A69075:280
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Lights: all which, although they be great in themselves, ⟨p. 23⟩to the end they might give light to the dark earth, that is, far removed from them: yet are they distinguished into great, Sun, Moon, small, the Stars, which are as it were certain vessels wherein the Lord did gather the light, which before was scattered in the whole body of the heavens.
Lights: all which, although they be great in themselues, ⟨p. 23⟩to the end they might giue light to the darke earth, that is, farre remoued from them: yet are they distinguished into great, Sunne, Moone, small, the Stars, which are as it were certeine vessels wherein the Lord did gather the light, which before was scattered in the whole bodie of the heauens.
Why doth Moses call the Sun and Moon the greatest lights, when there are Stars that exceed the Moon by many degrees?
Why doth Moses call the Sunne and Moone the greatest lights, when there are Starres that exceed the Moone by many degrees?
Because they are greatest first in their use and virtue that they exercise upon the terrestrial bodies. Secondly, for that they seem so to us: it being the purpose of the holy Ghost by Moses to apply himself to the capacity of the unlearned.
Because they are greatest first in their vse and vertue that they exercise vpon the terrestriall bodies. Secondly, for that they seeme so to vs: it being the purpose of the holy Ghost by Moses to applie himselfe to the capacitie of the vnlearned.