[…] the Cœlestial Bodies above the Moon being incorruptible, and not subject to change, remain’d for ever fair, and in perpetual order: On the contrary, all things which are sublunary are subject to change, to deformity, and to decay.

1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xxvii,
[…] in all sublunary things, there is something to be wished, which we must wish in vain.

Mr John Puffingham was a patron—a patron to the diversified layers and strata of men and things pertaining to sublunary matters.

We must infer that God does not know of the existence of our sublunary world.

Sublunary

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