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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            being placed where the Head of the other is,
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            and ſo two other Men croſs them, yet all theſe
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            Men thus ſituated according to this Opinion,
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            ſhould ſtand upright, and many other ſuch groſs
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            conſequences would follow (ſaith he) which a
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            falſe Imagination is not able to fancy as poſſi-
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            ble. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">Upon which Conſiderations, Bede alſo
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            denies the being of any Antipodes, Neque enim
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-01" xlink:href="note-0018-01a" xml:space="preserve">De ratione
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              temporum.
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              Cap. 32.</note>
            Antipodarum ullatenus fabulis accommodandus aſ-
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            ſenſus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s176" xml:space="preserve">‘Nor ſhould we any longer aſſent to the
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            ‘Fable of Antipodes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s177" xml:space="preserve">So alſo Lucretius the
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            Poet ſpeaking of the ſame Subject, ſays,</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head24" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Sed vanus ſtolidis hæc omnia finxerit Error.</head>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">De nat. re-
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          rum, Lib. 1</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s178" xml:space="preserve">That ſome idle fancy feigned theſe, for Fools
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            to believe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">Of this Opinion was Procopius
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            Gazæus, but he was perſwaded to it by ano-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-03" xlink:href="note-0018-03a" xml:space="preserve">Coment. in
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              1. Cap. Gen.</note>
            ther kind of Reaſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s180" xml:space="preserve">for he thought that all
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            the Earth under us was ſunk into the Water,
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            according to the ſaying of the Pſalmiſt, He
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-04" xlink:href="note-0018-04a" xml:space="preserve">Pſal. 24. 2.</note>
            hath founded the Earth upon the Seas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s181" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore he accounted it not inhabited by any.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s182" xml:space="preserve">Nay, Toſtatus a Man of later Years, and gene-
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            ral Learning, doth alſo confidently deny that
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            there are any ſuch Antipodes, though the
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            Reaſon which he urges for it, be not ſo abſurd
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-05" xlink:href="note-0018-05a" xml:space="preserve">Comment, in
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              1. Geniſ.</note>
            as the former; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">For the Apoſtles, ſaith he, tra-
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            velled through the whole habitable World,
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            but they never paſſed the Equinoctial; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">and if
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            you anſwer that they are ſaid to go through
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            all the Earth, becauſe they went through all
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            the known World, he replies, that this is not
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            ſufficient, ſince Chriſt would have all Men to
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            be ſaved, and come to the Knowledge of his
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-06" xlink:href="note-0018-06a" xml:space="preserve">1 Tim. 2. 4.</note>
            Truth, and therefore it is requiſite that </s>
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