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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            parated from this Earth, which can be a more
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            convenient place for Habitation than this Pla-
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            net; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1942" xml:space="preserve">therefore they concluded it was there.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1943" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1944" xml:space="preserve">It could not be on the Top of any Moun-
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            tain.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1946" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1947" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe we have Expreſs Scripture, that
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0147-01" xlink:href="note-0147-01a" xml:space="preserve">Gen. 7.19.</note>
            the Higheſt of them was Overflowed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1949" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1950" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe it muſt be of a greater Exten-
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            ſion, and not ſome ſmall Patch of Ground,ſince
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            ’tis likely all Men ſhould have Lived there, if
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            Adam had not Fell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1951" xml:space="preserve">But for a Satisfaction of
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            the Arguments, together with a Farther Dif-
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            couſe of Paradiſe, I ſhall Refer you to thoſe
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            who have Written Purpoſely upon this Sub-
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            ject. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1952" xml:space="preserve">Being content for my own part to have
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            ſpoken ſo much of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1953" xml:space="preserve">as may Conduce to ſhew
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            the Opinion of others Concerning the Inhabi-
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            tants of the Moon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1954" xml:space="preserve">I dare not my ſelf Affirm
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            any thing of theſe Selenites, becauſe I know
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            not any Ground whereon to Build any Proba-
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            ble Opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1955" xml:space="preserve">But I think that Future Ages
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            will Diſcover more; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1956" xml:space="preserve">and our Poſterity, Per-
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            haps, may Invent ſome means for our better
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            Acquaintance with theſe Inhabitants.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head55" xml:space="preserve">PROP. XIV.</head>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1958" xml:space="preserve">That ’tis Poſſible for ſome of our Poſterity, to find
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            # out a Conveyance to this other World, and if
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            # there be Inhabitants there, to have Commerce
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            # with them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1960" xml:space="preserve">ALL that hath been ſaid, Concerning the
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            People of the New World, is but Con-
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            jectural, and full of Uncertainties; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1961" xml:space="preserve">nor can </s>
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