tho&longs;e that I ever heard be&longs;ides, but yet neverthele&longs;&longs;e I e&longs;teem it
<lb/> not true and concluding: but keeping alwayes before the eyes
<lb/> of my mind a &longs;olid Doctrine that I have learn't from a mo&longs;t
<lb/> learned and ingenuous per&longs;on, and with which it is nece&longs;&longs;ary to
<lb/> &longs;it down; I know that both you being asked, Whether God, by
<lb/> his infinite Power and Wi&longs;dome might confer upon the Element
<lb/> of Water the reciprocal motion which we ob&longs;erve in the &longs;ame in
<lb/> any other way, than by making the containing Ve&longs;&longs;el to move; I
<lb/> know, I &longs;ay, that you will an&longs;wer, that he might, and knew how
<lb/> to have done the &longs;ame many wayes, and tho&longs;e unimaginable to
<lb/> our &longs;hallow under&longs;tanding: upon which I forthwith conclude,
<lb/> that this being granted, it would be an extravagant boldne&longs;&longs;e
<lb/> for any one to goe about to limit and confine the Divine
<lb/> Power and Wi&longs;dome to &longs;ome one particular conjecture of
<lb/> his own.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>This of yours is admirable, and truly Angelical Do­
<lb/> ctrine, to which very exactly that other accords, in like manner
<lb/> divine, which whil&longs;t it giveth us leave to di&longs;pute, touching the
<lb/> con&longs;titution of the World, addeth withall (perhaps to the end,
<lb/> that the exerci&longs;e of the minds of men might neither be di&longs;cou­
<lb/> raged, nor made bold) that we cannot find out the works made
<lb/> by his hands. </s><s>Let therefore the Di&longs;qui&longs;ition permitted and or­
<lb/> dain'd us by God, a&longs;&longs;i&longs;t us in the knowing, and &longs;o much more
<lb/> admiring his greatne&longs;&longs;e, by how much le&longs;&longs;e we finde our &longs;elves
<lb/> too dull to penetrate the profound Aby&longs;&longs;es of his infinite Wi&longs;­
<lb/> dome.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>And this may &longs;erve for a final clo&longs;e of our four dayes
<lb/> Di&longs;putations, after which, if it &longs;eem good to <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> to take
<lb/> &longs;ome time to re&longs;t him&longs;elf, our curio&longs;ity mu&longs;t, of nece&longs;&longs;ity, grant
<lb/> him the &longs;ame, yet upon condition, that when it is le&longs;&longs;e incommo­
<lb/> dious for him, he will return and &longs;atisfie my de&longs;ire in particular
<lb/> concerning the Problemes that remain to be di&longs;cu&longs;t, and that I
<lb/> have &longs;et down to be propounded at one or two other Conferen­
<lb/> ces, according to our agreement: and above all, I &longs;hall very
<lb/> impatiently wait to hear the Elements of the new Science of our
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Academick<emph.end type="italics"/> about the natural and violent local Motions. </s><s>And
<lb/> in the mean time, we may, according to our cu&longs;tome, &longs;pend an
<lb/> hour in taking the Air in the <emph type="italics"/>Gondola<emph.end type="italics"/> that waiteth for us.</s></p>
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