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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            you muſt know, that ’tis beſide the Scope of
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            the Old Teſtament or the New, to diſcover
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            any thing untous concerning the Secrets in Phi-
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            loſopy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s363" xml:space="preserve">’tis not his intent in the New Teſta-
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            ment, ſince we cannot conceive how it might
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            any way belong either to the Hiſtorical, Exe-
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            getical, or Prophetical parts of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">nor is it
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            his intent in the Old Teſtament, as is well ob-
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            ſerv'd by our Country-Man, Mr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">WRIGHT,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0034-01" xlink:href="note-0034-01a" xml:space="preserve">In Epiſt. ad
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              Gilber.</note>
            Non Moſis aut Prophetarum inſtitutam fuiſſe vi-
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            detur Mathematicas aliquas aut Phyſicas ſubtili-
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            tates promulgare, ſed ad vulgi captum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s366" xml:space="preserve">loquen-
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            di morem, quemadmodum nutrices infantulis ſo-
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            lent, ſeſe accommodare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s367" xml:space="preserve">’Tis not the endeavour
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            of Moſes, or the Prophets, to diſcover any
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            Mathematical or Philoſophical Subtilties,
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            but rather to accommodate themſelves to Vul-
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            gar Capacities, and ordinary Speech, as Nur-
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            ſes are wont to uſe their Infants. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s368" xml:space="preserve">True in-
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            deed, Moſes is there to handle the Hiſtory of
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            the Creation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s369" xml:space="preserve">But ’tis certain (ſaith Calvin)
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            that his purpoſe is to treat only of the viſible
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0034-02" xlink:href="note-0034-02a" xml:space="preserve">Calvin in
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              1 Gen.</note>
            form of the World, and thoſe parts of it,
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            which might be moſt eaſily underſtood by the
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            Ignorant and Ruder ſort of People, and there-
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            fore we are not thence to expect the diſcovery
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            of any Natural Secret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s370" xml:space="preserve">Artes reconditas aliun-
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            de diſcat qui volet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s371" xml:space="preserve">hic Spiritus Dei omnes ſi-
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            mul ſine exceptione docere voluit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s372" xml:space="preserve">As for more
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            hidden Arts, they muſt be looked for elſe-
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            where; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s373" xml:space="preserve">the Holy Ghoſt did here intend to in-
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            ſtruct all without exception. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s374" xml:space="preserve">And therefore
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            ’tis obſerved, That Moſes does not any where
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            meddle with ſuch matters as were very hard to
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            be conceiv'd; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s375" xml:space="preserve">for being to inform the </s>
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