Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things, death ...

OF HEAVEN. 113hundred Suns at the leaft, (whence arifcth a mafTeof {hining beauty) upward into the EmpyreanHeaven; which Patriciti^ endeavours induftri- "Nihil teouflytoproove; I fay, topalfe ir byasaeround-''**^"l?*-', rr ^ -1\^'^ir f• alkvciaie, vclIcfle » conceipt 5let us take a Icantlingjas it were, , .ficun dcbeo.andeftimateof the incomparable brightncfle and Njvi interim,fplendourof the higheft heaven; by that which ^^T;^ ^^^Orthodoxe Divines foberly tell from Pev.21 . and iua, fup.emumother places; to wit, that it is verm oxu//.^of, whol- ^«'"'" /^^F'"-powringoutabundantly whole rivers, as it were, Dicuur; uon.of pureft heavenly light,^ii}y light, not like the Starry Firmament, be- n!um"fubnm.fpangl'd here and there with glittering fpots ; but g nc novaealias it werc,onc ^ great Sttn, From every Point ^•f'«/«>'»''-illuflratf4.w; (^Lucernaejmefi ^^ntis. Quid Fiinc riMPptiici Dc fentcntia :> lohanitii : ^UliaKi ij/^elucemcxleflUglorU ; aliamSolh d^' LunxiNonopui cjfeSile (ait) ^ Z,M»(i.'N.*.gatjoeft fydcrcje liicis Opponitur ci affirmatiodiv.nas lucis &.gIonolx, qu3E progufcitura D I I gloria & Agno Filio Dei. /bid.Neg^ urbs ifia eger Sole, O'c,^Non negat, qiiin Scl & Lina in firriamento fiiumrctcntura funt iHtncnjrrd .nitfupremuni lUud coelun,long' piaelbntiori liicefplcndcie,ncc opu» habere tali Sole & Luna. Gloria inquit Dei if^Ticitttv-rh, Difcrimcn facieinter JTo^cti'gloiiam Dei, & inter (pai quo ipfa urbs illuftratur, Gloria Dsi majcUaseft Dei, hixq; ilia, Deitas iplius, quam inhabitarc Dbus dicitur. Ea omnibus eftiinacccffa3& corporcisoculisinvifibilis. Abhacmajcftare veto pro bencplacito voluntatisDbt, lumen creatum proficifcitur, quo tota urbs fplendct : & quo eledis ctiamcommunicatOjcflSc.t DEVS,ut ipfum plene,& quafi facie ad facicm cognofcant 2an(b»deCee!obeat».Cap ^.* Goelum Beatorum eft imprimis lucidiflimum, coq; vcrns oKvfji.'Troi : Hoc eft to-»«m &omBi ex parte luminofumaclplendjdum. Non enim eft l)>;ut firmamentumrarijs ornatum ftellis, eoqj ahbi lucidum : alibi veto non ira lucidum, (cd totum eftji[€ljacidum. Eft enim perinde atqj fi totum fit quidcm Sol. maximus^ & omnia fuoambitu corapleftcns.Ncq: lux ilia eft fimilis luci ftellarum,neq} etiamejufdem gene-R«. Sed eft lux vere divina, licet areata ; idcirco quia lux eft alterius generis, & lux eftglorir, noa penetrat hue ad nos ufq;: oculistamcn cwporeis faturo fecWo a ncbwvidcbitw. Idem /hid.of