THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS.

BOOK the First.

CHAP. 1. Of GOD.

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IT is natural for a truly wise man to inquire after God, § 1. Whose being is as certainly knowable as our own, 2. As he is self-existent, 3. And most perfect, 4, 5, 6. That is to say, infinite in duration, or eternal, 7, 8, 9. In essence, or immense, 10, 11, 12. In power, 13, 14, 15. In knowledge, 16, 17. In goodness, 18, 19, 20, 21. And immutably such, 22, 23. And as such, of necessity, eternally energetic, 24. And omnipotently, 25, 26. So as to beget the divine images of himself, 27, 28, 29. And by these, to make the world, 30. to the end.

CHAP. 2. Of the Corporeal World.

IT was made perfect, 1. In the whole, or in its extent. As appears, partly, from the distance of the visible fixed stars, 2. Partly, of those which are visible only with the help of glasses, 3. And in its parts, both great and small, 4. First, the greater, whereof in this chapter; viz., the planets, etc. As appears in the regularity of their motions, 5. And their great variety, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. In the substance and splendor of the sun, 12, 13, 14. In the command hereof, over all the primary planets; and of these, over their satellites, 15. Extraordinary, yet not of that extent as is supposed, 16, 17. But other causes to be added, 18, 19. The cause of the sun's own motion, also unknown, 20. And wherein the power of his command lieth, uncertain, 21. Also the magnetic poles, a great secret, 22. The rarity of the ether, of great use, 23. The manifold use of the air; and the causes of winds, 24, 25. The generation of clouds, 26. The use of seas and rivers, currents and tides, 27, 28. The moon, and other planets, so many more terraqueous orbs, 29. And every fixed star, another sun; having the command of another system of planets, 30.