12 ANSWEK TO OBJECTIONS. 



LlB - x - them twice or thrice with attention, the eye presently turnes 

 away, being glutted with the sight thereof. But if you be- 

 holde the sea with attention, or some steepe mountain e 

 growing from a plaine to a strange heigth, or the fieldes 

 clad in their naturall verdure with pleasant flowres, or the 

 raging course of some river beating continually against the 

 rocks, finally , what worke of nature soever, although it bo 

 often viewed, yet doth it still breede a new content, and 

 never gluttes the sight ; the which is like vnto a stately 

 bancket of the divine wisedom, which doth alwaies cause a 

 new consideration without any lotting. 



CHAP. iv. Containing an answcre to that wliich is objected 



out of the holy Scripture, against the roundnes of 



the earth. 



Returning then to the figure of heaven, I know not out 

 of what authentic of the holy scripture they can prove 

 that it is not round, nor his motion circular: neither do I 

 see (whereas S. Paul calles the heaven a Tabernacle, or a 

 Tent wliich God made, and not man:) how can it be applied 

 to this purpose: for although he telleth vs that it was made 

 by God, yet must we not therefore coniecture that the 

 heaven covereth the earth like to a roofe on the one part 

 only, neither that the heaven was framed without motion, 

 as it seemes some would inferre. The Apostle in this place 

 treated of the conformity of the auncient Tabernacle of the 

 lawe, saying therevpon, that the Tabernacle of the new 

 law of grace is heaven: into the which, the great Priest 

 lesus Christ, entred once by his bloud: and thereby is 

 vnderstood, that there is as great preheminence of the new 

 aboue the old, as there is difference betwixt the author of 

 the new, which is God, and of the olde which was man: 

 although it be most certcn, that the olde was built by tho 



