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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39789	A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world wherein the greatness, littleness, and lastingness of bodies are freely handled : with an answer to Tentamine [sic] de Deo by S.P. ... / by N. Fairfax ...	Fairfax, Nathaniel, 1637-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing F131; ESTC R6759	116,406	248

and vvhen sown become barren or unsproutful Only herein the motion that nature gives is unlike to that which we bequeath to forthcasts For why she not only bedights them with many springs at first but lays in spawn also for the begetting of more and stuff for the greatning of one and other Whereas when we give a dartingness to out-casts we betemme them but one or a few springs which by often sturts and flashes of motion cracker-like weaken themselves till at length all ends in the calmness of a rest Again if we go up to the stock of breathers a step above these as they are a step beneath us we shall find that begetting the like is making over of springs and according as the begetter is hotter and smirker or colder and listlesser the bows are sooner or later bent and shot off So while the lively eager Creatures do the business of their kind in the while that we are speaking of it a Toad to name one of the cold and clammy kind may-hap takes days to do the same Thus I remember that towards the end of March at high noon day I was shewn a he and she Toad engendring which to be sure had lyen so from noon the day before how much soever longer they might or would have done unless the spring of the year being backward and the mouth'd and vents of their bodies not yet opened might happily lengthen out the time somewhat longer than otherwise And as it took so much time to set the bowie frame so it seems he could not break off where he was very suddenly for we had not only slit open the body of the she but were taking out the inwards before he could frame to get loose of her and yet at that time he hugg'd her only with his two forefeet which he had thrust so into the soft of her sides as to make two deep doaks there So we see that man or beast fetching their runns with earnestness they can't strike sail or notch the wheels and croose the springs at work within them in a trice And this also may be one cause why earthworms are limed so much to the headward and hold so for an whole night And why Slugs or Dodmans ingender in the neck and are so many hours if not days in the limeing to wit that so the workhouse for the springs may be nearer seated to the storehouse of the tools and stuff for that end which is the brain and spirits And why both of them too play the hee s part in the deeds of their kind each crowding into the other a roping tough silver-like thread of seed That both do the shee s work also I cannot yet find but mistrust that Doctor Swammerdam might rather ghess so aforehand than know so Because the quickening power of one was not enough to rally together all those sparks of life that lay asunder in a clammy dew and were to be enkindled and hatcht up into a springiness of such a set and so thrown off but both of them must go hand in hand in blowing of the bellows Nor is it altogether without remark among those of our own kind that the man upon the account of his being stronger and springier does more as 't is like will be found towards the bequeathing of that hord of sprightfulness to the little one that is to be than does the woman It seems not to be in the first blessing of growing manifold for that was given evenly to both I know somebody who knows a woman of understanding enough to make the remark and of faithfulness enough to be believed about it who took with child in the very fit of a Third Ague not to name many that have done so out of the fit the latter being lost too until brought to bed for the former being got when yet I have not found hitherto I know not what I may do or others have done that a man under that disease either in the fit or out of it could be so much a man as at other times though I have made the observation where the man has had the blessing of off-spring all the years of wedlock before and after and the ground that was to be sown that year in as good tilt as in the other only the husbandman so much out of plight Whence it should seem that the life that is made over to the off-spring is but a frame or draught of-springs leavened into a breedingness and stampt upon this or that which is beginning and is either stronger or weaker in more or in less time made over as it happens that the Being which does it can fetch them up or slip them off As unto the things thrown out by the hand there is given forth a clue of springs or starts and bearings without any such draught of them or breed in them or plastick might in the thrower so to frame or rank them But I would not here be understood so much at warfare with my self as if I took the soul of man to be a thing that might body-like be some ways mov'd or thrown off For having all along been driving at this that motion or going on by steps is such a sticker unto body that it can no more belong to Ghost than thinking can to that I should wonder at my self if I should yield that to the soul as 't is beginning to be from another which it must by no means have to do with when it is it self and does like it self That which I mean therefore is that The soul may be so one with a breeding frame or bud of body as for ought I know to be made over together with it when that is made over and yet not be mov'd as that then is mov'd any more than the thoughts of the heart walk when the body walks And as a strong breath'd and well set man for wayfaring shall foot it with greater sleight and more speed than one who is not so made in like manner another man whose plastick shaping or enkindling powers are fraught with more of manhood and quickued with a kindlyer sprightfulness may make over the beginnings of manliness to the beginning birth with a liveliness no ways unanswerable Life and Soul being two things with me as are Spirits and Spirit the first being the springiness of the body in such a well set frame the other that which sets all in man a going both which as they are together in the being of man so are they I think in the beginning of man man being the son of man as first-man was the Son of God the soul coming from God nextly to the first man and from God through man to every one else Whole mans springing from whole man seeming to me at least a main Doctrine in that Text Abraham begat Isaac But that the soul which way soever we come by it should be any thing of that body which we are I bless God I never dreamt so much of

