at a stand and knows not which way to ●urne in the dark night but may possibly be endangered to fall into some pit And if there be not such Arguments contained in that Book when any man sheweth me that they are old and needles having bin formerly proposd by such or such on either party then I shall confesse th●t I presumed too far Or when any man hath answ●red them from Scripture grounds I shall also confesse that I presumed too far in calling them una●swerable But they are not yet answered nor proved to be old nor uselesse and unprofitable and therefore I as yet think not any worse of them then is exprest in the Title But it is my desire that such who think me p●esumptuous would but suspend their censure till they be answered by way of contradiction from Scripture grounds and then let them censure as they find cause But they might doe well in the mean time to take the Apostles advice and judge nothing before the time F●r if I therein erred my errour as yet remaineth with me Iob 19.4 And if they know wherein they might doe well to let me k●ow mine errour as Iob 6.24 Yea let them teach me I shall hold my tongue and cause me to underst●nd wherein I have erred Yea I shall also thank them for their just rebuke I shall love them better then if they hold their peace and smother my faults which they plainly see And however they deem yet this is the truth that if I had not thought those Scripturall Arguments both new and unanswerable I had not presumed to appear in Print Neither doe I purpose through the grace of God to presume to appeare any further in Print concerning any subject but wherein I am confident that I hold forth something of speciall use to such a purpose that no man else hath published in print or held forth before nor it may be considered or thought so far in that respect but that all that read it may in something or other be instructed thereby if they will consider as they ought to doe without prejudicate conceits And yet I purpose God willing to appear in Pri●t concerning divers subjects the Lord assisting me as I hope he will And therefore doe but give the glory to the God of Truth of every truth thou learnest though it be by never so weak an instrument as so thou oughtest to doe And let me beare the shame of what I write presumptuously and without a cause and ground from Scripture as so I justly deserve And in the mean time accept me as thy loving friend and brother in the Lord Ellis Bradshaw A new and clear discovery of the true and proper and natural cause of the ebbing and flowing of the maine Sea THE great Lord of Heaven and Earth that hath made all things for his own sake requireth praise and will have glory from all his works Psal 148. Yea all his works do praise him as Psal 1 5.10 And his Saints blesse him yea they shall speak

of the glory of his Kingdom and talk of his power to make known to the sonnes of men his mighty acts and the glorious Majesty of his kingdome vers 11 12. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatnesse is unsearchable verse 3. One generation should praise his works to another and declare his mighty acts 4. vers 5 6 7. Yea they shall speak of the might of his terrible acts and I also will declare his greatnesse verse 5. The Heavens declare the glory of God and the formament sheweth his handy work and that day by day from the first creation as Psal 19. Yea the invisible things of God are clearly seen being considered in his works and understood by the things that are made even his eternall power and God-head so that all nations are without excuse as Rom. 1 20. And wo unto us if we despise his name and do not reverence and feare that great and fearfull name even the Lord our God But mark The invisible things of God are clearly understood by the things that are made if considered Isa 44.19 20. Ezek. 18.14 28. Mat. 5.3 Isa 3.1 c. But without consideration how little understanding or knowledge of God and of his power and greatnesse can we attain unto Give me leave therefore in the words and name of the Lord Jesus Christ to invite him that readeth that he would consider yea thou whomsoever that readest consider for if thou look at things without consideration thou mayst easily conceive that the Sun or Moon are no broader nor bigger then thou canst make a Cheese if thou dost not consider or that thou hast not knowledge of their distance from the earth But dost judge by sence and without rationall consideration like a rationall creature And so in like manner if thou judge by sense and hast not travaild thou mayst possibly think unlesse thou beleevest others that the earth is little broader then thou canst see about thee on every side or thou mayst think as many that are dull and ignorant that it is not round like the compasse of a ball but broad and thin and narrow likewise And if thou dost not consider thou wilt hardly beleeve no though it be told thee That God hath stretched out the North over the empty place Jeb 26.7 and hanged the Earth upon nothing Thou wilt hardly beleeve If thou dost not consider that the Heavens are still in constant motion about the earth and that it is loose on every side and at the ends likewise like a great Ball in the midst of the Heavens Nor that the Earth and Waters make but one Ball the liquid water tending as directly to the center of the earth as doth any part of the Earth it self Let me therefore intreat thee to consider seriously of these great things though thou never formerly hast thought thus far And thou maist yet be capable of greater things which thou hast never heard nor seen before and mayst therein discover the infinite greatnesse and power of God and so be brought to feare him And the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome And so thou mayst be wise yea and wise for thy self yea wise and happy unto all eternity If thou wilt not be and demean thy self like one of those fooles that do hate knowledge as Prov. 1.7 and that will not chuse the feare of the Lord. For thou canst not see him by going forward backward on the right hand left hand where he doth works unlesse thou consider who it is that worketh