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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            upon the Seas, and eſtabliſhed it upon the Floods:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3201" xml:space="preserve">Of which Places, ſaith Calvin, Non diſput at
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            Philoſophicè David, de terræ ſitu; </s>
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            riter loquens, ad rudium captum ſe accommodat: </s>
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            ’T was not David’s intent to ſpeak Philoſo-
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            phically concerning the Earth's ſcituation; </s>
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            but rather, by uſing a popular Phraſe, to
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            accommodate his Speech unto the Capacities
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            of the ruder People.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3206" xml:space="preserve">In this ſenſe likewiſe are we to underſtand
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            all thoſe places of Scripture, wherein the
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            Coaſts of Heaven are denominated from the
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            relations of Before, Behind, the right hand,
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            or the left. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3207" xml:space="preserve">Which do not imply (ſaith
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            places, but are ſpoken meerly in reference
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            to Mens eſtimations, and the common opi-
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            nion of thoſe People, for whom the Scrip-
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            tures were firſt penned. </s>
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            was the opinion of the Jewiſh Rabbies, that
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            ſtra, or the North. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3212" xml:space="preserve">You may ſee all of
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            them put together in that place of Job, Be-
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            backward, but I cannot perceive him; </s>
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            left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot be-
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            are by ſome Interpreters referred unto the
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            four Coaſts of Heaven, according to the
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