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…

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.

The seat of these Asterismes, is in the eighth sphear (to take that doctrin 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 margent, sphears, He build•th his sphears in the heavens, which being one above another, are elegantly called the stories of heaven.) And in the eight sphear innumerable stars are fixed. Some of which fall under speciall 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 Navigatours, who have made thorow-lights to the world, that the East might look into the West, and the South into the North: The travell, study and experiments of these Masters in navigation have brought us in an additionall 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.

Th• other stars are both innumerable and unnameable, beyond number and without name. Hence when the Lord showed Abraham how great his seed should be, he carries him out, and bids him look toward heaven, and tell the stars, if he were able to number them,