A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

But it is no obscure hint that is given of the spaciousness of the Heavenly Regions, when purposely to represent the Divine immensity, 'tis said of the unconfined presence of the great God, that even Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him, 1 King. 8.27. 2 Chron. 6.18. How vast scope is given to our thinking minds to conceive Heavens, above Heavens, encircling one another, till we have quite tired our faculty, and yet we know not how far short we are of the utmost verge! And when our Lord is said to have ascended far above all Heavens, Ephes. 4.10. Whose Arithmetic will suffice to tell how many they are? whose Uranography to describe how far that is?

But it is no obscure hint that is given of the spaciousness of the Heavenly Regions, when purposely to represent the Divine immensity, 'tis said of the unconsined presence of the great God, that even Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him, 1 King. 8.27. 2 Chron. 6.18. How vast scope is given to our thinking minds to conceive Heavens, above Heavens, incircling one another, till we have quite tired our faculty, and yet we know not how far short we are of the utmost verge! And when our Lord is said to have ascended far above all Heavens, Ephes. 4.10. Whose Arithmetick will suffice to tell how many they are? whose Vranography to describe how far that is?

We need not impose it upon our selves to judge their rules infallible, ⟨p. 137⟩who, being of no mean understanding, nor indiligent in their enquiries, have thought it not improbable that there may be fixed Stars within view, at that distance from our Earth, that a movable, in as swift motion, as that of a Bullet shot from a Canon, would be fifty thousand years in passing from the one to the other