Part I. in the C^-Ei ATI o n. 6^ 



the Performance of them. Among thefc Hea- 

 venly Bodies, 



Firft, the Sun^ a vaft Globe of Fire, efteem^d 

 by the ancienter and moft modeft Computatioa 

 above 160 Times bigger than the Earth; the 

 very Life of this inferior World, without 

 vsrhole falutary and vivifick Beams all Motion^ 

 both Animal, Vital and Natural, would fpeedi- 

 \y ceafe, and nothing be left here below btit 

 Darknefs and Death. All Plants and Animals 

 muft needs in a very fliort Time be not only 

 mortified, but, together with the Surface of Land 

 and Water, frozen as hard as a Flint 01 rida- 

 mant : So that of all the Creatures of the World, 

 the ancient Heathens had moft Reafon to worfhip 

 him as a Godj tho' no true Reafon , becaufe he 

 was but a GreaturCj and not God: And we 

 Chriftians do think, that the Service of the 

 Animals that live upon the Earth, and prin- 

 cipally Man, was one End of his Creation; 

 feeing without him there could no fuch Things 

 have been. This Sim, I fay, according to the 

 old Hypothefis, whirl'd round aboiit the Earth 

 daily with incredible Celerity, making Night 

 and Day by his rifing and fetting ; Winter and 

 Summer, by his Accefs to the feveral Tropicks, 

 creating fuch a grateful Variety of Seafons^ en- 

 lightning all Parts of the Earth by his Beams^ 

 and cherifhing them by his Heat, fituate and 

 mov*d fo»in refpedt of this fublunary Worlds 

 (and it's likely alfo in refpedt of all the Planets 

 about him) that Art and Council could not 

 have delign'd either to have placed him better, 



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