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A01883	The fall of man, or the corruption of nature, proued by the light of our naturall reason Which being the first ground and occasion of our Christian faith and religion, may likewise serue for the first step and degree of the naturall mans conuersion. First preached in a sermon, since enlarged, reduced to the forme of a treatise, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. By Godfrey Goodman ...	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1616 (1616)	STC 12023; ESTC S103235	311,341	486

times for their meeting These things duly considered you shall find their expense was very excessiue Now take these with their prices and first for those things which were brought ouer into this kingdome Henry Bowet Archbishop of Yorke in the time of Henry the 5 spent in his house yeerely of Claret wine onely foure score tunnes this might seeme incredible were it not that it appeares by such euidence as cannot bee denied Now let vs examine the price of this wine I finde among the slatutes of Edw. the 2. which was long before that time that Vintners were appointed to sell their wine at twelue pence the gallon and not aboue we cannot reade nor cannot conceiue that since that time wine should fall in the price being none of our owne commodities so then supposing wine at twelue pence the gallon and considering that 26 pence then waied an ounce whereas now 60 pence goe to the ounce he then spent only in Claret wine if I doe not mistake in my reckonings 9304. ounces 8 13 which did thē amount to 1008 poūds which foresaid number of ounces would now amount to 2326 pounds three shillings one penny at this time supposing wine to be at two shillings the gallon as now it is sold you may buy as much for 8064 ounces which would be worth 2016 pounds of our currant money so that you shall saue 1240. ounces 8 13 which heretofore the same wine would haue cost which number of ounces being reduced into pounds it will amount to 310 pounds three shillings one penny so that it appeares that wine is now sold cheaper by a seuenth part then heretofore it hath been which makes much to shew the plentie of their coyne To speake of our owne countrie prouision assuredly the prices of things doe not hold proportion and correspondencie to the weight and valuation of coynes as may appeare by that most excellent statute of rent-corne made in the behalfe of our Vniuersities which hath proued so beneficiall to Colledges And if you please to consider the almes-deedes and charitable beneuolence of former times as well in their money as in their victuals you may truly affirme that as they farre exceeded vs in the one so they came not much short in the other It shall appeare by this one instance Richard de Burie sometimes Bishop of Durrham in the yeere 1333 bestowed weekly for the reliefe of the poore eight quarters of wheate made into bread besides the fragmēts of his house the offals of his slaughter-house and yeerely much clothing In his iourney betweene New Castle and Durrham he gaue alwaies by his own appointed order eight pounds in almes from Durrham to Stocton fiue pounds from Durrham to Aukland fiue marks from Durrham to Middleham fiue pounds They that succeeded these old Bishops in their wealth and abundance I hope will excuse our new and now Bishops if they be not so plentifull in their almes when as indeed they seeme to succede them only in the Cure the Pastorall charge and imposition of hands To conclude these excessiue prices of things do well argue a great scarcitie that the whole world is turned bankrupt though we to saue our owne credit can make the best shew for our honor reputations sake we can name huge summes of money but wee borrow vpon such base tearmes wee set our lands vpon such a racktrent that if the tenant payes one yeere he runnes away the next and therefore I am perswaded that men in letting out their lands in such manner doe not so much regard the present rent as a future intended sale of those lands after twentie or two and twentie yeeres purchase for otherwise they would neuer bee fed with words in effect and neglect their present securitie An other cause of our scarcitie may be besides the heauie iudgements of God whereof I wil not dispute our immoderate vse of the creatures men were neuer so delicate and curious in their diet or food as they are at this day neuer so wastfull in their expence the world did neuer so much abound with surfeits and drunkennesse heretofore they had their fastings as well as their feastings but this is superstitious forsooth Thus while some proue infinitly lauish dissolute and riotous the poore people of our land neuer sustained the like scarcitie and wants I might likewise accuse the euill disposition of men for in ancient times they knew not the art of monopolizing their meaning was honest and plaine but we are our crafts-masters the Landlord neuer ceasing from racking his poore tenants and the tenants must set an answerable price on their wares heretofore it was thought a poynt of conscience that euerie man should sell his commodities according to such reasonable rate as he himselfe could affoord them but now our conscience is inlarged and therefore wee must inlarge our price supposing that it is lawfull for euery man to make the most of his owne and to sell his owne wares to the greatest aduantage Thus euery man ●●riues to raise the market and thus things are inhaunced to the great preiudice of many Lords who cannot alter their quit-rents and to the vtter vndoing of the poore Commonaltie when the labours of men and the drudgerie of poore people is not nor cannot bee inhaunced accordingly Now since the fruitfulnesse or barrennesse of the earth proceedes from the influence and disposition of the heauens in the last place I dare accuse the materiall heauens as being guiltie conspiring and together ioyntly tending to corruption Scripture shall warrant me the heauens shall waxe old as doth a garment Psalme 102. vers 26. Reason and all humane learning shall backe me for certaine it is that the Sunne hath descended much lower by many degrees then he was in the time of King Ptolemie the same Mathematicall instruments which agree together in all other dimensions doe vndoubtedly proue the diuersitie by vertue of perspectiue glasses we haue lately discerned spots and shadowes in the Moone and within our memorie in the yeere 1572. a true Comet did appeare in the eighth Heauen which as it had a time of beginning so had it a period and time of dissoluing And thus being mortall of our selues wee dwell in houses of clay the roofe of this world as well as the foundations shall together be mooued for wherefore serues the diuersitie of seasons the day and the night succeeding each other Summer and Winter the rising and setting of Starres the different and contrarie motions the various aspects and oppositions but that in some sort they partake of our nature and shall haue their part and portion with ours For proofe of this truth let vs compare times with times and so it shall better appeare the hot Zones heretofore adiudged by all the Ancients to be vnhabitable we know that now they are habitable and furnisht with people let vs thinke reuerently of the Ancients they were very wise and as I suppose far exceeding vs. Can

