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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            opened, becauſe it ſeem'd to come with that
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-01" xlink:href="note-0036-01a" xml:space="preserve">Sir Walter
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              Raleigh c. 7.
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              Sect. 6.</note>
            Violence, as if it were poured out from Win-
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            dows in the Firmament.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s391" xml:space="preserve">And in reference to this, a Drowth is de-
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            ſcrib'd in ſundry other places, by the
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-02" xlink:href="note-0036-02a" xml:space="preserve">Deut. 11
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              17.
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              1 Reg. 3.
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              35.
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              Luk. 4. 25.</note>
            being ſhut up. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s392" xml:space="preserve">So that the Phraſes which the
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            Holy Ghoſt ſhews, concerning theſe things, are
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            not to be underſtood in a literal Senſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s393" xml:space="preserve">but ra-
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            ther as vulgar Expreſſions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s394" xml:space="preserve">and this Rule is
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            ſet down by Saint Auſtin, where ſpeaking con-
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            cerning that in the Pſalm, who ſtretched the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-03" xlink:href="note-0036-03a" xml:space="preserve">1. 2. in Gen.
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              Pſal. 1 36. 6</note>
            Earth upon the Waters, he Notes, that when
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            the Words of Scripture ſhall ſeem to contra-
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            dict common Senſe or Experience, there, are
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            they to be underſtood in a qualified Senſe, and
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            not according to the Letter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s395" xml:space="preserve">And ’tis obſerv'd,
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            that for want of this Rule, ſome of the Anci-
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            ents have faſtned ſtrange Abſurdities upon the
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            Words of the Scripture. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s396" xml:space="preserve">So Saint Ambroſe
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-04" xlink:href="note-0036-04a" xml:space="preserve">Hexamer
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              lib. 2.
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              Item Baſil.
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              Hom 3. in
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              Geneſ.
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              Wiſd. 2. 4.
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              17. 5.
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              Ecclus. 43.
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              3, 4.</note>
            eſteem'd it a Hereſie to think, that the Sun and
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            Stars were not very Hot, as being againſt
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            the Words of Scripture, Pſalm 19. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s397" xml:space="preserve">6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s398" xml:space="preserve">where
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            the Pſalmiſt ſays, that there is nothing that is
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            hid from the Heat of the Sun. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s399" xml:space="preserve">So others
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            there are that would prove the Heavens not
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            to be Round, out of that place, Pſal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s400" xml:space="preserve">104. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s401" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s402" xml:space="preserve">He
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            ſtretched out the Heavens like a Curtain. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s403" xml:space="preserve">So
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            Procopius alſo was of Opinion, that the Earth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0036-05" xlink:href="note-0036-05a" xml:space="preserve">Com. in c. 1.
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              Gen.</note>
            was founded upon the Waters; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s404" xml:space="preserve">Nay, he made
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            it part of his Faith, proving it out of Pſal.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s405" xml:space="preserve">24. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s406" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s407" xml:space="preserve">He hath founded the Earth upon the Seas,
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            and eſtabliſhed it upon the Floods. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s408" xml:space="preserve">Theſe and
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            ſuch like Abſurdities have followed, when
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            Men look for the Grounds of Philſophy in the
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            Words of Scripture. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s409" xml:space="preserve">So that, from </s>
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