Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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leſs condemned upon the teſtimony of Texts of Scripture, which
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may, under their words, couch Senſes ſeemingly contrary there
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to; In regard that every Expreſſion of Scripture is not tied to
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ſo ſtrict conditions, as every Effect of Nature: Nor doth God
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leſs admirably diſcover himſelf unto us in Nature's Actions, than
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in the Scriptures Sacred Dictions. </
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intended to expreſs in thoſe words
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: (c) We conclude, God
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is known; firſt, by Nature, and then again more particularly
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known by Doctrine: by Nature, in his Works; by Doctrine, in his
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Word preached.
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Nos definimus,
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Deum, primò N.
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tura cognoſcen
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dum; Deinde, Do
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ctrina recognoſcen
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dum: Natura ex
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operibus; Doctri
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na ex pr ædicatio
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nibus.
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>But I will not hence affirm, but that we ought to have an ex
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traordinary eſteem for the Places of Sacred Scripture, nay, being
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come to a certainty in any Natural Concluſions, we ought
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to make uſe of them, as moſt appoſite helps to the true Expo
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ſition of the ſame Scriptures, and to the inveſtigation of thoſe
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Senſes which are neceſſarily conteined in them, as moſt true, and
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concordant with the Truths demonſtrated.</
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Tertul. </
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cap. 18.</
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>This maketh me to ſuppoſe, that the Authority of the Sacred
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Volumes was intended principally to perſwade men to the be
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lief of thoſe Articles and Propoſitions, which, by reaſon they
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ſurpaſs all humane diſcourſe, could not by any other Science, or
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by any other means be made credible, than by the Mouth of
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the Holy Spirit it ſelf. </
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>Beſides that, even in thoſe Propoſitions,
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which are not
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de Fide,
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the Authority of the ſame Sacred Leaves
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ought to be preferred to the Authority of all Humane Sciences
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that are not written in a Demonſtrative Method, but either with
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bare Narrations, or elſe with probable Reaſons; and this I hold
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to be ſo far convenient and neceſſary, by how far the ſaid Di
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vine Wiſdome ſurpaſſeth all humane Judgment and Conjecture.
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>But that that ſelf ſame God who hath indued us with Senſes,
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Diſcourſe, and Underſtanding hath intended, laying aſide the
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uſe of theſe, to give the knowledg of thoſe things by other means,
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which we may attain by theſe, ſo as that even in thoſe Natural
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Concluſions, which either by Senſible Experiments or Neceſſary
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Demonſtrations are ſet before our eyes, or our Underſtanding, we
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ought to deny Senſe and Reaſon, I do not conceive that I am
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bound to believe it; and eſpecially in thoſe Sciences, of which
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but a ſmall part, and that divided into Concluſions is to be
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found in the Scripture: Such as, for inſtance, is that of
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Aſtro
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nomy,
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of which there is ſo ſmall a part in Holy Writ, that it doth
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not ſo much as name any of the Planets, except the Sun and the
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Moon, and once or twice onely
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Venus
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under the name of
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Luci
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fer.
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For if the Holy Writers had had any intention to perſwade
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People to believe the Diſpoſitions and Motions of the Cœleſtial
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Bodies; and that conſequently we are ſtill to derive that know</
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