ffiftorie ofthe<fndie$ hb.i. 9 



fame proportion with their ftarres without any (epara- 

 tion: the which is a true,certaine ? and often noted expe. 

 riencc. It followe th then by all that we haue faid, that 

 the heaven containeth in it all the parts of the earth, cir 

 cling continually about it, without any more doubt. , 



How the holy Serif tur tetchett v$ that the earth ism 

 middtjl of the world* CHAP. 5. 



A Lthough itfeemes to Pr^cop^Ga^a^nd to fbnre 

 -^* others of his opinion , that it is repugnant to the 

 holy Scripture to place the earth in the middcft of the H^^. 

 world, and to (ay that the heaven is round.-yet in truth, Sap. i.i 7. n, 

 this do&ritie is not repugnant,but conformable to that **' 

 which it doth t?ach vs . For laying afide the tearmes $947* 

 which the Scripture itfelfedoth vfe in many phces, Ir)li 37- 

 The romdnefft of the earth -. And thatwhich it fiycth in 

 an other place, that whatfoevcr is corporeall,is vnviro. 

 ned and compared in by the heavens , and conteyneci 

 within the roundncs thereof : at the lead thy cannot 

 deny , but that place of Eccldiaftes is very plaine, 

 where it is faid , The Sunneripthand p?.<? andreturnesto 

 the fim* pLc^andfo begins to npagaifft: he fakes blscovrfc 

 by the South jurnin^ towards the North :thtffetr;t march tb 

 co>7it)ifsing about all thinges , .and then returnes to thtfiwe 

 p'ace. In this place the, paraphrafe and expolmon of 

 Gregwic Ncoceforien, or Nazinri^enefajt. th , The Sunns 

 batting runnt about the whole earth, relumes as it were tur 

 ning to the fa ''# &?/#?iThat which Solo mm fayeth . (being 

 intcrpa-etcdby Gregorie}. could not be trve, if any part of 



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