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turn cceli^ admirabili cum celeritate moveri ver^ 

 tique videamm conjiantijjime conjicientetn vicijji" 

 tudiiies anniverfarias^ cum fummd Salute & Con- 

 fervatione rerum omnium^ dubitare quin ea non 

 folum ratione jimit^ Jed excellenti quddam Divind- 

 que ratione: " And can we, when we fee the 

 Force of the Heavens mov*d and whirled about 

 with admirable Celerity, moft conftantly 

 finifhing its anniverfary Viciffitudes, to the 

 eminent Welfare and Prefervation of all 

 Things, doubt at all that thefe Things are 

 performed not only by Reafon, but by a cer- 

 tain excellent and divine Reafon ? 

 To thefe Things I fhall add an Obfervation, 

 which I muft confefs my felf to have borrowed 

 of the honourable Perfon more than once 

 mentioned already, that even the Eclipfes of 

 the Sun and Moon, tho* they be frightful 

 Things to the Superftitious Vulgar, and of ill 

 Influence on Mankind, if we may believe the 

 no lefs fuperftitious Aftrologers, yet to know- 

 ing Men, that can skilfully apply them, they 

 are of great Ufe, and fuch as common Heads 

 could never have imagined : Since not only they 

 may on divers Occafions, help to fettle Cbro^ 

 nology^ and redifie the Miftakes of Hijiorians 

 that writ many Ages ago; but which is the* 

 a lefs Wonder, yet of greater Utility, they are 

 (as Things yet ftand^ neceifary to define with 

 competent Certainty, the Longitude of Places 

 or Points on the Terraqueous Globe, which is 

 a Thing of very great Moment not only to 

 Geography^ but to the moft ufeful and impor- 

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