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A02484	An apologie of the povver and prouidence of God in the gouernment of the world. Or An examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and vniuersall decay diuided into foure bookes: whereof the first treates of this pretended decay in generall, together with some preparatiues thereunto. The second of the pretended decay of the heauens and elements, together with that of the elementary bodies, man only excepted. The third of the pretended decay of mankinde in regard of age and duration, of strength and stature, of arts and wits. The fourth of this pretended decay in matter of manners, together with a large proofe of the future consummation of the world from the testimony of the gentiles, and the vses which we are to draw from the consideration thereof. By G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1627 (1627)	STC 12611; ESTC S120599	534,451	516

better cheape might be had from France then could be made heere and I make no doubt but as tillage with vs so the planting of Vineyards is increased with them and for this reason together with the Causes before alleadged it seemes to be that the French wines are better with vs at this present then they were in the raigne of Edward the second as shall by Gods helpe bee fully manifested in the next Section And that which hath beene spoken of the making of wines may likewise be vnderstood of the making of Bay sale in this kingdome in former ages for which as I am credibly informed records are likewise to be seene for to ascribe either the one or the other to the Sunnes going more Southerly from vs in Summer is in my judgement both vnwarrantable and improbable vnwarrantable as hath already beene shewed in this very booke Cap. 4. Sect 4. improbable for that if this plant should decay for this reason all other plants trees hearbes flowres should consequently partake of the like decay at leastwise in some proportion which our best Physitians and Herbalists haue not yet found to be so nay the contrary is by them avouched and as our wines are in a manner vtterly decayed here so their strength in France in Spaine in Italy in Hungary in Germany should vpon the same supposition be much abated which notwithstanding I haue no-where found to be observed SECT 4. An argument drawne from the present state of husbandmen and another for the many miserable dearths in former ages together with an obiection taken from the high prizes of victuals answered BVt that which farther perswadeth me that neither the goodnes of the soyle nor the seasonablenesse of the weather nor the industry of the husbandman is now inferiour to that of former ages is this that both this fyne and rent being raised his apparell and education of his children more chargeable the rates of publique payments more burdensome yet he fares better and layes vp more money in his purse then vsually in those times he did Besides it is certaine that if we compare time with time the famines of former ages were more grievous then ours I omit those of Ierusalem and Samaria because occasioned by the sieges of those Cities as also those which either Civill warres or forraine invasions hath drawne on Of the rest that of Lypsius is vndoubtedly true Iam de fame nihil profectò nos aut aetas nostra vidimus si videmus antiqua Now touching famine verily we and our age haue seene nothing if wee behold ancient records Vnder the Emperour Honorius so great was the scarcity dearth of victuals in Rome it selfe that in the open market-place this voice was heard Pone pretium humanae carni set a price to mans flesh And long before euen when L. Minutius was made the first over-seer of the graine Livy reports multos è plebe ne diutinâ fame cruciarentur capitibus obvolutis sese in Tyberim praecipitasse That many of the Commons least they should bee tortured with long famine covering their faces cast themselues headlong into Tyber What a miserable dearth was that in Egypt held by the Ancients for abundance of Corne the Granary of the world when for want of bread their greatest Nobles were forced to sell not only their lands but themselues and become bond-slaues to Pharaoh How vniversall was that fore-told by Agabus which also came to passe vnder Claudius Caesar as both Dion and Suetonius beare witnesse to S. Luke But to come nearer home few histories I thinke exceed our owne in this point About the yeare 514 during the raigne of Cissa king of the South-Saxons in his countrey raigned such an extreame famine that both men and women in great flockes and companies cast themselues from rhe rocks into the Sea in the yeare 1314 about the beginning of the reigne of Edward the second the dearth was generally such ouer the land that purposely for the moderation of the prices of victuals a Parliamēt was assembled at London but it increased so vehemently that vpon S. Lawrence Eue there was scarcely bread to be gotten for the sustentation of the Kings owne family And the yeare following it grew so terrible that horses dogges yea men and children were stollen for food and which is horrible to thinke the theeues newly brought into the gaoles were torne in peeces and presently eaten halfe aliue by such as had beene longer