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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[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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            but declinare, or vacillare, to decline or ſlip
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            aſide from its natural courſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3799" xml:space="preserve">Thus it is
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            uſed by David, Pſal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3800" xml:space="preserve">17.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3801" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3802" xml:space="preserve">where he prays,
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            Hold up my goings in thy Paths, ןטמגלב
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            that my Foot-ſteps ſlide not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3803" xml:space="preserve">He does
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            not mean that his feet ſhould not move. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3804" xml:space="preserve">So
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            Pſal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3805" xml:space="preserve">121. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3806" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3807" xml:space="preserve">He will not ſuffer thy foot to be
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            moved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3808" xml:space="preserve">Thus likewiſe, Pſal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3809" xml:space="preserve">16.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3810" xml:space="preserve">8. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3811" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe
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            the Lord is at my right band, I ſhall not be
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            moved: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3812" xml:space="preserve">which laſt place is tranſlated in the
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            New Teſtament, by the Greek word {οα-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0256-01" xlink:href="note-0256-01a" xml:space="preserve">Act.2.25.</note>
            λευω, which ſignifies fluctuare, or vacillare,
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            to be ſhaken by ſuch an uncertain motion,
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            as the Waves of the Sea. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3813" xml:space="preserve">Now, as David's
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            feet may have their uſual motion, and yet
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            in this ſenſe be ſaid not to move, that is,
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            not to decline or ſlip aſide : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3814" xml:space="preserve">ſo neither can
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            the ſame phraſe, applied to the Earth, prove
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            it to be immovable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3816" xml:space="preserve">Nor do I ſee any reaſon, why that of
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            Didacus Aſtunica, may not be truly aſſir-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0256-02" xlink:href="note-0256-02a" xml:space="preserve">Comment.
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              an Job.</note>
            med, That we may prove the natural
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            motion of the Earth, from that place in
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            Job 6.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3817" xml:space="preserve">9. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3818" xml:space="preserve">Qui commovet terram è loco ſuo,
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            as well as its reſt and immobility from
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            theſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3820" xml:space="preserve">From all which, it is very evident, that
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            each of theſe expreſſions, concerning the
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            founding or eſtabliſbing both of Heaven or
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            Earth, were not intended to ſhew the un-
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            movableneſs of either, but rather, to ma-
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            niſeſt the Power and Wiſdom of Provi-
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            dence, who had ſo ſetled theſe parts of </s>
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