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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357177That the Earth may be a Planet.
Os homini ſublime dedit, Celumq; tueri
Juſſit
, &
erectos ad Sydera tollere vultus.
1. Moſt Uſeful, and that in ſundry re-
ſpects
.
It proves a God and a Providence,
and
incites our Hearts to a greater admira-
tion
and fear of his Omnipotency.
We may
underſt
and by the Heavens, bow much mightier
he
is that made them;
for by the greatneſs and
beauty
of the Creatures, proportionably the Maker
of
them is ſeen, ſaith the Book of Wiſdom, Ch.
13. 4,5. ’Twas hence Ariſtotle fetch’d his chief
Argument
to prove a primus Motor.
’Twas
the
conſideration of theſe things that ſirſt led
Men
to the Knowledg and Worſhip of God,
(ſaith Tully);
Hæc nos primum ad 11Tuſcul. 1
Item
Plut.
de
Plæcit.
Phil
. l. 1.
c
6.
rum cultum, tum ad modeſtiam, magnitudinemq;
animi erudivit. And therefore when God by
the
Prophet, would convince the People of
his
Deity, he bids them lift up their Eyes on
high
;
and behold who hath created thoſe things,
that
bringeth out their Hoſt by Number, that
calleth
them all by their Names, &
c. Iſa. 40. 26.
Which
occaſioned that ſaying of Laetantius;

Tanta
rerum magnitudo, tanta diſpoſitio, tanta
22Inſtit. l. 2.
c
.5.
in ſervandis ordinibus, temporibuſq;

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