Immobility. </s>
<s>And the Third &longs;hall be the Empyrean Heaven, that <lb/> is the Seat of the Ble&longs;&longs;ed. </s>
<s>And in this manner we may come to <lb/> explain and under&longs;tand that admirable Secret, and profound My­<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg933"></arrow.to.target><lb/> &longs;tery ænigmatically revealed by <emph type="italics"/>Plato<emph.end type="italics"/> to <emph type="italics"/>Diony&longs;ius<emph.end type="italics"/> of <emph type="italics"/>Syracu&longs;e<emph.end type="italics"/>: <lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg934"></arrow.to.target><lb/> <emph type="italics"/>(a) All things are about the King of all things, Second things <lb/> about the &longs;econd, and Third things about the Third<emph.end type="italics"/>: For that <lb/> God being the Centre of Spiritual things, the Sun, of Cor­<lb/> poreal, Chri&longs;t, of tho&longs;e that are Mixt, or made up of both, things <lb/> do doubtle&longs;&longs;e depend of that of the&longs;e three Centres that is mo&longs;t <lb/> corre&longs;pondent and proportionable to them, and the Centre is <lb/> ever adjudged to be the nobler and worthier place: and therefore <lb/> in Animals the Heart, in Vegitables the Pith or Kernell wherein <lb/> the Seed lyeth that con&longs;erveth their perpetuity, and virtually in­<lb/> cludes the whole Plant, are in the Mid&longs;t, and in the Centre: and <lb/> thus much &longs;hall &longs;uffice to have hinted at, &longs;ince there may another <lb/> occa&longs;ion offer it &longs;elf for a larger Explication of the&longs;e things. </s>
<s>By <lb/> this Maxim the Authorities and Arguments of the Third Fourth <lb/> and Fifth Cla&longs;&longs;es are re&longs;olved.</s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg930"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Earth in <lb/> what &longs;en&longs;e it may <lb/> ab&longs;olutely be &longs;aid <lb/> to be in the lowe&longs;t <lb/> part of the World.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg931"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Chri&longs;t in his <lb/> Incarnation tru­<lb/> ly de&longs;cended from <lb/> Heaven, and in <lb/> his A&longs;cen&longs;ion tru­<lb/> ly a&longs;cended into <lb/> Heaven.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg932"></margin.target>2 Cor. </s>
<s>c. </s>
<s>12. v. <lb/> </s>
<s>3. <emph type="italics"/>Whether in the <lb/> body or out of the <lb/> body, I cannot tell, <lb/> The Sun is King, <lb/> Heart and Lamp <lb/> of the World him­<lb/> &longs;elf being<emph.end type="italics"/> <foreign lang="greek">autarkhs</foreign><lb/> <emph type="italics"/>ab&longs;olutely indepen­<lb/> dent.<emph.end type="italics"/>)</s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg933"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The Ænignsa of <lb/> Plato.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin">
<s><margin.target id="marg934"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>(a) Circa omni­<lb/> um Regem &longs;unt <lb/> omnia. </s>
<s>& Secun­<lb/> da circa Secun­<lb/> dum, et Tertia <lb/> circa Tertium: <lb/> Vide<emph.end type="italics"/> Theodo. </s>
<s>de <lb/> Græc. </s>
<s>affect. </s>
<s>curat. <lb/> </s>
<s>lib.
2. Steuch. </s>
<s>lib. <lb/> </s>
<s>de Parennj. </s>
<s>Phi­<lb/> lo&longs;o.</s></p>
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<s>It may be added withall, that even the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ve­<lb/> nus<emph.end type="italics"/> (that is to &longs;ay in re&longs;pect of the Earth) are to be thought <lb/> <emph type="italics"/>aboue,<emph.end type="italics"/> and not <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/> the Earth it &longs;elf, although in re&longs;pect of <lb/> the Univer&longs;e, yea and al&longs;o ab&longs;olutely, they are <emph type="italics"/>below.<emph.end type="italics"/> The rea­<lb/> &longs;on is, becau&longs;e in re&longs;pect of the Earth they alwayes appear above <lb/> its Surface: and although they do not environe it, yet by the <lb/> Motion of the &longs;aid Earth they behold one while one part, another <lb/> while another part of its Circumference. </s>
<s>Since therefore tho&longs;e <lb/> things which in a Sphærical Body are nearer to the Circumfe­<lb/> rence and more remote from the Cenrre are &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>above,<emph.end type="italics"/> but <lb/> tho&longs;e that are next adjoyning to the Centre are &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>below<emph.end type="italics"/>; <lb/> it clearly followeth that whil&longs;t the <emph type="italics"/>Sun, Mercury<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> are <lb/> not only turned towards the Surface and Circumference of the <lb/> &longs;aid Earth, but are at a very great di&longs;tance without it, &longs;ucce&longs;&longs;ively <lb/> turned about it, and every way have a view of it, and are very <lb/> far remote from its Centre, they may, in re&longs;pect of the &longs;aid Earth, <lb/> be &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>above<emph.end type="italics"/> it; as al&longs;o on the other &longs;ide, the Earth in <lb/> re&longs;pect of them may be &longs;aid to be <emph type="italics"/>beneath<emph.end type="italics"/>: howbeit on the con­<lb/> trary, in re&longs;pect of the Univer&longs;e, the Earth in reality is much <lb/> higher than they. </s>
<s>And thus is &longs;alved the Authority of <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;i-<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg935"></arrow.to.target><lb/> <emph type="italics"/>a&longs;tes<emph.end type="italics"/> in many places, expre&longs;&longs;ing tho&longs;e things that are, or are done <lb/> on the Eeath in the&longs;e words, <emph type="italics"/>Which are done, or which are under<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg936"></arrow.to.target><lb/> <emph type="italics"/>the Sun,<emph.end type="italics"/> And in the &longs;ame manner tho&longs;e words are reduced to their <lb/> true Sen&longs;e wherein it is &longs;aid, That we are <emph type="italics"/>under the Sun,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>un­<lb/> der the Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/> whereupon Terrene things are expre&longs;&longs;ed by the <lb/> name of <emph type="italics"/>Sublunary.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
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