Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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20121That the Earth may be a Planet.
PROP. II.
That there is not any place in Holy Scrip-
# ture, from which (being rightly under-
# ſtood) we may infer the Diurnal Mo-
# tion of the Sun or Heavens.
IT were happy for us, if we could exempt
Scripture from Philoſophical Controver-
ſies:
if we could be content to let it be per-
fect for that end unto which it was intended,
for a Rule of our Faith and Obedience;
and
not ſtretch it alſo to be a Judg of ſuch na-
tural Truths, as are to be found out by our
own induſtry and experience. Though the
Holy Ghoſt could eaſily have given us a full
reſolution of all ſuch particulars; yet he hath
11Eccleſ. 3.
10, 11. left this travel to the Sons of Men to be exerciſed
therewith; Mundum reliquit diſputationibus
Hominum; that being buſied, for the moſt
part, in an inquiſition after the Creatures,
we might find the leſs leiſure to wait upon
our Luſt, or ſerve our more ſinful Incli-
nations.
But however, becauſe our Adverſaries ge-
nerally do ſo much inſult in thoſe Argu-
ments that may be drawn from hence; and
more eſpecially, becauſe Pineda doth for this
22Comment.
in Eccleſ.
c. 1. v 4. reaſon, with ſo many bitter and empty re-
proaches, revile our learned

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1. Page 90, Sentence 4:Over the Seas he might have Ships, and over //the Land Horſes, but he muſt have Wings be-//fore he could get up thither.
2. Page 141, Sentence 1:The Prieſt of Saturn relating to Plutarch //(as he feigns it) the nature of theſe Selenites, //told him, they were of divers diſpoſitions, //ſome deſiring to live in the lower parts of the //Moon, where they might look downwards //upon us, while others were more ſurely moun-//ted aloft, all of them ſhining like the Rays of //the Sun, and as being Victorious, are Crow-//ned with Garlands made with the Wings of //Euſtathia or Gonſtancie.
3. Page 156, Sentence 15:whereas being /// high, they can keep themſelves up, and ſoar a-//bout by the meer extenſion of their Wings. //
4. Page 171, Sentence 2:’Tis not perhaps impoſſible, that a man //may be able to Fly, by the application of Wings to his //own body;
5. Page 171, Sentence 6:If there be ſuch a great Ruck in Madagaſcar, as 11Mr. Bur. //ton. cus Polus the Venetian mentions, the Feathers in whoſe //Wings are twelve Foot long, which can ſoop up a Horle //22Melanch. //pa. 2. ſect. 2 //mem. 3. and his Rider, or an Elephant, as our Kites do a Mouſe; //

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