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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            nakedneſs of our Forefathers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3532" xml:space="preserve">That ex-
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            cuſe of Acoſta, may juſtly ſerve to
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0245-01" xlink:href="note-0245-01a" xml:space="preserve">De nat.
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              novi orbis,
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              lib.1.c.2.</note>
            gate the Miſtakes of theſe Ancient Divines:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3533" xml:space="preserve">Facilè condonandum eſt patribus, ſi cum cognoſ-
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            cendo colendòque Creatori toti vacarent, de
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            creaturâ minus aptè aliqua ex parte opinati
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            ſunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3534" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe good Men were ſo wholly bu-
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            ſied about the Knowledg and Worſhip of the
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            Creator, that they had not leiſure enough
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            for an exact ſearch into the Eſſence of the
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            Creatures. </s>
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            have been already cited, may ſufficiently
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            manifeſt, how frequently others have been
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            deceived, in concluding the Points of Phi-
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            loſophy from the Expreſſions of Scrip-
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            that in the preſent caſe alſo, it may be
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            inſufficient for ſuch a manner of argu-
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