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spirit_n	word_n	workmanship_n	wrought_v	24	3	7.7152	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37987	A demonstration of the existence and providence of God, from the contemplation of the visible structure of the greater and the lesser world in two parts, the first shewing the excellent contrivance of the heavens, earth, sea, &c., the second the wonderful formation of the body of man / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing E201; ESTC R13760	204,339	448

all that there are more of them than are apparently seen for by reason of their unconceivably vast Distance from us and because they are Lesser than the rest they are Invisible But the Curious and Inquisitive continually discover them and when they have more perfect Glasses they will discern more and every day add to their Number and yet acknowledg that their full Number is not to be told but by Him whose Prerogative it is to tell the number of the Stars Psal. 147.4 And He it was that gave them their transcendent Beauty which so ravishes the Eyes of Beholders For though that of the Apostle be true One Star differeth from another Star in Glory yet every one of them hath its peculiar Lustre and all of them together have a Common Glory But the Theorist was not of this Mind for he tells us That they lie carelessy scatter'd as if they had been sown in the Heaven like Seed by Handfuls and not by a Skilful Hand neither What a beautiful Hemisphere would they have made if they had been placed in Rank and Order if they had been all dispos'd into regular Figures and the little ones set with due regard to the greater Thus he And it is no wonder that he who finds fault with the Earth's Deformity and Irregularity finds the same in the Heavens For nothing of God's Creation no not Man himself pleases him But this I will say though those Balls of Liquid Fire may seem to be set in the Heavens in a careless manner though they seem to be scatter'd and thrown about the spatious Sky yet without doubt there is Care and Exactness in the placing of them They are ranged in an excellent Order though we apprehend it not nor can we because we have but an imperfect view of them As well the single Stars as the several Constellations have a due and orderly Position though the Numerousness of them hinders our discerning of it The Glorious Canopy of Heaven is set so thick with Glittering Lights that we are not able to give an account of the just Figure of them And yet because we cannot see them All we are not able to judg of the excellent Proportion of them Yea 't is not to be doubted that even those smaller Lights with which the Galaxy is so powder'd and bespangled are all marshall'd according to their proper Stations and are thereby render'd very Beautiful though we have not yet found out Engines to give us a Conviction of it This is the meaning of Iob's words ch 26. v. 13. By his Spirit he hath garnish'd the Heavens for the Stars are the Garnishing and Adorning of them And thence according to Varro and Pliny Coelum is qu. Coelatum finely wrought and engraven exquisitly carved with artificial Workmanship Which occasion'd that of Cicero Though the Stars saith he be necessary parts of the World and appertain to its Consistency yet this likewise is true that they were made to be look'd and gazed upon by Mankind who cannot possibly entertain their Sight with a more insatiable and beautiful Object And Seneca saith rightly Who will not be ravish'd with the sight of this Glorious part of the World when in a clear Night it displays all its Glittering Fires and shines with such an innumerable Company of Stars In every one of which the Image of the Creator is plainly to be seen Again Their Regular Course speaks their Author That a few of them have liberty to wander yet so as not to transgress their Bounds and that all the rest are so Fixed that they move not from their Stations is the product of an unerring Wisdom and Providence But when I say that these are thus Fixed it is not to be understood as if they were not in Motion for they all move and that from place to place but in an equal and steady Posture and all at the same Time and so they keep the same Distance continually from one another As if a great Number of Men should run all at the same time but some behind and others before and the rest on this and that side and observe a due and equal Distance from one another it may properly and in the strictest Sense be said that they move Progressively i. e. from place to place though all the time they are not farther off nor nearer to one another That the Motion and Revolution even of the Erratick Lights are exact and precise constant and unalterable is evident from this that the very Minute of their Oppositions Conjunctions and other Aspects as well as Eclipses can be foretold a hundred Years before they come to pass And not only the Planets but the whole Host of Heaven as they are call'd keep their Ranks and observe an exact Order Nec quicquam in tantâ magis est mirabile mole Quam Ratio certis quòd legibus omnia parent Nusquam turba nocet nihil ullis partibus errat In which Words the Poet represents these Heavenly Bodies as endued with Reason because they are so exact in their Courses But though this was too high a Flight and is Poetry rather than sober Philosophy yet thus far we are upon a true and solid Bottom that it is the work of Reason and some Intelligent Principle that they all obey the Laws that are set them that the great Crowd of them is not prejudicial that being so Numerous they do not thrust one another out of their Ranks and run into Disorder and Confusion Such an excellent ranging of them as an Antient Writer of the Church speaks such a constancy in observing their Orders and Seasons could not be at first without a Provident Artist or so long be preserv'd without a Powerful Intelligence inhabiting as it were in them or be perpetually govern'd without a Skilful Ruler as Reason it self declares This was the Foundation it is probable of the Harmony of the Heavenly Spheres held first by Pythagoras then by Plato afterward by Macrobius Boetius and even our Venerable Bede The admirably Exact and Uniform Motion of these Bodies the Constant Order which they keep in their Revolutions and Periods are the true Harmonick Musick and Concord of them This is thus expressed by a Great Artist There is no one though but meanly learned in Astronomy that will not acknowledg upon his attentive considering the Order of the Heavenly Bodies a certain kind of Harmony in the Distances and Motions of the Planets And a Great Man of a very inquisitive Brain thought so or else we should not have had these remarkable Words from him Could we satisfy our selves in the Position of the Lights Above and discover the Wisdom of that Order so invariably maintain'd in the Fixed Stars of Heaven could we have any light why the Stellary part of the first Mass separated into this Order that the Girdle of Orion should ever maintain its Line and the two Stars in Charles's Wain never leave pointing at the Pole-Star