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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77226	A new and cleer discovery, of the true, and proper, natural cause, of the ebbing and flowing of the main sea. Convincingly held forth, both from Scripture and reason. So as any rational man, may easily apprehend, the proper cause on its flucnt [sic] motion: and that it is not the Moon, as some have imagined, and gone about to prove. / Written by Ellis Bradshawe of the Parish of Boulton in the County of Lancaster, Husbandman.	Bradshaw, Ellis.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4146; Thomason E575_34; ESTC R206353	10,802	16

A NEW And cleer Discovery OF THE TRVE AND PROPER NATVRAL CAVSE OF THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE MAIN SEA Convincingly held forth both from Scripture and Reason So as any Rational man may easily apprehend the proper Cause of its fluent motion And that it is not the Moon as some have imagined and gone about to prove Written by ELLIS BRADSHAWE of the Parish of Boulton in the County of Lancaster Husbandman PSAL. 97.4 5. His Lightnings lightned the world the earth saw it and trembled The hils melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth All thy works praise thee oh Lord Therefore even I also will magnifie thy Name for it is holy Yea let the heavens and the earth praise him the seas and every thing that moveth therein Psal ●9 34 LONDON Printed by G●rtrude Dawson for Thomas Brewster at the Signe of the three Bibles under Mildreds Church in the Poultry 1649. THE Authors Apologie in Respect he is but an Husband-man and unlearned in the Tongues to excuse himselfe of Presumption herein to the Christian Reader CHRISTIAN READER If when thou hast read these few lines thou canst say as it is prophesied Isa 52.15 That that which hath not been told thee thou dost hereby see and that which thou hadst not heard thou dost now consider Let it stop thy mouth from speaking evill of the unworthy Instrument and thy heart from thinking him too presumpteous for appearing in Print and undertaking the discovery of such truths as neither thou nor others that are now living on the face of the earth for ought thou knowest have discovered before Refuse not knowledge because tendered unto thee by so unworthy an Instrument they are too squemish that refuse good meat because presented in an earthen vessell 2 Cor 4.7 for ought thou knowest it may be done of purpose that the excellency of power may be of God and not of man And they that are taught in the word should rather communicate unto him that teacheth them in all good things then despise and reproach him returning evill for good hatred for love this is bad requitall but not a little common now adayes But however thou judgest or requitest the Instrument yet give God the glory of what thou learnest else thou also despisest even the fountain of knowlege who is justly worthy of praise and honour yea and will have the glory as so the Instrument desires that both wholly and freely it might be ascribed for ever Amen But it may be objected that this is not the first of my appearing in Print but that I have also presumed to write a Book called An Husbandmans Harrow to pull down the Ridges of the Presbyteriall Government and to smooth a little the Independent c. And therefore an Apology to excuse my presumption might have been therein also held forth to the Reader as well as now considering that in the Title thereof I conclude so presumptuously as to call my arguments contained therein both new and unanswerable to that purpose and such as I have also proved to be like teeth of steel that will pull down the Ridges before they break or bend I answer that I intended that very Title to serve to excuse me instead of any further Apology For thus I thought that any rationall man might easily gather to wit That if in my apprehension I had any arguments to so good a purpose as the reconciling of such hot disputes and that betwixt Brethren That might truly and properly be called new having never yet been propos'd by others on either party I thought it might well excuse me For who is it but he will be content to hear yea and enquire of any man be he learned or unlearned that can tell him Newes and especially good Newes and such as may be usefull both to himself and others yea such as may possibly guide him into the right way when he is at a stand and knows not which way to ●urne in the dark night but may possibly be endangered to fall into some pit And if there be not such Arguments contained in that Book when any man sheweth me that they are old and needles having bin formerly proposd by such or such on either party then I shall confesse th●t I presumed too far Or when any man hath answ●red them from Scripture grounds I shall also confesse that I presumed too far in calling them una●swerable But they are not yet answered nor proved to be old nor uselesse and unprofitable and therefore I as yet think not any worse of them then is exprest in the Title But it is my desire that such who think me p●esumptuous would but suspend their censure till they be answered by way of contradiction from Scripture grounds and then let them censure as they find cause But they might doe well in the mean time to take the Apostles advice and judge nothing before the time F●r if I therein erred my errour as yet remaineth with me Iob 19.4 And if they know wherein they might doe well to let me k●ow mine errour as Iob 6.24 Yea let them teach me I shall hold my tongue and cause me to underst●nd wherein I have erred Yea I shall also thank them for their just rebuke I shall love them better then if they hold their peace and smother my faults which they plainly see And however they deem yet this is the truth that if I had not thought those Scripturall Arguments both new and unanswerable I had not presumed to appear in Print Neither doe I purpose through the grace of God to presume to appeare any further in Print concerning any subject but wherein I am confident that I hold forth something of speciall use to such a purpose that no man else hath published in print or held forth before nor it may be considered or thought so far in that respect but that all that read it may in something or other be instructed thereby if they will consider as they ought to doe without prejudicate conceits And yet I purpose God willing to appear in Pri●t concerning divers subjects the Lord assisting me as I hope he will And therefore doe but give the glory to the God of Truth of every truth thou learnest though it be by never so weak an instrument as so thou oughtest to doe And let me beare the shame of what I write presumptuously and without a cause and ground from Scripture as so I justly deserve And in the mean time accept me as thy loving friend and brother in the Lord Ellis Bradshaw A new and clear discovery of the true and proper and natural cause of the ebbing and flowing of the maine Sea THE great Lord of Heaven and Earth that hath made all things for his own sake requireth praise and will have glory from all his works Psal 148. Yea all his works do praise him as Psal 1 5.10 And his Saints blesse him yea they shall speak

