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A03207	The hierarchie of the blessed angells Their names, orders and offices the fall of Lucifer with his angells written by Tho: Heywood	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 13327; ESTC S122314	484,225	642

acquire And therefore we must in this sincere Truth Our selues examine How we spend our Youth Manhood and Age and then by searching finde How fraile weare how'vnstedfast and how blinde And next when we our miseries haue skan'd Sifting all actions that we take in hand How vaine they are Necessitie will leaue That Consequent behinde That we must cleaue Onely to that great Pow'r nor from it shrinke Without which we nor moue nor speake nor thinke And because we haue falne from Him by Sin To intimate There is no way to win Our peace and reconcilement or dispence With our transgression but true Penitence I thus proceed Great hath the Decertation Bin 'mongst the Learned men 'bout the Creation Of blessed Angels Some of them haue said They many Worlds before this World were made To'attend th' Almighty Others haue againe So curious a scrutinie held vaine And almost irreligious aiming still To penetrate into his secret Will Without his Warrant and conclude That they Had with the Light subsistence the first day Were with it made of Nothing had no Being At all till then The Fathers disagreeing About this point some haue opinion held But by the later Writers since refel'd As Hierome Ambrose Gregory Nazianzen Cassianus Damascenus Origen Hilary Basil These with others were Resolv'd That because nothing doth appeare From Moses in his Booke of things created Concerning them That they were fabricated Long time before Againe Because Saint Paul Writing to Titus saith God first of all Before the World th' Hope of Eternall life Promis'd to vs c. Hence they maintaine this strife Interpreting the Text Er'e the Creation Which words include If Before God did fashion All things that Being haue in earth or heauen There must be some to whom this power is giuen And those the Angels But on this Assertion Learned Saint Austin layes a great aspersion Affirming them with th' Heav'ns Emperiall made And that before they no existence had Saint Paul interpreting Th' Almighty gaue This Promise and blest Hope Mankinde to saue From all Eternitie to elevate Mans Fall in that pure Lambe Immaculate His Sonne and our deare Sauiour And thus Opinion'd were graue Athanasius Gregory Theodoret Epiphanius With diuers others Which no sooner mov'd Was in the Lateran Councell but approv'd Of all the Bishops as of both the best Which in the sacred Scripture is exprest For thus 't is writ God ended the seventh day The Worke He made for so doth Moses say And in the day whch He his Sabbath nam'd Rested from All the Worke which he had fram'd Which vniuersall word perforce doth carry Spirituall things as well as Elementary Such as before the World thinke them created In many doubts themselues haue intricated I would besides haue them resolue me How Vnlesse his Worke imperfect they allow It can with reason stand that if they were In Time before Time was and with sincere Faith and Obedience had so long aboad They onely then revolted from their God Should this be granted it must needs inferre Strong argument a second way to erre Namely That no Coelestiall Hierarchy Subiects of that eternall Monarchy Who haue remain'd as by the World appeares In blest estate so many thousand yeares But notwithstanding the great grace th' are in May slide like Lucifer and fall by Sin Which the Church holds erronious Be it then Granted That God did make the Angels when Th' Imperiall Heav'ns were fashion'd at first pure And without sin for euer to endure Had they not falne through Proud Imagination By which they then incur'd his Indignation For nothing Euill can from Him proceed So much the Text implyes where we may reade God said when he his rare Worke vnderstood All things that I haue made be greatly good And lest the Church might that way be deluded 'T is in the Lateran Councell thus concluded All Spirits were created pure at first But by their selfe-will after made accurst To make things cleare Although we must confesse That Moses doth not in plaine termes expresse When how and in what order Angels were At first created yet it will appeare How that their Essences and Natures bright Were signified by names of Heav'n and Light And though they seeme forgotten in that Text Obserue how other Scriptures are connext To giue them Name and Being In that Oad In which the three blest Children prais'd their God In the hot flames to giue to vnderstand That Angels were the Worke of his great Hand O all