we conceiue them to be such simple men so fondly mistaken at their owne homes being neighbours and bordering vpon these hot climates where a few daies sayling would discouer the truth a truth so manifest and palpable as that they could not pretend any grosse ignorance let vs doe them no wrong but so esteeme of them as we desire our po●●●ritie may regarde vs. What a shame and dishonour were it to vs if future ages shall condemne vs for fooles and lyars and that our testimonie should be reiected in such things as concerne our times whereof triall and experience might informe vs without further reason or discourse Rather let vs wonder at the prouidence of God when the world was yet in her infancie and youth no maruell if heate did abound the earth as yet was vnpeopled and therefore men in those dayes had roome enough to make choice of their habitation and dwelling but now the world grones vnder the multitude and number of people the heauens doe likewise decay in their wonted strength And therefore now at length new Ilands appeare in the Ocean which before neuer were extant other Ilands and Continents are daylie discouered which were concealed from antiquitie places formerlie knowne to be excessiue in heate are made habitable by the weakenesse and olde age of the heauens the colde Zones are tempered either thorough thicke misty ayre or the stipation of coldnesse God preparing their bodies and giuing them food and clothing accordinglie Thus God in the beginning of the world out of his owne foresight and goodnesse did fit and temper himselfe according to the times and occasions giue mee leaue to speake after the manner of men though otherwise I know the immutabilitie of Gods nature as long as there was vse of Paradise so long it continued in state and perfection being once forsaken and destitute then followed the dissolution If the Ancients were strangers abroade and might easilie mistake yet in their owne dwellings and habitations their sense for want of reason would serue to informe them certaine it is that there was a great burning in Phaetons time though grounded I confesse vpon a fabulous historie yet for the truth of it signes and tokens thereof did appeare for many subsequent ages and strange it is among the heathen what preuention of fire did hereby insue inuenting a kinde of slate which might resist the violence of fire and therein reseruing and laying vp the hidden treasure of their writings and records against such a generall combustion whereas in these daies we neuer found the heate of the sunne to be such we neuer sustained any such dammage but that the coldnesse and moysture of the winter could easilie recompence our losse nay rather we haue iust cause to complaine of the sunnes weakenesse and that he is defectiue in heate notwithstanding that in this time of his olde age God hath appoynted that the sunne should enter into the hot signes yet both sunne and signes are defectiue in their power and cannot ripen our fruites in that manner which formerly the sunne alone did in the waterie constellations What a strange difference appeares in our seasons more then in ancient times we can not promise vnto our selues the like certaintie neither in our seede time nor in our haruest nor in the whole course of the yeere which they did for a wonder it is to heare the relation of old men in this kinde how they all seeme to agree in one complainte which certainely betokens a truth If you tell me of our corrupt computation of the yeere my answere is that the change is so insensible not a day in an age as that it makes no sensible difference yet herein I cannot excuse our selues for if the world should continue many ages our Christmas would fall out in haruest whereas certaine it is that the day was first appoynted according to Christs birth and Christ was borne neere solstitium brumale when the dayes were the shortest and then began to increase as Iohn Baptist was borne at Midsommer when the dayes were at the longest and then began to shorten to be a figure as Saint Ambrose obserueth that Christ should increase as Iohn Baptist decreased but now in these times our dayes are increased a full houre in length before the Natiuitie If still thou proouest wilfull and wilt not beleeue the Ancients but talkest onely of thine owne experience and particular knowledge it were to bee wished that thou shouldest trie all conclusions in Physicke vpon thine owne bodie that so thou mightest see onely with thine owne eyes and take nothing by relation from others if thou iudgest of times past by thine owne little experience thou canst not truely iudge of the workes of nature which haue in themselues insensible changes and alterations thou canst not see thy selfe growing yet at length thou perceiuest thine owne growth Suppose there were little alteration in this world it would then argue the newnesse of this world that it was created but this morning for as yet the Heauens haue not once seene their owne reuolutions it would likewise argue the excellencie of the workeman as in the framing so in the continuance of his worke for if the heauens should alwaies want some repayring and mending we might well thinke that the state of the Church triumphant were not vnlike the state of the Church militant alwaies requiring and calling for dilapidations yet in reason you shall easilie discerne the vndoubted tokens of the worlds ruine Now that I am falne to the generall dissolution of this world which shall bee performed by the rage and violence of fire according to the receiued tradition of the Ancients whereunto Scripture agrees and according to the opinion of the best learned Philosophers who ascribe the greatest actiuitie to fire and were it not for the situation as being aboue the rest of the elements and for that naturall inclination which it hath in it selfe arising out of an inbred pride as knowing his excellencie aboue the rest that being once out of his owne proper place it will not thus be supprest but will ascend with the greatest swiftnesse and expedition carrying the forme of a pyramise for the more easie penetration assuredly all the rest of the elements together conspiring could not incounter the fire Now fire hath this propertie congregare homegenea segregare heterogenea and therein doth figure out the last and finall iudgement wherein a separation shall be made of the Goates from the Lambes of the corne from the chaffe of the iust from the reprobate I cannot nor dare not prescribe the day and houre of that iudgement rather with patience I will waite on Gods leisure with my assured hope will expect to see my Redeemer in his flesh and in my flesh so descending as he ascended for herein we haue the testimonie of Angels This Iesus which is taken vp from you into Heauen shall so come as you haue seene him goe into Heauen Acts