there In London it was proclaimed that no Corne should be converted to Brewers vses which Act the King moued with compassion towards his Nation imitating caused to be executed through all the kingdome otherwise saith Walsingham the greater part of the people had perished with penury of bread And againe to conclude this sad discourse in the yeare 1317 in the tenth yeare of the same King there was such a murraine of all kinde of cattell together with a generall fayling of all fruits of the Earth by excessiue raines and vnseasonable weather as provision could not be had for the Kings house nor meanes for other great men to maintaine their Tables Inasmuch as they put away their servants in great numbers who hauing beene daintily bred and now not able to worke skorning to beg fell to robbery and spoyle which added much to the misery of the Kingdome It will be said if the plenty of corne and victuals be as great as in former ages how comes it to passe that their prices are somuch inhanced But if wee compare our prices with those of the ancient Romanes wee shall finde that theirs farre exceeded ours The Romane penny by the consent of the learned and the judgement of our last Translatours in diverse parts of their Marginall notes was the eight part of an ounce accounting fiue shillings to the ounce so that it was worth of our money seven pence halfe penny Now by the testimony of Varro and Macrobius their Peacocks egges which are now of no reckoning with vs were sold with them for fiue Roman pence a peece and the Peacocks themselues for fifty Thrushes and Ousells or blackebirds were commonly sold for three pence a peece Nay Varro mentions one L. Axius a Romane Knight who would not let goe a paire of doues minoris quadringentis denarijs for lesse then foure hundred pence But these insana pretia as Macrobius calls them mad and vnreasonable prices wee shall haue fitter occasion to speake of when wee come to treate of the luxury of the Ancients In the meane time it shall not be amisse to remember what our Saviour tells vs in the Gospell that two Sparrowes or passerculi as Beza renders it were then sold for a farthing thereby implying their great cheapenes Yet for the same money it beeing the tenth part of a Romane penny and answering in value to halfe penny farthing of our coyne more may bee had at this day with vs But

fundoque exaestuatimo Aetna here thunders with a horride noise Sometimes black clouds evaporeth to skies Fuming with pitchie curles and sparkling fires Tosseth vp globes of flames to starres aspires Now belching rocks the mountaines entrals torne And groaning hurles out liquid stones there borne Thorow the aire in showres But rightly did another Poet diuine of this mountaine and the burnings therein Nec quae sulphurijs ardet fornacibus Aetna Ignea semper erit neque enim fuit ignea semper Aetna which flames of sulphure now doth raise Shall not still burne nor hath it burnt alwayes The like may be said of Vesuvius in the kingdome of Naples it flamed with the greatest horrour in the first or as some say in the third yeere of the Emperour Titus where besides beasts fishes and fowle it destroyed two adjoyning Citties Herculanum and Pompeios with the people sitting in the Theater Pliny the naturall Historian then Admirall of the Romane Navy desirous to discover the reason was suffocated with the smoake thereof as witnesseth his Nephew in an epistle of his to Cornelius Tacitus Sensit procul Africa tellus Tunc expuluerijs geminata incendia nimbis Sensit et Aegyptus Memphisque Nilus atrocem Tempestatem illam Campano è littore missam Nec caruisse ferunt Asiam Syriamque tremenda Peste nec exstantes Neptunj è fluctibus arces Cyprumque Cretamque Cycladas ordine nullo Per pontum sparsas nec doctam Palladis vrbem Tantus inexhaustis erupit faucibus ardor Ac vapor They be the verses of Hieronymus Borgius touching the horrible roaring and thundring of this mountaine and may thus be englished Then remote Africke suffer'd the direfull heate Of twofold rage with showers of dust repleate Scorcht Egipt memphis Nilus felt amaz'd The woofull tempest in Campania rais'd Not Asia Syria nor the towers that stand In Neptunes surges Cyprus Creet Ioues land The scattered Cyclades nor the Muses seate Minervaes towne that vast plague scapt such heate Such vapours brake forth from full jawes Marcellinus farther obserues that the ashes thereof transported in the ayre obscured all Europe and that the Constantinopolitanes being wonderfully affrighted therewith in so much as the Emperour Leo forsooke the Citty in memoriall of the same did yearely celebrate the twelfth of November Who in these latter ages hath euer heard or read of such a fire issuing out of the earth as Tacitus in the 13 of his Annals and almost the last words describes The citty of the Inhonians in Germanie confederate with vs sayth he was afflicted with a sudden disaster for fires issuing out of the earth burned towns feilds villages every where and spred even to the wals of a colony newly built and could not be extinguished neither by raine nor river water nor any other liquor that could be imployed vntill for want of remedie and anger of such a destruction certaine pesants cast stones a farre of into it then