and pleasant places appointed for the habitation of those unspotted soules, that either never were imprisoned in, or else now have freed themselves from any commerce with the body. Scaliger[1] speaking of this Platonicke fancie, quæ in tres trientes mundum quasi assem divisit, thinks 'tis confutation enough, to say, 'tis Plato’s. However for the first part of this assertion, it was assented unto by many others, and by reason of the grossnesse and inequality of this planet, 'twas frequently called quasi terra cœlestis, as being esteemed the sediment and more imperfect part of those purer bodies,[2] you may see this proved by Plutarch, in that delightfull work which he properly made for the confirmation of this particular. With him agreed Alcinous[3] and Plotinus, later Writers. Unto these I might also adde the imperfect testimony of Mahomet, whose authority of grant can adde but little credit to this opinion,
