And ſome have thought it not improbable but that the Sun himſelf has alſo his Inhabitants. But upon what reaſon I cannot imagine, there being leſs ground for a Probability in him than in the Moon. For we are not yet ſure, whether he be a ſolid or liquid Globe; altho’, if my Notion of Light be true, upon that account I ſhould rather think him liquid: which his Roundneſs and equal diſtribution of his Light to all parts are an Argument for. For that very ſmall inequality on his Surface, which is diſcovered by the Teleſcopes, (and that not always neither) which makes Men fancy they ſee boiling Seas and belching Mountains of Fire, is nothing but the trembling Motion of the Vapours our Atmoſphere is full of near the Earth; which is likewiſe [The Faculæ in the Sun not eaſily ſeen.] the Cauſe of the Stars twinkling. Nor could I ever have the Luck to diſcern thoſe bright Spots in the Sun which they boaſt as much of as they do of his dark ones, which latter I have very often ſeen; ſo that I have very good Reaſon to doubt whether there be any thing in the Sun brighter than the Sun itſelf. For by the moſt exact Obſervations, I could never find any ſuch pretended to be ſeen any where but juſt about his dark Spots; and it is no great wonder that thoſe Parts which are ſo near the darker, ſhould appear ſomewhat [By reaſon of its Heat no Inhabitants like ours can live in the Sun.] brighter than the reſt. That the Sun is extremely hot and fiery, is beyond all diſpute, and ſuch Bodies as ours could not live one Moment in ſuch a Furnace. We muſt ſuppoſe a new ſort of Animals then, ſuch as we have no Idea or Likeneſs of among us, ſuch as we can neither imagine nor conceive: which is as much as to ſay, that we can make no Suppoſition at all about them. No doubt that glorious and vaſt Body was made for ſome noble End and Uſe, and fram’d with excellent Deſign. And I think we all very well know and feel its Uſefulneſs in that effuſion of Light and Heat to all the Planets round it; in the Preſervation and Happineſs of all living Creatures, and that not only in our Ball, but in thoſe vaſt Globes of Jupiter and Saturn, not contemptible when compared with its own. Theſe are ſuch great, ſuch wiſe Ends, that it is not ſtrange that the Sun ſhould have been made, if it had been only upon their account. For, as for Kepler’s Fancy, that he hath another Office, namely, to help on the Motion of the Planets in their own Orbs, by turning about his own Axis (which he would fain eſtabliſh in his Epitome of the Copernican Syſtem) I ſhall give good Reaſons why I cannot aſſent to it. [The ſix’d Stars so many Suns.]