314 LETTER XI. 



Where God refides^ and eer mid-day arrrSd 

 In Eden, dijlance inexprejjihle 

 By numbers that have name. But this I urge^ 

 Admitting motion in the HeavnSy tojhew 

 Invalid that which thee to doubt it mov'd i 

 JSfot that Ifo afirm^ though fo itfeem 

 ^0 thee who hafl thy dwelling here o?i Earth, 

 God to remove his ways from human fenfe^ 

 Blac* dHeavenfrom Earth fofar^ that earthly fight 

 If it pre fume ^ might err in things too high^ 

 And no advantage gain. What if the Sun 

 Be Center to the World, and other Stars 

 By his attraElive Virtue and their own 

 Invited, dance about him various rounds ? 

 ^heir wandering courfe now high, now low, theji hid^ 

 ProgreJJive, Retrograde, or ftanding ftill. 

 Infix thoufeefi y and what if fev^nth to thefe 

 ^he Planet Earth, foftedfafi though fie feem^ 

 Infenfibly three different motiojis move? 

 Which elfe tofeveral Spheres thou mujt afcribe 

 Movd contrary with thwart obliquities, 

 Orfave the Sun his labour, and that fwift 

 ISJodiurnal and diurnal Rhomb fuppos'd, 

 Invifible elfe above all Stars, the wheel 

 Of Day and Night -, which needs not thy belief. 

 If Earth indufirious of herfelf fetch Day 

 travelling Eajl, and with her part averfe 

 From the Sun's beam meet Nighty her other part 

 . ^ Still 



