The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight.

  • Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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[1652]
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Credit: The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ble Orbs of Heaven, and tbofe marvellous bodies of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, with ipfum Infinitum : it may truly be faid of them all, which himfelf a firms of his imaginary Materia prima, That they are neither quid, quale, nor quantum } and therefore to bring finite (which hath no proportion with infinite) out of infi¬ nite (qui delimit oranem proportioneni)# no wonder inGodspower. And there¬ fore Anaximander,Meliflus, W Empedocles,^# the worldnmverfalfbut par¬ ti cu lam Univerfitatis & infinitatis } aparcell of that which is theuniverfality and the infinity it felf:And Plato, but a fhadow of God. But the other to prove the woriels.eternity,urgeth this Maxime, That, A fufficient and effe&uall caufe being granted,ananfwerable effe& thereof is alfo granted. Inf erring,that God being for ever a fufficient and effectuall caufe of the world, the effeSt of the caufe jhould alfo have keen for every to. wit, the world univerfall. But what a firange mockery is this infq gr.eaTa Mafter, to confeffie a fufficient and effeStuall caufe of the world (to wityc^i almighty God) in his Antecedent -, and the fame God to be a God refrained in his Conclufion,to make God free in power,and bound in willa- ble to effieft, unable to determine able to make all things, and yet unable to makg choice of the time when ? For this were impioufly to refolve of God, as of naturall neceffiity, which hath neither choice,nor will,nor underft:anding-, which cannot but worly matter being prefent: as fire, to burn things combufiible. Again he thus dijputeth,That every Agent which can worly, and doth not worft, if it afterward worh^,it is either thereto moved by it felftor by fomwhat elfe:<& fo it paffiethfroni power to aS{: But God( faith he)is immoveable, and is neither moved by himfelf, nor by any other : but being alwayes the fame,doth alwayes worf. Whence he con- chtcleth, If the world were caufed by God,, that he was for ever the caufe thereof : and therefore cterjiall. The anfwer to this is very eafie, For that Gods performing in due time that,which he ever determined at length to perform, doth not argue a- ny alteration or change, but rather conftancy in him. For the fame aStion of his will,which made the world for ever, did alfo with-hold the effieSt to the time or¬ dained. To this anfwer, in it felffefficient, others a dde further, that the Pattern or Image of the world may be faid to be eternall: which the Platonicks call, fpi- ritualem mundiun ^ and do. in this fort diftinguijhthe Idsea and Creation in jMtir.Ficin. de time. Spirituals ille mundus, mundi hujus exemplar, primunique Dei opus, fiS!4™’ vita aequali eft Archite&o, ftiit Temper cum ilio,eritque Temper. Mundus au- tern corporalis,quod fecundum opus eft Dei, decedit jam ab opifice ex parte una, quia non Tuit Temper : retinet alteram, quia fit Temper futurus: That re- prefentative,or the intentionall word (fay they) the fampler of this vifible world, the firft work of G 0 D,was equally ancient with the Archite£h for it was Tor ever with him, and ever lhall be. This materiall world , the fecond work or creature of GO.D,doth differ from the worker in this,That it was not from everlafting,and in this it doth agree,that it lhall be for ever to come,The firft point,That it was not for ever, all Chriftians confeffie : The other they under- ft and no otherwifefthan that after the confummation of this world, there fhail be a new Heaven and a ne\v Earth,Avithout any newereation of matter. But of thefe things we need not here ft and to argue: though finch opinions be not unworthy the propounding, in this confideration, of an eternall and unchangeable caufe,pro¬ ducing a changeable and temporall eff ect. Touching which point Pro cl us the Pla- tonift diffuteth, That the compounded effience of the World Cand becaufe com-