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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24464That the Earth may be a Planet. this opinion were Clemens 11Recog. S Athanaſius, Hillary, 22Orat.
cont
. I do-
los
.
and others.
So that it ſeems, if a Man
ſhould
reſolutely adhere to the bare words
33In pſal.
136
. 6.
of the Scripture, he might find contradi-
44In pſ.
24
.
ction in it:
of which, the natural meaning
is
altogether incapable.
S. Jerome tells 55Commen.
in
Iſa. l. 13
of ſome who would prove Stars to have
underſtanding
, from that place in Iſa.
45.
12. My hands have ſtretched out the Heavens,
and
all their Hoaſt have I commanded.
Now
(ſay they) none but intelligent Creatures are
capable
of Precepts;
and therefore, the
Stars
muſt needs have rational Souls.
Of
this
opinion was Philo the Jew:
nay, 66De plant.
Noe
.
ny of the Rabbies conclude, that they do
every
hour ſing praiſes unto God, with an
77Toſtatus
in
Joſb.
c
. 10 queſt.
13
, 14.
audible real Voice.
But of that in Job 38.
7. which ſpeaks of the Morning Stars ſing-
ing
together.
And Pſal. 19. 3, 4. where ’tis
faid
of the Heavens, that there is no ſpeech
nor
language where their Voice is not heard, and
their
words are gone to the ends of the World.

And
whereas we tranſlate that place in the
tenth
of Joſhua, concerning the ſtanding ſtill
of
the Heavens;
the original word, םרר,
does
properly ſignify Silence;
and according
to
their opinion, Joſhua did only bid them
hold
their peace.
From ſuch grounds, ’tis
likely
did Origen fetch his Opinion, 88Tom. 1.
in
Joban.
the Stars ſhould be ſaved.
I might ſet down
many
other the like Inſtances, were it not
for
being already weary of raking into the
Errors
of Antiquity, or uncovering

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