Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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A
TABLE OF THE
WHOLE BOOKE:
Wherein their severall Chapters,
with their Sections, and whole Con∣tents
are orderly pointed forth.
The Table of the first Booke,
Wherein the matter and nature of the Hea∣ven,
Sunne, Moone, Starres, Ayre, Sea,
and Earth is comprehended.
Sect. 1.
OF the matter whereof the Heavens are composed,
with the confutation of various opinions of Philo∣sophers
concerning it. Pag. 4
Sect. 2.
Of the Starres, their substance and splendor, where
also of the Sunnes place in the Firmament. 8
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Sect. 3.
Of the Moone, her light, substance, and power over
all sublunary bodies. 10
Sect. 4.
Of the Element of Fire, whether it be an Element
or not, and of its place. 12
Sect. 5.
A briefe Discourse of Meteors; of their causes,
matter, and differences.
Sect. 6.
That the Earth and Waters make but one Globe,
which must bee the Center of the World. Of the Seas
saltnesse, deepnesse flux, and reflux; why the Mediter∣rancan
and Indian Seas have none: Of Magellanes
strait; what maketh so violent tyde there, seeing there
is none in the Indian Sea from whence it floweth. Of
the Southerne Sea, or Mare del Zur. 18
Sect. 7.
That the mountaines and valleyes dispersed over the
earth, hindreth not the compleatnesse of its round∣nes:
Of burning mountaines and caves within the
Earth. 25
Sect. 8.
Of time, whether it be the producer or consumer of
things: Of the wisedome and sagacity of some Horses
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Sect. 9.
Of Fishes, if they may be said to breathe, seeing they
lack pulmons: Of flying fishes, if such things may be, &c.
which are the reasons of their possibility, are deduced, ex∣emplified.
34
Sect. 10.
Of fishes, and their generation: How fowles are gene∣rated
in the waters. If gold can be made potable; and of
the matter of precious stones. 40
Sect. 11.
Of the Earth, its circumference, thicknesse, and di∣stance
from the Sunne. 43
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A TABLE OF THE SE∣COND
BOOKE.
OF
METEORS.
Chapt. 1.
THe definition of Meteors, their matter, substance,
place, and cause. 46
Chap. 2.
Where Meteors are composed of Clouds, where they
are fashioned, together with the solution of some que∣stions
concerning the middle Region. 52
Chapt. 3.
Of falling Starres, Fleakes in the ayre, and other such
••••ery Meteors. 55
Chapt. 4.
Of Comets, their matter, forme, nature, and what way
they portend evill to come. 61
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Chap. ••.
Of R••ine, Dew, H••are-frost, and their cause. 69
Chap. 6.
Of Snow, its cause, matter, and nature. 73
Chap. 7.
Of Windes, their true cause, matter, and nature, &c. 75
Chap. 8.
Of Earth-quakes, their cause and nature. 79
Chap. 9.
Of Thunder, Lightning, Ha••le, and certaine other se∣crets
of Nature, with their solution. 82
Chap. 10.
Of Rivers, Fountaines and Springs, their sources and
causes. 88
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A TABLE OF THE
Third Booke.
OF
ARMIES
AND
BATTELS.
Sect. 1.
THat greatest Armies have not alwayes carried a∣way
the victory; the reason of it; two examples of
Semiramis, and Xerxes. 97
Sect. 2.
Examples of Greeke, Roman, and Brittish Battels,
where the fewer number have overcome the greater. 100
Sect. 3.
Whether it bee requisite, that Princes hazard their
Persons in field, or not; of the encouragement that their
presence giveth to the Souldiers: When a King should
venture to the field; and what Lievtenants are to be de∣puted
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Sect. 4.
Of the Romans prudencie and foresight in sending
two Commanders abroad with their Armies; and why
the Grecians conjoyned two in their Embassies: and of
the danger of too strict Commissions. 105
Sect. 5.
Difference betweene Battels and Duels: that Gene∣rals
may refuse challenges: with some passages betwixt
Hannibal and Scipio in their warres. 108
Sect. 6.
