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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	place_n	5,553	5	4.7190	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

NATVRALL PHILOSOPHY OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD NAMEly Of Angels of Man of the Heauens of the Ayre of the Earth of the Water and of the Creatures in the whole World 2. KING 4.34 He spake of Trees from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon euen to the Rosemary that springeth out of the wall He spake also of Beasts and of Fowle and of creeping things and of Fishes These little leaues the Worlds huge load sustaine And what besides the great World can containe LONDON Printed by I. D. for Iohn Bellamie and are to be sould at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange 1621 TO THE HONORABLE Sir WILLIAM PARSONS Knight Barronet his Ma ties Survayor Generall Commissioner in the Court of Wards and one of his Ma ties most Honorable Priuie Counsell of Ireland c. HONORABLE Sir I doe present to your view a small frame of the world and of the Creatures therein contained drawne with the Pensilles of iudicious Scribon and of D. W. A worke in nature not vnlike to our Survayes in Ireland that represent most liuely vast Countries within a small Map I offer this to you hauing heretofore giuen you an account of those seruices that I haue lately done in the survay of Ireland you being Survayor Generall of that Kingdome wherein I haue spent the most part of thirtie yeares in the seruice of my Prince and Countrie Tam Marte quam Mercurio both with Pike and Pen with great toyle much hazard and many hurts but little profite Notwithstanding your demerits and worth be such as Gratitude hath chosen your Patronage and Deuotion wisheth all honor health and happinesse to you to my good Lady and to yours At your HONORS Command I WYDOVVES alias WOODHOVSE PHILOSOPHIE is a knowledge of Naturall thinges Things her subiect either are he who alone is from by and for whom all things are or els such they be as are numbred by time and measured by place and subiect vnto motion God is a Spirit infinitely good and great God is but one diuine Essence consisting of three distinct Persons the Father the Son and the holy Ghost The actions of God are either the Creating or Gouerning of the world The World consisteth either of things inuisible as of Spirits or Visible as the heauens the elements and the bodies composed of elemēts The heauen of the blessed vide Gen. 1.1 is counted the third heauen the Orbes are the second the Ayre is counted the first The third Heauen visible is of al substances most perfect The inuisible Spirits viz. Angels were created heere Angell signifieth a messenger by nature he is a spirit Angels appeare sometime in dreames visions sometime in bodies apparant and sometime in true and reall bodies their number is great their office is to celebrate Gods glory to watch ouer the world to preserue vs to declare and do Gods will to put good motions into our minds to resist ill spirits The Deuils were Angels cast from heauen for sin into the lower parts of the World and heere they continue seeking to deface the Image of God in man and all creatures THings visible contained in the world are Substances or Accidents Accidents are either generall to all things as motion time and place for these belong to all or proper to some things as Qualities There be two kind of Mouers 1. God 2. Thinges created by him Things created moue from God and are of finite power in mouing in a prefixed matter and in time they be of two kindes without or within the thing moued the one called violent the other naturall Motion is an vnperfect act mouing to that it was not from that it was Fiue things are in naturall motion the mouer the thing moued the terme from which the terme to which it is moued and time There be sixe kindes of motion generation corruption increase decrease alteration of quality and change of place Qualities are either manifest or secret Manifest are either principall or such as proceede from them the chiefe of the principall are heate and colde Heate gathereth together things of one kinde and seperateth things of contrary nature as Gold from Siluer or drosse Colde ioyneth together things as the frost in winter The weaker qualities are moysture and drinesse Moysture is hardly contained in his owne bounds Drines keepeth his owne bounds as for example Earth c. Qualities comming from the first are either seconds or wrought from them Second qualities from one or more are deriued From Heate commeth Rarity and Leuity For Heate openeth and enlargeth the poores Raritas or Thinnes is that which hath hollow parts or spongie as a sponge cloudes c. Lightnes proceedeth from heate drawing easily vpward Thicknes and heauines are of colde For cold gathereth together and stoppeth bodyes by which bodyes become heauie Thicknes hath his partes shut vp together as stones Heauines moueth downewards thus is Mercurie heauier then gold and gold then Lead Tactile or qualities that may bee touched comming from moisture are softnes and tenuitie from the Ayre smoothnes and sliperines from the water From drynesse proceede hardnes and roughnes easines in breaking and drought From the first qualities diuersly disposed arise others called sensible qualities Their Originall is obscure or more manifested Qualities of obscure original are such as doe not alwayes plainely clearely declare the ground whence they arise Of this nature are collors which is the splendor of the body illustrated by light with which all bodies are dyed according to their moystnes decocted more or lesse apt to receiue greater or smaller light Cullour is either simple or mixed A Simple cullour consists of none other as black and white White consisteth of much light in a thin body of an Ayery moisture well concocted Blacke is in a thicke body contayning but small light of moysture either a dust or raw watrish mixed with the earth as appeareth in the iner parts of the earth Mixt cullours are from these two mingled either in a meane or vnequall portion of equall mixture is red Other are made of this meane and one of the extreames Yeallow is of much white and a little red viz. two parts of white and one of red Saffron cullour or Orang-tawny is of greater rednesse and of lesser whitenesse Purple is of much red and lesse blacke Greene is of much black and lesse red This being a cleare moysture is most pleasant to the eye Qualities of a more manifest originall are perceiued in smels and tastes Tast is made from the straining of drinesse through moisture is either hott or cold in a high or meanest degree Very hot tastes are biting bitter or salt Tastes meanely hot are sweet Cold tasts are either thicker or thinner thicke as soure and sharpe or thin as tartnes where also we place freshnesse Smell is a qualitie comming from a dry earthly heate made thin by mixture of vapors If it be well mingled it is good if not it is stincking These qualities come

