PROP. II.
That there is not any place in Holy Scrip-
# ture, from which (being rightly under-
# ſtood) we may infer the Diurnal Mo-
# tion of the Sun or Heavens.
IT were happy for us, if we could exempt
Scripture from Philoſophical Controver-
ſies: if we could be content to let it be per-
fect for that end unto which it was intended,
for a Rule of our Faith and Obedience; and
not ſtretch it alſo to be a Judg of ſuch na-
tural Truths, as are to be found out by our
own induſtry and experience. Though the
Holy Ghoſt could eaſily have given us a full
reſolution of all ſuch particulars; yet he hath
Eccleſ. 3.
10, 11.left this travel to the Sons of Men to be exerciſed
therewith; Mundum reliquit diſputationibus
Hominum; that being buſied, for the moſt
part, in an inquiſition after the Creatures,
we might find the leſs leiſure to wait upon
our Luſt, or ſerve our more ſinful Incli-
nations.
But however, becauſe our Adverſaries ge-
nerally do ſo much inſult in thoſe Argu-
ments that may be drawn from hence; and
more eſpecially, becauſe Pineda doth for this
Comment.
in Eccleſ.
c. 1. v 4.reaſon, with ſo many bitter and empty re-
proaches, revile our learned Countryman,
