Series 1 > Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda, 1665-1676

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JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER
hundred years on earth sould have died, gone to heaven and
left the earth to his posterity, and so after a long tyme his
posterity to theirs. Necessity seimes to say that it sould have
bein so, since that if the fathers had not so made way to
their sons, or some ages the world sould not hold them all,
for I suppose all that hes lived in the world since Adam
ware on the world at present, wt them that are living on
it even now, I am inclinable to think that we would be put to
seik some other new world besyde Americk to hold them. To
think on the other hand that he sould have died is as absurd,
since its confessed that the trie of Life was given him as a
sacrament and signe he sould not lay under the strock of
death, for as death comes from that contrariety and discord
of the elements of whilk our bodies are composed, so the fruit
of this trie, at least typicaly, had the wertue of maintaining
the contrary elements in a parfait concord and by consequence
of vindicating a man from Death.
I demand in what season of the year the world was created.
I find a great rable of the Scolasticks, as testifies Lerees1 in
his physical disputa, de mundo, teaching that it was in the
spring tyme; and that the sun began his course in the first
degree of Aries; that it is from this that the Astrologians
begines their calculations, at Aries as the first signe of the
Zodiack; that it was at this tyme that Christ suffered, re-
stauring the world at that same season wheirin it fell. But
who sies not the emptinesse of their reasons. Theirs another
rank who think it was created in the Automne, since that
Moses mentioned rip apples, which in the spring tyme are
only virtually in their cause. Others wt greater reason
condamne al thir autheurs as temerare and rash, since that
Spring in our Hemisphere is Automne in the other.
About the Bi-location of bodies, I would demand the
Popelings, in the case wheirin a army is made up of one man
replicate in 1000 places, whither he shall have the strenth of
one man or 1000: if one be wounded or slain, if all the rest
shal be wounded or slain : also whither he can be hot at
1 Lery or Leri, Jean de, was a traveller and Protestant divine, but I do not
find trace of such a work as this.