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

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              cauſe being joyned to it, and conſequently having a ſhare in eve­
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              ry of its motions, we cannot immediately diſcern them in her, but
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              are forced to refer them to the Celeſtial Bodies in which they
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              appear; therefore we call them as if they were made there, where
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              they ſeem to us to be made. </s>
              <s>Whence it is to be noted how ne­
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              neſſary it is to accommodate our diſcourſe to our old and accu­
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              ſtomed manner of underſtanding.</s>
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              Quaſi non
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              multa in Scriptu­
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              ris Sanctis dican­
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              tur juxta opinio­
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              nem illius tempor is
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              quo geſt a referant,
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              & non juxta quod
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              rei veritas contine­
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              bat.
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              D. Hiero. </s>
              <s>in c.
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              <s>28. Jerem.</s>
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              Conſuctudi­
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              nis Scripturarum
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              eſt, ut opinionem
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              multarum rerum
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              ſic narret Hiſtori­
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              cus, quomodo eo
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              tempore ab omni­
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              bus credebatur.
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              In
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              cap. 13. Matth.</s>
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              * D. Thomas, in
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              cap. </s>
              <s>26. Job. </s>
              <s>v. </s>
              <s>7.</s>
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              <s>That, in the next place, the common conſent of Fathers, in re­
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              ceiving a Natural Propoſition of Scripture, all in the ſame ſenſe
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              ought to Authorize it ſo far, as to make it become a matter of
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              Faith to believe it to be ^{*} ſo, I ſhould think that it ought at moſt
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              to be underſtood of thoſe Concluſions onely, which have beenby
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              the ſaid Fathers diſcuſſed, and ſifted with all poſſible diligence,
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              and debated on the one ſide, and on the other, and all things in
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              the end concurring to diſprove the one, and prove the other. </s>
              <s>But
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              the Mobility of the Earth, and Stability of the Sun, are not of
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              this kinde; For, that the ſaid Opinion was in thoſe times total­
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              ly buried, and never brought amongſt the Queſtions of the Schools,
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              and not conſidered, much leſs followed by any one: So that it is to
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              be believed that it never ſo much as entered into the thought of
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              the Fathers to diſpute it, the Places of Scripture, their own Opinion,
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              and the aſſent of men having all concurred in the ſame judgement,
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              without the contradiction of any one, ſo far as we can finde.</s>
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              * Namely, ac­
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              cording to the Lit­
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              teral Senſe.</s>
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              <s>Beſides, it is not enough to ſay that the Fathers all admit the
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              ſtability of the Earth, &c. </s>
              <s>Therefore to believe it is a matter of
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              Faith: But its neceſſary to prove that they have condemned the
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              contrary Opinion: For I may affirm and bide by this, That their
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              not having occaſion to make ſatisfaction upon the ſame, and to
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              diſcuſs it, hath made them to omit and admit it, onely as cur­
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              rent, but not as reſolved and proved And I think I have very
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              good Reaſon for what I ſay; For either the Fathers did make
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              reflection upon this Concluſion as controverted, or not: If not,
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              then they could determin nothing concerning it no not in their
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              private thoughts; and their incogitance doth not oblige us to
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              receive thoſe Precepts which they have not, ſo much as in their
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              intentions enjoyned. </s>
              <s>But if they did reflect and conſider there­
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              on, they would long ſince have condemned it, if they had judged
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              it erroneous; which we do not find that they have done. </s>
              <s>Nay, after
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              that ſome Divines have began to conſider it, we find that they
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              have not deem'd it erroneous; as we read in the Commentaries of
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              Didacus a Stunica
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              upon
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              Job,
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              in
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              Cap. 9, v. </s>
              <s>6.
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              on the words,
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              Qui com­
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              movet Terram de loco ſuo,
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              &c. </s>
              <s>Where he at large diſcourſeth upon
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              the
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              Copernican
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              Hypotheſis, and concludeth,
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              That the Mobility
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              of the Earth, is not contrary to Scripture.
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              <s>Withal, I may juſtly queſtion the truth of that determination,
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              namely, That the Church enjoyneth us to hold ſuch like Natural </s>
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