the flame somewhat ●…laking drawing neare they put it out with blowes of clubs and otherlike as if it had been a wild beast last of all they threw in clothes from their backes which the more worne and fowler the berrer they quenched the fires But the most memorable both Earthquake and burning is that which Mr. George Sands in the forth booke of his Travels reports to haue hapēed neare Puttzoll in the kingdome of Naples likewise in the yeare of our Lord 1538 and on the 29th of September when for certaine daies foregoing the countrey thereabout was so vexed with perpetuall Earthquakes as no one house was left so intire as not to expect an immediate ruine after that the sea had retired two hundred pases from the shore leauing abundance of fresh water rising in the bottome there visiblely ascended a mountaine about the second hower of the night with hideous roaring horriblely vomiting stones and such store of Cinders as overwhelmed all the buildings therabout and the salubrious Bathes of Tripergula for so many ages celebrated consumed the vines to ashes killing birds and beastes the fearefull inhabitants of Puttzoll flying through the darke with their wiues and children naked defiled crying out and detesting their Calamities manifold mischiefes had they suffered yet none like this which nature inflicted yet was not this the first Iland that thus by the force of Earthquakes haue risen out of the sea the like is reported both of Delos and Rhodos and some others SECT 6. Of the nature of Comets and the vncertaintie of praedictions from them as also that the number of those which haue appeared of late yeares is lesse then hath vsually beene observed in former ages and of other fiery and watry prodigious meteors IT remaines that in the next place I should speake somewhat of Comets or Blazing starres whether in latter times more haue appeared or more disastrous effectes haue followed vpon their appearance then in former ages Some tooke the Comet to haue beene a starre ordained and created from the first beginning of the world but appearing only by times and by turnes of this mind was Seneca Cardan likewise in latter times harps much if not vpon the same yet the like string But Aristotle whose weighty reasons and deepe judgment I much reverence conceiueth the matter of the Comet to be a passing hot and dry exhalation which being lifted vp by the force vertue of the Sun into the highest region of the ayre is there inflamed partly by the Element of fire vpon which it bordereth and partly by the motion of the heavens which hurleth it about so as there is the same matter of an Earthquake the wind the lightning and a Comet if it be imprisoned in the bowels of the earth it causeth an Earthquake if it ascend to the middle region of the ayre and be from thence beating back wind if it enter that region and be there invironed with a thick cloud lightning if it passe that region a Comet or some other fiery Meteor in case the matter be not sufficiently capable thereof The common opinion hath beene that Comets either as Signes or causes or both haue allwayes prognosticated some dreadfull mishaps to the world as outragious windes extraordonary drougth dearth pestilence warres death of Princes and the like Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus aether Ne're did the Heavens with idle blazes flame But the late Lord Privy Seale Earle of Northampton in his Defensatiue against the poyson of supposed prophesies hath so strongly incountred this opinion that for mine owne part I must professe he hath perswaded mee there is no certainty in those praedictions in asmuch as Comets doe not alwayes forerunne such euents neither doe such euents alwayes follow vpon the appearing of Comets Some instances he produceth of Comets which brought with them such abundance of all things abated their prises to so low an ebbe as stories haue recorded it for monuments and miracles to posterity And the like saith hee could I say of others

thousand yeares agoe when the world was now well replenished and the most necessary sciences depending vpon observation and experience in a manner perfected the length of mans age is nothing abated as cleerely it appeares by that most famous and euident testimony of his the time of our life saith hee is three score yeares and tenne and though men bee so strong that they come to foure score yeares yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soone passeth it away and wee are gone And that these are indeede the words of Moses appeares by the very Title of the Psalme prefixed to it A Psalme of Moses the man of God For though S. Augustine seeme to make some doubt of it because hee findes it not recorded in his history And Aben Ezra a Iewish Rabbin thinke the Authour to haue beene one of Davids singers so named yet S. Hierome doubts not constantly to auerre it to be that same Moses who was the penman of holy writ and the Captaine of the Hebrewes that we might not call it into question the Holy Ghost seemes purposely to haue annexed that Epithete The man of God that is not only a godly religious and excellent man but a man endued with a propheticall spirit and so is it taken 1 Sam. 2. 27. 1. Kings 13. 1. In which regard Moses himselfe giues himselfe this same Title Deuter 33. 