Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              that which proceeds from Humane Inſirmity. </s>
              <s>But if peradven­
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              ture they ſhould be able to prove their Poſition by ſuch Experiments
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              as puts it out of queſtion, it is to be proved, that what is ſaid in
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              Scripture concerning a Curtain, doth in no wiſe contradict
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              their manifeſt Reaſons.
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              *
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              Pelle,
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              a Skin in
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              the Original, out
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              in our Bibles a
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              Curtain.</s>
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              (h)
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              Sed ait ali­
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              quis, quomodo non
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              eſt coutrarium iis,
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              qui figur am Sphæ­
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              ræ Cœlo tribunt,
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              quod ſcriptum eſt
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              en Libris Noſtris,
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              Qui extendit Cœ­
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              lum, ſicut pellem?
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              Stt ſane contrari­
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              um, ſi falſum eſt,
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              quod illi dicunt:
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              hoc enim verum
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              eſt, quod Divina
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              dicit authoritas,
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              potius quans illud,
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              quod humana in­
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              firmitas conjicit.
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              <s>Sed ſi forte illud
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              talibus illi docu­
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              mentis probare po­
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              tuerint, at dubi­
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              tari inde non debe­
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              at; demonſtrandum
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              eſt, hoc quod apud
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              nos eſt de Pelle di­
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              ctum, veris illis
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              rationibus non eſſe
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              contrarium.
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              <s>He proceedeth afterwards to admoniſh us that we ought to be
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              no leſs careful and obſervant in reconciling a Text of Scripture
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              with a demonſtrated Natural Propoſition, than with another
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              Text of Scripture which ſhould ſound to a contrary Senſe. </s>
              <s>Nay
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              methinks that the circumſpection of this Saint is worthy to be ad­
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              mired and imitated, who even in obſcure Concluſions, and of
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              which we may aſſure our ſelves that we can have no knowledge
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              or Science by humane demonſtration, is very reſerved in deter­
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              mining what is to be believed, as we ſee by that which he wri­
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              teth in the end of his ſecond Book,
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              de Geneſi ad Litteram,
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              ſpeak­
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              ing, whether the Stars are to be believed animate:
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              (i) Which
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              particular, although (at preſent) it cannot eaſily be comprehended,
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              yet I ſuppoſe in our farther Progreſs of bandling the Scriptures,
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              we may meet with ſome more pertinent places, upon which it will
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              be permitted us (if not to determin any thing for certain, yet) to
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              ſuggeſt ſomewhat concerning this matter, according to the dictates
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              of Sacred Authority. </s>
              <s>But now, the moderation of pious gravity
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              being alwaies obſerved, we ought to receive nothing raſhly in
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              a doubtful point, leaſt perhaps we reject that out of reſpect to
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              our Errour, which hereafter Truth may diſcover, to be in no
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              wiſe repugnant to the Sacred Volumes of the Old and New Te­
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              ſtament.
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              (i) Quod licet in
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              praſenti facile non
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              poſſit comprehendi;
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              arbitror tamen, in
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              proceſſis tract an­
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              dærum Scriptura­
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              rum, opportuntora
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              loca poſſe occurre­
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              re, ubinobis de hac
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              re, ſecundum San­
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              ctæ auctoritatis
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              Litteras, etſi non
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              oſtendere certum
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              aliquid, tamen cre­
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              dere licebit. </s>
              <s>Nunc
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              autem, ſervat â
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              ſemper moderatio­
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              ne piæ gravitatis,
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              nihil credere dere
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              obſcura temere
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              debemus; ne fortè,
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              quoà poſtea verit as
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              patefecerit, quam­
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              vis Libris San­
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              ctis, ſive Teſta­
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              menti veteris, ſive,
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              novi nullo modo eſ­
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              ſe poſſit æeverſum,
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              tamen propter a­
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              morem noſtri er­
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              roris, oderimus.
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              <s>By this and other places (if I deceive not my ſelf) the intent
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              of the Holy Fathers appeareth to be, That in Natural queſtions,
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              and which are not
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              de Fide,
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              it is firſt to be conſidered, whether
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              they be indubitably demonſtrated, or by ſenſible Experiments
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              known; or whether ſuch a knowledge and demonſtration is to be
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              had; which having obtained, and it being the gift of God, it
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              ought to be applyed to find out the true Sences of the Sacred Pa­
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              ges in thoſe places, which in appearance might ſeem to ſpeak to
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              a contrary meaning: Which will unqueſtionably be pierced into
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              by Prudent Divines, together with the occaſions that moved the
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              Holy Ghoſt, (for our exerciſe, or for ſome other reaſon to me un­
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              known) to veil it ſelf ſometimes under words of different ſigni­
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              fications.</s>
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              Id. </s>
              <s>D Aug. </s>
              <s>in
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              Gen.
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              ad Lute­
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              ram,
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              lib. 1.
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              in fine.
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              </s>
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              <s>As to the other point, Of our regarding the Primary Scope of
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              thoſe Sacred Volumes, I cannot think that their having ſpoken
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              alwaies in the ſame tenour, doth any thing at all diſturb this
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              Rule. </s>
              <s>For if it hath been the Scope of the Scripture by way of
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              condeſcention to the capacity of the Vulgar at any time, to </s>
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