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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86055	Natura prodigiorum or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions. / By John Gadbury philomathēmatikos.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G91; Thomason E2131_3; ESTC R202414	80,331	276

Natura Prodigiorum OR A DISCOURSE Touching the NATURE OF PRODIGIES Together With the Kinds Causes and Effects of Comets Eclipses and Earthquakes WITH AN APPENDIX Touching the Imposturism of the commonly-received Doctrine of Prophecies Spirits Images Sigils Lamens The Christal c. And the Propugners of such Opinions By JOHN GADBURY 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non est muta rerum Natura sed undique loquax Erasm LONDON Printed by J.C. for Fr. Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street and Tho Basset in St. Dunstans-Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1660. To the Right Honourable Valiant and Successful Sir GEORGE MONK Lord General of all His MAJESTIE' 's Forces in England Scotland and Ireland Master of the Horse to His MAJESTIE Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter One of his MAJESTIES Most Honourable Privy Council AND Restorer of these of late distracted Nations to their Pristine Splendor and Glory Felicitie in both Worlds Right Honourable AMong the many and mighty Addresses and Congratulatory thanks that your Excellencie is assiduously accosted with for the Great and once accounted impossible Deliverance to these of late bleeding Nations wrought by your Honours most happy Hand and Counsels I humbly implore your Honors most Gratious Acceptance of this my mean acknowledgment For of so universal concernment have your most prosperous and heroick Actions been that as by the Sun the meanest receive advantage as the greatest though not in the same quantity or degree For the which Ages to come will instal you blessed Although I am a stranger unto your Honours Person yet should I be so unto your mighty and ever to be celebrated-Actions I must then be the same unto the Land of my own Nativity which with loud Acclamations and Ecchoes of joy hath owned your Excellencie as the only Instrumental cause of her present fruition of Peace and Settlement and of her future happiness and glory and of the truth of this Men and Angles are witnesses My Lord This little Book treating of things strange Emboldens me the more to present it unto your Honours Hand For if we search all Chronologie and dig thorow the deep Mine of Historie we shall scarcely find any one thing so eminently Prodigious and strange as this THE HAPPY RESTAURATION OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND TO HER FORMER AND MOST NATURAL GOVERNMENT MONARCHY AND THIS PERFORMED BY YOUR HONOURS HAPPY UNDERTAKINGS WITHOUT THE LEAST BLOUDSHED which very thing speaks so much of Gods most Gratious and especial Providence to your Honour and these Kingdom 's that the true essential cause of this most happy Turn is to be read no where but in the Sacred Scrowl of Divine Miracles Which by the Fathers of the Church are worthily ranked among those things the Doctor of the Gentiles Terms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the deep things or secrets of God and therefore not fit for Man's inspection I fear my Lord I am too troublesom I shall conclude with a Petition and a Prayer My Petition is That your Honour would not only vouchsafe your Acceptance of this little Book but your Pardon also to its Author who hath presumed to affix so great a Name unto so mean and contemptible a work My Prayer is that Heaven would be pleased to be as propitious to your Honors Person Name and Posterity as it hath made your Honor to the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Which is the Cordial Fervent and faithful desire of Right Honourable Your Excellencies most Humble Servant and true Honourer John Gadbury To the Reader IT was no inconsiderable or left-handed truth that the Lyrick Poet ingeniously maintained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That in every thing or action Seasonable performance is a principal matter And the Excellently learned and Philosophical Emperour M. Anton. Lib. 12. Sect. 35. lays it down as a fixed Position or Maxime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That that only is good which is seasonable Whether this my present Discourse may come into the world seasonably I will not say or take on me to determine yet have I some reason to judge and believe it may for if I consider and compare the complexion of the times with the subject matter of this Book I find them equally Prodigious and according to reason A Book of Prodigies is fit In times Prodigious to be writ The order of Nature now as in Tertullians time Ap. Cap. 20. is obstructed by Monsters and Prodigies And the several Prodigious Actions performed lately and now on foot in most parts of the world speak the times disturbance and the unsetledness of the brains and humors of men Every Post almost brings news of some Protean Change But it is the trumpet of time that alone can proclaim its seasonableness or intempestivity The breath of which doth either blast the credit or blazon the worth of all Books I have not troubled my self or been at any large costs or expences upon it for its journey into the world but have trusted unto it to bespeak its own entertainment according to its merit The Fate of it I foresee will be not much unlike its Author 's that is it will meet with censures of all sorts as he with men As Euripides said of a Lot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So may I of this Book That it is the childe of Chance For it was produced without any large or curious study or long and serious contrivance the method will plainly prove I did it in hast I have run through the bulk of it in almost as strange a manner as some of our now-adays Christians their forms of Religion or the furious Enthusiast his visions and Revelations And truly when I consider the constitution and complexion of the work to prevent the censures and back-reports of others I could be content to say I have done nothing unless danced with Saint Vitus Notwithstanding had this Book been published by one who could have truly subscrib'd himself a Person of Honour or Dr. of Physick Master of Arts c. or by any one that had had some rattles to his name it might possibly have gained the worlds approbation for a painful collection a learned and worthy work whereas now it is likely to merit no other applause with the malicious and ignorant then the envious Epithets of a weak and indigested peece for Atticus eximie si caenat lautus habetur Si Rutilus Demens Juv. Sat. 11. If Atticus keep open house 't is had For Bounty in him If Rutilus he 's mad But alas we know full well Non quicunque in aula vivit Aulicus est They are not all Courtiers that live at the Court Aliud est piscari aliud piscatorum esse Nor all fisher-men that go a fishing Nor are they all Christians that go to Church So likewise we know that they are not all learned and ingenious that have taken a degree in an University an Ape sometimes may be preferred before Aristotle Kissing most commonly goes by favour and honour may be purchased