further end rather than at the same end where it burns over it self or shew that the point A. of the Worlds circumference is higher than E. or F. And then when you have shewed this change to make your consequence flow necessarily from the premisses one of the terms of the Argument saying for and instead of the higher place as it saith the highest point in that place for if the higher place not the highest point therein be terminus ad quem of the natural motion and propension of the Air you may with as much reason inferr a motion of D. to F. as to the place A. since A. is nothing higher than F. and neither of them higher in the Sphere than E E. A. F. being all three equidistant from the Spheres center C. and equally therefore the higher place both of C. and of B. and D. whilst they are at and begin to move and to rise from C whereas if you will allow of some order in the World and that it is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnium rerum ordo distributio as Aristotle defines it wherein both place and motion is distinct and orderly not uncertain and confuse you should with much more reason and to prevent two greater inconveniences than yours inferr a motion of B. to A. and of D. to E. and so of all that riseth from the center to those points of the Spheres circumference which make its Zenith that is are just vertical to it than of D. in an oblique and circular line to A. or to any other point or part of the higher place The great inconveniences of D. and so of all that which moves from the center C. not rising directly and vertically to E. or the place just over them but to some particular point A. as the higher place were first that all the vapours and refluences rising from the Earth would go thither and so reciprocally must come down again from thence in circular oblique lines and then the Rain would not fall directly but obliquely also no influences and Rain would come from about all that part of Heaven which were opposite to A. Secondly you make thereby one point highest in the World which point higher than the rest being not found in a Sphere but in a Conical Figure or a Pyramid you make a Pyramid of the World which is so great and rare a discovery that none but such famous Doctor for skill in Non-sence could ever so readily have made and thought upon it Another famous Author in the Episcopal Church who for his much Learning and making of many Books in Babylonical Divinity and knowledge deserves to be a Bishop or at least to be named with the Bishops and Vicars the incomparable Boyle among others his many vexations of Learned men which he calls Experiments hath given us to confirm our Sages opinion of a descent and countergravitation of the Air one of very large glass Bubbles sealed Hermetically hung at one end of a Beam and justly counterpoized with a Metalline counterpoize at the other which suspended at a frame shews not all the various changes of the Air saith he that were conspicuous in another Weather-glass which he had placed by it yet confirms ad oculum that the falling and rising of the Mercury depends upon the varying weight of the Atmosphere and shews that the Air hath weight since in this statical Weather-glass for so he calls these so counterpoized Bubbles it cannot be pretended that a Fuga vacui or a Funiculus is the cause of the changes which he observed therein for I had the pleasure saith he to see the Bubbles sometimes in an Aequilibrium with the counterpoize and sometimes when the Atmosphere was high he means thereby less heavy preponderate so manifestly that the Beam being gently stirred the Cock would play altogether on that side at which the Bubbles were hung and at other times when the Air was heavier that which was at the first but the counterpoize would preponderate and upon the motion of the Beam make the Cock vibrate altogether on its side with so much of pretty sport or satisfaction to so grave and honourable Author that I am very loth to go about to spoil it lest I should at one time excitare crabrones in too great a number and multitude against me However getting never the more Enemies for it I will venture to say that it appears not clearly to my dull apprehension that because Fuga vacui cannot be counted the cause of the various changes he saw in his statical Baroscope or Weather-glass the weight of the Air therefore ought to be the cause of it chiefly if the Beam must be stirred as he confesseth it was though gently adds he as though this gentle stirring were nothing to such Beam to make the Cock play on this or that side of the Ansa because I can assign another cause as likely at least as either of them to wit the condensation and the rarefaction of the Air by heat and cold For even according to one Hydrostatical Law which this Author owns and makes mention of in the same page from which I have taken the things I cite of him which Law as he calls it is if the medium wherein two Bodies of equal weight but unequal bulk are weigh'd be more dense than another such as Water for instance which is more dense than the Air the greater Body being specifically lighter and finding more resistance because of its greater bulk than the lesser and more compact as the counterpoize will lose more of its own weight or be more easily born up or buoyed up therein than in the thinner medium but if the same medium be thinner than another or than it was it self before and at other times as