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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[41.] PROP. XII.
[42.] PROP. XIII.
[43.] PROP. XIV.
[44.] FINIS.
[45.] A DISCOURSE Concerning a Rem Planet. Tending to prove That ’tis probable our EARTH is one of the PLANETS. The Second Book. By John Wilkins, late L. Biſhop of Cheſter.
[46.] LONDON: Printed by J. D. for John Gellibrand, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. M.DC.LXXXIV.
[47.] To the Reader.
[48.] PROP. I.
[49.] PROP. II.
[50.] PROP. III.
[51.] PROP. IV.
[52.] PROP. V.
[53.] PROP. VI.
[54.] PROP. VII. PROP. VIII. PROP. IX. PROP. X.
[55.] That the EARTH May be a PLANET. PROP. I.
[56.] PROP. II.
[57.] PROP. III.
[58.] PROP. IV.
[59.] PROP. V. That the Scripture, in its proper conſtru-ction, does not any where affirm the Immobility of the Earth.
[60.] PROP. VI. That there is not any Argument from the Words of Scripture, Principles of Na-ture, or Obſervations in Aſtronomy, which can ſuſſiciently evidence the Earth to be in the Gentre of the Uni-verſe.
[61.] PROP. VII. Tis probable that the Sun is in the Gentre of the World.
[62.] PROP. VIII. That there is not any ſufficient reaſon to prove the Earth incapable of thoſe mo-tions which Copernicus aſcribes un-to it.
[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.
[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.
[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
[68.] FINIS.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3150" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3151" xml:space="preserve">The proportion of the Diameter to
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-01" xlink:href="note-0224-01a" xml:space="preserve">Roff. Ibid.</note>
            the Circumference, is not exactly the ſame
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            as ſeven to two and twenty, but rather leſs.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3152" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer, Though it be, yet ’tis nearer un-
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            to that, than any other number.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3154" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3155" xml:space="preserve">The Scripture does but according to its
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-02" xlink:href="note-0224-02a" xml:space="preserve">Ibid.</note>
            uſual cuſtom, ſuppreſs the leſs number, and
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            mention only that which is bigger and more
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            full. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3156" xml:space="preserve">So in ſome places, Abraham’s
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-03" xlink:href="note-0224-03a" xml:space="preserve">Gen. 15.</note>
            ſterity is ſaid to remain in the Land of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-04" xlink:href="note-0224-04a" xml:space="preserve">13.
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              Acts 7. 6.</note>
            Egypt for four hundred Years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3157" xml:space="preserve">when as not-
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            withſtanding other Scriptures tell us,
              <note symbol="" position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-05" xlink:href="note-0224-05a" xml:space="preserve">Exod. 12.</note>
            they tarried there thirty Years longer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3158" xml:space="preserve">Thus
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-06" xlink:href="note-0224-06a" xml:space="preserve">41.
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              Gal. 3. 17.</note>
            likewiſe in one place, the number of Ja- cob’s Houſe, who came into Egypt, is rec-
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-07" xlink:href="note-0224-07a" xml:space="preserve">Gen. 46.
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            koned to be ſeventy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3159" xml:space="preserve">whereas
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-08" xlink:href="note-0224-08a" xml:space="preserve">† Act. 7. 4</note>
            they are ſaid to be ſeventy five.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3161" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer: </s>
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            ing the force of the preſent Argument, that
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            it does rather confirm it, and more clearly
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            evidence unto us, that the Scripture does
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3165" xml:space="preserve">’Tis yet objected by another
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0224-09" xlink:href="note-0224-09a" xml:space="preserve">† Fro-
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              mond. Ve
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              ſta. @, t a.
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              3. c. 2.</note>
            ſary, That we have no reaſon to expect, the
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            Holy Ghoſt ſhould reveal unto us this Se-
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            cret in Nature, becauſe neither Archimedes,
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3166" xml:space="preserve">I
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            reply, and why then ſhould we think that the
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