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A06753	A treatise of the groundes of the old and newe religion Deuided into two parts, whereunto is added an appendix, containing a briefe confutation of William Crashaw his first tome of romish forgeries and falsifications.	Maihew, Edward, 1570-1625.	1608 (1608)	STC 17197.5; ESTC S118525	390,495	428

so great that the Prophet Dauid in the Psalmes Psa 146. vers 4. doth attribute it vnto God to number the multitude of the starres and I doubt not but euery man in a cleare night beholding the heauens and remembring what hath already beene said wil crie out with the same Prophet Ps 18. v. 1 and say The heauens shewe forth the glory of God and the firmament declareth the workes of his handes Let vs descend something lower and come to the foure elements the fire the ayre the water and the earth and first admire their wonderful constitution For they are so tempered and placed in such order that although they be indued with contrary qualities and there be continual combates betweene them yet the one neuer altogither ouercommeth or ouerthroweth the other yea euery one of them although it hath one quality contrary to that which is next vnto it yet it agreeth with it in the other two altogither opposite in qualities are not joyned togither For example the fire is hotte and drie the ayre next vnto it is hotte and moist the water next vnto the ayre is moist cold and the earth next vnto the water cold and drie Besides this that element which is most actiue hath least force to resist the action of others contrariwise that which hath most force to resist is least actiue as is apparant in the fire and the earth I adde moreouer that al these elements haue a natural inclination to their proper places For the earth coueteth to be vnder the water the water to be aboue the earth and vnder the ayre the ayre to be aboue the water and vnder the fire the fire aboue all the rest And to this scituation if they be displaced they moue with greatspeede and violence as we see by daylie experience This notwithstanding to the end that food place of aboade increase growing and dwelling may be giuen to other creatures the water is seperated from some part of the earth and certaine boundes are appointed vnto it which it cannot passe The ayre serueth man and beast for breath the lower region of it by the reflexion of the beames of the Sunne is preserued from that cold constitution which it would otherwise haue by reason of the water and earth adjoyning and so made a fit habitation for them to liue in as also fit for the growing of plants hearbes trees and such like senselesse creatures The midle region by vapors drawne vp from the earth and water is made colder and in it the said vapors through the coldnesse of the place are resolued into raine and showe by which the earth is most artificially moistened and made fruitful The windes which be drie exhalations tosse the cloudes from place to place that al partes of the earth may receiue this benefit they serue also for passing from nation to nation on the sea they purge the ayre c. Concerning the sea we may wel admire the vastenesse and motion thereof the certaine limites within which it is restrained the infinite number togither with the huge and strange formes of fishes and their wonderful increase The riuers are as it were the veines of the earth for like as in our bodies by the veines bloud and moisture is conueyed to euery part so is the earth moistened by the riuers springes The earth it selfe is deuided into hils dales and plaine ground that it may bring forth diuersity of fruite for man and al sortes of cattel and yeeld them fit places of aboade according to their natures In it are diuers pretious stones and sundry sortes of mettals which serue for the vse of man It is adorned with variety of flowres trees fruits and hearbes farre surpassing al humaine arte and inuention which it continually nourisheth and receiuing seede from such ornaments like vnto a fertil mother it daylie bringeth forth with great increase newe fruite and yeeldeth both man and beast at al times sufficient foode it is also apt for their pleasure and recreation Here I could make a long discourse of the bodies nature of bruite beastes and fishes but I should be ouerlonge and therefore at this present it shal be sufficient to wish euery man to consider First that al sortes of such liuing creatures finde sufficient foode agreable to their diuers natures then that euery one of them hath fit members and conuenient meanes to come by their said foode Thirdly that al naturally knowe their enemies and haue conuenient meanes to auoide them Fourthly if they be sicke by the instinct of nature they knowe their phisicke Fiftly the same nature giueth them knowledge howe to feede and bring vp their yonge ones which especially is perceiued in birdes who at the fittest season and in the fittest places breede and most artificially make their nests I adde further that they haue al sufficient vestures to couer their nakednesse and to defend themselues from the extremity of cold Finally the bodies of al such creatures are most aptly formed according to their natures as of fishes to swimme of foules to flie c. But what shal we say of man for whome al these thinges were created and who is the King and most principal of al these inferior creatures Surely he yeeldeth vs diuers points most worthy of consideration And first let vs note that although our soule be a simple and spiritual substance yet it hath three powers most noble and excellent which by Philosophers are called the soules vegetatiue sensitiue and reasonable to the first it appertaineth to nourish our bodies and to make them growe to conuenient stature and greatnesse The second by the vse of our fiue senses maketh vs vnderstand and feele thinges corporal and particuler By the third we vnderstand thinges spiritual and vniuersal The first is common also to trees and hearbes the second to brute beastes by the third we are like vnto Angels I wil not stand to discourse of our fiue senses our imagination vnderstanding memory and wil because these thinges be something difficult and require longe treatises Concerning the body of man consider first howe strangely it is formed in the mothers wombe in which vnto euery member is giuen his due proportion Consider also that in it there are aboue three hundred bones litle and great which are so artificially and firmely joyned togither and with such admirable proportion that no artificer in the world is able to make the like Neither are the sinewes and veines by which the joyntes are joyned and nourishment is conueied to al parts of the body and the equal correspondence of the partes of one side of the body to the partes of the other side togither with the aptnesse of euery member to his place and to the end for which it was ordained lesse admirable Howe wonderful strange is the composition of euery particuler member as of the head eies handes feete c. Verily an exact description of euery such part would make this section bigger then the whole

