A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

And now having thus cleared the true nature and notion of Uniformity, that its altogether another thing from that which its opposers apprehend it to be, the work of arguing for it may be the shorter and easier, M•, Dell in his discourse against uniformity, argueth against it both from nature and from Scripture. I confess if one will transire de genere in genus, as he doth, its easy to find a disconformity between one thing and another, either in the works of Creation, or in the things recorded in Scripture. But if one will look after uniformity in uno & eodem genere, in one and the same kind of things (which is the uniformity we plead for) then both nature & Scripture giveth us presidents not against uniformity, but for it. It is a maxim in natural Philosophy, that motus Coeliest semper uniformis velocitate, the Heavens do not move sometime more slowly, sometime more swiftly, but ever uniformly. God himself tells us of the sweet influences of Pleiades, of the bands of Orion, of the bringing forth of Mazaroth in his season, and of the other ordinances of Heaven, which all the power on earth cannot alter nor put out of course, Job 38, 31, 32, 33. of the sea which is shut up within the decreed place, & within the doors and bars which it cannot pass, vers: 10, 11. And generally all the great works which God doeth there discourse of, each of them in its own kind is uniform to it self: So likewise, Psal: 104. Hath not God said, that while the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, day and night shall not cease, Gen▪ 8, 22. If there were not an uniformity in nature, how could fair weather be known by a red sky in the evening, or foul weather by a red and lou•ing sky in the morning? Mat: 16, 2, 3. If there be not an uniformity in nature, why saith Solomon, The thing that hath been, it is that ⟨p. 199⟩which shall be, and there is no new thing under the Sun? Eccl. 1. 9. is it not an uniformity in nature that the St•rk in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle, and the Cran, and the Swallow observe the time of their coming, Jer. 8. 75. Is not that an uniformity in nature? Jo. 4. 35. There are yet four mone hs and then cometh harvest? As the Apostle saith of the members of the body which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour,