An Account of Reason and Faith: In Relation to the Mysteries of Christianity. By John Norris, ...Edmund Parker, 1740 - 236 pages |
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... Light of the Understanding ; which is a great Truth , but no Objection . Affent therefore is always voluntary , tho ' not always free ; and whether voluntary or free is a plain Act of the Will imbracing and acquiefcing in what is ...
... Light of the Understanding ; which is a great Truth , but no Objection . Affent therefore is always voluntary , tho ' not always free ; and whether voluntary or free is a plain Act of the Will imbracing and acquiefcing in what is ...
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... Light ; and there is more aptnefs in the comparison than all that use it , I believe , are aware of . For Light is feen immediately and by it self , and not by the mediation of any thing elfe ; where- as all other things are feen by Light ...
... Light ; and there is more aptnefs in the comparison than all that use it , I believe , are aware of . For Light is feen immediately and by it self , and not by the mediation of any thing elfe ; where- as all other things are feen by Light ...
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... Light without any mixture of Darkness , whereas in the other there is one dark fide . More fimple , for here the Mind perceives the Truth by one fingle View , whereas in the other it is fain to multiply its Per- ception . More intire ...
... Light without any mixture of Darkness , whereas in the other there is one dark fide . More fimple , for here the Mind perceives the Truth by one fingle View , whereas in the other it is fain to multiply its Per- ception . More intire ...
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... light enough to direct us in our journey thro ' the World . So if we would know more , and fee to a further diftance from us , we muft affift our feeble Eye by the Advantage of a Glafs ! Now Reafon is this Glass , Naturally indeed a ...
... light enough to direct us in our journey thro ' the World . So if we would know more , and fee to a further diftance from us , we muft affift our feeble Eye by the Advantage of a Glafs ! Now Reafon is this Glass , Naturally indeed a ...
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... Light , Reafon , for our Di- rection . As for the Greater , Intuition , we have little more of that than of the refracted Beams of the Sun a little before its rifing , and after its fetting , enough to make a Twilight , a Mixture of Light ...
... Light , Reafon , for our Di- rection . As for the Greater , Intuition , we have little more of that than of the refracted Beams of the Sun a little before its rifing , and after its fetting , enough to make a Twilight , a Mixture of Light ...
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Page 200 - But when a thing is proposed to me as from God, all that my Reason has to do in this case is seriously, soberly, diligently, impartially, and, I add, humbly to examine whether it comes with the true Credentials of His authority, and has Him for its real author or no. This is all that Reason has to do in this matter, and when she has done this, she is to rise from the seat of judgment, and...
Page 218 - God himftlf, and many .of them concerning himfclf and his own infinite perfections ? And what deference do we pay to God more than man, if either we fuppofe that he cannot reveal truths to us which we cannot comprehend...
Page 222 - ... be driven to fay that you comprehend the nature of God, which I hope you have too much religion as well as reafon to affirm. 10. And indeed if we meet with fo many infuperable difficulties in the fearch of nature, much more may we in the comtemplation of its author; if the works of God do fo puzzle and baffle our understandings, much more may they confefs their deficiency when God himfelf is their...
Page 66 - ... 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he fhould after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 215 - Senfe and Congruity of Reafon in pretending to be a God in Heaven than to be a God upon Earth) I fay befides this, I would put it to your more fober thought to confider whether it be not every whit as great an Extremity in the way of rational...
Page 2 - God fpared not the natural branches, take heed left he alfo fpare not thee. Behold therefore the goodnefs and feverity of God, on them which fell, feverity ; but towards thee, goodnefs, if thou continue in his goodnefs ; otherwife, thou alfo fhalt be cut off. And they alfo, if they abide not ftill in unbelief, fhall be graffed in ; for God is able to graft...
Page 2 - Gentile, ** the branches were broken off," the children of Ifrael were rejected from being the people of God, " that I might be graffed in. " Well; becaufe of unbelief they were broken " off, and thou ftandeft by faith. BE NOT ** HIGH-MINDED, BUT FEAR. For if God " fpared not the natural branches, take heed leji