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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

Aristotle Theophrastus and others curious searchers into all kinds of learning never so much as once mention either their names or their writings nor any of these mysteries While the Church of Christ was yet in her infancie many such kind of bookes were forged therby to make the doctrine of the Gospell more passible among the Gentiles and no marvell then that these of the Sybils passed for current among the rest That Saint George was a holy Martyr and that he conquered the dragon whereas Dr. Reynolds proues him to haue beene both a wicked man and an Arrian by the testimonie of Epiphanius Athanasius and Gregory Nazianzen And Baronius himselfe in plaine tearmes affirmes apparet totam illam de actis Georgij fabulam fuisse commentum Arrianorum It appeares that the whole story of George is nothing else but a forgery of the Arrians yet was he receiued as we know as a Canonized Saint through Christendome to be the Patron both of our nation and of the most honorable order of Knighthood in the world That the wise men which came out of the East to worship our Saviour were Kings and from hence their bodies being translated to Cullen they are at this day commonly called the three Kings of Cullen and the day consecrated to their memory is by the French tearmed Le jour de trois Rois the day of the three Kings yet Mantuan a Munke feares not to declare his opinion to the contrary and giues his reason for it Nec reges vt opinor erant neque enim tacuissent Historiae sacrae Authores Genus illud honoris Inter mortales quo non sublimius ullum Adde quod Herodes ut magnificentia Regum Postulat hospitibus tantis regale dedisset Hospitium secumque lares duxisset in amplos Had they beene Kings nor holy History Would haue conceal'd their so great Majesty Higher then which on Earth none can be named Herods magnificence would eke haue framed Some entertainment fitting their estates And harbour'd them within his Royall gates SECT 4. In History Ciuill IN History Ciuill or Nationall it is commonly receiued that there were foure and but foure Monarchies succeeding one the other the Assyrian the Persian the Grecian and the Roman Yet Iohn Bodin a man of singular learning specially in matter of History dares thus to begin the seuenth Chapter of his Method Inveteratus error de quatuor Imperijs ac magnorum Virorum opinione pervulgatus tam altè radices egit ut vix evelli posse videatur that inveterate errour of foure Empires made famous thorow the opinion of great men hath now taken such deepe roots as it seemes it can hardly be pluckt vp thorow a great part of that Chapter labours he the Confutation of those who maintaine that opinion That the Saxons called the Remainder of the Brittaines Welch as being strangers vnto them whereas that word signifies not a strangers either in the high or low Dutch as Verstigan a man skilfull in those Languages hath obserued that the Saxons gaue them the name of Welch after themselues came into Brittaine is altogether vnlikely For that inhabiting so neere them as they did to wit but ouer against them on the other side of the Sea they could not want a more particular and proper name for them then to call them strangers It seemes then more likely that the Brittaines being originally descended from the Gaules the Saxons according to their manner of speech by turning the G into W insteed of Gallish termed them Wallish and by abbreviation Walch or Welch as the French at this day call the Prince of Wales Prince de Galles That Brute a Troian by Nation and great grand-childe to Aeneas arriued in this Iland gaue it the name of Brittaine from himselfe here raigned and left the gouernment thereof diuided among his three sonnes England to Loegrius Scotland to Albanak and Wales to Camber Yet our great Antiquary beating as he professeth his braines and bending the force of his wits to maintaine that opinion hee found no warrantable ground for it Nay by forcible arguments produced as in the person of others disputing against himselfe he strongly proues it in my judgment altogether vnsound and vnwarrantable Boccace Vives Adryanus Iunius Polydorus Buchanan Vignier Genebrard Molinaeus Bodine and other Writers of great account are all of opinion there was no such man as this supposed Brute And among our owne ancient Chronicles Iohn of Wethamsted Abbot of S. Albon holdeth the whole narration of Brute to haue beene rather Poëticall then Historicall which me thinkes is agreable to reason since Caesar Tacitus Gildas Ninius Bede William of Malmesbery and as many others as haue written any thing touching our Countrey before the yeare 1160 make no mention at all of him nor seeme euer so much as to haue heard of him The first that euer broached it was Geffry of Monmoth about foure hundred yeares agoe during the raigne of Henry the second who publishing the Brittish story in Latine pretended to haue taken it out of ancient monuments written in the Brittish tongue but this Booke assoone as it peeped forth into the light was sharply censured both by Giraldus Cambrensis and William of Newberry who liued at the same time the former tearming it no better then Fabulosam historiam a fabulous history and the latter ridicula figmenta ridiculous fictions and it now stands branded with a blacke cole among the bookes prohibited by the Church of Rome That the Pigmies are a Nation of people not aboue two or three foot high and that they solemnely set themselues in battle array to fight against the Cranes their greatest enemies of these notwithstanding witnesseth Cassanion Fabulosa illa omnia sunt quae de illis vel Poetae vel alij Scriptores tradiderunt all those things are fabulous which touching them either the Poëts or other writers haue deliuered And with him fully accordeth Cardan in his eight Booke De rerum varietate Apparet ergò Pigmeiorum historiam esse fabulosam quod Strabo sentit nostra aetas cùm omnia nunc firmè orbis mirabilia innotuerint declarat It appeares then that the Historie of the Pigmies is but a fiction as both Strabo thought and our age which hath now discouered all the wonders of the world fully declares Gellius also Rhodogin referre these Pigmies if any such there be to a kinde of Apes SECT 5. In History Naturall IN Naturall History it is commonly receiued that the Phaenix liues fiue hundred or six hundred yeares that there is of that kinde but one at a time in the World that being to die he makes his nest of sweet spices and by the clapping of his wings sets it on fire and so burnes himselfe and lastly that out of the ashes arises a worme and from that worme another new Phaenix Neither am I ignorant that sundry of the Fathers haue brought this narration to confirme the

