Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              overthroweth not what the Pſalmiſt here ſaith, nor doth he con­
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              tradict Common Experience; for it is true notwithſtanding,
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              that the Earth, the Structure of God its Architect, doth not de­
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              cay (as our Buildings are wont to do) by age, or conſume by
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              wormes, nor ſway and leane to this or that ſide; that the Seats
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              and Neſts of Living Creatures are not moleſted; that the
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              Mountains and Shores ſtand immoveable againſt the violence of
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              the Winds and Waves, as they were at the beginning. </s>
              <s>But the
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              Pſalmiſt addeth a moſt Elegant Hypotheſis of the Separation of
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              the Waters from the Continent or Main-land, and adorns it
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              with the production of Fountains, and the benefits that Springs
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              and Rocks exhibit to Birds and Beaſts. </s>
              <s>Nor doth he omit the
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              apparelling the Earths Surface, mentioned by
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              Moſes
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              amongſt the
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              works of the third Day, but more ſublimely deſcribeth it in his
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              Caſe in expreſſions infuſed from Divine Inſpiration; and flouri­
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              ſheth out the commemoration of the many commodities which
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              redound from that Exornation for the Nouriſhment and Com­
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              fort of Man, and ^{*} Covert of Beaſts. </s>
              <s>The fourth part begins
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              at
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              Verſe
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              20. celebrating the fourth dayes work,
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              viz.
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              The Sun
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              and Moon, but chiefly the commodiouſneſſe of thoſe things,
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              which in their Seaſons befall to all Living Creatures and to Man;
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              this being the ſubject matter of his Diſcourſe: So that it plain­
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              ly appeareth he acted not the part of an Aſtronomer. </s>
              <s>For if he
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              had, he would not then have omitted to mention the five Planets,
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              than whoſe moiton nothing is more admirable, nothing more ex­
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              cellent, nothing that can more evidently ſet forth the Wiſdome
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              of the Creator amongſt the Learned. </s>
              <s>The fifth part begins,
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              Verſe
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              25. with the fifth Dayes work. </s>
              <s>And it ſtores the Seas with
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              Fiſhes, and covers them with Ships. </s>
              <s>The ſixth part is more ob­
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              ſcurely hinted at,
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              Verſe
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              28. and alludeth to the Land-Creatures
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              that were created the ſixth day. </s>
              <s>And laſtly, he declareth the
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              goodneſſe of God in general, who daily createth and preſerveth
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              all things? </s>
              <s>So that whatever he ſaid of the World is in relation
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              to Living Creatures; He ſpeaks of nothing but what is granted
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              on all hands; for that it was his intent to extol things known,
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              and not to dive into hidden matters, but to invite men to con­
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              template the Benefits that redouud unto them from the works of
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              each of theſe dayes.</s>
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              Pſal. </s>
              <s>104. v. </s>
              <s>5.</s>
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              * Shelter.</s>
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              <s>And I do alſo beſeech my Reader, not forgetting the Divine
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              Goodneſſe conferred on Mankind; the conſideration of which
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              the Pſalmiſt doth chiefly urge, that when he returneth from the
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              Temple, and enters into the School of
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              Aſtronomy,
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              he would
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              with me praiſe and admire the Wiſdome and Greatneſſe of the
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              Creator, which I diſcover to him by a more narrow explication
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              of the Worlds Form, the Diſquiſition of Cauſes, and Detection </s>
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