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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

and that deservedly censures Eratostenes Hipparchus Polybius Possidonius the gravest Authors among the Ancients and Ptolomie sharply takes vp Marinus Tyrius though otherwise a diligent Writer yet both Strabo Ptolomy themselues if they be compared with our latter Geographers Hondius Mercator Thevet Merula Ortelius Maginus how defectiue how imperfect will they be found The ignorance of former ages in this point was so grosse that what time Pope Clement the sixth as we read in Robert of Auesbury had elected Lewis of Spaine to be Prince of the Fortunate Ilands for to aide assist him mustered Souldiers in France Italy our Countrey-men were verily perswaded that he was chosen Prince of Brittaine as one sayth he of the Fortunate Ilands yea and our very Ligier Embassadors there with the Pope were so deepely settled in this opinion that forthwith they with-drew themselues from Rome hasted with all speed into England there to certifie their Countreymen and friends of the matter Yet that which to me seemeth more strange is that those two learned Clearkes Lactantius and Augustine should with that earnestnesse deny the being of any Antipodes Their words are worth the noting thereby to see their confidence and eagernesse in the maintenance of so evident a mistake Quid illi saith Lactantius qui esse contrarios vestigijs nostris Antipodes putant num aliquid loquuntur aut est quisquam tam ineptus qui credat esse homines quorum vestigia sunt superiora quam capita aut ibi quae apud nos jacent inversa pendere fruges arbores deorsum versus crescere pluvias nives grandinem sursum versus cadere in terram miratur aliquis hortos pensiles inter septem mira narrari quam Philosophi agros maria vrbes montes pensiles faciunt What shall we thinke of them who giue out there are Antipodes that walke opposite to vs doe they speake any thing to the purpose or is there any so blockish as to beleeue there are men whose feet are higher then their heads or that those things there hang which with vs lye on the ground that the plants and trees spring downeward that the snow and raine and haile fall vpward vpon the earth need any man marvell that hanging gardens are counted in the number of the seuen wonders of the world since the Philosophers haue made both fields and seas cities and mountaines all hanging Lactantius is herein seconded by Augustine Quod verò Antipodes esse fabulantur id est homines à contraria parte terrae vbi sol oritur quandò occidit nobis adversa pedibus nostris calcare vestigia nullâ ratione credendum est Their fable of the Antipodes that is men dwelling in the opposite part of the earth where the Sunne rises when it sets to vs hauing their feete opposite to ours is a matter altogether incredible by no meanes to be beleeued But Zachary Bishop of Rome and Boniface Bishop of Mentz led as it seemes by the authority of these Fathers went farther herein condemning one Virgilius a Bishop of Saltzburg as an Heretique onely for holding that there were Antipodes But time and travell haue now discovered the contrary so evidently that we may aswell doubt the being of a Sun in the firmament as the experimentall cleerenes of this truth And as evident it is now likewise found to bee by certaine experience that vnder the middle or burning Zone which the Ancients by means of excessiue heate held altogether inhabitable there is as healthfull temperate and pleasant dwelling as any-where in the world as appeares by the relations of Benzo Acosta and others Besides the Ancients as it seemes were altogether ignorant of the new World discovered in the yeare 1492 by Columbus now knowne by the name of America or the West-Indies whatsoeuer from Platoes Atlantis or Salomons Ophir be slightly pretended to the contrary yet I confesse I haue often wondred not a little at Senecaes bold prepheticall spirit touching that Discovery Venient annis Secula seris Quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum Laxet ingens Pateat tellus Typhisque novos Detegat orbes Nec sit terris Vltima Thule In latter times an age shall rise Wherein the Ocean shall the bands Of things enlarge there shall likewise New Worlds appeare and mighty Lands Typhis discouer then Thule The Worlds end shall no longer be This prophesie wee haue found fulfilled not onely in the discovery of those vast Regions before vnknowne but in opening by meanes of Navigation and the helpe of the Compasse euery creeke and corner of the habitable World worth the knowing so that now it hath neuer before had it thorow lights made in it Nay particular countreyes haue bin of late yeares most exactly described by several Writers The Netherlands by Lewis Guicciardine Great Brittaine by the renowned Camden the like by others Neither haue there wanted some who haue descended to Provinces and Shires Master Carew to the survay of Cornewall Master Lambert to the perambulation of Kent and Master Burton to the description of Lecestershire yea particular Cities Rome Venice Paris London the Houses of great Princes haue found their particular Maps delineations so fully perfectly expressed that a man who neuer saw them but in representation may now speake as particularly of them as if he had beene borne and bred in them SECT 2. That the defect of the Ancients in Naturall Ecclesiasticall history is iustly corrected by the moderns in Civill history the moderns are matched with the Ancients And of the knowledge of weights and measures and the true valuation of coinès recovered and restored by latter Writers which thorow the neglect of former ages had well nigh perished THe bodie of History branches it selfe into History Naturall Ecclesistasticall Civill For the first it is most certaine that euen Aristotle himselfe and Pliay were ignorant of many things and wrote many not onely vncertaine but now convinced of manifest errour and absurdity Conradus Gesnerus hath laboured this part of History most industriously but others who haue vndertaken severall peeces of this burden more exactly Some of birds de animalibus insectis crustaceis testaceis Zoophytis as Aldrouandinus Some of fishes as Rondoletius some of Bathes as Baccius and Blanthellus some of Mettals as Georgius Agricola and some of plants and vegetables as Mathiolus Ruellius Fuchius to whom may be added the commendable paines of Gerrard in our owne language And some others againe purposely of some one particular kinde of beasts or birdes or fishes or plants or bathes or mettals History Ecclesiasticall hath likewise beene shamefully abused by thrusting into it many fabulous narrations of the liues of Saints and deaths of Martyrs Baronius and before him the Magdeburgians haue both very diligently though with different purposes travelled heerein in somuch that now betweene them both we haue made vp a compleate history of the Church

