i8 77)eWisDou of GOD Parti. 



Of the firft of thefe I fhall fay little, only 

 briefly run over the Works of this vifible World, 

 and give fome guefs at the Number of them ; 

 whence it will appear, That upon this Account 

 they will deferve Admiration, the Number of 

 them being uninveftigable by us, and fo afford- 

 ing us a demonflrative Proof of the unlimited 

 Extent of the Creator's Skill, and the Foecundi- 

 ty of his Wifdom and Power. That the Num- 

 ber of corporeal Creatures is unmeafurably 

 great, and known only to the Creator him- 

 felf, may thus probably be coUedled : Firft 

 of all. The Number of fixed Stars is on all 

 Hands acknowledg'd to be next to infinite : Se- 

 condly, every fix'd Star, in the now-receiv'd 

 HypotheJiSy is a Sun, or Sun-like Body, and in 

 like Manner incircled with a Chorus of Planets 

 moving about it ; for the Fixd Stars are not all 

 placed in one and the fame concave Spheri- 

 cal SuperJicieSy and equidiftant from us, as they 

 feem to be, but are varioufly and diforderly 

 fituate, fome nearer, fome further off, juft like 

 Trees in a Wood or Foreft, as Gajfendus ex- 

 emplifies them. And as in a Wood, tho' the 

 Trees grow never fo irregularly, yet the Eye of 

 the Spectator, wherever plac'd, or whitherfo- 

 ever remov'd, defcribes ftill a Circle of Trees : 

 So would it in like Manner whenever it were 

 in the Foreft of Stars, defcribe a Spherical Su- 

 perjicies about it. Thirdly, Each of thefe Pla- 

 nets is in all likelihood furnifhed with as great 

 Variety of corporeal Creatures, animate and in- 

 animate, as the Earth is, and all as different 

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