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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            miſtake, 'tis likely did ariſe that groundleſs
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            obſervation of the ancient Jews; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3089" xml:space="preserve">who would
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            not admit any to read the beginning of Ge-
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            neſis, till he was arrived to thirty Years of
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            Age. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3090" xml:space="preserve">The true reaſen of which, wa this;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3091" xml:space="preserve">not becanſe that Book was harder than any
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            other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3092" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe Moſes conforming his
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            expreſlion to vulgar Conceits, and they exa-
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            mining of them by more exact rules of Phi-
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            loſophy, were fain to force upon them ma-
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            ny ſtrange Allegories, and unnatural Myſte-
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            ries.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3094" xml:space="preserve">Thus alſo, becauſe for the moſt part we
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            conceive the Stars to be innumerable, there-
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            fore doth the Holy Ghoſt often ſpeak of
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            them in reſerence to this opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3095" xml:space="preserve">So Jere-
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            my: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3096" xml:space="preserve">As the Hoſt of Heaven cannot be num-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0220-01" xlink:href="note-0220-01a" xml:space="preserve">Jer. 35. 22</note>
            bred, neither the Sand of the Sea meaſured ſo
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            will I multiply the Seed of David. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3097" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe
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            when God would comfort Abraham with the
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            promiſe of a numberleſs Poſterity, he bids
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            him look up to Heayen, and tells him, that
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            his Seed ſhould be like thoſe Stars for num-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0220-02" xlink:href="note-0220-02a" xml:space="preserve">Gen. 15 5.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3098" xml:space="preserve">Which, ſaith Clavius,
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            eſt ſecundum communem ſententiam vulgi, ex-
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            iſtimantis infinitam eſſe multitudinem ſtellarum,
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            dum eas nocte ſerena confusè intuetur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3099" xml:space="preserve">is to be
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            underſtood according to the common opi-
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            nion of the Vulgar, who think the Stars to
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            be of an inſinite multitude, whilſt they be-
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            hold them all (as they ſeem confuſed) in
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            a clear Night. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3100" xml:space="preserve">And though many of our
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            Divines do commonly interpret this Speech
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