The next thing then to be enquired after, is, whether they be of a corruptible nature,[1] not whether they can be destroyed by God, for this Scripture puts out of doubt.
Nor whether or no in a long time they would weare away and grow worse, for from any such feare they have beene lately priviledged.[2] But whether they are capable of such changes and vicissitudes, as this inferiour world is liable unto.
The two chiefe opinions concerning this, have both erred in some extremity, the one side going so farre from the other, that they have both gone beyond the right, whilest Aristotle hath opposed the truth, as well as the Stoicks.
Some of the Ancients have thought, that the heavenly bodies have stood in need of nourishment from the elements, by which they were continually fed, and so had
- ↑ 2 Pet. 3. 12.
- ↑ By Doctor Hackwell Apol.
