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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43008	Archelogia philosophica nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy / by Gideon Harvey ...	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1663 (1663)	Wing H1053_ENTIRE; Wing H1075_PARTIAL; ESTC R17466	554,450	785

Archelogia Philosophica Nova OR New Principles OF PHILOSOPHY CONTAINING Philosophy in general Metaphysicks or Ontology Dynamilogy or a Discourse of Power Religio Philosophi or Natural Theology Physicks or Natural Philosophy By GIDEON HARVEY Dr. of Phys. and Phil. Late Physician to his Majesties Army in Flanders LONDON Printed by J. H. for Samuel Thomson at the Bishops-head in St Pauls Church-yard 1663. Dr. HARVEY'S NEW PHILOSOPHY Imprimatur Geo. Stradling S. T. P. Rev. in Christo Pat. Gilb. Episc. Lond. a Sac. Domest Ex AEd. Sabaud Octob. 30. 1662. To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Ossory One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council in the Kingdom of Ireland My Lord ALthough the interval of several years past might easily have blotted out the memory of any Obligations yet it is the impression of your Lordships most obliging civilities conferred upon me when fortune had blessed me with the honour of your good company in my Travels in France that incites me to make the least recompence yet the greatest within my power of their remembrance and acknowledgement But what can this add Since Countries and Cities that have been honoured with your abode describe your fame with Characters of all perfections concurring in a Person of so Noble Prudent Valiant Heroick and so Affable a Spirit Whence I cannot but be confirmed of your Lordships Candour that encourageth me in this my enterprize of offering to you a piece of Philosophy so much below your acceptance however questioning not but that your Honours endowments will raise the use of it if any may be made to the greatest height And now being conscious of my presumption in aspiring to make choice of so eminent a Personage for a Patron do humbly beg your Pardon and the favour of subscribing my self Most Noble Sir Your Honours most humble and obliged Servant HARVEY TO THE READER Reader I Was concerned in my mind what to call you courteous or kind But since the Scene of this our Orb represents men moving so erratically and varying in that extremity from the Ecliptick of a fixt Judgment certainly I should have been frustrated in wooing your candour or gentleness dayly converse gives me the occasion of observing the variable Fates of Authors Works which although indited by accurateness it self and accomplisht with Herculean labours are oft termed stuffe by some and to others again the works of a Divinity scarce seem to surpass them But to render Lines harmonical to every Ear is one of the humane Impossibilities and no small difficulty to a divine Pen. However all Volumns sail through an Ocean so terrible by Oricanes from Mens Tongues the more by reason they are tossed to and fro without the conduct of their Pilot yet it is not this Charybdis of a carping Momus or that Scylla of a livid Zollus shall prevail to keep these upon the stocks but rather precipitate them upon a Voyage with a venture of their whole lading full of Novelties suspending my thoughts in the interim for a return Not a recompence of vain glory nor a reproof relished with contempt neither being placed in one Scale of a ballance over powers the other containing no more than an empty air And should not that be far short of my scope marked with a single Character of truth and advancement of Learning setting aside any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The faces of most things appearing yet clouded many but partly unmask as many although of themselves clear covered under a vail of dark terms and absurd notions of Philosophers cannot but spur any sensible Genius to discuss that muddiness of some and redeem the light of others in the performing whereof I have here ingaged my self in these Treatises taking what advantage long time hard study and laborious experiments would contribute thereunto The only Instruments that I have imployed in the sounding of the natures of beings are the external senses assuming nothing or concluding no inference without their advice and undoubted assent whether in Metaphysicks Theology or Natural Philosophy Those terms or notions that only give a confuse testimony of their being to the understanding escaping the evidence of external sence we have declined as rocks whereon any one might otherwise easily make shipwrack of his sensible knowledge Wherefore whatever subject insisted upon within these narrow Pages doth not crave a necessary evident plain and demonstrable assent as being only attempted by external sense mediately or immediately my desire is the Reader would apprehend it to be no part of my Book But to give you a more particular account of my design I shall first discover to you my intention in annexing Natural Theology My thoughts fluctuating in a mist astonisht at the multiplicity of all kinds of bodies moving about me advised to stear their course to some immoveable whereupon they might fix themselves and thence to ponder upon others here they certainly concluded one universal immoveable whereon and whereby all moveables are moved because there can be no moveable but must necessarily have its respect to an immoveable they being relations which are constituted at the same time My next assumption following the chorea of the first and drawn from the relation interceding between an immoveable and moveable resolved me that a Moveable must necessarily be derived from an Immoveable whence I was soon confirmed of an universal Creator of the whole Universe Thence I made a digression into the reason and cause of the creation of all moveables particularly of my self and so keeping strait on my Road behold my steps markt and digested in the fourth Book of my Philosophy which by reason of their prius ought to have been ranckt in the front all men naturally converting their first thoughts thither but for orders sake have inserted them elsewhere Here I found the camp whereon Atheism and natural Faith were to encounter each other but the former being intrencht within the flesh to have much the advantage of the latter standing bare upon so slippery a ground whence it is that the greatest part of the World yea of Christendom render themselves up captives and eternal slaves to the obedience of the devil in the service of Atheism engaged in actions of Abomination Horrour and Blasphemy Notwithstanding since the ruines of those lines of Blessedness and Innocency yet discernable in the souls of all men are possible to be raised up again whence they may easily demolish and batter down those strong Bulworks of Pernicion it is that part of fortification I have endeavoured to delineate the knowledge whereof is absolutely necessary for Salvation and is a Key wherewith to unlock the Mysteries of eternal happiness revealed to us by the holy Scriptures which being founded upon the greatest and truest reason must certainly require a gradual ascent to it from natural Theology being a rational discourse inferring Theorems of Salvation from Humane Reason subordinate to the highest of the Scriptures Wherefore all evidence doth direct us to make this our mark or