Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	east_n	motion_n	west_n	1,864	5	9.5519	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66810	A survey of the heavens being a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of the heavenly bodies, as they are discovered to the eye by the telescope, and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby. I. The infinite wisdom, power, glory, and incomprehensibility of God in the creation. II. The verifying of the Copernican hypothesis. III. The probability of more inhabited worlds. IV. The clearing of some difficult places of scripture from doubtful interpretations. V. The higher exaltation of Gods attributes in the business of our redemption. VI. An essay to prove the Sun to be the seat of the blessed, with several other useful notions. To which is added the gout raptures. Augmented and improved in English, Latin, and Greek lyrick verse. By Robert Witty Dr in physick in both universities, and fellow of the Colledge of Physicians in London.; Ouranoskopia, or, A survey of the heavens	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1685 (1685)	Wing W3234; ESTC R221136	68,864	172

Earth mentioned before Must our Saviour be understood in a plain sense when he says He is the Vine and the Father a Husband-man what absurd consequences would follow from thence Such is the ground of the great contest betwixt us and the Church of Rome in the Sacramental Elements they understand it in a proper literal sense when he says This is my Body We take the words figuratively They say it s become whole Christ and therefore yield Adoration We say it s neither so in whole nor in part and therefore we worship it not though we honour its Institution to such an end and use The consequence of a literal sense would be strange while St Paul 1 Tim. 1.17 calls Christ the Eternal Immortal Invisible and only wise God Are these to be attributed to the Sacramental Elements 'T is not Eternal 't was made by the Baker or at best by the Priest It s not Immortal for 't is subject to putrefaction Nor is it invisible we see it and 't is Bread still Nor is it wise for 't is inanimate and so cannot be said to be God But upon the whole matter we see there is a reasonable scope to be allowed to scriptural Expressions as to all other Writings and Sayings of those that are wise which are never to be stretched to absurd consequences nor inferences made that are collateral and not the scope of the place nor suitable to sense or reason and that in particular the Scripture makes out nothing against this Hypothesis of the Earths motion upon its Axis The Copernican Hypothesis examined by Reason I will now examine it according to the rules of Reason and then leave it to every wise man to judge as he sees cause Either this Globe of the Earth turns upon its Center once in Twenty four hours from the West to the East or else the Sun runs its course from the East to the West either of which will serve to make up our natural day Now let us consider upon a Standard of miles that we may the better understand what we are speaking of wherein I follow the generally received Rules of our best Modern Astronomers who are much more exact than the Ancients and I have the help of Mr Thomas Street an eminent Mathematician in London the Author of that exquisite Book called Astronomia Carolina Of the Earths diurnal motion By the Standard of London 5000 feet make an English mile and 8365 of such miles is the Diameter of the Earth or in plain English the thickness from one side to the other and the Semidiameter that is to say the half thickness from the Center to the Circumference is 4182 miles and ½ Now six Semidiameters is the circumference of the Earths Superficies something more but I shall keep to round numbers and that amounts to 26280 miles so that supposing the Earth to turn about in twenty four hours upon the Aequinoctial line then the hourly Motion is 1095 miles and consequently it must move 18 miles ● in every minute of time upon the said Line which perhaps is as fast as a Bullet flies out of a Gun and probably upon the first consideration it may be thought to be a very swift motion Of the Suns diurnal Motion But if we must suppose the Sun to move from the East to the West round about the Heavens in twenty four hours then that we may find what measure of miles it runs we are to consider its distance from the Earth and I find it agreed on by common consent that the mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is 13755 Semidiameters of the Earth according to the Standard aforesaid which amounts to 57530287 or in words at length fifty seven millions five hundred thirty thousand two hundred eighty seven Miles and then its hourly Motion must be 15061725 viz. fifteen millions sixty one thousand seven hundred twenty five miles and consequently it must run 251029 viz. two hundred fifty one thousand twenty nine miles every minute of time which how it can be ought to be considered I know some good men having not throughly weighed the point have a ready Answer wherewith they satisfie themselves as to the difficulties that gravel others about this stupendous Motion of the Sun which they draw from the Omnipotency of God who is able to do it they being not willing to recede from the Common Notion upon the account of the Texts of Scripture before mentioned To whom I reply thus I adore all the Attributes of God and particularly that of his Almightiness to which all things are possible nothing is too hard for him And I desire with all good Men to fear him both for his Greatness and his Goodness and would abhor the least thought tending to the questioning of his Divine Perfections But every good Man should study to be also wise that he may think and speak rightly as well as reverently in things that relate to God As in matters of Religion we are to be regulated hy his declared Will in his Word So in things of Nature our sentiments ought to be suited to his manifest works of Providence in the Creation Now I conceive here we are not to rest with presuming upon his absolute Omnipotency and what he is able to do but to eye his methods of Providence in the World and what he uses to do and how in things of this Nature he has made manifest the Wisdom of his Will For he that by his Power and Goodness has given all things their Being has by his Wisdom and Providence stated their manner of Being Now as to all material and corporeal things he has been pleased in his Wisdom so to order them that they cannot move or change place at such a rate Loco-motion in corporeal Substances such as we are discoursing of does by the Methods of his wise Providence necessarily exact a stated time for a due distance And though his Omnipotency is unlimited so as nothing is impossible with God yet it is so concordant with the Wisdom of his Will in all things throughout the whole Creation which he has made in due Order Weight and Measure that he is alone able to do what he will Now since its apparent to our Observation and suitable to our Reason wherewith he has indued us to judge of his Works of Providence that it is impossible for gross Bodies to move at such a rate as we have said of the Sun upon the ground of that Hypothesis he having disposed them otherwise we ought not to expect that from his Power which crosses the manifest Wisdom of his Will lest making his Attributes to enterfere one with another we fancy him inconsistent with himself and so unawares sin against his Holiness which highly consists in that harmony that is eminently conspicuous among his Attributes Certainly it is not the way to convert Atheists to attribute Operations to his Power which in the Nature of things are impossible but rather it