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![PART I. cause of Antipodes.] The suffering was, that he lost his Sec/. 36. Bishoprick for denying the Antipodes. Vid. Aventin. in Hist. Boio. Besides him, there were other Church-men of great note, that denyed Antipodes, as Lactantius, Augustin, and liede. Sect. 27. / hold that God can do all things: How he should work contra- f'*£- 43- dictions, I do not understand, yet dare not therefore deny.] Who would not thinlc the Author had taken this from Mr. Monlaign, whose words are, // rn'a tousjours semble qua un homme Christien, cette sorte de parler est plein d' indiscretion et d' irreverence [Dieu ne se peut disdire,^ [Dieu ne peut/aire cecy ou ce/a]. Jene trouve pas bon d'enfermer ainsi la puissance divine sous les loix de nostra parole. Et I'apparence qui s' offre a. nous en ses propositions, il la faudroit representer plus reverement, et plus Religieusement. Liv. 2. des Ess. c. 12. / cannot see why the Angel of God .ihould question Esdras to recal the time past, if it were beyond his own power, or that God should pose mortality in that which he was not able to perform himself.K. Dighy in his Notes upon this place saith, There is no contradiction in this, because he saith it was but putting all things that had motion into the same state thej' were in at that moment, unto which time was to be reduced back, and from thence letting it travel on again by the same motions, etc. which God could do. But under favour, the contradiction remains, if this were done that he mentions ; for Time depends not at all upon motion, but has a being altogether independent of it, and therefore the same revolution would not bring back the same time, for that was efflux'd before ; as in the time of Joshua, when the Sun stood still, we cannot but conceive, though there were no motion of the Sun, but that there was an efflux of Time, otherwise, how could the Text have it. That there was not any day, before or after, that was so long as that? for the length of it must be understood in respect of the flux of time. The reasoning of Sir Kenelme is founded upon the opinion of Aristot. who will needs have it, that Time cannot be without mutation ; he gives this for a reason, because when we have slept, and cannot perceive any mutation to have been, we do therefore use to connect the time of our sleeping and of our awaking together, and make but one of it: to which it may be answered, although some mutation be necessary, that we may mark the flux of time, it doth not therefore follow that the mutation is necessary to the flux it self. Sect. 28. / excuse not Constantino from a fall ojf his Horse, or a mischief Pair. 43. from his enemies, upon the wearing tho.se 7iails, etc] Hac de re videatur P. Diac. hist, miscelt. Sect. 29. / wonder how the curiosity of wiser heads could pass that great P^e- 44- and indisputable miracle, the cessation of Oracles.'] There are three opinions touching the manner how the predictions of these Oracles were perform'd : Some say by vapour, some by the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
