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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37969	Brief remarks upon Mr. Whiston's New theory of the earth and upon an other gentleman's objections against some passages in a discourse of the existence and providence of God, relating to the Copernican hypothesis / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing E197; ESTC R21718	27,908	59

what I have or shall suggest Secondly he tells us that though the Sun and other Planets were not part of the Creation which Moses relates yet they are inserted into his Narrative of the Six days Work because he had a mind to gratify the dull ignorant people the rude and illiterate Iews he spoke of before Those Heavenly Bodies are fetch'd in here to comply with the Vulgar Notion that they are part of the Clouds or belong to the region of the Air. p. 21 22 It is true it is not unusual in the Holy Scriptures to condescend in some expressions to the Capacity of the Vulgar and there is an Instance of it in this very Chapter v. 16 but this is a quite different thing from giving a Set Narration of a Matter when there is really no such thing as is related Which is the case here for this Writer holds that Moses to condescend to the apprehensions of the people tells them expressly that the Sun Moon and Stars were created on the 4th day and placed in the upper Firmament though there was nothing of that nature nothing created nothing then made nothing in that place Set. If it were only Impertinency that was charg'd upon Moses by the Theorist viz. that he brings into his Diary things that are nothing to the purpose that the hooks in the Solar System into the History that appertains only to the Sublunary World we might bear with it though it is an ill Imputation and unworthy of the Inspired Writer but when he charges him with Deceit and Falsity it is not to be suffer'd Moses as he grants pretends to speak in this Chapter of Matter of Fact to relate the distinct time and proper place when and where things were done and yet this Relation is not True and Real but a misrepresentation and a false account of things for whereas Moses mentions a certain Time and particular Day when the Lights of heaven were created this Author peremptorily denies that they were created at that Time and on that Day and whereas Moses tells us that the Luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven he saith the true place of these bodies is not assign'd them p. 18. However Moses records it in his Journal right or wrong to please and at the same time to deceive the dull People He and his Abettors would excuse themselves by saying it is only concealing the Truth but that is apparently false for here is Actual Deception and Falsifying because here is a Positive and Downright relating of what was not True and yet delivering it as True As to what this Worthy Author saith that here is a compliance with the Common Notions viz. that the Sun and Stars are part of the Clouds or belong to the Region of the Air he makes the Vulgar more Simple and Ignorant then they are to shew himself more wise than others in his interpretation of the place And especially he forgets here though he mentioned it before that the Jewish Rabble were come lately from Egypt and there we know there were seldom any Clouds there being constantly a Clear and Serene Sky so that it was Impossible they should be bred up with this notion viz. that the Sun was seated in the Firmament of the Air where the Clouds are This was not thought of by our Author otherwise he would not have averred that Moses here accommodates himself to the Popular Humour and apprehension and that he spoke to those of the Iewish Nation who who were unlearned and Ignorant Thirdly he offers this as an other ground of his strange Interpretation that though Moses makes mention of the Sun Moon and Stars in his Diary of the Creation yet these great Luminaries of the world were made before and only now placed or seem to be placed in our Firmament p. 14 15. It is not necessary saith he to believe that these bodies were then first created when Moses makes mention of them p. 14. Which is against the whole tenour scope and coherence of the Chapter and contrary to the Stile and Expressions in every part of it which all run in the Preter-perfect Tense not in the more then perfect Tense as he would have it understood Who can think that the Narrative concerning the fourth days work is to be Understood in a different way from all the Rest All things belonging to the other days works are set down exactly and according to the matter of Fact but here he fancies it is otherwise the stile varies and there was no such thing as this days work so that there was a Double Sabbath according to him God rested from the works of Creation on the fourth and on the seventh day But however to fill up the space Moses faith something and makes us believe that there was something done And this he doth to suit himself to the Capacities of the Illiterate and Vulgar Whence it might be inferred that in the Rest of the Chapter he turns himself to the Learned and Wise but then the Author differs from himself for he had informed us before that among the Iews at that time there were no Philosophers but that they were all Idiots and Blockheads These are the strange and wild notions of our Theorist and yet they are swallowed down though I hope but by few besides himself rather then the Literal and Plain History of Moses shall take place rather than he will adhere to the Genuine sense of the Text. And he himself acknowledges that all the other parts of the Chapter excepting what relates to the Fourth days work are to be taken otherwise that is they are meant of what was really done on those Particular Days which are specified and there is no reason imaginable to make any Exception as to the Fourth day He would come off by suggestions that the Sun and Moon and Stars are then said to be made or created when they became Conspicuous and their bodies distinctly Visible p. 23. so that according to this New Expositor they were not made till there was a clear Day or Night to shew them The Author of this Conceit is two Learn'd to persist in it and too ingenuous not to blush at it Fourthly an other profound Reason why the Heavenly Bodies are thus placed by Moses was to prevent Idolizing of them It was to shew us the unreasonableness of all sorts of Idolatry or of the worship of any visible beings though never so useful and glorious p. 81. Nay he tells us that the securing of the Iews from the adoration of the host of heaven could not otherwise have been provided for p. 28. Till the force of this Reason can be apprehended we may truely say there was poor Provision made against Idolatry yea none at all Unless he means all the stars Fixed as well as others which his Hypothesis will not allow of it could not be designed to obviate or hinder Idolatry this every one cannot but apprehend Or can we imagine that the most Holy