An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for Two Parts: The First Considering it Absolutely in it Self, and the Second in Relation to Human Understanding ...S. Manship, 1704 |
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... something , if I could , more convincing than a Prefumption as to both . 6. But this it will be impoffible ever to have as to either of them , if Matter be allow'd to think , or to be fo much as capable of Thought , For I cannot be ...
... something , if I could , more convincing than a Prefumption as to both . 6. But this it will be impoffible ever to have as to either of them , if Matter be allow'd to think , or to be fo much as capable of Thought , For I cannot be ...
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... Something indeed may be determin'd , ex Hypotheft , according to what we have already intimated , as that if they are Matter then they cannot think , or , if they do think , then they are not Matter , becaufe Matter has been proved ...
... Something indeed may be determin'd , ex Hypotheft , according to what we have already intimated , as that if they are Matter then they cannot think , or , if they do think , then they are not Matter , becaufe Matter has been proved ...
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... something beyond Figure or Metaphor . 14. Again , if the Souls of Beasts have any Thought or Perception , then of neceffity they must be Immaterial . Of which confequence St. Auftin feems to be fenfible , when he tells the Manichaans ...
... something beyond Figure or Metaphor . 14. Again , if the Souls of Beasts have any Thought or Perception , then of neceffity they must be Immaterial . Of which confequence St. Auftin feems to be fenfible , when he tells the Manichaans ...
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... something of diftinction , which is the expedient that others have to clear our meaning , as the determinate ufe of Words was obferv'd to be our own . For if we will not prevent Ambiguity by the strict- nefs of our expreffion , the only ...
... something of diftinction , which is the expedient that others have to clear our meaning , as the determinate ufe of Words was obferv'd to be our own . For if we will not prevent Ambiguity by the strict- nefs of our expreffion , the only ...
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... something really inherent in Bodies , as being unwilling to diveft them of what is fo charming and agree- able . The Ground of the illufion is , because Colour belongs to Vifion ; wherein , as was be- fore obferved , there is a ...
... something really inherent in Bodies , as being unwilling to diveft them of what is fo charming and agree- able . The Ground of the illufion is , because Colour belongs to Vifion ; wherein , as was be- fore obferved , there is a ...
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Page 77 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 573 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 205 - Who only hath immortality, dwelleth in the light, which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see...
Page 4 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there : if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 302 - Now we fee him through a Glafs darkly, but then Face to Face. Now we know him in part, but then fhall we know him even as we our felves are known.
Page 318 - Although things necessary and immutable be not the immediate objects of perception, they may be immediate objects of other powers of the mind. Fourth, " If material things were perceived by themselves, they would be a true light to our minds, as being the intelligible form of our understandings, and consequently perfective of them, and indeed superior to them...
Page 536 - ... videt. Credat ergo Deum fecisse quod vera ratione ab eo faciendum fuisse cognovit, etiam si hoc in rebus factis non videt.
Page 303 - Lord, is the Well of Life, and in thy Light fhall we fee Light.
Page 461 - Who being the brightnefs of his glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon, and upholding all things by the word of his power...
Page 447 - ... sovereign wisdom of God by the pettiness of their own mind. Thus, since God can reveal everything to minds simply by willing that they see what is in their midst, ie, what in Him is related to and represents these things, there is no likelihood that He does otherwise, or that He does so by producing as many infinities of infinite numbers of ideas as there are created minds.