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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00812	A dialogue philosophicall. Wherein natures secret closet is opened, and the cause of all motion in nature shewed ovt of matter and forme, tending to mount mans minde from nature to supernaturall and celestial promotion: and how all things exist in the number of three. : Together with the wittie inuention of an artificiall perpetuall motion, presented to the kings most excellent maiestie. / All which are discoursed betweene two speakers, Philadelph, and Theophrast, brought together by Thomas Tymme, professour of diuinitie..	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1612 (1612)	STC 24416; ESTC S95612	68,496	81

A DIALOGVE Philosophicall WHEREIN NATVRES SECRET CLOSET IS OPENED AND THE CAVSE OF ALL MOTION IN NATVRE SHEWED OVT OF MATTER AND Forme tending to mount mans minde from Nature to Supernaturall and Celestiall promotion And how all things exist in the number of three Together with the wittie inuention of an Artificiall perpetuall motion presented to the Kings most excellent Maiestie All which are discoursed betweene two speakers Philadelph and Theophrast brought together by Thomas Tymme Professour of Diuinitie SYRACH 43.32 There are hidden greater things then these be and we haue seene but a fewe of his workes LONDON Printed by T. S. for Clement Knight and are to be solde at his Shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Holy-Lambe 1612. To the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas Thomas Tymme wisheth all happinesse in this life and in the world to come true felicitie in Christ Iesus AS that famous Zeuxis another Apelles intending to limme in her naturall colours the picture of Iuno selected fiue of the most beautifull Virgins that were in all Agrigent that from the comely feature of those in each part he might portray a compleate and most amiable picture so in like manner right Honourable I purposing to set Dame Nature vpon the Stage of the world in each limme well fashioned out of Matter and Forme haue taken her lineaments from the Art and wisedome of the more learned sort of Philosophers that in all her parts so well as I could she might stand faire and well composed to the common view of such especially as can discerne and iudge a property not common to all For euery plummet is not for euery sound nor euery line for all leauels neither is it possible out of euery blocke to make the sculpture of Mercurie no more then it is possible for euery one without a conuenient Bucket to draw water from the depth of Iacobs Well But your Lordship being in all humane Science profoundly learned and of mature Iudgement as hath appeared by effect can with Protogenes discipher Apelles worke by the draught of one onely line and can by your sublimed wisedome discerne the misterie of Matter and Forme And to the end your Honour may the better feele my meaning herein I haue reduced as it were innumerable beames to one Sunne and many Riuers to one Fountaine abridging large discourses into a conuenient compendium and methode But seeing no Pomegranat can be so faire but that some one imperfect and rotten kernell may be found therein I humbly beseech your Honour to deale with such occurent faults as Lapidaries are wont to deale with precious stones who to hide a cracke or flaw doe set the same more deepe in gold So my right Honourable Lord let your Noble name and High reputation of learning and sage prudence shaddow and adorne my imperfections in this Treatise Wherein albeit you finde not an Eagles nest no more then Theseus did notwithstanding through faire promises he had long looked for it yet happily your Honour at the least shall finde a Wrenne and then at the last you may say you haue a Bird. Now fearing least I paesse the due limits of proportion as did the Myndians who made their gates greater then their Towne I cease to stay your Lordship from your Honourable affaires crauing pardon for this my boldnesse and beseeching God to increase your dayes and yeeres with desired health to your ioy and comfort and to the good of this Church and Common-wealth of great Britaine Your Honours most humble Thomas Tymme To the Reader THE Almighty Creatour of the Heauens and the Earth Christian Reader hath set before our eyes two most principall Bookes the one of Nature the other of his written Word By these we know that God was before all times infinitely one comprehending all things that now be in himselfe and being the beginning of Time created those things in number measure and waight adorning his worke most wonderfully with these three Instruments as with the first Formes And formed thus this vniuersall frame after the similitude of Vnitie in circular compasse in pure and meere simplicitie The wisedome of Natures booke men commonly call Naturall Philosophie which serueth to allure to the contemplation of that great and incomprehensible God that wee might glorifie him in the greatnesse of his worke For the ruled Motions of the Orbes the wonderfull workmanship of so many starrie Tents the connexion agreement force vertue and beauty of the Elements the scituation firmenesse and spreading of the Earth amidst the waters and so many sundry natures and creatures in the world are so manie interpreters to teach vs that God is the efficient cause of them and that he is manifested in them and by them as their finall cause to whom also they tend Yea the Naturall Motions which belong to all creatures euen to Vegetables casting their rootes downewards and their sprouts vpwards doe therein set forth the power and wisedome of the omnipotent Creator But the Mirrour wherein we may yet better behold God is Man a little World in whom shineth and is imprinted a Diuine Essence the like whereof is not to be found in any visible creature besides How necessarie is it then for men to consider the workes of God in his creatures And how much more necessarie is it to beholde their owne person and nature wherein there are almost as many meruailous workes of God as there are in the whole frame besides For what will it profit a man to measure the Vniuersall to compasse the whole Elementarie Region to know the things in them and their nature and in the meane time to be ignorant of himselfe For albeit a generall knowledge of all the creatures of this visible world will greatly helpe to leade man to the knowledge of God the Creator yet he shall neuer be able to know him well if with all he know not himselfe Plato searching by the meanes of Motion what was the substance nature and immortalitie of mans Soule attained to the vnderstanding of the Diuine Essence Aristotle also taking the same way acknowledgeth that he knew God vnder the name of the first Mouer who is perpetuall and immoueable But the wisedome Supernaturall called Theologie reuealed in the written word of God being farre more excellent then all naturall Philosophie sublimeth our spirits through the light of the diuine Spirit to mount as it were by Iacobs ladder with Phoenix wings from the things of Nature to Celestiall and Diuine things whereby we haue a light and bright vnderstanding If man had not sinned the booke of Nature would haue sufficed to haue kept him alwaies in the knowledge obedience of God his Creator For then he should himselfe haue carried that Booke whole perfect imprinted in his heart and minde neither should his Soule haue needed any other Teacher to know it selfe but it selfe should haue clearely beheld and contemplated it selfe so long as she