solomon say there be no new thing upon the earth so that as Plato have a  imagination that all knowledge be but remembrance so Solomon give his sentence  that all novelty be but oblivion whereby you may see that the river of Lethe  run as well above ground as below there be a abstruse astrologer that say if  it be not for two thing that be constant the one be that the fix star ever  stand a like distance one from another and never come near together nor go  further asunder the other that the diurnal motion perpetual keep time no  individual will last one moment certain it be that the matter be in a  perpetual flux and never at a stay the great wind sheet that bury all thing in  oblivion be two deluge and earthquake as for conflagration and great drought  they do not mere dispeople and destroy phaeton car go but a day and the three  year drought in the time of Elias be but particular and leave people alive as  for the great burn by lightning which be often in the west Indies they be but  narrow but in the other two destruction by deluge and earthquake it be further  to be note that the remnant of people which hap to be reserve be common  ignorant and mountainous people that can give no account of the time pass so  that the oblivion be all one as if none have be leave if you consider well of  the people of the west Indies it be very probable that they be a new or a  young people than the people of the old world and it be much more likely that  the destruction that have heretofore be there be not by earthquake as the  Egyptian priest tell Solon concern the island of Atlantis that it be swallow  by a earthquake but rather that it be desolate by a particular deluge for  earthquake be seldom in those part but on the other side they have such pour  river as the river of Asia and Africa and Europe be but brook to they their  Andes likewise or mountain be far high than those with we whereby it seem that  the remnant of generation of man be in such a particular deluge save as for  the observation that Machiavelli have that the jealousy of sect do much  extinguish the memory of thing traduce Gregory the great that he do what in he  lie to extinguish all heathen antiquity I do not find that those zeal do any  great effect nor last long as it appear in the succession of sabinian who do  revive the former antiquity the vicissitude of mutation in the superior globe  be no fit matter for this present argument it may be Plato great year if the  world shall last so long will have some effect not in renew the state of like  individual for that be the fume of those that conceive the celestial body have  more accurate influence upon these thing below than indeed they have but in  gross comet out of question have likewise power and effect over the gross and  mass of thing but they be rather gaze upon and wait upon in their journey than  wise observe in their effect special in their respective effect that be what  kind of comet for magnitude colour version of the beam place in the reign of  heaven or last produce what kind of effect there be a toy which I have hear  and I will not have it give over but wait upon a little they say it be observe  in the low country I know not in what part that every five and thirty year the  same kind and suit of year and weather come about again as great frost great  wet great drought warm winter summer with little heat and the like and they  call it the prime it be a thing I do the rather mention because compute  backward I have find some concurrence but to leave these point of nature and  to come to man the great vicissitude of thing among man be the vicissitude of  sect and religion for those orb rule in man mind most the true religion be  build upon the rock the rest be toss upon the wave of time to speak therefore  of the cause of new sect and to give some counsel concern they as far as the  weakness of human judgement can give stay to so great revolution when the  religion former receive be rend by discord and when the holiness of the  professor of religion be decay and full of scandal and withal the time be  stupid ignorant and barbarous you may doubt the spring up of a new sect if  then also there shall arise any extravagant and strange spirit to make himself  author thereof all which point hold when mahomet publish his law if a new sect  have not two property fear it not for it will not spread the one be the  supplant or the oppose of authority establish for nothing be more popular than  that the other be the give licence to pleasure and a voluptuous life for as  for speculative heresy such as be in ancient time the arians and now the  arminian though they work mighty upon man wit yet they do not produce any  great alteration in state except it be by the help of civil occasion there be  three manner of plantation of new sect by the power of sign and miracle by the  eloquence and wisdom of speech and persuasion and by the sword for martyrdom I  reckon they among miracle because they seem to exceed the strength of human  nature and I may do the like of superlative and admirable holiness of life  sure there be no better way to stop the rise of new sect and schism than to  reform abuse to compound the small difference to proceed mild and not with  sanguinary persecution and rather to take off the principal author by win and  advance they than to enrage they by violence and bitterness the change and  vicissitude in war be many but chief in three thing in the seat or stage of  the war in the weapon and in the manner of the conduct war in ancient time  seem more to move from east to west for the Persian Assyrian Arabian tartars  which be the invader be all eastern people it be true the Gaul be western but  we read but of two incursion of they the one to Gallo grease the other to Rome  but east and west have no certain point of heaven and no more have the war  either from the east or west any certainty of observation but north and south  be fix and it have seldom or never be see that the far southern people have  invade the northern but contrariwise whereby it be manifest that the northern  tract of the world be in nature the more martial region be it in respect of  the star of that hemisphere or of the great continent that be upon the north  whereas the south part for aught that be know be almost all sea or which be  most apparent of the cold of the northern part which be that which without aid  of discipline do make the body hard and the courage warm upon the break and  shiver of a great state and empire you may be sure to have war for great  empire while they stand do enervate and destroy the force of the native which  they have subdue rest upon their own protect force and then when they fail  also all go to ruin and they become a prey so be it in the decay of the Roman  empire and likewise in the empire of Germany after Charles the great every  bird take a feather and be not unlike to befall to Spain if it shall break the  great accession and union of kingdom do likewise stir up war for when a state  grow to a over power it be like a great flood that will be sure to overflow as  it have be see in the state of Rome Turkey Spain and other look when the world  have few barbarous people but such as common will not marry or generate except  they know mean to live as it be almost everywhere at this day except Tartary  there be no danger of inundation of people but when there be great shoal of  people which go on to populate without foresee mean of life and sustentation  it be of necessity that once in a age or two they discharge a portion of their  people upon other nation which the ancient northern people be wont to do by  lot cast lot what part shall stay at home and what shall seek their fortune  when a warlike state grow soft and effeminate they may be sure of a war for  common such state be grow rich in the time of their degenerate and so the prey  invite and their decay in valour encourage a war as for the weapon it hardly  fall under rule and observation yet we see even they have return and  vicissitude for certain it be that ordnance be know in the city of the  Oxidrakes in India and be that which the Macedonian call thunder and lightning  and magic and it be well know that the use of ordnance have be in china above  two thousand year the condition of weapon and their improvement be first the  fetch afar off for that outrun the danger as it be see in ordnance and musket  second the strength of the percussion wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all  arietations and ancient invention the three be the commodious use of they as  that they may serve in all weather that the carriage may be light and  manageable and the like for the conduct of the war at the first man rest  extreme upon number they do put the war likewise upon main force and valour  point day for pitch field and so try it out upon a even match and they be more  ignorant in range and array their battle after they grow to rest upon number  rather competent than vast they grow to advantage of place cunning diversion  and the like and they grow more skilful in the order of their battle in the  youth of a state arm do flourish in the middle age of a state learning and  then both of they together for a time in the decline age of a state mechanical  be and merchandise learning have his infancy when it be but beginning and  almost childish then his youth when it be luxuriant and juvenile then his  strength of year when it be solid and reduce and last his old age when it wax  dry and exhaust but it be not good to look too long upon these turn wheel of  vicissitude lest we become giddy as for the philology of they that be but a  circle of tale and therefore not fit for this write