In Theology We Must Consider

It May Be Well To Wait A Century For A Reader, As God Has Waited Six Thousand Years For An Observer.

The Heavenly Motions... Are Nothing But A Continuous Song For Several Voices, Perceived Not By The Ear But By The Intellect, A Figured Music Which Sets Landmarks In The Immeasurable Flow Of Time.

Some Of What These Pamphlets [of Astrological Forecasts] Say Will Turn Out To Be True, But Most Of It Time And Experience Will Expose As Empty And Worthless. The Latter Part Will Be Forgotten Literally: Written On The Winds While The Former Will Be Carefully Entered In People's Memories, As Is Usual With The Crowd.

Geometry, Which Before The Origin Of Things Was Coeternal With The Divine Mind And Is God Himself (for What Could There Be In God Which Would Not Be God Himself?), Supplied God With Patterns For The Creation Of The World, And Passed Over To Man Along With The Image Of God; And Was Not In Fact Taken In Through The Eyes.

I Also Ask You My Friends Not To Condemn Me Entirely To The Mill Of Mathematical Calculations, And Allow Me Time For Philosophical Speculations, My Only Pleasures.