Object. 3. Moses saith, That God made the light, and day, and darkness, and night, before the Sun: When the light is the effect, and the Sun the cause; and the darkness is but a privation of the light of the Sun. How then can these things be?

Object. 3. Moses saith, That God made the light, and day, and darkness, and night, before the Sun: When the light is the effect, and the Sun the cause; and the darkness is but a privation of the light of the Sun. How then can these things be?

Answ. 1. Whatsoever God can produce mediately by the Sun, or other Instruments, that he can produce as easily, immediately himself without an Instrument. Is it not as easy to him, to cause light without a Sun, as to make the Sun it self, with its light?

Answ. 1. Whatsoever God can produce mediately by the Sun, or other Instruments, that he can produce as easily, immediately himself without an Instrument. Is it not as easie to him, to cause light without a Sun, as to make the Sun it self, with its light?

2. Are not Philosophers yet unresolved, whether light be not a substance? And then why might it not be first created alone?

3. However, it might be the effect of the Element of fi•e, disposed of by God for differencing day and night, without a Sun, till the Sun was made. And is it not agreeable to the rest of his works, that he should first make the Elements and general matter before he form particular ⟨p. 69⟩Creatures h••e•f? As he made the water, before he confined it in its banks, and made it a Sea: So might he make the light or fire, be•ore he contracted so much of it into a Sun: And if he can distinguish day and night by the […]un afterward, he might as easily do it by the Element o Fire or Light before. You ma see a pretence of fu there satisfaction to Reason in this point, in Tho. White his Appendix, Thel. ad Institut. Peripat. cap. . & 4. which […] […] […] recite.