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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            form them, as well as others, 'tis requiſite
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            that it ſhould uſe the moſt plain and eaſy
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            expreſſions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3043" xml:space="preserve">To this purpoſe likewiſe is that
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            of Merſennus, Mille ſunt Scripturæ loca, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3044" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0217-01" xlink:href="note-0217-01a" xml:space="preserve">In Gen.
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              c. 1. v. 10.
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              art. 6.
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              V. Hiero.
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              in Fer. 28.
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              Aquinas
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              in Job 25.
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              7</note>
            ‘ There are very many places of Scripture,
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            ‘ which are not to be interpreted according
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            ‘ to the Letter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3046" xml:space="preserve">and that for this reaſon,
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            ‘ becauſe God would apply himſelf unto our
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            ‘ capacity and ſenſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3047" xml:space="preserve">Preſertim in iis, quæ
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            ad res naturales, oculiſque ſubjectas pertinent;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3048" xml:space="preserve">more eſpecially in thoſe things which con-
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            cern Nature, and are ſubject to our Eyes. </s>
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            And therefore in the very ſame place, tho
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            he be eager enough againſt Copernicus, yet
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            he concludes that Opinion not to be an He-
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            reſy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3050" xml:space="preserve">becauſe (ſaith he) thoſe Scriptures
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            which ſeem to oppoſeit, are not ſo evident,
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            but that they may be capable of another In-
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            terpretation : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3051" xml:space="preserve">Intimating, that it was not
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            unlikely they ſhould be underſtood in refe-
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            rence to outward appearance, and common
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            opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3052" xml:space="preserve">And that this manner of ſpeech is
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            frequently uſed in many other places of
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            Scripture, may be eaſily manifeſt from theſe
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            following Examples. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3053" xml:space="preserve">Thus tho the Moon
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            may be proved, by infallible obſervation, to
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            be leſs than any of the viſible Stars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3054" xml:space="preserve">yet
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            becauſe of its appearance, and vulgar opi-
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            nion, therefore doth the Scripture, in Com-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0217-02" xlink:href="note-0217-02a" xml:space="preserve">Gen.1. 16.
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              Pſ. 136. 7.</note>
            pariſon to them, call it one of the Great
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            Lights. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3055" xml:space="preserve">Of which place, ſaith Calvin, Mo-
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            ſes populariter ſcripſit, nos potius reſpexit quam
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            ſydera. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3056" xml:space="preserve">Moſes did not ſo much regard the
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            Nature of the thing, as our Capacity; </s>
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