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	<title>An Epistle to Fantoni</title>
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<s>AN <lb/>EPISTLE <lb/>Of the Reverend Father <lb/><emph type="italics"/>PAOLO ANTONIO FOSCARINI,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>A CARMELITE; <lb/>Concerning <lb/>The <emph type="italics"/>PYTHAGORIAN<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>COPERNICAN<emph.end type="italics"/> Opinion <lb/>OF <lb/>The Mobility of the <emph type="italics"/>EARTH,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>AND <lb/>Stability of the <emph type="italics"/>SVN;<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>AND <lb/>Of the New Sy&longs;teme or Con&longs;titution <lb/>OF THE <lb/>WORLD.</s></p><p type="head">

<s>IN WHICH, <lb/>The Authorities of <emph type="italics"/>SACRED SCRIPTVRE,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and <emph type="italics"/>ASSERTIONS<emph.end type="italics"/> of <emph type="italics"/>DIVINES,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>commonly alledged again&longs;t this Opinion, <lb/>are Reconciled.</s></p><p type="head">

<s>WRITTEN <lb/>To the mo&longs;t Reverend FATHER, <lb/>SEBASTIANO FANTONI, <lb/>General of the Order of CARMELITES.</s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Engli&longs;hed from the Original,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>BY <lb/><emph type="italics"/>THOMAS SALVSBVRIE.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>So quis indiget &longs;apientia, po&longs;tulet <lb/>&agrave; Deo.<emph.end type="italics"/> Jacobi 1. ver&longs;u. 5.</s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Optavi, &amp; datus e&longs;t mihi &longs;en&longs;us.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Sapienti&aelig; 7. ver&longs;u. </s>

<s>7.</s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>LONDON,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Printed by WILLIAM LEYBOURN, MDCLXI.</s></p><pb xlink:href="067/01/002.jpg"/>       </section>  </front>          <body>            <chap>


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<s>To the Mo&longs;t <lb/>Reverend Father <lb/>SEBASTIANO FANTONI, <lb/><emph type="italics"/>General of the Order of<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>CARMELITES.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>In obedience to the command of the No&shy;<lb/>ble <emph type="italics"/>Signore Vincenzo Carraffa,<emph.end type="italics"/> a Neapo&shy;<lb/>litan, and Knight of S. <emph type="italics"/>John of Jeru&shy;<lb/>&longs;alem,<emph.end type="italics"/> (a per&longs;on, to &longs;peak the truth, of <lb/>&longs;o great Merit, that in him Nobility of <lb/>Birth, Affability of Manners, Univer&longs;al <lb/>knowledge of Arts and things, Piety <lb/>and Vertue do all contend for prehemi&shy;<lb/>nence) I re&longs;olved with my &longs;elf to un&shy;<lb/>dertake the Defence of the Writings of the New, or rather Re&shy;<lb/>newed, and from the Du&longs;t of Oblivion (in which it hath long <lb/>lain hid) lately Revived Opinion, <emph type="italics"/>Of the Mobility of the Earth, <lb/>and Stability of the Sun,<emph.end type="italics"/> in times pa&longs;t found out fir&longs;t by <emph type="italics"/>Pytha&shy;<lb/>goras,<emph.end type="italics"/> and at la&longs;t reduced into Practice by <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/>; who like&shy;<lb/>wi&longs;e hath deduced the Po&longs;ition of the Sy&longs;teme and Con&longs;titution <lb/>of the World and its parts from that Hypothe&longs;is: on which <lb/>Subject I have formerly writ to You, Mo&longs;t Reverend Sir: But <lb/>in regard I am bound for <emph type="italics"/>Rome<emph.end type="italics"/> to preach there by your Com&shy;<lb/>mand; and &longs;ince this Speculation may &longs;eem more proper for a&shy;<lb/>nother Treati&longs;e, to wit, a Volume of <emph type="italics"/>Co&longs;mography,<emph.end type="italics"/> which I am <lb/>in hand with, and which I am daily bu&longs;ie about, that it may <lb/>come forth in company with my <emph type="italics"/>Compendium of the Liberal Arts,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>which I have already fini&longs;hed, rather than now to di&longs;cu&longs;s it by it <lb/>&longs;elf, I thought to forbear, imparting what I have done for the <lb/>pre&longs;ent; Yet I was de&longs;irous to give, in the mean time, a brief ac&shy;<lb/>count of this my Determination, and to &longs;hew You, Mo&longs;t Reve&shy;<lb/>rend Father, (to whom I owe all my indeavours, and my very <lb/>&longs;elf) the Foundations on which this Opinion may be grounded, <lb/>lea&longs;t, whil&longs;t otherwi&longs;e it is favoured with much probability, it be <lb/>found in reality to be extreamly repugnant (as at fir&longs;t &longs;ight it


<pb xlink:href="067/01/004.jpg" pagenum="474"/>&longs;eems) not onely to Phy&longs;ical Rea&longs;ons, and Common Principles <lb/>received on all hands (which cannot do &longs;o much harm) but al&longs;o <lb/>(which would be of far wor&longs;e con&longs;equence) to many Authori&shy;<lb/>ties of &longs;acred Scripture: Upon which account many at their <lb/>fir&longs;t looking into it, explode it as the mo&longs;t fond Paradox and <lb/>Mon&longs;trous <emph type="italics"/>Capriccio<emph.end type="italics"/> that ever was heard of. </s>

<s>Which thing pro&shy;<lb/>ceeds only from an antiquated and long confirmed Cu&longs;tome, <lb/>which hath &longs;o hardened men in, and habituated them to Vul&shy;<lb/>gar, Plau&longs;ible, and for that cau&longs;e by all men (a&longs;well learned as <lb/>unlearned) Approved Opinions, that they cannot be removed <lb/>one &longs;tep from them: So great is the force of Cu&longs;tome (which <lb/>not unfitly is &longs;tiled a &longs;econd Nature) prevailing over the whole <lb/>World, that touching things men are rather plea&longs;ed with, de&shy;<lb/>lighted in, and de&longs;irous of tho&longs;e, which, though evil and obnox&shy;<lb/>ious, are by u&longs;e made familiar to them, than &longs;uch, wherewith, <lb/>though better, they are not accu&longs;tomed and acquainted. </s>

<s>So in <lb/>like manner, and that chiefly, in <emph type="italics"/>Opinions,<emph.end type="italics"/> which when once they <lb/>are rooted in the Mind, men &longs;tart at, and reject all others <lb/>what&longs;oever; not only tho&longs;e that are contrary to, but even all <lb/>that ever &longs;o little di&longs;agree with or vary from theirs, as har&longs;h to <lb/>the Ear, di&longs;coloured to the Eye, unplea&longs;ant to the Smell, nau&longs;e&shy;<lb/>ous to the Ta&longs;t, rough to the Touch. </s>

<s>And no wonder: For <lb/>Phy&longs;ical Truths are ordinarily judged and con&longs;idered by men, <lb/>not according to their E&longs;&longs;ence, but according to the pre&longs;cript of <lb/>&longs;ome one who&longs;e de&longs;cription or definition of them gaines him <lb/>Authority among&longs;t the vulgar. </s>

<s>Which authority neverthele&longs;s <lb/>(&longs;ince 'tis no more than humane) ought not to be &longs;o e&longs;teemed, as <lb/>that that which doth manife&longs;tly appear to the contrary, whether <lb/>from better Rea&longs;ons lately found out, or from Sen&longs;e it &longs;elf, &longs;hould <lb/>for its &longs;ake be contemned and &longs;lighted; Nor is Po&longs;terity &longs;o to be <lb/>confined, but that it may, and dares, not only proceed farther, <lb/>but al&longs;o bring to light better and truer Experiments than tho&longs;e <lb/>which have been delivered to us by the Ancients. </s>

<s>For the <emph type="italics"/>Ge&shy;<lb/>nius's<emph.end type="italics"/> of the Antients, as in Inventions they did not much &longs;ur&shy;<lb/>pa&longs;s the Wits of our times; &longs;o for the perfecting of Inventions <lb/>this Age of ours &longs;eems not only to equal, but far to excell former <lb/>Ages; Knowledge, whether in the Liberal or Mechanical Arts, <lb/>daily growing to a greater height. </s>

<s>Which A&longs;&longs;ertion might be <lb/>ea&longs;ily proved, were it not that in &longs;o clear a ca&longs;e, there would be <lb/>more danger of ob&longs;curing, than hopes of illu&longs;trating it with any <lb/>farther light.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>But (that I may not wholly be &longs;ilent in this point) have not the <lb/>&longs;everal Experiments of Moderns, in many things, &longs;topped the <lb/>mouth of Venerable Antiquity, and proved many of their great&shy;<lb/>te&longs;t and weightie&longs;t Opinions, to be vain and fal&longs;e? </s>

<s>The Doctrine


<pb xlink:href="067/01/005.jpg" pagenum="475"/>of the <emph type="italics"/>Antipodes<emph.end type="italics"/> by many of the Antients of approved Wi&longs;&shy;<lb/>dome and Learning was held a Paradox no le&longs;s ab&longs;urd than this <lb/>Our Opinion of the <emph type="italics"/>Earths Motion<emph.end type="italics"/> may &longs;eem to be; as likewi&longs;e <lb/>that of the <emph type="italics"/>Habitablene&longs;&longs;e of the Torrid Zone<emph.end type="italics"/>: Of the&longs;e Opini&shy;<lb/>ons, the fir&longs;t was accounted unpo&longs;&longs;ible by many, but the latter <lb/>was ab&longs;olutely denyed by the unanimous con&longs;ent of all: But <lb/>later Authors (to the great felicity and perpetual Glory of <lb/>their Age) have, not &longs;o much by Authority, as by accurate <lb/>diligence and indefatigable &longs;tudy to finde out the truth, pro&shy;<lb/>ved them both to be undoubtedly true. </s>

<s>Thus I affirm that <lb/>the Antients were deceived, and that in too lightly challenging <lb/>Credid and Authority for their Inventions, they di&longs;covered too <lb/>much folly. </s>

<s>Here for brevities &longs;ake I pa&longs;s by many Dreams <lb/>lately detected, both of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> and other of the antient Philo&shy;<lb/>&longs;ophers; who in all likelihood if they had dived into the Ob&longs;er&shy;<lb/>vations of Modern Writers, and under&longs;tood their Rea&longs;ons, would, <lb/>by changing their Judgements, have given them the precedency, <lb/>and would have &longs;ub&longs;cribed to their manife&longs;t Truth. </s>

<s>Hereby we <lb/>&longs;ee that we are not to have &longs;o high a re&longs;pect for the Antiens, that <lb/>whatever they a&longs;&longs;ert &longs;hould be taken upon tru&longs;t, and that Faith <lb/>&longs;hould be given to their &longs;ayings, as if they were Oracles and <lb/>Truths &longs;ent down from Heaven. </s>

<s>But yet (which indeed is <lb/>chiefly to be regarded in the&longs;e matters) if any thing be found out <lb/>that is repugnant to Divine Authority, or to the Sacred Leaves, <lb/>that were dictated by the Holy Gho&longs;t, and by His In&longs;piration <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg874"></arrow.to.target><lb/>expounded by the Holy Doctors of the Church, in this ca&longs;e not <lb/>onely Humane Rea&longs;on, but even Sen&longs;e it &longs;elf is to &longs;ubmitt: <lb/>which, though by all manner of weighty Conditions and circum&shy;<lb/>&longs;tances it &longs;hould hold forth any thing contrary to Divine Autho&shy;<lb/>rity, (which indeed is &longs;o plain, that there is no way left to evade <lb/>the right un er&longs;tanding of it) yet is it to be rejected; and we <lb/>mu&longs;t conclude our &longs;elves deceived by it, and believe that that is <lb/>not true which Sen&longs;e and Rea&longs;on repre&longs;ents unto us: For, however <lb/>we judge of things, we have, both in this and all other ca&longs;es, a <lb/>more certain knowledge, which proceeds from Divine Faith; as <lb/>S. <emph type="italics"/>Peter<emph.end type="italics"/> hath mo&longs;t excellently expre&longs;t it: Who though with his <lb/>Sen&longs;es he &longs;aw, and perceived the Glory of our Lord in his <lb/>Transfiguration, and heard his words manife&longs;ting his great Pow&shy;<lb/>er, yet neverthele&longs;s all the&longs;e things compared with the Light of <lb/>Faith, he adds: ^{*}<emph type="italics"/>We have al&longs;o a more &longs;ure word of Prophecy,<emph.end type="italics"/> &amp;c. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg875"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Wherefore &longs;ince this Opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> hath <lb/>entred upon the Stage of the World in &longs;o &longs;trange a Dre&longs;s, and at <lb/>the fir&longs;t appearance (be&longs;ides the re&longs;t) doth &longs;eem to oppo&longs;e &longs;un&shy;<lb/>dry Authorities of Sacred Scripture, it hath (this being granted) <lb/>been ju&longs;tly rejected of all men as a meer ab&longs;urdity.</s></p>


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<s><margin.target id="marg874"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Faith is more <lb/>certain, than ei&shy;<lb/>ther Sen&longs;e or Rea&shy;<lb/>&longs;on.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg875"></margin.target>* 2 Pet. </s>

<s>1. 19.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>But yet becau&longs;e the common Sy&longs;teme of the World devi&longs;ed by <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Ptolomy<emph.end type="italics"/> hath hitherto &longs;atisfied none of the Learned, hereupon a <lb/>&longs;u&longs;picion is ri&longs;en up among&longs;t all, even <emph type="italics"/>Ptolemy's<emph.end type="italics"/> followers them&shy;<lb/>&longs;elves, that there mu&longs;t be &longs;ome other Sy&longs;teme, which is more true <lb/>than this of <emph type="italics"/>Ptolemy<emph.end type="italics"/>; For although the <emph type="italics"/>Ph&oelig;nomena<emph.end type="italics"/> of Cele&longs;tial <lb/>Bodys may &longs;eem to be generally re&longs;olved by this Hypothe&longs;is, yet <lb/>they are found to be involved with many difficulties, and refer&shy;<lb/>red to many devices; as namely of Orbes of &longs;undry Forms and <lb/>Figures, Epicicles, Equations, Differences, Excentricks, andinnu&shy;<lb/>merable &longs;uch like fancies and Chym&aelig;ra's which &longs;avour of the <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Ens Rationis<emph.end type="italics"/> of Logicians, rather than of any <emph type="italics"/>Realem E&longs;&longs;entiam.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Of which kinde is that of the <emph type="italics"/>Rapid Motion,<emph.end type="italics"/> than which I finde <lb/>not any thing that can be more weakly grounded, and more ea&longs;i&shy;<lb/>ly controverted and di&longs;proved: And &longs;uch is that conceit of the <lb/>^{*} Heaven void of Stars, moving the inferior Heavens or Orbes: <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg876"></arrow.to.target><lb/>All which are introduced upon occa&longs;ion of the variety of the <lb/>Motions of Cele&longs;tial Bodyes, which &longs;eemed impo&longs;&longs;ible, by any <lb/>other way, to be reduced to any certain and determinate Rule. <lb/></s>

<s>So that the A&longs;&longs;ertors of that common Opinion, freely confe&longs;s, <lb/>that in de&longs;cribing the Worlds Sy&longs;teme, they cannot as yet di&longs;co&shy;<lb/>ver, or teach the true Hypothe&longs;is thereof: But that their endea&shy;<lb/>vours are onely to finde out, among&longs;t many things, what is mo&longs;t <lb/>agreeable with truth, and may, upon better and more accomo&shy;<lb/>date Rea&longs;ons, an&longs;wer the Cele&longs;tial <emph type="italics"/>Ph&oelig;nomena.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg876"></margin.target>* Or <emph type="italics"/>Primum<lb/>Mobile.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>Since that, the Tele&longs;cope (an Optick Invention) hath been found <lb/>out, by help of which, many remarkable things in the Heavens, <lb/>mo&longs;t worthy to be known, and till then unthought of, were di&longs;&shy;<lb/>covered by manife&longs;t &longs;en&longs;ation; as for in&longs;tance, That the Moon is <lb/>Mountainous; <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Saturn<emph.end type="italics"/> Tricorporeal; and <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Quadricorporeal: Likewi&longs;e that in the <emph type="italics"/>Via Lactea,<emph.end type="italics"/> in the <emph type="italics"/>Ple&shy;<lb/>iades,<emph.end type="italics"/> and in the Stars called <emph type="italics"/>Nobulo&longs;&oelig;<emph.end type="italics"/> there are many Stars, and <lb/>tho&longs;e of the greate&longs;t Magnitude which are by turns adjacent to <lb/>one another; and in the end it hath di&longs;covered to us, new fixed <lb/>Stars, new planets, and new Worlds. </s>

<s>And by this &longs;ame In&longs;tru&shy;<lb/>ment it appears very probable, that <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> do not <lb/>move properly about the Earth, but rather about the Sun; and <lb/>that the Moon alone moveth about the Earth. </s>

<s>What therefore <lb/>can be inferred from hence, but that the Sun doth &longs;tand immo&shy;<lb/>vable in the Centre, and that the Earth, with the other Cele&longs;tial <lb/>Orbes, is circumvolved about it? </s>

<s>Wherefore by this and many <lb/>other Rea&longs;ons it appears, That the Opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagor as<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> doth not di&longs;agree with A&longs;tronomical and Co&longs;mogra&shy;<lb/>phical Principles; yea, that it carryeth with it a great likelihood <lb/>and probability of Truth: Whereas among&longs;t the &longs;o many &longs;eve&shy;<lb/>ral Opinions, that deviate from the common Sy&longs;teme, and devi&longs;e


<pb xlink:href="067/01/007.jpg" pagenum="477"/>others, &longs;uch as were tho&longs;e of <emph type="italics"/>Plato, Calippus, Eudoxus<emph.end type="italics"/>; and &longs;ince <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg877"></arrow.to.target><lb/>them of <emph type="italics"/>Averroe, ^{*} Cardanus, Fraca&longs;torius,<emph.end type="italics"/> and others both Anti&shy;<lb/>ent and Modern, there is not one found that is more facile, more <lb/>regularly ahd determinately, accommodated to the <emph type="italics"/>Ph&oelig;nomena<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and Motions of the Heavens, without <emph type="italics"/>Epicycles, Excentrix, Ho&shy;<lb/>mocentricks<emph.end type="italics"/> Deferents, and the &longs;upputation of the Rapid Motion. <lb/></s>

<s>And this Hypothe&longs;is hath been a&longs;&longs;erted for true, not onely by <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras,<emph.end type="italics"/> and, after him, by <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> but by many famous <lb/>men, as namely, <emph type="italics"/>Heraclitus,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ecphantus, Pythagoreans,<emph.end type="italics"/> all the <lb/>Di&longs;ciples of that Sect, <emph type="italics"/>Miceta<emph.end type="italics"/> of <emph type="italics"/>Syracu&longs;e, Martianus Capella,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>many more. </s>

<s>Among&longs;t whom, tho&longs;e (as we have &longs;aid) that <lb/>have attempted the finding out of New Sy&longs;temes (for they refu&shy;<lb/>&longs;ed both this of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras,<emph.end type="italics"/> and that of <emph type="italics"/>Ptolemy)<emph.end type="italics"/> are numberle&longs;s: <lb/>who yet notwith&longs;tanding allowed this Opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras<emph.end type="italics"/> to <lb/>carry with it much probability, and indirectly confirmed it; ina&longs;&shy;<lb/>much as that they rejected the common one as imperfect, defe&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg878"></arrow.to.target><lb/>ctive, and attended with many contradictions and difficulties. <lb/></s>

<s>Among&longs;t the&longs;e may be numbered Father ^{*} <emph type="italics"/>Clavius,<emph.end type="italics"/> a mo&longs;t learn&shy;<lb/>ed Je&longs;uite; who, although he refutes the Sy&longs;teme of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>yet acknowledgeth the Levity of the common Sy&longs;teme, and he <lb/>ingeniou&longs;ly confe&longs;&longs;eth, that for the removal of difficulties, in which <lb/>the common Sy&longs;teme will not &longs;erve the turn, A&longs;tronomers are <lb/>forced to enquire after another Sy&longs;teme, to the di&longs;covery of <lb/>which, he doth very earne&longs;tly exhort them.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg877"></margin.target>* Cardan de re&shy;<lb/>rum variet. </s>

<s>Lib. 1. <lb/>Cap.

