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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... Knowledge , and is of it felf a kind of univerfal Science , as con- taining within its pregnant Bofom fuch general Truths as may ferve for Princi- A 3 ples ples to the particular Sciences . And he deferves not The Epifle Dedicatory .
... Knowledge , and is of it felf a kind of univerfal Science , as con- taining within its pregnant Bofom fuch general Truths as may ferve for Princi- A 3 ples ples to the particular Sciences . And he deferves not The Epifle Dedicatory .
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... Knowledge of our felves is difficult , but there are two Parts of our felves which feem most to lurk and hide from us , and to be moft unwilling to be traced and found out by us , the Heart and the Head , which are the two most ...
... Knowledge of our felves is difficult , but there are two Parts of our felves which feem most to lurk and hide from us , and to be moft unwilling to be traced and found out by us , the Heart and the Head , which are the two most ...
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... Knowledge of it . For as whether Brutes think or no , muft de- pend upon their Natures , fo our Knowledge of this must in like manner depend upon our Knowledge of thofe Natures . And therefore fince we do not precisely know what kind of ...
... Knowledge of it . For as whether Brutes think or no , muft de- pend upon their Natures , fo our Knowledge of this must in like manner depend upon our Knowledge of thofe Natures . And therefore fince we do not precisely know what kind of ...
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... Knowledge , as oppofed to that which is of the rational Kind , either by fenfible Knowledge is meant the Knowledge that is from a Material Principle , and in this Senfe there is no fuch thing as a fenfible Know- ledge , because Matter ...
... Knowledge , as oppofed to that which is of the rational Kind , either by fenfible Knowledge is meant the Knowledge that is from a Material Principle , and in this Senfe there is no fuch thing as a fenfible Know- ledge , because Matter ...
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... Knowledge to Brutes , as fuppofe when it fays , Be ye not as the Horfe , or as the Mule , which have no understanding ; that being fo point blank a- gainst the common Sentiment and Appearance , would be of more confiderable weight , and ...
... Knowledge to Brutes , as fuppofe when it fays , Be ye not as the Horfe , or as the Mule , which have no understanding ; that being fo point blank a- gainst the common Sentiment and Appearance , would be of more confiderable weight , and ...
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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.