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A28817	A new treatise proving a multiplicity of worlds that the planets are regions inhabited and the earth a star, and that it is out of the center of the world in a third heaven, and turns round before the sun which is fixed : and other most rare and curious things / by Peter Borell ...; Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes. English	Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671.; Sashott, D.	1658 (1658)	Wing B3753; ESTC R19665	37,952	224

now As concerning the new Stars Galileus relates that in the yeares 1572 and 1604 were seen some new Stars that were higher then any one of the Planets whereof the first was in Cassiopeia as Tycho Brahe and Campanella declare so likewise did Hipparchus observe a new Starre 100 years before Christ's Birth And as touching the Spots of the Sun I shall content my self to say hat Galileus asserts That these Spots are bigger then all Asia and Africk some there are who believe them to be onely vapours and some impressions of the Ayr because that their figures are irregular and that they are seen in great number disappearing and again appearing but they onely hide themselves in the Sun or to say more congruously they onely disappear by reason of their too nigh approach to the light of the Sun and besides they have a regulated course according to which they fail not to return at a certain time and therefore they are some Stars touching which I send the Reader to Tardus's book who calls them the Stars of Bourbon after the name of the King of France under whose reign these new Stars were first discovered Chap. XLI Containing divers Reasons drawn from several places of Scripture AS it is said in divers places of the holy Scripture That the Earth is full of corruption or that it sings out the miracles of God by a figure of Rhetorick that puts the continent for the thing contained several Texts of the Scripture do also say as in Job 25. v. 5 6. that the Stars are not clean before God that they sing his praises and are his Armies These are things that very hardly enter into the heart of Men and very likely part of them that Paul saw in his extasie but being he saith that it never entred into the heart of man he might mean unto his time no body had believed it or at least hath not had the full and particular knowledg of them wherefore Job saith chap. 38. v. 37 38. Who can number the clouds in wisdom or who can stay the bottles of Heaven And Solomon in the book of Wisdome ch. 9. v. 16. And hardly do we guesse aright at things that are upon Earth and with labour do we find the things that are before us but the things that are in Heaven who hath searched out And Esdras in his second book chap. 4. v. 21. They that dwell upon the Earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the Earth and he that dwells above the Heavens may onely understand the things that are above the heighth of the Heavens It may be replyed That these Texts are to be understood of the Angels But the Texts alledged in the following Chapter will make it clear that it 's to be understood of Men onely for Campanella hath even observed that Paul to the Colossians Chap. 1. verse 20. saith That by Jesus Christ's blood all things are reconciled to God whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven and consequently it will follow that there are men in Heaven who have need of Redemption as well as we Chap. XLII Containing the Reasons drawn from the Word of God IF then there be divers Worlds and that the Stars be inhabited those worlds may have been created some before the others and so shall end at divers times and perhaps some are ended already and some are created of new the believers of those former Worlds seem to speak in Psal. 90. ver. 1 2. saying Lord thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations before the Mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the Earth and the World And God seems to be angry against the men of those worlds in 2. of Esdras c. 9. v. 18 19. because those who were before were better in these terms And now when I prepared the World which was not yet made even for them to dwell in that now live no man spake against me for then every one obeyed but now the manners of them which are created in this World that is made are corrupted by a perpetuall seed but there is yet one Text more pregnant for to prove that there were other Worlds before this that are ended and have been judged as we shall be one day he speaks in these terms in the 2. Book of Esdras c. 7. v. 34. And the World shall be turned into the old silence 7. dayes like as in the former Judgments so that no man shall remain And if it be thus might we not say that those great Comets that remain so long above the Region of the meteor are the burnings and consummations of some Stars that are ending and which we had not perceived by reason of their far distance For as in former ages new ones have often been seen yea even in this our own so likewise may some others end and to all this we may adde that of the Revelations viz. that the Stars shall fall that is to say shall end Many ancient Authours were of this Judgment believing not only that there are divers Worlds at one and the same time but that there had already been some before Origenes was of this belief and that ours shall last seaven thousand years and that many of the others shall last forty nine thousand years Campanella differs not much from this judgment the Wisedome of God speaking in the Proverbs saith ch. 8. v. 23. 31. Before the Earth was I was with God rejoycing in the habitable part of his Earth and my delights were with the Sons of Men And in the 26. v. While as yet he had not made the Earth nor the Fields nor the highest part of the dust of the World Chap. XLIII which is a sequell of the Texts of the Holy Scripture THough we have divided these places of Scripture into two chapters for to confirm this opinion yet I will not omit some few others which may in some respects sit this same subject Paul to the Ephesians c. 1. v. 10. speaking of Christ Jesus saith That in the dispensation of the fullnesse of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in Heaven and which are on Earth even in him And to the Colos. 1. v. 20. God having made peace through the bloud of Christs Crosse reconciled all things to himself whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven How may these two Texts be expounded if we do not understand them of these men who are in the Heavens or Stars whom God hath gathered to himself and redeemed For if it be said that they are those that died before Christ It cannot stand with reason because their Souls were already in Paradise or in Hell but where the Soul is thither also shall the body go after the Resurrection David speaks thus in the Psal. 112. v. 6. God humbles himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and in Earth for he dwells on high This Text indicates that God is beyond the