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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head74" xml:space="preserve">PROP. II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2775" xml:space="preserve">That there is not any place in Holy Scrip-
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            # ture, from which (being rightly under-
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            # ſtood) we may infer the Diurnal Mo-
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            # tion of the Sun or Heavens.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2777" xml:space="preserve">IT were happy for us, if we could exempt
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            Scripture from Philoſophical Controver-
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            ſies: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2778" xml:space="preserve">if we could be content to let it be per-
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            fect for that end unto which it was intended,
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            for a Rule of our Faith and Obedience; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2779" xml:space="preserve">and
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            not ſtretch it alſo to be a Judg of ſuch na-
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            tural Truths, as are to be found out by our
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            own induſtry and experience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2780" xml:space="preserve">Though the
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            Holy Ghoſt could eaſily have given us a full
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            reſolution of all ſuch particulars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2781" xml:space="preserve">yet he hath
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0201-01" xlink:href="note-0201-01a" xml:space="preserve">Eccleſ. 3.
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              10, 11.</note>
            left this travel to the Sons of Men to be exerciſed
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            therewith; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2782" xml:space="preserve">Mundum reliquit diſputationibus
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            Hominum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2783" xml:space="preserve">that being buſied, for the moſt
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            part, in an inquiſition after the Creatures,
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            we might find the leſs leiſure to wait upon
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            our Luſt, or ſerve our more ſinful Incli-
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            nations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2785" xml:space="preserve">But however, becauſe our Adverſaries ge-
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            nerally do ſo much inſult in thoſe Argu-
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            ments that may be drawn from hence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2786" xml:space="preserve">and
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            more eſpecially, becauſe Pineda doth for this
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0201-02" xlink:href="note-0201-02a" xml:space="preserve">Comment.
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              in Eccleſ.
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              c. 1. v 4.</note>
            reaſon, with ſo many bitter and empty re-
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            proaches, revile our learned </s>
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