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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92160	In this book is the figure of the dividing the land of Israel among the tribes of Israel ... wherein is the figure of the bigness of the priest's portion, and temple therein, and of the Levite's portion, and of the city Jehovah Shammah ... and of the ground for food for them that minister in the city ... and of Prince Jesus his portion ... and of the bigness of the city New Jerusalem ... and all or most of the signs of Christ's coming explained [in] verse, with other mysteries, by the aforesaid [sic] author.	Rannew, Thomas.	1688 (1688)	Wing R248A; ESTC R42752	15,844	9

the mountains And said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 4.1 2 3. chap. 5.1 6 8. chap. 6.12 17. which Scriptures in the plain literal sence plainly confute that opinion And here I challenge any Astronomer whatsoever to render any other meaning hereof if he can than the plain literal meaning But if he be not able then let him believe what is therein written in the book that God gave to the Lamb chap. 5.1 7. chap. 6.12 17. which agrees with Christ's words Matth. 24.29 30. Luke 21.25 27. and with Isai 13.10 11. and Joel 2.31 And if so many Stars fall to the earth as there fall green figs to the earth from a fig tree when she is shaken with a mighty wind then multitudes of Stars will fall to the earth and probably some of them which are of the first magnitude For according to Bagwell in his Mystery of Astronomy which is highly praised by John Booker and five others he tells us that a Star of the first or greatest magnitude of which there are 15 that every one of them is 107 times bigger than all the Earth Of the next degree 46 each of them 87 times bigger than all the Earth Of the third sort 208 every one of them 22 times bigger c. Of the fourth sort 280 54 times bigger c. Of the next degree 221 36 times bigger c. And of the least sort 55 which are set down to be every one of them 88 I suppose he meant 8 times bigger than all the Earth John Seller in his Atlas Coelestis of the 6 degrees aforesaid saith thus of them According to Ptolomy's computation they amount to 1022. Pliny he saith reckons them 1600 and the absolute number of all the Stars to be innumerable at least by humane calculation And according to Tycho and Boyer a Star of the first magnitude is compared to the Earth as 68 to 1. That is 68 times bigger than the Earth A Star of the second magnitude is as 28½ to 1. The third sort for greatness as 11 to 1. The fourth as 41 to 1. I suppose he meant as 4 to 1. The fifth as 1 / 18 to 1. And the sixth as ⅓ to 1. That is three times bigger than the Earth See I pray how they differ Bagwell aforesaid saith thus also that some other of the ordinary Stars are much bigger than the whole compass of the Earth and that the least of all the Stars in that heaven are bigger than the Moon Believe him who will but I will not For I read in the Scripture of Truth that God said let there be Lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so God then made two great Lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made also the stars and set them in the firmament of heaven Gen. 1.14 15 16 17. Which foresaid Scripture enlightneth my understanding to believe that the Sun or Moon are bigger than any of the Stars And if there be such a number of Stars and that they be so many Worlds as Cardinal Cusanus and Jornandus Brunus affirm This is set down in the Book said to be made by Bishop Wilkins to prove that 't is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon they will so cover the Earth that the Kings of the Earth c. sha'l not need to say to the Rocks and Mountains Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the Throne When they are then hidden with so many Worlds probably some of them 107 times bigger than all the Earth And if their sayings be true it will be impossible for the Kings of the Earth and their Armies to make war against Christ and his Armies which they will doe as God's word declares Rev. 19.9 11 19. And concerning the Sun's bigness it is so great as a great Astronomer told me at Greenwich that it is impossible if his words be true that the Moon should shadow all the Sun from all the Earth at one time as Tycho affirms it cannot doe but he is therein contradicted by the supposed Bishop aforesaid who saith That the Diameter of the Moon for the most part appears to be bigger than the Sun 's and also saith That Tycho is therein singular being opposed by Keplar and all other Astronomers I say it is impossible that she should totally eclipse the Sun if she be less than the Earth 45 times as Atlas Coelestis saith she is and that the Sun is many Millions bigger than the Earth as the Astronomer aforesaid saith he is And now Countryman what doest thou think of this bigness The Astronomers laugh at thee for thinking that the Sun is no bigger about than thy Cart-wheel I will tell thee what I think and that is That it is not so much about as the Nave of the Wheel But they tell us that his distance proves him to be vastly bigger than the Earth Why so Countreyman there 's no reason for them to say so for Lights appear biggest when they are farthest off I remember that the Fields men in Dullingham Field thought that they had seen a Scare-fire that is an House in flames of fire when it was nothing else but a Candle shone through the glass upon the top of the Lord Gor●e's Chamber in Stechworth a mile or two off And thou mayest take notice that the Sun shows bigger when he rises and sets than at noon time of the day when he is at the highest and nighest to us And thou mayest take 〈◊〉 Hat and prove this plainly Suppose the hole of thy Hat wherein thou puttest thy head doth signifie the round Earth If thou measurest from the place right against the knot of thy Hatband to that part of the verge of the Hat that is nighest the knot that part of verge is nearer the knot than the other part of the verge is that is farthest of from the knot As for example Suppose the hole in thy Hat be 8 Inches over and the verge of thy Hat be 4. If thou measurest from the knot aforesaid to that part of the brim that is nighest to it it is but 4 Inches but if thou measurest to the farthest part of the brim it is 12. Now suppose the Earth to be round like a ball as it is if the Waters be measured with it and that it is about 8 thousand English miles thick as I shall afterwards demonstrate it is if I have occasion to write again of this subject The Sun must needs be 8 thousand miles farther off from thee when he is right under thy feet than when he is right over thy head as he doth so move in 12 hours time to those that live under the

