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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            hence it is, that many of the Ancients have
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            concluded Hell to be in the North, which is
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            ſignified by the left hand: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3218" xml:space="preserve">unto which ſide
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            our Saviour tells us, that the Goats ſhall be
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3219" xml:space="preserve">Which opinion likewiſe ſeems to
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0228-01" xlink:href="note-0228-01a" xml:space="preserve">Mat. 25. 33</note>
            be favoured by that place in Job, where ’tis
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            ſaid, Hell is naked before God, and deſtruction
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0228-02" xlink:href="note-0228-02a" xml:space="preserve">Job 26. 6, 7</note>
            hath no covering. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3220" xml:space="preserve">And preſently ’tis added,
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            He ſtretched out the North over the empty place.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3221" xml:space="preserve">Upon theſe grounds, St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3222" xml:space="preserve">Jerome interprets
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3223" xml:space="preserve">11. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3224" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
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            If the Tree fall toward the South, or towards
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            the North, in the place where the Tree falleth,
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            there ſhall it be. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3226" xml:space="preserve">Concerning thoſe who ſhall
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            go either to Heaven or Hell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3227" xml:space="preserve">And in this
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            ſenſe alſo do ſome expound that of Zacha-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3228" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3229" xml:space="preserve">where ’tis ſaid, that the Mount of
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3230" xml:space="preserve">half of it ſhall
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3231" xml:space="preserve">By which is intimated,
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            upon them the Profeſſion of Chriſt, there are
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            two ſorts; </s>
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            is, to Hell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3233" xml:space="preserve">and others to the South, that is,
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3234" xml:space="preserve">And therefore it is (ſay they)
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            that worſhips that way. </s>
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            ſtians towards the Eaſt, but none to the
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