as if they had informed us of all things to be knowne, and when wee are set upon their shoulders, not to see further then they themselves did. 'Twere a superstitious, a lazie opinion to thinke Aristotles workes the bounds and limits of all humane invention, beyond which there could be no possibility of reaching. Certainly there are yet many things left to discovery, and it cannot be any inconvenience for us, to maintaine a new truth, or rectifie an ancient errour.
But the position (say some) is directly against Scripture, for
1. Moses tells us but of one world, and his History of the creation had beene very imperfect if God had made another.
2. Saint John speaking of Gods workes, saies he made the world, in the singular number, and therefore there is but one:[1] 'tis the argument of Aquinas, and he thinks that none will oppose it, but such
