Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              ſelf) that I intend to ſubmit my ſelf freely to renounce thoſe et­
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              rors, into which, through ignorance, I may run in this Diſcourſe
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              of matters pertaining to Religion; but I farther declare, that I
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              deſire not in theſe matters to engage diſpute with any one, al­
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              though it ſhould be in points that are diſputable: for my end
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              endeth onely to this, That if in theſe conſiderations, beſides my
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              own profeſſion, amongſt the errours that may be in them, there
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              be any thing apt to give others an hint of ſome Notion beneficial
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              to the Holy Church, touching the determining about the
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              Coper­
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              nican
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              Syſteme, it may be taken and improved as ſhall ſeem beſt
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              to my Superiours: If not, let my Book be torn and burnt; for
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              that I do neither intend, nor pretend to gain to my ſelf any fruit
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              from my writings, that is not Pious and Catholick. </s>
              <s>And more­
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              over, although that many of the things that I obſerve have been
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              ſpoken in my own hearing, yet I ſhall freely admit and grant to
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              thoſe that ſpake them, that they never ſaid them, if ſo they
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              pleaſe, but confeſs that I might have been miſtaken: And
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              therefore what I ſay, let it be ſuppoſed to be ſpoken not by them,
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              but by thoſe which were of this opinion.</s>
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              <s>The motive therefore that they produce to condemn the Opi­
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              nion of the Mobility of the Earth, and Stability of the Sun, is, that
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              reading in the Sacred Leaves, in many places, that the Sun mo­
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              veth, that the Earth ſtandeth ſtill; and the Scripture not being
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              capable of lying, or erring, it followeth upon neceſſary conſe­
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              quence, that the Poſition of thoſe is Erronious and Heretical, who
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              maintain that the Sun of it ſelf is immoveable, and the Earth
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              moveable.</s>
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              <s>Touching this Reaſon I think it fit in the firſt place, to con­
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              ſider, That it is both piouſly ſpoken, and prudently affirmed, That
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              the Sacred Scripture can never lye, when ever its true meaning is
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              underſtood: Which I believe none will deny to be many times
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              very abſtruce, and very different from that which the bare ſound
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              of the words ſignifieth. </s>
              <s>Whence it cometh to paſs, that if ever
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              any one ſhould conſtantly confine himſelf to the naked Gram­
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              matical Sence, he might, erring himſelf, make not only Contra­
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              dictions and Propoſitions remote from Truth to appear in the
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              Scriptures, but alſo groſs Hereſies and Blaſphemies: For that we
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              ſhould be forced to aſſign to God feet, and hands, and eyes, yea
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              more corporal and humane affections, as of Anger, of Repen­
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              tance, of Hatred, nay, and ſometimes the Forgetting of things
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              paſt, and Ignorance of thoſe to come: Which Propoſitions, like
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              as (ſo the Holy Ghoſt affirmeth) they were in that manner pro­
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              nounced by the Sacred Scriptures, that they might be accommo­
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              dated to the Capacity of the Vulgar, who are very rude and un­
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              learned; ſo likewiſe, for the ſakes of thoſe that deſerve to be di­</s>
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