the Air which is thinner than Water and at some times more rarefied than before then the bigger Body ceasing to be sustained by the former resistance will sink lower than before and so outweigh the lesser the condensed Air being thicker resists better than when it is more rarefied and so bears up the large Bubbles better and higher therefore than their lesser counterpoize so that this rising and fall of his Bubbles confirms rather the condensation and the rarefaction of the Air than any such weight thereof as that he ascâ—ibes to it For though as I confess the thickness of a medium is an argument it hath a greater specifick weight than hath a thinner medium yet as it is most certain that vapours have no descent and gravitation before they condense into a much closer texture than the Air hath at any time with us though they are not without their positive weight all that while so we ought not in reason for the Air being somewhat more dense than it was before and however much thinner than is vaporized Oyl Water or Mercury ascribe to it that sensible descent and gravitation which this learned Author and other Sages plead for Who should shew that the rising and
Cor. 13.2 he is nothing And there is a greater need of the best gift Charity and a greater strength of Faith requisite to do like Paul that he might help to save some to become all things to all 1 Cor. 9.22 to be contented to be needy hungry despised Phil. 4.12 and seeing a way fill'd up with nothing but misery and crosses every where most freely to enter it and to bury one self alive to all worldly joy as Christ teacheth we must do if we will be believers Mat. 16.24 25. and thus to overcome the whole World and its power 1 John 5.4 John 16.33 Coloss 2.15 than to suspend or infringe some particular circumstance in its order by doing some such thing above its natural course as the swimming of Iron the Spirits forcing their way again through the Optick Nerves when they are stopt or withered to bring the blind to their sight and the wholesom virtue that issues Mark 5.30 from the healthful body of a faithful man whose mind and will is by his strength of Faith so stirred up and so much bent and intent upon the poor sick man's cure that they make his own Spirits in the height of his zeal like as in another man's passion of anger or lust they fly to the place proper to exercise for instance lust withall and run from thence towards the object of it go forth from him as it were confertim towards the sick 2 Sam. 13.39 working its own simile and by prevailing on the spirit of infirmity Luk. 13.11 setting to rights in the sick his distempered Spirits which were by the said Evil Spirit of infirmity disordered and enraged As for instance to give the Reader some imperfect hint of what difference there is between the Faith requisite to work all other Miracles but that of man's conversion and the Faith necessary to work in another man such change as conversion suppose me a Believer I know that the virtue or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God is not far from any man for in him we live and move Act. 17.27 28. and lo he goeth by me though I perceive him not Job 9.11 and is it not he that fills the whole world with his presence Jer. 23.24 This I see being sick to wit how this Energy which is the Spirit of God Gen. 1.2 his arm and his organum quo agitantur omnes in hoc mundo species quo summus artifex ad suam machinam potissimum utitur passeth to and fro pervades and conveys the breath of life through every one of us At this Aspect I say what is the reason O Lord that this thy all sufficient and never-ceasing virtue John 5.17 is suspended and withheld from my languishing body Because I have sinned Jer. 5.25 Job 33.27 but I humble my self and knowing thy goodness well I trust that as thou art he that thus chastisest me so thou art able alone to help and deliver me O send forth thy Spirit again Psal 104.30 help mine unbelief say the word and presently he is gracious to me he opens his hand again and le ts go the influence of his virtue that was bound and frozen up as it were in respect of me so that it could not vivifie me I am renewed in a trice my flesh becomes again fresher than that of a child Job 33.25 Psal 103.5 and according to my faith I find it done to me Mat. 8.13 9.29 So if a Serpent a Bear or other hurtful creatures should set and fasten on me I having the Author of my life before mine eyes Heb. 11.6 and believing stedfastly that none of my hairs doth fall to the ground without his leave and that these have no power to hurt me except it be given to them from above John 19.11 I should not be afraid Psal 23.4 but should say thy will be done thy gohdness gave me my life and from thy goodness alone I look for the safety and preservation thereof In this Faith I am sure that no deadly thing could hurt me Mar◠16.18 and dare say that like Daniel I could stop the mouths of Lions Heb. 11.33 bea◠back the flames like Paul Act. 28.5 shak◠off a Vicar with all the poisonous spight i◠his long train of Bishops and through this Faith in the name or power of our Christ any man as well as John and Peter Act. 13.16 can do all sorts of great wonders in the World Phil. 4.13 except the greatest of all viz. anothers conversion for as for man's conversion the same degree of Faith and of Spirit will not serve to work and accomplish it because the Soul of man being a Divine creature a radius emaned from God in Eternity and more excellent therefore than the Earthly body or any part of the World it is harder a great deal to work an alteration in it than in the body or in the Water and Air and this same alteration being a new creation as the Scripture witnesseth of a corrupted creature and that hath naturally a strong averseness from it and a bent and propension quite opposite to God's will it is a greater Miracle than the creation it self of the World and of Adam which brought on their side no such opposition to God's will and requires therefore the power of God himself and so that a man should make himself one with God to have the power to effect it which union with God is not attained to by the same degree of Faith and of Works as that which can cure the sick and overturn a mountain for one grain of Faith doth this whereas it is by keeping the works of Christ to the end overcoming seven times that men come to that union Rev. 2.26 3.21 Behold I see a Soul in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity Act. 8.23 that is in the fiery fretful and anxious state or the wrathful principle wherein are all natural unregenerated men and bound with three dreadful chains first of the anger of God secondly of the corrupt vain earthly and mortal flesh full of evil desires which are hatred against God Rom. 8.7 lastly of the desire and attempts of the Devil to blow and kindle in the Soul all its evil properties to keep it in God's anger and to turn always its will so much the further from God and to throw it from the Truth of God into Vanity viz. Pride Covetousness Envy Anger and all Lusts and I wish heartily that I could any way and by all means do it good But though my fervour of zeal and contention of Spirit would thrust even a Mountain from its place to another as being but a pondus iners and no way active endeavouring against me but by a dead and passive quality gravitation yet it cannot stir the Soul from its state and position neither is it sharp enough to penetrate even to the dividing asunder of the Spirit of the Soul and of the joynts and marrow Heb. 4.12 to cast the Soul into the great gulf Luk. 16.26 of
to rise from the bottom thereof towards the surface when immersed as was said with the orifice upwards and the long Pipe nimbly stopt and inverted thereupon for it rose and in rising the pressure of the water which ought to have been greater when the whole depth of the Column was upon the Pipe than when but part of the same by the Pipe rising higher and higher lay upon it was no whit diminished as it was not encreased or never the greater for this shorter Pipe being when the longer one was overturned under all at the bottom Which easie Experiment convincingly demonstrates First that the Column is not pressed up and sustained by any gravitation and counterpressure of the Atmosphere as the Sages in further token of their great wisdom teach and maintain since that when the Air is kept from coming at it by the Pipe being sealed above and stopt very close below we see the pressure of the water suspended and stopt which could not be if the Air were the thing that doth bear up and hold to its equipoize the Column by a counterforce equivalent to it For here there was no Air left between my hand and the Pipe whose Spring may be pretended as in the Experiment described in the 35 th page of the said piece of Wallis to bear it up and though there were such thing as the said supposed Spring of the Sages in this case yet it being said but just equivalent to a whole Column of water whereof the whole pressure is likewise suspended as may be tryed in a Tube 40 foot long it could but just bear it up as did that part of my hand which by inverting the Pipe both the Pipe and the Column within it rested upon and not make it move upwards as it must do to defeat the contrary motion viz. the descent or pressure downwards which the water hath there being no other way but this one to prevent it as we see done in this case for there is a greater force required to give to things heavy a motion upwards as to sling up a Stone for instance than that which as being but equivalent 〈◊〉 it is but just capable to bear and sustaiâ— them up Now bearing it up is not enoughtâ— suspend and take away its pressure upon thâ— short Pipe E.A. see p. 118. and the Air inchâ—ded within it for heavy things lose nothinâ— of their gravitation and pressure upon thâ— Scale and Fulcrum they rest upon for theâ—â— being born up either to an equipoize 〈◊〉 above their equipoize or sustained promâ—nent never so high above ground by theâ—â— own or bearers height as the Bishoâ— would find out by their own experiencâ— if they carried as heavy burthens as theâ—â— Sedan-men and all other Porters do Secondly it demonstrates that the Câ—lumn riseth by the Fuga vacui since its dâ—scent and pressure is suspended all the tiâ—â— that the Air it succeeds to to fill and suâ—ply its place is kept out from coming 〈◊〉 and so from relieving it For were the Câ—lumn only sustained by that part of my haâ—â— it rested upon it would not lose its pressâ—â— upon it and against the Air within thâ— Pipe A.E. because it must to lose it â—â—ceive a motion upwards which the foâ—â— that doth but just bear it up cannot give heavy things losing nothing of their weight for being born or carried as I said and there being no other force forrein to the Column and no other reason that we can see