equinoctial line and the Sun must needs be 4000 miles nearer at high noon-day when he is right over thy head if he be but 10 miles off then than when he is at rising or setting And although there is not 4000 miles difference to us that live in 52 latitude yet there is about 2000 miles difference Now I speak of the Sun 's being about 10 miles distant from the nearest place of the Earth to those because I read in the Scriptures of Truth That the whole Earth was of one language even of one speech And it came to pass as they journied in the East Countrey that they found a Plain in the land of Shinar I remember that I have read of a Caliph of Babylon that drew a mighty great circle upon the Plain of Shinar I cannot now spare time to look in my books to find it that I may tell you the bigness thereof because the Printer must have that I now write to day and I must make all the hast I can to go into the Countrey a while to mind my husbandry there Therefore bear with me a little if the things I write now be not well digested and they dwelt there And they said one to another Go too let us make brick and burn the● thorowly And they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar And they said Go too let us build us a City and 〈◊〉 Tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us solemnize us a name before we be divided abroad upon the face of the whole earth And the Lord came down to see the City and the Tower which the children of men builded And the Lord said Behold the people is one and they have all one language and have begun to doe this that they intended neither will they desist from their advice for they will compleat those things they spake of in the work Gen. 11.1 3 7. if I hinder them not Therefore the Lord did there confound their Language and the name of the City therefore was called Babel that is i● words at length Babylon i. e. confusion ver 9. And now Astronomer or whosoever thou beest that thinkest Heaven o●●● their heads is above 10 miles from the Plain of Shinar show me any other meaning of this Scripture if thou canst 〈◊〉 not I pray thee the word of God be to thee as it was to them whose wisdom God threatned to destroy like a book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned saying Read this I pray thee And he saith I cannot for it is sealed Isai 29.11 Take pains I pray and open the seal and mind more what it saith than what the Coperni●●● say For they would make thee believe that the World that thou livest upon turns round 21600 miles in 24 hours and though thou shootest an Arrow upright that will not leave thee for that the Air that is about the Earth is a●tracted to thee I wonder how we come to have the Winds blow this way and that way then seeing they allow●● no Coops for Orbs they will not allow the Ptolomeans to coop the Air to the Earth yea they will make th●● believe if thou wilt part with thy wits that though thou beest 47 degrees from a Star that is in the North or So●●● part of the Heavens which are round farther off at one time than they are at another yet that Star is not elev●●● to the sight by thy approach towards it because of the vast distance as they tell thee that is between thee and th●● Star. For that though thou beest whirled upon the poles of the ecliptick from North to South and so from So●● to North 31560207 miles round about the Sun as Atlas Coelestis saith that the circuit of her Sphere is yet that● not considerable by reason of the vast distance of them Stars from the Earth which as Atlas Coelestis aforesaid 〈◊〉 thee is 142746428 Semidiameters of the Earth and therefore the circumference of that Sphere is 3589053046●● miles And so will they set thy wits at a distance from thee But that they may not be believed I will speak the distance that is betwixt them Bagwell aforesaid saith that the distance of the Sun from us is 4169955 〈◊〉 and ⅔ Thou seest he lays it down to ⅓ of a mile as if he had measured it with a mete pole And he saith 〈◊〉 that it is 166 times bigger than the Earth The Astronomer aforesaid said many millions that is at least thirty hundred thousand times bigger than all the Earth and the other said 133 times I 'll tell you of a bigger wonder 〈◊〉 this if their words be true I have it in Atlas Coelestis in the 5th Table shewing the true magnitude of the 〈◊〉 Stars that is of one of the greatest and one of the least viz. Sirius and Alcor supposing the apparent Dia●● of Sirius to be 18″ of Alcor 4″ according to the distance in the Copernican Hypothesis maintaing the Parallax 〈◊〉 by the Earth's motion not to exceed 10″ and imagining the Diameter of the Annual Orb to be such as upon 〈◊〉 Principles it is stated to be according to Keplar The Diameter of Sirius contains Diameters of the Earth 12●● Lo hath he not out done the Astronomer of Greenwich For Keplar whom Bishop Wilkins admired for his Sk●● Astronomy tells us that Sirius his Diameter contains the Earth 12550 times That is the breadth of that round ●● is one hundred millions and four hundred thousands of miles For 12550 multiplied by 8000 the Diameter of 〈◊〉 Earth produceth 100400000 aforesaid and the circumference thereof is 315542857 miles So that to go round a●● it at 20 miles the day 't will take 43225 years And the distance of Sirius aforesaid is 142 millions 746 thousand 〈◊〉 Semidiameters of Earth which is 570985712000 miles What reason is there to believe any of them by r●●● of the distance between them It is saith Bagwell from the Earth to the Sun 4169955 miles as aforesaid ●●las Coelestis saith 5021896 miles but Atlas Coelestis nor Bagwell doe prove that the Sun is 4169955 miles from Earth that I can find in their books Bagwell tells us therein that the Diameter of the Earth is 6872 miles 〈◊〉 that I allow and he saith she casteth a shadow 74602 miles That I allow not and he tells us moreover 〈◊〉 above or beyond that shadow there can be no darkness but a continual light round about the World If it be●● then the Earth cannot cause darkness to the Moon as he saith it doth because the Moon is distant from the E●●● as he saith in his book 160426 miles and so out of the power of her shadow I doe not speak this as if I tho●● that the Earth being between the Moon and the Sun is not the cause of her eclipse or darkness but to show th●● that the Astronomers say is not Gospel But how doth he prove that the Earth doth cast a shadow 74