; \vlio endeavoured to compound a system of the 

 Ftblemaic and Copernioan put together ; but it was 

 quickly found by all OH prejudiced judges, to be so in- 

 tricate -and perplexed, that it had not many asset tors 

 even while he. lived, and is now \veil nigh sunk into .obli- 

 vion, 



8. Mr. Hulchinsori (not the professor of Glatgotor, but 

 a private English gentleman) supposes the constituent 

 parts of iicaven to be, l.The darkness, or dark air, 

 which is no other than the line ether in a state of stagna- 

 tion : 2. The -spirit, or the air in a sensible motion: 3. 

 The Hqht, the finest part of the heavens, the pure ether 

 in motion 4. The luminaries, and their jinxes. Under- 

 stand by the luminaries, Lie ladies of the sun, moon, 

 and blurs: by their Jinxes the ilow of light tl at rouses 

 from each of them. .Revelation constantly distinguishes 

 these. Therefore it is very improper for us to con- 

 found them together, Indeed every one knows, that 

 though the bodies of the sun, moon, and stars, take 

 up but a small part of the heavens, yet the fluxes of 

 light from them diffuse themselves throughout all na- 

 ture* 



The springing forth of the solar light causes the 

 Hkornmg; its going off, the evening. Its being inter- 

 cepted by the body of the earth causes night 5 its shin- 

 ing causes day. It acts in a mechanical way, and is 

 part of the great machine of nature. It is in continual 

 motion to, and from the body of the sun,: going out 

 from the centre to the circumference of the heavens, 

 and returning to the centre again. The solar light, 

 along with the spirit, which continually attends it, 

 is the cause of the regular returns of morning and 

 evening, summer and winter. The spirit and light are 

 properly the agent, and the earth only the patient. Its 

 motion round its axis, and round the sun, and its inclin- 

 ing northward and southward at different times, are all 

 produced by the action of the light goini^ outward, aud 

 liie spirit returning inward. 5. The densities, vvhick 

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