A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Quer. 8. Moreover I would know of you, Whether you think that there is any other world, which spiritual inhabitants do possess? If you say, No, you go against all Reason and experience. Against Experience: because that many a hundred Witches, and many Apparitions and haunted houses have put the matter out of question (for all that many reports of such things have been false.) And against all Reason; because we see that this inferior world is everywhere replenished with inhabitants: The earth hath men and beasts, the air hath birds, the water hath fishes; And can a man of common Reason then think that the superior Regions which we see and which we see not (which for greatness and for splendour and excellency are a thousand fold above this earth) should all be uninhabited and destitute! and that there are not creatures also there for excellency and Number incomparably beyond the inhabitants of this lesser lower world? Certainly nothing is made in vain; nor are the works of God so monstrously ⟨p. 136⟩disproportioned and discomposed, as for the Nobler parts to be only for the baser. The Heavens that are over us, and all the vast and most excellent parts of the Creation, have a use that is answerable to their excellency. God makes not cottages to be inhabited, and Palaces and Cities to lie wast and desert to no use.

Quer. 8. Moreover I would know of you, Whether you think that there is any other world, which spiritual inhabitants do possess? If you say, No, you go against all Reason and experience. Against Experience: because that many a hundred Witches, and many Apparitions and haunted houses have put the matter out of question (for all that many reports of such things have been false.) And against all Reason; because we see that this inferiour world is everywhere replenished with inhabitants: The earth hath men and beasts, the aire hath birds, the water hath fishes; And can a man of common Reason then think that the superiour Regions which we see and which we see not (which for greatness and for spendor and excellency are a thousand fold above this earth) should all be uninhabited and destitute! and that there are not creatures also there for excellency and Number incomparbly beyond the inhabitants of this lesser lower world? Certainly nothing is made in vain; nor are the works of God so monstrously ⟨p. 136⟩disproportioned and discomposed, as for the Nobler parts to be only for the baser. The Heavens that are over us, and all the vast and most excellent parts of the Creation, have a use that is answerable to their excellency. God makes not cottages to be inhabited, and Pallaces and Cities to lie wast and desert to no use.