in workes of heate but the sunne burneth the mountaines three tymes more breathing out fiery vapours Neither were there wanting some among the ancient Philosophers who maintained the same opinion as Plato and Plyny and generally the whole sect of Stoicks who held that the Sunne and Starres were fed with watery vapours which they drew vp for their nourishment and that when these vapours should cease and faile the whole world should be in daunger of combustion and many things are alleaged by Balbus in Ciceroes second booke of the nature of the Gods in favour of this opinion of the Stoicks But that the Sunne and Starres are not in truth and in their owne nature fieric and hot appeares by the ground already layd touching the matter of the heavens that it is of a nature incorruptible which cannot bee if it were fiery inasmuch as thereby it should become lyable to alteration and corruption by an opposite and professed enimie Besides all fiery bodies by a naturall inclination mount vpwards so that if the starres were the cause of heat as being hot in themselues it would consequently follow that their circular motion should not bee Naturall but violent Wherevnto I may adde that the noted starres being so many in number namely one thousand twenty and two besides the Planets and in magnitude so greate that every one of those which appeare fixed in the firmament are sayd to bee much bigger then the whole Globe of the water and earth and the Sunne againe so much to exceede both that globe and the biggest of them as it may iustly bee stiled by the sonne of Syrach instrumentum admirabile a wonderfull instrument which being so were they of fyre they would doubtlesse long ere this haue turned the world into ashes there being so infinite a disproportion betweene their flame and the little quantity of matter supposed to bee prepared for their Fewell That therefore they should bee fed with vapours Aristotle deservedly laughs at it as a childish and ridiculous device in as much as the vapours ascend no higher then the middle region of the ayre and from thence distill againe vpon the water and earth from whence they were drawne vp and those vapours being vncertaine the flames likewise feeding vpon them must needes be vncertaine and dayly vary from themselues both in quantity and figure according to the proportion of their fewell SECT 2. That the heate they breed springes from their light and consequently their light being not decayed neither is the warmth arising there from THe absurdity then of this opinion beeing so foule and grosse it remaines that the Sunne and Starres infuse a warmth into these Subcaelestiall bodies not as being hot in themlselues but only as beeing ordeined by God to breed heate in matter capable thereof as they impart life to some creatures and yet themselues remaine voyd of life like the braine which imparts Sense to every member of the body and yet is it selfe vtterly voyd of all Sense But here againe some there are which attribute this effect to the motion others to the light of these glorious bodies And true indeed it is that motion causes heat by the attenuation rarefaction of the ayre But by this reason should the Moone which is neerer the Earth warme more then the Sunne which is many thousand miles farther distant the higher Regions of the Aire should be alway hotter then the lower which notwithstanding if wee compare the second with with the lowest is vndoubtedly false Moreouer the motion of the coelestiall bodies being vniforme so should the heat deriued from them in reason likewise be the motion ceasing the heat should likewise cease yet I shall neuer beleeue that when the Sun stood still at the prayer of Iosua it then ceased to warme these inferiour Bodies And we find by experience that the Sun works more powerfully vpon a body which stands still then when it moues the reason seemes to be the same in the rest or motion of a body warming or warmed that receiueth or imparteth heat The motion being thus excluded from being the cause of this effect the light must of necessitie step in and challenge it to it selfe the light then it is which is vndoubtedly the cause of coelestiall heate in part by a direct beame but more vehemently by a reflexed for which very reason it is that the middle Region of the aire is alwaies colder then the lowest and the lowest hotter in Summer then in Winter and at noone then in the morning and evening the beames being then more perpendicular and consequently in their reflexion more narrowly vnited by which reflexion and vnion they grow sometimes to that fervencie of heate that fire springs out from them as wee see in burning glasses and by this artificiall device it was that Archimedes as Galen reports it in his third booke de Temperamentis set on fire the Enemies Gallyes and Proclus a famous Mathematician practised the like at Constantinople as witnesseth Zonaras in the life of Anastasius the Emperour And very reasonable me thinkes it is that light the most Divine affection of the Coelelestiall Bodies should be the cause of warmth the most noble actiue and excellent quality of the Subcoelestiall These two like Hippocrates twinnes simul oriuntur moriuntur they are borne and dye together they increase and decrease both together the greater the light is the greater the heate and therefore the Sun as much exceedes the other starres in heate as it doth in light To driue the argument home then to our present purpose since the light of the Sun is no way diminished and the heate depends vpon the light the consequence to me seemes marvailous faire and strong which is that neither the heate arising from the light should haue suffered any decay or diminution at all SECT 3. Two obiections answered the one drawne from the present habitablenes of the Torrid Zone the other from a supposed approach of the Sun neerer the earth then in former ages NOtwithstanding the evidence of which trueth some haue not doubted to attribute the present habitablenesse of the Torride Zone to the weaknesse and old age of the Heauens in regard of former ages But they might haue remembred that the Cold Zones should thereby haue become more inhabitable by cold as also that holding as they doe an vniversall decay in all the parts of Nature men according to their opinion decaying in strength as well as the Heauens they should now in reason be as ill able to indure the present heate as the men of former ages were to indure that of the same times wherein they liued the proportion being alike betweene the weaknes as between the strength of the one and the other But this I onely touch in passing hauing a fitter occasion to consider more fully of it hereafter when we come to compare the wits and inventions of the Ancients with those of the present times That which touches