and that it is no other but his invisible hand that worketh all things according to the counsell of his own will But when Job considered he was troubled at his presence yea when he considered he was afraid of him Job 23 3 8 9 13 14 15. Consider therefore with awfull respects to the great Lord both of Heaven and Earth and thou shalt understand That the Earth and Waters the Sea and dry Land are still alike in equall constant and continuall motion from the very beginning till this present day yea since he gathered the waters into one place and let the dry land appear the sawe still kept an equall constant and continuall motion save only that time whilst Noahs Flood was upon the earth But it will be demanded what I mean by this that they have kept motion I answer briefly That as the Sea riseth and accordingly floweth ascending higher from the center of the earth and that at every short where it is not streightned as so it doth twise in 24. hours and that in all places throughout the world as the Seamen know Even so accordingly and at the same time doth the Earth descend and as it were close it self or sink downwards so much nearer to the middle or center of the Earth as the Sea ariseth or ascendeth from it directly upwards on every side So that as the Sea ebbs the Earth ascends and as the Earth descends the Sea flowes or riseth higher and that at every shore For as the Earth closeth all the parts of it towards the center it presseth forth the liquid waters from the Bowels of the Earth and as the Earth riseth or ascendeth again it openeth place in the Bowels of the Earth for descension of the Sea that it may fall or ebb or descend lower at every shore as we may daily see that it constantly doth in all the world where the main Sea commeth and as the Marriners know Quest But it will be demanded how it can be known that it doth thus move and that it is not a fiction or device of mans brain but a reall truth clearly demonstrated from Scripture and Reason Answ I answer breifly That I only learned and understood this secret through consideration of certain places and testimonies of sacred Sciptures which in my apprehension are clear grounds being compared together to assure the truth of this great secret which hath long been hid from the wise and learned Which sacred testimonies are briefly these It is written Psal 104. speaking of God who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters That he laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever And that he covered it with the deep as with a garment the waters saith he stood above the mountains to wit in the beginning as Gen. 1.9 and at Noahs flood as Gen. 7.20 Psal 104.6 and Job 38.8.10 11. And again At thy rebuke they fled meaning the waters at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away They go up by the Mountains they go down by the Vallies to the place which thou hast founded for them Thou hast set a bound which they shall not passe over that they turn not again to cover the earth as vers 6 7 8 9. Which words of Scripture in the old translation are something different but far more plain to my apprehension and more sutable to the Scriptures to which they relate for

they are after this manner to wit beginning at vers 6. saith he Thou coucredst it with the deep as with a garment the water would stand above the Mountains But at thy rebuke they fly at the voyce of thy thunder they haste away And the Mountains ascend and the Vallies descend to the place which thou hast appointed for them From which it plainly appears in my apprehension and hence I first concluded That the waters naturally as at the first Creation Gen. 1.2.9 would stand above the mountaines as they did also at Noahs Floud for they being lighter and more soft and liquid than the massie earth cannot tend so strongly nor presse so heavily towards the Center or middle of the earth as the earth it selfe towards which Center all heavy substances below the Moon doe naturally tend by the ordinance of God whose essentiall word directeth all things to their proper places according to his will which caused their subsistence For else with God there is no way upward nor any way downward any more than other but onely in regard of their proper tendency at his appointment for all the Planets are as solid materials as either the earth or waters and yet are moved about in a circular motion yet comming no neerer to the Center of the Earth at the last then at first So that the Earth naturally being of an heavier nature than the liquid Sea doth tend more strongly to the Center thereof and would presse forth all the liquid waters from the womb or bowels or center thereof which is the proper place broken up for it as these Scriptures shew and will make to appeare Job 38.10.8 Psal 24.1 2. For who saith the Lord hath shut up the Sea with doores when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb as it did at Noahs Floud And saith he when I brake up for it my decreed place and set barres and doores and said hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be staid as verse 10 11. Chap. 26.10 So also Prov. 8.28 29. From whence it appeares that the womb of the earth is the decreed place broken up for it at the first Creation when God said Let the waters under the Heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appeare and it was so Gen. 1.9 And when all the Fountaines of the great deep were broken up to wit at Noahs Floud and that the Sea brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb as Job 38.8 Gen. 7.11 For when the waters abated from off the Earth it is said That the Fountaines of the great deep were stopped and that the waters returned from off the earth continually as Gen. 8.2 3. They returned to the place yea even the decreed place which the Lord in the beginning had appontied for them as Psal 104.8 Cons Therefore it followes that the womb of the earth being the decreed place broken up for it out of which it issued when it overflowed and into which it returned when it ebbed or abated That it doth so now even in like manner so farre forth as it ebs and flowes