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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

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