Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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that vaſt magnitude of the Univerſe, which thou afterwards
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eſt to be too immenſe? </
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hold that thy apprehenſion extendeth it ſelf farther than the
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vine Power? </
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>wilt thou ſay, that thou canſt imagine greater
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things than thoſe which God can bring to paſſe? </
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apprehendeſt it not, why wilt thou paſſe thy verdict upon things
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Immenſe
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nitudes and
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bers are
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henſible by our
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derſtanding.
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Heaven may in greatneſſe ſurpaſſe our imagination, as alſo that
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God might have created it thouſands of times vaſter than now it
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is; but we ought not to grant any thing to have been made in
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vain, and to be idle in the Univerſe. </
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mirable order of the Planets, diſpoſed about the Earth in
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ces proportionate for producing their effects for our advantage,
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to what purpoſe is it to interpoſe afterwards between the ſublime
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Orb of
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and the ſtarry Sphere, a vaſt vacancy, without any
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ſtar that is ſuperfluous, and to no purpoſe? </
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cius,
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whilſt we will have it, that the onely care of us, is the
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æquate work, and bound, beyond which the Divine Wiſdome
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and Power doth, or diſpoſeth of nothing. </
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ſent, that we ſhould ſo much ſhorten its hand, but deſire that we
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may content our ſelves with an aſſurance that God and Nature
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are ſo imployed in the governing of humane affairs, that they
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could not more apply themſelves thereto, although they had no
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other care than onely that of mankind; and this, I think, I am
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able to make out by a moſt pertinent and moſt noble example,
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taken from the operation of the Suns light, which whileſt it
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tracteth theſe vapours, or ſcorcheth that plant, it attracteth, it
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ſcorcheth them, as if it had no more to do; yea, in ripening that
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bunch of grapes, nay that one ſingle grape, it doth apply it ſelf
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ſo, that it could not be more intenſe if the ſum of all its buſineſs
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had been the only maturation of that grape. </
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receiveth all that it is poſſible for it to receive from the Sun, not
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ſuffering the leaſt injury by the Suns production of a thouſand
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other effects at the ſame time; it would be either envy or folly
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to blame that grape, if it ſhould think or wiſh that the Sun would
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onely appropriate its rayes to its advantage. </
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nothing is omitted by the Divine Providence, of what concernes
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the government of humane affairs; but that there may not be
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other things in the Univerſe, that depend upon the ſame infinite
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Wiſdome, I cannot, of my ſelf, by what my reaſon holds forth
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to me, bring my ſelf to believe. </
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yet ſhould I not forbear to believe the reaſons laid before me by </
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