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Show I .l The firft-Bookeof the firkt part Cuap.1.§.6, Cuarug.7. not contented with a known ofthe Vniuer{allis 2 labourand fearchlike ynto his,w ho inall parts,where he is igr Riuer grcateft the over paffe to & fafe Foord,wiliprefume other his ynd andthe life, rant of their depths: for fo doth the onc lofe his towards it looke we as long light,as enioyhis Webehold the Sunne,and the and circum{pedtly : we warme bur flues fafely,while we ftand neere §. VII. Ofthe light created,as the materialfubflance ofthe Sunne :and ofthe nature of it , and diff. culty. of knowledge of #: and of theexcelency and vfe of it : and of motion,and heate an- nexed unto if, nag Hele watersavere afterwards congregated,& called the Sea:& this Light af- eck to out-face the one,to enter into the other,weforthwith become blind But to efchewcuriofity: thisis true, that the Englith word A terwards (in the fourth day ):gathered and vnited,and called the Sun,the Or38. ean, & inftrument ofcreated light. For this firkt & difperfed light did not (as ae J conceiue)diftinguifh the night from the day, but witha reference to the (memed) i andfignificant: for of motion proceedeth all production,and all whatfo And this omnipotent Spirit of God,which mayindeed be truely call tus,and with MaRANDVLA,/%caufe efficientis, The forceof the ef fics ro fine fometimes taketh for the holy Ghoft ; fometime for a windor brea Spiritus, under the nameofa Spirst,whichis fometimes fo taken : or for 2 For acreated vertuality: Tertullian and .Theodoret call it alfo a breath riusnamethit,Spirit ue tenucmintellizibilem , A pure or thin intelligible GORAS, Atextem: TOSTATVS, Voluntatem c& mentem Dei. The will and min which mensPlato ix Timeo,maketh Avimam mundi, The foale of the world: Booke de Republica, he calleth it the Law ofHeauen; in his Epiftles, The Leader of t) come, anatheprefence ofthings paft. But as Cyprian wrote of the Inc our Saviour, Afeas deficit, vex filet, non mea tantim, fed etiam Angelorum ; My » fagleth, my voyce is filent and not mine enely , but euen the voyce of Angels :fo may a! elfe fay in the vnderftanding,and vtterance of the wayes and wor ks of the Cre to him (faith Wazianzens) thereis not one fubftanceby which he is, and another, by eft, > quicquid eff swhat[ocuer att? 7 Nasienib which he can,Sea. confubflantiale ill ft, quicquid cis . bute sfbim theres, and whatfocner hess,it isthe veryfame fabfiance that himfelfe w. ButtheSpirit ofGod which moued vpon the waters,cannot be takenfor a breath or wind,nor for any othercreature,feparate from theinfinite actiue power of God,which then formed and diftinguithed, and which nowfuftayneth, and giueth continuanceto the Vniuerfall.For the Spirit ofthe Lordfilleth all the world ; and thie fameis it which Wifeewe.7. maintayneth allthings, faith SALOMON. Ifthou fendforth thy Spirit (faith Davi)they are created : ane GreGory, Deus{uoprefentisli effe,dat ommibus rebus eft, ita quod fi [639 ero hime mebdrae re ee id et aa and vanifp inte amay fromthem, it wouldagainefall mane, ¢ Cad‘ Wwas worki "s the thisas ofnothing ‘ech os then bing. reae oftheHiftorie of the World. tnd this working of GodsSpirit in all things Virgil hath expreft excellently: Suns creation;andthé-vniting of the difperfed light therein. This is proued by thefe words, Let there be lightsin the Firmament,to feparate the day from the night: which lights Gen.1 in the Armament of Heauen,were alfo made for fignes,andforfeafons,and fox daics,and for yeares,implying amotion inftantly to follow,by which, dayes and years are diftinguifhed; after which {ucceeded Time, or together with which, that Time (which was the meafure of motion)began. Forthat {paceof the firft three dayes which preceded the Suns creation, or formall perfection, whenas yet there was not any motionto be meafured, and the day named in thefift Verfe ; was but fuch afpace, as afterwards by the Sunnes motion madea ciuill or naturall day. And as Waters were the matter ofAire of the firmainent,and ofthe lower and ypper waters,and of the Seas,and Creatures there- 20 in: Earth, the matterofBeafts, Plants, Minerals, and Mans body: fo may Light (for expreffion fake) be called the Chaos,or material] fubftance ofthe Sunne,&other lights of heauén + Howbeit, neither the Sunne, nor anything fenfible,, is that Light it felfe, Quccaufaeli lutiaorum , Which is the caufe that things are lightfome (though it make it £ felfe & all