That the exploits of our moderne Warriours have bin
every way comparable to those of the Ancient; with
some examples to that effect. 111
Sect. 7.
The different betwixt the ancient manner of warfare,
and the moderne: how farre the moderne engines of
Warre exceede those of the ancient Greekes and Ro∣mans.
113
Sect. 8.
That the Ancients in their warres had greater op∣portunities
to try their prowesse in battell, than the mo∣dernes
have. 115
Sect. 9.
The manner how the Greekes and Romans ordered
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Sect. 10.
A Maxime in Militarie discipline, inferred, to con∣firme
Pompeys oversight at the battell of Pharsalia. 119
Sect. 11.
That the French, what within their owne Countrey
and abroad, have fought more battels of late times, than
any other Nation; and of their successe in them. 120
Sect. 12.
That Emulation amongst the Princes in France, ra∣ther
than Religion, was the cause of the many Civill∣warres
there. 122
A TREATISE OF
DVELS and COMBATS:
Sect. 1.
OF Combats by Champions for cleering of Queenes ho∣nours:
Combats betwixt Ladies; betwixt Church∣men;
and betwixt Iudges: Combatants, rewarded by
Kings their spectators; and S. Almachius kill'd for de∣claiming
against Duels, &c.
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Sect. 2.
A recitall of two memorable duels, the one in France
betwixt Monsieur de Creky, and Don Philippin; the
other in Spaine betweene Pedro Torrello, and Ieroni∣mo
Anca, both of Arragon, in the presence of Charles
the fifth. 129
Sect. 3.
How Combats may be thought permissible: the rela∣tion
of a Combat betwixt Iarnacke and Chastigneray,
in the presence of King Henry the second of France; ci∣tations
of the Canon Law against Combats: Examples of
a Combate where the innocent was killed: that the deci∣sion
of all such questions whereupon Duels were permit∣ted,
ought to be left to God. 133
Sect. 4.
Severall objections for the tolleration of Duels and
Combats confuted; Cajetans opinion of Duels, wherein
also the lawfulnesse of Battels is allowed. 136
Sect. 5.
Cajetans reason for referring the event of Battels to
Monomachie: where also is inserted the story of the Ho∣ratii
and Curiatii. 139
Sect. 6.
That Kings and Generals of Armies, for saving of
the greater bloud-shed of their Souldiers, have fought
single for victories: Examples of both; A quarrell and
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Sect. 7.
A discourse of a combate, where thirteene French
Knights fought against so many Italians; wherein the
French were overcome, and some observations thereup∣on.
144
Sect. 8.
A memorable Polymachie betwixt two kindreds in the
High-lands of Scotland, (betwixt whom there had beene
a long and mortall enmity) for the totall extirpation of
the one of them; fought before Ki••g Robert the second,
at Perth in Scotland. 147
Sect. 9.
A combate appointed by two French Barons, the one
of Gasconie, the other of Poictou, which was taken up
of their own accord in the field: the end of this Title. 149
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A TREATISE OF
DEATH:
And of divers Orders and Cere∣monies
of Burials.
Sect. 1.
The remembrance of death requisite in all men: Cere∣monies
for the remembrance of it; some documents a∣gainst
the feare of it: what death Iulius Caesar wished:
of Autocides: of selfe-murtherers, &c. 153
Sect. 2.
That Christians ought not to feare death, as the Eth∣nicks
did. All things, save man, keepe their constant
course. The uncertainty of mans life. 156
Sect. 3.
In what reverence the interring of the dead was a∣mongst
the Ancients: Of Alexander: of Sylla: How the
people of Vraba did use their dead: Customes of Fin∣land,
Lapland, Greece, and other places, concerning Bu∣rialls. 158
Sect. 4.
Other severall Customes of interring the dead amongst
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Sect. 5.
That the Church of Rome reapeth great commodity
by their funerall ceremonies, as by their Bels, Cymbals,
Torches, Processions of order, and the rest: silent obse∣quies
condemned: A story of a woman whose Ghost haun∣ted
her Husband and family after death; and the cause
thereof. 164
A TREATISE
OF
Mentall reservation.
Sect. 1.
