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lights made in it, till the age of us and our fathers ; for 

 although they had knowledge of the antipodes, 



Nosque ubi primus equis oriens afflavit anhelis, 

 I Hie sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper: 



yet that might be by demonstration, and not in fact ; and 

 if by travel, it requireth the voyage but of half the globe. 

 But to circle the earth, as the heavenly bodies do, was 

 not done nor enterprised till these later times : and 

 therefore these times may justly bear in their word, not 

 only plus ultra, in precedence of the ancient non ultra, 

 and imitabile fulmen in precedence of the ancient non 

 imitabile fulmen, 



Demens qui nimbos et non imitabile fulmen, &c., 



but likewise imitabile coelum ; in respect of the many 

 memorable voyages, after the manner of heaven, about the 

 globe of the earth. 



And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may 

 plant also an expectation of the further proficience and 

 augmentation of all sciences ; because it may seem they 

 are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to meet in 

 one age. For so the prophet Daniel speaking of the latter 

 times foretelleth, Plurimi pertransibunt, et multiplex erit 

 scientia : as if the openness and through passage of the 

 world and the increase of knowledge were appointed to be 

 in the same ages ; as we see it is already performed in great 

 part ; the learning of these later times not much giving 

 place to the former two periods or returns of learning, the 

 one of the Grecians, the other of the Romans. 



History Ecclesiastical receiveth the same divisions with 

 History Civil : but further in the propriety thereof may be 

 divided into History of the Church, by a general name ; 

 History of Prophecy ; and History of Providence. The 

 first describeth the times of the militant church ; whether 

 it be fluctuant, as the ark of Noah ; or moveable, as the 

 ark in the wilderness ; or at rest, as the ark in the temple ; 

 that is, the state of the church in persecution, in remove, 



