neighbours of the Moone, which (according to the manner of the Academickes) hee delivers in a third person; you see he makes that Planet an inferiour kind of heaven, and though hee differ in many circumstances, yet doth hee describe it to be some such place, as wee suppose Paradise to be. You see likewise his opinion concerning the place of damned spirits, that it is in the middle region of the aire, and in neither of these is hee singular, but some more late and Orthodox Writers have agreed with him. As for the place of hell, many thinke it may be in the aire as well as any where else. True indeed, Saint _Austin_ affirmes that this place cannot bee discovered;[1] But others there are who can shew the situation of it out of Scripture; Some holding it to bee in some other world without this, because our Saviour calls it σκότος ἐξώτερον, outward darkenesse.[2] But the most will have it placed towards the Center of our earth, because ’tis said,[3] Christ descended into the lower parts of the earth, and some of these are so confident, that this is its situation, that they can describe you its bignes also, and of what capacity it is. _Francis Ribera_ in his Comment on the _Revelations_, speaking of those words, where ’tis said,[4] that the blood went out of the Wine-presse, even unto the horses bridles by the space of one thousand and sixe hundred furlongs, interprets them to bee meant of Hell, and that that number expresses the diameter of its concavity, which is 200 _Italian_ miles; but _Lessius_ thinkes that this opinion gives them too much roome in hell,[5] and therefore hee guesses that ’tis not so wide; for (saith hee) the diameter of one league being cubically multiplied, will make a spheare capable of 800000 millions of damned bodies, allowing to each sixe foote in the square, whereas (saies hee) ’tis certaine that there shall not be one hundred thousand millions in all that shall bee damned. You see the bold _Iesuit_ was carefull that every one should have but roome enough in hell, and by the strangenesse of the conjecture, you may guesse that he had rather bee absurd, than seeme either uncharitable or ignorant. I remember there is a relation in _Pliny_, how that _Dionisiodorus_ a Mathematician, being dead, did send a letter from his place to some of his friends upon earth, to certifie them what distance there was betwixt the center and superficies: hee might have done well to have prevented this controversie, and enformed them the utmost capacity of that place. However, certaine it is, that that number cannot bee knowne, and probable it is, that the place is not yet determined, but that hell is there where there is any tormented soule, which may bee in the regions of the aire as well as in the center; but of this onely occasionally, and by reason of _Plutarchs_ opinion concerning those that are round about the Moone; as for the Moone it selfe, hee esteemes it to bee a lower kinde of Heaven, and therefore in another place hee cals