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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[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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That the
EARTH
May be a
PLANET.
PROP. I.
That the ſeeming Novelty and Singularity
# of this Opinion, can be no ſufficient
# Reaſon to prove it Erroneous.
IN the ſearch of Theological Truths, it
is the ſafeſt method, firſt of all to look
unto Divine Authority;
becauſe that
carries with it as clear an evidence to
our Faith, as any thing elſe can be to our
Reaſon.
But on the contrary, in the exami-
nation of Philoſophical points, it were a pre-
poſterous courſe to begin at the

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