Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas.
- Samuel Purchas
- Date:
- 1626
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Heauens, beautie and fmile of the World, eye to our Eycs,ioy of our Hearts : moftcommonj pure and perfeft of vifible creatures; firft borne of this World , and endowed with a double portion ot earthly and heauenly Inheritance,(hining in both; which contayneth, fuftayneth, rs isb ?S.i 3. gathereth feuereth, purgeth, perfefteth, renueth,and preferueth all things; repelling dread, q yerbumoei expelling forrovv, P Shaking the wicked out of the Earth, and lifting vp the hearts of the viiliintasefi,opus oodly CO looke for a greater and more glorious light; greated inlfrument of Nature, refem- Dumtm-a e(i. of Grace, Type of Glorie, and bright Glade of the Creators brightnelTe. ^rbumhl'efi- God made by his tVord, not vctered with found of fyllables , nor that which mpeat imptriu, in the beginning (and therefore before the beginning) was wi:h God, and was God : decretitm & vn- but by his powerfull elfedfing (calling things that were not, as though they were) and by his ImtatemDnef- calling or willing cauling them to be, thereby » fignifying his will as plainly, and effefting i«^* ealily as a word is to a man. That vncrcated fapercdcntiall light, the ctcrnall Trinitie, f commanded this light to bee, and approued it as good , both in it felfe and to the futui'C Crea- f Sic^ifil hex. turts: andfsparatedthe fame fromdark^Jfe (^whichkemes a. ^ meerepriuation and ab fence of ham s & :at light) difpoling them to fiicceed each o: her in the Hemilphere; which by what motion or Patritim Pa- reuolution it was effefted the three firft dayes, who can determine ^ Fond itis to reafon, A llnmt 'comts prel'ent order of conftitution , to the Principles of that inftitution of tnlacida^ ore- the Creatures, whiles they were yet in making, as Simplicius, and other Philofaphers Cmay I ca hoc ferie: d terme them, or AtheiftsO haue abfurdly done in this and other parts of the Creation, And htcida c0'pore the firft dayes Worke. radij, bine lu~ Tnen)nde fp'endor,i{lhi»e»nor tquibuoppomt fmili erdinecorpusopacm ttHcbras ,obfcurationtm, vmhaWf vmbratmtfHt tmemj&c,<& tenebra,ait,babentaiiiOHe!n, aUiidviribus, uraeb e[fentia,&c* The Secoho Dates Wor.ke« INthefecond, God (zidi. Let there bee a Firmament, The word tranflatedFirma- r 20 40 t luniM ViT. -■.»«cnf»fignifieth ' expafnmot expanfioncm, aftretching out; defigning that vaft and nine,&c.*Fagius vviJe fipaccj wherein are the watery clouds here mentioned, and thole lights whichfollow hsbet eo moio in the fourteenth Verfe, by hi n placed in expanfo: ho wfoeuer feme “ vndcrOand it only of qwm^aAex- the Ayre. 'The fepararingthe waters vnder this Ftrmatnent from the waters aboue the Firmament, jq fan unua,vel fome * interpreteof watersabouc the Heauens , to refrelh their exceeding heat, or of I miUcodidiici- know not whatChryftaline Heauenilbme of fr intuall fi'bf ances,whom Baf Iconfuteth,Ori¬ tur. Sic Meiccr ^(?«(after his wont) AUegoriCally.Mold probable it feemeth,that yTiroye-j^ntcntletli thefepara- js Gen. tion of thole waters here below, in theii- El. mentarie Seat,from thole abcuc vs in the clouds; u im. Merula- to which alluding, faith Hee J hath firetched out the Heauens hke a furten, and laid Chambers in thewaters. This feparating of the waters is cauled in the Ayrie inmx VusZt by the lEthereall, in which thofe forces are placed, which’thus exhale and captiuate Mufcul. in Gen tliele waters. That matter before endued with lightning quali tie, was now in this fecond day 'jrh.Aqmn Beda ^as it feemeth) attenuated & extended aboue and beyond that myric heape of Earthy waters; 'Lumbard, eir both the iEther andAire formed of the * fame firft matter,and notof a fift Eflcncc,which fome haue deuifed to eftablidi the Heauens Eternitie,bothT wins of the Philofophcrs braines. X sicPlattpH- wherein doe not thefe differ from each other to:;chingthe Celeftiall Nature,Roundneire, tmus videineos Motion, Namber, Meafure, and other difficult’es,moft of which are by fome a denyed^ Di- ^icin.i^.elemm- uerfitie of motions caufed the Ancients to number eight Orbes ; on that ground numbred nine ; eyilphonfus and Tebitius ten; Copernicus finding another motion, reuiued the opinion of eyfriilarchus Samius, of the Earths mouing, &c. Others which therein diflenc from him, yet in refpe6f of that fourth motionduue added an eleuenth Orbe, which the Di- uvnes make vpeiientwelue by their Empyreall immoucable Heauen. And many deny this alfercion of Orbes, fuppofing them to haue beene luppofed rather for « inftruttions quedamteyfi being. And Mefes here faith expanfum, as Dauid all’o calletli it a Cur~ cx'o^airvel which in filch d: uerfitie of Orbes Ihould rather haue beene fpoken in the plu rail num¬ ber. T\\t Siderem Nuncius ^ of Galilaus Galilaus,ttUvs of £ourcncwVhncts, JupitersaX- tendanti, obferued by the heipe of his Glafle, which would multiply the number of Orbes further. A better Glafle, or neerer fight and fite might perhaps find more Orbes, and thus Ihould we runne in Orbem, in a Circular endlclTc Maze of Opinions. But I will not difputc this queftion,ortakeitawaybyauerring * the Starres animated, or elfc moued by f In- teHigentia. A learned Ignorance lhall better content me, and for thele varieties of motions, I Will with B Labi ant ius,a.(<:x]f)Q them to God, the Architeft of Nature, andCo-workcr ta flatmnt (non fuWunat'.a) fed ipfus Mmii V‘ ninerfi, Cx'.im efe iyiem', in fiedisvna eji 50 quo aqua cxledlii, <^c. de materia Cxti confute. Zanch.& Caf men- Outanog. Zabare'. a Patr't.Pan. cofJiib.7.'^,9,t^, b Fide de his Chrlfl, c’au.'n Sac.Bofc, Keckermn. Syfl. 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