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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Thus alſo, becauſe for the moſt part we
conceive
the Stars to be innumerable, there-
fore
doth the Holy Ghoſt often ſpeak of
them
in reſerence to this opinion.
So Jere-
my
:
As the Hoſt of Heaven cannot be num-
11Jer. 35. 22 bred, neither the Sand of the Sea meaſured ſo
will
I multiply the Seed of David.
So likewiſe
when
God would comfort Abraham with the
promiſe
of a numberleſs Poſterity, he bids
him
look up to Heayen, and tells him, that
his
Seed ſhould be like thoſe Stars for num-
22Gen. 15 5. ber:
Which, ſaith Clavius, 33In 1. cup.
Sphæræ
.
eſt ſecundum communem ſententiam vulgi, ex-
iſtimantis
infinitam eſſe multitudinem ſtellarum,
dum
eas nocte ſerena confusè intuetur;
is to be
underſtood
according to the common opi-
nion
of the Vulgar, who think the Stars to
be
of an inſinite multitude, whilſt they be-
hold
them all (as they ſeem confuſed) in
a
clear Night.
And though many of our
Divines
do commonly interpret this Speech
to
be an Hyperbole;
yet being well

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