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A pastime for parents
A pastime for parents: or A recreation to pass away the time; containing the most principal grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.A pastime for parents: or A recreation to passe away the time; contayning the most principall grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Father. What is your reason?
Child. My reason is this, we see by daily experience that the sun being a visible body doth fetch the whole compass of the heavens in four & twenty hours and it is well known to all the learned that the circle or circumference of the sun doth by many degrees exceed the circle or globe of the whole earth, needs therefore must the Sun be carried in an unspeakable swift motion ⟨image 11⟩far passing the musket shot for else how could it go through his whole sphere in 24. hours as we see it doth, then consequently it followeth that the motion of Angels must needs be much swifter then that of the Sun, because they are of a more thin, agile, airy, and invisible nature.
Child. My reason is this, we sée by daily experience that the sun being a visible body doth fetch the whole compas of the heauens in foure & twenty houres and it is well knowne to all ye learned that the circle or circumference of the sun doth by many degrées excéede the circle or globe of ye whole earth, néeds therefore must the Sunne bée caried in an vnspeakeable swift motion ⟨image 11⟩farre passing the musket shotte for else how could it goe through his whole spheare in 24. houres as we sée it doth, then consequently it followeth that the motion of Angels must néedes bée much swifter then that of the Sunne, because they are of a more thin, agile, aiery, and inuisible nature.
Father. Can an Angel be in many places at once?
Father. Can an Angell be in many places at once?