Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              words;
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              (r) In Principio creavit Elohim Cœlum & Terram:
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              for
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              that they did not ſee how the Noun Plural
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              Elohim
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              (which is as much
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              as to ſay
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              Dij,
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              [Gods] ſhould be joyned with the Verb Singular,
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              Creavit
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              : But the Myſtery of the Unity of Eſſence and Trinity
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              of Perſons in God being revealed, it was preſently known, that
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              the Singular Number,
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              Creavit,
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              had reference to the Unity of Eſ­
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              ſence, (in regard that the Works of the Trinity
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              ad extra
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              are in­
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              diviſible) and the Plural,
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              Elohim,
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              to the Perſons. </s>
              <s>Who, I pray,
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              in elder times could have found out this Myſtery? </s>
              <s>And thus the
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              Name of God is thrice repeated in
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              Pſal. </s>
              <s>67. (s) God, even our
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              God ſhall bleſſe us, God ſhall bleſſe us, &c.
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              Which at firſt might
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              ſeem a Pleonaſme, and ſuperfluous repetition; but afterwards it
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              was evident that
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              David
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              did there ſet out the Benedictions of ſe­
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              veral Perſons implyed, to wit, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoſt.
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              <s>Innumerable Examples of the like kind may be found in the Sa­
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              cred Leaves. </s>
              <s>Therefore, to conclude, I will ſay with ^{*}
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              David,
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              Pſal.
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              92.
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              Oh Lord how glorious are thy Works! thy thoughts
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              are very deep: an unwiſeman knoweth not, and a fool doth not
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              underſtand theſe things.
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              (m)
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              Numb. c. >20.
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              v. 5.</s>
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              (n)
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              Joel c. </s>
              <s>1. v. </s>
              <s>12.</s>
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              (o)
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              Hagg. c. 2.
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              v. 19.</s>
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              (p)
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              Deut. c. 8. v. 8.</s>
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              (q)
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              1 Kings c 7.
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              v. 20. & 2 Kings
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              c. 25. v. 17. &
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              2 Chro. c. 3. v. 15,
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              16. & c. 4. v. 12.
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              13. & Jerem. c.
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              52. v. 21, 22.</s>
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              (r)
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              Gen. c. 1. v. 1</s>
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              (s) P
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              ſal. 67. v. 6
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              7.</s>
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              * Pſal. 92 v. 536.</s>
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              <s>Theſe are the particulars that I have thought fit to offer, as
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              a Divine, concerning the not-improbable Opinion of the Mobili­
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              ty of the Earth and Stability of the Sun: which I hope will be
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              acceptable to you, Reverend Sir, out of the love and diligence
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              wherewith you perſue Virtue and Learning. </s>
              <s>But (to the end
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              that you may alſo receive an account of my other Studies) I
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              hope very ſhortly to publiſh in Print my Second Tome ^{*}
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              Of the In-
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              ſtitutions of all Learnings,
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              which ſhall containe all the Liberall
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              Arts, as I have already ſignified in that
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              Syntax,
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              and
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              Spicimen
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              by
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              me heretofore put forth, and publiſhed under your Name. </s>
              <s>The
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              other five following Tomes by me promiſed (which ſhall treat of
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              Phyloſophy and Theology) are not altogether ſo forward, ne­
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              vertheleſs they will be ſpeedily finiſhed. </s>
              <s>In the mean time there
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              will come forth my Book
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              Concerning ^{*} Oracles,
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              now finiſhed, to­
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              gether with a Treatiſe ^{*}
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              Of Artificial Divination.
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              And for a
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              pledge thereof, I ſend you at this time annexed to this Epiſtle a
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              Tract ^{*}
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              Concerning Natural Coſmological Divination,
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              or of Natu­
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              ral Prognoſticks, and Preſages of the Changes oſ Weather, and
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              other things which fall within the compaſſe of Natue. </s>
              <s>God grant
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              you all Happineſſe.</s>
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              *
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              Inſtitutionum
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              omnium Doctri­
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              narum.
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              *
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              De Oraculis.
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              *
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              De Divinatio­
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              ne artificioſa.
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              *
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              De Divinatio­
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              ne Naturali Coſ­
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              mologica.
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              Moſt Reverend Sir
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              NAPLES,
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              from the Covent
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              of the
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              Carmelites,
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              Jan.
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              <s>6. 1615.</s>
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              Your Moſt Humble Servant
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              PAOLO ANTONIO FOSCARINI.
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              <s>FINIS.</s>
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