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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... Sense of it , wherein it is ufed for hardness , as when they fay a hard folid Body , meaning one and the fame thing by those two Terms , this is either no real Pro- perty belonging to the Nature of Body , but is only a Sentiment which ...
... Sense of it , wherein it is ufed for hardness , as when they fay a hard folid Body , meaning one and the fame thing by those two Terms , this is either no real Pro- perty belonging to the Nature of Body , but is only a Sentiment which ...
Page 70
... Sense and Perception which is a- scribed to them ? For as fuppofing the Souls of Beasts immaterial and mortal , it would be a ftrange Thought to confider that every time I kill their Body , I deftroy alfo a Soul ; fo fuppo- fing them ...
... Sense and Perception which is a- scribed to them ? For as fuppofing the Souls of Beasts immaterial and mortal , it would be a ftrange Thought to confider that every time I kill their Body , I deftroy alfo a Soul ; fo fuppo- fing them ...
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... sense or expe- rience that . All that we fenfe or experience , are the outward Actions and Motions which proceed from them , and the Effects that are done by them . These indeed we fee . But as to the internal Principle from which they ...
... sense or expe- rience that . All that we fenfe or experience , are the outward Actions and Motions which proceed from them , and the Effects that are done by them . These indeed we fee . But as to the internal Principle from which they ...
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... Sense would run thus , Thinking Be- ing and Extended Being are diftinct Things , therefore they are diftinct Things . Which is to make the Conclufion the Reafon of it self . Whereas the true Senfe of the Argument is , That because the ...
... Sense would run thus , Thinking Be- ing and Extended Being are diftinct Things , therefore they are diftinct Things . Which is to make the Conclufion the Reafon of it self . Whereas the true Senfe of the Argument is , That because the ...
Page 161
... sense of the Term Hot , and the Dif pute will quickly be at an end . For if by Hot be meant that inward Feeling or Sentiment which we are confcious of , when we approach the Fire ; then ' tis plain that Fire is not Hot , because Matter ...
... sense of the Term Hot , and the Dif pute will quickly be at an end . For if by Hot be meant that inward Feeling or Sentiment which we are confcious of , when we approach the Fire ; then ' tis plain that Fire is not Hot , because Matter ...
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abfolutely Abſtraction according Affent againſt alfo alſo anſwer Auftin becauſe befides Bodies call'd Caufe cauſe ceive Colour conceive Conclufion confequently confider confider'd Confideration confift diftinct Divine Ideas Effence effentially elfe elſe Eternal exprefs faid fame feems feen felf felves fenfe fenfible ferve fhall fhew fhewn fhould fimple fince firft fome fomething fometimes formal fpeak ftand fuch fufficient fuppofe himſelf Hypothefis Ideas whereby immediate Object Immutable impoffible Impreffion intel intellectual intelligible itſelf leaft leaſt lefs Light lumen Malebranche Matter meaſure Mind Modalities moft moſt Motion muft muſt Nature neceffary neceffity obferve occafion otherwife perceive Perception perfect Philofophers Pleaſure poffible pofitive prefent Principle Propofition purpoſe Queſtion quod Reaſon refpect reprefent Science ſeems Senfation Senfe Sentiment ſhall Soul ſpeak Species Subftance Suppofition ſuppoſe thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe Ideas Thought tion tis plain true Truth underſtand underſtood uſe Vifion whofe Wiſdom
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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.