or think of put to it to give it him but that of the vacuum which being a passive thing can neither draw to it self nor keep it suspended from the top as some fancy grave and wise Antiquity that had her eyes in her head Eccl. 2.14 not at the ends of the Earth like our modern Sages Prov. 17.24 meant by Fuga vacui it follows that the Column doth move upwards of it self not by the vacuum but by a propension to succeed into the room of the displaced Fluid lest there should be in the World which is a Plenitudo a chasma or disjunction that is as the Ancients spake by a Fuga vacui and continues by the same reason in that endeavour whilst the displaced Fluid is not permitted to fill or resume the place it left Thirdly it demonstrates that the so much agitated and denied against reason and without Experiments by our modern Sages though they proffer some for it but which shew quid pro quo that is quite another thing than what they inferr from thence non-gravitation of Fluids upon themselves and upon Bodies heavier and as heavy as themselves is not destroyed and quite out of doors as they teach it is pag. 11 18. for another good token of their deep understanding but stands good nevertheless as appears from that the weight and pressure of the Column of water was not downward upon the said Pipe A. E. but upward against its mouth and the Base of the Column of Air included therein the Air being thrust upwards and the Pipe raised with iâ— from the bottom to the top which would not be neither could any immersed Body ever rise up and emerge at a great depth oâ— water if the incumbent Column gravitated upon it for a greater depth having 〈◊〉 greater pressure upon the thing that is immersed it can but cause it to sink the deepeâ— and so much the faster the deeper it comâ— From which non-gravitation it is that thâ— indolence of a man under water proceed and not from being pressed there uniformâ— and equally on all sides as for anothâ—â— token of wisdom their most famous Doctâ—â— for Mathematicks hath happily discoverâ—â— and doth declare and assert pag. 24. notwithstanding that himself had said a little before in his relation of the Experimenâ— of Gratrix that he having contrived a new way of taking breath at a great depth under water through long Pipes reaching to the top of it found his breast as being then the lowermost part or the Base of his sinking body so compressed there to wit by the said pressure upwards of the water against it that he could not well draw breath a certain proof that he was not uniformly pressed specially if this pressing which is the further reason he gives for his assertion by causing no luxation of parts is the cause that the man suffers no sense of pain And besides this uniform pressing serves to establish the said non-gravitation of Fluids upon themselves by reason that it implys a pressure downwards equal unto their pressure upwards which pressure upwards being confessedly none at all when there is nothing that sinks in and disjoyns the Fluids their pressure downwards is none if it be equal to it and so when Fluid Bodies have none but their own Body within and among themselves they have no gravitation downwards wards and per consequent gravitate not on themselves And lastly it demonstrates the lightness or levity of the Air seeing the Air included in the short Pipe
not only ascends it self but riseth with such weight of the glass upon it self as would sink without the Air as being bulk for bulk heavier than so much water And that this Air riseth not by the heavier water thrusting and pressing it up as the modern Sages say pag. 24. out of the lowermost place the following tryal evinceth manifestly viz. when the Pipe being full of Mercury or Water and hanging down by a String is left open to the Air by removing the Finger the mouth of it is stopt with for then the Air rusheth in the Pipe with such impetus as throws upwards both the Pipe and the cylinder therein and makes the Pipe to leap up one foot higher more or less than the place it rested at before its orifice was opened as I have said which would not be if the Air were pressed up by heavier Fluids sinking into it for then it would only shift places as the water doth which you cast Stones or other sinking materials into and so just rise and no more and no higher than the place at which the Pipe rested and from which the cylinder therein did begin to sink whereas not only it shifts places as the water doth but thrusts upwards both the Pipe and the cylinder therein with the weight besides which the incumbent Column of Air is said to have upon it And though the Air and other heavier vapours rise sometimes by the descent of other heavier Bodies into them yet they rise more frequently without it for how could else thick clouds smoak and vapours rise that have nothing above them but the Air which as lighter cannot press down into them and that are besides coarser thicker and more condensed when they begin to rise than when they are got higher as by the rectifying of Ardent Spirits appears And as for the experience which the Sages chiefly ground their Hypothesis upon in their 29. page of Air compressed into a less room which they have found on the ballance to have some small weight and gravitation it proving nothing but that Air compressed gravitates and not that it gravitates in its own ordinary natural constitution it doth make nothing for them and against its levity