being now here next now in the furthest corner of the world without taking point by point the room that lyes between and this power they have too as being not body We say then again That motion a thing as truly not body as ghost is may happily upon that score be so far quickned by ghost at least or so high wrought up in its own kind as to hale the thing stirr'd in the utmost speed beyond the steppings of atome by atome after its kind So a body having bequeath'd it one degree of sturt or yerk in one now of time and hitching thereupon one atome of room may upon taking in ten or twenty degrees of the same in the next sturt to many atoms in length Now it being as easie for a body to take in ten or twenty degrees of starting in one now as to take in one Start or swiftness not being body in it self cannot be measured as intended in degrees by that which measures body as extended in parts it seems not to bear very hard upon reason that it should also undergo the brunt of them as of one As then the effect of one taken in in one now was a start of one atome of room in one now of time the taking in of twenty such degrees in such one now should also beget a skip of twenty such atoms in one such now Though the foul seems to have much the better of it as to the body while in it as doing things often against the grain of the body and more like it self when the body cannot do many things against the souls will nor any against its kind though the things be never so friendly to body as body Yet this sway that the soul has over the body will not help us out in the shewing how body may be carried out to the doing beyond it self as such when rous'd up by a thing not body which has gotten the mastery of it For the souls business in the wagon or vehicle of the body is not to ride it full speed but to breath it fair and soft rather to ride in state than to ride post ennobling the body by its curious draughts and trails of enlivening sprightlinesses not jading it in the great road of bare motion which other stirr'd bodies are wayfaring in That therefore whence I think a little light will dawn towards us in these mists is this to wit Some instance of Gods impowering ghost either by bare leave or by biding to boot to run body so far off its legs as to hurry it on nearer the pace of ghost than that of it self yet without insouling or inlivening of it Thus if any faith may be had to story we have tales enough to make a Thomas believe that spirits have brought bodies into a room in the twinkling of an eye and by as clever a slight wafted them away in another and that they have in a bodily shape told some as at this now what is done at a place scores or hundreds of miles off which upon search have been found to have been done there as near as could be driven but the moment before it was spoken yonder Of which to name one the Devil of Mascon falls not much short whether you look upon the feats done or the witness of the story that speaks them so But to be sure one who could never mistake himself nor mistel us has said flatly that our Blessed Lord was so suddenly wafted into the midst of his Disciples Luke 24. 36. that of above 22 eyes none could see him coming thither till they beheld him standing there And though they might well believe their eyes while he stood that it was a body by standing there yet 't is said they were frighted to think that it must be a spirit in its coming thither they being no more able to ken the body through the glancing of the spirit that brought it than they could the speed of a spirits glancing even without body And as his coming was thus over-quick to be seen by those eyes that can see from earth to heaven in a moment so his going away from two a little before was of the same kind v. 31 He vanisht out of their sight not that the body turn'd to a nothingness but to an unseenness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And such to end was his farewel While he blessed them he parted and was carried up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the very blessing he was carried It was so soon upon it that the Spirit of God did not think meet to say it was after it Though indeed we read from one Gospeller That after the Lord had spoken he was received up yet he does not say it was after these words of blessing but might be only after what he was speaking of foregoing Or if he did take in this he does not say after but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be at among or about there as well as it must be elsewhere Luk. 24. 5. And if it be said that our Lords Body was a spiritual body we must also say that if it was not true body as well as spiritual it could not be truly a spiritual body What we would gather hence is this That if a body whilst a body may be so oversway'd by ghost within it as to brush through many atoms of room in fewer nows of time it may happily be that that unbodily thing call'd motion without ghost may be so far intended beyond what the body in which 't is is extended as to bring it to a like swiftness So that if all the motion with which God at first quickned the world were made over to one small body just holding way with time in its motion and all the rest at a dead stilness time all the while holding on its even by-run 't is not methinks altogether unlikely but that this body which ran even a breast with time from the motion which it had before should now give time the go-by with what it has gotten since and is over-glutted with But to break off from this so great a stamme to the mind rather wishing we could give more light in it than blissing our selves in that already given We go on to the following which may seem to have beset the mind as narrowly with wrack and night as any of the foregoing We have it with the former father'd upon Empiricus thus Take a line of nine points and imagine two least bodies pacing with even speed from the two ends to the middle that they may meet there 't is needful that the fifth or middle point should be halv'd between them there being no reason why one should engross the whole more than the other when yet the places and bodies mov'd in them are for-taken to be altogether without parts To which by way of fore-runner we ananswer That if the Argument be of any force at all it will hold as strongly against time's being made up of nows as body's being