1. This is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death And for S. Augustines objection hee would leaue very few Psalmes to David himselfe were his argument of any force Yet some Expositours there are who referre it to that story of the Israelites written in the 32 of Exodus Others in the 14 of Numbers which I the rather am induced to beleeue for that of all those six hundred thousand Israelites which vnder the conduct of Moses came out of Aegypt onely two Caleb and Iosua entred into the land of promise all the rest men women children young old leauing their carkases in the Wildernes within the space of forty yeares True indeede it is that both Moses himselfe and his brother Aaron outliued the number of yeares set downe in that Psalme yet saith judicious Calvin de communi ratione loquitur hee speakes of the ordinary course how it commonly fared with men in that respect even in those times And thus doe I take Herodotus to be vnderstood jumping in the same number with Moses spatium vivendi longissimum propositum esse octoginta annos that the vtmost space of mans life is foure score yeares Though Solon come a degree shorter making the age of man threescore and ten as both Laertius and Censorinus in his booke De die natali testifie of him Plato who had as Seneca witnesseth a strong and able body borrowing his name from his broad brest not without much care diligence arrived to the age of eighty one yeares And Barzillai who liued in Dauids time is said to haue beene Senex valdè a very aged man yet was he by his owne confession but foure score yeares old Nay Dauid himself is said to haue beene old striken in yeares Satur dierum full of dayes insomuch as they covered him with clothes but he got no heate yet was he but threescore and ten when he died thirty when he began to raigne and forty yeares he raigned being naturally of a sound and healthfull constitution Solomons age we cannot by Scripture certainly determine some Divines conjecture that he little exceeded forty but the most learned that hee passed not fifty or threescore at most yet is it noted of him that cùm senex esset when hee was old his wiues turned away his heart after other Gods Of all the Kings of Iudah and Ierusalem which followed after the greatest part came not to fifty very few to threescore and none full home to threescore and tenne In the whole Catalogue of Romane Greeke French and Germane Emperours onely foure are found which attained to fourescore and those not among the first of that ranke In the bed-roll of Popes fiue only liued to see those yeares and those of latter dayes in comparison namely Iohn 23. Gregory 12 13. Paulus 3 and 4. and which is more remarkeable our Queene Elizabeth of fresh and blessed memory out-liued all her predecessours since the conquest raigning the yeares of Augustus and liuing the age of Dauid SECT 4. The same confirmed by the testimony of other ancient and learned Writers HEsiodus the first Writer as I take it saith Pliny who hath treated of this argument in his fabulous discourse touching the age of man affirmeth but vpon what ground I know not that a crow liueth nine times as long as wee and the Harts or Staggs foure times as long as the crow but the ravens thrice as long as they And if we should consult with Astrologers Epigines saith that it is not possible to liue an hundred and two and twenty yeares and Berosus is of opinion that one cannot passe an hundred and seuenteene In the Oracle of Sybilla Erithraea by the testimony of Phlegon Trallianus are found these verses Viginti centum revolutis protinus annis Quae sunt humanae longissima tempora vitae When sixe score winters are expir'd which fate Of humane life hath made the longest date Moreouer Trebellius Pollio in his booke to Constantius thus writeth Doctissimi Mathematicorum centum viginti annos homini ad vivendum datos judicant neque amplius cuiquam concessum dicunt illud etiam adijcientes Mosen ipsum vt Iudaeorum libri testantur Dei familiarem viginti quinque ac centum annos vixisse qui cùm interitum hunc vt immutatum fortè quereretur ferunt illi ab incerto Numine responsum neminem deinceps amplius esse victurum The most learned Mathematicians are of opinion that a man can liue but an hundred and twenty yeares and that none can goe beyond that period yet they adde that Moses himselfe as the writings of the Iewes testifie being familiar with God liued to the age of one hundred twenty fiue yeares who when he complained of this change they report this answere to haue beene giuen him by some divine power that no man after that should passe those bounds Thus Pollio ignorantly mistaking the age of Moses but alluding as it seemes to that speech of God in the sixth of Genesis his dayes shall be an hundred twenty yeares Which words notwithstanding I should rather choose to referre to the continuance of the world till the comming of the floud then to the duration of the age of particular men For it is certaine that after this not onely Noah but Sem and Arphaxad and Salah and Eber and Peleg and Nahor and Terah and Abraham and Isaac and Iacob some of them by much and all of them by some number of yeares exceeded this proportion Crinitus in his seuenth