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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            ſhould have Trave@ed thither alſo, if there had
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            been any Inhabitants; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s185" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially ſince he did ex-
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            preſly command them to go & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">Teach all Nations,
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            and Preach the Goſpel through the whole World,
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            and therefore he thinks, that as there are no
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0019-01" xlink:href="note-0019-01a" xml:space="preserve">Mat. 28. 16.</note>
            Men, ſo neither are there Seas, or Rivers, or any
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            other conveniency for Habitation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s187" xml:space="preserve">’Tis com-
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            monly related of one Virgliius, that he was Ex-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0019-02" xlink:href="note-0019-02a" xml:space="preserve">Aventinus
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              Annal Boi-
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              orum lib. 3</note>
            communicated and Condemned for a Heretick
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            by Zachary Biſhop of Rome, becauſe he was
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            not of the ſame Opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">But Baronius ſays,
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            becauſe he thought there was another habita-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0019-03" xlink:href="note-0019-03a" xml:space="preserve">Annal Ec-
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              cleſ. A. D.
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              748.</note>
            ble World within ours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve">However, you may
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            well enough diſcern in theſe examples, how
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            confident many of theſe great Scholars were
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            in ſo groſs an Error, how unlikely, what in-
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            credible thing it ſeemed to them, that there
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            ſhould be any Antipodes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s190" xml:space="preserve">and yet now this
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            Truth is as certain and plain, as Senſe or De-
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            monſtration can make it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">This then which I
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            now deliver, is not to be rejected, though it
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            may ſeem to contradict the common Opinion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">Groſs abſurdities have been entertained
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            by general conſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s195" xml:space="preserve">I might Inſtance in many
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            remarkable examples, but I will only ſpeak
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            of the ſuppoſed Labour of the Moon in her
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            Eclipſes, becauſe this is neareſt to the chieſ
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            matter in hand, and was received as a common
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            Opinion amongſt many of the Antients, inſo-
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            much that from hence they ſtiled the Eclipſes
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            by the name of πὰθη Paſſions, or in the Phraſe
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            of the Poets</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head25" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Solis lunæq; labores.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s196" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Plutarch ſpeaking of a </s>
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