and so the _Hebrewes_ take it, but who doubts, but that the Earth also belongs to him, as well as the Heaven? _The Earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof_, and in the 23. of _Jer._ _Doe not I fill the Heaven and the Earth? And the Heaven of Heavens is reserved for God, and the Earth is left to the children of men_, which is a manner of speech usuall in the holy Scripture. _For if the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot comprehend thee_, saith _Solomon_ to God; for the _Hebrewes_ metaphorically call Heaven, things that are far distant from our sight: and we also after their imitation, as when wee speak of a Kite, Heron or Gerfalcon, when they fly so high, that wee can hardly discern them, that they goe to loose themselves in Heaven: so that all which is here under the sphere of the Moon, and generally all that is above us, they call it Heaven: and the Heaven of Heavens, the Æthereall Region from the Moon to the Firmament, as well the Firmament it self, or the _Empyrean_ Heaven. But farther that the Stars should bee all of one nature, propriety and effect, to see them so like, besides their greatnesse and clearnesse, it follows not that the same appears of the same sort as of fire, yet wee commonly call them fires and celestiall lights: It is as if the seeds of trees and plants, whereof there are infinite, should all mixe together, and the first buds also, that they cast, which differ as nothing, but to the measure whereunto they grow, their differences doe manifest them. The _Hebrewes_ hold that there is not so little, and poor a herb on the Earth, nor any other thing of the three kinds of the composed Mineralls, Vegetables, or animals, that hath not above its correspondent Star, that assists it, and from which it receives its maintenance and conservation. But how can that agree? will some say to the contrary; because it seems to derogate and contradict that which in expresse terms is set down in the 1. of _Gen._ where it is written, that in the third day, _the Earth of her self brought forth herbs, and trees, containing in them their seeds: according to their kinds_: neverthelesse the Sun, nor the Moon, nor the Stars, were created till the day after, the fourth by which is designed its effect and function: _Let there bee lights made, in the firmament of the heaven, namely the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, to separate the night from the day: and let them bee for signes, and seasons, for dayes and years_: without attributing any thing of their assistance, upon trees and plants, and other elementary things. [Sidenote: An inflamation arising from pure choler in the skin exulcerating it with pain.]