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Nor does he doubt, but thefe Changes in the Fixt Stars 
have been frequent ia other times . unregarded therefore 
becaafe it feem'd to men too abfurd,that fuch glorious parts 
of Nature, as the Heavens and Stars are, Ihouldalfo be 
fubjed to luch vicilScudes and alternations j as if the mani. 
fold Wifdom and Power of the Great Creator^and Suprcam 
Governor of the Univerfe did not as well Ihine forth from 
the one, as the other. 
ffit be objeded^that the Appearance andDif*appearaoce 
of thofe Scars may be afcribed to their Elongation from, 
aiid Proximity to our Eyes : He anfwers, firfl, That of all 
the Celeftial Motions there being obferv'd none but what 
areGircular or at kaft approaching toCircular^if we fliould 
think fo of the Fixt Stars that appear anew, then the Plane 
of that Circle being over the Plane of our Eye, the Upper 
part of that Circle muft needs be remoter from the Lower 
part/or Stars of th^ fecond Magniiudej more than fix tim^s 
at leaft 5 that is to fay, that the Star in difappearing to our 
Eye muft be removed at leaft fix times farther ofFthan when 
it appeared brighteft : In which cafe we muft needs fee that 
iScar move in ao apparent ftraight hne 3 or in an Arch of a 
great Gircle of above 19 degrees 5 which is moft com 
trary to all ObfervatioOj by which it is notoriouSjthat none 
of them do recede from their apparent firtt ^hct,Secondly^ 
That not only in the lately meotion'd Hypothefis oi the Cir* 
cle, but alfo fuppofing the Motion of fuch^y^ars througha 
ftraight h'oe pafiing diredly over our Eye, the faid di» 
fta ncesof thofe ^S^carSj fix tjmes multiplyed byu^s would 
notbefufficient Co falve the Phienomenon of being feen for a 
determinate time^ anci then to difappear j butit would be 
reqaifiteto fuppofein a manner an infinite profundity of, 
the Stellar Sphere : an Exorbitancy not to be admitted, 
, where DO other reafon urgeth to do it than the falving of 
fuch Appearances.All which helargely explaineth in hisdif^ 
courfe^ concluding it with a Confideration,which importSj 
rhatj fineeAftroDomers do now generally agree^ that the 
^ Fixt 