THe Decree of the Councell of Constance, That no
faith is to be kept with Hereticks and enemies, is agi∣tated:
the commendation of peace: that a necessary and
just warre is to be preferred to it: a story of Augustus
Caesar. 167
Sect. 2.
Montall reservation defined. All fraudulencie in ma∣king
peace or taking truce, condemned; for which purpose
are instanced examples of Grecians, Romans, and o∣thers.
170
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Sect. 3.
The integrity of the Ancients commended in making
peace, and their other pactions. A story of P. Corn. Scipio
to that purpose. Graeca fides, what, and wherefore used:
Of the dishonest dealing of Pope Alexander, and his Ne∣phew
Caesar Borgia, &c. 172
Sect. 4.
The difference betwixt the ancient and the moderne
Romans in uprightnesse of dealing, instanced by a story of
Pompey the Great, and Augustus Caesar. 175
Sect. 5.
Of the breach of faith to enemies: treacherie at a siege
of Capua: treacherie and cruelty committed by the Spa∣niards
at a siege of Genoa: the strictnesse of Generalls
over common Souldiers exemplified, &c. 176
A
TREATISE OF
Laughing and Mourning.
Sect. 1.
THe benefits and content that all men reape by the
workes and labours of Writers and Travellers. 181
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Sect. 2.
Of sudden deaths that have happened unto men amidst
their feasting and other jolli••ies, exemplified with stories
both sacred and prophane. 182
Sect. 3.
Stories of severall worthy and brave men, that upon
occasions have shed teares: of the sensible griefe of some
Horses, Dogges, and Hawkes upon the losse of their Ma∣sters.
184
Sect. 4.
Risus Sardonicus, what and how to be taken: Of the
holy teare kept in the Abby Church at Vandesme in
France. 187
Sect. 5.
Of weeping for the dead, how to be moderated. The mat∣ter
of teares: of laughing and weeping for one and the
same thing: moderation in both commended. 188
A TABLE OF THE
fourth Booke.
Of Curiosities, &c.
Sect. 1.
THe difference betwixt factions and seditions: a rebel∣lion
of the cōmon people of Rome against the Senate
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Sect. 2.
How Curiosities have wonderfully disturbed the peace
of the Church; a recitall of some impertinent curiosities
in Religion; with some also of Subtilis Scotus, and
Thomas Aquinas, &c. 179
Sect. 3.
A continuation of some other Theologicall and Me∣taphysicall
subtilities and curiosities. 181
Sect. 4.
Of Curiosities in Logick; the relation betwixt the Cre∣ator
and the creature: to what Heaven the Prophets E∣noch
and Elias were wrapt: what place is said to be A∣brahams
Bosome. 182
Sect. 5.
The curiositie of the Millenarii; with many other cu∣riosities
more frivolous than necessary. 184
Sect. 6.
That the Planets and other celestiall bodies have not
that power over the natures of men and women, that A∣strologers
ascribe unto them: that the starres are innu∣merable:
Of the number and greatnesse of some in Via
lactea: where the center of the earth is; its circumfe∣rence.
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Sect. 7.
To search out the secrets of Nature allow able, if men be
not too curious in them; Eudoxus wish; Plinius killed
on the Mountaine of Vesuvius: Aristotle drowned in
Euripus: Too much curiosity is a plague sent down from
heaven on men; the Poet Simonides acknowledged his
ignorance of God; how the heathenish Gods were pour∣trayed.
190
Sect. 8.
Too great curiosities condemned; and a moderation to
be used in them prescribed. 193
Sect. 9.
How God disppointeth the expectations of the most
curious; and that the most subtill spirits runne into grea∣ter
errours than the meaner doe. 194
Sect. 10.
An inducement to the studie and search of the secrets of
Nature: Of the Needle in the Sea compasse: Of the in∣undations
of the River of Nilus, and from whence it
hath its source and beginning: Of the severall dispositi∣ons
of men: Why continuall burning Hils and Moun∣t••ines
doe not diminish, &c. 190
Sect. 11.
Of Christopher Columbus his practicall curiosity in
his discovery of the new World, or America. 199
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Sect. 12.
