Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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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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Joſhua,
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when ever the Worlds Syſteme
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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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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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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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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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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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