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            tioni non modo conſentaneum eſt, quod Sacræ Litteræ
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s161" xml:space="preserve">nequidem per mo-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s162" xml:space="preserve">Aſſerere ex quibuſdam generali-
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            omnino parum referre quid de prima materiæ diviſione
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            ordine conſideremus, tandem ad illam, quæ eſt hujus Mun-
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            ſuppoſitione ſit timendum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s168" xml:space="preserve">Hæc, inquam, aſſerere, & </s>
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            vertere, vix differt, ut a plurimis Viris doctis abunde pro-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s170" xml:space="preserve">ad quod argumenta proferre inutile videbitur
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            illi, cui ignotum, ſententiam, adeo a ratione remotam,
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s171" xml:space="preserve">Divino Numini contumelioſam, ab antiquis & </s>
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            etiam præclaris Philoſophis, & </s>
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            remotiſſimis, in medium prolatam.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">Poſitis ergo omnibus a DEO creatis, explicandum qui-
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            bus Legibus omnia regantur; </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">qua cauſa argentea Phœbe
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            Paſſibus haud æquis graditur, cur ſubdita nulli
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            Hactenus Aſtronomo numerorum fræna recuſet;
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