Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              theſe points require many ſubtil and profound Reaſons, for the
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              making out whether they be really ſo, or no; the undertakeing and
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              diſeuſſing of which is neither conſiſtent with my leaſure, nor their
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              duty, vvhom I deſire to inſtruct in the neceſſary matters more di­
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              rectly conducing to their ſalvation, and to the benefit of The Holy
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              Church.
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              (d) De Motu
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              etiam Cæli, non­
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              nulli fratres quæ­
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              ſtionem movent, u­
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              trum ſtet, an mo­
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              veatur; quia ſi mo­
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              vetur, inquiunt,
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              quomodo Firma­
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              mentum eſt? </s>
              <s>Si
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              autem ſtat, quomo­
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              do Sydera quæ in
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              ipſo fixa credun­
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              tur, ab Oriente in
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              Occidentem circum
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              eunt, Septentrio­
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              nalibus breviores
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              gyros juxta cardi­
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              nem perag entibus;
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              ut Cælum, ſi est a­
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              lius nobis occultus
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              cardo, ex alio ver­
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              tice, ſicut Sphæra;
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              ſi autem nullus a­
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              lius cardo eſt, vel
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              uti diſcus rotari
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              videatur? </s>
              <s>Quibus
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              reſpondeo, Multum
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              ſubtilibus & labo­
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              rioſis rationibus
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              iſta perquiri, ut ve­
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              re percipiatur, u­
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              trum ita, an non
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              ita ſit, quibus ine­
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              undis atque tra­
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              ctandis, nec mihi
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              jam tempus eſt, nec
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              illis eſſe debet, quos
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              ad ſalutem ſuam,
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              è Sanctæ Eccleſiæ
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              neceſſaria utilitate
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              cupimus informa­
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              ri:
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              <s>From which (that we may come nearer to our particular caſe)
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              it neceſſarily followeth, that the Holy Ghoſt not having intend­
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              ed to teach us, whether Heaven moveth or ſtandeth ſtill; nor
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              whether its Figure be in Form of a Sphere, or of a Diſcus, or di­
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              ſtended
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              in Planum
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              : Nor whether the Earth be contained in the
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              Centre of it, or on one ſide; he hath much leſs had an intention
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              to aſſure us of other Concluſions of the ſame kinde, and in ſuch
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              a manner, connected to theſe already named, that without the
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              dedermination of them, one can neither affirm one or the other
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              part; which are, The determining of the Motion and Reſt of the
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              ſaid Earth, and of the Sun. </s>
              <s>And if the ſame Holy Spirit hath
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              purpoſely pretermitted to teach us thoſe Propoſitions, as nothing
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              concerning his intention, that is, our ſalvation; how can it be af­
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              firmed, that the holding of one part rather than the other, ſhould
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              be ſo neceſſary, as that it is
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              de Fide,
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              and the other erronious?
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              <s>Can an Opinion be Heretical, and yet nothing concerning the
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              ſalvation of ſouls? </s>
              <s>Or can it be ſaid that the Holy Ghoſt purpo­
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              ſed not to teach us a thing that concerned our ſalvation? </s>
              <s>I might
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              here inſert the Opinion of an Eccleſiaſtical ^{*} Perſon, raiſed to the
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              degree of
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              Eminentiſſimo,
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              to wit,
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              That the intention of the Holy
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              Ghoſt, is to teach us how we ſhall go to Heaven, and not how Hea­
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              ven goeth.
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              * Card. </s>
              <s>Baronius.</s>
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              Spiritu ſancti
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              mentem fuiſſe, nos
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              docere, quomodo ad
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              Cælum eatur: non
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              autem, quomodo
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              Cælum gradiatur.
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              Cardinal. </s>
              <s>Bar.</s>
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              <s>But let us return to conſider how much neceſſary Demonſtra­
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              tions, and ſenſible Experiments ought to be eſteemed in Natural
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              Concluſions; and of what Authority Holy and Learned Divines
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              have accounted them, from whom amongſt an hundred other atte­
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              ſtations, we have theſe that follow:
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              (e) We must alſo carefully
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              heed and altogether avoid in handling the Doctrine of
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              Moſes,
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              to
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              avouch or ſpeak any thing affirmatively and confidently which
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              contradicteth the manifeſt Experiments and Reaſons of Philoſo­
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              phy, or other Sciences. </s>
              <s>For ſince all Truth is agreeable to Truth,
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              the Truth of Holy Writ cannot be contrary to the ſolid Reaſons
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              and Experiments of Humane Learning.
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              (e) Illud etiam
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              diligenter caven­
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              dum, & emnino
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              fugiendum eſt, ne
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              in tractanda
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              Mo­
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              ſis
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              Dectrina, quic­
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              quam affirmate &
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              aſſeveranter ſen­
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              tiamus & dica­
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              mus, quod repug­
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              net manifeſtis ex­
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              perimentis & rationibus Philoſophiæ, vel aliarum Diſciplinarum. </s>
              <s>Namque cum Verum omne ſemper cum Vero
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              congruat, non poteſt Verit as Sacrarum Litterarum, Veris Rationibus & Experimentis Humanarum Doctrina­
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              rum eſſe contraria.
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              Perk. in Gen. circa Principium.</s>
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              (f) Si manife­
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              ſtæ certæque Rati­
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              oni, velut ſancta­
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              rum Litterarum
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              objicitur autori­
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              ritas, non intelli­
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              git, qui hoc facit;
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              & non Scripturæ
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              ſenſum (ad quem
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              penetrare non po­
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              tuit) ſed ſuum po­
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              tius objicit verita­
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              ti: nec id quod in
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              sa, ſed quod in ſe­
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              ipſo velue pro ea
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              invenit, opponit.
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              <s>And in St.
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              Auguſtine
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              we read:
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              (f) If any one ſhall object
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              the Authority of Sacred Writ, againſt clear and manifeſt Reaſon,
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              he that doth ſo, knows not what he undertakes: For he objects
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