I say it issueth forth from the womb of the earth when it flowes or riseth at every shore And it returnes againe into the womb of the earth when it abateth or ebs or falleth againe at every shore For he hath founded the earth upon the waters see Psal 24.1 2. And for clearer satisfaction that this is so consider this text Psal 104.8 where the Psalmist speaketh in the present tense saying And the mountaines ascend and the valleyes descend to the place which thou hast appointed for them Which to my apprehension is as much fully as if he should have said The Earth riseth and the Sea falls or goeth down by the valleys to the place which he hath appointed for them yea they doe thus continually for so it is spoken in the present tense And that though they thus doe he hath set them a bound which they shall not passe For they shall not returne to cover the earth vers 9. For though by their owne nature they would flow and ascend till they covered the tops of the highest mountanes as vers 6. Gen. 1.2 9. yet when they come to the height which God hath appointed the Earth riseth and ascendeth upward every part of it from the Center thereof or from the womb thereof and so enlargeth again the womb of the Earth and the valleys or channels of the main Ocean for receiving of the waters till they be abated and fallen so farre as they use to ebbe as God hath appointed And then the earth falling or sinking downewards doth againe streighten the womb of the Earth and the valleys also and channels of the Sea pressing forth the waters to their height againe from the springs or fountaines of the great deep to every side or shore as Job 38.16 Gen 7.11 by an equall motion of the earth and waters as hath been said before for being pressed forth by the weight of the Earth when it quietly descends the water springeth forth in some places as the Mariners know that the Sea boyleth up like a hill of water falling downe from it like a running Tide and that every way from such springing place that they can scarce saile directly over it till they come to the midst of such spring or fountain though they have a strong and a direct wind But when they come to the middle then they can saile so much the more swifdy as both with wind and tide whiles the Sea is flowing till it ebbe againe And thus it is found in the very middle of the main Sea in many places and these are called in Scripture Language the Springs of the Sea as Job 38.16 And it is therefore said of God that by his wisedome the depths are broken up Prov. 3.20 And he is also said to have strengthened the Fountaines of the deep Prov. 8.28 And againe Psal 24.1 2. it is clearely asserted That the Earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof the World and them that dwell therein and the reason is rendred to prove it so for saith he He hath founded it upon the Seas and establisted it upon the Flouds From whence it plainely appeares that the Earth is situate founded and established even upon the Seas and upon the Flouds as if all the parts or peices of the earth did but naturally swim or float on the waters like so many ships founded or situate or lying thereupon For it is without all controversie that the earth never closeth or so farre streightneth the womb or bowels or clefts thereof as to presse forth all those liquid waters of the main Ocean for then as hath been said The waters would stand above the mountaines as Psali 104.6 as they did at first till their decreed place was broken up for them as Gen. 1.2.9 But when the parts of the earth are so farre

descended as to presse down the waters to the bounds decreed which they must not passe nor return again to cover the earth Then as hath bin said by the power of God the parts of the earth do again ascend and so the Sea is withdrawn and falleth downwards returning againe to its decreed place in a constant equall continued motion from the very beginning as no man I hope that once apprehendeth these considerations but will confesse that it is most likely to be ordered and moved after this manner and no wayes else especially considering these Scripture grounds And thus much briefly for Scripture grounds which are fully satisfactory to any rationall man that this is the manner and way and motion both of the Earth and Sea equally moving by the power of God by the word of his power to wit his essential word as Heb. 1.3 But for fuller satisfaction consider also these reasons following to prove that it must needs be thus and cannot possibly be otherwise unlesse God should excercise his miraculous and creating power from the very beginning which that he doth not as Gen. 2 2. For he rested the seventh day 1 Reason For whither else can so mighty a bulk or measure of water as doth increase or raise the whole Sea to such a height of plumb directly upwards as 6 or 7 yards and that at every main shore at the same time and that also so vast a breadth as all the Sea is round about the Earth so largely circumventing it as is well known if it should not thus do Reas For if the Earth should not rise directly upwards by the force and vertue of his essentiall word that upholdeth all things Q. Where could the Sea find place of subsistence for so much of it as must necessarily subsist in one place or other else it could not slow so soone after to such height againe without a new cretion of more waters so to fill it with Assum But God doth not create and dissolve againe the waters of the Sea from the first beginning twice every day as it ebs and flowes as Gen. 2.2.3 Conseq Therefore it followes that the earth riseth directly upwards when the Sea ebs as hath been said 2. Reason And again seeing it is manifest as hath been proved that the womb of the earth is that decreed place broken up for it to descend into when it first was gathered into one place to let the dry land appear and not by dissolving or drying up or consumption of the water as Gen. 2.2 3. It is most likely that the same way is held on still for the ordinary ebbing and withdrawing of the Sea as hath been said before 3. And if it should not be so that the Earth ascends to inlarge both