Hittorie of the Indies lib.i. 15 



with that wherevnto they are apply ed, as the hap 

 py Crjfoflome hath learnedly fpoken vpon thispoint. 

 The other authoritie (which .AuguJline faiesisallea- capi 

 ged of fome to (hew that the heaven is not round ) is p p 

 this,T heavens ftretch forth like vnto a skin. Whereby he 

 concludes thatitis not round, but flat on the vpper 

 part, ivherevnto the fame Do<5tordoth anfwerevcrie 

 well and familiarly , giuing vs to vnderfland that that 

 place of the Plalme , is not properly to be vnderftood A . j r 



* f t f t*\ i * * y n t -*tt.l.<u Gen. 



of the figure of heaven , but onely to mew with what Hitt<r*m... 



facilitie God built fb great a heaven , being no 



painefullforhim to build fohuge acoueras the 



ven is, then to vnfould a double skin. * Or elfe the 



mift pretending to fliewvs the great cnaiefty of God, 



to whome the heaven with his greatnes and beautie 



dothferve in like manner, as our tents and pavilions 



intheffdd. The which was well exprefledby a Poet 



calling it, TheTent of the cleere heaven . In like fort, the 



place of ifaii, which fayeth, Heaven ferves met as a 



chaire, and the earth for afoote-jlook . But if wee follow ' 



the error of the Antromorpbite$w\i\d\ did atribute cor- 



porall members vn to God , according to his divimtier 



weftiouldhaue occafion vppon this laft text, to exa~ 



minehow it werepoflible the earth fhould be a foote- 



ftoole to Gods feete, and how the fame God could 



hold his feetc of the one part and the other, andma- 



ny heads round about , feeing that he^is in all partes 



of the world, which wo^e a vaineapd ridiculous thing. 



Weeimuft therefore conclude, that in the holy fcrip- 



tures we ought not to follow the letter which killes 3 a 



but thefpirit which quickneth,asfiithS. Paul. 