Tridentinus flourished an 480. Vincentius Lyrinensis flourished an 434. Z ZEno Veronensis Martir flourished about the yeare 258. Zeno alius flourished about the yeare 390. THE FIRST PART OF THE GROVNDES OF THE OLD RELIGION Chap. the first Of the first ground of Catholike religion to wit that there is a God and that God by his prouidence gouerneth al thinges BEFORE I come to intreate of the particuler groundes of Catholike religion which are rejected by our aduersaries I thinke it not amisse briefly to discourse of certaine general groundes of the same which although I confesse to be admitted by diuers newe sectaries yet in very deede by some are denied and after some sort as I wil proue hereafter impugned and ouerthrowne by the common doctrine of them al. The Apostle S. Paul praerequireth the beleefe of two thinges principally in him that is to come to the seruice of almighty God first that he beleeue that there is a God secondly that he likewise beleeue that the said God wil rewarde those that serue him Hebr. 11. vers 6. He that commeth to God saith he must beleeue that he is and is a rewarder to them that seeke him Wherefore grounding vpon this sentence of the Apostle I place the beleefe of one God and of his diuine prouidence for the first ground of our religion For a second I wil assigne that we ought to beleeue God to be a rewarder of our actions in the world to come of which reward the Apostle here principally speaketh For the declaration of which I purpose to proue the soule of man to be immortal and that most certainly according to the deserts thereof it shal either be rewarded euerlastingly in heauen or punished euerlastingly in hel SECTION THE FIRST That there is a God THE auncient Philosophers ledde only by the force of natural reason to conuince this truth reasoned after this sorte we perceiue said they diuers motions of natural bodies in the world but especially of the heauens which motions of necessity proceede from some cause mouer which mouer either in essence or vertue motiue dependeth of some other mouer or no. If he dependeth not then he is God If he depend of some other it is likewise demanded of that other whether he be independent or dependent If the first then we must needes acknowledge him to be God who only in his essence and vertue motiue is independent of al others if the second then of him the same question may be moued and so of al others vntil we come to some one that is independent and of whome al the rest doe depend which we must of necessity affirme to be God The same also is proued by the diuers sortes degrees of creatures as are first the foure elements fire aire water and earth secondly thinges mixt imperfect as snowe raine haile c. Thirdly thinges mixt perfect as stones and diuers sortes of mettals Fourthly thinges which haue life vegetatiue only as trees hearbes c. Fiftly thinges which haue life vegetatiue and sensitiue as all sortes of beastes foules and fishes Sixtly a thing hauing besides life vegetatiue and sensitiue also reason as man aboue whome we place the Angels Wherefore either in this ascent of the perfections of thinges we shal neuer make an end which is most absurd or else we shal proceede and come to some one thing most perfect which of necessity we must confesse to be God Moreouer the natural inclination of man to the acknowledging and worshipping of God proueth the same for no nation vnder the Sunne hath euer beene found although neuer so barbarous which hath not acknowledged and worshipped either the true God or else some other thing by it so esteemed yea euery man naturally in his distresses and miseries flieth vnto God and craueth helpe and succour of his diuine Majestie But seing that I write this treatise for the vnlearned sort of people omitting to discourse at large of these reasons although most forcible yea inuincible I wil vse especially this argument following which euery man although very simple may for the most part apprehend and conceiue taken from the admirable constitution order harmony beauty and greatnesse of the world And first let euery man lift vp his eies to the heauens and behold those incorruptible bodies Let him consider not only the wonderful beauty light and variety of those celestial orbes but also their strange order and motions and aboue al their constancy in their said motions that in so many thousandes of yeares as haue passed since their first being they haue not missed or erred so much as one minute of an houre of their assigned accustomed time From which it proceedeth that Astronomers can so longe before most certainely and infallibly foretel Ecclipses conjunctions and such other accidents of the Planets Among al the ornaments of the heauens the Sunne is the most principal The body or orbe of this Planet by Astronomers is proued to be an hundred sixty and six times greater then the globe of the earth and water wherefore if the compasse of the earth and sea be demonstrated to be about twenty and one thousand six hundred miles what shal we imagine of the greatnesse of the Sunne If we likewise consider what a smal time the Sunne is in rising and setting we shal also perceiue the motion of this Planet to be most swift for the whole body of it although so huge and great commeth wholy to our sight and goeth from the same in a very short time so that it must needes moue diuers miles euery minute of an houre although the motion of it by vs be hardly perceiued The Sunne is the fountaine of light and imparteth it to the Moone and Starres By the variety of his motions we distinguish times as daies nights monethes and yeares The approching and going away of it from vs maketh the spring sommer autumne and winter The Sunne with his presence in the spring as it were reuiueth beastes and plants which seemed before almost dead through his absence and yealdeth them a fit season for generation multiplication and bringing forth their seedes Finally the Sunne principally draweth vp vapors from the sea and land which cause raine by which the earth is strangely watered to make it fruitful Next vnto the Sunne the Moone vnto our sight seemeth beautiful which giueth light vnto the nights when the Sunne is absent And although she be variable yet she is most constant in her inconstancy and alterations She hath a most strange dominion ouer the sea which she draweth and altereth as it were with herselfe for when the moone ascendeth the sea increaseth contrariwise when she descendeth it decreaseth in so much that she causeth as it is probable the flux and reflux or ebbing and flowing of the sea by which the water is preserued from putrefaction and other necessary effects are wrought But who can explicate the variety number beauty and strange effects of the starres Surely their number is