the womb and the channels of the Sea to let it in and also closeth again to presse it forth Then it would necessarily follow that when the Sea flowes it should leave the womb of the earth empty either of aire or water which cannot be for no place can be empried of any ●ind of substance but it is presertly filled with aire again But if it should be filled either with aire or fire it would keep out the liquid water for descending any more And there would alwayes be contention betwixt the aire and water so that it could not ascend nor descend neither so quietly as it doth Object If it be objected that there may be a vent-hole on some side the earth for the air to passe in and out through it Answ I answer That there is no such place that was ever found and it must needs be a large one if there should be any such that must let in and out twice over in 24. hours so much measure of aire as to ebb and flow the main Sea 6 or 7. yards of direct plumb over all the Sea Therefore these conceits would prove ridiculous and they are altogether without ground or reason from any Scripture testimony But it will be objected That Aristotle and others were of opinion that the Moon was 〈◊〉 cause of its ebbing and flowing who darting her beams into the Sea caused it to swell and when the Moon was absent and under the Earth it abated again To which I answer That the Moon hath no beams of any such heat as to swell the Sea neither is the Sea hotter or coulder for the absence or presence of the Moon over it And besides it is manifest that it both ebbs and flowes whilst the Moon is above the earth which shewes plainly that though the Moon be appointed for certain seasons and be set for signes and for seasons of such things it increasing and waning as the Sea doth and is very needfull to be observed in many things which God hath appointed it to direct us in both for knowing the time of the ebbing and flowing of the main Sea and for the felling of timber and many such things of which it is a signe yet for all that it were rediculous to affirm or account it any cause at all either of the Sea its ebbing or its flowing again or of any such things of which it may be observed as signes thereof Neither was it appointed as any cause at all For God said Let there be lights in the firmament of the Heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signes and for seasons and for dayes and years and let them bee for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so Gen. 1 1● 15. But he never set them for causes of its ebbing or flowing either Neither is there any cause that is able to do it but the essent●●ll word of the power of God by which it was created and by which it is upheld as it is said of him Hebr. 1.2 3 That he by whom also God made the worlds who is the brightnesse of his glorie and the expresse Image of his person upholding all things by the word of his power as Hebr. 1. throughout For only he who is Omnipotent yea whose pure essence is both in and through and in every part both of the earth and waters is able to uphold and to keep in motion in so constant a manner from the first creation both the earth and Sea as he doth also all the 7. Planets and the starry Firmament with such unspeakable swiftnesse as we dayly see and as I purpose God willing to make appeare when time shall serve to as many as please to read and consider what I purpose to write to all rationall creatures that would know his power as I purpose in the next But how easie it is for the great Lord both of heaven and earth who is an infinite Spirit filling both all place and every substance from the top or height of the highest heavens to the very bowels or centre of the earth yea and infinitely beyond these circumventing heavens on every side and who carrieth about both the Starry Firmament and all the Planets in such a steadfast constant unwearied manner such a vaste and incredible circumference in so short a time as the Mathematicks know and that from the first Creation yea causing the morning to know his place It may easily be beleeved that he can easily cause the constant motion both of the earth and waters as hath been said being in and through them yea in every dust of the earth and every drop of water as we must needs acknowledge if we beleeve the Scriptures Psal 139. and 2 Chron. 6.18 Job 26.5 6. Wh●ther shall I go saith David from thy spirit or whither shall I fly from thy presence c. Implying that there is no place nor any substance in which he is not present by his All-seeing Spirit And as the Motion of the Heavens and of all the Planets doe manifestly shew that he is in and through and in every part of them Even so the Motion of the Sea and of the massie Earth as hath been said do as manifestly declare that his All-seeing Spirit is also in and through and in every part both of the earth and waters as I could largely shew But such as beleeve the Scriptures will not deny it to be true though I much doubt that for want of consideration it is not setled in their hearts as it ought to be To make them reverence and feare that great and fearfull Name even the Lord our God as they ought to do the Lord our God being a consuming fire being able in a moment even to consume all things that he hath created as he threatned to consume the Israelites as in a moment And would have done it had not Moses stood in the breach But I must not inlarge my self any further in this particular but to two Printed sheets therefore I only say to such who know these things and that confidently bleeve them settle these things in your hearts and your hearts shall be setled against Atheisme for you shall thereby be convinced not only that there is a God but that his eternall power and God-head is in and through and in every part not onely of the Earth and Sea but of all his works that the Lord God hath created and made I mean he is in them in respect of his Essence which is unlimitable Though in respect of the operation or manifestation of himself It is truly said of some men that they are even sensual having not the Spirit Jude 19. FINIS Octob. 19. 1649. Imprimatur JOHN DOVVNAME