is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceede the iust quantitie it doth not exactly perceiue tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceiued Smelling iudgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument is the entrance into the first ventricle couered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnesse of his Braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceiue but also vnderstandeth that which he doth perceiue These haue their seate in the braine They are either conceiuing or preseruing Conceiuing exerciseth his facultie by descerning or more fully iudging it is called Common sence and the other is Phantasie Common sence more fully distinguisheth sensible things his instrument is the former ventricle of the braine made by drynesse fit to receiue Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and iudgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preseruing sence is Memorie which according to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine then in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserued in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the vse of reason and therefore is onely attributed to man The wittie excell in remembrance the dull in memorie Sleepe is the resting of the feeling facultie his cause is a cooling of the braine by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recouering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe least creatures languish with ouermuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Nightmare and Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe be vnquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the diuers constitution of the bodie The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule vseth to imagine with are most pure and thin as towardes morning when concoction is perfected But troublesome dreames are when the spirits bee thicke and vnpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proferred to memorie or conceiued by temperature alone or by some influence from the starres as some thinke From dreames many things may be collected touching the constitution of the bodie The Night-mare is a seeming of being choaked or strangled by one leaping vppon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heauie thing seemeth to be layd vpon vs. Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined vnto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for the soule giuing ouer it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serue the bodie Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phancies doth it conceiue although sometime spirits working on such phatasies imprint other things Now followeth Motion which accompanieth sence and is caused either by appetite or change of place for we desiring things perceiued in sence cannot attaine vnto them without mouing our bodie to that thing Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are obiects to our sence It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Obiect Griefe is his contrarie which is a turning from the hurtfull obiect or from that we count vnpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the hart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserue the nature of our sensitiue facultie as mirth loue hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enioy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of liuing creatures stirring a bodie entised by appetite from one place to another It is eyther of the whole body or of partes Of the whole body as by going c. Of partes as breathing which is made either by enlarging of the parts which serue for the taking in of the ayre or by the closing of them for the expelling of corrupt ayre Now followeth to intreat Of the bodies of liuing creatures The matter of the bodie in which the foresayd faculties be is the seede of both sexes Seede is most pure bloud perfectly concocted in the testicles and it is gathered from the whole bodie For the testicles lacking nourishment draw bloud from the hollow vayne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which the power is stirred vp to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred vp doth diuersly distract the matter separating his diuers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetatiue or sensitiue soule Amongst the naturall faculties of the partes of the body if there be putrifaction a fault of the concocting facultie there is made a certaine generation of matter This is naturall or extraordinary Naturall is by an inbred heate not altogether subdued but slackly exercising force through disposition of the matter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subiect matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with conuenient helpes it is carefully encreased In this kinde especially is praysed white thicke smooth equall and least smelling matter Extraordinary mattering is when nature altogether subdued the humors or parts themselues are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is ouercome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is obserued in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in which according to the diuerse fashioning of abounding matter are found diuerse sorts of solid bodies as haires and such other like Of partes of the bodie which appertaine to the making vp of the whole bodie some are containing and some contained The contained for their fluent nature are sustained by helpe of others Such are humours and spirits Humors are moyst partes begot of the first mixture of nourishment in the liuer These are in the seede of creatures and are called the beginning of things endued with