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wisedome of God, who instructed his workman Bezeleell. LlB - T - 



Neither must we imagine that these comparisons, parables, EXO. xxxvi. 



and allegories, doe in all things agree with that wherevnto 



they are applyed, as the happy Crysostome hath learnedly chnsost. in 



spoken vpon this point. The other authoritie (which S. 



Augustine saies is alleaged of some to shew that the heaven 



is not round) is this, &amp;lt;f The heavens stretch forth like vnto a p^ ciii&amp;gt; 



skin.&quot; Whereby he concludes that it is not round, but flat 



on the vpper part, wherevnto the same Doctor doth an- 



swere verie well and familiarly, giuing vs to vnderstand 



that that place of the Psalme is not properly to be vnder- Gen acnft- 



stood of the figure of heaven, but onely to shew with what JJ ram -&amp;gt; c - 



facilitie God built so great a heaven, being no more paine- 



full for him to build so huge a couer as the heaven is, then 



to vnfould a double skin. Or else the Psalmist pretending 



to shew vs the great maiesty of God, to whome the heaven, 



with his greatnes and beautie, doth serve in like manner as 



our tents and pavilions in the field. The which was well 



expressed by a Poet calling it, &quot; The Tent of the cleere 



heaven . In like sort, the place of Isaii, which sayeth, 



&quot; Heaven serves mee as a chaire, and the earth for a foote- isaieixvi. 



stoole^. But if wee follow the error of the Antromorphites, 



which did atribute corporall members vnto God, according 



to his divinitie, we should haue occasion vppon this last 



text, to examine how it were possible the earth should be 



a foote-stoole to Gods feete, and how the same God could 



hold his feete of the one part and the other, and many 



heads round about, seeing that hee is in all partes of the 



world, which were a vaine and ridiculous thing. Wee must 



therefore conclude, that in the holy scriptures we ought 



not to follow the letter which killes, but the spirit which 



quickneth, as saith S. Paul. 2Corint.u. 