bin only disproportionable but exceeding weake aswell for offence as defence whereas he is described as a mighty man and of wonderfull strength Lastly if we shall imagine him to haue beene a transcendent Gyant and yet measure him by his owne cubit double to the ordinary his length will then arise to twenty foure foote at least a stature most incredible After this in Davids time we reade that Goliath the Philistin of Gath was a Gyant of six cubits and a spanne long Neither doe I remember that in sacred Scriptures we haue the measure of any precisely observed saue of him onely the armour which he wore weighed fiue thousand shekels of brasse the sheft of his speare was like a weavers beame and his speare head weighed six hundred shekels of yron Also in tho second of Samuell there is mention of a brother to this 〈◊〉 a man of like stature and strength And of two 〈◊〉 the one of which was slaine by Iehonathan Davids Nephew hee who had twelue fingers and as many toes foure and twenty in number And that before these Sampson was of surpassing strength and of a stature answerable the 〈◊〉 no man need to doubt considering he tore a Lyon as it had be●…o a kidde slew thirty of the Philistins at once and after that a thousand more of them with the iaw-bone of an asse And lastly he tooke the gates of Assah and the two postes lifted them away with the barres and put them vpon his shoulders and carried them to the toppe of the mountaine before Hebron SEC 3. That latter times haue also afforded the like both at home and abroad specially in the Indies where they liue more according to nature THE like may be said of all succeeding ages downe to the present times It is the confession of Cassanion in his booke of Gyants No●… vno tantum seculo aut altero visi sunt sed fermè ab initio mundi ad Davidis vsque tempora propagatum id genus hominum magnitudine prorsus admiranda They haue not beene seene in one onely or two ages but almost from the beginning of the world euen to Davids time hath that kinde of men of a monstrous bignesse beene deduced S. Augustine goes farther Quasi vero Corpora hominum modum nostrum longe excedentia non etiam nostris temporibus nata sint as if some bodies of men much exceeding our ordinary stature were not likewise borne in these our times And yet more fully in the ninth Chapter of the same booke Nunquam fermè defuerunt qui modum aliorum plurimum excederint they haue almost at no time beene wanting who haue much exceeded the ordinary stature I will insist onely vpon the most signall instances drawne from the testimonies of the most approved Authours In the Gospells or writings of the Apostles wee reade not of any they intending matters of greater weight and consequence But Pliny tells vs that during the reigne of Claudius the Emperour a mighty man one Gabbara by name was brought out of Arabia to Roome nine foote hith was he and as many inches There were likewise in the time of Augustus Caesar two others named Pusio and Secondilla higher then Gabbara by halfe a foote whose bodies were preserved kept for a wonder within the Salustian gardens Maximinus the Emperour as Iulius Capitolinus affirmes exceeded eight foote And Andronichus Comninus tenne as Nicetas In the dayes of Theodosius there was one in Syria as Nicephorus reports fiue cubits high and an hand-breadth Eginhardus and Krantzius affirme that Charlemaigne was seven foot high But in that they adde of his own feet they both leaue his heighth altogether vncertaine as was before said in the description of the stature of Ogge and his body very disproportionable there being no man whose body is rightly featured who exceedes fix of his owne feete But to draw neerer to our owne times Iulius Scaliger hath left it vpon record that at his being at Millane he there saw in a publique hospitall a young man of so monstrous an heighth that he could not stand vpright he was therefore layd vpon two beds the one ioyned longwise vnto the other both which he filled with his length Goropius Becanus Physitian to the Lady Mary Queene of Hungary regent of th Netherlands and sister to the Emperour Charles the fifth assures vs thae himselfe saw a woman tenne foote high and that within fiue miles of hit dwelling there was then to be seene a man almost of the same lengths wherevpon his assertion is Audacter affirmamus wee boldly affirme that men in former ages were commonly nothing taller then now they are Their Gyants were of six or seaven cubits high so are ours nay hee goes farther Considenter de philosophiae preceptis statuimus nihil in humana statura ab inevnte mundi aetate immutatum esse Wee confidently auerre out of the grounds of Philosophie that since the Creation of the world nothing is altered in the stature of man-kind But to returne to the Gyants of latter ages Iohn Cassanion who seemes to haue vndertaken his treatise of Gyants purposely to censure and confute Goropius yet mentions one himselfe commonly called the Gyant of Burdeaux whom King Francis passing that way beheld with admiration commaunding he should bee of his guard but being a pesant of a grosse spirit not able to apply himselfe to a Courtiers life hee soone quited his halbard and getting away by stealth returned to the place whence he came An honorable person who had seene him archer of the guard did assure me saith Cassanion that he was of such an heighth as any man of an ordinary stature might goe vpright betwixt his legges when hee did stride There is at this present to bee seene heere in England one Parsons by trade a blacke-smith now Porter at the Kings Court who by iust measure is found to be no lesse then seaven foote two inches And I heere that a Welch-man is lately entertained by the Prince in the like place who outstrips the Smith in heighth by fiue inches and yet is he still growing so as in time he may well come vnto eight foote But it may well bee that in these parts of the world where luxury hath crept in together with Ciuility there may be some diminution of strength and stature in regard of our Ancestours yet if wee cast our eyes abroad vpon those nations which still liue according to nature though in a fashion more rude and barbarous we shall finde by the relation of those that haue liued among them that they much exceede vs in stature still retaining as it seemes the vigorous constitution of their Predecessours which should argue that if any decay be it is not vniversall and consequently not naturall but rather adventitious and accidentall For proofe heereof to let passe the stories of Olaus Magnus touching the Inhabitants of the Northerne Climate I will content