1.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg878"></margin.target>* P. </s>

<s>Clavins in <lb/>ultima &longs;uor. </s>

<s>Ope&shy;<lb/>rum editione.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>Now can there a better or more commodious Hypothe&longs;is <lb/>be devi&longs;ed, than this of <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s>

<s>For <emph type="italics"/>t<emph.end type="italics"/>his Cau&longs;e many Mo&shy;<lb/>dern Authors are induced to approve of, and follow it: but <lb/>with much h&aelig;&longs;itancy, and fear, in regard that it &longs;eemeth in their <lb/>Opinion &longs;o to contradict the Holy Scriptures, as that it cannot <lb/>po&longs;&longs;ibly be reconciled to them. </s>

<s>Which is the Rea&longs;on that this <lb/>Opinion hath been long &longs;uppre&longs;t, and is now entertained by men <lb/>in a mode&longs;t manner, ad as it were with a veiled Face; according <lb/>to that advice of the Poet:</s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Judicium populi nunquam contemp&longs;eris unus,<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Ne nullis place as, dum vis contemnere multos.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>Upon con&longs;ideration of which, (out of my very great love to&shy;<lb/>wards the Sciences, and my ardent defire to &longs;ee the encrea&longs;e and <lb/>perfection of them, and the Light of Truth freed from all Er&shy;<lb/>rours and Ob&longs;curities) I began to argue with my &longs;elf touching <lb/>this Point after this manner: This Opinion of the <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoreans<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>is either true, or fal&longs;e; If fal&longs;e, it ought not to be mentioned, and <lb/>de&longs;erves not to be divulged: If true, it matters not, though it <lb/>contradict all, as well Philo&longs;ophers as A&longs;tronomers: And though <lb/>for its e&longs;tabli&longs;hment and reducement to u&longs;e a new Philo&longs;ophy


<pb xlink:href="067/01/008.jpg" pagenum="478"/>and A&longs;tronomy, (&longs;ounded upon new Principles and Hypothe&longs;e) <lb/>&longs;hould be con&longs;tituted: For the Authority of Sacred Scripture <lb/>will not oppo&longs;e it; neither doth one Truth contradict another. <lb/></s>

<s>If therefore the Opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras<emph.end type="italics"/> be true, without doubt <lb/>God hath di&longs;po&longs;ed and dictated the words of of Holy Writ in <lb/>&longs;uch a manner, that they may admit an apt &longs;en&longs;e and reconcilia&shy;<lb/>tion with that Hypothe&longs;is. </s>

<s>Being moved by the&longs;e Rea&longs;ons, and <lb/>the probability of the &longs;aid Opinion, I thought good to try whe&shy;<lb/>ther Texts of Sacred Scripture might be expounded according to <lb/>Theological and Phy&longs;ical Principles, and might be reconciled to <lb/>it, &longs;o that (in regard that hitherto it hath been held probable) it <lb/>may in after times, coming without &longs;cruple to be acknowledged <lb/>for true, advance it &longs;elf, and appear in publick with an uncover&shy;<lb/>ed Face, without any mans prohibition, and may lawfully and <lb/>freely hold a Sacred intelligence with Holy Truth, &longs;o earne&longs;tly <lb/>coveted and commended by good Men. </s>

<s>Which de&longs;igne, having hi&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg879"></arrow.to.target><lb/>therto been undertaken by none that I know, wil, I am per&longs;waded, <lb/>be very acceptable to the Studious of the&longs;e Learnings, e&longs;pecially to <lb/>the mo&longs;t Learned <emph type="italics"/>Galil&oelig;o Galil&oelig;i,<emph.end type="italics"/> chief Mathematician to the <lb/>mo&longs;t Serene Grand Duke of <emph type="italics"/>Tu&longs;cany,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>John Kepler,<emph.end type="italics"/> chief <lb/>Mathematician to his Sacred and invincible Maje&longs;ty, the Empe&shy;<lb/>rour, and to all that Illu&longs;trious, and much to be commended Ac&shy;<lb/>cademy of the <emph type="italics"/>Lynceans<emph.end type="italics"/>; whom, if I mi&longs;take not, are all of this <lb/>Opinion. </s>

<s>Although I doubt not but they, and many other <lb/>Learned Men might ea&longs;ily have found out the&longs;e or the like Re&shy;<lb/>conciliations of Scriptural expre&longs;&longs;ions; to whom neverthele&longs;s I <lb/>have thought fit (in re&longs;pect of that profe&longs;&longs;ion which I have under&shy;<lb/>taken, upon the faith of my &longs;oul, and the propen&longs;ity that I have <lb/>towards Truth) to offer that of the Poet,</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg879"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Author <lb/>fir&longs;t Theologically <lb/>defendeth the <lb/>Earths Mobili&shy;<lb/>ty, approved by <lb/>many of the Mo&shy;<lb/>derns.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Nullius addictus jur are in verba Magi&longs;tri.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>And in te&longs;timony of my e&longs;teem to them and all the Learned, <lb/>to communicate the&longs;e my thoughts; confidently a&longs;&longs;uring my &longs;elf <lb/>that they will accept them, with a Candor equal to that where&shy;<lb/>with I have written them.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>Therefore to come to the bu&longs;ine&longs;s: All Authorities of Di&shy;<lb/>vine Writ which &longs;eem to oppo&longs;e this Opinion, are reducible to <lb/>&longs;ix Cla&longs;&longs;es: The fir&longs;t is of tho&longs;e that affirm the Earth to &longs;tand <lb/>&longs;till, and not to move: as <emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al. </s>

<s>92. He framed the round World <lb/>&longs;o &longs;ure, that it cannot be moved<emph.end type="italics"/>: Al&longs;o <emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al. </s>

<s>104. Who laid the <lb/>Foundations of the Earth, that it &longs;hould not be removed for ever<emph.end type="italics"/>: <lb/>And <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;tes 1. But the Earth abideth for ever<emph.end type="italics"/>: And others <lb/>of the like &longs;en&longs;e.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>The &longs;econd is of tho&longs;e which atte&longs;t the Sun to move, and


<pb xlink:href="067/01/009.jpg" pagenum="479"/>Revolve about the Earth; as <emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al. </s>

<s>19. (b) In them hath be &longs;et a <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg880"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Tabernacle for the Sun, which cometh forth as a Bridegroom out <lb/>of his chamber, and rejoyceth as a Gyant to run his Cour&longs;e. </s>

<s>It <lb/>cometh forth from the uttermo&longs;t part of the Heaven, and runneth <lb/>about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the <lb/>heat thereof.<emph.end type="italics"/> And <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;t. </s>

<s>1. The Sun ri&longs;eth, and the Sun go&shy;<lb/>eth down, and ha&longs;teth to the place where be aro&longs;e: it goeth towards <lb/>the South, and turneth about unto the North.<emph.end type="italics"/> Whereupon the <lb/>Suns Retrogradation is mentioned as a Miracle, <emph type="italics"/>I&longs;aiah 38. The <lb/>Sun returned ten degrees.<emph.end type="italics"/> And <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;ticus 48. In his time the <lb/>Sun went backward, and lengthened the life of the King.<emph.end type="italics"/> And <lb/>for this rea&longs;on it is related for a Miracle, in the Book of <emph type="italics"/>Jo&longs;buah,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>that at the Prayers of that great Captain the Sun &longs;tood &longs;till, its <lb/>motion being forbidden it, by him<emph type="italics"/>: Jo&longs;h.<emph.end type="italics"/>10. <emph type="italics"/>Sun &longs;tand thou <lb/>&longs;till upon Gibeon.<emph.end type="italics"/> Now if the Sun &longs;hould &longs;tand &longs;till, and the <lb/>Earth move about it, its &longs;tation at that time was no Miracle; <lb/>and if <emph type="italics"/>Jo&longs;huah<emph.end type="italics"/> had intended, that the light of the day &longs;hould <lb/>have been prolonged by the Suns &longs;plendour, he would not have <lb/>&longs;aid, <emph type="italics"/>Sun &longs;tand thou &longs;till,<emph.end type="italics"/> but rather <emph type="italics"/>Earth &longs;tand thou &longs;till.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg880"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(b) Or<emph.end type="italics"/> In Sole <lb/>po&longs;uit tabernacu&shy;<lb/>lum &longs;uum, <emph type="italics"/>accor&shy;<lb/>ding to the Tran&shy;<lb/>&longs;lation our Au&shy;<lb/>thor followeth.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The third Cla&longs;&longs;is is of tho&longs;e Authorities which &longs;ay, that Hea&shy;<lb/>ven is <emph type="italics"/>above,<emph.end type="italics"/> and the Earth <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/>; of which &longs;ort is that place <lb/>of <emph type="italics"/>Joel, chap.<emph.end type="italics"/> 2. cited by S. <emph type="italics"/>Peter,<emph.end type="italics"/> in <emph type="italics"/>Acts. </s>

<s>2. I will &longs;hew wonders <lb/>in Heaven above, and &longs;ignes in the Earth beneath,<emph.end type="italics"/> with others of <lb/>the like purport. </s>

<s>Hereupon Chri&longs;t at his Incarnation is &longs;aid to <lb/><emph type="italics"/>come down from Heaven<emph.end type="italics"/>; and after his Re&longs;urrection to have <emph type="italics"/>a&longs;&shy;<lb/>cended up into heaven.<emph.end type="italics"/> But if the Earth &longs;hould move about <lb/>the Sun, it would be, as one may &longs;ay, in Heaven, and con&longs;e&shy;<lb/>quently would rather be <emph type="italics"/>above<emph.end type="italics"/> Heaven than <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/> it. </s>

<s>And <lb/>this is confirmed; For that the Opinion which placeth the Sun in <lb/>the Centre, doth likewi&longs;e place <emph type="italics"/>Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> above the Sun, and <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> above <emph type="italics"/>Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/>; and the Earth above <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> together <lb/>with the Moon, which revolves about the Earth, and therefore <lb/>the Earth, together with the Moon, is placed in the third Heaven. <lb/></s>

<s>If therefore in Spherical Bodies, as in the World, <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;igni&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg881"></arrow.to.target><lb/>fies no more than to be neer to the centre, and <emph type="italics"/>above,<emph.end type="italics"/> than to <lb/>approach the Circumference, it mu&longs;t needs follow, that for ma&shy;<lb/>king good of Theological Po&longs;itions concerning the A&longs;cen&longs;ion <lb/>and De&longs;cen&longs;ion of Chri&longs;t, the Earth is to be placed in the cen&shy;<lb/>tre, and the Sun, with the other Heavens in the Circumference; <lb/>and not according to <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> who&longs;e Hypothe&longs;is inverts this <lb/>Order: with which one cannot &longs;ee how the true A&longs;cen&longs;ion and <lb/>De&longs;cen&longs;ion can be con&longs;i&longs;tent.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg881"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>In Spberieall <lb/>Bodies,<emph.end type="italics"/> Deor&longs;um <lb/><emph type="italics"/>is the Centre, and<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Sur&longs;um <emph type="italics"/>the Cir&shy;<lb/>cumference.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The fourth Cla&longs;&longs;is is of tho&longs;e Authorities which make Hell to <lb/>be in the Centre of the World, which is the Common Opinion <lb/>of Divines, and confirmed by this Rea&longs;on, That &longs;ince Hell (ta&shy;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/010.jpg" pagenum="480"/>ken in its &longs;trict denomination) ought to be in the lowe&longs;t part of <lb/>the World, and &longs;ince that in a Sphere there is no part lower <lb/>then the Centre, Hell &longs;hall be, as it were, in the Centre of the <lb/>World, which being of a Spherical Figure, it mu&longs;t follow, that <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg882"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Hell is either in the Sun (fora&longs;much as it is &longs;uppo&longs;ed by this Hy&shy;<lb/>pothe&longs;is to be in the Centre of the World) or el&longs;e &longs;uppo&longs;ing <lb/>that Hell is in the Centre of the Earth, if the Earth &longs;hould move <lb/>about the Sun, it would nece&longs;&longs;arily en&longs;ue, that Hell, together <lb/>with the Earth, is in Heaven, and with it revolveth about the third <lb/>Heaven; than which nothing more ab&longs;urd can be &longs;aid or imagi&shy;<lb/>ned.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg882"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Hell is in the <lb/>centre of the <lb/>Earth, not of the <lb/>World.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The fifth Cla&longs;&longs;is, is of tho&longs;e Authorities which alwayes op&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg883"></arrow.to.target><lb/>po&longs;e Heaven to the Earth, and &longs;o again the Earth to Heaven; as <lb/>if there were the &longs;ame relation betwixt them, with that of the <lb/>Centre to the Circumference, and of the Circumference to the <lb/>Centre. </s>

<s>But if the Earth were in Heaven, it &longs;hould be on one <lb/>&longs;ide thereof, and would not &longs;tand in the Middle, and con&longs;equent&shy;<lb/>ly there would be no &longs;uch relation betwixt them; which never&shy;<lb/>thele&longs;s do, not only in Sacred Writ, but even in Common Speech, <lb/>ever and every where an&longs;wer to each other with a mutual Oppo&shy;<lb/>fition. </s>

<s>Whence that of <emph type="italics"/>Gene&longs;. </s>

<s>1. In the beginning God created <lb/>the Heaven and the Earth<emph.end type="italics"/>: and <emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al. </s>

<s>115. The Heaven, even <lb/>the Heavens are the Lords; but the Earth hath he given to the <lb/>Children of men:<emph.end type="italics"/> and our Saviour in that Prayer which he pre&shy;<lb/>&longs;cribeth to us, <emph type="italics"/>Matth. </s>

<s>6. Thy will be done in Earth, as it is in <lb/>Heaven:<emph.end type="italics"/> and S. <emph type="italics"/>Paul, 1 Corinth. </s>

<s>15. The fir&longs;t man is of the <lb/>Earth, earthy; the &longs;econd man is of Heaven, heavenly:<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Colo&longs;&longs;. </s>

<s>1. By him were all things created that are in Heaven, and <lb/>that are in Earth<emph.end type="italics"/>: and again, <emph type="italics"/>Having made peace through the <lb/>Blood of his Cro&longs;&longs;e for all things, whether they be things in Earth <lb/>or things in Heaven:<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Chap. </s>

<s>3. Set your affections on things <lb/>above, not on things on the Earth<emph.end type="italics"/>; with innumerable other &longs;uch <lb/>like places. </s>

<s>Since therefore the&longs;e two Bodies are alwayes mu&shy;<lb/>tually oppo&longs;ed to each other, and Heaven, without all doubt, <lb/>referreth to the Circumference, it mu&longs;t of nece&longs;&longs;ity follow, that <lb/>the Earth is to be adjudged the place of the Centre.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg883"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Heaven and <lb/>Earth are always <lb/>mutually oppo&longs;ed <lb/>to each other.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The &longs;ixth and la&longs;t Cla&longs;&longs;is is of tho&longs;e Authorities, which (being <lb/>rather of Fathers and Divines, than of the Sacred Scripture) &longs;ay, <lb/>That the Sun, after the day of Judgment &longs;hall &longs;tand immoveable <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg884"></arrow.to.target><lb/>in the Ea&longs;t, and the Moon in the We&longs;t. </s>

<s>Which Station, if the <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Pythagorick<emph.end type="italics"/> Opinion hold true, ought rather to be a&longs;cribed to <lb/>the Earth, than to the Sun; for if it be true, that the Earth doth <lb/>now move about the Sun, it is nece&longs;&longs;ary that after the day of <lb/>Judgment it &longs;hould &longs;tand immoveable. </s>

<s>And truth is, if it mu&longs;t <lb/>&longs;ub&longs;i&longs;t without motion in one con&longs;tant place, there is no rea&longs;on


<pb xlink:href="067/01/011.jpg" pagenum="481"/>why it &longs;hould rather &longs;tand in one &longs;ite of that Place than in ano&shy;<lb/>ther, or why it &longs;hould rather turn one part of it than another to <lb/>the Sun, if &longs;o be that every of its parts without di&longs;tinction, which <lb/>is de&longs;titute of the Suns light, cannot choo&longs;e but be di&longs;mal, and <lb/>much wor&longs;e affected than that part which is illuminated. </s>

<s>Hence <lb/>al&longs;o would ari&longs;e many other ab&longs;urdities be&longs;ides the&longs;e.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg884"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>After the day <lb/>of Judgment the <lb/>Earth &longs;hall &longs;tand <lb/>immoveable.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The&longs;e are the Cla&longs;&longs;es, &amp;c. </s>

<s>from which great a&longs;&longs;aults are made <lb/>again&longs;t the &longs;tructure of the Pythagorick Sy&longs;teme; yet by that <lb/>time I &longs;hall have fir&longs;t laid down &longs;ix Maximes or Principles, as <lb/>impregnable Bulwarks erected again&longs;t them, it will be ea&longs;ie to <lb/>batter them, and to defend the Hypothe&longs;is of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras<emph.end type="italics"/> from <lb/>being attaqued by them. </s>

<s>Which before I propound, I do pro&shy;<lb/>fe&longs;s (with that Humility and Mode&longs;ty which becometh a Chri&shy;<lb/>&longs;tian, and a per&longs;on in Religious Orders) that I do with reverence <lb/>&longs;ubmit what I am about to &longs;peak to the Judgment of Holy <lb/>Church. </s>

