EU 4 - the whole of creation

Earths in the Universe 4

Whoever duly considers,
concludes that so immense a whole
must needs be a means to an end,
which is the ultimate of creation,
which end is the kingdom of heaven,
wherein the Divine may dwell with angels and men;
for the visible universe,
or the heaven resplendent with stars so innumerable,
which are so many suns,
is only a means for the existence of earths, and of people upon them,
of whom may be formed a heavenly kingdom.
From these things a rational man must needs be led to conceive,
that so immense a means,
adapted to so great an end,
was not constituted for a race of men
and for a heaven thence derived from one earth only;
for what would this be to the Divine,
which is infinite,
and to which thousands, yea, ten thousands of earths,
all full of inhabitants,
would be small and scarce anything.