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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            therefore uſes a popular phraſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3058" xml:space="preserve">ſo as ordi-
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            nary People, without the help of Arts and
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            Learning, might eaſily underſtand him.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3059" xml:space="preserve">And in another place, Non fuit Spiritus
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            Sancti concilium Aſtrologiam docere : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3060" xml:space="preserve">'It was
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0218-01" xlink:href="note-0218-01a" xml:space="preserve">Comment.
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              in P1. 136.</note>
            ‘ not the purpoſe of the Holy Ghoſt to teach
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            ‘ us Aſtronomy : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3061" xml:space="preserve">but being to propound a
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            ‘ Doctrine, that concerns the moſt rude and
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            ‘ ſimple People, he does (both by Moſes
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            ‘ and the Prophets) conform himſelf unto
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            ‘ their phraſes and conceits : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3062" xml:space="preserve">leſt any ſhould
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            ‘ think to excuſe his own ignorance with the
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            ‘ pretence of difficulty; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3063" xml:space="preserve">as Men commonly
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            ‘ do in thoſe things which are delivered af-
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            ‘ ter a learned and ſublime manner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3064" xml:space="preserve">Thus
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            Zanchy likewiſe, Moſes majorem
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0218-02" xlink:href="note-0218-02a" xml:space="preserve">De ope-
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              ribus Dei,
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              par. 2. li.6.
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              cap. 1.</note>
            habuit noſtri humanique judicii, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3065" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3066" xml:space="preserve">'When
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            ‘ Moſes calls the Moon a Great Light; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3067" xml:space="preserve">he
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            ‘ had a more eſpecial reference to Mens Opi-
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            ‘ nions of it, than to the truth of the thing
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            ‘ it ſelf, becauſe he was to deal with ſuch,
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            ‘ who do judg uſually, rather by their Senſe,
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            ‘ than by their Reaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3068" xml:space="preserve">Nor will that di-
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            ſtinction of Fromondus, and others, avoid
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            this interpretation, when he tells us of Mag-
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            nus Materialis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3069" xml:space="preserve">which refers to the bulk and
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            quantity of the Body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3070" xml:space="preserve">and Magnum Formale,
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            which imports the greatneſs of its Light.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3071" xml:space="preserve">For we grant, that it is really unto us a
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            greater Light than any of the Stars, or than
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            all of them together; </s>
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            one of them, but is in it ſelf a bigger Light
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            than this: </s>
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            ſpeech is to be underſtood according to </s>
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