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2. The weakness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, seeing
that Thou madest heaven and earth. This heaven which I see, and
this earth upon which I tread (from which is this earth that I carry
about me), Thou hast made. But where is Chat heaven of heavens,
O Lord, of which we hear in the words of the Psalm, The heaven of
heavens are the Lord's, I but the earth hath He given to the
children of men. Where is the heaven, which we behold not, in
comparison of which all this, which we behold, is earth? For this
corporeal whole, not as a whole everywhere, hath thus received its
beautiful figure in these lower parts, of which the bottom is our
earth; but compared with that heaven of heavens, even the heaven of
our earth is but earth; yea, each of these great bodies is not
absurdly called earth, as compared with that, I know not what manner
of heaven, which is the Lord's, not the sons' of men.
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