be) reconciled with it: And &longs;ince that by it not only the Ph&oelig;<lb/>
nomena of all the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies are mo&longs;t readily &longs;alved, but <lb/>
al&longs;o many Natural Rea&longs;ons are di&longs;covered, which could not o<lb/>
therwi&longs;e, (but with extream difficulty) have been found out: <lb/>
And &longs;ince it, la&longs;t of all, doth open a more ea&longs;y way into A&longs;tro<lb/>
nomy and Phylo&longs;ophy, and rejecteth all tho&longs;e &longs;uperfluous and <lb/>
imaginary inventions produced by A&longs;tronomers to the end only, <lb/>
that they might be able by them to render a rea&longs;on of the &longs;o ma<lb/>
ny and &longs;o various Motions of the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Orbs.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>And who knows, but that in that admirable compo&longs;ure of the <lb/>
Candle&longs;tick which was to be placed in the Tabernacle of God, he <lb/>
might out of his extraordinary love to us have been plea&longs;ed to <lb/>
&longs;haddow forth unto us the Sy&longs;teme of the Univer&longs;e, and more <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg938"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
e&longs;pecially of the Planets? <emph type="italics"/>(a) Thou &longs;halt make a Candle&longs;tick of<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg939"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>pure Gold,<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;aith the Text;) <emph type="italics"/>of beaten work &longs;hall it be made: <lb/>
his Shaft, and his Branches, his Bowls, his Knops, and his <lb/>
Flowers (b) &longs;hall be of the &longs;ame.<emph.end type="italics"/> Here are five things de&longs;cribed, the <lb/>
Shaft of the Candle&longs;tick in the midle, the Branches on the &longs;ides, <lb/>
the Bowls, the Knops and the Flowers. </s> <s>And &longs;ince there can be no <lb/>
more Shafts but one, the Branches are immediatly de&longs;cribed in <lb/>
the&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>(c)<emph.end type="italics"/> words: <emph type="italics"/>Six Branches &longs;hall come out of the &longs;ides of it: <lb/>
three Branches out of the one &longs;ide, and three Branches out of the <lb/>
other &longs;ide:<emph.end type="italics"/> Happly the&longs;e fix Branches may point out to us &longs;ix <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>(d)<emph.end type="italics"/> Heavens, which are moved about the Sun in this order; <emph type="italics"/>Saturn,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
the &longs;lowe&longs;t and mo&longs;t remote of all, fini&longs;heth his cour&longs;e about the <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg940"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
Sun thorrow all the twelve Signes of the Zodiack in thirty Years: <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg941"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Jupiter,<emph.end type="italics"/> being nearer than he, in twelve Years: <emph type="italics"/>Mars,<emph.end type="italics"/> being yet <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg942"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
nearer than him, in two Years: The <emph type="italics"/>Earth,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is &longs;till nearer <lb/>
than he, doth perform the &longs;ame Revolution, together with <lb/>
the Orbe of the <emph type="italics"/>Moon,<emph.end type="italics"/> in the &longs;pace of a Year, that is in Twelve <lb/>
Months: <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is yet nearer than all the&longs;e, in <emph type="italics"/>(e)<emph.end type="italics"/> 9 Months: <lb/>
And la&longs;t of all <emph type="italics"/>Mercury,<emph.end type="italics"/> who&longs;e vicinity to the Sun is the greate&longs;t <lb/>
of all, accompli&longs;heth its whole conver&longs;ion about the Sun in eighty <lb/>
Dayes. </s> <s>After the de&longs;cription of the &longs;ix Branches, the &longs;acred <lb/>
Text proceeds to the de&longs;cription of the Bowls, the Knops, and <lb/>
the Flowers, &longs;aying, <emph type="italics"/>(f) Three Bowls made like unto Almonds, <lb/>
with a Knop and a Flower in one Branch; and three Bowls made <lb/>
like Almonds in the other Branch, with a Knop and a Flower: this <lb/>
&longs;hall be the work of the &longs;ix Branches that come out of the Shaft. <lb/>
</s> <s>And in the Candle&longs;tick &longs;hall be four Bowls made like unto Al<lb/>
monds, with their Knops and their Flowers: there &longs;hall be a knop <lb/>
under two branches of the &longs;ame, and a Knop under two Branches <lb/>
of the &longs;ame, and a Knop under two Branches of the &longs;ame; which <lb/>
together are &longs;ix Branches, proceeding from one Shaft.<emph.end type="italics"/> The truth <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg943"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
is, the &longs;hallowne&longs;&longs;e of my under&longs;tanding cannot fathome the