his primitive course, with many other premises wherewith hee would conclude that of the propriety and vertue of each Star indifferently, depends the facultie and vertue of all the composed Elements, without having there other difference between them, if peradventure, this was not in greatnesse; as it is apparently seen: nor can men say, that one presides more particularly to one thing here below, then to another: for every Star presides to all; so that if all were joined and united together in one onely body, this should be as if infinite flames and fires should come to assemble, to make but one, which would be stronger then true, but not of diverse propriety and nature, which doth not change it self into homogeneall, and homomaternall substances, by a coacervation, nor which comes to produce other effects then it did, being separated, as one may see in water, and a great torch in respect of a little waxe light, which will light infinite others as well as the torch, though more powerfull, to heat, boil, and burn, as being in a greater volume. But it is a very hard thing to overthrow an opinion already received of long durance, chiefly if it bee supported with authority of holy Scripture; which must bee to us as a touchstone, by it to verifie our ratiocinations, for the most part uncertain and erroneous, if they bee not conducted by divine inspiration: It is written in the 147. _Psal._ 5. _He knoweth all the Stars, and calleth them all by their names._ That if they have all different and particular names, wherefore should it serve but to distinguish them in their effects, proprieties, qualities and vertues? for the name of things, imports the same. Follow that which is said in the 2. of _Gen._ as _Adam_ named every thing, such was its true and proper name: which _Plato_ in his _Cratylus_ saith is not onely the type and representation of things, but their Essence. And in this case there is a fair consideration to bee marked, that God left to _Adam_ the nomination of terrestriall things: but reserved to himselfe that of Celestiall: as hee expresseth in the 115. _Psal._ 16. _The Heaven of Heavens are the Lords, but the Earth hath he given to the children of men_: which is as much to say, according to _Rabbi_ the _Ægyptian_ in the 2. Book of his _More_, or director, 25. Cha. That the Creator knoweth himself alone the certain verity of the heavens, what is their form, substance, and their motions; but upon that under heaven he hath given power to man to know, for Earth is properly mans world, where hee produceth, and the place of his conversation, as long as hee liveth: as fire and light attached to matter: there where the causes upon which we might found our demonstrations concerning heaven, are out of our knowledge, being so far remote from us. And in this case _the Heaven of Heavens, are the Lords_, there may be a double exposition, according to the punctuation and reading. _That Heaven belongs to the Lord of Heaven_,