<s>Nor have I undertaken to write the&longs;e things out of <lb/>any inducements of Temerity, or Ambition, but out of Charity <lb/>and a De&longs;ire to be auxiliary to my neighbour in his inqui&longs;ition <lb/>after Truth. </s>

<s>And there is nothing in all this Controver&longs;ie <lb/>maintained by me (that expect to be better in&longs;tructed by tho&longs;e <lb/>who profe&longs;s the&longs;e Studies) which I &longs;hall not retract, if any per&shy;<lb/>&longs;ons &longs;hall by &longs;olid Rea&longs;ons &amp; reiterated Experiments, prove &longs;ome <lb/>other Hypothe&longs;is to be more probable; but yet, until &longs;uch time as <lb/>they &longs;hall decide the Point, I &longs;hall labour all I can for its &longs;upport.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>My fir&longs;t and chiefe&longs;t Maxime is this; When any thing is at&shy;<lb/>tributed in Holy Writ, to God, or to a Creature, thats not be&shy;<lb/>&longs;eeming to, or incommen&longs;urate with them, it mu&longs;t of nece&longs;&longs;ity <lb/>be received and expounded one, or more of the four following <lb/>wayes; Fir&longs;t, it may be &longs;aid to agree with them <emph type="italics"/>Metaphorically, <lb/>and Proportionally, or by Similitude.<emph.end type="italics"/> Secondly, <emph type="italics"/>According to <lb/>our manner of Con&longs;idering, Apprehending, Conceiving, Vnder&longs;tand&shy;<lb/>ing, Knowing, &amp;c.<emph.end type="italics"/> Thirdly, <emph type="italics"/>according to the Opinion of the <lb/>Vulgar, and the Common way of Speaking:<emph.end type="italics"/> to which Vulgar <lb/>Speech the Holy Gho&longs;t doth very often with much &longs;tudy acco&shy;<lb/>modate it &longs;elf. </s>

<s>Fourthly, <emph type="italics"/>In re&longs;pect of our &longs;elves, and for that <lb/>he makes him&longs;elf like unto us.<emph.end type="italics"/> Of each of the&longs;e wayes there are <lb/>the&longs;e examples: God doth not walk, &longs;ince he is Infinite and Im&shy;<lb/>moveable; He hath no Bodily Members, &longs;ince he is a Pure Act; <lb/>and con&longs;equently is void of all Pa&longs;&longs;ion of Minde; and yet in <lb/>Sacred Scripture, <emph type="italics"/>Gen. </s>

<s>3. ver&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/> 8. it is &longs;aid, <emph type="italics"/>He walked in the cool of <lb/>the day<emph.end type="italics"/>: and <emph type="italics"/>Job 22. ver&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/> 14. it is &longs;aid, <emph type="italics"/>He walketh in the ^{*} Cir&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg885"></arrow.to.target><lb/>cuit of Heaven:<emph.end type="italics"/> and in many other places coming, departing, <lb/>making ha&longs;t is a&longs;cribed to God; and likewi&longs;e Bodily parts, as <lb/>Eyes, Ears, Lips, Face, Voice, Countenance, Hands, Feet, Bow&shy;<lb/>els, Garments, Arms; as al&longs;o many Pa&longs;&longs;ions, &longs;uch as Anger,


<pb xlink:href="067/01/012.jpg" pagenum="482"/>Sorrow, Repentance, and the like. </s>

<s>What &longs;hall we &longs;ay there&shy;<lb/>fore? </s>

<s>Without doubt &longs;uch like Attributes agree with God (to <lb/>u&longs;e the Schoolmens words <emph type="italics"/>Metaphorically, Proportionally, and by <lb/>Similitude<emph.end type="italics"/>: And touching Pa&longs;&longs;ions, it may be &longs;aid, that God <lb/>conde&longs;cendeth to repre&longs;ent him&longs;elf after that manner: as for <lb/>in&longs;tance, <emph type="italics"/>The Lord is angry<emph.end type="italics"/>; i.e. <emph type="italics"/>He revealeth him&longs;elf as one that <lb/>is angry: He grieved<emph.end type="italics"/>; i. </s>

<s>e. <emph type="italics"/>He revealeth him&longs;elf, as one that <lb/>is &longs;orrowful: It repented him that he had made man<emph.end type="italics"/>; i.e. <emph type="italics"/>He &longs;ee&shy;<lb/>med as one that repented.<emph.end type="italics"/> And indeed all the&longs;e things are <emph type="italics"/>Com&shy;<lb/>parativ&egrave; ad nos,<emph.end type="italics"/> and in re&longs;pect of us. </s>

<s>So God is &longs;aid to be in <lb/>Heaven, to move in time, to &longs;hew him&longs;elf, to hide him&longs;elf, to <lb/>ob&longs;erve and mark our &longs;teps; to &longs;eek us, to &longs;tand at the door, <lb/>to knock at the door; not that he can be contained in a bodily <lb/>place, nor that he is really moved, nor in time; nor that humane <lb/>manners or cu&longs;tomes can agree with him, &longs;ave only according to <lb/>our manner of Apprehen&longs;ion: This Conception of ours orderly <lb/>di&longs;tingui&longs;heth the&longs;e Attributes in him one from another, when, <lb/>notwith&longs;tanding, they are one and the &longs;ame with him: This Ap&shy;<lb/>prehen&longs;ion of ours divideth al&longs;o his actions into &longs;everal times, <lb/>which, neverthele&longs;&longs;e, for the mo&longs;t part, are produced in one and <lb/>the &longs;ame in&longs;tant: And this, to conclude, alwayes apprehendeth <lb/>tho&longs;e things with &longs;ome defect, which, notwith&longs;tanding are in <lb/>God mo&longs;t perfect. </s>

<s>For this rea&longs;on doth the Sacred Scripture <lb/>expre&longs;s it &longs;elf <emph type="italics"/>according to the Vulgar Opinion,<emph.end type="italics"/> whil&longs;t it a&longs;cribes <lb/>to the Earth Ends and Foundations, which yet it hath not; to <lb/>the Sea a Depth not to be fathomed; to Death (which is a Pri&shy;<lb/>vation, and con&longs;equently a Non entity) it appropriates Actions, <lb/>Motion, Pa&longs;&longs;ions, and other &longs;uch like Accidents, of all which it is <lb/>deprived, as al&longs;o Epithites and Adjuncts, which really cannot <lb/>&longs;uit with it: <emph type="italics"/>Is not the bitterne&longs;&longs;e of Death pa&longs;t<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s>

<s>1 Sam. </s>

<s>15. 32. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Let death come upon them,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al 6. <emph type="italics"/>He hath prepared the In&longs;tru&shy;<lb/>ments of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s>

<s>7. 14. <emph type="italics"/>Thou rai&longs;e&longs;t me from the gates of <lb/>Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s>

<s>84. <emph type="italics"/>In the mid&longs;t of the &longs;hadow of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s>

<s>23. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Love is &longs;trong as Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> Cant. </s>

<s>8. 9. <emph type="italics"/>The Fir&longs;t-Born of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> Job <lb/>18. 13. <emph type="italics"/>De&longs;truction and Death &longs;ay, &amp;c.<emph.end type="italics"/> Job 28. 22. And who knows <lb/>not that the whole Hi&longs;tory of the rich Glutton doth con&longs;i&longs;t of <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg886"></arrow.to.target><lb/>the like phra&longs;es of <emph type="italics"/>Vulgar Speech<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s>

<s>So <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;ticus,<emph.end type="italics"/> Chap. </s>

<s>27. <lb/>ver&longs;. </s>

<s>11. <emph type="italics"/>The godly man abideth in wi&longs;dome, as the Sun; but a <lb/>fool changeth as the Moon<emph.end type="italics"/>; and yet the Moon according to the <lb/>real truth of the matter no wayes changeth, but abides the &longs;ame <lb/>for ever, as <emph type="italics"/>A&longs;tronomers<emph.end type="italics"/> demon&longs;trate, one half thereof remain&shy;<lb/>ing alwayes lucid, and the other alwayes opacous. </s>

<s>Nor at any <lb/>time doth this &longs;tate vary in it, unle&longs;&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>in re&longs;pect of us,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>ac&shy;<lb/>cording to the opinion of the Vulgar.<emph.end type="italics"/> Hence it is cleer, that the <lb/>holy Scripture &longs;peaks according to the common form of &longs;peech u&shy;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/013.jpg" pagenum="483"/>&longs;ed among&longs;t the unlearned, and according to the appearance of <lb/>things, and not according to their true Exi&longs;tence. </s>

<s>In like man&shy;<lb/>ner <emph type="italics"/>Gene&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/> 1. in the de&longs;cription of the Creation of all things, <lb/>the Light is &longs;aid to be made fir&longs;t of all, and yet it followeth in <lb/>the Text, <emph type="italics"/>And the Evening and the Morning made the fir&longs;t day<emph.end type="italics"/>: <lb/>and a little after the &longs;everal Acts of the Creation are di&longs;tingui&longs;hed <lb/>and a&longs;&longs;igned to &longs;everal days, and concerning each of them it is <lb/>&longs;aid in the Text, <emph type="italics"/>And the Evening and the Morning made the <lb/>&longs;econd day<emph.end type="italics"/>; and then <emph type="italics"/>the third day, the fourth day, &amp;c.<emph.end type="italics"/> Hence <lb/>many doubts ari&longs;e, all which I &longs;hall propound according to the <lb/>common Sy&longs;teme, that it may appear even from the <emph type="italics"/>H<emph.end type="italics"/>ypothe&longs;is <lb/>of that Sy&longs;teme, that the &longs;acred Scripture &longs;ometimes, for the a&shy;<lb/>voyding of emergent difficulties, is to be under&longs;tood in a vulgar <lb/>&longs;en&longs;e and meaning, and in re&longs;pect of us, and not according to <lb/>the nature of things. </s>

<s>Which di&longs;tinction even <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> him&longs;elf <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg887"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;eemeth to have hinted, when he &longs;aith, ^{*} <emph type="italics"/>Some things are more <lb/>intelligible to us; others by nature,<emph.end type="italics"/> or <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum &longs;e.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg885"></margin.target>* Circa Cardi&shy;<lb/>nes C&oelig;li.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg886"></margin.target>Luke 16.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg887"></margin.target>Alia &longs;unt notio&shy;<lb/>ra nobis, alia, no&shy;<lb/>tiora natura, vel <lb/>&longs;ecundum &longs;e, <emph type="italics"/>A&shy;<lb/>r &longs;t. </s>

<s>lib.

1. Phy&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>Fir&longs;t therefore; If the light were made before heaven, then <lb/>it rolled about without heaven to the making of the di&longs;tinction <lb/>of Day and Night. </s>

<s>Now this is contrary to the very doctrine <lb/>of the&longs;e men, who affirm that no C&oelig;le&longs;tial Body can be moved <lb/>unle&longs;&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>per accidens,<emph.end type="italics"/> and by the motion of <emph type="italics"/>H<emph.end type="italics"/>eaven, <emph type="italics"/>and as a knot <lb/>in a board at the motion of the board.<emph.end type="italics"/> Again, if it be &longs;aid, that <lb/>the Light was created at the &longs;ame time with <emph type="italics"/>H<emph.end type="italics"/>eaven, and began <lb/>to be moved with <emph type="italics"/>H<emph.end type="italics"/>eaven, another doubt ari&longs;eth, that likewi&longs;e <lb/>oppo&longs;eth the fore&longs;aid common <emph type="italics"/>Hypothe&longs;is:<emph.end type="italics"/> For it being &longs;aid, <lb/>that Day and Night, Morning and Evening were made, that &longs;ame <lb/>is either in re&longs;pect of the Univer&longs;e, or onely in re&longs;pect of the <lb/>Earth and us. </s>

<s>If &longs;o be that the Sun turning round (according to <lb/>the <emph type="italics"/>Hypothe&longs;is<emph.end type="italics"/> of the Common Sy&longs;teme) doth not cau&longs;e the <lb/>Night and Day, but only to opacous Bodies which are de&longs;titute <lb/>of all other light, but that of the Sun, whil&longs;t in their half part <lb/>(which is their <emph type="italics"/>Hemi&longs;ph&oelig;re)<emph.end type="italics"/> and no more, (for that the Suns <lb/>light pa&longs;&longs;eth over but one half of an opacous Body, unle&longs;s a ve&shy;<lb/>ry &longs;mall matter more in tho&longs;e of le&longs;&longs;er bulk) they are illumina&shy;<lb/>ted by the Suns a&longs;pect, the other half remaining dark and tene&shy;<lb/>bro&longs;e, by rea&longs;on of a &longs;hadow proceeding from its own Body. <lb/></s>

<s>Therefore the di&longs;tinction of dayes by the light of heaven, ac&shy;<lb/>cording to the de&longs;cription of them in the &longs;acred Scriptures, mu&longs;t <lb/>not be under&longs;tood <emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olutely,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum &longs;e,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Nature her <lb/>&longs;elf<emph.end type="italics"/>; but in re&longs;pect of the Earth, and of us its inhabitants, and <lb/>con&longs;equently <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos.<emph.end type="italics"/> 'Tis not therefore new, nor unu&shy;<lb/>&longs;ual in &longs;acred Scripture to &longs;peak of things <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos,<emph.end type="italics"/> and on&shy;<lb/>ly <emph type="italics"/>in re&longs;pect of us,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum apparentiam<emph.end type="italics"/>; but not <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum <lb/>&longs;e,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>reinaturam,<emph.end type="italics"/> or <emph type="italics"/>Ab&longs;olutely<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Simply.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>


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<s>And if any one would under&longs;tand the&longs;e Days of &longs;acred Scri&shy;<lb/>pture, not only <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos,<emph.end type="italics"/> but al&longs;o <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum naturam,<emph.end type="italics"/> as <lb/>circulations of C&oelig;le&longs;tial Light returning to the &longs;elf &longs;ame point <lb/>from whence it did at fir&longs;t proceed; &longs;o as that there needs no <lb/>re&longs;pect to be had to Night or to ^{*} Darkne&longs;&longs;e, for which &longs;ole rea&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg888"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;on we are fain to imbrace the Interpretation of &longs;acred Scripture <lb/><emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos<emph.end type="italics"/>; In oppo&longs;ition to this we may thus argue: If the <lb/>&longs;acred Scripture be under&longs;tood to &longs;peak <emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olutely,<emph.end type="italics"/> of iterated <lb/>and &longs;ucce&longs;&longs;ive circulations of light, and not <emph type="italics"/>re&longs;pectu no&longs;tri,<emph.end type="italics"/> as if <lb/>the&longs;e words <emph type="italics"/>Evening and Morning<emph.end type="italics"/> had never been in&longs;erted, which <lb/>in their natural acceptation denote the Suns habitude to us and to <lb/>the Earth: For that the <emph type="italics"/>Morning<emph.end type="italics"/> is that time when the Sun be&shy;<lb/>gins to wax light, and to ri&longs;e above the <emph type="italics"/>Horizon<emph.end type="italics"/> in the Ea&longs;t, <lb/>and become vi&longs;ible in our <emph type="italics"/>Hemi&longs;ph&oelig;re,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Evening<emph.end type="italics"/> is the time <lb/>in which the Sun declines in the We&longs;t, and approacheth with its <lb/>light neerer to the other oppo&longs;ite <emph type="italics"/>Horizon<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Hemi&longs;ph&oelig;re,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>which is contiguous to this of ours. </s>

<s>But the word <emph type="italics"/>Day<emph.end type="italics"/> is a Co&shy;<lb/>relative to the word <emph type="italics"/>Night.<emph.end type="italics"/> From hence therefore it evidently <lb/>appeareth, that the&longs;e three words <emph type="italics"/>Evening, Morning,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Day,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>cannot be under&longs;tood of a Circulation of Light <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum &longs;e,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and <emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olut&egrave;,<emph.end type="italics"/> but only <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>re&longs;pectu no&longs;tri<emph.end type="italics"/>; and in <lb/>that &longs;en&longs;e indeed the <emph type="italics"/>Morning<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Evening<emph.end type="italics"/> do make the <emph type="italics"/>Night<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and <emph type="italics"/>Day,<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg888"></margin.target>* Aut ad Umbram</s></p><p type="main">

<s>In like manner, <emph type="italics"/>Gen.<emph.end type="italics"/> 1. 16. it is &longs;aid, <emph type="italics"/>God made two great Lights; <lb/>the greater Light to rule the Day, and the le&longs;&longs;er Light to rule the <lb/>Night, and the Stars.<emph.end type="italics"/> Where both in the Propo&longs;ition and in the <lb/>&longs;pecification of it, things are &longs;poken which are very di&longs;agreeing <lb/>with C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies. </s>

<s>Therefore tho&longs;e words are in that place <lb/>to be interpreted according to the fore&longs;aid Rules; namely, ac&shy;<lb/>cording to the third and fourth; &longs;o that they may be &longs;aid to be <lb/>under&longs;tood <emph type="italics"/>according to the &longs;en&longs;e of the vulgar, and the common <lb/>way of &longs;peaking,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is all one, as if we &longs;hould &longs;ay, <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum <lb/>apparentiam,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum nos, vel re&longs;pectu no&longs;tri.<emph.end type="italics"/> For fir&longs;t, it <lb/>is &longs;aid in the Propo&longs;ition, <emph type="italics"/>And God made two great Lights<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/>meaning by them the Sun and Moon, whereas according to the <lb/>truth of the matter the&longs;e are not the Greater Lights; For al&shy;<lb/>though the Sun may be reckoned among&longs;t the Greater, the Moon <lb/>may not be &longs;o, unle&longs;s <emph type="italics"/>in re&longs;pect of us.<emph.end type="italics"/> Becau&longs;e among&longs;t <lb/>tho&longs;e that are ab&longs;olutely the Greater, and a little le&longs;&longs;er than the <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg889"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Sun (nay in a manner equal to it) and far bigger than the Moon, <lb/>we may with great rea&longs;on enumerate <emph type="italics"/>Saturn,<emph.end type="italics"/> or &longs;ome of the <lb/>Fixed Stars of the fir&longs;t Magnitude, &longs;uch as <emph type="italics"/>Canopus,<emph.end type="italics"/> (otherwi&longs;e <lb/>called <emph type="italics"/>Arcanar)<emph.end type="italics"/> in the end of a River; or the <emph type="italics"/>Little Dog<emph.end type="italics"/> in <lb/>the mouth of the <emph type="italics"/>Great Dog<emph.end type="italics"/>; or the Foot of <emph type="italics"/>Orion,<emph.end type="italics"/> called <emph type="italics"/>Ri&shy;<lb/>gel<emph.end type="italics"/>; or his <emph type="italics"/>Right &longs;houlder,<emph.end type="italics"/> or any other of that Magnitude.


