L. 6. Cb.9. whoat laft chus concludes: truly, as it feems to me, if thofe osher

worlds pleaded for, be of feveral forts, Ariftotles reafons will be invalid: becaufe the fort of Earth and water and other parts and their Nature would be different. Fot fo the parts being of one and he fame Nature would hang togecher and would not go ouc of their world; all heavy bodies would feek their own Centre, and that lighter would fly upwards, andthe fame maybe judged of the reft , proportio-
nably. ms
Howbeit this one world does fiifficientrly demonftrate the goodnefs of God, be-= caufe he made it of his ownaccord, not being obliged fo to do; ao. ic fhews his great power, becaufe he could make it of nothing; and exceeding great it fhewes his Wifdom, becaufehe hath made al things fo admirably and with {uch rare skill.
And although we beleevethis worldto be one; yet we holdthe fame to be Pel- The world fect, with fuch a kind of perfection as a Creature is capable of. For it -was made is perfttt- by a perfect Arcift according toa perfect Partern : nor is there any thing wanting, in the abfolure perfection of the chings whereofit is made up, nor in their Variety.
Forit containes all degrees of beings. Nor in order: for info greata diverfity of
things, there appears arare order, and all things are ficly difpofed in their places : Thefgure all which are enclofed withthe Heaven, which becanfe it is round, the Figure or % te. accidental ferm of the world, therefrom refulting, isroundalfo. And fo much of jibe A the world in General. [ene
Chap. 2. Of the Heaven, and the Stars.
Ow the world is divided into two Regions,the Etberial and Sublumary : and be- ) ing to treat of the Erhereal or Celeftialin the firft place, thofe moft Famous Queftions prefent themfelves, agitated by the difpuces of moft Famous Phylofo= phers, now for many Ages: Whether there# matter in‘Heaven: and if there be, Whether 1t 7s of the fame Nature with that rehich is bere below. And although asto piste the former queftion, there are fcruples good ftore on al fides: yet that opinion ee Sai {eemes to me more probable which attributes matter to the Heaven and I conceive bnarter in. it was well faid of Scalager in his 359. Evercitation, Sett. 11. to make a Body without 7 matter, is allone as tomake a dream without fleep: or as he hath it in his: deplan- X K 2 tis
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