of the glory of his Kingdom and talk of his power to make known to the sonnes of men his mighty acts and the glorious Majesty of his kingdome vers 11 12. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatnesse is unsearchable verse 3. One generation should praise his works to another and declare his mighty acts 4. vers 5 6 7. Yea they shall speak of the might of his terrible acts and I also will declare his greatnesse verse 5. The Heavens declare the glory of God and the formament sheweth his handy work and that day by day from the first creation as Psal 19. Yea the invisible things of God are clearly seen being considered in his works and understood by the things that are made even his eternall power and God-head so that all nations are without excuse as Rom. 1 20. And wo unto us if we despise his name and do not reverence and feare that great and fearfull name even the Lord our God But mark The invisible things of God are clearly understood by the things that are made if considered Isa 44.19 20. Ezek. 18.14 28. Mat. 5.3 Isa 3.1 c. But without consideration how little understanding or knowledge of God and of his power and greatnesse can we attain unto Give me leave therefore in the words and name of the Lord Jesus Christ to invite him that readeth that he would consider yea thou whomsoever that readest consider for if thou look at things without consideration thou mayst easily conceive that the Sun or Moon are no broader nor bigger then thou canst make a Cheese if thou dost not consider or that thou hast not knowledge of their distance from the earth But dost judge by sence and without rationall consideration like a rationall creature And so in like manner if thou judge by sense and hast not travaild thou mayst possibly think unlesse thou beleevest others that the earth is little broader then thou canst see about thee on every side or thou mayst think as many that are dull and ignorant that it is not round like the compasse of a ball but broad and thin and narrow likewise And if thou dost not consider thou wilt hardly beleeve no though it be told thee That God hath stretched out the North over the empty place Jeb 26.7 and hanged the Earth upon nothing Thou wilt hardly beleeve If thou dost not consider that the Heavens are still in constant motion about the earth and that it is loose on every side and at the ends likewise like a great Ball in the midst of the Heavens Nor that the Earth and Waters make but one Ball the liquid water tending as directly to the center of the earth as doth any part of the Earth it self Let me therefore intreat thee to consider seriously of these great things though thou never formerly hast thought thus far And thou maist yet be capable of greater things which thou hast never heard nor seen before and mayst therein discover the infinite greatnesse and power of God and so be brought to feare him And the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome And so thou mayst be wise yea and wise for thy self yea wise and happy unto all eternity If thou wilt not be and demean thy self like one of those fooles that do hate knowledge as Prov. 1.7 and that will not chuse the feare of the Lord. For thou canst not see him by going forward backward on the right hand left hand where he doth works unlesse thou consider who it is that worketh and that it is no other but his invisible hand that worketh all things according to the counsell of his own will But when Job considered he was troubled at his presence yea when he considered he was afraid of him Job 23 3 8 9 13 14 15. Consider therefore with awfull respects to the great Lord both of Heaven and Earth and thou shalt understand That the Earth and Waters the Sea and dry Land are still alike in equall constant and continuall motion from the very beginning till this present day yea since he gathered the waters into one place and let the dry land appear the sawe still kept an equall constant and continuall motion save only that time whilst Noahs Flood was upon the earth But it will be demanded what I mean by this that they have kept motion I answer briefly That as the Sea riseth and accordingly floweth ascending higher from the center of the earth and that at every short where it is not streightned as so it doth twise in 24. hours and that in all places throughout the world as the Seamen know Even so accordingly and at the same time doth the Earth descend and as it were close it self or sink downwards so much nearer to the middle or center of the Earth as the Sea ariseth or ascendeth from it directly upwards on every side So that as the Sea ebbs the Earth ascends and as the Earth descends the Sea flowes or riseth higher and that at every shore For as the Earth closeth all the parts of it towards the center it presseth forth the liquid waters from the Bowels of the Earth and as the Earth riseth or ascendeth again it openeth place in the Bowels of the Earth for descension of the Sea that it may fall or ebb or descend lower at every shore as we may daily see that it constantly doth in all the world where the main Sea commeth and as the Marriners know Quest But it will be demanded how it can be known that it doth thus move and that it is not a fiction or device of mans brain but a reall truth clearly demonstrated from Scripture and Reason Answ I answer breifly That I only learned and understood this secret through consideration of certain places and testimonies of sacred Sciptures which in my apprehension are clear grounds being compared together to assure the truth of this great secret which hath long been hid from the wise and learned Which sacred testimonies are briefly these It is written Psal 104. speaking of God who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters That he laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever And that he covered it with the deep as with a garment the waters saith he stood above the mountains to wit in the beginning as Gen. 1.9 and at Noahs flood as Gen. 7.20 Psal 104.6 and Job 38.8.10 11. And again At thy rebuke they fled meaning the waters at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away They go up by the Mountains they go down by the Vallies to the place which thou hast founded for them Thou hast set a bound which they shall not passe over that they turn not again to cover the earth as vers 6 7 8 9. Which words of Scripture in the old translation are something different but far more plain to my apprehension and more sutable to the Scriptures to which they relate for