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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21636That the Earth may be a Planet. a little after, Ego divina hæc eloquia, & c.
I for my part am perſuaded, that theſe
Divine Treatiſes, were not written by the
Holy and Inſpired Pen-Men, for the Inter-
pretation of Philoſophy, becauſe God left
ſuch things to be found out by Mens labour
and induſtry.
But yet, whatſoever is in
them concerning nature, is moſt true;
as
proceeding from the God of Nature, from
whom nothing could be hid.
And que-
ſtionleſs
, all thoſe things which the Scrip-
ture
does deliver concerning any natural
Point
, cannot be but certain and infallible,
being
underſtood in that ſenſe, wherein
they
were firſt intended;
but now that it
does
ſpeak ſometimes according to common
opinion
, rather than the true nature of the
things
themſelves, was intimated before;

wherefore
(by the way) Fromondus 11Veſt.
Trac
. 3.
cap
. 2.
triumph upon the latter part of this Quo-
tation
, is but vain, and to no purpoſe.
'Tis
a
good Rule ſet down by a learned 22Sanctius
sniſa
. 13.5
Item
in
Zachar
.
lib
.9.num.
45
.
mentator, to be obſerved in the interpreta-
tion
of Scripture:
Scriptura ſacra ſapè non
tam
ad veritatem ipſam, quam ad hominum opi
nionem
, ſermonem accommodat;
that it does
many
times accommodate its expreſſions,
not
ſo much to the Truth it ſelf, as to Mens
Opinions
.
And in this ſenſe is that Speech
of
Gregory concerning Images and Pictures,
attributed
by Calvin unto the Hiſtory 33Comment
in
Gen.1.
the Creation, viz.
Librum eſſe idiotarum;
That it is a Book for the ſimpler and igno-
rant
People.
For it being written to

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