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 quantity of naturall Bodies, as extended into three dimenions, as alo to conceive of the motion, and coure of Celetiall Bodies.

  As in great hat, What makes the golden Stars to march o fat; What makes the Moon ometimes to mak her face, The Sun alo, as if in ome digrace. 

And as Virgil ings,

 How th' Sun doth rule with twelve Zodiack Signs, The Orb thats meaur'd round about with Lines, It doth the Heavens Starry way make known, And trange Eclipes of the Sun, and Moon. Arcturns alo, and the Stars of Rain, The Seaven Stars likewie, and Charles his Wain, Why Winter Suns make tow'rds the Wet o fat; What makes the Nights o long ere they be pat?

All which is undertood by Mathematicall Philoophy.

  Hence by the Heavens we may foreknow The eaons all; times for to reap and ow, And when 'tis fit to launch into the deep, And when to War, and when in peace to leep, And when to dig up Trees, and them again To et; that o they may bring forth amain.

Now Theologicall Philoophy, or Divinity, teacheth what God is, what the Mind, what an Intelligence, what an Angel, what a Divell, what the Soul, what Religion, what acred Intitutions, Rites, Temples, Obervations, and acred Myteries are: It intructs us alo concerning Faith, Miracles, the vertues of Words and Figures, the ecret operations and myteries of Seals, and as Apuleius aith, it teacheth us rightly to undertand, and to be killed in the Ceremoniall Laws, the equity of Holy things and rule of Religions. But to recollect my elf)