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vifible 5 nor can it be Detrimental to Religion, but will, 
be rathe as he conceives, a means to make Mtn have a 
lefler Efteem ofthefc Earthly Things, fince they are but 
fmall, with Refpedt to the other World, and to have a 
greater Veneration and Adoration of that wonderful 
Wifdom and Providence which is univerfally difplayed 
through the whole Fabrick of theUniverfe. As to the 
Form andDifpofition of the Whole, and of the Parts of 
this Univerfe, he agrees with the Syftem of Copernicus . 
for the better Explication of which he hath added twoFi- 
gures, the firft of which fliews their Order and Pofitions, 
and the fecond their Comparative Magnitudes* And 
becaufeby reafon of the fmallnefs of thefe Figures, the 
true Proportions could not be fufficiently expreft, he has 
added a particular Explication, expreffing in Numbers 
the Diftances of their Orbsfrom the Sun in the Center, 
and the Times of their Periods in them:Next of their par- 
ticular ^l^agnitudesjand fo of their Proportions to each o- 
ther, and to the Body of the Sun. And fince it hereby 
appears that the Earth is moved about the Sun, as well 
as ttje other Planets, Cwhichall the beft of the Modern 
Aftronomers do now believe, and none but fuch as are 
of a more dull Apprehenfion, or are otherwife over-pow- 
ered by their Superiors, do deny, or make any fcruple 
pofitively to affert) and that thole Planets are Enlightened 
by the Sun in the fame manner as the Earth is, and fome 
of them as"b and u hive their ownMoons^ or Secundary 
Planets moving about them^ fometimes Eclipfing them^ 
and Eclipfedby them asthc Earthalfo isby its Moon;, 
and that (ome of them are much bigger, as well as Tome 
others fmaller then the Earth ; and fo that the Magni- 
tudes are not proDortion'd, either according to their 
Order or their Piftance , fince alfo they are obferved to 
have the fame kinds of yi^otion, both Annual and Diur- 
nal, therefore he thinks it very probable that they do 
refemble the Earth alfo in other Qualifications ; for that 
