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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S. Auſtin concludes the viſible Stars 11DeCivit.
Dei
, 1. 16.
c
. 23.
be innumerable, becauſe Scripture-phraſes
ſeem
to imply as much.
That the Heavens are not round, was the
opinion
of Juſtin Martyr, 22Re-
ſpon
. ad
queſt
. 93.
33Hex-
am
.l.1.c.6
Chryſoſtom, Theodoret, 44Homil.
14
. in Ep.
ad
Hebr.
55In ca.
8
. Hebr.
66In i-
dem
c.
lact;
doubted of by S. Auſtin, and 77 In
Gen
. ad
lit
. l 1 c.9.
Item
1. 2.
c
. 6.
vers others.
Nay, S. Chryſoſtom was ſo con-
fident
of it, that he propoſes the queſtion
in
a triumphant manner:
Π{οῦ} έι{οι}ν όι σφαι{ρω}
{ει}δῆ {οὐ}{ρα}νὸν {ἐι}ναὶ {πο}φαινό{μεν}οι.
Where
are
thoſe Men that can prove the Heavens to
have
a ſphærical Form?
The reaſon of
which
was this, Becauſe ’tis ſaid in one
Scripture
, that God ſtretched forth the Hea-
vens
as a Curtain, Pſal.
104. 2. and ſpreadeth
them
as a Tent to dwell in, Iſa.
40. 22. And
ſo
in Heb.
8. 2. they are called a Tent or Ta-
bernacle
:
which becauſe it is not ſphærical,
therefore
they conclude alſo, that the Hea-
vens
are not of that form;
whereas now,
the
contrary is as evident as Demonſtration
can
make a thing.
And therefore, S. 88Lib. 3.
Comment
.
in
Gal. 5.
rome in his time, ſpeaking of the ſame Er-
ror
, gives it this plain cenſure;
Eſt in Ec-
cleſia
ſtultiloquium, ſi quis Cœlum putet for-
nicis
modo curvatum, Eſaiæ quem non intelligit
ſermone
decept{us}:
’Tis fooliſh ſpeaking in the
Church
, if any, through miſapprehenſion
of
thoſe words in Iſaiah, ſhall affirm the
Heavens
not to be round.

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