things elfe vifible)but a body moft illightned, which illuminatreththe Moon, ‘ by whomthe neighbouring Region (whichthe Greeks call eérher,the place ofthe fup- se pofed Element of fire)is affected and qualified, and byit all bodies liuing in this our aire. For this light Asicexne calleth vebiculum & fomentum omuiun caleitinm virtue tum,imprefsionum : The conducter , and preferner or nourifver ofall celeftiall vertues and imprefsionsnothing defcending of heauenly influences, but by the medium, or meanes 30 oflight. Aristotle calleth light a quality, inherent, or cleaning toa Diaphanous bo-= dy, Lumen eft qualitas inherens Diaphano:but this may be better auouched of the heate whichit tranfporteth and bringeth withit,or conducteth : which heate (fay the Platonicks) Abennte lumsine refidet in fubietto, Thelight being departedyAoth vefide in thefubied, Ficinibde Lic as warmthinthe aire, though the famebe depriuedof light. This light P/otinus andall *str-t% the Academicks make incorporall,and fo doth MoNTANVS, Cui nce duritia refiitit , nee PrincipieCaclam ac Terris, campof, liquentes, Spatiam Which acither hardnefferefifieth por[pace leaneth, Spiritus tates alit :totamd, infufaper 4tae tion of other mens opinions, faith Pécolomsineus, Democritus, Lencippus,and Epicurws, picde fitih Ariftorle findeth corporality in the beamesof light ; but it is but by way of repeti- Lacentémg,globum Luns, Titaniag, afta giue materiality to lightit felfe, but improperly ; forit paffeth at an inftant , fromthe Meus agitat molem,cr magnfe corpore mifcet. o Heauentothe Earth,noris it refifted by any hardneffe, becaufe it pierceth through the folid body ofglafs,or other Cryftalline matter,and wherasit is withftoodby vacleane. The Heanen,theEarth,and all the liquid Mayne The Moonesbright Globe,and Stars Titanian . and vnpure earthy fubftances,leffe hard, and moreeafie to inuade than the former, the A Spirit within maintaynes: and their whole maffe A Mind,which through each part infus'd doth pafte, Fafhions,and works,and wholly dothtranfPierce : All this great Body ofthe Vniuer{e. And this was the {ameSpirit,which mouedin the Vniuerfull, and thereby both diTob c.26gu.136 ope ps adornedit. His Spirit hathgarnifbed the Here ? te :ie € a -. a a. , th em their3 fpirituality, Lp Sa of Go monetaeaegeeksoe airit any in and natu- Bythis Spirit (which gaue hearcantl meio. uearetarifaGion, andfubtilty of parts. while it moued vponthe waters, which »andthereby, operation to cuery nature,5 fed to all Oe Aeone indigefted lump,and Chaos,difpoe formesalik €) was begotten Aire: an elementfiiperi R he wae ters, through whofe vaft,open,fubtile, Diaphanicke, ot oe rnepeabe terwards created mighteafily tranfpierce i htfor a tranfparent body,the lightal- fameis,Quid obftaculum naturd terreum atg,[ordidum, non capi candisam lurmints pavita- prim pure cleareneffe of loins tem, Becaufe an obflacle by nature earthy and foule, deth sot receiue the light :alluding to that moft diuine Light, whichonelythinethon thofe mindes, which are purged fromall worldly droffe,and humaneyncleannefle. But ofthis created light,there is no agreementin opinion; neither doI maguaileatit, for it cannot be foundcitherin the Fathers,Philofophers,or Schoole-men,orother ancient orlater Writers, that any ofthem vaderftoodeitherit or themfeluestherein: all 6 men(to caft off ignorance) haue difputed thereof, but there isnomanthat hath beene taught thereby. Thomas Aqaines (not inferiourto any in wit) as hee hath fhewedlittle ftrength ofargumentin refuting the opinions of Beda, Hazo, Lombard, Lyranus, and Others : fo is his owne itidgementherein,as weak as any mans; and moft ofthe Schoolemen were rathercurious in the nature of terms,and morefubtile in diftinguifhing vpon firit creature which Godcalled good whot 6" or the excellency thereof, being the the parts of doétrine already laid down,thandifcouerers ofanything hidden,eitherin Chyfsftome calleth avitall Operation. A 5 ace immediatly followed.This Spi" ne nimio; Nothing is more edions to trac wifedome, than too acutefbarpuefé. Neither hath the length oftime, andthe fearch ofmanylearned men, (which' the fame time hath nem,fed & vimprocrcandi aninsalia Nae H ee i een een call Operation gine? y God untothe waters whereby the waters had 5 eee It, 4 vitall bring forth lising Creatures, page = RUOh one!y notion, byt alfo power to were¢ ‘. §, Philofophy or Diuinity : of whomit may betruely faid, Nihilfapientie odiofjus acumibrought |