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

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              cumſpection, wherewith this Pious Authour proceedeth, is,
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              that not truſting to his obſerving, that both Demonſtrative
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              Reaſons, and the ſenſe that the words of Scripture and the reſt
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              of the Context both precedent and ſubſequent, do conſpire to
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              prove the ſame thing, he addeth the following words.</s>
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              (ſ) Si autem con­
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              textio Scripturæ,
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              hoc voluiſſe intel­
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              ligi Scriptorem,
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              non repugnaverit,
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              adhuc reſtabit
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              quærere, utrum &
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              aliud non potuerit.
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              (ſ) But if the Context do not hold forth any thing that may
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              diſprove this to be the Authors Senſé, it yet remains to enquire,
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              Whether the other may not be intended alſo.
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              And not yet reſolving
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              to accept of one Senſe, or reject another, but thinking that he
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              could never uſe ſufficient caution, he proceedeth:
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              (t) But if
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              ſo be we finde that the other may be alſo meant, it will be doubted
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              which of them he would have to ſtand; or which in probability he
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              may be thought to aim at, if the true circumſtances on both ſides be
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              weighed.
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              And laſtly, intending to render a Reaſon of this his
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              Rule, by ſhewing us to what perils thoſe men expoſe the Scri­
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              ptures, and the Church; who, more reſpecting the ſupport of
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              their own errours, than the Scriptures Dignity, would ſtretch its
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              Authority beyond the Bounds which it preſcribeth to it ſelf, he
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              ſubjoyns the enſuing words, which of themſelves alone might
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              ſuffice to repreſs and moderate the exceſſive liberty, which ſome
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              think that they may aſſume to themſelves:
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              (u) For it many
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              times falls out, that a Chriſtian may not ſo fully underſtand a
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              Point concerning the Earth, lieaven, and the reſt of this Worlds
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              Elements; the Motion, Converſion, Magnitude, and Diſtances of
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              the Stars, the certain defects of the Sun and Moon, the Revoluti­
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              ons of Years and Times, the Nature of Animals, Fruits, Stones,
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              and other things of like nature, as to defend the ſame by right
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              Reaſon, or make it out by Experiments. </s>
              <s>But its too great an ab­
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              ſurdity, yea moſt pernicious, and chiefly to be avoided, to let an
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              Infidel finde a Chriſtian ſo ſtupid, that he ſhould argue theſe mat­
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              ters; as if they were according to Chriſtian Doctrine; and make
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              him (as the Proverb ſaith) ſcarce able to contain his laughter, ſee­
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              ing him ſo far from the Mark Nor is the matter ſo much that one
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              in an errour ſhould be laught at, but that our Authors ſhould be
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              thought by them that are without, to be of the ſame Opinion, and to
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              the great prejudice of thoſe, whoſe ſalvation we wait for, ſenſurcd
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              and rejected as unlearned. </s>
              <s>For when they ſhal confute any one of the
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              Chriſtians in that matter, which they themſelvs thorowly under­
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              ſtand, and ſhall thereupon expreſs their light eſteem of our Books;
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              how ſhall theſe Volumes be believed touching the Reſurrection of
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              the Dead, the Hope of eternal Life, and the Kingdom of Heaven;
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              when, as to theſe Points which admit of preſent Demonſtration,
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              or undoubted Reaſons, they conceive them to be falſly written.
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