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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11156	The Queenes vvelles That is, a treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge water. Together, with an enumeration of the chiefest diseases, which it is good for, and against which it may be vsed, and the manner and order of taking it. By Lodvvick Rovvzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent.	Rowzee, Lodwick, b. 1586.	1632 (1632)	STC 21426; ESTC S116278	26,141	88

f Gen. 1.4 5. let there be a firmament in the middest of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters And GOD made the firmament and divided the waters which were vnder the firmament from the waters which were aboue the firmamēt g Psal 29.10 And David saith that the Lord sitteth vpon the flood that is vpon the Orbe of the waters and where he exciteth the creatures to laude the Lord he speaketh thus h Psal 148. v. 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and the waters that be aboue the heavens Those waters are likened in another place to a i Ezech. 1.24 terrible chrystall and sayd to be as it were k Exod. 24.10 a paved worke of Saphir stone l Rabbi Levi Ben Iarehij in Gen. c. 1. And some go so farre as to define the place and seate of those waters and say that they are as much aboue the primum mobile as the primum mobile is aboue the elementary waters but whether they ever were there to take the iust distance I doe not know That there should be water aboue the firmament many men thinke it strange and yet the deluge besides the expresse word of God proved it to be true For if all the water of all the Seas Lakes Ponds Rivers Fountaines in the world had been drawn vp into the heavens in like manner as we doe in distillations yet would not their quantitie haue increased but there would haue returned back againe by raine no more then was ascended vp nor so much neither perhaps because though you be never so carefull in your distillations and vse Glasse vessels neuer so well luted yet will you still receiue some losse and so the flood had not gone fifteene cubits aboue the highest mountaines But why this should be stranger then all the rest of the wonderfull works of God there is no reason The massie and heavy Globe of the earth and water standeth as it were in aequilibrio in the center of the world suspended by the omnipotencie of God Nay all his workes are vniversally so admirable that there is no lesse wonder in the smalest Gnat then in the biggest Elephant in the least weede that creepeth vpon the ground then in the tallest Cedar But of those waters which are aboue the firmament and of those which were gathered together vnder the firmament namely the Seas wee speake here but by the way though concerning the Seas divers curious and pleasant questions might bee handled as touching the saltnesse of it the ebbing and flowing of the same why it can endure no impure things and the like These things I say might bring some delight to the Reader but they are beyond our scope and therefore I will onely speake briefly of those waters which are potable and in common vse amongst vs either for dyet or Physicke They are commonly divided into Fountaine-water River-water Well-water raine-water and pond-water The preheminence thereof is commonly given to Spring-water but in generall that water is accounted best and wholesomest for dyet which is pure and without any tast but such as water should haue For most water retaineth some savour of the ground through which it runneth and albeit to those who doe not vse to drinke water it be imperceptible yet divers of those who drink nothing but water will as easily perceiue a difference betwixt water and water as wee doe betwixt beere and beere or wine and wine The best water also is lightest but that lightnesse is not to be considered by waight for snow-water is most light and yet vnwholesome but by the thinnesse of the parts thereof and by the speedy heating and cooling of the same as Hippocrates well observeth Let this suffice to haue beene briefly touched concerning the differences of waters in generall and let vs now say something with like brevitie concerning the originall of Springs and Rivers CHAPTER III. Of the originall of Springs and Rivers IT is a common received opinion derived from Aristotle that the generation of water proceedeth from ayre condensated into the same in the bowels of the earth and distilling as water doth with vs from a Limbicke But it is hard to imagine how the nature of ayre should bee so speedily corrupted and turned into water and in that quantitie too that should maintaine the continuall course of so many Springs and so great a number of Rivers as are in the world divers of which are of such vastnesse and of so swift a course that a man might justly thinke that the whole element of ayre which in its owne nature is but very thinne should scarcely suffice to maintaine the course of that aboundance of water one only day And as for the reason they alledge that ayre is retained within the concavities and porosities of the earth ad vitandum vacuum which nature doth abhorre and afterwards is converted into water it is but a very weake one For those concavities are still full of ayre as well else-where as where Springs and Rivers doe flow But if the transmutation of ayre into water were the only cause of the flowing of all Springs and Rivers surely their streams must needs be but narrow their course slow and of small continuance Besides if this were true how could the Sea thinke you containe that excessiue aboundance of water which perpetually runneth into the same The ancient opinion then is the truer that all fountaines and rivers come from the Sea and are transcolated through the veines and porosities of the earth where in their passage they leaue their saltnesse Plato Aristotles Master was of this opinion and before him Thales Milesius as also m In Libro de mundi opificio Philo n Lib. 3. c. 9. Nat. quaest Seneca and o Lib. 1. de ortu subterran Georgius Agricola which without question they had learned from the Hebrewes For thus speaketh the Preacher p Eccles 1. All the Rivers runne into the Sea yet the Sea is not full vnto the place from whence the Rivers come thither they returne againe This is a most cleare and expresse text and which alone shall suffice to proue this point especially seeing the rule and law of Nature doth suffragate vnto the same For wheresoever there is a repletion there must needs an evacuation bee But some perhaps may say wee see indeed all Rivers runne into the Sea but we doe not see how they come from it True but when wee see that for all the abundance of water which runneth continually into the Seas the same are not increased thereby but remaine still the same we must needs imagine that they disburthen themselues some where For otherwise the waters had long agoe overwhelmed the world and reached vp even vnto heaven seeing that the g Gen. 7. Flood caused bin by raine of forty dayes ascended fifteene cubits aboue the highest mountaines Besides our very senses may perswade vs that the originall of Springs and Rivers is