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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3240" xml:space="preserve">But of this only by the way. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3241" xml:space="preserve">However,
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            certain it is, that the Holy Ghoſt does fre-
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            quently in Scripture ſet forth the ſeveral
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            Coaſts of Heaven by thoſe relative terms of
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            right hand and left hand, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3242" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3243" xml:space="preserve">which ex-
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            preſſions do not denote any real intrinſecal
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            difference between thoſe places, but are ra-
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            ther fitted for the apprehenſion of thoſe
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            Men, from whoſe fancy it is that they have
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            ſuch denominations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3244" xml:space="preserve">And though Ariſtotle
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0229-01" xlink:href="note-0229-01a" xml:space="preserve">De Cælo,
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              lib. 2. c. 2.</note>
            concludes theſe ſeveral Poſitions to be natu-
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            ral unto the Heavens, yet his Authority in
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            this particular is not available, becauſe he
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            delivers it upon a wrong ground, ſuppoſing
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            the Orbs to be living Creatures, and aſſiſted
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            with Intelligences. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3245" xml:space="preserve">We may obſerve, that the
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            meaning of theſe Coaſts, by the relations of
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            right hand and left hand, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3246" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3247" xml:space="preserve">is ſo far from
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            having any ground in the nature of thoſe ſe-
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            veral places, that theſe relations are not on-
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            ly variouſly applied unto them by divers Re-
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            ligions (as was ſaid before) but alſo by
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            divers Arts and Profeſſions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3248" xml:space="preserve">Thus, becauſe
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            Aſtronomers make their Obſervations towards
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            the South parts of the Horizon, where there
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            be moſt Stars that riſe and ſet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3249" xml:space="preserve">therefore do
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            they account the Weſt to be at their right
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            hand, and the Eaſt their left. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3250" xml:space="preserve">The Coſmo-
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            graphers, in taking the Latitude of Places,
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            and reckoning their ſeveral Climates, muſt
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            look towards the North Pole; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3251" xml:space="preserve">and there-
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            fore, in their phraſe, by the right hand, is
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            meant the Eaſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3252" xml:space="preserve">and by the left hand, the
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              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0229-02" xlink:href="note-0229-02a" xml:space="preserve">De pla-
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              cit. Philoſ.
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              lib. 2. c. 10.</note>
            Weſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3253" xml:space="preserve">And thus (ſaith Plutarch) are </s>
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