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full. But wee ought not ta take it bffenclvely , nor 

 cftccmelefleof ^hc Dodors of the holy ChiirchaFin 

 iome points of Philofophic and naturall knowledge, 

 they have varied in opinion from that which is helde 

 for good philofophie- feeing all their ftudie hath been 

 to know, preach and ferve the Creator of all things, 

 wherein they have bin excellent , and having well im- 

 ployed their ftudies in caufes of greater waight , it is a 

 (mail matter in them, not to have knowen all particu 

 larities concerning the creatures. ButthofeyainjrPhi- 

 lofophcis of outage ^ are much more tc^elblamed, 

 "who having attayned to theknowledg?or3iebeing 

 and order of the creatures, and of the courfe and mo 

 tion of the Heavens, have not yet learned ( wretched 

 as they are) to knowe the Creator of all things,but 

 bufyingthemfelves wholly in his workes 5 have not yet 

 mounted by their imaginations to the knowledge of 

 the Soveraigae Author thereof^ the holy Scripture 

 teachethvs : orif they have knownc him, they have 

 not ferved and glorified him, as they ought, blinded 

 with their imaginations , whereof the Apoftle doth 

 accufe and blauie them. 



That the Heaven Is round on .all parts, mooting in his 

 courfi of it fdfe. CHAP. 2. 



BVt comming to our fubied: there is no doubt.but 

 the opinion which ^sfriHotk and the otherPeri- 

 pateticks held with the Stoicks, (that the figure of 

 Heaven was round , and did moove circularly in his 



courfe) 



