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Strana 9
... Scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both , I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva , but the dictates of my own reason . It is an ...
... Scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both , I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva , but the dictates of my own reason . It is an ...
Strana 31
... scripture and theology of the heathens : the natural motion of the sun made them more admire him , than its supernatural station did the children of Israel ; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them , than in the ...
... scripture and theology of the heathens : the natural motion of the sun made them more admire him , than its supernatural station did the children of Israel ; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them , than in the ...
Strana 43
... scripture raise queries and objections , believing no more than they can parallel in human authors . I confess there are in scripture stories that do exceed the fables of poets , and to a captious reader sound like Garagantua or Bevis ...
... scripture raise queries and objections , believing no more than they can parallel in human authors . I confess there are in scripture stories that do exceed the fables of poets , and to a captious reader sound like Garagantua or Bevis ...
Strana 46
... scripture , which is more hard to comprehend and put the honest father to the refuge of a mi- racle ; and that is , not only how the distinct pieces of the world , and divided islands should be first planted by men , but inhabited by ...
... scripture , which is more hard to comprehend and put the honest father to the refuge of a mi- racle ; and that is , not only how the distinct pieces of the world , and divided islands should be first planted by men , but inhabited by ...
Strana 47
... scripture , and generally believed as scripture , whereunto notwithstanding , I would never betray the liberty of my reason . It is paradox to me , that Methusalem was the longest lived of all the children of Adam ; and no man will be ...
... scripture , and generally believed as scripture , whereunto notwithstanding , I would never betray the liberty of my reason . It is paradox to me , that Methusalem was the longest lived of all the children of Adam ; and no man will be ...
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actions Adam affection affirm amongst angels Antichrist Apuleius Aristotle atheist author saith beasts behold believe body cause charity Christ Christian church church of Rome common conceive condemn confess contemplate corruption creatures death Delphos deny desire devil devotion discourse dispute divinity doth dream earth endeavours essence eternity eyes faith fire flames forget friends hand happiness hath heaven hell heresy hold honest honour Jews judgement judicial astrology Justin Martyr Lactantius learned library of Alexandria live Lucan memet mercies methinks miracle misery Moses mysteries nature never nihil noble opinion oracle ourselves outlive passion perfect perish philosophy piece Plato Plutarch power from hell prayers Pythagoras quod RELIGIO MEDICI religion salvation Saviour scripture sense singular sleep soul speak spirits surely temper thereof things tion true truly truth understand vice virtue vulgar whatsoever whereby wherein whilst whole world wisdom wonder
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Strana 26 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts...
Strana 138 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...
Strana 75 - I am not so much afraid of Death, as ashamed thereof. Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children, stand afraid and start at us...
Strana 32 - ... line, that settled and constant course the wisdom of God hath ordained the actions of his creatures, according to their several kinds. To make a revolution every day is the nature of the sun, because of that necessary course which God hath ordained it, from which it cannot swerve but by a faculty from that voice which first did give it motion.
Strana 21 - I remember I am not alone, and therefore forget not to contemplate Him and His attributes who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones. His wisdom and eternity.
Strana 140 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes upon the hour of their departure do speak and reason above themselves, for then the soul beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Strana 62 - I hold that the devil doth really possess some men, the spirit of melancholy others, the spirit of delusion others...
Strana 130 - World was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman: Man is the whole World, and the Breath of GOD; Woman the Rib and crooked piece of man.
Strana 140 - Morpheus ; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corps, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.
Strana 84 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.