<pb xlink:href="067/01/015.jpg" pagenum="485"/>Therefore the <emph type="italics"/>two great Lights<emph.end type="italics"/> are to be under&longs;tood in re&longs;pect of <lb/>us, and according to vulgar e&longs;timation, and not according to the <lb/>true and reall exi&longs;tence of &longs;uch Bodies. </s>

<s>Secondly, in the &longs;peci&shy;<lb/>fication of the Propo&longs;ition it is &longs;aid, <emph type="italics"/>The greater Light to rule the <lb/>Day<emph.end type="italics"/>; hereby denoting the Sun; in which the verbal &longs;en&longs;e of <lb/>Scripture agreeth with the Truth of the Thing; For that the Sun <lb/>is the Greate&longs;t of all Luminaries, and Globes. </s>

<s>But that which <lb/>followeth immediately after, <emph type="italics"/>And the le&longs;&longs;er Light to rule the <lb/>Night,<emph.end type="italics"/> meaning the Moon, cannot be taken in the true and real <lb/>&longs;en&longs;e of the words: For the Moon is not the le&longs;&longs;er Light, but <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/>; which is not only much le&longs;&longs;er than the Moon, but al&longs;o <lb/>than any other Star. </s>

<s>And if, again, it be &longs;aid, That the Holy <lb/>Text doth not &longs;peak of the Stars, but onely of the Luminaries, <lb/>for that pre&longs;ently after they are mentioned apart, <emph type="italics"/>And the Stars<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/>and that what we &longs;ay is true touching the compari&longs;on of the Stars <lb/>among&longs;t them&longs;elves, but not in re&longs;pect of the Luminaries, name&shy;<lb/>ly, the Sun and Moon: This reply doth di&longs;cover a man to be <lb/>utterly ignorant in the&longs;e Studies, and &longs;uch who having not the <lb/>lea&longs;t &longs;mattering in them, doth conceive an ab&longs;urd and erroneous <lb/>Opinion of the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies. </s>

<s>For the Moon and Sun, con&shy;<lb/>&longs;idered in them&longs;elves, and as they appear to us, if they &longs;hould <lb/>be a far greater di&longs;tance from us, than indeed they are, would be <lb/>no other, nor would appear to us otherwi&longs;e than Stars, as the <lb/>re&longs;t do in the Firmament. </s>

<s>But Great Luminaries they neither <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg890"></arrow.to.target><lb/>are, nor &longs;eem to be, &longs;ave only <emph type="italics"/>in re&longs;pect of us:<emph.end type="italics"/> And &longs;o, on <lb/>the other &longs;ide, the Stars, as to them&longs;elves, are no other than &longs;o <lb/>many Suns and &longs;o many Moons; yet are &longs;o far remote from us, <lb/>that by rea&longs;on of their di&longs;tance they appear thus &longs;mall, and dim <lb/>of light, as we behold them. </s>

<s>For the greater and le&longs;&longs;er di&longs;tance <lb/>of heavenly Bodies <emph type="italics"/>(c&aelig;teris paribus)<emph.end type="italics"/> doth augment and dimini&longs;h <lb/>their appearance both as to Magnitude and Light. </s>

<s>And there&shy;<lb/>fore the words which follow in that place of <emph type="italics"/>Gene&longs;is, And the <lb/>Stars<emph.end type="italics"/> (as di&longs;tingui&longs;hing the Stars from the Sun and Moon) are <lb/>to be taken in no other acceptation than that which we have &longs;po&shy;<lb/>ken of, namely, <emph type="italics"/>according to the &longs;en&longs;e of the Vulgar, and the <lb/>common manner of &longs;peech.<emph.end type="italics"/> For indeed, according to the truth <lb/>of the matter, all C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies, being &longs;hining Globes, are of <lb/>a va&longs;t bigne&longs;s, to which if we &longs;hould be &longs;o neer as we are to the <lb/>Moon, they would &longs;eem to us of as great, yea a greater magni&shy;<lb/>tude than the Moon: As likewi&longs;e on the contrary, if we were as <lb/>far di&longs;tant from the Sun and Moon, as we are from them, both <lb/>Moon and Sun would &longs;hew but as &longs;tars to us. </s>

<s>And yet the <lb/>&longs;plendor of the Sun would doubtle&longs;s be greater <emph type="italics"/>inten&longs;iv&egrave;<emph.end type="italics"/> than <lb/>that of any other &longs;tar. </s>

<s>For, although it &longs;hould be granted that <lb/>&longs;ome &longs;tars (as tho&longs;e of the Fixed that twinkle) do &longs;hine of them&shy;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/016.jpg" pagenum="486"/>&longs;elves, aud by their own nature, as the Sun, that derives not its <lb/>light from others (which yet remains undecided and doubtful) <lb/>and borrow not their light from the Sun; Neverthele&longs;s &longs;ince the <lb/>brightne&longs;s of none of the &longs;tars may be compared with the Suns <lb/>&longs;plendour, which was created by God fir&longs;t, and before all other <lb/>Luminaries, in the highe&longs;t kind of Light, it would therefore <lb/>notwith&longs;tanding follow, that none of tho&longs;e &longs;tars, although pla&shy;<lb/>ced in the &longs;ame proximity to us with the Sun, and therefore ap&shy;<lb/>pearing to us of the &longs;ame Magnitude as the Sun, can be&longs;tow up&shy;<lb/>on us &longs;o much Light as we receive from the Sun: As on the <lb/>contrary, the Sun, at the &longs;ame remotene&longs;&longs;e from us as they are, <lb/>would indeed, as to its Magnitude, appear to us as one of tho&longs;e <lb/>&longs;tars, but of a &longs;plendour much more <emph type="italics"/>inten&longs;e<emph.end type="italics"/> than that of theirs. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg891"></arrow.to.target><lb/>So that, now, the Earth is nothing el&longs;e but another Moon or &longs;tar, <lb/>and &longs;o would it appear to us, if we &longs;hould behold it from a con&shy;<lb/>venient di&longs;tance <emph type="italics"/>on high.<emph.end type="italics"/> And in it might be ob&longs;erved (in that <lb/>variety of Light and Darkne&longs;s which the Sun produceth in it by <lb/>making Day and Night) the &longs;ame difference of A&longs;pects that are <lb/>&longs;een in the Moon, and &longs;uch as are ob&longs;erved in tricorporate <emph type="italics"/>Ve&shy;<lb/>nus<emph.end type="italics"/>; in like manner al&longs;o 'tis very probable that the &longs;ame might <lb/>be di&longs;cerned in other Planets, which &longs;hine by no light of their <lb/>own, but by one borrowed from the Sun. </s>

<s>What ever there&shy;<lb/>fore may touching the&longs;e matters be delivered in the &longs;acred Leaves <lb/>or the common &longs;peech of men, di&longs;&longs;enting from the real truth, it <lb/>ought (as we have &longs;aid before) ab&longs;olutely to be received and un&shy;<lb/>der&longs;tood <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum vulgi &longs;ententiam, &amp; communem loquendi &amp; <lb/>concipiendi &longs;tylum.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg889"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Which are really <lb/>the great Lights <lb/>in Heaven.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg890"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Sun, Moon, <lb/>and Stars are one <lb/>&amp; the &longs;ame thing.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg891"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earth is a&shy;<lb/>nother Moon or <lb/>Star.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>And &longs;o, to return to our purpo&longs;e, if, all this con&longs;idered, the <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Pythagorian<emph.end type="italics"/> opinion be true, it will be ea&longs;ie, according to the <lb/>&longs;ame Rule, to reconcile the authority of &longs;acred Scriptures with <lb/>it, however they &longs;eem to oppo&longs;e it, and in particular tho&longs;e of the <lb/>fir&longs;t and &longs;econd Cla&longs;&longs;is, <emph type="italics"/>&longs;cilicet<emph.end type="italics"/> by my fir&longs;t <emph type="italics"/>Maxime:<emph.end type="italics"/> For that in <lb/>tho&longs;e places the holy Records &longs;peak according to our manner of <lb/>under&longs;tanding, and according to that which appeareth in re&longs;pect <lb/>of us; <emph type="italics"/>For thus it is with tho&longs;e Bodies, in compari&longs;on of us, and<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg892"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>as they are de&longs;cribed by the vulgar and commune way of humane <lb/>Di&longs;cour&longs;e; So that the Earth appears as if it were &longs;tanding &longs;till <lb/>and immoveable, and the Sun, as if it were circumambient about <lb/>her.<emph.end type="italics"/> And &longs;o the Holy Scripture is u&longs;ed in the Commune and <lb/>Vulgar way of &longs;peaking; becau&longs;e in re&longs;pect of our &longs;ight, the <lb/>Earth &longs;eems rather to &longs;tand fixed in the Centre, and the Sun to <lb/>circumvolve about it, than otherwi&longs;e: as it happens to tho&longs;e that <lb/>are putting off from the Banks of a River to whom the &longs;hose <lb/>&longs;eems to move backwards, and go from them: but they do not <lb/>perceive (which yet is the truth) that they them&longs;elves go forwards.


<pb xlink:href="067/01/017.jpg" pagenum="487"/>Which fallacy of our &longs;ight is noted, and the Rea&longs;on thereof a&longs;&shy;<lb/>&longs;igned by the Opticks; upon wich, as being &longs;trange to, and be&shy;<lb/>&longs;ides my purpo&longs;e, I will not &longs;tay) and on this account is <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;neas<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>brought in by <emph type="italics"/>Virgil,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;aying;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg893"></arrow.to.target></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg892"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Why the Sunne <lb/>&longs;eemeth to us to <lb/>move, &amp; not the <lb/>Earth.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg893"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>&AElig;neid.<emph.end type="italics"/> 3.</s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Provehimur portu, terr&aelig;que urbe&longs;que recedunt.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>But it will not be ami&longs;s to con&longs;ider why the &longs;acred Scripture <lb/>doth &longs;o &longs;tudiou&longs;ly comply with the opinions of the Vulgar, and <lb/>why it doth not rather accurately in&longs;truct men in the truth of the <lb/>matters, and the &longs;ecrets of Nature. </s>

<s>The Rea&longs;on is, fir&longs;t, the be&shy;<lb/>nignity of Divine Wi&longs;dome, whereby it &longs;weetly accomodates it <lb/>&longs;elf to all things, in proportion to their Capacity and Nature. <lb/></s>

<s>Whence in Natural Sciences, it u&longs;eth natural and nece&longs;&longs;ary cau&shy;<lb/>&longs;es, but in Liberal Arts it worketh liberally, upon Generous <lb/>Per&longs;ons after a &longs;ublime and lofty manner; upon the Common <lb/>People, familiarly and humbly; upon the Skilful, learnedly; <lb/>upon the Simple, vulgarly; and &longs;o on every one, according to <lb/>his condition and quality. </s>

<s>Secondly, becau&longs;e it is not its In&shy;<lb/>tention to fill our mindes in this life with vain and various curi&shy;<lb/>o&longs;ities, which might occa&longs;ion our doubt and &longs;u&longs;pen&longs;e. </s>

<s>For the <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg894"></arrow.to.target><lb/>truth is, <emph type="italics"/>(a) He that increa&longs;eth knowledge, increa&longs;eth &longs;orrow.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Moreover it did not only permit, but even decree, thatth e <lb/>World &longs;hould be very much bu&longs;ied in Controver&longs;ies and Di&longs;pu&shy;<lb/>tations, and that it &longs;hould be imployed about the uncertainty of <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg895"></arrow.to.target><lb/>things; according to that &longs;aying of <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;tes<emph.end type="italics"/> <emph type="italics"/>(b) He hath <lb/>&longs;et the World in their heart; &longs;o that no man can find out the work <lb/>that God maketh from the beginning unto the end.<emph.end type="italics"/> And touching <lb/>tho&longs;e doubts, God will not permit that they &longs;hall be di&longs;covered <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg896"></arrow.to.target><lb/>to us before the end of the World: <emph type="italics"/>(c) At which time he will <lb/>bring to light the hidden things of darkne&longs;&longs;e:<emph.end type="italics"/> But Gods onely <lb/>&longs;cope in the &longs;acred Scripture is to teach men tho&longs;e things which <lb/>conduce to the attainment of Eternal Life; which having ob&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg897"></arrow.to.target><lb/>tained, <emph type="italics"/>(d) We &longs;hall &longs;ee him face to face: (e) and &longs;hall be<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg898"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>like him, for we &longs;hall &longs;ee him as he is.<emph.end type="italics"/> Then &longs;hall he clearly <emph type="italics"/>&agrave; <lb/>Priori<emph.end type="italics"/> make known unto us all tho&longs;e Curio&longs;ities, and Dogmati&shy;<lb/>cal Que&longs;tions, which in this life, <emph type="italics"/>(f) in which we &longs;ee through a<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg899"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>Gla&longs;&longs;e darkly,<emph.end type="italics"/> could be known by us but imperfectly and <emph type="italics"/>&agrave; po&longs;te&shy;<lb/>riori,<emph.end type="italics"/> and that not without much pains and &longs;tudy. </s>

<s>For this <lb/>cau&longs;e the Wi&longs;dome of God, revealed to us in the &longs;acred Leaves, <lb/>is not &longs;tiled Wi&longs;dome ab&longs;olutely, but <emph type="italics"/>(g) Saving Wi&longs;dome<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg900"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Its onely end being to lead us to &longs;alvation. </s>

<s>And S. <emph type="italics"/>Paul<emph.end type="italics"/> preach&shy;<lb/>ing to the <emph type="italics"/>Corinthians,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;aith; <emph type="italics"/>(h) I determined to know nothing<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg901"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>among you, &longs;ave Je&longs;us Chri&longs;t, and him crucified:<emph.end type="italics"/> whereas not&shy;<lb/>with&longs;tanding he was thorowly in&longs;tructed, and profoundly learned


<pb xlink:href="067/01/018.jpg" pagenum="488"/>in all humane Sciences; but making no account of the&longs;e things <lb/>he profe&longs;&longs;eth that it was his de&longs;ire to teach them no more but the <lb/>way to Heaven. </s>

<s>Hence is that which God &longs;peaketh to us by <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg902"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>I&longs;aiah,<emph.end type="italics"/> <emph type="italics"/>(i) Ego Dominus Deus, docens te utilia<emph.end type="italics"/> [<emph type="italics"/>I am the Lord <lb/>thy God which teacheth thee profitable things:<emph.end type="italics"/>] Where the <emph type="italics"/>Glo&longs;&shy;<lb/>&longs;ary<emph.end type="italics"/> addeth, <emph type="italics"/>non &longs;ubtilia<emph.end type="italics"/> [not &longs;ubtilties.] For God neither taught <lb/>us, Whether the <emph type="italics"/>Materia Prima<emph.end type="italics"/> of Heaven, and the Elements <lb/>be the &longs;ame; nor Whether <emph type="italics"/>Cominual<emph.end type="italics"/> be compo&longs;ed of Indivi&longs;i&shy;<lb/>bles, or whether it be divi&longs;ible <emph type="italics"/>in infinitum<emph.end type="italics"/>; nor, whether the <lb/>Elements are formally <emph type="italics"/>mixt<emph.end type="italics"/>; nor how many the C&oelig;le&longs;tial <lb/>Spheres, and their Orbs are; Whether there be Epicycles or <lb/>Eccentricks; nor the Vertues of Plants and Stones; nor the Na&shy;<lb/>ture of Animals; nor the Motion and Influence of the Planets; <lb/>nor the Order of the Univer&longs;e; nor the Wonders of Minerals, <lb/>and univer&longs;al Nature: but only [<emph type="italics"/>utilia:<emph.end type="italics"/>] things profitable, to <lb/>wit, his Holy Law ordained to the end, that we being put into <lb/>po&longs;&longs;e&longs;&longs;ion of Ble&longs;&longs;edne&longs;s, might at length be made capable of all <lb/>perfect knowledge, and the vi&longs;ion of the whole Order and ad&shy;<lb/>mirable Harmony, as al&longs;o the Sympathy and Antipathy of the <lb/>Univer&longs;e and its parts, <emph type="italics"/>in his Word,<emph.end type="italics"/> wherein all tho&longs;e <lb/>things &longs;hall mo&longs;t clearly and di&longs;tinctly, then, appear to us, which <lb/>mean while, in this life, he hath remitted (as far as its ability <lb/>reacheth) to humane &longs;earch and enquiry: But it was not his <lb/>purpo&longs;e to determine any thing, directly or indirectly, touching <lb/>the truth of them. </s>

<s>Becau&longs;e as the knowledge thereof would lit&shy;<lb/>tle or nothing profit Us, but might in &longs;ome ca&longs;es prove prejudi&shy;<lb/>cial; &longs;o the ignorance thereof can doubtle&longs;s be no detriment, <lb/>but may in &longs;ome ca&longs;es be very beneficial to us. </s>

<s>And therefore <lb/>by his mo&longs;t admirable Wi&longs;dome it comes to pa&longs;s, that though all <lb/>things in this World are dubious, uncertain, wavering, and per&shy;<lb/>plexed; yet his Holy Faith alone is mo&longs;t certain; and although <lb/>the opinions about Philo&longs;ophical and Doctrinal points be divers, <lb/>there is in the Church but one Truth of Faith and Salvation. <lb/></s>

<s>Which Faith, as nece&longs;sary to Salvation, is &longs;o ordered by Divine <lb/>Providence, that it might not only be indubitable, but al&longs;o un&shy;<lb/>&longs;haken, &longs;ure, immutable, and manife&longs;t to all men: the infallible <lb/>Rule of which he hath appointed the Holy Church, that is wa&longs;h&shy;<lb/>ed with his precious Blood, and governed by his Holy Spirit, to <lb/>whom belongs our Sanctification, as being his work. </s>

<s>This there&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg903"></arrow.to.target><lb/>fore is the Rea&longs;on why God would have Speculative Que&longs;tions, <lb/>which nothing conduce to our Salvation and Edification, and why <lb/>the Holy Gho&longs;t hath very often conde&longs;cended to Vulgar Opini&shy;<lb/>ons and Capacities, and hath di&longs;covered nothing that is &longs;ingular <lb/>or hidden to us, be&longs;ides tho&longs;e things that pertain to Salvation. <lb/></s>

<s>So that con&longs;equently it is clear by what hath been &longs;aid, how and


<pb xlink:href="067/01/019.jpg" pagenum="489"/>why nothing of certainty can be evinced from the fore&longs;aid Au&shy;<lb/>thorities to the determining of Controver&longs;ies of this Nature; as <lb/>al&longs;o with what Rea&longs;on from this fir&longs;t <emph type="italics"/>Axiome<emph.end type="italics"/> the Objections of <lb/>the fir&longs;t and &longs;econd Cla&longs;&longs;e are ea&longs;ily an&longs;wered, as al&longs;o any other <lb/>Authority of &longs;acred Scripture produced again&longs;t the <emph type="italics"/>Pythagorian<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and <emph type="italics"/>Copernican<emph.end type="italics"/> Sy&longs;teme &longs;o long as by other proofs it is true.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg894"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(a)<emph.end type="italics"/> Eccle&longs;. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>1. v. <lb/></s>

