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

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              The Sun did not really ſtand ſtill, but ſeemed ſo to do, during the
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              ſhort time in which Iſrael gave the overthrow to their Enemies.
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              So for the Miracle in the time of
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              Hezekiah, Paulus Burgenſis
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              is of
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              opinion that it was not wrought on the Sun, but on the Diall.
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              <s>But that, in ſhort, it is neceſſary to Gloſſe and Interpret the
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              words of the Text in
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              Joſhua,
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              when ever the Worlds Syſteme
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              is in diſpute, I ſhall ſhew anon. </s>
              <s>Now finally, granting to theſe
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              Gentlemen more than they demand, to wit, That we are whol­
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              ly to acquieſce in the judgment of Judicious Divines, and that
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              in regard that ſuch a particular Diſquiſition is not found to
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              have been made by the Ancient Fathers, it may be undertaken
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              by the Sages of our Age, who having firſt heard the Experiments,
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              Obſervations, Reaſons, and Demonſtrations of Philolophers and
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              Aftronomers, on the one ſide, and on the other (ſeeing that the
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              Controverſie is about Natural Problems, and Neceſſary
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              Dilem­
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              ma's,
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              and which cannot poſſibly be otherwiſe than in one of
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              the two manners in controverſie) they may with competent cer­
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              tainty determine what Divine Inſpirations ſhall dictate to them.
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              <s>But that without minutely examining and diſcuſſing all the Rea­
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              ſons on both ſides; and without ever comming to any certainty
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              of the truth of the Caſe, ſnch a Reſolution ſhould be taken, Is
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              not to be hoped from thoſe who do not ſtick to hazzard the Ma­
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              jeſty and Dignity of the Sacred Scripture, in defending the re­
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              putation of their vain Fancies; Nor to be feared from thoſe
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              who make it their whole buſineſſe, to examine with all in­
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              tenſneſs, what the Grounds of this Doctrine are; and that only
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              in an Holy Zeal for Truth, the Sacred Scriptures, and for the
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              Majeſty, Dignity, and Authority, in which every Chriſtian
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              ſhould indeavour to have them maintained. </s>
              <s>Which Dignity,
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              who ſeeth not that it is with greater Zeal deſired and procured
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              by thoſe who, abſolutely ſubmitting themſelves to the Holy
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              Church, deſire, not that this, or that opinion may be prohibi­
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              ted, but onely that ſuch things may be propoſed to conſidera­
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              tion, as may the more aſcertain her in the ſafeſt choice, than by
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              thoſe who being blinded by their particular Intereſt, or ſtimula­
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              ted by malitious ſuggeſtions, preach that ſhe ſhould, without
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              more ado, thunder out Curſes, for that ſhe had power ſo to do:
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              Not conſidering that all that may be done is not alwayes conve­
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              nient to be done. </s>
              <s>The Holy Fathers of old were not of this
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              opinion, but rather knowing of how great prejudice, and how
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              much againſt the primary intent of the Catholick Church, it
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              would be to go about from Texts of Scripture to decide Natu­
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              ral Concluſions, touching which, either Experiments or neceſſary
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              Demonſtrations, might in time to come evince the contrary, of
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              that which the naked ſenſe of the Words ſoundeth, they have </s>
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