[Sidenote 1: _De doct. ign. l. 2. c. 12._] [Sidenote 2: Wisd. 9. 16.] [Sidenote 3: 2 Esd. 4. 22.] So that ’twere a very needelesse thing for us, to search after any particulars, however, wee may guesse in the generall, that there are some inhabitans in that Planet: for why else did Providence furnish that place with all such conveniences of habitation as have beene above declared? But you will say, perhaps, is there not too great and intollerable a heate, since the Sunne is in their Zinith every moneth, and doth tarry their so long before hee leaves it? I answer, 1. This may, perhaps, be remedied (as it is under the line) by the frequencie of mid-day showers, which may cloud their Sunne, and coole their earth: 2. The equality of their nights doth much temper the scorching of the day, and the extreme cold that comes from the one, require some space before it can be dispelled by the other, so that the heate spending a great while before it can have the victory, hath not afterwards much time to rage in. Wherfore notwithstanding this, yet that place may remaine habitable. And this was the opinion of the _Cardinal de Cusa_, when speaking of this Planet, he saies,[1] _Hic locus Mundi est habitatio hominum & animalium atque vegetabilium_. “This part of the world is inhabited by men and beasts, and Plantes.” To him assented _Campanella_, but hee cannot determine whether there were men, or rather some other kinde of creatures. If they were men, then he thinkes they could not be infected with _Adams_ sinne; yet, perhaps, they had some of their owne, which might make them liable to the same misery with us, out of which, perhaps, they were delivered by the same means as we, the death of Christ, and thus he thinkes that place of the _Ephesians_ may be interpreted, where the Apostle saies,[2] _God gathered all things together in Christ, both which are in earth, and which are in the heavens_: So also that of the same Apostle to the _Colossians_, where hee saies,[3] that _it pleased the Father to reconcile all things unto himselfe by Christ, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven_. [Sidenote 1: _De doct. ign. l. 2. c. 12._] [Sidenote 2: Eph. 1. 10.] [Sidenote 3: Col. 1. 20.] But I dare not jest with Divine truthes, or apply these places according as fancy directs. As I thinke this opinion doth not any where contradict Scripture, so I thinke likewise, that it cannot be proved from it, wherefore _Campanella’s_ second conjecture may be more probable, that the inhabitants of that world, are not men as wee are, but some other kinde of creatures which beare some proportion and likenesse to our natures, and _Cusanus_ too thinkes they differ from us in many respects; I will set downe his words as they may bee found in the abovecited place,