<s>ult.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg895"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(b) Chap. </s>

<s>3. v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 11.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg896"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(c)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 Cor. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>4. v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 5</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg897"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(d)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 Cor. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>13. v.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>12.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg898"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(e)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 John <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>3. v.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>2.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg899"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(f)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 Cor. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>13. v.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>12.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg900"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(g)<emph.end type="italics"/> Eccle&longs;ia&longs;t. </s>

<s>15. 3</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg901"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(h)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 Cor. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>2. v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 2</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg902"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(i)<emph.end type="italics"/> I&longs;a. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>48. v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 17.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg903"></margin.target>1 The&longs;&longs;. </s>

<s>4.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>And the Authorities of the &longs;econd Cla&longs;&longs;e in particular by <lb/>this &longs;ame Maxime, <emph type="italics"/>Of the ordinary manner of apprehending <lb/>things as they appear to us, and after the common way of &longs;peak&shy;<lb/>ing,<emph.end type="italics"/> may be thus reconciled and expounded; namely, Oftentimes <lb/>an Agent is commonly, and not improperly &longs;aid to move, (though <lb/>it have no motion) not becau&longs;e it doth indeed move, but <emph type="italics"/>by ex&shy;<lb/>trin&longs;ick denomination,<emph.end type="italics"/> becau&longs;e receiving its influence and action at <lb/>the motion of the Subject; the Form and Quality infu&longs;ed to <lb/>the Subject by the &longs;aid Agent doth likewi&longs;e move. </s>

<s>As for ex&shy;<lb/>ample, a Fire burning in a Chimney is an immoveable Agent, <lb/>before which a man oppre&longs;t with cold &longs;its to warm him&longs;elf who <lb/>being warmed on one &longs;ide, turns the other to the Fire, that he <lb/>may be warmed on that &longs;ide al&longs;o, and &longs;o in like manner he holds <lb/>every part to the Fire &longs;ucce&longs;&longs;ively, till his whole body be warm&shy;<lb/>ed. 'Tis clear, that although the Fire do not move, yet at the <lb/>Motion of the Subject, to wit the Man, who receiveth the heat <lb/>and action of the Fire, the Form and Quality of its Heat doth <lb/>move <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ingulatim, &amp; per partes,<emph.end type="italics"/> round about the mans body, and <lb/>alwayes &longs;eeketh out a new place: and &longs;o, though the Fire do <lb/>not move, yet by rea&longs;on of its effect, it is &longs;aid to go round all <lb/>the parts of the Mans body, and to warm it, not indeed by a <lb/>true and real motion of the Fire it &longs;elf, &longs;ince it is &longs;uppo&longs;ed (and <lb/>that not untruly) not to move, but by the motion to which the <lb/>Body is excited, out of a de&longs;ire of receiving the heat of the Fire <lb/>in each of its parts. </s>

<s>The &longs;ame may be applied to the Illumina&shy;<lb/>tion impre&longs;&longs;ed &longs;ucce&longs;&longs;ively on the parts of any Globe, which <lb/>moves Orbicularly at the a&longs;pect of a &longs;hining immoveable <lb/>Light. </s>

<s>And in the &longs;ame manner may the Sun be &longs;aid to ri&longs;e and <lb/>&longs;et, and to move above the Earth, although in reality he doth <lb/>not move, nor &longs;uffer any mutation; that is to &longs;ay, Ina&longs;much as <lb/>his Light (which effect is the Form and Quality proceeding from <lb/>him, as the Agent, to the Earth as the Subject) doth &longs;en&longs;ibly <lb/>glide forwards, by rea&longs;on of the Orbicular motion of the Earth; <lb/>and doth alwayes be take it &longs;elf to &longs;ome new place of her &longs;urface; <lb/>upon which ground he is truly &longs;aid <emph type="italics"/>(&longs;ecundum vnlgarem &longs;ermo&shy;<lb/>nem)<emph.end type="italics"/> to move above, and revolve about the Earth: Not that the <lb/>Sun doth move, (for by this Opinion we affirm the Earth to <lb/>move, that it may receive the Sun one while in one, another <lb/>while in another part of it) but that at the motion of the Earth


<pb xlink:href="067/01/020.jpg" pagenum="490"/>her &longs;elf a contrary way, the Quality diffu&longs;ed into her, and im&shy;<lb/>pre&longs;&longs;ed upon her by the Sun, namely the Light of the Day is <lb/>moved, which ri&longs;eth in one part of her, and &longs;ets in another con&shy;<lb/>trary to that, according to the nature and condition of her motion; <lb/>And for this rea&longs;on the Sun it &longs;elf by con&longs;equence is &longs;aid to ri&longs;e <lb/>and &longs;et, (which notwith&longs;tanding <emph type="italics"/>ex Hypothe&longs;i<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;tands immovea&shy;<lb/>ble) and that no otherwi&longs;e then <emph type="italics"/>per donominationem extrin&longs;ecam,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>as hath been &longs;aid.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>After this manner the command of <emph type="italics"/>Jo&longs;huah, Sun &longs;tand thou<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg904"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>&longs;till,<emph.end type="italics"/> and the Miracle of the Suns ce&longs;&longs;ation of Motion wrought <lb/>by him, may be &longs;o under&longs;tood, as that not the Solar Body pro&shy;<lb/>perly, but the Suns &longs;plendour upon the Earth &longs;tood &longs;till; &longs;o that <lb/>not the Sun it &longs;elf, (being of it &longs;elf before that time immovea&shy;<lb/>ble) but the Earth that receiveth its &longs;plendour, &longs;tayed her Mo&shy;<lb/>tion; which, as &longs;he ince&longs;&longs;antly pur&longs;uing her ordinary Motion to&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg905"></arrow.to.target><lb/>wards the Ea&longs;t, ^{*} called up the Light of the Sun in the We&longs;t, &longs;o <lb/>&longs;tanding &longs;till, the Suns light impre&longs;t upon it likewi&longs;e &longs;tood &longs;till. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg906"></arrow.to.target><lb/>After the &longs;ame manuer pioportionally is that Text of <emph type="italics"/>I&longs;aiah<emph.end type="italics"/> ex&shy;<lb/>plained, touching the Suns going ten degrees back ward upon the <lb/>Dial of <emph type="italics"/>Ahaz.<emph.end type="italics"/> So (which may &longs;erve for another Example) the <lb/>Hand being moved about the flame of a burning Candle that <lb/>&longs;tands &longs;till, the Light moveth on the Hand, that is to &longs;ay, the <lb/>&longs;aid Hand is illu&longs;trated now in one part, anon in another, when <lb/>as the Candle it &longs;elf all the while removes not out of its place: <lb/>whereupon <emph type="italics"/>per denominationem extrin&longs;ecam,<emph.end type="italics"/> the &longs;aid Light may <lb/>be affirmed to ri&longs;e and &longs;et upon the Hand, namely, by the &longs;ole <lb/>motion of the &longs;aid Hand, the Candle it &longs;elf never moving all the <lb/>while. </s>

<s>And let this &longs;uffice for the explanation of my fir&longs;t Prin&shy;<lb/>ciple or <emph type="italics"/>Maxime,<emph.end type="italics"/> which by rea&longs;on of its difficulty and extraordi&shy;<lb/>nary weight required &longs;ome prolixity in the handling of it.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg904"></margin.target>Jo&longs;hua <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>10. <lb/>ver.<emph.end type="italics"/> 12.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg905"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>* expected.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg906"></margin.target>I&longs;a. <emph type="italics"/>c. </s>

<s>38. v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 8.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>My &longs;econd Maxime is this, Things both Spiritual and Cor&shy;<lb/>poreal, Durable and Corruptible, Moveable and Immoveable, <lb/>have received from God a perpetual, unchangeable, and inviola&shy;<lb/>ble Law, con&longs;tituting the E&longs;&longs;ence and Nature of every one of <lb/>them: according to which Law all of them in their own Na&shy;<lb/>ture per&longs;i&longs;ting in a certain Order and Con&longs;tancy, and ob&longs;erving <lb/>the &longs;ame perpetual Cour&longs;e, may de&longs;ervedly be &longs;tiled mo&longs;t Stable <lb/>and Determinate. </s>

<s>Thus Fortune (than which there is nothing <lb/>in the World more incon&longs;tant or fickle) is &longs;aid to be con&longs;tant <lb/>and unalterable in her continual volubility, vici&longs;&longs;itude, and in&shy;<lb/>con&longs;tancy, which was the occa&longs;ion of that Ver&longs;e,</s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Et &longs;emper con&longs;tans in levitate &longs;ua e&longs;t.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>And thus the motion of Heaven (which by the con&longs;tan Law


<pb xlink:href="067/01/021.jpg" pagenum="491"/>of Nature ought to be perpetual) may be &longs;aid to be immutable <lb/>and immoveable, and the Heavens them&longs;elves to be immovea&shy;<lb/>bly moved, and Terrene things to be immutably changed, be&shy;<lb/>cau&longs;e tho&longs;e never cea&longs;e moving, nor the&longs;e changing. </s>

<s>By this Prin&shy;<lb/>ciple or Maxime all difficulties belonging to the fir&longs;t Cla&longs;&longs;is are <lb/>cleared, by which the Earth is &longs;aid to be &longs;table and immoveable, <lb/>that is, by under&longs;tanding this one thing, That the Earth, as to its <lb/>own Nature, though it include in it &longs;elf a local Motion, and that <lb/>threefold, according to the opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus (&longs;cilicet<emph.end type="italics"/> Diur&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg907"></arrow.to.target><lb/>nal, with which it revolveth about its own Centre; Annual, <lb/>by which it moveth through the twelve Signes of the Zodiack, <lb/>and the motion of Inclination, by which its Axis is alwayes op&shy;<lb/>po&longs;ed to the &longs;ame part of the World) as al&longs;o other Species of <lb/>Mutation, &longs;uch as Generation and Corruption, Accretion and <lb/>Diminution, and Alteration of divers kinds; yet in all the&longs;e &longs;he <lb/>is &longs;table &amp; con&longs;tant, never deviating from that Order which God <lb/>hath appointed her, but moveth continually, con&longs;tantly and im&shy;<lb/>mutably, according to the &longs;ix before named Species of Motion.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg907"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Several Motions <lb/>of the Earth ac&shy;<lb/>cording to<emph.end type="italics"/> Coper&shy;<lb/>nicus.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>My third Maxime &longs;hall be this; When a thing is moved ac&shy;<lb/>cording to &longs;ome part of it, and not according to its whole, it <lb/>cannot be &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>&longs;imply &amp; ab&longs;olutely<emph.end type="italics"/> moved, but only <emph type="italics"/>per acci&shy;<lb/>dens,<emph.end type="italics"/> for that &longs;tability taken &longs;imply &amp; ab&longs;olutly do rather accord <lb/>with the &longs;ame. </s>

<s>As for example, if a Barrel or other mea&longs;ure of <lb/>Water be taken out of the Sea, and transferred to another place, <lb/>the Sea may not therefore <emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olutely &amp; &longs;imply<emph.end type="italics"/> be &longs;aid to be remo&shy;<lb/>ved from place to place; but only <emph type="italics"/>per accidens,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum <lb/>quid,<emph.end type="italics"/> that is, according to a part of it, but rather (to &longs;peak &longs;im&shy;<lb/>ply) we &longs;hould &longs;ay that the Sea cannot be carried or moved out of <lb/>its proper place,, though as to its parts it be moved, and transfer&shy;<lb/>red to &amp; again. </s>

<s>This Maxime is manife&longs;t of it &longs;elf, and by it may <lb/>the Authorities be explained which &longs;eem to make for the immo&shy;<lb/>bility of the Earth in this manner; namely, The Earth <emph type="italics"/>per &longs;e &amp; <lb/>ab&longs;olut&egrave;<emph.end type="italics"/> con&longs;idered as to its <emph type="italics"/>Whole,<emph.end type="italics"/> is not mutable, &longs;eeing it is <lb/>neither generated nor corrupted neither increa&longs;ed nor dimini&longs;hed; <lb/>neither is it altered <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum totum,<emph.end type="italics"/> but only <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum partes.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg908"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Now it plainly appears, that this is the genuine and true Sen&longs;e of <lb/>what is a&longs;cribed to it out of <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;tes, cap.

1. v. </s>

<s>4. One Generation <lb/>pa&longs;&longs;eth away, and another Generation cometh, but the Earth abideth <lb/>for ever<emph.end type="italics"/>: as if he &longs;hould &longs;ay; although the Earth, according to its <lb/>parts, doth generate and corrupt, and is liable to the vici&longs;&longs;itudes of <lb/>Generation and corruption, yet in reference to its Whole it never <lb/>generateth nor Corrupteth, but abideth immutable for ever: <lb/>Like as a Ship, which though it be mended one while in the Sail&shy;<lb/>yard, another while in the Stern, and afterwards in other parts <lb/>it yet remains the &longs;ame Ship as it was at fir&longs;t. </s>

<s>But tis to be ad&shy;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/022.jpg" pagenum="492"/>vertized, that that Scripture doth not &longs;peak of a Local Motion, <lb/>but of Mutations of another nature; as in the very &longs;ub&longs;tance, <lb/>quantity or quality of the Earth it &longs;elf. </s>

<s>But if it be &longs;aid, that <lb/>it is to be under&longs;tood of a Local Motion, then it may be ex&shy;<lb/>plained by the in&longs;uing Maxime, that is to &longs;ay, a re&longs;pect being had <lb/>to the natural Place a&longs;&longs;igned it in the Univer&longs;e, as &longs;hall be &longs;hewed <lb/>by and by.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg908"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earth Se-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>cundum Totum <emph type="italics"/>is <lb/>Immutable, <lb/>though not Immo&shy;<lb/>vable.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The fourth Axiome is this; That every Corporeal thing, mo&shy;<lb/>veable or immoveable from its very fir&longs;t Creation, is alotted its <lb/>proper and natural place; and being drawn or removed from <lb/>thence, its motion is violent, and it hath a natural tendency to <lb/>move back thither again: al&longs;o that nothing can be moved from <lb/>its natural place, <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum Totum<emph.end type="italics"/>; For mo&longs;t great and dread&longs;ul <lb/>mi&longs;chiefs would follow from that perturbation of things in the <lb/>Univer&longs;e. </s>

<s>Therefore neither the whole Earth, nor the whole <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg909"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Water, nor the whole Air can <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum totum<emph.end type="italics"/> be driuen or for&shy;<lb/>ced out of their proper place, &longs;ite, or Sy&longs;teme in the Univer&longs;e, <lb/>in re&longs;pect of the order and di&longs;po&longs;ition of other mundane Bodies. <lb/></s>

<s>And thus there is no Star (though Erratick) Orb or Sphere that <lb/>can de&longs;ert its natural place, although it may otherwi&longs;e have &longs;ome <lb/>kind of motion. </s>

<s>Therefore all things, how moveable &longs;oever, <lb/>are notwith&longs;tanding &longs;aid to be &longs;table and immoveable in their <lb/>proper place, according to the fore&longs;aid &longs;en&longs;e, <emph type="italics"/>i.e. </s>

<s>&longs;ecundum to&shy;<lb/>tum<emph.end type="italics"/>; For nothing hinders, but that <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ecundum partes<emph.end type="italics"/> they may <lb/>&longs;ome waymove; which motion &longs;hall not be natural, but violent. <lb/></s>

<s>Therefore the Earth, although it &longs;hould be moveable, yet it <lb/>might be &longs;aid to be immoveable, according to the precedent <lb/>Maxime, for that its neither moved in a right Motion nor out of <lb/>the Cour&longs;e a&longs;&longs;igned it in its Creation for the &longs;tanding Rule of its <lb/>motion; but keep within its own &longs;ite, being placed in that <lb/>which is called the Grand Orb, above <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> and beneath <emph type="italics"/>Mars,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg910"></arrow.to.target><lb/>and being in the middle betwixt the&longs;e (which according to the <lb/>common opinion is the Suns place) it equally and continually <lb/>moveth about the Sun, and the two other intermediate Planets, <lb/>namely <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Mercury,<emph.end type="italics"/> and hath the Moon (which is another <lb/>Earth, but &AElig;therial, as <emph type="italics"/>Macrobius<emph.end type="italics"/> after &longs;ome of the ancient Phi&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg911"></arrow.to.target><lb/>lo&longs;ophers, will have it) about it &longs;elf. </s>

<s>From whence, ina&longs;much as <lb/>&longs;he per&longs;i&longs;teth uniformly in her Cour&longs;e, and never at any time <lb/>departeth from it, &longs;he may be &longs;aid to be &longs;table and immoveable: <lb/>and in the &longs;ame &longs;en&longs;e Heaven likewi&longs;e, with all the Elements, <lb/>may be &longs;aid to be immoveable.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg909"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earth can&shy;<lb/>not<emph.end type="italics"/> Secundum To&shy;<lb/>tum, <emph type="italics"/>remove out of <lb/>its Natural Place.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg910"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Natural <lb/>Place of the Earth.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg911"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Moon is an <lb/>&AElig;therial Body.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The fifth Maxime followeth, being little different from the <lb/>former. </s>

<s>Among&longs;t the things created by God, &longs;ome are of &longs;uch a <lb/>nature, that their parts may be <emph type="italics"/>ab invicem,<emph.end type="italics"/> or by turns, &longs;e&shy;<lb/>parated from them&longs;elves, and di&longs;-joyned from their Whole;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/023.jpg" pagenum="493"/>others may not, at lea&longs;t, taken <emph type="italics"/>collectively<emph.end type="italics"/>: now tho&longs;e are pe&shy;<lb/>ri&longs;hable, but the&longs;e perpetual. </s>

<s>The Earth therefore &longs;ince it <lb/>is reckoned among&longs;t tho&longs;e things that are permanent, as hath <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg912"></arrow.to.target><lb/>been &longs;aid already, hath its parts, not di&longs;&longs;ipable, nor <emph type="italics"/>ab invicem,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>&longs;eparable from its Centre (whereby its true and proper place is <lb/>a&longs;&longs;igned it) and from its whole, taken collectively: becau&longs;e ac&shy;<lb/>cording to its whole it is always pre&longs;erved, compact, united, and <lb/>coh&aelig;rent in it &longs;elf, nor can its parts be &longs;eperated from the Cen&shy;<lb/>tre, or from one another, unle&longs;s it may &longs;o fall out <emph type="italics"/>per accidens,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>and violently in &longs;ome of its parts; which afterwards, the ob&longs;tacle <lb/>being removed, return to their Natural Station &longs;pontaneou&longs;ly, <lb/>and without any impul&longs;e. </s>

