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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... Present : If not , your own Good- nefs I am perfwaded will , of which the greatest Commendation that I can give , will be my Reliance upon it . Should You meet with any thing like Entertain- ment here , I should be well pleased , tho ...
... Present : If not , your own Good- nefs I am perfwaded will , of which the greatest Commendation that I can give , will be my Reliance upon it . Should You meet with any thing like Entertain- ment here , I should be well pleased , tho ...
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... present whether there may be degrees in real diftinction , ) yet there is not the fame poffibility that Thought fhould be in an extended Being , as that Figure should be in a moveable Being . For Figure and Motion are both Modes of ...
... present whether there may be degrees in real diftinction , ) yet there is not the fame poffibility that Thought fhould be in an extended Being , as that Figure should be in a moveable Being . For Figure and Motion are both Modes of ...
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... present Hypo- thefis , whether we make the Souls of Beafts to be mortal , or whether we make them to be immortal , we run into great Difficulties both ways . Which if any one fhall think to avoid by fuppofing that tho ' they are ...
... present Hypo- thefis , whether we make the Souls of Beafts to be mortal , or whether we make them to be immortal , we run into great Difficulties both ways . Which if any one fhall think to avoid by fuppofing that tho ' they are ...
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... present Cafe , is not that brute Creatures have Thought . We do not properly 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 ...
... present Cafe , is not that brute Creatures have Thought . We do not properly 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 ...
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... present no power ( however it might be in the first Institution of Nature ) and which are no more fubject to our Wills than the ebbing and flowing of the Sea . And tho ' it be true that there are other Movements of ours over which we ...
... present no power ( however it might be in the first Institution of Nature ) and which are no more fubject to our Wills than the ebbing and flowing of the Sea . And tho ' it be true that there are other Movements of ours over which we ...
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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.