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water_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,078	5	10.3751	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64764	A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses and refutations of such vulgar errours as our modern authors have hitherto omitted / by Eugenius Philalethes.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.	1669 (1669)	Wing V145; ESTC R1446	49,654	136

Motion upwards and downwards from their second qualities of lightness and heaviness and from their first qualities either Active as heat and cold or Passive as dry and moist For as their Motion proceeds from the second qualities so do their second from their first from the Heavenly Bodies next to which as being the Noblest of them all as well in purity as activity is seated the Element of the Fire though many of the Ancients and some later Writers as namely Cardane amongst the rest seemed to make a doubt of it Lib. 1. Subtil And Manilius in his first Book of Astronomy Ignis ad aetb●reas volucer se sustulis auras Summaque complexus Stellantis culmina Coeli Flammarum vallo Naturae Maenia fecit The Fire est soones up towards Heaven did flye And compassing the Starry World advanced A wall of Flames to safeguard Nature by Next the Fire is seated the Air divided into Three Regions next the Air the Water and next the Water the Earth so Bartas Who so sometime hath seen rich ingots tride Where forc't by Fire their Treasure they divide How fair and softly Gold to Gold doth pass Silver seeks Silver Brass conforts with Brass And the whole lump of parts unequal severs It self apart in white red yellow Rivers May understand how when the mouth Divine Open'd to each his proper place t' assign Fire flew to Fire Water to Water slid Air clung to Air and Earth with Earth abid The Vail both of the Tabernakle and Temple were made of Blew and Purple and Scarlet or Crimson and fine twisted Linnen by which four as Josephus notech were represented the four Elements Lib. Antiquit. 15. Cap. 14. His words are these Vel●●●●ec erat Babiloni●●s variegatum ex Hyaecintho bysso ce●ecqu● purpura mirabiliter elaboratum non indignam contemplatione materiae commistionem habent s●d velut ●mnium imagine●● praeferens Cocco enim videbatur ignem imitari Bysso terram Hyacintho aerem ac Mare purpura partim quidem coloribus bysso autem purpura Origi●e bysso quid●●● quia de terra Mare autem purpura gign●t The Vaile was Babilonis● Work most artificially imbrodered with Blew and fine Linnen and Scarlet and Purple having in it a mixture of things not unworthy of our Consideration but carrying a kind of resemblance of the Universe for by the Scarlet seemed the Fire to be represented by the Linnen the Earth by the Blew the Air and by the Purple the Sea partly by reason the Colours of Scarlet and Blew partly by reason of the Original of Linnen and Purple the one coming from the Earth the other from the Sea And St. Hierom in his Epistle to Fab●●la Epist. 128. hath the very same conceit borrowed as it seems from Josephus or from Philo who hath much to the like purpose in his Third Book of the life of Moses or it may be from Wis●● 18. 14. In the long Robe was the whole World As not only the Vulgar Latin and Arias Montanus but out of them and the Greek Original our last English Translation reads it The Fire is dry and hot the Air hot and moist the Water moist and cold the Earth cold and dry thus are they linked and thus do they embrace one another with their Simbolizing qualities the Earth being linked to the Water by coldness the Water to the Air by moistness the Air to the Fire by warmth the Fire to the Earth by drought which are all the combinations of the qualities that can possibly be hot and cold as also dry and moist in the highest Degrees being altogether incompatible in the same subject and though the Earth and the Fire are most opposite in distance to substance and in activity yet they agree in one quality the two middle being therein directly contrary to the two extreams Air to Earth and Water to Fire These four then as they were from the beginning so still they remain the Radical and Fundamental Principles of all Subcoelestial Bodies distinguished by their several and Ancient Situations Properties Actions and Effects and howsoever after their old wont they fight and combate together being single yet in composition they still accord marvellous well as Boethius Lib. 3. Met. 9. Tu numeris Elementa liga● us frig●ra f●ammis Arid● conveniunt Liquidis ne puri●r ignis Ev●let aut mersas deducant pondera terra● To Numbers thou the Elements dost tie That cold with heat may symbolize and dry With moist lest purer Fire should soare to high And Earth through too much weight too low should lie The Creator of them hath bound them as it were to their behaviour and made them in every mixed body to stoop and obey one Praedominant whose sway and conduct they willingly follow The Air being Praedominant in some as in Oyl which alwayes swimmes on the top of all other Liquors and the Earth in others which always gather as near the Center as possibly they can And as in these they vary not a jo● from their nature and wonted properties so neither do they in their other conditions It is still true of them that Ni● graevitant nec l●vitant in suis l●eis there is no sense of their weight or lightness in their proper places as appears by this that a Man lying in the bottom of the deepest Ocean he feels no burthen from the weight thereof the Fire shall serve to warm us the Air to maintain our breathing the Water to cleanse and refresh us the Earth to feed and support us and which of them is most necessary for our use is hard to determine Likewise they still hold the same proportion one towards another as they have done For howbeit the Peripeteticks pretending herein the Authority of their Mr. Aristotle tell us that'as they rise above one another in Situation so they exceed one another propertione decupla by a ten-fold proportion yet is this doubtless a foul Errour or at least-wise a gross mistake whether we regard their entire bodies or their parts if their entire bodies it is certain that the Earth exceeds both the Water and the Air by many degrees the depth of the Waters not exceeding two or three miles and for the most part not above halfe a mile as Marriners find by their Line and Plummer whereas the Diameter of the Earth as Mathematicians demonstrate exceeds Seven thousand miles And for the Air taking the height of it from the part of the ordinary Comets it contains by estimation about fifty two miles as Nonius Vitellio and Alb●●en shew by Geometrical proofs Whence it plainly appears that there cannot be that proportion betwixt the entire Bodies of the Elements which is pretended nor at any time was since the Creation And for their parts 't is as clear by experience that out of a few drops of Water may be made so much Air as shall exceed them a thousand times at least There is in the Elements a noble compensation of their fourfold

