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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03429	The divine cosmographer; or, A brief survey of the whole world delineated in a tractate on the VIII Psalme: by W.H. sometimes of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge.	Hodson, William, fl. 1625-1640.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13554; ESTC S104119	31,602	170

of the mountain saying Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and bow I bare you on Eagles wings By the Eagles some there understand Moses and Aaron the two guides that led the children of Israel out of Egypt will have them compared thereunto propter acumen intelligentiae altitudinem vitae by reason of their piercing judgement and holy life They indeed were as Chrysostome saith mollissimae pennae misericordiae Divinae as it were the down-feathers of Gods mercie because they handled the people committed to their charge tenderly in imitation of Eagles Of whom some report that whereas other birds carry their young ones in their talons or claws which cannot be done without some griping they lay them upon their wings and so transport them without any grievance Which is a good embleme for Magistrates and teacheth them paternall affection towards their people Gorran in his Exposition of Saint Lukes Gospel cap. 17. v. 37. saith that the Saints resemble the Eagles in these five properties First Calvitie peccatorum For as the Eagles moult off their feathers and so become bald so the Saints pluck off their sick feathers from their soul they circumcise the old man with the lusts thereof and weed out sinne by the roots The Prophet Micah exhorting the people to repentance bids them to inlarge their baldnesse like the Eagle Micah 1.16 Mary Magdalene did more then cast her feathers when she converted her eyes her hairs her lips feathers of wantonnesse into pledges of repentance She had been parched with sinne and the heat of concupiscence as the wife of Othniel complained of an hot countrey when she begged of Caleb and Joshua the springs above and the springs beneath This holy Sinner at her conversion brought unto our Saviour irriguum superius springs of tears in her eyes above irriguum inferius springs of bloud if I may so speak in her heart beneath even a bleeding contrite and a wounded spirit As Plinie saith of the fleur de lis or flower-de-luce that it is begotten by its own tears in the same manner are the Saints produced to beatitude by their proper afflictions The second resemblance is in renovatione novi hominis in their new birth Who reneweth thy youth like unto the Eagle Psal. 103.5 The Eagle by casting her beak and breaking her bill upon a stone receives a new youthfulnesse in her age This rock is Christ upon which the Saints break their hearts by repentance Paul had cast his bill and his feathers when he said Now I live not but it is Christ that liveth in me Gal. 2.20 Extinctus fuit saevus persecutor vivere coepit pius praedicator saith Gregorie The third resemblance is in volatûs elevatione in their loftie flight Doth not the Eagle mount up and make her nest on high Job 39.27 So it is with the Saints As their conversation so their contemplation is as high as Heaven Such elevations had our Prophet David Psal. 25.1 Psal. 121.1 Such an Eagle was Saint Paul qui in terra positus à terra extraneus He lived here yet a stranger while he lived here Of all fowls saith Munster the Eagle onely moves herself straight upward and downward perpendicularly without any collaterall declination By her playing with thunderbolts and confronting that part of heaven where lightnings and storms and tempests most reigne she teacheth great and couragious spirits how to encounter all disasters And by beating her wings on high we are taught Sursum corda to ascend up in our thoughts where our Saviour is What the Poets feign of the Eagles laying her egs in Jupiters lap fabulously that doth the faithfull man by Davids counsel truly and with Isaiahs Eagle flying up to Heaven casteth his whole burden upon the Lord The fourth is in visionis claritate in the clearnesse of vision Saint Augustine writeth of the Eagle that being aloft in the clouds she can discern sub frutice leporem sub fluctibus piscem under the shrub an hare under the waves a fish So the faithfull being Eagle-eyed can with Moses in a bramble see the Majestie of God with the three children in the furnace see the presence of Christ with Elizeus in the straitest siege see an army of Angels to defend him with S. Paul in the heap of afflictions behold a weight of glory provided for him The last is in viae occultatione in the secrecy of their way One of those things which the Wise man admired at was the way of an Eagle in the aire Prov. 30.19 See them flie we may but their wayes and subtle passages we cannot discern So the Saints good works are seen of men but their intentions with what mind they do them are not discoverable I have the longer insisted on this princely bird the Eagle because among all other birds is ascribed to her maximus honos maxima vis and in the Scriptures are grounded many proverbs and similes upon the strength and length of her wing upon her lofty flight and sharp sight It were infinite to follow the Allegorists in moralizing her qualities and to trace Plinie or Aelian for the varietie of Eagles were a course easie but a discourse tedious It would likwise in my poor conceit something savour of his spice of pride that numbred his people to reckon and heap up all that I have read on this argument I have already shewed what excellent lessons the Bee the Swallow and diverse other birds do read unto us and I must not per eandem lineam serram reciprocare draw my saw the same way back again I discharge this point The next that attendeth our consideration is the other part of Gods work on the fifth day which I may call his Water-work And so I take into my thoughts the fish of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths thereof SECT. 9. WHen Argus in the Poet had the custodie of Io Constiterat quocunque loco spectabat ad Io Ante oculos Io quamvìs aversus habebat Which way soere he stands he Io spies Io behind him is before his eyes So may I say of them that go down into the sea in ships On every side which way soever they look they see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep Psal. 107.23 First the Element in it self is wonderfull First in regard of the depth situation and termination of it Secondly in regard of its motion its afflux and reflux its ebs and flowes its fulls and wanes its spring and neap-tides Thirdly in regard of Navigation or the art of sayling which now is so ordinarie and common that we almost cease to bestow wonder on it Again it is wonderfull in the numberlesse number of Creatures which it containeth This one word FIAT hath made such infinite numbers of fishes that their