Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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3624That the Moon may be a World. opened, becauſe it ſeem'd to come with that
11Sir Walter
Raleigh
c. 7.
Sect
. 6.
Violence, as if it were poured out from Win-
dows
in the Firmament.
And in reference to this, a Drowth is de-
ſcrib
'd in ſundry other places, by the 22Deut. 11
17
.
1
Reg. 3.
35
.
Luk
. 4. 25.
being ſhut up.
So that the Phraſes which the
Holy
Ghoſt ſhews, concerning theſe things, are
not
to be underſtood in a literal Senſe;
but ra-
ther
as vulgar Expreſſions;
and this Rule is
ſet
down by Saint Auſtin, where ſpeaking con-
cerning
that in the Pſalm, who ſtretched the
331. 2. in Gen.
Pſal
. 1 36. 6
Earth upon the Waters, he Notes, that when
the
Words of Scripture ſhall ſeem to contra-
dict
common Senſe or Experience, there, are
they
to be underſtood in a qualified Senſe, and
not
according to the Letter.
And ’tis obſerv'd,
that
for want of this Rule, ſome of the Anci-
ents
have faſtned ſtrange Abſurdities upon the
Words
of the Scripture.
So Saint Ambroſe
44Hexamer
lib
. 2.
Item
Baſil.
Hom
3. in
Geneſ
.
Wiſd
. 2. 4.
17
. 5.
Ecclus
. 43.
3
, 4.
eſteem'd it a Hereſie to think, that the Sun and
Stars
were not very Hot, as being againſt
the
Words of Scripture, Pſalm 19.
6. where
the
Pſalmiſt ſays, that there is nothing that is
hid
from the Heat of the Sun.
So others
there
are that would prove the Heavens not
to
be Round, out of that place, Pſal.
104. 2. He
ſtretched
out the Heavens like a Curtain.
So
Procopius
alſo was of Opinion, that the Earth
55Com. in c. 1.
Gen
.
was founded upon the Waters;
Nay, he made
it
part of his Faith, proving it out of Pſal.
24. 2. He hath founded the Earth upon the Seas,
and
eſtabliſhed it upon the Floods.
Theſe and
ſuch
like Abſurdities have followed, when
Men
look for the Grounds of Philſophy in the
Words
of Scripture.
So that, from

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