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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24464That the Earth may be a Planet. this opinion were Clemens 11Recog. S Athanaſius, Hillary, 22Orat.
cont. I do-
los.
and others.
So that it ſeems, if a Man
ſhould reſolutely adhere to the bare words
33In pſal.
136. 6.
of the Scripture, he might find contradi-
44In pſ.
24.
ction in it:
of which, the natural meaning
is altogether incapable.
S. Jerome tells 55Commen.
in Iſa. l. 13
of ſome who would prove Stars to have
underſtanding, from that place in Iſa.
45.
12. My hands have ſtretched out the Heavens,
and all their Hoaſt have I commanded.
Now
(ſay they) none but intelligent Creatures are
capable of Precepts;
and therefore, the
Stars muſt needs have rational Souls.
Of
this opinion was Philo the Jew:
nay, 66De plant.
Noe.
ny of the Rabbies conclude, that they do
every hour ſing praiſes unto God, with an
77Toſtatus
in Joſb.
c. 10 queſt.
13, 14.
audible real Voice.
But of that in Job 38.
7. which ſpeaks of the Morning Stars ſing-
ing together.
And Pſal. 19. 3, 4. where ’tis
faid of the Heavens, that there is no ſpeech
nor language where their Voice is not heard, and
their words are gone to the ends of the World.

And whereas we tranſlate that place in the
tenth of Joſhua, concerning the ſtanding ſtill
of the Heavens;
the original word, םרר,
does properly ſignify Silence;
and according
to their opinion, Joſhua did only bid them
hold their peace.
From ſuch grounds, ’tis
likely did Origen fetch his Opinion, 88Tom. 1.
in Joban.
the Stars ſhould be ſaved.
I might ſet down
many other the like Inſtances, were it not
for being already weary of raking into the
Errors of Antiquity, or uncovering

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