Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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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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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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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.</
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>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.</
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>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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>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</
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