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and if by travel, it requireth the voyage but of half 

 the globe. But to circle the earth, as the heavenly 

 bodies do, was not done nor enterprised till these 

 later times : and therefore these times may justly 

 bear in their word, not only plivs ultra, in precedence 

 of the ancient non ultra, and imitabile fulmen, in pre 

 cedence of the ancient non imitabile fulmen, 



Demens qui nimbos et non imitabile fulmen, &c. 



but likewise imitabile caelum ; in respect of the many 

 memorable voyages after the manner of heaven about 

 the globe of the earth. 



14. And this proficience in navigation and discoveries 

 may plant also an expectation of the further proficience 

 and augmentation of all sciences ; because it may seem 

 they are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to 

 meet in one age. For so the prophet Daniel speaking 

 of the latter times foretelleth, * Plurimi pertransibunt, 

 et multiplex erit scientia : as if the openness and 

 through-passage of the world and the increase of know 

 ledge were appointed to be in the same ages ; as we 

 see it is already performed in great part : the learning 

 of these later times not much giving place to the 

 former two periods or returns of learning, the one of 

 the Grecians, the other of the Romans. 



III. 1. History ecclesiastical receive th the same 

 divisions with history civil : but further in the pro 

 priety thereof may be divided into the history of the 

 church, by a general name ; history of prophecy ; and 

 history of providence. The first describeth the times 

 of the militant church, whether it be fluctuant, as the 

 ark of Noah, or movable, as the ark in the wilderness, 

 or at rest, as the ark in the temple : that is, the state 

 of the church in persecution, in remove, and in peace. 

 This part I ought in no sort to note as deficient ; only 

 I would the virtue and sincerity of it were according 

 to the mass and quantity. But I am not now in hand 

 with censures, but with omissions. 



2. The second, which is history of prophecy, con- 

 sisteth of two relatives, the prophecy, and the accom- 



