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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24565That the Earth may be a Planet. nakedneſs of our Forefathers. That ex-
cuſe
of Acoſta, may juſtly ſerve to 11De nat.
novi
orbis,
lib
.1.c.2.
gate the Miſtakes of theſe Ancient Divines:
Facilè condonandum eſt patribus, ſi cum cognoſ-
cendo
colendòque Creatori toti vacarent, de
creaturâ
minus aptè aliqua ex parte opinati
ſunt
.
Thoſe good Men were ſo wholly bu-
ſied
about the Knowledg and Worſhip of the
Creator
, that they had not leiſure enough
for
an exact ſearch into the Eſſence of the
Creatures
.
However, theſe Examples that
have
been already cited, may ſufficiently
manifeſt
, how frequently others have been
deceived
, in concluding the Points of Phi-
loſophy
from the Expreſſions of Scrip-
ture
.
And therefore, ’tis not certain, but
that
in the preſent caſe alſo, it may be
inſufficient
for ſuch a manner of argu-
ing
.

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