The conclusion of this Treatise of Curiosity, conteining a
singular curiosity of Livia, Tiberius Caesars wife. 203
Of divine Philosophy, and
Mans Felicity.
Sect. 1.
THe Sunne and Moone in the Heavens compared to
the Vnderstanding and Will of Man Aristotles defi∣nition
of happinesse: The distinction in Vnderstanding
and Will; and wherein ancient Philosophers placed their
chiefe felicity. 205
Sect. 2.
That our felicity consisteth in the actions of our Will, is
confuted: Aristotles opinion hereupon. A theologi∣call
solution on it, seconded with a Philosophicall; and an
agreement of both to solve the difference. 207
Sect. 3.
Which of the three faculties of the soule, Vnder∣standing,
Memorie, and Will, is the most excellent.
218
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Sect. 4.
Liberty and compulsion defined; that the will is prom∣pted
by the understanding, and that the adequate object
of it proceedeth from thence: At what the will and un∣derstanding
chiefly ayme, proved to bee the glory of
God. 219
Sect. 5.
That all Philosophicall precepts have come short to de∣monstrate
true felicity; Philosophicall distinctions to
know what is good of it selfe in Sciences; yet all weake to
illustrate wherein mans true happinesse consisted; which
is philosophically agitated. 221
Sect. 6.
That wealth and honour cannot be esteemed to bee our
supreame good or felicity, and the reason therefore; Phi∣losophers
confuted by their difference of opinions: Opi∣nions
of severall Sects of Philosophers concerning feli∣city,
instanced to that effect. 223
Sect. 7.
The later Philosophers have aymed neerer the defini∣tion
of true felicity, than the more ancient; and their
opinions specified: the finall and true scope of mans fe∣licity,
is illustrated with an exhortatory conclusion to all
men, for endevouring to attaine unto it.
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The Consonancie and A∣greement
of the ancient Philosophers,
with our Christian Professours.
Sect. 1.
THe difference betwixt the Physiologer and Physician,
compared to that betwixt the Metaphysician and
Divine. Some of Plato's opinions not farre dissonant
from our Christian: The multiplicity of Heathenish gods:
that Plato came neere the definition of the Trinity. 229
Sect. 2.
Of Gods creating and conserving of all things in an
orderly order; Plato's reasons that the world hath a life.
Aristotles opinion of God; he is praised, and at his dy∣ing,
preferred before many doubtfull Christians. 231
Sect. 3.
Plato's opinion concerning the creation of the world;
seconded by Socrates and Antisthenes: Opinions of
Plato, Aristotle, and other Philosophers, confirming
God onely to be the Creator of all things. 234
Sect. 4.
Opinions of Plato, Aristotle and some Hebrewes,
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Sect. 5.
Ancient Philosophers attributed the framing and
continuance of all sublunary Creatures (as we Christians
doe unto God; with a recapitulation of severall con∣sonancies
betwixt us and them. 238
Sect. 6.
Severall other opinions wherein the ancient Heath∣nicks
agreed with us Christians, confirmed by the testi∣monies
of their Poets. 240
Sect. 7.
Of good and bad spirits; and wherein the opinions of
the Heathnicks agree with ours concerning good spi∣rits. 242
Sect. 8.
How neere the Ancients agree with us concerning
bad spirits; and in what orders they were divided of
old. 243
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OF
SLEEPE
AND
DREAMES.
Sect. 1.
THat nothing can subsist without sleepe or rest; exem∣plified
in the death of Perseus King of Macedon:
The primary and secondary causes of sleepe: that a
sound co••science is a great motive to sound sleepe, proved
in the example of Thirois and his two Sonnes. 245
Sect. 2.
Examples of Kings and great Commanders, that upon
the thoughtfulnesse of some great exploit or encounter,
have beene extraordinarily surprized with unusuall
sleepe; and the reasons thereof agitated. 248
Sect. 3.
Alexander the great his sound sleeping, when he should
have encountred Darius in battell, here excused. Cato's
sleeping before his death, whereupon is inferred a dis∣course
against selfe-murther. 249
Sect. 4.