<s>In this Sen&longs;e therefore the Earth is <lb/>&longs;aid to be Immoveable, and Immutable: yea even the Sea, Aire, <lb/>Heaven, and any other thing (although otherwi&longs;e moveable) &longs;o <lb/>long as its parts are not di&longs;&longs;ipable and &longs;eperable, may be &longs;aid to <lb/>be Immoveable, at lea&longs;t taken <emph type="italics"/>collectively.<emph.end type="italics"/> This Principle <lb/>or Maxim differeth from the precedent only in that this referrs <lb/>to the parts in order to <emph type="italics"/>Place,<emph.end type="italics"/> and this, in order to the Whole.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg912"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earths Cen&shy;<lb/>tre keepeth it in <lb/>its Natural Place.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>From this Speculation another Secret is di&longs;covered. </s>

<s>For hence <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg913"></arrow.to.target><lb/>it is manife&longs;t wherein the proper and genuine formality of the <lb/>Gravity aad Levity of Bodyes con&longs;i&longs;teth; a point which is not &longs;o <lb/>clearly held forth, nor &longs;o undeniably explained by the Peripate&shy;<lb/>tick Phylo&longs;ophy. <emph type="italics"/>Gravity<emph.end type="italics"/> therefore is nothing el&longs;e according to <lb/>the Principles of this new Opinion, than a certain power and ap&shy;<lb/>petite of the Parts to rejoyn with their Whole, and there to re&longs;t <lb/>as in their proper place. </s>

<s>Which Faculty or Di&longs;po&longs;ition is by <lb/>Divine Providence be&longs;towed not only on the Earth, and Ter&shy;<lb/>rene Bodies, but, as is believed, on C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies al&longs;o, name&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg914"></arrow.to.target><lb/>ly the Sun, Moon, and Starrs; all who&longs;e parts are by this Impul&shy;<lb/>&longs;ion connected, and con&longs;erved together, cleaving clo&longs;ely to each <lb/>other, and on all &longs;ides pre&longs;&longs;ing towards their Centre, until they <lb/>come to re&longs;t there. </s>

<s>From which Concour&longs;e and Compre&longs;&longs;ion a <lb/>Sph&aelig;rical and Orbicular Figure of the C&aelig;le&longs;tial Orbes is produ&shy;<lb/>ced, wherein by this occult Quality naturally incident to <lb/>each of them they of them&longs;elves &longs;ub&longs;i&longs;t, and are alwayes pre&longs;er&shy;<lb/>ved. </s>

<s>But <emph type="italics"/>Levity<emph.end type="italics"/> is the Extru&longs;ion and Exclu&longs;ion of a more te&shy;<lb/>nuo&longs;e and thin Body from the Commerce of one more Solid and <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg915"></arrow.to.target><lb/>den&longs;e, that is Heterogeneal to it, by vertue of Heat. </s>

<s>Where&shy;<lb/>upon, as the Motion of Grave Bodies is <emph type="italics"/>Compre&longs;&longs;ive,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;o the Mo&shy;<lb/>tion of Light Bodies is <emph type="italics"/>Exten&longs;ive:<emph.end type="italics"/> For its the propperty of Heat <lb/>to dilate and rarify tho&longs;e things to which it doth apply, conjoine <lb/>and communicate it &longs;elf. </s>

<s>And for this rea&longs;on we find Levity <lb/>and Gravity not only in re&longs;pect of this our Tere&longs;trial Globe, and <lb/>the Bodies adjacent to it, but al&longs;o in re&longs;pect of tho&longs;e Bodies <lb/>which are &longs;aid to be in the Heavens, in which tho&longs;e parts which


<pb xlink:href="067/01/024.jpg" pagenum="494"/>by rea&longs;on of their proclivity make towards their Centre are <lb/>Grave, and tho&longs;e that incline to the Circumference Light. </s>

<s>And <lb/>&longs;o in the Sun, Moon, and Starrs, there are parts as well Grave as <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg916"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Light. </s>

<s>And con&longs;equently Heaven it &longs;elf that &longs;o Noble Body, <lb/>and of a fifth E&longs;&longs;ence, &longs;hall not be con&longs;tituted of a Matter diffe&shy;<lb/>rent from that of the Elements, being free from all Mutation in <lb/>it's Sub&longs;tance, Quantity, and Quality: Nor &longs;o admirable and <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg917"></arrow.to.target><lb/>excellent as <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> would make us to believe; nor yet a &longs;olid <lb/>Body, and impermeable; and much le&longs;&longs;e (as the generality of <lb/>men verily believe) of an impenetrable and mo&longs;t obdurate Den&shy;<lb/>&longs;ity: but in it (as this Opinion will have it) Comets may be ge&shy;<lb/>nerated; and the Sun it &longs;elf, as tis probable, exhaling or attract&shy;<lb/>ing &longs;undry vapours to the &longs;urface of its Body, may perhaps pro&shy;<lb/>duce tho&longs;e Spots which were ob&longs;erved to be &longs;o various, and irre&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg918"></arrow.to.target><lb/>gular in its <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/>: of which <emph type="italics"/>Galil&aelig;us<emph.end type="italics"/> in a perticular ^{*} Treati&longs;e <lb/>hath mo&longs;t excellently and mo&longs;t accurately &longs;poken; in&longs;omuch, <lb/>that though it were not be&longs;ides my pre&longs;ent purpo&longs;e, yet it is con&shy;<lb/>venient that I forbear to &longs;peak any thing touching tho&longs;e matters, <lb/>lea&longs;t I &longs;hould &longs;eem to do that which he hath done before me: But <lb/>now if there be found in the Sacred Scriptures any Authority <lb/>contrary to the&longs;e things, it may be &longs;alved by the fore&longs;aid Argu&shy;<lb/>ments Analogically applyed. </s>

<s>And further more it may be &longs;aid, <lb/>that that Solidity is to be &longs;o under&longs;tood, <emph type="italics"/>as that it admits of no <lb/>vacuum, cleft, or penetration from whence the lea&longs;t vacuity might <lb/>proceed<emph.end type="italics"/> For the truth is, as that cannot be admitted in bodily <lb/>Creatures, &longs;o it is likewi&longs;e repugnant to Heaven it &longs;elf, being <lb/>indeed a Body of its own Nature the mo&longs;t Rare of all o&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg919"></arrow.to.target><lb/>thers, and tenuo&longs;e beyond all Humane Conception, and happly <lb/>hath the &longs;ame proportion to the Aire, as the Aire to the <lb/>Water.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg913"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Gravity and Le&shy;<lb/>vity of Bodies, <lb/>what it is.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg914"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>All C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bo&shy;<lb/>dies have Gravity <lb/>and Levety.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg915"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Compre&longs;&longs;ive Ma&shy;<lb/>tion, proper to <lb/>Gravity; the Ex&shy;<lb/>ten&longs;ive, to Levity.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg916"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Heaven is not <lb/>compo&longs;ed of a fift <lb/>E&longs;&longs;ence differing <lb/>from the matter of <lb/>inferior Bodies.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg917"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Nor yet a Solid <lb/>or den&longs;e Body but <lb/>Rare.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg918"></margin.target>* Delle Macchie <lb/>&longs;olarj.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg919"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Vnius Corporis <lb/>fimplicis, unus e&longs;t <lb/>motus &longs;implex, et <lb/>huic du&aelig; &longs;pecies, <lb/>Rectus &amp; Circu&shy;<lb/>laris: Rectus du&shy;<lb/>plex &agrave; medio, &amp; <lb/>ad medium; pri&shy;<lb/>mus levium, ut A&shy;<lb/>eris &amp; Ignis: &longs;e&shy;<lb/>cundus gravium, <lb/>ut Aqu&aelig; &amp; Ter&shy;<lb/>r&aelig;: Circularis, <lb/>quie&longs;t circa medi&shy;<lb/>um competit C&oelig;lo, <lb/>quod neque e&longs;t <lb/>grave, neque leve.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Ari&longs;t. <emph type="italics"/>de C&oelig;lo.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Lib. 1.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>It is clear al&longs;o from the&longs;e Principles how fal&longs;e the&longs;e words of <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> are, that: <emph type="italics"/>Of one &longs;imple Body, there is one &longs;imple Motion<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/><emph type="italics"/>and this is of two kindes, Right and Circular: the Right is two&shy;<lb/>fold, from the medium, and to the medium; the fir&longs;t of Light Bo&shy;<lb/>dyes, as the Aire and Fire: the &longs;econd of Grave Bodyes, as the <lb/>Water and Earth: the Circular, which is about the medium, be&shy;<lb/>longeth to Heaven, which is neither Grave nor Light<emph.end type="italics"/>: For all this <lb/>Philo&longs;ophy is now for&longs;aken, and of it &longs;elf grown into di&longs;-e&longs;teem; <lb/>for though it be received for an unque&longs;tionable truth in this new <lb/>Opinion, that to a &longs;imple body appertains one only &longs;imple Moti&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg920"></arrow.to.target><lb/>on, yet it granteth no Motion but what is Circular, by which alone <lb/>a&longs;imple body is con&longs;erved in its naturall Place, and &longs;ub&longs;i&longs;ts in its <lb/>Unity, and is properly &longs;aid to move <emph type="italics"/>in loco<emph.end type="italics"/> [<emph type="italics"/>in a place<emph.end type="italics"/>:] whereby <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg921"></arrow.to.target><lb/>it comes to pa&longs;s that a Body for this rea&longs;on doth continue to move <lb/>in it &longs;elf, [<emph type="italics"/>or about its own axis<emph.end type="italics"/>;] and although it have a Motion,


<pb xlink:href="067/01/025.jpg" pagenum="495"/>yet it abideth &longs;till in the &longs;ame place, as if it were perpetually im&shy;<lb/>moveable. </s>

<s>But right Motion, which is properly <emph type="italics"/>ad locum, [to a <lb/>place]<emph.end type="italics"/> can be a&longs;cribed only to tho&longs;e things which are out of their <lb/>naturall place, being far from union with one another, and from <lb/>unity with their whole, yea that are &longs;eperated and divided from <lb/>it: Which being that it is contrary to the Nature and forme of <lb/>the Univer&longs;e, it nece&longs;&longs;arily followeth, that right Motion doth in <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg922"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;hort &longs;ute with tho&longs;e things which are de&longs;titute of that perfection, <lb/>that according to their proper Nature belongeth to them, and <lb/>which by this &longs;ame right Motion they labour to obtaine, untill <lb/>they are redintigrated with their Whole, and with one another, <lb/>and re&longs;tored to their Naturall place; in which at the length, <lb/>having obtained their perfection, they &longs;ettle and remaine immove&shy;<lb/>able. </s>

<s>Therefore in right Motions there can be no Uniformity, <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg923"></arrow.to.target><lb/>nor &longs;implicity; for that they vary by rea&longs;on of the uncertaine <lb/>Levity or Gravity of their re&longs;pective Bodyes: for which cau&longs;e <lb/>they do not per&longs;evere in the &longs;ame Velocity or Tardity to the end <lb/>which they had in the beginning. </s>

<s>Hence we &longs;ee that tho&longs;e things <lb/>who&longs;e weight maketh them tend downwards, do de&longs;cend at fir&longs;t <lb/>with a &longs;low Motion; but afterwards, as they approach neerer <lb/>and neerer to the Centre, they precipitate more and more &longs;wiftly. <lb/></s>

<s>And on the other&longs;ide, tho&longs;e things which by rea&longs;on of their light&shy;<lb/>ne&longs;s are carryed upwards (as this our Terre&longs;triall fire, which is no&shy;<lb/>thing el&longs;e but a &longs;moak that burneth, and is inkindled into a flame) <lb/>are no &longs;ooner a&longs;cended on high, but, in almo&longs;t the &longs;elf-&longs;ame mo&shy;<lb/>ment, they fly and vani&longs;h out of fight; by rea&longs;on of the rare&shy;<lb/>faction and exten&longs;ion, that they as &longs;oon as they acquire, are freed <lb/>from tho&longs;e bonds which violently and again&longs;t their own Nature <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg924"></arrow.to.target><lb/>kept them under, and deteined them here below. </s>

<s>For which <lb/>rea&longs;on, it is very apparent, that no Right Motion can be called <lb/>Simple, not only in regard that (as hath been &longs;aid) it is not <lb/>^{*} even and uniforme, but al&longs;o becau&longs;e it is mixt with the Circu&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg925"></arrow.to.target><lb/>lar, which lurketh in the Right by an occult con&longs;ent, <emph type="italics"/>&longs;cilicet<emph.end type="italics"/> by <lb/>rea&longs;on of the Natural affection of the Parts to conforme unto <lb/>their Whole. </s>

<s>For when the Whole moveth Circularly, it is re&shy;<lb/>qui&longs;ite likewi&longs;e that the Parts, to the end that they may be uni&shy;<lb/>ted to their Whole, (howbeit <emph type="italics"/>per accidens<emph.end type="italics"/> they are &longs;ometimes <lb/>moved with a Right Motion) do move (though not &longs;o appa&shy;<lb/>rently) with a Circular Motion, as doth their Whole. </s>

<s>And thus <lb/>at length we have evinced that Circular Motion only is Simple, <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg926"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Uniform and ^{*} &AElig;quable, and of the &longs;ame tenor [<emph type="italics"/>or rate<emph.end type="italics"/>] for that <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg927"></arrow.to.target><lb/>it is never de&longs;titute of its interne Cau&longs;e: whereas on the contra&shy;<lb/>ry, Right Motion, (which pertains to things both Heavy and <lb/>Light) hath a Cau&longs;e that is imperfect and deficient, yea that ari&shy;<lb/>&longs;eth from Defect it &longs;elf, and that tendeth to, and &longs;eeketh after


<pb xlink:href="067/01/026.jpg" pagenum="496"/>nothing el&longs;e but the end and termination of it &longs;elf: in regard <lb/>that Grave and Light Bodies, when once they have attained their <lb/>proper and Natural Place, do de&longs;i&longs;t from that Motion to which <lb/>they were incited by Levity and Gravity. </s>

<s>Therefore: &longs;ince Cir&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg928"></arrow.to.target><lb/>cular Motion is proper <emph type="italics"/>to the Whole,<emph.end type="italics"/> and Right Motion <emph type="italics"/>to the <lb/>Parts,<emph.end type="italics"/> the&longs;e differences are not rightly referred to Motion, &longs;o as <lb/>to call one Motion Right, another Circular, as if they were not <lb/>con&longs;i&longs;tent with one another: For they may be both together, and <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg929"></arrow.to.target><lb/>that Naturally, in the &longs;ame Body; no le&longs;&longs;e than it is equally <lb/>Natural for a Man to participate of Sen&longs;e and Rea&longs;on, &longs;eeing <lb/>that the&longs;e differences are not directly oppo&longs;ite to one another. <lb/></s>

<s>Hereupon Re&longs;t and Immobility only are oppo&longs;ed to Motion; <lb/>and not one Species of Motion to another. </s>

<s>And for the other <lb/>differences <emph type="italics"/>&agrave; medio, ad medium,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>circa medium,<emph.end type="italics"/> they are di&shy;<lb/>&longs;tingui&longs;hed not <emph type="italics"/>really,<emph.end type="italics"/> but only <emph type="italics"/>formally,<emph.end type="italics"/> as the Point, Line and <lb/>Superficies, none of which can be without the other two, or <lb/>without a Body. </s>

<s>Hence it appears, that in as much as this Phy&shy;<lb/>lo&longs;ophy differs from that of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;o in like manner doth this <lb/>New Co&longs;mographical Sy&longs;tem vary from the Common one, that <lb/>hath been hitherto received. </s>

<s>But this by the way, upon occa&longs;ion <lb/>of explaining the Fifth Maxim: For as to the truth or fal&longs;hood <lb/>of the&longs;e foregoing Po&longs;itions (although I conceive them very pro&shy;<lb/>bable) I am re&longs;olved to determine nothing at pre&longs;ent, neither <lb/>&longs;hall I make any farther enquiry into them.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg920"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Vide Coperni&shy;<lb/>cum de Revolutio&shy;<lb/>nibus C&oelig;le&longs;t.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg921"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Simple Motion <lb/>peculiar to only <lb/>Simple Bodies.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg922"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Right Motion <lb/>belongeth to Im&shy;<lb/>perfect Bodies, and <lb/>that are out of <lb/>their natural Pla&shy;<lb/>ces.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg923"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Right Motion <lb/>cannot be Simple.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg924"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Right Motion is <lb/>ever mixt with <lb/>the Circular.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg925"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>&aelig;quabilis.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg926"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Even.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg927"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Circular Mo&shy;<lb/>tion is truly Sim&shy;<lb/>ple and Perpetual.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg928"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Circular Mo&shy;<lb/>tion belongeth to <lb/>the Whole Body, <lb/>and the Right to <lb/>its parts.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg929"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Circular and <lb/>Right Motion co&shy;<lb/>incedent, and may <lb/>con&longs;i&longs;t together in <lb/>the &longs;ame Body.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The Sixth and La&longs;t Maxim is this. </s>

<s>Every thing is Simply deno&shy;<lb/>minated &longs;uch as it is in compari&longs;on of all things, or of many <lb/>things which make the greater number of that kinde, but not in <lb/>re&longs;pect of a few which make but the le&longs;&longs;er part of them. </s>

<s>As, <lb/>for in&longs;tance, a Ve&longs;&longs;el &longs;hall not be called ab&longs;olutely Great be&shy;<lb/>cau&longs;e it is &longs;o whil&longs;t it is compared with two or three others: but <lb/>it &longs;hall be &longs;aid to be great ab&longs;olutely, and will be &longs;o, if it ex&shy;<lb/>ceed in magnitude all indivials, or the greater part of them. </s>

<s>Nor <lb/>again &longs;hall a Man be &longs;aid to be ab&longs;olutely Big, becau&longs;e he is big&shy;<lb/>ger than a Pigmey; nor yet ab&longs;olutely Little, becau&longs;e le&longs;&longs;e than <lb/>a Gyant: but he &longs;hall be termed ab&longs;olutely Big or Little in com&shy;<lb/>pari&longs;on of the ordinary Stature of the greater part of Men. </s>

<s>Thus <lb/>the Earth cannot ab&longs;olutely be &longs;aid to be High or Low for that it <lb/>is found to be &longs;o in re&longs;pect of &longs;ome &longs;mall part of the Univer&longs;e; nor <lb/>again &longs;hall it be ab&longs;olutely affirmed to be High, being compared <lb/>to the Centre of the World, or &longs;ome few parts of the Univer&longs;e, <lb/>more near to the &longs;aid Centre, as is the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> or <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/>: <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg930"></arrow.to.target><lb/>but it &longs;hall receive its ab&longs;olute denomination according as it &longs;hall <lb/>be found to be in compari&longs;on of the greater number of the <lb/>Spheres and Bodies of the Univer&longs;e. </s>

<s>The Earth therefore, in <lb/>compari&longs;on of the whole Circuit of the Eighth Sph&aelig;re which in&shy;


