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A54811	The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written originally in Greek, and now published in English : together with philological notes upon each chapter / by Charles Blount, Gent.; Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Book 1-2. English	Philostratus, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent.; Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2132; ESTC R4123	358,678	281

some of these Zealots have by mistake drunk Oyl instead of Wine Finally Haec Stultitia parit Civitates hâc constant Imperi● Magistratus Religio Consilia Iudicia ne● alind omnino est Vita humana quam stultitiae Lusus quidam Thus far Erasmus Moriae Encom Children and old Men says Montaign are found to be most susceptible of Religion as if it were bred and held her credit from our Imbecillity as likewise sick men when their Intellects are weaken'd by pain are more devout than at any other time In like manner says Agrippa we find in the Gospel how Christ was receiv'd of Idiots of the vulgar people and of the simpler sort while he was rejected despised and persecuted even to death by the high-Priests Lawyers Scribes Doctors and Rabbies for which cause Christ chose his Apostles not Scribes not Doctors not Priests but unlearned persons of the vulgar people void of knowledge unskilful and Asses Vanit scie● Now the sum of all this is that worldly Wisdom is foolishness before God since the reveal'd Will of God does surpass the comprehension of man's Wisdom and therefore unintelligible to the wise men of this World Wherefore these foremention'd Quotations as spoke in the person of Folly I thought fit to insert as being to my purpose and already severally printed under the Authority of an English License 3 Fiery Tempests beat them back with Thundring c. This Report of these Oxydracks's defending their Walls with Thunder and Lightning is verily believ'd to have been the use of Guns which although in these Parts of the World unknown till invented by Bartold Swartz though others will not have his Name to be now known about 300 years ago yet perhaps in those remotest Parts of India they might have been above 1000 years before without our hearing of them for neither the Romans or any other excepting Alexander the Great ever went so far into India nor was the use of the Loadstone invented much above 300 years since so that our Commerce by Navigation did not reach so far in those Times Furthermore it may be observ'd that by this Computation Guns were here with us invented within less than 100 years after the Seaman's Compass so that within one Age after our Navigation might reach to those Parts and not before Nevertheless it has been observ'd that divers men in far distant Times and Countreys have happen'd to light upon the same Invention where the latter never heard of the former as for example in that most ingenious Engine for raising of Water call'd with us the Water-Screw first found out by Archimedes who was thereupon so ravisht with joy that he ran up and down the Streets crying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have found it I have found it The very same manner of Engine Cardan writes to have been in his Time invented at Millan by a Blacksmith who had never heard either of Archimedes or the Engine but was so unlearned as he could neither write nor read and was so overjoyed at his Invention as his Brains were never well settled again Thus is it not impossible but Swartz might light upon the Invention of Gunpowder although it had been before in India and he never heard of it The Accident is said to have been thus He having set a Pipkin over the fire wherein was a mixture of Brimstone Saltpeter and powder of Coal for a Medicine the bottom of the Pipkin growing too hot and the Stuff taking sudden fire blew up the Cover of the Pipkin with great vehemency whereof he being a contemplative man consider'd and made further Experiments thereof till by degrees he improved the Invention in long Barrels of Iron and so devised Guns Hereby we may observe how prodigiously Chance does excel the Wit of man in producing of new and rare Effects For if all Mankind had set their Wits on work to invent an Engine of greater force than any of the old ones they would have confined their thoughts to the old Idea's but with addition of more strength or weight or else by transposition of some parts but it would never have entred into their heads to have grounded it upon the Fundamentals of Nature first to avoid vacuum then to avoid penetration of Bodies without enlargement of room and lastly to imploy Fire as the fountain of violent motion for thus when the corns of Powder open'd and swell'd by Fire require more room which being deny'd them by the narrow Iron or brass Barrel there will be a most furious eruption which finding the least resistance from the Bullet drives that before it with such violence as no other Engine could ever do the like Facile est inventis addere This prodigious Invention doth at this instant take universally and to several Uses not thought upon till daily Experience had improved it As first to Mines which experienc'd Artists will now spring so exactly both for time and distance as if they wrought above ground without any disturbance Their Bombs shoot with a perfect certainty where to fall and at such an Elevation as the highest Wall or Castle cannot intercept And now of late the hand-Granadoes disorder in a moment all ranks and files of Horse and Foot so that the exactest Roman Discipline if it were again upon Earth would be at a loss And then for Sea it is dreadful to behold what execution it does both upon Men and Ships when sometimes a great Bullet without touching any man kills and maims several by the Splinters it makes so ingenious are men to destroy one another Sed jam Serpentum major concordia parcit Cognatis maculis fimilis fera Quando Leoni Fortier eripuit vitam Leo quo nemore unquam Expiravit Aper majoris dentibus Apri Ast homini ferrum Lethale c. Juven Sat. 15. 4 Gades call'd by Ptolomy Gadir● by Strabo Erythia and Gaddir or Cadiz and not Cales is an Island without the Straits of Gibral●ar at the South-part of Spain in length twelve miles in breadth three the Riches whereof hath been the Magazine of Spain it was sack'd one day by the English under the Conduct of Essex Nottingham and Raleigh A. D. 1596. 5 Whirl'd about like Ixion c. Ixion the Son of Phlegyas or as Hyginus will have it of Leontius having s●ain his Son-in-Law Erion●us or Deione●s as some call him when he could not be absolv'd either by God or man was at length pityed by Iupiter who took him up into Heaven and expiated him But Ixion after his purgation remaining among the Gods fell in Love with Iuno and solicited her to Unchastity which the making known to Iove he form'd a Cloud in the shape of Iuno and I●cion thinking to have been the Goddess embraced and thereon begat a Race of Centaurs When being soon after sent down to the Earth he every where boasted that he lay with Iuno for the which being struck down to Hell with a Thunderbolt he was there condemn'd to be always rolled on a Wheel