Of Dreames both Naturall, Accidentall, Divine, and
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Sect. 5.
The Emperour Severus his dreame of Pertinax; which
he caused to be molded in Brasse: An admirable dreame
of the Emperour Henry the fifth; Cicero's of Octa∣vianus.
That beasts dreame, but hard labouring men
seldome, and the reason thereof, &c. 254
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A Table of the fifth Booke,
Wherein the READER must con∣ceive,
that the Page begins anew, and
doth not follow the former computation.
OF THE NVMBERS
THREE and SEVEN.
Sect. 1.
Treating briefly of Numbers in generall. 1
Sect. 2.
Conteining variety of memorable things comprehen∣ded
within the Number of Three, as of Heaven, and
Hell, and of Poeticall fictions, and some observations a∣mongst
the Romans. 2
Sect. 3.
Conteining some Theologicall and Morall precepts
and observations, redacted under the number of three.
5
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Sect. 4.
Of Politicke Government: Of living Creatures; and of
duties belonging to men of severall professions, as Physi∣cians,
Iudges, and Lawyers, &c. with some Physicall ob∣servations,
all Tripartite. 7
Sect. 5.
Memorable observations comprehended within the
Number of Seven, as of the age of the World, and mans
generation. 9
Sect. 6.
How the seven Planets are sayd to rule severally over
the seven ages in the life of man. 11
Sect. 7.
The opinions of some Fathers of the Church and some
Philosophers concerning the number of Seven, what at∣tributes
they gave, with some of Hypocrates observati∣ons
thereon. 13
Sect. 8.
Of the Seven Wonders of the world. 14
Sect. 9.
A continuation of observations on the number of se∣ven,
taken out of holy Scripture. 15
Sect. 10.
Of the seven great Potentates of the world; of criticall
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Sect. 11.
Of the Worlds Continuance and Ending. 19
A TREATISE
OF
Prodigies and Miracles.
Sect. 1.
The definition of Miracles, with their distinction; In
what time they were requisite, in what not, &c. 21
Sect. 2.
Of Prodigies, and in what veneration they were amongst
the ancient Romans. 23
Sect. 3.
A continuation of prodigies which happened in the
time of the second Punick Warre; with many others that
were seene under the times of severall Consuls of Rome. 26
Sect. 4.
Of Prodigies that happened during the civill warres
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Sect. 5.
Of Prodigies before the death of Galba, before the
destruction of Ierusalem, and at the end of the Valeri••n
persecution. 29
Sect. 6.
A continuation of other Prodigies, with a conclusion
of this Treatise. 31
SALAMANDRA▪
OR
The Philosophers Stone.
Sect. 1.
THe History of the life and death of Antonio Bra∣gadino. 33
Sect. 2.
The reason that moved the Author to handle this
matter: the different blessings betwixt the Indians and
Christians: the definition of the Philosophicall Stone;
the generall way and matter whereof it is made. 35
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Sect. 3.
The Authors proposition: the reason of its denomina∣tion;
opinion of most approved Authors touching it; and
of the possibility and factibility of it. 37
Sect. 4.
That the making of the Philosophers Stone is lesse ex∣pensive
and laborious than many things we both use and
weare;
why the makers of it enrich not themselves and
others. 39
Sect. 5.
A generall relation of the matters and materials re∣quisite
to this Worke; and in what time it may bee per∣fected.
41
Sect. 6.
Of the five degrees whereby the Worke is perfectio∣ned,
and first how to bring it to Solution. 43
Sect. 7.
How from Solution to make Coagulation. 44
Sect. 8.
How from Coagulation to produce Fermentation. 45
Sect. 9.
The way to bring the Worke to Fixation. 46
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Sect. 10.
From all the former, how to perfectionate Multipli∣cation. 47
Sect. 11.
A short recitall of some other wayes of perfecting
it, used by some Filii artis, and why it is called Sala∣mandra.
47
OF THE
WORLD.
Sect. 1.
OF the various distractions of Philosophers in their
opinions concerning their Gods; and upon how ill
grounds they were setled, 94
Sect. 2.