be he Paga● or Christian that so believeth the only true God of the one and the imaginary God of the other would thereby be despoyled of all worship reverence and respect As therefore I do not consent with them who would make those glorious Creatures of God vertuless so I think that we derogate from his Eternal and Absolute Power to ascribe to them the Dominion over our Immortal Souls which they have over our Bodily Substances and perishable Natures For the Souls of Men loving and fearing God receive Influence from that Divine Light it self whereof the Suns Clarity and that of the Starrs is by Plato called but a shadow Lumen est Umbra Dei Deus est Lumen Luminis Light is the shadow of Gods brightness who is the Light of Lights There have been great talks touching the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter and many ominous conjectures are cast abroad upon it which if perhaps they prove true I should rather ascribe it to our sins then to the Stars they were not created to govern but to serve Man if he serve and be governed by his Creatour so that we need not to search the Cause so far off in the book of Heaven we may find it written nearer home in our own Bosomes And for the Stars I may say as our Saviour Christ doth the Sabboth the Stars were made for Men and not Men for the Stars and if God be on our side and we on his Jupiter and Saturn shall never hurt us But whatsoever the force of the States be upon the persons of private Men or the Stars of Wealpublicks I should rather advise a modest ignorance therein then a curious inquisition hereinto following the witty and pithy counsel of Phaverirus the Philosopher in Gellius Lib. 4. Sect. 1. where he thus speaks Aut adversa ev●●tura dicuot aut prospera fidicunt prospera fallunt iniser fies frustra expecta d● si adversa dicunt m●ntiuntur ●iser fies frustra timend● si vera respondent eaque sunt non prospera j●m inde ex ●nim● miser fies antequam è fat● fias si faelicia promitiunt eaque eventura sunt ●●m plane du● gorum in●●moda expectatio te spe suspensum fatigabit futurum gaudii fructum sp●s tibi defler●v●rit Either they portend or bad or good luck if good and they deceive thou wilt become miserable by a vain expectation if bad and they lye thou wilt be miserable by a vain fear if they tell thee true but unfortunate Events thou wilt be miserable in mind before thou art by destiny if they promise fortunate success which shall indeed come to pass these two inconveniences will follow thereupon both expectation by hope will hold thee in suspence and hope will d●fl●ure and devoure the fruit of thy content His conclusion is which is also mine for this point and this discourse touching the Heavenly Bodies Nullo ig tur pacto utendum est isti●smodi ●●minibus resfuturas praesagientibus We ought in no case to have recourse to these kind of Men which undertake the foretelling of careful Events And so I pass from the consideration of the Coelestial Bodies to the Subcoelestial which by Gods ordinance depend upon them and are made subordinate to them touching which and the Coelestial Bodies both together comparing each with the other the Divine Bartas thus sweetly and truly sings Things that consist of th' Elements uniting Are ever tost with an intestine fighting Whence spring in time their Life and their deceasing Their diverse change their waxing and decreasing So that of all that is or may be seen With Mortal Eyes under Nights horned Queen Nothing retaineth the same form and face Hardly the half of half an hours space But the Heavens feel not Fates impartiall rigour Years adde not to their Stature nor their Vigour Use weares them not but their green ever age Is all in all still like their pupillage Sublunary Bodies are such as God and Nature hath planted under the Moon Now the state of these Inferiour being governed by the Superiour as in the Wheels of a Clock or Watch if the first be out of order so are the second and third and the rest that are moved by it for it is more then probable that the first partake with them in the same condition which dependance is very well expressed by Boethius where having spoken of the constant regularity of the Heavenly Bodies de Consol. Lib. 4. Met. 6. He thus goes on Haec concordiae temperat aquis c. Thus Englished The Concord tempers equally Contrary Elements That moist things yield unto the dry And heat with cold conse●ts Here Fire to highest place doth flie And Earth doth downward bend And Flowery Spring perpetually Sweet odours forth doth s●n● Hot Summer Harvest gives and store Of Fruit Autumnus yields And shoures which down from Heaven do poure Each Winter drown'd the Fields What ever in the World doth breath This temper forth hath brought And nourished the same by Death Again it brings to nought Among the Subcoelestial things following Natures Method I will first begin with the consideration of the Elements the most simple and Universal of them all as being the Ingredients of all mixed Bodies either in the whole or in part and into which the mixed are finally resolved again and are again by turnes remade of them the common matter of them all still abiding the same of which ●Barts Here 's nothing constant nothing still doth stay For Birth and Death have still successive sway Here one thing springs not till another dye Only the Maker lives Immortally The Almighty stable Body of this all Of changeful chances common Arcenal All like it self all in it self contain'd Which by times flight hath neither lost nor gain'd Changeless in Essence changeable in face Much more then Proteus or the subtil race Of roving Polypes who to rob the more Transform them hourly on the waving Shore Much like the French or like our selves their Apes Who with strange habits do disguise their shapes Who loving novels full of affectation Receive the manners of each other Nation By consent of Antiquity the Elements are in Number four The Fire the Air the Water and the Earth of which the same Poet thus expresses himself Four Bodies Primitive the World still contains Of which two downwards bend the Earth and Watery planes As many weight do want and nothing forcing higher They mount th' Air and purer streams of Fire Which though they distant be yet all things from them take Their Birth and into them their last returns do make Three of them shew themselves manifestly in Milk the Butter being the Aerial part thereof the Why the Watery and the Cheese the Earthy but all four in the burning of green Wood The Flame being Fire the smoak the Air the Liquid destilling at the ends the Water and the Ashes the Earth Philosophy likewise by reason teaches and proves the same from their