1new Obſervations, and by the application of many of the Lear
ned to the reading of him, his Hypotheſis and Doctrine doth
every day appear to be more true, having admitted and tolerated
it for ſo many years, whilſt he was leſſe followed, ſtudied, and
confirmed, would ſeem, in my judgment, an affront to Truth,
and a ſeeking the more to obſcure and ſuppreſſe her, the more
ſhe ſheweth her ſelf clear and perſpicuous.
ned to the reading of him, his Hypotheſis and Doctrine doth
every day appear to be more true, having admitted and tolerated
it for ſo many years, whilſt he was leſſe followed, ſtudied, and
confirmed, would ſeem, in my judgment, an affront to Truth,
and a ſeeking the more to obſcure and ſuppreſſe her, the more
ſhe ſheweth her ſelf clear and perſpicuous.
The aboliſhing and cenſuring, not of the whole Book, but
onely ſo much of it as concerns this particular opinion of the
Earths Mobility, would, if I miſtake not, be a greater detriment
to ſouls, it being an occaſion of great ſcandal, to ſee a Poſition
proved, and to ſee it afterwards made an Hereſie to believe it.
onely ſo much of it as concerns this particular opinion of the
Earths Mobility, would, if I miſtake not, be a greater detriment
to ſouls, it being an occaſion of great ſcandal, to ſee a Poſition
proved, and to ſee it afterwards made an Hereſie to believe it.
The prohibiting of the whole Science, what other would it
be but an open contempt of an hundred Texts of the Holy Scri
ptures, which teach us, That the Glory, and the Greatneſſe of
Almighty God is admirably diſcerned in all his Works, and di
vinely read in the Open Book of Heaven? Nor let any one
think that the Lecture of the lofty conceits that are written in
thoſe Leaves finiſh in only beholding the Splendour of the Sun,
and of the Stars, and their riſing and ſetting, (which is the term
to which the eyes of bruits and of the vulgar reach) but there
are couched in them myſteries ſo profound, and conceipts ſo ſub
lime, that the vigils, labours, and ſtudies of an hundred and an
hundred acute Wits, have not yet been able thorowly to dive
into them after the continual diſquiſition of ſome thouſands of
years. But let the Unlearned believe, that like as that which
their eyes diſcern in beholding the aſpect of a humane body, is
very little in compariſon of the ſtupendious Artifices, which an
exquiſite and curious Anatomiſt or Philoſopher finds in the ſame
when he is ſearching for the uſe of ſo many Muſcles, Tendons,
Nerves, and Bones; and examining the Offices of the Heart,
and of the other principal Members, ſeeking the ſeat of the vi
tal Faculties, noting and obſerving the admirable ſtructures of
the Inſtruments of the Senſes, and, without ever making an end
of ſatisfying his curioſity and wonder, contemplating the Re
ceptacles of the Imagination, of the Memory, and of the Un
derſtanding; So that which repreſents it ſelf to the meer ſight,
is as nothing in compariſon and proportion to the ſtrange Won
ders, that by help of long and accurate Obſervations the Wit
of Learned Men diſcovereth in Heaven. And this is the ſub
ſtance of what I had to conſider touching this particular.
be but an open contempt of an hundred Texts of the Holy Scri
ptures, which teach us, That the Glory, and the Greatneſſe of
Almighty God is admirably diſcerned in all his Works, and di
vinely read in the Open Book of Heaven? Nor let any one
think that the Lecture of the lofty conceits that are written in
thoſe Leaves finiſh in only beholding the Splendour of the Sun,
and of the Stars, and their riſing and ſetting, (which is the term
to which the eyes of bruits and of the vulgar reach) but there
are couched in them myſteries ſo profound, and conceipts ſo ſub
lime, that the vigils, labours, and ſtudies of an hundred and an
hundred acute Wits, have not yet been able thorowly to dive
into them after the continual diſquiſition of ſome thouſands of
years. But let the Unlearned believe, that like as that which
their eyes diſcern in beholding the aſpect of a humane body, is
very little in compariſon of the ſtupendious Artifices, which an
exquiſite and curious Anatomiſt or Philoſopher finds in the ſame
when he is ſearching for the uſe of ſo many Muſcles, Tendons,
Nerves, and Bones; and examining the Offices of the Heart,
and of the other principal Members, ſeeking the ſeat of the vi
tal Faculties, noting and obſerving the admirable ſtructures of
the Inſtruments of the Senſes, and, without ever making an end
of ſatisfying his curioſity and wonder, contemplating the Re
ceptacles of the Imagination, of the Memory, and of the Un
derſtanding; So that which repreſents it ſelf to the meer ſight,
is as nothing in compariſon and proportion to the ſtrange Won
ders, that by help of long and accurate Obſervations the Wit
of Learned Men diſcovereth in Heaven. And this is the ſub
ſtance of what I had to conſider touching this particular.