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

21535That the Earth may be a Planet.

That divers Men have fallen into great 
Abſurdities, whilſt they have looked for the 
Grounds of Philoſophy, from the words of 
Scripture; 

and therefore it may be dange-
rous, in this Point alſo, to adhere ſo cloſely
unto the Letter of the Text.

PROP. III.

That the Holy Ghoſt, in many places of
# Scripture, does plainly conform his Ex-
# preſſions unto the Errors of our Con-
# ceits; and does not ſpeak of divers
# things as they are in themſelves, but as
# they appear unto us.

THere is not any particular by which
Philoſophy hath been more endamaged,
than the ignorant ſuperſtition of ſome Men,
who, in ſtating the Controverſies of it, do
ſo cloſely adhere unto the meer words of
Scripture. Quamplurima occurrunt in libris
ſacris ad natur am pertinentia, & c. They are
the words of Vatleſius. ‘There are 11Proa@.
ad Phil.
Sacram. ‘ dry things in Holy Writ, concerning Na-
‘ tural Points, which moſt Men think are not
‘ ſo to be underſtood, as if the Holy Ghoſt
‘ did intend to unfold unto us any thing in
‘ that kind : but referring all to the ſalva-
‘ tion of our Souls, does ſpeak of other mat-
‘ ters according to common Opinion.

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1. Page 90, Sentence 4:Over the Seas he might have Ships, and over //the Land Horſes, but he muſt have Wings be-//fore he could get up thither.

2. Page 141, Sentence 1:The Prieſt of Saturn relating to Plutarch //(as he feigns it) the nature of theſe Selenites, //told him, they were of divers diſpoſitions, //ſome deſiring to live in the lower parts of the //Moon, where they might look downwards //upon us, while others were more ſurely moun-//ted aloft, all of them ſhining like the Rays of //the Sun, and as being Victorious, are Crow-//ned with Garlands made with the Wings of //Euſtathia or Gonſtancie.

3. Page 156, Sentence 15:whereas being /// high, they can keep themſelves up, and ſoar a-//bout by the meer extenſion of their Wings. //

4. Page 171, Sentence 2:’Tis not perhaps impoſſible, that a man //may be able to Fly, by the application of Wings to his //own body;

5. Page 171, Sentence 6:If there be ſuch a great Ruck in Madagaſcar, as 11Mr. Bur. //ton. cus Polus the Venetian mentions, the Feathers in whoſe //Wings are twelve Foot long, which can ſoop up a Horle //22Melanch. //pa. 2. ſect. 2 //mem. 3. and his Rider, or an Elephant, as our Kites do a Mouſe; //

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