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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142131That the Moon may be a World. ſeſs an Eternity of well-being, and far greater
happineſs
than that which is enjoyed in the
Moon
.
So that when a Man dies, if his Soul
be
much polluted, then muſt it wander up and
down
in the middle region of the air, whereHell
is
, &
there ſuffer unſpeakable torments for thoſe
Sins
whereof he is guilty.
Whereas the Souls of
better
Men, when they have in ſome ſpace of
time
been purged from that Impurity which
they
did derive from the Body, then do they
return
into the Moon, where they are poſſeſt
with
ſuch a Joy, as thoſe Men feel who pro-
feſs
holy Myſteries, from which place, ſaith
he
, ſome are ſent down to have the Superin-
tendence
of Oracles, being diligent either in
the
preſervation of the good, either from, or
in
, all perils, and the prevention of puniſhment
of
all wicked Actions;
but if in theſe Em-
ployments
they miſ-behave themſelves, then
are
they again to be impriſoned in a Body, o-
therwiſe
they remain in the Moon, till their
Souls
be reſolv’d into it, and the underſtan-
ding
being clear’d from all impediments, aſ-
cends
to the Sun which is its proper place.
But
this
requires a diverſe ſpace of time, according
to
the divers afſections of the Soul.
As for
thoſe
who have been retir’d and honeſt, addi-
cting
themſelves to a ſtudious and quiet Life,
theſe
are quickly preferred to a higher Happi-
neſs
.
But as for ſuch who have buſied them-
ſelves
in many Broils, or have been vehement
in
the proſecution of any Luſt, as the Ambiti-
ous
, the Amorous, the wrathful Man, theſe ſtill
retain
the glimpſes and Dreams of ſuch things
as
they have perform’d in their Bodies,

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