For to serve their turn it must gravitate such as it is without any compression because by this compression it being condensed into a closer texture rhan it hath naturally it acquires a degree of specifick gravity which I am so far from denying in such casc that I have said it would be as heavy as water and other heavier Fluids if it were by any means made as dense and as compact or reduced into as close a texture or parts or consistence as they have But as it is confessed that the Air acquires some weight by condensation so on the other hand no sober man will deny that since those heavier Fluids viz. Spirits Oyl and Water and Mercury sublimate it self lose by their being turned into a vapour though not so thin as the Air their actual gravitation all the time they continue so near of kin to the Air which is but a thin vapour that is all the time they are ascending or subliming and kept rarefied by heat it that is to say the Air doth by returning unto its usual constitution lose also that small degree of acquired gravity and hath none sensible at least all the time it continues to be it self I mean an aërial subtle and uncondensed vapour as this Experiment of the Sages rather proves and confirms than otherwise for it appears plain by it that the Air which had after compression some gravity was found to have none before though it was the same Air and in the same quantity and thereby they shew rather quid pro quo another thing than they intended to prove that is that the cylinder in our Phoenomenon is not sustained at all by the Airs counterpressure seeing it hath none in its natural constitution than that the Air in its said natural constitution hath none of the levity which I ascribe to it And which the Doctor confutes by such extraordinary Master-piece of School-learning which he apprehends to be so great inconveniences and cogent proofs against it that I must beg the help of some Mathematician to remove them and therefore Help Ticho lend your shoulders Atlas and Archimedes your Engine your great Engine to remove out of its place a Herculean Pillar a huge and mighty Mountain which is a non plus ultra to a Mathematician most famous in our Age who perhaps the gravity which I thought might exist before in his head only being come down to his heels can neither climb up the same nor see for it what Figure hath the World which he lives in and therefore thinks it is made like a Cone or Pyramid For saith he pag. 28. if levity be the positive Principle of the Air rising upwards and if this motion upwards of the Air be natural it must be either an averseness from the Center as the terminus à quo or a propension to some other place as the terminus ad quem If they say the former saith he it is true that then B. ought to move from C. in perpendicular lines as C. B. A. c. But if they say that it is an affectation of some higher place as suppose A. while B. is just between C. and A. the motion 't is true would be in the perpendicular C.B.A. as the straightest way thither but if it were any where else as at D. then its motion to A. would not be in D. C. A. the perpendicular but in D. A. an oblique line which is contrary to all Experience And to your Argument likewise or the consequence that flows necessarily and naturally from it for from the premisses it concludes naturally not what you inferr from it but that which is according to sence and experience viz. that B. being at D. should go to E. not to A. if the cause of its rising be a propension to the higher place as terminus ad quem of its motion because A. is not higher than E for if it were so the line C. B. A. would be longer than the line C. E. which is contrary to sence and to the Principles themselves of what you pretend to be Master viz. Mathematicks which teach that all the right lines drawn from the center of a Circle as suppose A.E.F. to its own circumference are equal among themselves and per consequent D. needs not to go towards A. to attain the higher place but ought to go straight to E. as being as high as A. and the next higher place to D. as just over it except you shew some reason to make your Argument rational and more plausible why the smoak of a Candle for instance burning upon the floor at one end of the long Gallery in Oxford ought to black the cieling thereof which you know to be flat and equally distant from the floor every where at the other
not keep silence Isa 62.6 but blow the Trumpet aloud Ezek. 33.3 6. and proclaim to the World their malice their ignorance their pride their hypocrisie Do you think though you cover your transgressions as Adam Job 31.33 you Shepherds that feed the Flock with Nonsence not with Knowledge you Watchmen speakers of lyes though you pretend otherwise pag. 19. that you shall escape Scot-free to give out still that your selves are the great power of God Act. 8.9 10. and that I shall spare you and pay you the honour due to the Ministers of God No no I will smite you that the simple may beware Prov. 19.9 25. I will though but a worm prepared for this purpose Jonah 4.7 smite the gourd in whose shadow you sit now so pleasantly make the top of your Carmel your pride and fame to wither and removing from you your Fig-tree-leaves covering and plucking off of your backs the Cloak that Doctoratus and making of many Books hide your ignorance under I will make all the World spectators and witnesses of your shame and nakedness Ere long your