Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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cludeth all Corporeal Creatures, and in compariſon of
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Jupiter,
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Mars,
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Saturn
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together with the
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Moon,
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and much more in
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compariſon of other Bodies, (if any ſuch there be) above the
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Eighth Sphere and eſpecially the Empyrial Heaven, may be truly
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ſaid to be in the loweſt place of the World, and almoſt in the
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Centre of it; nor can it he ſaid to be above any of them, except
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Sun, Mercury
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Venus
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: So that one may apply unto it the
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name of an Infime and Low, but not a Supreme or Middle Body.
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(as it is accepted in the Deſcent of Chriſt from Heaven to his Holy
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Incarnation) and from it to go up to Heaven (as in Chriſts return
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to Heaven in his Glorious Aſcention) is truly and properly to
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Deſcend
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from the Circumference to the Centre, and to
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aſcend
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from the parts which are neareſt to the Centre of the World
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and according to truth explain Theologicall Propoſitions: and
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this is ſo much the more confirmed, in that (as I have obſerved)
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almoſt all Texts of Sacred Scripture which oppoſe the Earth to
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Heaven, are moſt conveniently and aptly underſtood of the Em
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pyrial Heaven (being the Higheſt of all the Heavens, and Spiritual
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in reſpect of its end) but not of the inferiour or intermediate Hea
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vens, which are a Corporeal, and were framed for the benefit of
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Corporeal Creatures: and thus when in the Plural Number
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Heavens are mentioned, then all the Heavens promiſcuouſly and
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without diſtinction are to be underſtood, as well the Empyrian
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it ſelf as the Inferiour Heavens. </
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man (that doth but take notice of it) may find to be moſt true.
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Paul
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was wrapt up, by this Maxim may be taken for the Empyrean:
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if for the the Firſt Heaven we underſtand that immenſe Space of
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Erratick and Moveable Bodies illuminated by the Sun, in which
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are comprehended the Planets, as alſo the Earth moveable, and
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the Sun immoveable, Who like a King upon his Auguſt Tribu
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nal, ſits with venerable Majeſty immoveable and conſtant in
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Centre of all the Sphæres, and, with his Divine Beames, doth
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bountifully exhilerate all Cœleſtial Bodies that ſtand in need of
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his vital Light, for which they cravingly wander about him; and
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doth liberally and on every ſide comfort and illuſtrate the Thea
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tre of the whole World, and all its parts, even the very leaſt, like
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an immortal and perpetual Lamp of high and unſpeakable va
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ly called the Eighth Sphære, or the Firmament, wherein are all
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the Fixed Starrs, which according to this Opinion of
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Pythagoras,
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is (like as the Sun and Centre) void of all Motion, the Centre
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