<pb xlink:href="067/01/027.jpg" pagenum="497"/>cludeth all Corporeal Creatures, and in compari&longs;on of <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter, <lb/>Mars,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Saturn<emph.end type="italics"/> together with the <emph type="italics"/>Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/> and much more in <lb/>compari&longs;on of other Bodies, (if any &longs;uch there be) above the <lb/>Eighth Sphere and e&longs;pecially the Empyrial Heaven, may be truly <lb/>&longs;aid to be in the lowe&longs;t place of the World, and almo&longs;t in the <lb/>Centre of it; nor can it he &longs;aid to be above any of them, except <lb/>the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/>: So that one may apply unto it the <lb/>name of an Infime and Low, but not a Supreme or Middle Body. <lb/></s>

<s>And &longs;o to come down from Heaven, e&longs;pecially the Empyrian, to it <lb/>(as it is accepted in the De&longs;cent of Chri&longs;t from Heaven to his Holy <lb/>Incarnation) and from it to go up to Heaven (as in Chri&longs;ts return <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg931"></arrow.to.target><lb/>to Heaven in his Glorious A&longs;cention) is truly and properly to <lb/><emph type="italics"/>De&longs;cend<emph.end type="italics"/> from the Circumference to the Centre, and to <emph type="italics"/>a&longs;cend<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>from the parts which are neare&longs;t to the Centre of the World <lb/>to its utmo&longs;t Circumference. </s>

<s>This Maxim therefore may ea&longs;ily <lb/>and according to truth explain Theologicall Propo&longs;itions: and <lb/>this is &longs;o much the more confirmed, in that (as I have ob&longs;erved) <lb/>almo&longs;t all Texts of Sacred Scripture which oppo&longs;e the Earth to <lb/>Heaven, are mo&longs;t conveniently and aptly under&longs;tood of the Em&shy;<lb/>pyrial Heaven (being the Highe&longs;t of all the Heavens, and Spiritual <lb/>in re&longs;pect of its end) but not of the inferiour or intermediate Hea&shy;<lb/>vens, which are a Corporeal, and were framed for the benefit of <lb/>Corporeal Creatures: and thus when in the Plural Number <lb/>Heavens are mentioned, then all the Heavens promi&longs;cuou&longs;ly and <lb/>without di&longs;tinction are to be under&longs;tood, as well the Empyrian <lb/>it &longs;elf as the Inferiour Heavens. </s>

<s>And this Expo&longs;ition indeed any <lb/>man (that doth but take notice of it) may find to be mo&longs;t true. <lb/></s>

<s>And &longs;o for this Rea&longs;on the Third Heaveu into which St. <emph type="italics"/>Paul<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg932"></arrow.to.target><lb/>was wrapt up, by this Maxim may be taken for the Empyrean: <lb/>if for the the Fir&longs;t Heaven we under&longs;tand that immen&longs;e Space of <lb/>Erratick and Moveable Bodies illuminated by the Sun, in which <lb/>are comprehended the Planets, as al&longs;o the Earth moveable, and <lb/>the Sun immoveable, Who like a King upon his Augu&longs;t Tribu&shy;<lb/>nal, &longs;its with venerable Maje&longs;ty immoveable and con&longs;tant in <lb/>Centre of all the Sph&aelig;res, and, with his Divine Beames, doth <lb/>bountifully exhilerate all C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies that &longs;tand in need of <lb/>his vital Light, for which they cravingly wander about him; and <lb/>doth liberally and on every &longs;ide comfort and illu&longs;trate the Thea&shy;<lb/>tre of the whole World, and all its parts, even the very lea&longs;t, like <lb/>an immortal and perpetual Lamp of high and un&longs;peakable va&shy;<lb/>lue. </s>

<s>The Second Heaven &longs;hall be the Starry Heaven, common&shy;<lb/>ly called the Eighth Sph&aelig;re, or the Firmament, wherein are all <lb/>the Fixed Starrs, which according to this Opinion of <emph type="italics"/>Pythagoras,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>is (like as the Sun and Centre) void of all Motion, the Centre <lb/>and utmo&longs;t Circumference mutually agreeing with each other in


<pb xlink:href="067/01/028.jpg" pagenum="498"/>Immobility. </s>

<s>And the Third &longs;hall be the Empyrean Heaven, that <lb/>is the Seat of the Ble&longs;&longs;ed. </s>

<s>And in this manner we may come to <lb/>explain and under&longs;tand that admirable Secret, and profound My&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg933"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;tery &aelig;nigmatically revealed by <emph type="italics"/>Plato<emph.end type="italics"/> to <emph type="italics"/>Diony&longs;ius<emph.end type="italics"/> of <emph type="italics"/>Syracu&longs;e<emph.end type="italics"/>: <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg934"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>(a) All things are about the King of all things, Second things <lb/>about the &longs;econd, and Third things about the Third<emph.end type="italics"/>: For that <lb/>God being the Centre of Spiritual things, the Sun, of Cor&shy;<lb/>poreal, Chri&longs;t, of tho&longs;e that are Mixt, or made up of both, things <lb/>do doubtle&longs;&longs;e depend of that of the&longs;e three Centres that is mo&longs;t <lb/>corre&longs;pondent and proportionable to them, and the Centre is <lb/>ever adjudged to be the nobler and worthier place: and therefore <lb/>in Animals the Heart, in Vegitables the Pith or Kernell wherein <lb/>the Seed lyeth that con&longs;erveth their perpetuity, and virtually in&shy;<lb/>cludes the whole Plant, are in the Mid&longs;t, and in the Centre: and <lb/>thus much &longs;hall &longs;uffice to have hinted at, &longs;ince there may another <lb/>occa&longs;ion offer it &longs;elf for a larger Explication of the&longs;e things. </s>

<s>By <lb/>this Maxim the Authorities and Arguments of the Third Fourth <lb/>and Fifth Cla&longs;&longs;es are re&longs;olved.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg930"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earth in <lb/>what &longs;en&longs;e it may <lb/>ab&longs;olutely be &longs;aid <lb/>to be in the lowe&longs;t <lb/>part of the World.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg931"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Chri&longs;t in his <lb/>Incarnation tru&shy;<lb/>ly de&longs;cended from <lb/>Heaven, and in <lb/>his A&longs;cen&longs;ion tru&shy;<lb/>ly a&longs;cended into <lb/>Heaven.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg932"></margin.target>2 Cor. </s>

<s>c. </s>

<s>12. v. <lb/></s>

<s>3. <emph type="italics"/>Whether in the <lb/>body or out of the <lb/>body, I cannot tell, <lb/>The Sun is King, <lb/>Heart and Lamp <lb/>of the World him&shy;<lb/>&longs;elf being<emph.end type="italics"/> <foreign lang="greek">autarkhs</foreign><lb/><emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olutely indepen&shy;<lb/>dent.<emph.end type="italics"/>)</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg933"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The &AElig;nignsa of <lb/>Plato.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg934"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(a) Circa omni&shy;<lb/>um Regem &longs;unt <lb/>omnia. </s>

<s>&amp; Secun&shy;<lb/>da circa Secun&shy;<lb/>dum, et Tertia <lb/>circa Tertium: <lb/>Vide<emph.end type="italics"/> Theodo. </s>

<s>de <lb/>Gr&aelig;c. </s>

<s>affect. </s>

<s>curat. <lb/></s>

<s>lib.

2. Steuch. </s>

<s>lib. <lb/></s>

<s>de Parennj. </s>

<s>Phi&shy;<lb/>lo&longs;o.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>It may be added withall, that even the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ve&shy;<lb/>nus<emph.end type="italics"/> (that is to &longs;ay in re&longs;pect of the Earth) are to be thought <lb/><emph type="italics"/>aboue,<emph.end type="italics"/> and not <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/> the Earth it &longs;elf, although in re&longs;pect of <lb/>the Univer&longs;e, yea and al&longs;o ab&longs;olutely, they are <emph type="italics"/>below.<emph.end type="italics"/> The rea&shy;<lb/>&longs;on is, becau&longs;e in re&longs;pect of the Earth they alwayes appear above <lb/>its Surface: and although they do not environe it, yet by the <lb/>Motion of the &longs;aid Earth they behold one while one part, another <lb/>while another part of its Circumference. </s>

<s>Since therefore tho&longs;e <lb/>things which in a Sph&aelig;rical Body are nearer to the Circumfe&shy;<lb/>rence and more remote from the Cenrre are &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>above,<emph.end type="italics"/> but <lb/>tho&longs;e that are next adjoyning to the Centre are &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>below<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/>it clearly followeth that whil&longs;t the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> are <lb/>not only turned towards the Surface and Circumference of the <lb/>&longs;aid Earth, but are at a very great di&longs;tance without it, &longs;ucce&longs;&longs;ively <lb/>turned about it, and every way have a view of it, and are very <lb/>far remote from its Centre, they may, in re&longs;pect of the &longs;aid Earth, <lb/>be &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>above<emph.end type="italics"/> it; as al&longs;o on the other &longs;ide, the Earth in <lb/>re&longs;pect of them may be &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/>: howbeit on the con&shy;<lb/>trary, in re&longs;pect of the Univer&longs;e, the Earth in reality is much <lb/>higher than they. </s>

<s>And thus is &longs;alved the Authority of <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;i-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg935"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>a&longs;tes<emph.end type="italics"/> in many places, expre&longs;&longs;ing tho&longs;e things that are, or are done <lb/>on the Eeath in the&longs;e words, <emph type="italics"/>Which are done, or which are under<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg936"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>the Sun,<emph.end type="italics"/> And in the &longs;ame manner tho&longs;e words are reduced to their <lb/>true Sen&longs;e wherein it is &longs;aid, That we are <emph type="italics"/>under the Sun,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>un&shy;<lb/>der the Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/> whereupon Terrene things are expre&longs;&longs;ed by the <lb/>name of <emph type="italics"/>Sublunary.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg935"></margin.target>Eccle&longs;. </s>

<s>c. </s>

<s>1. 2. 3. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>and almo&longs;t tho&shy;<lb/>out.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg936"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Quod fiunt, vel <lb/>&longs;unt &longs;ub &longs;ole.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>The Sixth Cla&longs;&longs;is threatneth a difficulty which is common as


<pb xlink:href="067/01/029.jpg" pagenum="499"/>well to this of <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> as to the Vulgar Opinion; &longs;o that they <lb/>are both alike concerned in the &longs;olution of it: But &longs;o far as it <lb/>oppo&longs;eth that of <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> its an&longs;wer is ea&longs;y from the Fir&longs;t <lb/>Maxim.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>But that which is added in the Fourth Cla&longs;&longs;e, That it follow&shy;<lb/>eth from this Opinion, that Hell (for that it is included by the <lb/>Earth, as is commonly held) doth move circularly about the <lb/>Sun, and in Heaven, and that &longs;o Hell it &longs;elf will be found to be <lb/>in Heaven; di&longs;covers, in my judgment, nothing but Ignorance <lb/>and Calumny, that in&longs;inuate the belief of their Arguments ra&shy;<lb/>ther by a corrupt &longs;en&longs;e of the Words, than by &longs;olid Rea&longs;ons <lb/>taken from the bo&longs;ome of the Nature of things. </s>

<s>For in this <lb/>place Heaven is no wi&longs;e to be taken for Paradice, nor according <lb/>to the Sen&longs;e of Common Opinion, but (as hath been &longs;aid above) <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg937"></arrow.to.target><lb/>according to the <emph type="italics"/>Copernican<emph.end type="italics"/> Hypothe&longs;is, for the &longs;ubtile&longs;t and <lb/>Pure&longs;t Aire, far more tenuous and rare than this of ours; where&shy;<lb/>upon the Solid Bodies of the Stars, Moon, and Earth, in their <lb/>Circular and Ordinary Motions, do pa&longs;&longs;e thorow it, (the Sph&aelig;re <lb/>of Fire being by this Opinion taken away.) And as according <lb/>to the Common Opinion it was no ab&longs;urdity to &longs;ay, That Hell <lb/>being demerged in the Centre of the Earth and of the World it <lb/>&longs;elf, hath Heaven and Paradice above and below it, yea and on <lb/>all &longs;ides of it, and that it is in the middle of all the C&oelig;le&longs;tial <lb/>Bodies (as if it were po&longs;ited in a more unworthy place) &longs;o, nei&shy;<lb/>ther in this will it be deemed an Error, if from the other Sy&longs;tem, <lb/>which differeth not much from the Vulgar one, tho&longs;e or the like <lb/>things follow as do in that. </s>

<s>For both in that of <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>the Vulgar Hypothe&longs;is, Hell is &longs;uppo&longs;ed to be placed among&longs;t the <lb/>very dreggs of the Elements, and in the Centre of the Earth it <lb/>&longs;elf, for the confinement and puni&longs;hment of the damned. </s>

<s>There&shy;<lb/>fore we ought not for want of Rea&longs;ons to trifle away time in <lb/>vain and impertinent &longs;trife about words, &longs;ince their true Sen&longs;e <lb/>is clouded then with no ob&longs;curity, and in regard that it is very <lb/>clear to any man indued with a refined Intellect, and that hath <lb/>but an indifferent judgment in the Liberal Arts, and e&longs;pecially <lb/>in the Mathematicks, that the &longs;ame, or not very different Gon&shy;<lb/>&longs;equences do flow from both the&longs;e Opinions.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg937"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Heaven accord&shy;<lb/>ing to Copernicus <lb/>is the &longs;ame with <lb/>the mo&longs;t tenuous <lb/>&AElig;ther; but dif&shy;<lb/>ferent from Para&shy;<lb/>dice, which &longs;ar&shy;<lb/>pa&longs;&longs;eth all the <lb/>Heavens.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s>By the&longs;e Maxims and their Interpretations it appears, that <lb/>the <emph type="italics"/>Pythagorick<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Copernican<emph.end type="italics"/> Opinion is &longs;o probable, that its <lb/>po&longs;&longs;ible it may exceed even the <emph type="italics"/>Ptolemaick<emph.end type="italics"/> in probability; and <lb/>&longs;ince there may be deduced from it a mo&longs;t ordinate Sy&longs;teme, and <lb/>a mroe admirable and my&longs;terious Hypothe&longs;is of the World <lb/>than from that of <emph type="italics"/>Ptolomy:<emph.end type="italics"/> the Authorities of Sacred Scripture <lb/>and Theological Tenents in the mean while not oppo&longs;ing it, be&shy;<lb/>ing opportunely and appo&longs;itely (as I have &longs;hown how they may


<pb xlink:href="067/01/030.jpg" pagenum="500"/>be) reconciled with it: And &longs;ince that by it not only the Ph&oelig;&shy;<lb/>nomena of all the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies are mo&longs;t readily &longs;alved, but <lb/>al&longs;o many Natural Rea&longs;ons are di&longs;covered, which could not o&shy;<lb/>therwi&longs;e, (but with extream difficulty) have been found out: <lb/>And &longs;ince it, la&longs;t of all, doth open a more ea&longs;y way into A&longs;tro&shy;<lb/>nomy and Phylo&longs;ophy, and rejecteth all tho&longs;e &longs;uperfluous and <lb/>imaginary inventions produced by A&longs;tronomers to the end only, <lb/>that they might be able by them to render a rea&longs;on of the &longs;o ma&shy;<lb/>ny and &longs;o various Motions of the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Orbs.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>And who knows, but that in that admirable compo&longs;ure of the <lb/>Candle&longs;tick which was to be placed in the Tabernacle of God, he <lb/>might out of his extraordinary love to us have been plea&longs;ed to <lb/>&longs;haddow forth unto us the Sy&longs;teme of the Univer&longs;e, and more <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg938"></arrow.to.target><lb/>e&longs;pecially of the Planets? <emph type="italics"/>(a) Thou &longs;halt make a Candle&longs;tick of<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg939"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>pure Gold,<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;aith the Text;) <emph type="italics"/>of beaten work &longs;hall it be made: <lb/>his Shaft, and his Branches, his Bowls, his Knops, and his <lb/>Flowers (b) &longs;hall be of the &longs;ame.<emph.end type="italics"/> Here are five things de&longs;cribed, the <lb/>Shaft of the Candle&longs;tick in the midle, the Branches on the &longs;ides, <lb/>the Bowls, the Knops and the Flowers. </s>

<s>And &longs;ince there can be no <lb/>more Shafts but one, the Branches are immediatly de&longs;cribed in <lb/>the&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>(c)<emph.end type="italics"/> words: <emph type="italics"/>Six Branches &longs;hall come out of the &longs;ides of it: <lb/>three Branches out of the one &longs;ide, and three Branches out of the <lb/>other &longs;ide:<emph.end type="italics"/> Happly the&longs;e fix Branches may point out to us &longs;ix <lb/><emph type="italics"/>(d)<emph.end type="italics"/> Heavens, which are moved about the Sun in this order; <emph type="italics"/>Saturn,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>the &longs;lowe&longs;t and mo&longs;t remote of all, fini&longs;heth his cour&longs;e about the <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg940"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Sun thorrow all the twelve Signes of the Zodiack in thirty Years: <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg941"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>Jupiter,<emph.end type="italics"/> being nearer than he, in twelve Years: <emph type="italics"/>Mars,<emph.end type="italics"/> being yet <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg942"></arrow.to.target><lb/>nearer than him, in two Years: The <emph type="italics"/>Earth,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is &longs;till nearer <lb/>than he, doth perform the &longs;ame Revolution, together with <lb/>the Orbe of the <emph type="italics"/>Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/> in the &longs;pace of a Year, that is in Twelve <lb/>Months: <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is yet nearer than all the&longs;e, in <emph type="italics"/>(e)<emph.end type="italics"/> 9 Months: <lb/>And la&longs;t of all <emph type="italics"/>Mercury,<emph.end type="italics"/> who&longs;e vicinity to the Sun is the greate&longs;t <lb/>of all, accompli&longs;heth its whole conver&longs;ion about the Sun in eighty <lb/>Dayes. </s>

<s>After the de&longs;cription of the &longs;ix Branches, the &longs;acred <lb/>Text proceeds to the de&longs;cription of the Bowls, the Knops, and <lb/>the Flowers, &longs;aying, <emph type="italics"/>(f) Three Bowls made like unto Almonds, <lb/>with a Knop and a Flower in one Branch; and three Bowls made <lb/>like Almonds in the other Branch, with a Knop and a Flower: this <lb/>&longs;hall be the work of the &longs;ix Branches that come out of the Shaft. <lb/></s>

<s>And in the Candle&longs;tick &longs;hall be four Bowls made like unto Al&shy;<lb/>monds, with their Knops and their Flowers: there &longs;hall be a knop <lb/>under two branches of the &longs;ame, and a Knop under two Branches <lb/>of the &longs;ame, and a Knop under two Branches of the &longs;ame; which <lb/>together are &longs;ix Branches, proceeding from one Shaft.<emph.end type="italics"/> The truth <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg943"></arrow.to.target><lb/>is, the &longs;hallowne&longs;&longs;e of my under&longs;tanding cannot fathome the


