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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20121That the Earth may be a Planet.

PROP. II.

That there is not any place in Holy Scrip-
# ture, from which (being rightly under-
# ſtood) we may infer the Diurnal Mo-
# tion of the Sun or Heavens.

IT were happy for us, if we could exempt
Scripture from Philoſophical Controver-
ſies: if we could be content to let it be per-
fect for that end unto which it was intended,
for a Rule of our Faith and Obedience; and
not ſtretch it alſo to be a Judg of ſuch na-
tural Truths, as are to be found out by our
own induſtry and experience. Though the
Holy Ghoſt could eaſily have given us a full
reſolution of all ſuch particulars; yet he hath
11Eccleſ. 3.
10, 11. left this travel to the Sons of Men to be exerciſed
therewith; Mundum reliquit diſputationibus
Hominum; that being buſied, for the moſt
part, in an inquiſition after the Creatures,
we might find the leſs leiſure to wait upon
our Luſt, or ſerve our more ſinful Incli-
nations.

But however, becauſe our Adverſaries ge-
nerally do ſo much inſult in thoſe Argu-
ments that may be drawn from hence; and
more eſpecially, becauſe Pineda doth for this
22Comment.
in Eccleſ.
c. 1. v 4. reaſon, with ſo many bitter and empty re-
proaches, revile our learned

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