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the New, without doing fome Violence to his 

 Faculties. 



Againft this Opinion lie two Objedions, Ftrjt^ 

 That it is contrary to Senfe, and the common 

 Opinion and Belief of Mankind. Seco?2dlyy That 

 it feemeth contrary to fome Expreffions in Scri- 

 pture, To the firft I anfwer, That our Senfes 

 are fometimes miftaken, and what appears to 

 j:hem is not always in reality fo as it appears. 

 For Example : The Sun, or Moon, appear no 

 bigger, at moft, than a Cart-wheel, and of a 

 flat Figure. The Earth feems to be plain : 

 The Heavens to cover it like a Canopy, and to 

 be contiguous to it round about : A Fire-brand 

 nimbly moved round, appears like a Circle of 

 Fire ; and to give a parallel Inftance, a Boat 

 lying ftill at Anchor in a River, to him that 

 Sails and Rows by it, feems to move apace ; 

 and when the Clouds pafs nimbly under the 

 Moon, the Moon it felf feems to move the con- 

 trary way. And there have been whole Books 

 written in Confutation of vulgar Errors. aS*^- 

 condly\ As to the Scripture^ when fpeaking of 

 thefe Things, it accommodates it felf to ths 

 common and received Opinions, and employs 

 the ufual Phrafes and Forms of Speech (as all 

 wife Men alfo do, though, in Stridtnefs, they 

 be of a different or contrary Opinion) without In- 

 tention of delivering any thing Doftrinally con- 

 cerning thefe Points, or confuting the contrary : 

 And yet by thofethat maintain the Opinion of 

 the Earth's Motion; there might a convenient 



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