_I cannot see why the Angel of God should question_ Esdras _to recal the time past, if it were beyond his own power, or that God should pose mortality in that which he was not able to perform himself._] Sir _K. Digby_ in his Notes upon this place saith, There is no contradiction in this, because he saith it was but putting all things that had motion into the same state they were in at that moment, unto which time was to be reduced back, and from thence letting it travel on again by the same motions, _etc._ which God could do. But under favour, the contradiction remains, if this were done that he mentions; for Time depends not at all upon motion, but has a being altogether independent of it, and therefore the same revolution would not bring back the same time, for that was efflux'd before; as in the time of _Joshua_, when the Sun stood still, we cannot but conceive, though there were no motion of the Sun, but that there was an efflux of Time, otherwise, how could the Text have it, _That there was not any day, before or after, that was so long as that?_ for the length of it must be understood in respect of the flux of time. The reasoning of Sir _Kenelme_ is founded upon the opinion of _Aristot_. who will needs have it, that Time cannot be without mutation; he gives this for a reason, because when we have slept, and cannot perceive any mutation to have been, we do therefore use to connect the time of our sleeping and of our awaking together, and make but one of it: to which it may be answered, although some mutation be necessary, that we may mark the mix of time, it doth not therefore follow that the mutation is necessary to the flux it self. _Sect. 28. Pag. 43._ _I excuse not_ Constantine _from a fall off his Horse, or a mischief from his enemies, upon the wearing those nails_, etc.] _Hac de re videatur P. Diac. hist. miscell._ _Sect. 29. Pag. 44._ _I wonder how the curiosity of wiser heads could pass that great and indisputable miracle, the cessation of Oracles._] There are three opinions touching the manner how the predictions of these Oracles were perform'd: Some say by vapour, some by the intelligences, or influences, of the Heavens, and others say by the assistance of the Devils. Now the indisputable miracle the Author speaks of, is, that they ceas'd upon the coming of Christ; and it is generally so believed; and the Oracle of _Delphos_ delivered to _Augustus_, mentioned by the Author in this Section, is brought to prove it, which is this: _Me puer Hebrœus divos Deus ipse gubernans Cedere sede jubet, tristemq; redire sub orcum. Aris ergo dehinc tacitus discedito nostris._ But yet it is so far from being true that their cessation was miraculous, that the truth is, there never were any predictions given by those Oracles at all.