For what can stand that is so badly staid?
Well may that fall whose ground-work is unsure.
And what hath wall’d the world but thoughts unweigh’d
In freer reason? That antiquate, secure,
And easie dull conceit of corporature;
Of matter; quantitie, and such like gear
Hath made this needlesse, thanklesse inclosure,
Which I in full disdain quite up will tear
And lay all ope, that as things are they may appear.
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For other they appear from what they are
By reason that their Circulation
Cannot well represent entire from farre
Each portion of the _Cuspis_ of the Cone
(Whose nature is elsewhere more clearly shown)
I mean each globe, whether of glaring light
Or else opake, of which the earth is one.
If circulation could them well transmit
Numbers infinite of each would strike our ’stonishd sight;
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All in just bignesse and right colours dight
But totall presence without all defect
’Longs onely to that Trinitie by right,
_Ahad_, _Æon_, _Psyche_ with all graces deckt,
Whose nature well this riddle will detect;
A Circle whose circumference no where
Is circumscrib’d, whose Centre’s each where set,
But the low Cusp’s a figure circular,
Whose compasse is ybound, but centre’s every where.
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Wherefore who’ll judge the limits of the world
By what appears unto our failing sight
Appeals to sense, reason down headlong hurld
Out of her throne by giddie vulgar might.
But here base senses dictates they will dight
With specious title of Philosophie,
And stiffly will contend their cause is right
From rotten rolls of school antiquitie,
Who constantly denie corporall Infinitie.
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But who can prove their corporalitie
Since matter which thereto’s essentiall
If rightly sifted ’s but a phantasie.
And quantitie who’s deem’d Originall
Is matter, must with matter likewise fall.
What ever is, is Life and Energie
From God, who is th’ Originall of all;
Who being everywhere doth multiplie
His own broad shade that endlesse throughout all doth lie.
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He from the last projection of light
Ycleep’d _Shamajim_, which is liquid fire
(It _Æther_ eke and centrall _Tasis_ hight)
Hath made each shining globe and clumperd mire
Of dimmer Orbs. For Nature doth inspire
Spermatick life, but of a different kind.
Hence those congenit splendour doth attire
And lively heat, these darknesse dead doth bind,
And without borrowed rayes they be both cold and blind.
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