day and the day of your Visitation will come Micah 7.4 and at the great day Rome Mecca and the Indies shall be more tolerably dealt with than you and your Church Mat. 8.11 12. Mark 12.40 When the Lord roareth from Zion and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem his Church the habitation of the Shepherds and Watchmen doth mourn and is desolate Amos 1.2 But to conclude the discourse concerning the Weather-glass before I go further I judge it convenient to add to what hath been said of the cause of the Column rising to its usual height this more exact account and further reason of it to wit that the World being a coherent Plenitude omnium corporum ordo distributio whence it is called Mundus admits of no vacuum and its parts of no chasma within and between themselves and not only its said parts such as the Earth the Water and the Air stand in a due proportion to each other as Solomon witnesseth Eccles 42.25 but all other things likewise are distributed therein in order that is by weight by number rule and measure Prov. 20.10 without which its fine order cannot be long preserved from whence a certain portion of space hath been measured and a certain proportion of weight assigned to each in their common receptacle and lodging the place of all created Bodies the World which proportion they cannot extend beyond or exceed without an inconvenience repugnant to their order and to the perfect wisdom of their Almighty Maker and so the Air as being one of the most bulky Bodies and parts of this World cannot reach beyond the space nor exceed the pondus molis allowed unto it nor stretch it self in one place except part thereof doth shrink and condense in another nor move from its place except another Body makes room and either part of it self or some other next Fluid follows and succeeds to it much less can the next Fluid go beyond it in these things whilst it is ascending like it to be its Vicar that is exceed the pondus molis which the Air should have if it were condensed into as close a texture as it the next Fluid hath and extend beyond the space which is allowed to the Air as it would if what riseth of it to succeed and to supply the place of the Air that is the Column thereof should rise to a greater height than that it usually hath for then it would have more weight and if rarefied into as loose and thin a texture and consistence as the Air not only take up more room than comes to the share and proportion of the Air but extend beyond the bounds set to the Sphere of the Air and with it to all other more dense and heavy Bodies which were more inconvenient than such inconsiderable vacuum and disjunction as that which can be by all the skill and power of man introduced in the World And therefore though the World is a coherent Plenitude which admits naturally of neither vacuity nor chasma or solution of its continuity yet such vacuum being a far less inconvenience than were the rising of the Column higher than it doth the discreet ordo mundi which is a Law thereunto will rather admit of it as the less than of the worse and so to avoid the worse it suffers the Column to rise in due proportion to the weight of the Fluid whereof it is a Vicar and provides at the same time that the derelicted space shall not be absolutely empty but only in part by causing the Air which is pent up between the Column and the Pipe to rarefie and to dilate it self so as to supply in part the said derelicted space for note well that when the Pipe is filled with Mercury the Air is not all driven out of it but some small bubbles thereof remain included between the Mercury and the Pipe which may be seen by distinct spots round about and from the top to the Base of the Mercurial Column and which when the Column sinks subside not along with it but enter in the void space as fast as the Mercury that pent them against the Pipe leaves it void by subsiding And as a greater void space hath a circumference greater than a lesser space and so yields ratione suarum diametrorum more place for the Mercury to pent up more bubbles of Air against it than the lesser so it is supplied as much and needs not per consequent if it were able to draw draw more and make the Column rise higher in proportion to its greater height or depth as our modern Sages have in their great School-wisdom argued that it ought to do affirming that the Ancients were so dull and so silly as to think it would do so and as not to be aware of some weight and gravity in the Air when compressed though some of the Ancients have shewed them that not only they well knew the contrary but even without the help of their long kenning Spectacles saw as far again as they viz. the aequipondium of Fluids in ascensu or whilst they are ascending as the Mercurial Column hath before been shewed to do and their mutual succeeding and relieving each other per necessitatem Divinam which is a great secret to our Divine And to this purpose saith one who being but a Heathen knew God better than they do to their shame Hippocrates in libr. de Diaeta Lex Divina omnia in hoc mundo cohibet divina humana sursum deorsum vicissim distribuens commeant transmoventur illa huc haec illuc omni quidem tempore illa horum haec vero illorum res peragunt quae quidem faciunt nesciunt quae vero faciunt scire videntur quae quidem vident non cognoseunt tamen haec omnia necessitate divina contingunt quae volunt quae nolunt illis autem huc his