ye Workes of God the Lord say they Blesse praise and magnifie his Name for aye Praise him ye Heav'ns ye Angels praise the Lord. Let vs to Daniels adde the Psalmists word Praise Him all ye his Angels Some haue said That Angels were the last worke that God made But most absurdly He in Iob thus sayes When the Stars of the Morning gaue me praise Then all the Angels of my Sonnes the choice Extold my Name with an exalted voice Now when the Great and most Diuinely Wise Did the rare Fabricke of the World deuise And by the vertue of his Word create The Heav'n and Earth in their so goodly state He made the Angels in the first of Time Of Substances most noble and sublime Amongst which Lucifer was chiefe and hee As he might challenge a prioritie In his Creation so aboue the rest A supereminence as first and best For he was chiefe of all the Principalities And had in him the three stupendious qualities Of the most holy Trinitie which include First Greatnesse Wisedome next then Pulchritude The Greatnesse of the Sonne and holy Spirit The Father is which they from him inherit Now of the Father and the holy-Holy-Ghost The Wisedome is the Sonne so stiled most The Father and Sonnes Pulchritude is he That 's the third Person in the Trinitie And though of Angels the great pow'r be such As hath in Scripture been extolled much For their nobilitie and excellence As first of Michael whose pre-eminence Daniel relates as naming him for one Of the prime Angels that attend the Throne As Raphael who told Tobit Of the seuen That still before th' Almighty stand in Heav'n Himselfe was one Or as the Seraphim Who as the holy Prophet speakes of him With a cole toucht his lips from th' Altar tooke Or as of Gabriel whom the holy Booke Mentions who to the earth made proclamation Of our most blessed-Sauiors Incarnation Yet aboue these was Lucifer instated Honor'd exalted and much celebrated And therefore many of the Learned striue His greatnesse from Ezechiel to deriue For thus he saith and what he doth infer 'Gainst Tyrus they conuert to Lucifer Thou sealst the Sum vp art in Wisedome cleare Thy beauty perfect doth to all appeare Thou hast in Eden Gods faire Garden been Each pretious stone about thy garment's seene The Ruby Topaz and the Diamond The Chrysolite and Onyx there were found The Iasper and the Saphyr dearely sold The

Augures 47. The vanitie of Augurie 48. Of Idolatry in generall 49. An Emblem 50. A Meditation vpon the precedent Tractat 53. THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND TRACTAT VVHence the multiplicity of gods came 59. The Vnitie of the God-head 60. Arguments to confirme it 61 62. The power and operation of the Planets 63. The Sybils of God 64. The Oracle of God 65. The God-hoods Vnitie not to be diuided 66. The same illustrated 67. The Manichees 68. Mans attributes giuen to God how far they extend ibid. Gods appellations in Scripture 70. Of the Trinitie 71. Reasons why Christ is called Our God 72. Christ typically figured in Aaron 73. Obseruations of the Trin. in Vnitie c. 74. Orators and Philosophers of God 75. Of Gods Vbiquitie 76. Hiero and Simonides 78. Proper names belonging to God 79. Idolatry brought from Asia into Italy 80. Reasons why Atheists doubt of God 82. Pregnant reasons to proue a Deity 83. From the Poets and Philosophers 84 85. Apothegmes concerning God 86. Further of the Poets 90 91 c. Hierogliphyckes of God 93 The Vadiani of God 94 Attributes belonging to God 95. God in all Tongues stiled by foure letters 96. The Fathers of the Trinitie 98. Philosophers Sentences of God 101. Comparison for the further illustration of the Godhood 104. An Emblem 106. A Meditation 108. THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRD TRACTAT THe three diuisions of the World Elements Terrest Coelest Super-Coelest 111. Cabalists and Rabbins of Moses Ark. 112. A Consimilitude betwixt the Arke and the World ibid. A second Consimilitude 114. A third consimilitude 115. The best Philosophers of the premisses ibid. Creatures participating diuers Elements 116. Man● wisedome the wisedome of the world The birth of Wisedome 117. Her beauty honour sweetnesse and effects 118. Her fruitfulnesse and power 119. At what time Time began 120. The creation of the Sun and Moone 121. Their seuerall offices 122. Of the Stars and Planets according to the Poets Arctos major minor the Serpent Bootes Corona Hercules 123. Lyra Olor Cepheus Cassiopeia Andromeda Perseus Auriga Serpentarius Sagitta 124. Aquila Delphinus Equus Deltoton Pistrix Lepus Orion 125. Lelaps Procion Argo Centaurus Ara Hydra 126. Notius Galaxia 127. Of the twelue Coelestiall Signes and first of Aries ibid. Of Taurus and the Hyades 