As we have already explained it, which makes him to exclaim also on this passage as an ingens. But I conclude,Ne volucrum ritu flammarum, moenia mundiDiffugiant subit magnum per Inane soluta,Et ne cetera conimili ratione sequantur:Néve ruant Coeli tonitralia templa supurnè,Terráque se pedibus raptim subducat, & omnesInter permixtas rerum, coelique ruinasCorpora solventes, abeant per inane profundum &c.For else like hasty flames already fledThe worlds bright walls would vanish suddenlyThrough the vast void dissolv'd, the rest would beAfter the same sort hurried; that from highWould drop the thundring turrets of the skie,And under-foot the sinking arth to bend,Whilst the same ruine earth with heaven would blend,Crushing all bodies with disordered forceThrough the profound abyss to steer their course,So that one moment would no relique leave,Save Elements which no eye could perceive,And desert space; for from what part so e'reYou would that bodies first receding were,That part an open sluce of death must proveWhere matter issuing forth would downwards move.Deriding the opinions and Panick fears of the Stoicks, who whilst they obstinately maintained their medium and extream, without infinite space, were compelled to acknowledge an absolute ruine, and total dissipation of this goodly fabrick, unless the limits thereof had been exceedingly fortified, and strongly hooped about: for they taught that it hung ponderibus librata suis, by a magnetical vigour impressed upon the intire machine at the first by the Almighty; but principally communi∣cated from the Center to both the Extreams, and that by meridional projection, through which combination and conjunction of parts, as by hoops the whole Ʋniverse was stedfastly compacted, so as it could not be moved, least otherwise, like a broken hour-glass, or leaking 0