DOCTORS OP HOLY CHURCH HAVE ERRED. O 



naturall Sciences, yea, very learned in Astrologie and LlB - * 

 Physicke, remaynes yet still in doubt, not able to resolve, Aug., lib. n 

 whether the Heaven did compasse in the earth on all parts, ut. c. 9.&quot; 

 &quot;What care I&quot;, saith he. &quot; if we suppose the Heaven doth ia. r*ai. 



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inviron the earth on all parts like viito a bowle, 1 beeing in 

 the rniddest of the world, as a bottome is compassed with 

 threed : 2 or that we say it is not so, and that the Heaven 

 covereth the earth of one part onely as a great Basin that 

 hangs over it.&quot; 3 In the same place he seemeth to shew (nay, 

 hee speaketh plainely) that there is no certaine demonstra 

 tion to proove the figure of the world to be round, but onely 

 by simple conjectures. In which places cited and others, 

 they hold the circular motion of the Heaven very doubtfull. 

 But wee ought not to take it offencively, nor esteeme lesse 

 of the Doctors of the holy Church, if in some points of Phi- 

 losophie and naturall knowledge, they have varied in opinion 

 from that which is helde for good philosophic ; seeing all 

 their studie hath been to know, preach, and serve the 

 Creator of all things, wherein they have bin excellent, and 

 having well irnployed their studies in causes of greater 

 waight, it is a small matter in them not to have knowen all 

 particularities concerning the creatures. But those vaine 

 Philosophers of our age are much more to bee blamed who, 

 having attayned to the knowledge of the being and order of 

 the creatures, and of the course and motion of the Heavens, 

 haue not yet learned (wretched as they are) to knowe the 

 Creator of all things, but busying themselves wholly in his 

 workes, have not yet mounted by their imaginations to the 

 knowledge of the Soveraigne Author thereof as the holy |^ e &quot; - xiii 

 Scripture teacheth vs ; or if they have knowne him, they 

 have not served and glorified him as they ought, blinded 

 with their imaginations, whereof the Apostle doth accuse 

 and blame them. 



1 &quot; Como una bola. 



2 &quot; Estando clla en medio del mundo como en el fil.&quot; 



3 &quot; Como un plato grande quo esta encima. 1 



B 2 



