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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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.
As the varieties in natural Philosophy are many, and the differences among those that converse therein innumerable, so are there the like among the Writers and Students in Metaphysics. What is there in that Science that is not variously argued and disputed? When will they be agreed about the Principle of Individuals, about the nature & number of Causes, about Quantity, Habits, Relations, and other things past count and number? When will they with one consent tell us the difference between the Decrees and Essence of God, whether it be real virtual, relative, or by extrinsic denomination?
As the varieties in natural Philosophy are many, and the differences among those that converse therein innumerable, so are there the like among the Writers and Students in Metaphysicks. What is there in that Science that is not variously argued and disputed? When will they be agreed about the Principle of Individuals, about the nature & number of Causes, about Quantity, Habits, Relations, and other things past count and number? When will they with one consent tell us the difference between the Decrees and Essence of God, whether it be real virtual, relative, or by extrinsick denomination?
To these varieties and differences in Science, add those that are found among Mathematicians in Astronomy, and other parts of Mathematical Learning. When will they be agreed about the Diameter and Circumference of the Earth, when will they tell us how many miles we must move Northward, ere the pole be elevated one degree higher than 'tis in the place of our present abode and habitation? When will they determine the quantity of the parallactical Angle of the Sun? Is it two degrees, or three degrees, and some prime minutes, as Albategnius will have it; or is it only 14 or 15, seconds ⟨p. 30⟩as Vendeline determines it; or at the most but 30 seconds even when the Sun is nearest the Earth as Tacquet resolves it? Astron lib. 3. p. 131. 132. When will they fix the distance of the Sun and Moon from the Earth, and from each other? when will they determine the number of the Earths Semidiameters, by which these distances may be measured? when will they agree in the height and extension of the Atmosphere, and how much the Diameter thereof exceeds that of the Earth, in its length and extension? when will they consent in the proportion that the several planetary Orbs have to each other, with many other questions of like nature and uncertainty, too many to mention?