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
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 Teſtimony