Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              thoſe that I ever heard beſides, but yet nevertheleſſe I eſteem it
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              not true and concluding: but keeping alwayes before the eyes
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              of my mind a ſolid Doctrine that I have learn't from a moſt
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              learned and ingenuous perſon, and with which it is neceſſary to
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              ſit down; I know that both you being asked, Whether God, by
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              his infinite Power and Wiſdome might confer upon the Element
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              of Water the reciprocal motion which we obſerve in the ſame in
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              any other way, than by making the containing Veſſel to move; I
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              know, I ſay, that you will anſwer, that he might, and knew how
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              to have done the ſame many wayes, and thoſe unimaginable to
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              our ſhallow underſtanding: upon which I forthwith conclude,
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              that this being granted, it would be an extravagant boldneſſe
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              for any one to goe about to limit and confine the Divine
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              Power and Wiſdome to ſome one particular conjecture of
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              his own.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This of yours is admirable, and truly Angelical
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              ctrine, to which very exactly that other accords, in like manner
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              divine, which whilſt it giveth us leave to diſpute, touching the
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              conſtitution of the World, addeth withall (perhaps to the end,
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              that the exerciſe of the minds of men might neither be
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              raged, nor made bold) that we cannot find out the works made
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              by his hands. </s>
              <s>Let therefore the Diſquiſition permitted and
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              dain'd us by God, aſſiſt us in the knowing, and ſo much more
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              admiring his greatneſſe, by how much leſſe we finde our ſelves
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              too dull to penetrate the profound Abyſſes of his infinite
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              dome.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And this may ſerve for a final cloſe of our four dayes
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              Diſputations, after which, if it ſeem good to
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              Salviatus,
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              to take
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              ſome time to reſt himſelf, our curioſity muſt, of neceſſity, grant
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              him the ſame, yet upon condition, that when it is leſſe
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              dious for him, he will return and ſatisfie my deſire in particular
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              concerning the Problemes that remain to be diſcuſt, and that I
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              have ſet down to be propounded at one or two other
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              ces, according to our agreement: and above all, I ſhall very
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              impatiently wait to hear the Elements of the new Science of our
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              Academick
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              about the natural and violent local Motions. </s>
              <s>And
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              in the mean time, we may, according to our cuſtome, ſpend an
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              hour in taking the Air in the
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              Gondola
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              that waiteth for us.</s>
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              FINIS.
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