And ’tis observed that for want of this rule, some of the ancients have fastened strange absurdities upon the words of the Scripture. So Saint _Ambrose_ esteemed it a heresie, to thinke, that the Sunne and starres were not very hot, as being against the words of Scripture,[7] _Psalm._ 19. 6. where the _Psalmist_ sayes that there is nothing that is hid from the heate of the Sunne. So others there are that would prove the heavens not to be round, out of that place, _Psal._ 104. 2. _Hee stretcheth out the heavens like a curtaine._[8] So _Procopius_ also was of opinion, that the earth was founded upon the waters, nay, he made it part of his faith, proving it out of _Psal._ 24. 2. _Hee hath founded the earth upon the seas, and established it upon the flouds._ These and such like absurdities have followed, when men looke for the grounds of Philosophie in the words of Scripture. So that from what hath beene said, I may conclude that the silence of Scripture concerning any other world is not sufficient argument to prove that there is none. Thus for the two first arguments. [Sidenote 1: _In Epist. ad Gilbert._] [Sidenote 2: Part 1. Q. 68. Art. 3.] [Sidenote 3: Gen. 1. 16] [Sidenote 4: Gen. 11.] [Sidenote 5: Sr. _W. Rawly_ c. 7. §. 6.] [Sidenote 6: l. 2. in Gen. / Psal. 136. 6.] [Sidenote 7: Wisd. 2. 4. 17. 5. / Ecclus. 43. 3. 4.] [Sidenote 8: _Com. in c. 1. Gen._] Unto the third, I may answer, that this very example is quoted by others, to shew the ignorance of those primative times, who did sometimes condemne what they did not understand, and have often censur’d the lawfull & undoubted parts of Mathematiques for hereticall, because they themselves could not perceive a reason of it, and therefore their practise in this particular, is no sufficient testimony against us. But lastly I answer to all the above named objections, that the terme World, may be taken in a double sense, more generally for the whole Universe, as it implies in it the elementary and æthereall bodies, the starres and the earth. Secondly, more particularly for an inferiour World consisting of elements. Now the maine drift of all these arguments, is to confute a plurality of worlds in the first sense, and if there were any such, it might, perhaps, seeme strange, that _Moses_, or St. _John_ should either not know, or not mention its creation. And _Virgilius_ was condemned for this opinion, because he held, _quòd sit alius mundus sub terrâ, aliusque Sol & Luna_, (as _Baronius_) that within our globe of earth, there was another world, another Sunne and Moone, and so he might seeme to exclude this from the number of the other creatures. But now there is no such danger in this opinion, which is here delivered, since this world said to be in the Moone, whose creation is particularly exprest.