1why nothing of certainty can be evinced from the foreſaid Au
thorities to the determining of Controverſies of this Nature; as
alſo with what Reaſon from this firſt Axiome the Objections of
the firſt and ſecond Claſſe are eaſily anſwered, as alſo any other
Authority of ſacred Scripture produced againſt the Pythagorian
and Copernican Syſteme ſo long as by other proofs it is true.
thorities to the determining of Controverſies of this Nature; as
alſo with what Reaſon from this firſt Axiome the Objections of
the firſt and ſecond Claſſe are eaſily anſwered, as alſo any other
Authority of ſacred Scripture produced againſt the Pythagorian
and Copernican Syſteme ſo long as by other proofs it is true.
(a) Eccleſ. c. 1. v.
ult.
ult.
(b) Chap. 3. v. 11.
(c) 1 Cor. c. 4. v. 5
(d) 1 Cor. c. 13. v.
12.
12.
(e) 1 John c. 3. v.
2.
2.
(f) 1 Cor. c. 13. v.
12.
12.
(g) Eccleſiaſt. 15. 3
(h) 1 Cor. c. 2. v. 2
(i) Iſa. c. 48. v. 17.
1 Theſſ. 4.
And the Authorities of the ſecond Claſſe in particular by
this ſame Maxime, Of the ordinary manner of apprehending
things as they appear to us, and after the common way of ſpeak
ing, may be thus reconciled and expounded; namely, Oftentimes
an Agent is commonly, and not improperly ſaid to move, (though
it have no motion) not becauſe it doth indeed move, but by ex
trinſick denomination, becauſe receiving its influence and action at
the motion of the Subject; the Form and Quality infuſed to
the Subject by the ſaid Agent doth likewiſe move. As for ex
ample, a Fire burning in a Chimney is an immoveable Agent,
before which a man oppreſt with cold ſits to warm himſelf who
being warmed on one ſide, turns the other to the Fire, that he
may be warmed on that ſide alſo, and ſo in like manner he holds
every part to the Fire ſucceſſively, till his whole body be warm
ed. 'Tis clear, that although the Fire do not move, yet at the
Motion of the Subject, to wit the Man, who receiveth the heat
and action of the Fire, the Form and Quality of its Heat doth
move ſingulatim, & per partes, round about the mans body, and
alwayes ſeeketh out a new place: and ſo, though the Fire do
not move, yet by reaſon of its effect, it is ſaid to go round all
the parts of the Mans body, and to warm it, not indeed by a
true and real motion of the Fire it ſelf, ſince it is ſuppoſed (and
that not untruly) not to move, but by the motion to which the
Body is excited, out of a deſire of receiving the heat of the Fire
in each of its parts. The ſame may be applied to the Illumina
tion impreſſed ſucceſſively on the parts of any Globe, which
moves Orbicularly at the aſpect of a ſhining immoveable
Light. And in the ſame manner may the Sun be ſaid to riſe and
ſet, and to move above the Earth, although in reality he doth
not move, nor ſuffer any mutation; that is to ſay, Inaſmuch as
his Light (which effect is the Form and Quality proceeding from
him, as the Agent, to the Earth as the Subject) doth ſenſibly
glide forwards, by reaſon of the Orbicular motion of the Earth;
and doth alwayes be take it ſelf to ſome new place of her ſurface;
upon which ground he is truly ſaid (ſecundum vnlgarem ſermo
nem) to move above, and revolve about the Earth: Not that the
Sun doth move, (for by this Opinion we affirm the Earth to
move, that it may receive the Sun one while in one, another
while in another part of it) but that at the motion of the Earth
this ſame Maxime, Of the ordinary manner of apprehending
things as they appear to us, and after the common way of ſpeak
ing, may be thus reconciled and expounded; namely, Oftentimes
an Agent is commonly, and not improperly ſaid to move, (though
it have no motion) not becauſe it doth indeed move, but by ex
trinſick denomination, becauſe receiving its influence and action at
the motion of the Subject; the Form and Quality infuſed to
the Subject by the ſaid Agent doth likewiſe move. As for ex
ample, a Fire burning in a Chimney is an immoveable Agent,
before which a man oppreſt with cold ſits to warm himſelf who
being warmed on one ſide, turns the other to the Fire, that he
may be warmed on that ſide alſo, and ſo in like manner he holds
every part to the Fire ſucceſſively, till his whole body be warm
ed. 'Tis clear, that although the Fire do not move, yet at the
Motion of the Subject, to wit the Man, who receiveth the heat
and action of the Fire, the Form and Quality of its Heat doth
move ſingulatim, & per partes, round about the mans body, and
alwayes ſeeketh out a new place: and ſo, though the Fire do
not move, yet by reaſon of its effect, it is ſaid to go round all
the parts of the Mans body, and to warm it, not indeed by a
true and real motion of the Fire it ſelf, ſince it is ſuppoſed (and
that not untruly) not to move, but by the motion to which the
Body is excited, out of a deſire of receiving the heat of the Fire
in each of its parts. The ſame may be applied to the Illumina
tion impreſſed ſucceſſively on the parts of any Globe, which
moves Orbicularly at the aſpect of a ſhining immoveable
Light. And in the ſame manner may the Sun be ſaid to riſe and
ſet, and to move above the Earth, although in reality he doth
not move, nor ſuffer any mutation; that is to ſay, Inaſmuch as
his Light (which effect is the Form and Quality proceeding from
him, as the Agent, to the Earth as the Subject) doth ſenſibly
glide forwards, by reaſon of the Orbicular motion of the Earth;
and doth alwayes be take it ſelf to ſome new place of her ſurface;
upon which ground he is truly ſaid (ſecundum vnlgarem ſermo
nem) to move above, and revolve about the Earth: Not that the
Sun doth move, (for by this Opinion we affirm the Earth to
move, that it may receive the Sun one while in one, another
while in another part of it) but that at the motion of the Earth