128. Of Gemini and Cancer 129. Stars called Asini and of the Lion 130. Of Virgo or the Coelestiall Maid 131. The seuen Deadly Sinnes 132. The storie of Icarius and Erigone 133. Fruits of Drunkennesse 134. A remarkable story of a Dog 135. Arctu●●us Canicula Libra Scorpio 137. Sagittarius 138. Capricornus Aquarius 139. Pisces 140. The birth of Venus 141. Of the Worlds originall ibid. The inuention of Letters Writing c. 142. Of Cities The Ages 143. Grammar Rhethoricke Logicke Memorie Geometry Musicke c. 144. Against those who maintaine more Worlds or the eternitie of this 145. The death of Aristole 146. The nobilitie of Mans conceit 147. Annus Magnus Vertens Mundanus ibid. The ridiculousnesse thereof 148. The definition of the World 149. The Fathers concerning the World 150. The Poets of the World and ruin thereof 151. The Philosophers of the World 153. The World defined 154. Philssophers of the beginning of the world 156. Creation from Atomes Number Infinites c. 157. Against Curiositie and vaine Questions 158. Of the foure Elements 160. The Poets of the Ages 161. The Golden Age 162. The Siluer and Brasen Age 163. The Iron Age 164. A diuision of mans Age 165. Of the Yeare called Climatericall 167. Illustrations of the Signes Coelestiall 168. The order of the Starres and the Austral Circle 169. Draco Artophilax 170. Corona Lyra the death of Orpheus c. 171. The Pleiades Virgiliae c. 181. Cometa the motion of the Sun the Bisext or Leap-yeare 182. The Eclipse rules to know faire or foule weather by the Sun 183. Philosophers and Poets of the Moone 184. Coniecture of weather by the Moone 185. An Emblem 186. A Meditation 189. THE CONTENTS OF THE FOVRTH TRACTAT THe three Ternions of Angels with their seuerall offices 194. How they are concatinated among themselues 195. Of such as hold there be no Angels nor Spirits 196. Their opinions confuted 197 Angels and Spirits proued from Dreams ibid. The Dreames of Simonides Sylla M. Artorius Calphurnia Iulius Caesar Amilcar c. 198. The Old and New Testament of Dreams 199. Angels visible and of euill Spirits 200. Rabbi Achiba concerning Spirits 201. Abram Avenzara and Rabbi Azariel of Loue and Hate 202. A story of an Emperor and two Beggars 203. Of Poets and Poetry ibid. A Meditation of Death 204. Honour due to Poets and done vnto them of old 205. A nomination of some of our moderne Poets 206. Buchanans complaint that the Muse is so neglected 207. Buchanans Epigram 208. Spirits Saturnine Iovial and Mercurial 209. The Essence of Angels 210. Sundry opinions of the Fathers concerning Angels 211 To proue them incorporat 212. The Lateran Councell of Angels 213. The difference of their Knowledge 214. Foure Angels over the foure windes ibid. Ouer euery heauen or Sphere 215. Angels of the Zodiacke their offices and names ibid. Foure Angels ouer the foure Elements 216. The obiect of Gods will in the Creation 219 Angels the first creatures made with the light pure the charge they haue ouer Man ibid. Seuerall imployments of Angels in the Scriptures 220. Dreames defined 221. Eudemus Galen Q. Catulus Sophocles Alexand Philosoph Sfortia M. Antonius Torellus Alcibiades Croesus Atterius Ruffus Cambyses Aspatia Tit. Attinius their dreames 223● c. Histories concerning predictions of Nero Philip of Macedon c. 226. Dioclesian Henry King of France 227. Plato's opinion of Spirits 228. Spirits of diuers qualities and of the Socraticum Daemonium 229. Histories of the same ibid. S. Augustine of the power of Spirits 230. Strange opinions of Spirits and that none can be mortall 231. A discourse of Death from the Poets 232. From the Philosophers 233. From the Fathers 234. A Dialogue concerning death interpreted from Lucian 235. Of Constancie in death 240. A contented life 241. Further of Poetry and Poets 242. A nomination of many famous Greeke Poets 243. The miserie that attends the Muse illustrated by the sad fate of many antient Poees 245. Ioh. Campanius to that purpose 248. M. Edm. Spencers complaint 249. Faustus Andrelinus the like 250. A Spanish Prouerbe interpreted 251. That Spirits can transport men or beasts 252. Histories of strange transportations 253. A story of a Centurion 254. Of a Captiue 255. A Nobleman of Insubria 256. Transportation of Witches 257. Antonius Leo 258. Paulus Grillandus of Witches 259. Medea 260. The velocitie of Spirits 261. Histories to proue the same 262. An Emblem 263. A Meditation 266. THE CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH TRACTAT GOds Power Wisedome and Goodnesse in the Creation 271. The concordance betweene the Seraph and the Primum Mobile 272. Betwixt the Cherubin and the Starry heauen 274. Betwixt the Thrones and Saturne