Of the severall sorts of Gods amongst the Heathen;
that they imagined them to bee authors of evils; that
they were but mortall men: And some opinions of Phi∣losophers
concerning the nature, beeing, and power of
their Gods. 51
Sect. 3.
Pythagoras opinion concerning the transmigration of
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Sect. 4.
The former Heathnick opinions confuted by our Chri∣stian
Beliefe; that they differed concerning the time of
the soules continuance, and place of its abode; how they
thought soules after the separation from the body to bee
rewarded for good or ill, &c. 56
Sect. 5.
Philosophicall tenents of plurality of Words confu∣ted;
of Gods Creation of male and femall of all living
Creatures. 58
Sect. 6.
Severall opinions of severall Philosophers concerning
the Worlds Eternity; their naturall reasons for appro∣ving
of it; and what the Egyptians thought concer∣ning
the antiquity of the World. 60
Sect. 8.
The most approved opinion of all Philosophers con∣cerning
the Worlds beginning and matter: the infallible
truth of it; and a checke of Augustines against over∣curious
inquisitors after those and the like mysteries. 64
Sect. 9.
How Philosophers differ from Christians in the wayes
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Sect. 10.
The order of the Elements, with some observations of
the Ayre and Water. 70
Sect. 11.
Of the Earth, that it is the lowest of all the Elements;
its division, first into three, then into foure parts; and
some different opinions concerning them reconciled. 71
Sect. 12.
Of the different professions of Religion in the severall
parts of the world: what Countries and Ilands are con∣tained
within Europe, and what within Asia. 73
Sect. 13.
With what Religions and Sects all the Easterne and
Northerne Countries are possessed, and in what places
Christianity is most professed, &c. 75
Sect. 14.
America and the New found-lands briefly descri∣bed;
and some opinions about what time of the yeare the
world had its beginning. 77
Sect. 15.
Wherein is to bee seene some things concerning the
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Sect. 16.
Copernicus his opinion of the Earths moving, confu∣ted:
Archimedes opinion of the world: an Induction
to the following Section. 81
Sect. 17.
The division of the starrie firmament, in twelve houres;
of the Power and efficacie that is attributed to the Tri∣plicities
of them over every Country: and the maintai∣ners
of these opinions confuted: the divers dispositions
of people of severall nations, how attributed to the natu∣rall
disposition of the Planets: An observation of Gods
Providence. 83
Sect. 18.
The causes of the Changes of severall things as of men,
Countries; plots of ground, &c. and that these pro∣ceede
not from triplicities as Astrologers would have
it. 87
Sect. 19.
How ancient Writers have compared Man and all his
parts to the World and all its parts; wherein is recoun∣ted
the different dispositions of men of different Coun∣tries;
and to what Countries the faculties of the soule
are attributed. 88
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A generall Introduction and incite∣ment
to the study of the
METAPHYSICKS.
Sect. 1.
OF the severall titles and appellations that have beene
given by Heathnick and Christian Philosophers to
Metaphysick; the reasons wherefore every of those names
were attributed unto it; and finally whereof it principally
treateth. 91
Sect. 2.
The Reasons why Aristotle added Metaphysick to the
other parts of Phylosophie; and how it is distinguished
from the other Sciences. 93
Sect. 3.
Three Reasons conducing to the praise of Metaphy∣sick,
inducing all men to the study of it; and setting
downe some principall ends and uses thereof. 95
Sect. 4.
The excellencie and dignity of the knowledge of Meta∣physick;
that onely free and sublime mindes, not distracted
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Sect. 5.
For three respects the Metaphysick is called the most
excellent Science, and the most necessary to be understood
by Christians. 99
Sect. 6.
The first respect, for the universality. 101
Sect. 7.
The second Respect, for the dignity. That the conside∣ration
of the soule of man belongeth to the Metaphysicks,
with severall Reasons for the proofe thereof. 102
Sect. 8.
The third Respect, for the Vsefulnesse. Of the great
use of Metaphysick is towards the furthering of all Di∣vines,
in Controversies, and other things: A Conclu∣sion. 104
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