<pb xlink:href="067/01/031.jpg" pagenum="501"/>depth of all the My&longs;teries that are couched in this mo&longs;t wi&longs;e <lb/>di&longs;po&longs;ure of things: neverthele&longs;&longs;e being amazed, and tran&longs;ported <lb/>with admiration, I will &longs;ay; Who knows but that tho&longs;e three <lb/>Bowls like unto Almonds to be repre&longs;ented on each of the <lb/>Branches of the Candle&longs;tick may &longs;ignifie tho&longs;e Globes which are <lb/>apter (as is this our Earth) for the receiving than emitting of Influ&shy;<lb/>ences? </s>

<s>Perhaps al&longs;o they denote tho&longs;e Globes of late di&longs;covered <lb/>by the help of the Optick Tele&longs;cope, which participate with <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Saturn, Jupiter, Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> and po&longs;&longs;ibly al&longs;o with the other Planets? <lb/></s>

<s>Who knows likewi&longs;e, but that there may be &longs;ome occult propor&shy;<lb/>tion between the&longs;e Globes and tho&longs;e My&longs;terious Knops and <lb/>Lilies in&longs;inuated unto us in the &longs;acred Scriptures? </s>

<s>But this <lb/>&longs;hall here &longs;uffice to bound humane Pre&longs;umption, and to teach us <lb/>to ex&longs;pect with an Harpocratick &longs;ilence from Time, the Indice of <lb/>Truth, a di&longs;covery of the&longs;e My&longs;teries: <emph type="italics"/>(g) Solomon<emph.end type="italics"/> made ten <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg944"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Candle&longs;ticks by the &longs;ame Patern of <emph type="italics"/>Mo&longs;es,<emph.end type="italics"/> which he placed, five <lb/>on one hand and five on another, in the Temple erected by him <lb/>in honour of the mo&longs;t High God; which very thing doth al&longs;o, <lb/>without all que&longs;tion, contain mo&longs;t ab&longs;tru&longs;e &longs;igni&longs;ications. </s>

<s>More&shy;<lb/>over, that Apple of the Knowledg of Good and Evil prohibited <lb/>our fir&longs;t Parents by God is not without a My&longs;tery; which &longs;ome <lb/>&longs;ay was an Indian Figg. </s>

<s>In which the&longs;e things are to be ob&longs;erv&shy;<lb/>ed: Fir&longs;t, That it is replete with many Kernels, every one of <lb/>which hath a particular Centre. </s>

<s>Secondly, Though of it &longs;elf it <lb/>be hard and &longs;olid, yet about its Circumference it is of a more rare <lb/>and tenuou&longs;e &longs;ub&longs;tance; herein re&longs;embling the Earth, which <lb/>though in its Centre, and tho&longs;e parts which are neare&longs;t to it, it <lb/>be &longs;tony, Metallick, and compact, yet the nearer one approacheth <lb/>to the Circumference, its parts are &longs;een to be the more rare and <lb/>tenuou&longs;e: and withall it hath another body, more rare than its <lb/>own, namely the Water, above which there is yet another, more <lb/>&longs;ubtil than all the re&longs;t of inferiour Bodyes, that is to &longs;ay, <lb/>the Aire,</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg938"></margin.target>(a) Exod. </s>

<s>25. 31.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg939"></margin.target>(b) <emph type="italics"/>My Authour <lb/>following the vul&shy;<lb/>gar Tran&longs;lation, <lb/>which hath an E&shy;<lb/>ligance in &longs;ome <lb/>things beyond ours, <lb/>cites the words <lb/>thus,<emph.end type="italics"/> Facies Can&shy;<lb/>delabrum ducti&shy;<lb/>le de auro mun&shy;<lb/>di&longs;&longs;imo, Ha&longs;tile <lb/>ejus, &amp; Calamos, <lb/>&amp; Sph&aelig;rulas, ac <lb/>Lilia, ex ip&longs;o pro&shy;<lb/>cedentia.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg940"></margin.target>(c) <emph type="italics"/>ver&longs;e<emph.end type="italics"/> 12.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg941"></margin.target>(d) <emph type="italics"/>or Spheres.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg942"></margin.target>(e) <emph type="italics"/>Though our <lb/>Authour &longs;peaketh <lb/>here po&longs;itively of <lb/>nine Months,<emph.end type="italics"/> &amp;c. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Fathers are not a&shy;<lb/>greed about the pe&shy;<lb/>riod of this planet, <lb/>nor that of<emph.end type="italics"/> Mercu&shy;<lb/>ry, <emph type="italics"/>as you may &longs;ee <lb/>at large in<emph.end type="italics"/> Riccio&shy;<lb/>lus, Almage&longs;t. </s>

<s>nov. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Tom. </s>

<s>1. part 1. l. <lb/></s>

<s>7. &longs;ect. </s>

<s>3. cha. </s>

<s>11. <lb/>num. </s>

<s>11. page 627. <lb/>where he maketh<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Venus <emph type="italics"/>to con&longs;um&shy;<lb/>mate her Revolu&shy;<lb/>tion in neer 225 <lb/>dayes, or 7 1/2 Mon. <lb/></s>

<s>and<emph.end type="italics"/> Mecury <emph type="italics"/>in a&shy;<lb/>bout 88 dayes, or 3 <lb/>Months: in which <lb/>he followeth<emph.end type="italics"/> Kepl. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>in Epitome A&longs;tro&shy;<lb/>nom. </s>

<s>p.<emph.end type="italics"/> 760.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg943"></margin.target>(f) <emph type="italics"/>ver&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/> 33, 34.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg944"></margin.target>(g) 1 Kings <emph type="italics"/>c.<emph.end type="italics"/> 7. <lb/><emph type="italics"/>v.<emph.end type="italics"/> 49. 2 Chron. <emph type="italics"/>c.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>4. <emph type="italics"/>ver&longs;.<emph.end type="italics"/> 7.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>The &longs;ame Repre&longs;entation with that of the Indian Figg is held <lb/>forth to us by the <emph type="italics"/>Malum Punicum,<emph.end type="italics"/> or Pomegranate, with its <lb/>innumerable poly centrick Stones or Kernels, all which in the parts <lb/>more remote from their Centre, and nearer approaching towards <lb/>the Circumference, are of a &longs;ub&longs;tance &longs;o &longs;ubtil and rare, that being <lb/>but lightly compre&longs;&longs;ed, they in a manner wholly convert into a <lb/>mo&longs;t tenuo&longs;e Liquor or juice: Of which fruit it plea&longs;ed Divine <lb/>Wi&longs;dom to make mention, and ordained that its Figure &longs;hould be <lb/>imbroidered and wrought with a needle in the <emph type="italics"/>&longs;acerdotal<emph.end type="italics"/> Garment <lb/>of <emph type="italics"/>Aaron: (h) Beneath<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;aith God) <emph type="italics"/>upon the hem of it thou<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg945"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>&longs;halt make Pomegranates of blew, and of purple, and of &longs;carlet, <lb/>round about the border thereof; and Bells of gold between them<emph.end type="italics"/>


<pb xlink:href="067/01/032.jpg" pagenum="502"/><emph type="italics"/>round about: a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a <lb/>pomegranate, upon the hem of the Robe round about.<emph.end type="italics"/> And that this <lb/>was a My&longs;tical Repre&longs;entation of the Worlds Effigies, is averred <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg946"></arrow.to.target><lb/>by <emph type="italics"/>Solomon,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;aying; <emph type="italics"/>(i) For in the long (k) Garment that be <lb/>had on was the (l) whole World; and in the foure rows of the &longs;tones<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg947"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>was the Glory of the Fathers graven, and thy Maje&longs;ty in the Di-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg948"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>adem of his Head.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg945"></margin.target>(h) Exod. </s>

<s>28. 33, <lb/>34, &amp; 39. v. </s>

<s>24, <lb/>25, 26.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg946"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(i)<emph.end type="italics"/> Sap. </s>

<s>c. </s>

<s>18. v. <lb/></s>

<s>24.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg947"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(k)<emph.end type="italics"/> Exod. </s>

<s>c. </s>

<s>28. <lb/>v. </s>

<s>6, 9. 17, 36.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg948"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(l)<emph.end type="italics"/> Or, <emph type="italics"/>totus Or&shy;<lb/>bis Terrarum,<emph.end type="italics"/> as <lb/>the vulgar Tran&longs;&shy;<lb/>lation hath it.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>The &longs;ame likewi&longs;e is &longs;ignified to us by the Grape, and in like <lb/>manner by all other Fruits; but e&longs;pecially the Figg, Grape, and <lb/>Pomegranate: whence the&longs;e three are almo&longs;t alwayes placed to&shy;<lb/>gether in the Sacred Scriptures. </s>

<s>So <emph type="italics"/>Numb.<emph.end type="italics"/> 20. the People of I&longs;ra&shy;<lb/>el complain again&longs;t <emph type="italics"/>Mo&longs;es<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Aaron: (m) Wherefore have you<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg949"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place, <lb/>where there can grow no Seed, neither is there either Figgs, or <lb/>Vines, or Pomegranates<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s>

<s>Intimating that the&longs;e kinds of Fruits <lb/>were preferred by them for their excellency before all others. <lb/></s>

<s>And in <emph type="italics"/>Joel (n) The Vine is dryed up, and the Figg-tree langui&longs;h-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg950"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>eth, the Pomegranate-trce, the Palm-tree al&longs;o, and the Apple-tree, <lb/>even all the Trees of the field are withered; becau&longs;e joy is wither&shy;<lb/>ed away from the Sons of Men.<emph.end type="italics"/> Likewi&longs;e in <emph type="italics"/>Haggai: (o) Is the<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg951"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>&longs;eed yet in the Bud? </s>

<s>and hath as yet the Vine and the Fig-tree, <lb/>and the Pomegranate, and the Olive-tree brought forth<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s>

<s>In like <lb/>manner in <emph type="italics"/>Deuteronomie<emph.end type="italics"/> the Land of Promi&longs;e is commended to <lb/>be <emph type="italics"/>(p) A Land of Wheat, and Barly, and Vines in which grow,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg952"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>Figg-trees, and Pomegranates, and Olive-trees,<emph.end type="italics"/> &amp;c. </s>

<s>And in the <lb/>Structure of the Temple undertaken by <emph type="italics"/>Solomon<emph.end type="italics"/> upon Divine In&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg953"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;piration the <emph type="italics"/>(q)<emph.end type="italics"/> Chapiters of the Pillars were adorned with &longs;eve&shy;<lb/>ral rowes of Pomegranates: which particular is mentioned, not <lb/>in one but many places of Holy Writ. </s>

<s>Yea and &longs;ometimes acci&shy;<lb/>dentally and occa&longs;ionally the Holy hath Gho&longs;t &aelig;nigmatically re&shy;<lb/>pre&longs;ented this mo&longs;t admirable and Mo&longs;t Wi&longs;e Sructure of the <lb/>World, the Order of the Heavens, and the di&longs;po&longs;ure of Crea&shy;<lb/>tures Spiritual and Corporeal by Emblems, Parables, and Figures, <lb/>lea&longs;t they &longs;hould be as it were dazled and blinded, by the reful&shy;<lb/>gent &longs;plendor of &longs;o excellent an Object. </s>

<s>Hence we &longs;ee, that in <lb/>the&longs;e Doctrinal &amp; Dubious Points we may di&longs;cour&longs;e in &longs;uch man&shy;<lb/>ner by help of the Holy Scripture as is meet for the under&longs;tanding <lb/>of the Prophets; which &longs;eeing they are very ob&longs;cure, they &longs;hall be <lb/>fully under&longs;tood, and may be aptly applyed only then when they <lb/>&longs;hall be fulfilled, and not before: So al&longs;o when once the true <lb/>Sy&longs;teme of the Univer&longs;e is found out, then, and not till then, the <lb/>meaning of the&longs;e Figures, and &AElig;nigma's &longs;hall be made known <lb/>unto us: Thus before the coming of the Son of God had di&longs;co&shy;<lb/>vered unto us the My&longs;tery of the Holy Trinity, none were able <lb/>to comprehend or imagine what was concealed under tho&longs;e


<pb xlink:href="067/01/033.jpg" pagenum="503"/>words; <emph type="italics"/>(r) In Principio creavit Elohim C&oelig;lum &amp; Terram:<emph.end type="italics"/> for <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg954"></arrow.to.target><lb/>that they did not &longs;ee how the Noun Plural <emph type="italics"/>Elohim<emph.end type="italics"/> (which is as much <lb/>as to &longs;ay <emph type="italics"/>Dij,<emph.end type="italics"/> [Gods] &longs;hould be joyned with the Verb Singular, <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Creavit<emph.end type="italics"/>: But the My&longs;tery of the Unity of E&longs;&longs;ence and Trinity <lb/>of Per&longs;ons in God being revealed, it was pre&longs;ently known, that <lb/>the Singular Number, <emph type="italics"/>Creavit,<emph.end type="italics"/> had reference to the Unity of E&longs;&shy;<lb/>&longs;ence, (in regard that the Works of the Trinity <emph type="italics"/>ad extra<emph.end type="italics"/> are in&shy;<lb/>divi&longs;ible) and the Plural, <emph type="italics"/>Elohim,<emph.end type="italics"/> to the Per&longs;ons. </s>

<s>Who, I pray, <lb/>in elder times could have found out this My&longs;tery? </s>

<s>And thus the <lb/>Name of God is thrice repeated in <emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al. </s>

<s>67. (s) God, even our<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg955"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>God &longs;hall ble&longs;&longs;e us, God &longs;hall ble&longs;&longs;e us, &amp;c.<emph.end type="italics"/> Which at fir&longs;t might <lb/>&longs;eem a Pleona&longs;me, and &longs;uperfluous repetition; but afterwards it <lb/>was evident that <emph type="italics"/>David<emph.end type="italics"/> did there &longs;et out the Benedictions of &longs;e&shy;<lb/>veral Per&longs;ons implyed, to wit, the Father, Son, and Holy Gho&longs;t. <lb/></s>

<s>Innumerable Examples of the like kind may be found in the Sa&shy;<lb/>cred Leaves. </s>

<s>Therefore, to conclude, I will &longs;ay with ^{*}<emph type="italics"/>David,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg956"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>P&longs;al.<emph.end type="italics"/> 92. <emph type="italics"/>Oh Lord how glorious are thy Works! thy thoughts <lb/>are very deep: an unwi&longs;eman knoweth not, and a fool doth not <lb/>under&longs;tand the&longs;e things.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg949"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(m)<emph.end type="italics"/> Numb. c. >20. <lb/>v. 5.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg950"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(n)<emph.end type="italics"/> Joel c. </s>

<s>1. v. </s>

<s>12.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg951"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(o)<emph.end type="italics"/> Hagg. c. 2. <lb/>v. 19.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg952"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(p)<emph.end type="italics"/> Deut. c. 8. v. 8.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg953"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(q)<emph.end type="italics"/> 1 Kings c 7. <lb/>v. 20. &amp; 2 Kings <lb/>c. 25. v. 17. &amp; <lb/>2 Chro. c. 3. v. 15, <lb/>16. &amp; c. 4. v.
12. <lb/>13. &amp; Jerem. c. <lb/>52. v. 21, 22.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg954"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(r)<emph.end type="italics"/> Gen. c. 1. v. 1</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg955"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(s) P<emph.end type="italics"/>&longs;al. 67. v. 6 <lb/>7.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg956"></margin.target>* P&longs;al. 92 v. 536.</s></p><p type="main">

<s>The&longs;e are the particulars that I have thought fit to offer, as <lb/>a Divine, concerning the not-improbable Opinion of the Mobili&shy;<lb/>ty of the Earth and Stability of the Sun: which I hope will be <lb/>acceptable to you, Reverend Sir, out of the love and diligence <lb/>wherewith you per&longs;ue Virtue and Learning. </s>

<s>But (to the end <lb/>that you may al&longs;o receive an account of my other Studies) I <lb/>hope very &longs;hortly to publi&longs;h in Print my Second Tome ^{*}<emph type="italics"/>Of the In-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg957"></arrow.to.target><lb/><emph type="italics"/>&longs;titutions of all Learnings,<emph.end type="italics"/> which &longs;hall containe all the Liberall <lb/>Arts, as I have already &longs;ignified in that <emph type="italics"/>Syntax,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Spicimen<emph.end type="italics"/> by <lb/>me heretofore put forth, and publi&longs;hed under your Name. </s>

<s>The <lb/>other five following Tomes by me promi&longs;ed (which &longs;hall treat of <lb/>Phylo&longs;ophy and Theology) are not altogether &longs;o forward, ne&shy;<lb/>verthele&longs;s they will be &longs;peedily fini&longs;hed. </s>

<s>In the mean time there <lb/>will come forth my Book <emph type="italics"/>Concerning ^{*} Oracles,<emph.end type="italics"/> now fini&longs;hed, to&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg958"></arrow.to.target><lb/>gether with a Treati&longs;e ^{*} <emph type="italics"/>Of Artificial Divination.<emph.end type="italics"/> And for a <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg959"></arrow.to.target><lb/>pledge thereof, I &longs;end you at this time annexed to this Epi&longs;tle a <lb/>Tract ^{*} <emph type="italics"/>Concerning Natural Co&longs;mological Divination,<emph.end type="italics"/> or of Natu&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg960"></arrow.to.target><lb/>ral Progno&longs;ticks, and Pre&longs;ages of the Changes o&longs; Weather, and <lb/>other things which fall within the compa&longs;&longs;e of Natue. </s>

<s>God grant <lb/>you all Happine&longs;&longs;e.</s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg957"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>In&longs;titutionum<lb/>omnium Doctri&shy;<lb/>narum.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg958"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>De Oraculis.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg959"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>De Divinatio&shy;<lb/>ne artificio&longs;a.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="margin">

<s><margin.target id="marg960"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>De Divinatio&shy;<lb/>ne Naturali Co&longs;&shy;<lb/>mologica.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Mo&longs;t Reverend Sir<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>NAPLES,<emph.end type="italics"/> from the Covent <lb/>of the <emph type="italics"/>Carmelites,<emph.end type="italics"/> Jan. <lb/></s>

<s>6. 1615.</s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Your Mo&longs;t Humble Servant<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">

<s><emph type="italics"/>PAOLO ANTONIO FOSCARINI.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="head">

<s>FINIS.</s></p><pb xlink:href="067/01/034.jpg"/><p type="head">

<s><emph type="italics"/>Imprimatur,<emph.end type="italics"/> P. ANT. GHIBERT, <emph type="italics"/>Vic. Gen.</s><emph.end type="italics"/><lb/><s>JOANNES LONGUS <emph type="italics"/>Can. &amp; Cur. Archiep. <lb/>Neap.<emph.end type="italics"/> THEOL. <emph type="italics"/>Vidit.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p> 		</chap>		</body>		<back></back>	</text></archimedes>
author	Klaus Thoden <kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>
date	Thu, 02 May 2013 11:14:40 +0200
parents	22d6a63640c6
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