* Officium
The Toledo Edition, Printed by JOHN RODERICK,
Anno 1584, in Quarto, Pag. 205. & ſeqque on
theſe Words, Chap. 9. Verſe 6.
Anno 1584, in Quarto, Pag. 205. & ſeqque on
theſe Words, Chap. 9. Verſe 6.
The Sacred Pen-man here ſets down another ef
fect whereby God ſheweth his Ahnighty Po
wer, joyned with infinite Wiſdom. Which
place, though it muſt be confeſſed very diffi
cult to underſtand, might be greatly cleared
by the Opinion of the Pythagorians, who
hold the Earth to be moved of its own Na
ture, and that the Motion of the Stars can no other way be aſcer
tained, they being ſo extreamly different in tardity and velocity.
Of which judgement was Philolaus, and Heraclides Ponticus, as
Plutarch relateth in his Book De Placitis Philoſophorum: Who
were followed by Numa Pompilius, and, which I more regard,
The Divine Plato in his old age; inſomuch that he affirmed that
it was moſt abſurd to think otherwiſe, as the ſame Plutarch tells
us in his ^{*} Numa. And Hypocrates in his Book De Flatibus,
calleth the Air τησγησὀχἠμα, i. e. The Earths Chariot. But in this
fect whereby God ſheweth his Ahnighty Po
wer, joyned with infinite Wiſdom. Which
place, though it muſt be confeſſed very diffi
cult to underſtand, might be greatly cleared
by the Opinion of the Pythagorians, who
hold the Earth to be moved of its own Na
ture, and that the Motion of the Stars can no other way be aſcer
tained, they being ſo extreamly different in tardity and velocity.
Of which judgement was Philolaus, and Heraclides Ponticus, as
Plutarch relateth in his Book De Placitis Philoſophorum: Who
were followed by Numa Pompilius, and, which I more regard,
The Divine Plato in his old age; inſomuch that he affirmed that
it was moſt abſurd to think otherwiſe, as the ſame Plutarch tells
us in his ^{*} Numa. And Hypocrates in his Book De Flatibus,
calleth the Air τησγησὀχἠμα, i. e. The Earths Chariot. But in this