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A01676	Questions and disputations concerning the Holy Scripture wherein are contained, briefe, faithfull and sound expositions of the most difficult and hardest places: approued by the testimony of the Scriptures themselues; fully correspondent to the analogie of faith, and the consent of the Church of God; conferred with the iudgement of the fathers of the Church, and interpreters of the Scripture, nevv and old. Wherein also the euerlasting truth of the word of God, is freed from the errors and slaunders of atheists, papists, philosophers, and all heretikes. The first part of the first tome. By Nicholas Gibbens, minister and preacher of the word of God.	Gibbons, Nicholas.	1601 (1601)	STC 11814; ESTC S103122	726,660	618

libris vt tradit Iustin. Martyr Apolog. 2. diuers ancient Philosophers that they come from the sea and that thorough the vaines pores of the earth which are found z Defodientibus praesertim in locis saxosis in glarea copiosiosiores ●●uae salubriore● in sabulosis rart●res neque na salubres Vuruu lib. 8. c. 1. almost in euerie place This also a Arist lib. 2. Meteor cap. 2 Haec si ita cue●●ant i● fieret quod in prouerbio vsurpatur sontes sursum stuitant quod fieri non potest may seeme to be against the nature of the waters to arise vp in the vaines of the earth for being heauie they alwaies of themselues descend vnto a lower place But as wee see a spring that riseth in an hill conueied in lead b ●inl● of Hexam li. 3 cap. 2 ●aeterum quis ignorat quod rap●do plerunque impetu in imae descendeus in superiora se sulo●gat atque in supercilium montis attollat plerunque eti●m caualibus manu artificis deriuata quantum descender●t tantum rursies ascendat naque si impetu suo fertur vel artificis deriuata ingenio contrae naturam suam ducitur eleuatur miramini si diuini operatione praecepti aliquid ad vsum eius natura scilicet congregationis aquarum accassit quod in vsu aniè non fuerat vnto a lower ground will force his waters to ascend vnto the height it beareth at the fountaine euen so the waters which stand aboue the mountaines doe force out springs of water by necessarie and natural cause out of the highest mountaines Another effect that seemeth to come from thence is the flowing ebbing of the sea This as some suppose doth come to passe c There haue been many opinions of the cause of the eb●●ng and flowing of the Sea Of Lucan and Soline it is left as a point indissoluble De quo inquit plura pro ingenijs disserentium quam pro veritatis fide expressa Some say it is the breathing or blowing of the world as Strabo lib. 1. Geograph Albert. Magn. de propriet clement tract 2. cap. 2. Apollon Tyanaeus said it was because the waters getting into certaine holes of the earth was forced out againe by Spirits remaining within the earth reported by Philostratus lib. 5. Macrobius de Somno Scipio lib. 2. saith it is by the meeting of the East and West Ocean Cicer. de nat Deorum seemeth to ascribe it only to the power of God Quid aestus maritimi vel Hispanienses vel Britanici eorumque certis temporibus vel accessus vel recessus sine Deo fieri non possunt Si cum eo secundum intulisset principium omne tulisset punctum Other for the most part ascribe it to the influence of the Moone Ptolom op Quadripart lib. 2. cap. 11. Picut Mirand contr Astrol. lib. 3. cap. 15. Silius de bel Punic lib. 3. affirmeth the Moone hath the same vertue to draw water as the Loadstone hath to draw yron Item Plin. lib. 2. cap. 8.9 Caesar de Bell. Gal. lib 4. Hieron Zanch. de oper Dei part 2. libr. 4. suppose it to be caused by the variable light of the Moone which seuerall opinions I can commend for reuerence allow I cannot by the variable light of the moone And is it not as likelie which other d Nich. Copernic in Astronom lib. doe imagine that the light of the moone should be caused by the flowing of the waters No man denieth but that the Lord hath imparted power vnto that creature in things of e As in Oysters and Cockles it is manifest moistnes But forasmuch as wee reason with natural men of natural causes I demaund what cause in nature from the moone that so huge floudes of waters so large and heauie should be driuen to or fro when as in pooles in fountaines and riuers it cannot be perceiued that one drop of water is thereby increased or mooued or diminished What cause also from the moone that in places neer the Ocean the tides are more vehement when as f As at Venice the tide is greater then at Tyrus the reason whereof is indeede because the waters flowing into the middle sea at the creeke of Gades out of the Ocean hath a greater rise and fall according to the Ocean in places neere hand then in those which are farther off The same reason it is why the tide is at Bristow twēty foot when at London it is scarse sixteene in middle seas they are small in g As in the Sea Euxinum Arist. Meteor libr 2. some place not at all perceiued What cause moreouer that some where the flowing is so violent that it stayeth and turneth the course of a ship that saileth with the winde as is reported to be in the h In the mouth of the Red sea the waters flowe with such violence that they turne a shippe which is driuen with full saile Sebast Verro Phys lib. 3. cap. 18. Ad caput rubrum Africae c. coasts of Africk and also in the i Betweene Montausis and Capo Florida in the North part of the countrie Caba in America current of Capo Florida by those which haue seene it and are yet aliue Lastlie what cause that the red sea floweth but foure k Ad caput rubrum Africae aestus diuersus est nam quaternis horis affluit octonis autem recurrit houres and ebbeth eight that l Cicer. de Nat. Deor. lib. 3. Quid Chalcidico Euripo in motuidentidem reciprocando putas fieri posse constantius Idem pro Muraena Pompon Mela. lib. 2. cap. de insulis Mediter Euripon vocant rapidum mare quod septies die ac toties nocte fluctibus inuicem versis adeo immodicè fluens vt ventes etiam ac plenis velis nauigia frustretur Idem Strab. Geograph lib. 9. Die quolibet ac nocte septies cursum transmutat Plin. lib. 4 cap. 12. Senec. in Herc. Oeto. act 3. Scen. 2. Euripus vndas flectit instabiles vagus septemque cursus flectit totidem refert dum lassa Titan mergo● oceano ●uga Aeschines orat contr Ctesi L. Valla. Dialog de libero arbit Aristoteles cum non posset Euri●i naturam inuestigare se in profundum illius praecipitans demersus est prius id testatus elogio Graeco quod Latinè sic habet Aristoteles non cepit Euripum Euripus capiet Aristotelem Euripus sloweth and falleth seauen times within the space of a day and a night Wherefore seeing it were miraculous that the light of the moone should worke such m To tosse to and fro so great waters so diuerslie with so great force seeing it is said to be the least of all the heauenly bodies and aboue fortie times lesse then the earth as saith Copernicus maisteries in the sea it seemeth more couenient to suppose that the naturall cause of the flowing of the waters is in the waters that they doe in the