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those Cases are exactly parallel to til at of thef 0r > hhe Reason of which has been shewn in thetati 0 ^, rt °f this Work, Ahmt. XX.) and it is ascent toassert the Ship and the Mill are really quiesoto i_Vft nd *e other Bodies positively in Motion; as it isW D 0st the Potion of the Sun, and the garth’s be-V'Rcst. in the Centre. ...... . ...

sin'fnJv W the Scripture, as it was never intended forI «toh UtiQn °f Astronomy or Philosophy, so nothingte] ati “ e understood as strictly or positively alierted in

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intfe or vulgar Notion of Things. And

° aC ^ evj i° n himself would always fay, thefo&ua 5 o anc ^ t ^ le Sun sets ; and would have said with.^ '''as ft a nd thouJiill , &c. though he well knew8. lte contrary in the Nature of the Thing.a P rat' W ridicul ous a Thing does Popery appear to be*tynk t ], '°ual Minds, or to those who are at liberty tor *gidly •/ ln sifting on the literal Sense of Scripture soMt Expression, This is my Body ! And is if.

°s Pilig r y a bsurd to maintain that the EarthJiands up-5 11 a Uk (v f 1 5 , ori ly because we read so in the Bible ? Whaty^eis. £ g “ly Shift are those celebrated Mathematiciansr ° lll Hienr ^ and Jacquier obliged to make, in their°°th, j s dT °n Sir Isaac’s Principia ! The Editor, for-mate t 0 , ere Che Commentator on all those Parts that• 6ca Use Earth’s Motion ot Gopernican System : AndM Ein^ 1 ^ declaration is something very singular in’ C so al I here give it in their own Words.

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. -Vfitifj ' . Seur & Jacquier Deciaratio.

Urn S. s s tn _ hoc tertio libra Teliuris r'notœ hypothesm as-n ss l e ‘iden‘ t0r,S Propofitiones aliter explicari non poterant ,geres 10 ^ 6 f°did hypothesl. Hinc alienam coactlUs Cs nt jy/5 cæterum latis dsummis Pontifici-elluris Motum Decretis nos obsequi profitemur•

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