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190 by the same means as we, the death of Christ, and thus he thinkes that place of the Ephesians may be interpreted, where the Apostle saies, God gathered all things together in Christ, both which are in earth, and which are in the heavens: So also that of the same Apostle to the Colossians where hee saies, that it pleased the Father to reconcile all things unto himselfe by Christ, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

But I dare not jest with Divine truthes, or apply these places according as fancy directs. As I thinke this opinion doth not any where contradict Scripture, so I thinke likewise, that it cannot be proved from it, wherefore Campanella's second conjecture may be more probable, that the inhabitants of that world, are not men as wee are, but some other kinde of creatures which beare some Rh