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The sacrifice of thankfulness A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the third of December,…The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December,…
The sacrifice of thankfulness A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the third of December, being the first Aduentuall Sunday, anno 1615. By Tho. Adams. Whereunto are annexed five other of his sermons preached in London, and else-where; never before printed. ...The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December, being the first Aduentuall Sunday, anno 1615. By Tho. Adams. Whereunto are annexed fiue other of his sermons preached in London, and else-where; neuer before printed. ...
London: printed by Thomas Purfoot for Clement Knight, 1616
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3. The quick moving of the Celestial bodies, and their remoteness from our eyes: Both our sense is too weak to pierce into those Fires; and those Fires are too quick in motion for our apprehension. Therefore saith S. Aug. Si tam celeriter alter post altaerum nascitur, 1ut eadem pars Horoscopi manea•, paria cuncta quaero, quae in nullis possu•t geminis inueniri: If one of the Twins be so immediately borne after the other, that the same part of the Horoscope abide, I require likeness and equality in them both; which can in no Twins be found. We see here two Brethren borne together (it is most likely) under the reign of one Planet or Constellation; yet as different in Natures, as the Planets themselves.
3. The quicke moouing of the Celestiall bodies, and their remotenesse from our eyes: Both our sense is too weake to pierce into those Fires; and those Fires are too quicke in motion for our apprehension. Therefore sayth S. Aug. Si tam celeriter alter post altaerum nascitur, 1vt eadem pars Horoscopi manea•, paria cuncta quaero, quae in nullis possu•t geminis inueniri: If one of the Twins be so immediatly borne after the other, that the same part of the Horoscope abide, I require likenesse and equalitie in them both; which can in no Twins be found. Wee see here two Brethren borne togeather (it is most likely) vnder the raigne of one Planet or Constellation; yet as different in Natures, as the Planets themselues.
- 1De ciu. D. lib. 5. cap •.
To this they answer, that even this cause, the swift motion of the Planets, wrought this diversity: because they change their Aspects and Conictions every moment. This would one Nigidius demonstrate, who upon a Wheel turning with all possible swiftness, let drop at once two aspersions of Ink, so near together as possibly he could: yet Stanterota, &c. the Wheel standing still, they were found very remote & distant. Whereby he would demonstrate, that in a small course of time, a great part of the celestial Globe may be turned about. But this S. Austin soundly returns on them: That if the Planetary courses, and Celestial motions be so swift, it can not be discerned under what Constellation any one is borne.