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to chat if we canfulc with no better counfclour then them, 

 we may wonder to ice that body at n ; ght Jetting in 

 the Weft, which in the morning we behclti riling in the 

 Eaft. 



But that which leemeth to be .yet more ftrange, is, 

 that thefe bodies move crofle us, and nevcrtheleflc are not 

 perceived to have any motion at all. Confider then how 

 much eafier it is for a thing that movetb towards us, to be 

 with us before we are aware. A nimble fencer will put in 

 a thruft fo quick, that the foil will be in your bofbme, 

 when you thought it a yard off; becaufc in the fame mo- 

 ment you faw his point fo farrc diftant, and could noc di(- 

 cern it to move towards you, till you felt the rude falutation 

 it gave you. If then you will compare the body of light 

 with thefc others that thus deceive us in regard of motion ; 

 you muft needs agree it is much raflrmefle to conclude it hath 

 no motion, becaufe we cannot difcern the fucceflion of. Con- 

 fider that it is the fubtileft of all the bodies that God hath 

 made. Examine the paths of it, which for the fmallneflfeof 

 their thrids, and the extreme divisibility ofthcm, and their pli- 

 ant application cfthemfelves to whatsoever hath pores, are al- 

 moft without refinance. Calcnhte the ftrange multiplication 

 of it, by a perpetuall momentary renovation of its ftreams. 

 And caft with yourfelf, with what extreme force it fpringeth 

 out and flyeth abroad. And on the other fide, reflect how all 

 thefe things are directly oppofite and contrary in thofe 

 ether great bodies , whofe motion nevertheless appeareth 

 not unto us till it be done and part. And when you have 

 well weighed all thii ; you muft needs grant that they who in 

 this cafe guide themfelves merely by what appeareth unto 

 their eyes, arc ill judgers of what they bavc not well ex- 

 amined. 



But peradrenturc fome who cannot all of a fudden be wea- ^ 

 ned from what their fcnfc hath fb long fed them with ; may Thereafon 

 ask yet furthcr,How it chanceth that we have no efFe^s ofthis ^n^' 5 " 

 motion ? Itfhcweth not it felf in the aire, coming to us afarre notdifccmed 

 off. It ftayeth not a thought, or flackneth his fpeed in flying (b wTds usTand 

 vaft a (pace as is from the funne to us. In fine, there is no dif- ^"dicreis 



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