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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            a little after, Ego divina hæc eloquia, &</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3030" xml:space="preserve">‘ I for my part am perſuaded, that theſe
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            ‘ Divine Treatiſes, were not written by the
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            ‘ Holy and Inſpired Pen-Men, for the Inter-
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            ‘ pretation of Philoſophy, becauſe God left
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            ‘ ſuch things to be found out by Mens labour
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            ‘ and induſtry. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3031" xml:space="preserve">But yet, whatſoever is in
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            ‘ them concerning nature, is moſt true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3032" xml:space="preserve">as
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            ‘ proceeding from the God of Nature, from
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            ‘ whom nothing could be hid. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3033" xml:space="preserve">And que-
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            ſtionleſs, all thoſe things which the Scrip-
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            ture does deliver concerning any natural
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            Point, cannot be but certain and infallible,
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            being underſtood in that ſenſe, wherein
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            they were firſt intended; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3034" xml:space="preserve">but now that it
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            does ſpeak ſometimes according to common
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            opinion, rather than the true nature of the
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            things themſelves, was intimated before; </s>
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            wherefore (by the way) Fromondus
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0216-01" xlink:href="note-0216-01a" xml:space="preserve">Veſt.
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              Trac. 3.
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              cap. 2.</note>
            triumph upon the latter part of this Quo-
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            tation, is but vain, and to no purpoſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3036" xml:space="preserve">'Tis
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            a good Rule ſet down by a learned
              <note symbol="†" position="left" xlink:label="note-0216-02" xlink:href="note-0216-02a" xml:space="preserve">Sanctius
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              sniſa. 13.5
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              Item in
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              Zachar.
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              lib.9.num.
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              45.</note>
            mentator, to be obſerved in the interpreta-
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            tion of Scripture: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3037" xml:space="preserve">Scriptura ſacra ſapè non
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            tam ad veritatem ipſam, quam ad hominum opi
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            nionem, ſermonem accommodat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3038" xml:space="preserve">that it does
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            many times accommodate its expreſſions,
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            not ſo much to the Truth it ſelf, as to Mens
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            Opinions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3039" xml:space="preserve">And in this ſenſe is that Speech
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            of Gregory concerning Images and Pictures,
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            attributed by Calvin unto the Hiſtory
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              in Gen.1.</note>
            the Creation, viz. </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3041" xml:space="preserve">That it is a Book for the ſimpler and igno-
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            rant People. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3042" xml:space="preserve">For it being written to </s>
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