The J^aturail andMoratt 



for the covering . Moreover flic will fay, that as in all 

 creatures the head is the higheft part andmoft eleva 

 ted , although all creatures have not heades placed in 

 one, and the fame (equation , fo me being in the high- 

 eft parr, as man , fome athwart, as fheepe, others in the 

 middeft,asfpiders:,) evenfo the heaven, in what part 

 foeueritbe, remaines above, and the earth likewife in 

 what part foever, remaincs vndemeath.Ourimaginati- 

 onjh^refhie isjgroundcd vpon time and place, the 

 which (he cannot comprehend nor conceive in gene- 

 rall, but in particular . It followeth, that when wee 

 ill all raife it to the confederation of things which ex- 

 ceede the time and place which are knowne vnto her, 

 then prefcmly flic (hrinkcsand cannot fubfift, ifreafon 

 doth not fupport her. In like fort we fee, vpon the difl 

 courfe of the creation of the worlde, our imagina 

 tion ftraics tofeeeke out a time before the creation 

 thereof, and to build the world : (he difcribes a place, 

 but fliee comes not to confidcr that the worlde 

 might bee made after another fafliion . ^isiM*' 1 - 

 ftandinjp: ,reafbn doth teach vs, that there was no 

 timc_betorcjhere was 'a "motion, whereof time Is 

 the meafure fneyther was there any . place before 

 tHe vnivcrfall , which comprehendes within it all 

 d< c*i. P' ace Whgg^n^hg excellent Philofophcr^ driftotk 

 doth plainely fadsfie^and in few \vordesT that ar- 

 gument made agalnft the place of the earth, hel 

 ping himfelfc with our vfciof imagination , when 

 hee fay eth, and with trueth, That m the world the fame 

 flace of the earth is in the midft and beneath , and the 

 more a thing is in the middefl, the more it h underneath. 

 The which anfwer being produced by Lattamius 

 Firmian , yet hee doth paffe it ever without confu 

 tation, 



