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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Of these lights or stars, some are called moving, and others fixed. That's the doctrine of Astronomers, and it is the doctrine of the ⟨p. 208⟩Scripture. The Apostle Jude (ver. 13.) calling some wandering stars, seems to admit of that distinction of the stars, into wandering and fixed. The unfixed or wandering stars are seven, known by their names and motions. These in the Text are none of them; these are placed above them.
Of these lights or stars, some are called moving, and others fixed. That's the doctrine of Astronomers, and it is the doctrine of the ⟨p. 208⟩Scripture. The Apostle Iude (ver. 13.) calling some wandering stars, seems to admit of that distinction of the stars, into wandering and fixed. The unfixt or wandering stars are seven, known by their names and motions. These in the Text are none of them; these are placed above them.
The seat of these Asterisms, is in the eighth sphere (to take that doctrine for granted, though many dispute it) or story of the heavens (so the Prophet Amos speaks, Chap. 9.2. He buildeth his stories in the heavens; we put in the margin, spheres, He buildeth his spheres in the heavens, which being one above another, are elegantly called the stories of heaven.) And in the eight sphere innumerable stars are fixed. Some of which fall under special observation and numeration. Astronomers give us a Catalogue of a thousand three and twenty stars, which they exactly distinguish; which is the ancient account. And since that we have had many more discoveries by those noble Navigators, who have made through-lights to the world, that the East might look into the West, and the South into the North: The travel, study and experiments of these Masters in navigation have brought us in an additional number of three hundred stars more. And so we reckon a thousand three hundred, and twenty three fixed stars known by name; of which these in the text are a part.